Saturday, May 17, 2014

Divide(and rule) your tabs with Tab Scissors

Tab Scissors

We've always wanted to divide our bunch of tabs into windows to boost our multi-tasking. For which, we often do manually pull out sets of tabs into a new window. Which looks cool initially, but is rather slow and boring over time.

But we gotta do what we gotta do afterall. So, there's a super easy way to do this in large scale!

My bet, nothing makes it easier than Tab Scissors:

All you gotta do is:

Select a tab in Chrome & Click the extension icon





Split Selected Tab   Split Your Tabs With The Tab Scissors Addon [Chrome] 


..And Kaboom!

Your browser window will instantly split into two side-by-side windows. Any tabs that were to the left of your active tab will be transferred to the left window, while the selected tab itself and the rest will be on the right.
 Incredibly useful in a variety of situations but preferably for splitting your tabs into distinct windows for fun distractions and work-related web pages.


It’s got some special uses too :

-> Bookmark a handful of tabs at once


You got some tabs to be bookmarked all at once. However, you have a lot of other tabs open in the same window that you don’t want to bookmark. Tab Scissors helps you to accomplish this without closing the rest!

Bookmark All Tabs   Split Your Tabs With The Tab Scissors Addon [Chrome]

-> Compare Two Sets Of Tabs Next To Each Other




 Planning a vacation and need to make up your mind between two possible destinations?

If you have a selection of tabs open with the relevant information, but need to see it side-by-side to compare. That’s a perfect job for Tab Scissors.

PowerResizer can help to improve this feature even further.

Thursday, May 8, 2014

Look Up (too)!

The writer and director Gary Turk wrote an AWESOME poetic tirade for phone and social media addicts(superusers!)

Many of us can't escape social media. In private and in public, we're glued to our smartphones — often at the expense of having a conversation with the the real, live human beings in front of us.

Some of us spend more time than we'd like trying to show our friends online how great our lives are, but less time than we'd like actually letting our friends get to know us in a meaningful way.




                                                                      " Look Up "



He calls this very popular video "a spoken word film for an online generation."

With more than 11.6 million views on YouTube in only 10 days, clearly the video's got some point there!

I know the topic doesn't favour MY field very much..but I liked it truely.

And its a MUST WATCH



Here's the lyrics :


I have 422 friends, yet I am lonely.
I speak to all of them everyday, yet none of them really know me.
The problem I have sits in the spaces between,
looking into their eyes, or at a name on a screen.
I took a step back, and opened my eyes,
I looked around, and then realised
that this media we call social, is anything but
when we open our computers, and it’s our doors we shut.
All this technology we have, it’s just an illusion,
of community, companionship, a sense of inclusion
yet when you step away from this device of delusion,
you awaken to see, a world of confusion.
A world where we’re slaves to the technology we mastered,
where our information gets sold by some rich greedy bastard.
A world of self-interest, self-image, self-promotion,
where we share all our best bits, but leave out the emotion.
We are at our most happy with an experience we share,
but is it the same if no one is there.
Be there for you friends, and they’ll be there too,
but no one will be, if a group message will do.
We edit and exaggerate, we crave adulation,
we pretend we don’t notice the social isolation.
We put our words into order, until our lives are glistening,
we don’t even know if anyone is listening.
Being alone isn’t the problem, let me just emphasize,
that if you read a book, paint a picture, or do some exercise,
you are being productive, and present, not reserved or recluse,
you’re being awake and attentive, and putting your time to good use.
So when you’re in public, and you start to feel alone,
put your hands behind your head, and step away from the phone.
You don’t need to stare at your menu, or at your contact list,
just talk to one another, and learn to co-exist.
I can’t stand to hear the silence, of a busy commuter train,
when no one wants to talk through the fear of looking insane.
We’re becoming unsocial, it no longer satisfies
to engage with one another, and look into someone’s eyes.
We’re surrounded by children, who since they were born,
watch us living like robots, and think it’s the norm.
It’s not very likely you will make world’s greatest dad,
if you cant entertain a child without a using an iPad.
When I was a child, I would never be home,
I’d be out with my friends, on our bikes we would roam.
We’d ware holes in our trainers, and graze up our knees;
we’d build our own clubhouse, high up in the trees.
Now the parks are so quiet, it gives me a chill
to see no children outside and the swings hanging still.
There’s no skipping or hopscotch, no church and no steeple,
we’re a generation of idiots, smart phones and dumb people.
So look up from your phone, shut down that display,
take in your surroundings, and make the most of today.
Just one real connection is all it can take,
to show you the difference that being there can make.
Be there in the moment, when she gives you the look,
that you remember forever, as when love overtook.
The time you first hold her hand, or first kiss her lips,
the time you first disagree, but still love her to bits.
The time you don’t need to tell hundreds, about what you’ve just done,
because you want to share the moment, with just this one.
The time you sell your computer, so you can buy a ring,
for the girl of your dreams, who is now the real thing.
The time you want to start a family, and the moment when,
you first hold your baby girl, and get to fall in love again.
The time she keeps you up at night, and all you want is rest,
and the time you wipe away the tears, as your baby flees the nest.
The time your little girl returns, with a boy for you to hold,
and the day he calls you granddad, and makes you feel real old
The time you take in all you’ve made, just by giving life attention,
and how your glad you didn’t waste it, by looking down at some invention.
The time you hold your wife’s hand, and sit down beside her bed
you tell her that you love her, and lay a kiss upon her head.
She then whispers to you quietly, as her heart gives a final beat,
that she’s lucky she got stopped, by that lost boy in the street.
But none of these times ever happened, you never had any of this,
When you’re too busy looking down, you don’t see the chances you miss.
So look up from your phone, shut down those displays,
we have a finite existence, a set number of days.
Why waste all our time getting caught in the net,
as when the end comes, nothing’s worse than regret.
I am guilty too, of being part of this machine,
this digital world, where we are heard but not seen.
Where we type and don’t talk, where we read as we chat,
where we spend hours together, without making eye contact.
Don’t give in to a life where you follow the hype,
give people your love, don’t give them your like.
Disconnect from the need to be heard and defined
Go out into the world, leave distractions behind.
Look up from your phone, shut down that display,
stop watching this video, live life the real way.

