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Facebook manupulated, shows users how many people viewed their posts.

Facebook doesn't have plans to add the feature officially but because of the bug people were able to see how popular they are.

 

A Facebook bug has shown some users how popular they are, by showing how many people had viewed the post. 

The feature shows up next to the 'Like' button, where you see it if you own a Page for a company, brand or personality. 

• Facebook now lets you filter out painful memories
• Facebook error stops users from posting these three harmless words

However, this is not supposed to be used for personal profiles, as Facebook has no plans to show people who use Facebook purely for their personal social media interaction how many people have viewed their posts.

This did not please the general public, who found that their posts are unpopular:  

Other social networks including Twitter, Vine and YouTube already show view counts, and Twitter even has a detailed analytics feature that shows what people did after viewing your post. 

It shows whether the person who viewed it clicked on any links, or on your profile, or on any pictures embedded in the tweet. 

Facebook prefers not to do this, and instead only shows likes and comments.

Perhaps it is because of the self-esteem issues faced by those whose posts no one views - if only 12 people are looking at each status you post, you might stop posting them.
On the other side of the coin, if a post has hundreds of views but no likes or comments, this could also upset people. 

Facebook has now fixed the bug, and it does not look like this issue will be coming back any time soon.


Lets watch the space.

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Facebook's real-time news app is reportedly called Notify

The social networking giant Facebook is reportedly working on a breaking news app called "Notify", and is ready to launch it by October-end, according to a media report.
The app will reportedly allow users to aggregate their favorite content into real-time notifications.

Partnering publications will have the ability to create specific notifications for the mobile platform on behalf of Facebook, like a mega-tweet. Then users will be directed to the publication's website via the notification, according to The Awl.

Facebook seeks to expand its functionalities to something much more than just a social network the most popular one in the world if it makes any difference.
The app will allow users to subscribe to certain organisations dubbed as stations and they will then receive notifications during the day, every time one of the stations they have subscribed to promotes a new story.
That will obviously give a big boost on Facebook's presence as a multi-functioning platform, rather than just a simple social network.

According to statistics, nearly no media networks and companies have managed to establish a well designed smartphone app that its readers or most of them actually use; at least not near the capacity of Facebook.

This gives the company the advantage that it is very likely that users will read more articles through Facebook media networks with strong app presences, such as Buzz

Feed and the New York Times, which may consider working with Notify to direct the fire hose of social media users in the right direction.

Besides all the above, Notify will also be a challenge for Facebook's rival social network, Twitter, which also launched a new feature last week called Moments, that lets Twitter curate tweets into different categories, such as news and sports.

So media companies will also have a chance to create their own moments and fill the feature with their content which will ultimately attract more readers and hence users as well.

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There is always away

How to hide your IP Address?

When you connect to the Internet, your Internet Service Provider (ISP) assigns you an Internet Protocol (IP) address. Most users have a router that connects the computers in their home to the Internet. Your router gets a public IP address from your ISP, and each computer within your home (or office) gets a private IP address from your router. When your computer connects to the Internet, the world sees your computer as your router. If you have only 1 computer, you can connect your computer directly to the Internet and it gets a public IP address from your ISP. Since the IP address assigned to you is public, any host en-route to the other end can track your Internet activity.

Conceal your IP address with a Virtual Private Network

Virtual Private Network (VPN) offers a connectivity to another network, and when connected your computer receives an IP address assigned by the VPN server. The traffic routes through the VPN network, so your true IP address assigned by your ISP is hidden. Aside from hiding your IP address, using VPN allows you to access any network even though your organization may block traffic from certain network. They help you get on the Internet with a different IP address than the one assigned to you by your ISP.
Here are a few VPN providers I recommend: But there are very many others you can find on the internet

• Express VPN
• Hide My Ass
• Vypr VPN (Free Trial)
• Pure VPN

VPN Services allow you to obtain a new IP address from any country (provided that the VPN provider you choose has a server in the country where you want) on any device (PC, Mac, iOS and Android), and surf Internet anonymously and securely. 

