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Hosted Heaven Pantheon Has Arrived For Wordpress

Pantheon has been my choice for Drupal hosting since it's BETA days, and this blog is still hosted with them. The good news is their excellent platform is now available for Wordpress too, the no-frill, simple to use, hosted heaven is very developer friendly with separate development, staging and live website environments for your Drupal/Wordpress websites.

Pantheon PaaS has everything to run Drupal websites with best performance and since Wordpress demands the same, support for Wordpress has now being offered to users. The Pantheon dashboard simplifies management of multiple websites and allows the admin to do all sorts of technical management and maintenance tasks with ease.

Pantheon Hosting Review

For advance users, Pantheon already offered the excellent command-line tool Terminus based on "drush" (The standard Drupal Shell) for managing services, and now they have rewrote it as an stand-alone tool, borrowing a lot of ideas from wp-cli in the process to support WordPress platform.

Remote Pi - Use Mobile Devices As Wireless KB/Trackpad For Raspberry Pi

Remote Pi is an application for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and Google Android which allows users to utilize their mobile-devices as an wireless keyboard and trackpad for Raspberry Pi. Once installed user can send keystrokes and mouse events to you Raspberry Pi computers over TCP/IP via a wired or wireless network, the utility not only saves money for an additional keyboard-mouse but also keeps a USB port free on the Rapsberry Pi.

Remote Pi

Elementary OS : A Sleek, Beautiful, Fast, Feature Rich, Secure, Free and Open Source Operating System

If you are looking for a fast, feature-rich, easy-to-use, good-looking Desktop Linux distribution for replacing Windows, Elementary OS is what you need. Designed from the ground-up as an free replacement for Windows on the PC and OS X on the Mac, Elementary OS comes bundled with everything you'd expect from an ready-to-go OS after install which includes an excellent suite of custom tailored apps like a fast web browser, an app store with thousands of apps, free security-updates for life, music-player and organizer, all-in-one Jabber, Facebook, Google Talk, AIM, IRC, Yahoo! etc. instant messenger, multi-account modern desktop email-client, photo-organizer-editor and much more.

Elementary OS Luna not only looks beautiful but has also been engineered from the core to be light on system resources. It boots-up quickly, logs you in instantly, and uses the bare minimum of resources so that your apps enjoy a speed boost as well. Do watch the introduction video posted ahead.

Elementary OS

Get EaseUS Free Partition Manager for Home Users

Many people who have computers complain about the way their computer is partitioned. If your PC came with a faulty partitioning, you can get a partition manager to help you fix it. The EaseUS Partition Master is one of the best tools for the job. You don't have to pay anything either, because this is a free partition manager software. This partition manager works without having to reboot your computer. There is a single catch though, because you can only use this toolkit if you’re a Windows user.

EaseUS Free Partition Manager

An important feature of this partition manager is its ability to change the size of your partition without losing any important data. You won’t be losing any data is you choose to unite 2 adjacent partitions with Partition Manager. Countless other tools lose your data during the process. If you lost a whole partition by accident, this software has the power of bringing it back.

Configuring Network Folder Sharing On Radxa Rock

Radxa Rock - the cheap and powerful quad-core mini-computer has already receiving great success with majority of stock vanishing across all major online distributors. Luckily, I had received my Radxa Rock a while back and has now successfully taken over the job of my Wireless Network Attached Storage (NAS) from Raspberry Pi.

The process of setting up NAS on Radxa Rock is much more easier then Raspberry Pi as the external disk is automatically detected and mounted on every boot (Thanks to Ubuntu Desktop based Linaro image), but when using the folder sharing via Samba Share we need to add an extra line to smb.conf to make the data accessible over network.

Network Folder Sharing Over Samba

Sendly - Get 75% Discount On Mobile Recharges In 100 Countries

Rebtel is a well-known name as an established VoIP service provider, the company has now launched their Sendly Mobile App enabling Apple iOS and Google Android users to Top up prepaid phones of friends and family in 100 Countries. To promote the application the company is shelling out HUGE discounts - a whooping 75% discount on the users first recharge.

Sendly

Hacking VLC To Run As Root On Linux

If you try to run VLC under root user on Linux, you will be blocked with message : "VLC is not supposed to be run as root. Sorry. If you need to use real-time priorities and/or privileged TCP ports you can use vlc-wrapper (make sure it is Set-UID root and cannot be run by non-trusted users first).". While it is a good security practice to not run non-system executables under root privileges, but at times you might need the exception. Here's a solution to allow VLC and cvlc (command-line version of vlc) run under the root user-account.

VLC no root allowed error

Popcorn Time Streams Latest HQ Movies From BitTorrent Just Like Netflix, But For Free

Movie piracy just got super-easy with "Popcorn Time", a cross-platform app for Windows, Mac and Linux allowing users to watch latest Hollywood movies streaming to their computers utilizing bit-torrent protocol almost instantly. The utility puts NetFlix to shame, instead of occasional new releases and B-list back catalog provided by Netflix, this ones offers an impressive movie selection catalogue including the latest ones (because they are being offered using illegally shared torrents).

Popcorn Time takes away the technicality limitation of bit-torrent for casual users and offers them a free, simple and cross-platform tool to select latest and other older movies from a carefully curated catalogue and just click on the "Movie Cover" to start watching.

Popcorn Time

Trick To Enable Data Compression Proxy For Faster Browsing And Bandwidth Saving In Google Chrome For Desktop

Similar to Opera Turbo technology, Google Chrome features an "data compression proxy" for Android and Apple iOS mobile-devices which when enabled opens a connection between the user phone and optimization servers running in Google's datacenters relaying all non-encrypted HTTP requests over this connection. The SSL secured proxy connection performs intelligent compression and minification of HTML, JavaScript and CSS resources which are not essential to render the page. These optimizations, combined with gzip compression for all resources, DNS lookups from proxy and images converted to WebP with resulting sizes upto 80% smaller provides huge bandwidth savings and resulting in faster web-browsing experience.

This feature is not available for Google Chrome Desktop users, however a free Chrome extension now allows users to get the same savings on their desktop computers. The extension sends all HTTP (but not HTTPS) traffic through Chrome Data Compression Proxy server, which utilizes SPDY protocol to speed up web browsing. Users can check bandwidth savings by visiting chrome://net-internals/#bandwidth and can disable compression-proxy by clicking the green bolt icon from the toolbar.

Data Compression Proxy By Google

Get One Month Premium VPN Service For Free From Bucklor VPN

Bucklor is a new VPN service provider which started in 2013 but the companies past goes back to 2005. Lighten Information Technology Co., Ltd engaged in VPN Business from 2005, their main marketplace is China. Having done this business for a long time, Bucklor can safely be considered a professional VPN service provider.

Bucklor has released its beta version VPN Software for Windows and wants users to participate in the testing. Those who choose to become Bucklor VPN Client Beta Tester will be able to use it totally Free for 31 days.

Bucklor VPN
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