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Coping with 2 SIM cards

It has become common to find yourself in a situation where you need to use 2 Sim cards. Many companies give their employees mobile numbers. You have to use that number since calling your colleagues is...

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Attending conference calls using a touch screen phone

Many of us at one time or another would need to attend a conference call. In such a call, , the participants dial in from various parts of the world. There is a conferencing bridge which serves as a...

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Routers for the small business

Routers Introduction A router is a device which communicates data between two networks or network segments (subnets). Routers form a key part of our network infrastructure. Without routers, we would...

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Getting Google+ Authorship to work on your WordPress blog or website

if you run a blog or website, you could be forgiven for thinking that Google author is the next best thing to sliced bread. The problem is that with WordPress version 3.6, there is no way to enter a...

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Outsmarting that malicious document

Most of us would be familiar with the injunction not to open executable attachments. Executable attachments are those files which are sometimes attached to email messages and can be run directly by...

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Initial experiences with the Qu-Bot, a beginner’s robot

I have recently decided to concretize my interest in robotics. Towards this, I shopped around for beginner kits. A key criterion for me was that I should not have to do any soldering. Yeah, I know, it...

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Raspberry PI video streaming: a note on resolution

I wanted to use my raspberry pi model B as a video camera. A search lead me to the following 2 links. Remote Motion-Activated Web-Based Surveillance with Raspberry Pi for a good overview of the...

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Getting your contacts back in Outlook 2013 after iCloud synchronization

I had had the iCloud control panel installed for sometime but had not sined in. I wanted to get my Outlook calendar appointments on to my iPhone so was forced to synchronize my contacts, calendars and...

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How to delete individual messages in WhatsApp messenger on the iPhone

WhatsApp messenger has become one of the most popular messaging apps around. We get everything from business meeting schedules to photos of grandchildren on WhatsApp. People use the term “whatsapp” as...

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Using the keyboard to create a contact group in Microsoft Outlook 2013

Many times, you would be in a situation where you need to communicate with a group of people. Addressing a message to this group is made simple by using contact groups. A contact group is a mechanism...

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How to install Program-O with the LEMP stack

Program-O is an environment that allows you to host chatbots. As of this writing, it is AIML version 1.1 compliant. Its interface is easy to use and you can get started easily. However, installation...

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Writing quorom plugins

It is possible to extend quorom’s functionality by calling routines from libraries written in other languages such as java. I wanted to create a chat bot using the Program-AB library which is the...

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Writing web applications with quorum

The quorum programming language has a little known feature which you can use to create web applications. The quorum program is translated into a java servlet. Quorum masks the complexities of creating...

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