By renewing an IP address whenever and wherever, you'll never be blocked by regional blockage. Since traffic between you and the VPN server will always be encrypted, no hacker will intercept your data or eavesdropping on your Internet activity.

Now, Why would you hide your IP address?

You may have your very own reasons for hiding your IP address from others, but here are a few popular reasons why people would want to hide their public IP address.

• Hide your identity from your competitors - You may be commenting on your or competitor's products on various forums, and using your IP address will reveal your identity.

 

• Hide your geographical location - Certain networks prevent users from a specific geographical location, and use of proxy IP address will solve  this problem. When someone get to know your actual IP address, the your location can easily be revealed.

 

• Prevent Website Tracking - Every website or webpage you visited is tracked by the server hosted by the website owner. By hiding your IP address, your web visits cannot be tracked.

Protect your identity

If you navigate on the Internet with your IP address, your privacy and sensitive information about you can be monitored. With an IP address, your location, your ISP and your privacy or security can be breached. There are full of suspicious people on the Internet, and you need to protect your identity by hiding your IP address and use someone else's instead. There are many tools available to mask your IP address (free and paid), and use 3rd-party IP addresses offered by public companies.

Mask your IP address with Proxies

There are thousands of free web proxy servers that you can use to hide your IP address and surf anonymously. Browsing through a proxy means that you are not accessing a website directly, but going through a intermediate "proxy" which relays the information back and forth between you and the destination website.

Use someone else's network

Alternatively, you may use free Wi-Fi services offered by a coffee shop, hotel, or any public location. An IP address does not travel with your computer, but they are rather assigned by the router placed in the area you are in. To find your public IP address, Just type "Find My IP" without the quotes in the Google search engine. 

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Facebook, Twitter posts could hold clues to users health

"By building a language databank, it may be possible to link social media content to health outcomes," researchers said. (Source: Reuters)

The language people use on social media and the information they post may offer valuable insights into the relationship between their everyday lives and health, a new study has found.

Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania found that many adult Facebook and Twitter users are willing to share their social media data and medical data for research purposes. "By building a language databank, it may be possible to link social media content to health outcomes," researchers said. 

"We don't often think of our social media content as data, but the language we use and the information we post may offer valuable insights into the relationship between our everyday lives and our health," said the study's senior author, Raina M Merchant, director of the Social Media and Health Innovation Lab and an assistant professor of Emergency Medicine at Penn Medicine. 

"Finding ways to effectively harness and mine that data could prove to be a valuable source of information about how and why patients communicate about their health. There is a rich potential to identify health trends both in the general public and at the individual level, create education campaigns and interventions, and much more. One of the unique aspects of this data is the ability to link social media data with validated information from a health record," Merchant said. 

In the study, patients visiting an Emergency Department were asked if they used social media, and if they would be willing to share their social media data and electronic medical data with health researchers, for the purpose of building a research database. Similar to existing banks of genomic data, the research database of language and other social media data allows researchers to draw correlations between participants' online content and their health. More than 1,000 participants consented to share their social media and medical data over seven months. 

Analyzing content from as far back as 2009, the shared social media data consisted of nearly 1.4 million posts and tweets to Facebook and Twitter, comprising almost 12 million words. Researchers found that variations in word complexity could suggest cognitive decline, or a change in the number of words per post or network size might be indicative of a depressed mental status. 

Posted content could also reveal information about adherence to prescribed medications, new medical conditions, or health behaviors like exercise and diets. The researchers also found that individuals with a given diagnosis in their electronic medical record were significantly more likely to use terms related to that diagnosis on Facebook than patients without that diagnosis in their electronic medical record. The findings are published in the journal BMJ Quality & Safety. 

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Ideas are better than ideology.

"Using a core set of beliefs about the right way to do things can seem like the most professional approach to evaluating ideas. It isn’t. "

As an IT manager, you probably spend a good part of your day dealing with ideas, weighing them, refining them, rejecting them and embracing them. You’re bombarded by ideas all day, every day. They might come from you, your subordinates, your boss or even people like me who write for the media.

