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HP Recalls Laptop Batteries Over Safety Concerns

HP is recalling a number of laptop batteries due to serious safety concerns. Essentially, HP is responding to reports that some batteries on some models can overheat, and recalling all those which may be affected. Which is appreciated, as it’s always better to be safe than sorry. This seems to be something of an annual… read more »

7 Chrome Extensions for a Productive New Business Year

Whether you work online for someone else or for yourself, getting tedious tasks done quickly is essential. If you use Google Chrome, you can use business extensions that help you work faster and with less effort. The tools can assist you with meetings, screen sharing, documents, and more. 1. Meetingbird When you need to schedule… read more »

Why You Need to Be on Nextdoor, the Local Social Network

There are all sorts of niche social networks. There are networks for gamers. Networks for beer drinkers. Even networks for academics. But possibly the best social network that you haven’t joined yet is Nextdoor. Nextdoor is a free, private, local social network for people that live in a neighborhood. That might not sound like such… read more »

8 Most Useful Keyboard Shortcuts For Beginner Eclipse IDE Users

This article was originally written for Eclipse Juno but has since been updated for Eclipse Oxygen. I recently had two pair-programming assignments, each in Java and each with a separate partner. Going into this without much knowledge, my first partner suggested using Eclipse IDE, and that turned out to be a great choice. If you’re… read more »

5 Fitness Challenges to Lose Weight and Get Healthy

A large portion of new year’s resolutions revolves around health and fitness. Participating in a 30-day challenge is an excellent way to get started on your goals while getting the guidance you need. These tests target different types of needs, from losing weight to exercising certain body areas. Some are time-based, while others are a… read more »

SoundCloud Makes Its Streams Sound Worse

SoundCloud users have accused the music streaming service from lowering the quality of its audio streams. SoundCloud stands accused of switching from streaming 128 kbps MP3s to 64 kbps Opus files. Which, at first sight, looks like a terrible decision. While this shouldn’t necessarily mean a reduction in sound quality, SoundCloud users with a keen… read more »

How to Make a Web Crawler With Selenium

Web Crawling is extremely useful to automate certain tasks performed routinely on websites. You can write a crawler to interact with a website just as a human would do. In an earlier article, we covered the basics of writing a webcrawler using the python module, scrapy. The limitation of that approach is that the crawler… read more »

Tinder Privacy: 8 Things You’re Doing Wrong

Download an app, create a profile, swipe right when you like what you’re seeing, left when you don’t. Using Tinder isn’t rocket science. However, if online dating was that simple, we would all have switched to apps like Tinder by now. What’s Wrong With Tinder? When Tinder just started, we all thought that was it… read more »

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