So you think you got an iPhone and its 'of course' secure?

No wonder Apple assures that your phone is safe behind that four-digit passcode, you better not trust it blindly. I recently discovered this mythbuster:

German security expert Andreas Kurtz proved that a lost or stolen iPhone is not as safe as the company suggests. Specifically, any hacker who manages to get hands on your phone could pretty easily access your email attachments. Apple has been claiming since years that passcode-protected phones have an so-called extra security layer for emails and message attachments as well as third-party applications.

Andreas from independent security research firm NESO Labs, wrote about this iPhone security flaw in a post of his blog on April 23. Kurtz was able to restore an iPhone 4 with the latest versions of iOS (7.1 and 7.1.1), protect it with a passcode, and then access the iPhone's files simply by plugging the phone into a computer and using password-bypass software.
If someone got your iPhone and accessed the email attachment files on the device by plugging it into a computer, they should see only gibberish if they didn't enter the passcode to unlock the phone, according to Apple.

Instead of the gibberish of encrypted files, he said he was able to access unencrypted email attachment files stored on the phone.

Kurtz was able to replicate this same process on an iPhone 5s and an iPad 2, both running iOS 7.0.4, and he found the problem was affecting POP, IMAP and ActiveSync email accounts.

Kurtz says in his blog post that Apple told him it is aware of the problem. According to CNN Money, Apple "plans to fix the issue in a future update."

Still, this security loophole could be a big issue for corporate and government users of iOS devices.

CNN Money reports the problem might not affect newer devices, which don't allow computers to access raw files.Whether or not you can accesses these files, however, the security flaw is still present on all devices.

Monday, May 5, 2014

DUDES and DOLLS! rAce the pAce

Life is too short.. Look at the mirror: Did you ever think you were gonna grow up so fast? How long has it been, just a couple of decades with time running like water in a river?

Everywhere I see, I get motivated by its(life's) pace and it inspires me to race! Let me share one such incident with you:

I recently visited my friend who was sleeping late morning(obvio, vacation) and I had to wake him up. He cutely requested relief with these monotonous words "This is the only day I can sleep so late.. Otherwise these classes don't let me! ;-("

I see he was bored of classes though he was the one most excited to join it. Reason? just coz the timings were not comfortable. If the same classes be attended at some other timed batches, it could've been a whole different(far positive) scenario!

Hence I observed that we ourselves sometimes do not understand why we dislike certain things and are lead to misconceptions for things (here classes). Alternatively, he could have thanked the classes for helping him make a habit of rising early in the morning, for he discovered how beautiful and pleasant are the mornings that he was missing in school days.

It was like he missed the mornings due to school, he couldn't sleep due to classes and he was bored due to Third-party things!

If only he could control the workflow and plan resourcefully, he could be obliged by the sunday morning for the whole quota of school days mornings he's enjoying! And the classes for motivating early rise (but sorry, he couldn't get motivated) and dats what I'm talking about!

Elections are going on and everybody's thriving for the powers. Yes guys!  (like Swami Vivekananda says) Its all about man's capability (सामर्थ्य ) and that's what defines a person in legislative respects.. From PM to a mango man [Aam Admi(n)] <-- they're all the same, be any of the three.

So if I got a chance to enhance and enrich our lives just by mere awareness through this medium of my tiny blog, I would feel more efficient and capable than our ever-muted or remote  accessed PM.