• “If we rewrite that section of the SQL to avoid using cursors, it might improve performance substantially.”

• “If we deploy a mobile reporting app, the salespeople will be able to see what their clients already have on order.”

• “If we refuse to help users who try to bypass the help desk, they will have to follow the support process we designed for them.”

 

Regardless of where the ideas come from, it’s your job to handle the flow. How well you generate, solicit, select, collect, evaluate, modify, prioritize, test, implement and communicate about ideas determines, to a large degree, your success as a manager. Pick the best ideas (in other words, make good decisions), and you’re a hero. Choose and/or implement badly, and things won’t go so well. 

Of course, it’s easy for me to sit here and say, “Choose well.” But in the day-to-day chaos and ambiguity that is IT work, how do you do that?
In my experience, managers choose one of three archetypal options when making decisions (or combinations of them), all of which, by the way, have virtues to recommend them. 

Approach 1: Analyze each idea. 
Subject each idea to a rigorous process that predicts the costs, benefits, probability of success and cultural fit. Examine the stated and unstated assumptions underlying the idea and assess how well they fit with known facts, current interpretations and past experience. And then decide whether the idea is worth pursuing or not. Done exhaustively, this is quite time-consuming. Decisions may be better, but they may be too late to matter sometimes.

Approach 2: Go with your gut.  
Monitor your general emotional response to the idea and use that as a guide. Emotional responses are not completely divorced from analysis or evidence. Emotions serve as an instant synthesis of experience, biases, preferences, knowledge and assessments. If it feels good, implement it. If it feels really good, do it with gusto. This is usually much faster than rigorous analysis, and better accounts for the fact that decisions are always made with incomplete information. At the same time, biases and personal comfort alone often lead to poor decisions.

Approach 3: Check your ideology. 

Evaluate each idea for its consistency with firmly held beliefs about the “right way” to do things. If it fits and seems important enough, then do it. Otherwise, discard it. In IT, this is not usually a political ideology, but a set of beliefs that defines a “one true way” to do things. Many people base these beliefs on well-developed frameworks or methodologies which synthesize the experiences of many people. Some managers rely on their own personal experience, expecting to repeat past successes with identically repeated activities. This might not be the case always though.

Although most IT people think of the “gut check” as the quick and lazy way of doing things, relying too heavily on ideology is really the quickest and easiest way of all. Comparing an idea to an idealized worldview is the shortest shortcut there is. Of the three generic approaches, ideology is the only one that relieves the decision-maker of the burden of professional judgment. In fact, taken to extremes, which happens all too often, ideology prohibits personal judgment, prescribing approaches and activities as moral virtues rather than as potentially good ideas to be vetted and considered. 

And this is where problems begin to happen. When managers replace professionalism with ideology, they turn their success over to an abstract system of thought. The best decisions are made when managers retain responsibility for their own decisions, applying their own judgment rather than accepting them as delivered truth. 

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How time is assigned

If you have gone for a vacation before, then you know what exactly am talking about hear. Some times I sit down on my bed and wonder how God made time  move fast in certain aspects of life and very slow in others yet in actual sense it is the same rate.

Check out the difference below.

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Hike messenger adds feature to operate without internet.

Instant messaging platform hike messenger recently launched a new feature named hike Direct which will allow the app to function without an Internet connection and also said that it has reached a user base of over 70 million.

"At a point of time where several people are yet to come online, hike Direct will connect users in a never before seen revolutionary way. The feature can work without Wi-Fi or mobile data and allow users to send photos, stickers, files and messages to anyone who is also on the hike network," said Kavin Bharti Mittal, founder and chief executive of hike messenger.

"Files as large as 70 MB can be sent in over 10 seconds," Mittal added.
Although the feature can work without internet, it won't work outside a 100-metre radius. 

The technology used to create the feature is same as the Wi-Fi direct technology available in most smartphones today.
Mittal said the messaging application was growing at a pace of 100 per cent year-on-year. "Currently, we are processing 20 billion messages monthly and people are spending at least 140 minutes on the app on a weekly basis."

Recently, the messaging platform released a feature that would allow users free group calling on the app, connecting up to 100 people at the same time.

The Bharti Soft bank-backed messaging app has released a flurry of new features which include free stickers in local languages, data transfer option up to 100 MB and making the platform 4G ready, to expand its consumer base.

Other popular rivals like Whatsapp and Viber, respectively, have a user base of 900 million and over 40 million.
The messaging platform had also secured $65 million in funding in the middle of last year from a group of overseas investors led by Tiger Global Management.

The Indian community is really moving forward with improving the technological state of the world.

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Microsoft to make Russia's Yandex as default search engine on Windows 10

Russia's biggest search engine Yandex on Tuesday said Microsoft would offer it as the default homepage and search tool for Internet browsers across its Windows 10 platform in Russia and several other countries.

"The companies have signed a strategic cooperation agreement, under which users in Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkey and Ukraine will be offered Yandex when upgrading to Windows 10," Yandex said in a statement.
This a great idea for the Russian people.

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BIRTH OF YOUR COMPUTER AND WHY IT'S CALLED A COMPUTER

The computer as the name it computes a program to find instruction in it for execution.
The main component on a computer is a processor ,the processor understand 0s and 1s.
The reason why it understands 0s and 1s because its self is in 0s and 1s
0 represent current not flowing and 1 represent current flowing.

The processor is made from transistors a three terminal device with Base(b), collector(c) and emmiter(E) the transistor what it does is switching in 0s and 1s ,0 when off and 1,when on.
This is achieved by building logical gates out of transistor namely AND,OR,XOR etc which nomally evaluate true or false.

Intel core 4004 contain 1000 transistors now the latest processor contains about 30million transistor, this is achieved through lithilogy a very complicated process.
Engineers at intel developed very small transistors to fit in a small processor.
It is made for silcon got from tipical sand.

Transistors make micro controllers, microprocessors and all Integrated circuits  (ICs) in phones,tablets, computers etc.
After a complicated intergration of transistor ,the CPU must produce 2.6ghz freq to run a program.

The mother board componets work hand in hand with the CPU. These are given addresses like harddisks'rom,ram
A program can request the processor to get an image at address of hard disc in folder xxp,
The CPU contains registers like r0,r4,r5 etc,each with specific tasks to perform on your program like r0 to load variables in the memory.
The size of the registers determine the power and speed of processor ,r0-r16 in ARM processor is 32 bits making 32 bit processor which u call Pentium 4.

Thanks for reading I will explain more later. Have a great day.

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Barca in the final despite loss at Bayern

Barcelona secured their place in the Champions League final on Tuesday, beating Bayern Munich 5-3 on aggregate in their semifinal despite losing 3-2 on the night to the Germans at the Allianz Arena.
Both Manager maintained the same team that played at the first-leg for the deciding match.

Pep Guardiola's Bayern side were facing what looked  like an impossible task after going down 3-0 in last week's first leg  encounter at Camp Nou, but they were given an early glimmer of hope in the retun when the unmarked Medhi Benatia headed home on seven Minutes.

However, the final out come of the tie was put beyond doubt when former Liverpool striker Luis Suarez twice set up for Neymar to score for the visitors before half an hour had been played.

Bayern produced a rousing  second half performance and goals from Robert Lewandowski and Thomas Muller allowed them to win the game on the night, but Barcelona advance to the final in  Berlin on June 6.

Luis Enrique's side will face either bitter rivals Real Madrid or Juventus in the final, with the Italians defending a 2-1 first-leg lead in the return at the Santiago Bernabeu on Wednesday.

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WHAT YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT AFRICA-PART 1

1. The human race is of African origin. The oldest known skeletal remains of anatomically modern humans (or homo sapiens sapiens) were excavated at sites in East Africa. Human remains were discovered at Omo in Ethiopia that were dated at 195,000 years old, the oldest known in the world.

2. Skeletons of pre-humans have been found in Africa that date back between 4 and 5 million years. The oldest known ancestral type of humanity is thought to have been the australopithecus ramidus, who lived at least 4.4 million years ago.

3. Africans were the first to organise fishing expeditions 90,000 years ago. At Katanda, a region in northeastern Zaïre (now Congo), was recovered a finely wrought series of harpoon points, all elaborately polished and barbed. Also uncovered was a tool, equally well crafted, believed to be a dagger. The discoveries suggested the existence of an early aquatic or fishing based culture.

4. Africans were the first to engage in mining 43,000 years ago. In 1964 a hematite mine was found in Swaziland at Bomvu Ridge in the Ngwenya mountain range. Ultimately 300,000 artefacts were recovered including thousands of stone-made mining tools. Adrian Boshier, one of the archaeologists on the site, dated the mine to a staggering 43,200 years old.

5. Africans pioneered basic arithmetic 25,000 years ago. The Ishango bone is a tool handle with notches carved into it found in the Ishango region of Zaïre (now called Congo) near Lake Edward. The bone tool was originally thought to have been over 8,000 years old, but a more sensitive recent dating has given dates of 25,000 years old. On the tool are 3 rows of notches. Row 1 shows three notches carved next to six, four carved next to eight, ten carved next to two fives and finally a seven. The 3 and 6, 4 and 8, and 10 and 5, represent the process of doubling. Row 2 shows eleven notches carved next to twenty-one notches, and nineteen notches carved next to nine notches. This represents 10 + 1, 20 + 1, 20 – 1 and 10 – 1. Finally, Row 3 shows eleven notches, thirteen notches, seventeen notches and nineteen notches. 11, 13, 17 and 19 are the prime numbers between 10 and 20.

6. Africans cultivated crops 12,000 years ago, the first known advances in agriculture. Professor Fred Wendorf discovered that people in Egypt’s Western Desert cultivated crops of barley, capers, chick-peas, dates, legumes, lentils and wheat. Their ancient tools were also recovered. There were grindstones, milling stones, cutting blades, hide scrapers, engraving burins, and mortars and pestles.

7. Africans mummified their dead 9,000 years ago. A mummified infant was found under the Uan Muhuggiag rock shelter in south western Libya. The infant was buried in the foetal position and was mummified using a very sophisticated technique that must have taken hundreds of years to evolve. The technique predates the earliest mummies known in Ancient Egypt by at least 1,000 years. Carbon dating is controversial but the mummy may date from 7438 (±220) BC.

8. Africans carved the world’s first colossal sculpture 7,000 or more years ago. The Great Sphinx of Giza was fashioned with the head of a man combined with the body of a lion. A key and important question raised by this monument was: How old is it? In October 1991 Professor Robert Schoch, a geologist from Boston University, demonstrated that the Sphinx was sculpted between 5000 BC and 7000 BC, dates that he considered conservative.

9. On the 1 March 1979, the New York Times carried an article on its front page also page sixteen that was entitled Nubian Monarchy called Oldest. In this article we were assured that: “Evidence of the oldest recognizable monarchy in human history, preceding the rise of the earliest Egyptian kings by several generations, has been discovered in artifacts from ancient Nubia” (i.e. the territory of the northern Sudan and the southern portion of modern Egypt.)

10. The ancient Egyptians had the same type of tropically adapted skeletal proportions as modern Black Africans. A 2003 paper appeared in American Journal of Physical Anthropology by Dr Sonia Zakrzewski entitled Variation in Ancient Egyptian Stature and Body Proportions where she states that: “The raw values in Table 6 suggest that Egyptians had the ‘super-Negroid’ body plan described by Robins (1983). The values for the brachial and crural indices show that the distal segments of each limb are longer relative to the proximal segments than in many ‘African’ populations.”



11. The ancient Egyptians had Afro combs. One writer tells us that the Egyptians “manufactured a very striking range of combs in ivory: the shape of these is distinctly African and is like the combs used even today by Africans and those of African descent.”

12. The Funerary Complex in the ancient Egyptian city of Saqqara is the oldest building that tourists regularly visit today. An outer wall, now mostly in ruins, surrounded the whole structure. Through the entrance are a series of columns, the first stone-built columns known to historians. The North House also has ornamental columns built into the walls that have papyrus-like capitals. Also inside the complex is the Ceremonial Court, made of limestone blocks that have been quarried and then shaped. In the centre of the complex is the Step Pyramid, the first of 90 Egyptian pyramids.

13. The first Great Pyramid of Giza, the most extraordinary building in history, was a staggering 481 feet tall – the equivalent of a 40-storey building. It was made of 2.3 million blocks of limestone and granite, some weighing 100 tons.

14. The ancient Egyptian city of Kahun was the world’s first planned city. Rectangular and walled, the city was divided into two parts. One part housed the wealthier inhabitants – the scribes, officials and foremen. The other part housed the ordinary people. The streets of the western section in particular, were straight, laid out on a grid, and crossed each other at right angles. A stone gutter, over half a meter wide, ran down the center of every street.

15. Egyptian mansions were discovered in Kahun – each boasting 70 rooms, divided into four sections or quarters. There was a master’s quarter, quarters for women and servants, quarters for offices and finally, quarters for granaries, each facing a central courtyard. The master’s quarters had an open court with a stone water tank for bathing. Surrounding this was a colonnade.

16 The Labyrinth in the Egyptian city of Hawara with its massive layout, multiple courtyards, chambers and halls, was the very largest building in antiquity. Boasting three thousand rooms, 1,500 of them were above ground and the other 1,500 were underground.

17. Toilets and sewerage systems existed in ancient Egypt. One of the pharaohs built a city now known as Amarna. An American urban planner noted that: “Great importance was attached to cleanliness in Amarna as in other Egyptian cities. Toilets and sewers were in use to dispose waste. Soap was made for washing the body. Perfumes and essences were popular against body odour. A solution of natron was used to keep insects from houses . . . Amarna may have been the first planned ‘garden city’.”

18. Sudan has more pyramids than any other country on earth – even more than Egypt. There are at least 223 pyramids in the Sudanese cities of Al Kurru, Nuri, Gebel Barkal and Meroë. They are generally 20 to 30 metres high and steep sided.

19. The Sudanese city of Meroë is rich in surviving monuments. Becoming the capital of the Kushite Empire between 590 BC until AD 350, there are 84 pyramids in this city alone, many built with their own miniature temple. In addition, there are ruins of a bath house sharing affinities with those of the Romans. Its central feature is a large pool approached by a flight of steps with waterspouts decorated with lion heads.

20. Bling culture has a long and interesting history. Gold was used to decorate ancient Sudanese temples. One writer reported that: “Recent excavations at Meroe and Mussawwarat es-Sufra revealed temples with walls and statues covered with gold leaf”.

MAN WHO WAS MISTAKENLY INVITED TO BACHELOR PARTY IS GOING ANYWAY

A Seattle man who was accidentally copied on an email chain about a Philadelphia bachelor party is going anyway.
Joey DiJulio of Seattle got the first email from these people he didn’t know on Feb. 11. After a few weeks of messages about Jeff Minetti’s bachelor party in Philadelphia at the end of the month, he replied, explaining that they mixed him up with someone else. That started a whole new email chain, with Minetti’s friends saying he should totally come anyway, and the groom confirming, adding that DiJulio should come to the wedding, too.
According to Q13 FOX’s play-by-play of this saga, DiJulio set up a GoFundMe page “Random Bachelor Party” earlier this week to raise $1276 to fund the trip and surpassed the goal within 24 hours. Now he is raising money to go toward the couple’s honeymoon.
This comment on DiJulio’s crowd-funding site seems to sum up the overwhelming turnout for this unusual cause: “Strangers really are just friends we haven’t met yet.”

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