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Repair your Mac Hard Drive with FSCK or Disk Utility

The blog highlights the procedure of repairing Mac hard drive with FSCK and Disk Utility. When your Mac hard drive fails, there are utilities which can help you repair it with the primary concern of efficiently recovering all data stored on it. Mac hard drives and SSD are reliable storage devices but still, they are susceptible to get corrupt or damaged. Further, disk errors in catalog file,…

Many industry experts and consumers are pointing the Internet of Things (IoT) as an upcoming Industrial Revolution or an upcoming Internet. Why IoT? Simple. Because IoT will consist of the future form of interaction for businesses, governments and consumers with the physical world. One of the most recent market research studies, by BI Intelligence, indicate that in 2020 more than 34 billion…

How much electrical energy do we generate and consume on this planet? As per 2014 estimates, we generated 22.75 trillion kWh of electricity. And, about two-thirds of the generation came from fossil fuels. When we burn so much fossil fuel, who can say climate change is a hoax? China, USA, India, Russia and Japan are the top 5 countries in electricity production. Now, enough of the numbers. What’s…

BluFlux Antenna Design — Quickly Design & Deploy Advanced IoT Devices

Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Louisville, Colorado, BluFlux accelerates the time-to-market for connected devices with their antenna design expertise. Governments are talking about smart cities, the auto-industry is looking at connected cars, people like us looking to create smart connected homes, and so on — thanks to the surge created by the Internet of Things (IoT). Making devices talk…

Droplit, Inc., is an innovative Internet of Things (IoT) company based out of Melbourne, Florida. Energy costs are rising, and with the fierce global warming phenomenon, many want to optimize electricity consumption in their houses. Droplit API is a boon to those trying to take small, yet significant steps in reducing the carbon footprint. Well, this is accomplished when all your power consuming…

The Dyn DNS attack that happened last year is the largest distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on record, simply because of the enormity of the connected devices involved and the number of businesses that were impacted by it. The Mirai malware, responsible for this attack, compromised hundreds of thousands of connected devices with default IoT passwords to blast an estimated 1.2 terabits…

Can someone help decode this script… from Google Gboard? [App Store]

Today, was casually browsing to find a replacement for the annoying Apple keyboard, and stumbled upon this Gboard from Google. However, after installing the app, I encountered two different privacy messages for the same action. See the pics below: Enabling full access to get the search feature. See how nothing else you type is is highlighted. And, when you go about just doing that: When you read…

The Smart Car Key Finder – iHere 3.0 Review

Let me ask you this, up front. How good is your memory? I mean, if you have the habit of losing keys, and fumble around to lay your hands on the rattly bunch that open doors and start cars, then read on. iHere 3.0, by nonda, is a tiny Bluetooth car key finder, that can also do a couple more things. All you need to do is to tag the iHere 3.0 to your key bunch, download the app on your iPhone, and…

Review of ZUS — The Smart Car Charger and Locator

When was the last time you got excited about a car charger? Well, it’s hard to remember. Simply because it has never happened. At least, not to me. I have an built-in USB port in my car, that charges my phone during those long journeys. However, the primary job of that USB port is to accommodate the pen drive loaded with hundreds of songs. Obviously, I have to sacrifice listening to songs, while…

How to Perform Unformat with EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard

They say you never know the value of something until you lose it. In the land of Information Technology, there’s always a way to overcome the loss of data – by using an external drive recovery solution. Basically it means using an unformat software to recover it back. Also you need to have a FAT Recovery application standby just in case something bad were to happen. Today we will be taking a…

XNSPY—the iPhone Monitoring App that Requires No Jailbreak in 2016

The problem with most mobile monitoring apps is that most of them don’t deliver what they promise. Half the features they say they have don’t actually end up working. And those that do work are only functional if your iPhone has been jail broken. This puts the user in a difficult position. People who use mobile monitoring apps are generally caregivers or people of authority—parents that are…

The Most Popular Camera on Flickr is Not a Camera

It is an iPhone! Anyways, I’m not too surprised that the most popular camera brand on Flickr is NOT a CAMERA. Take a look at the data from Flickr: Why are real camera brands, like Canon and Nikon, showing a downward trend? Is it because it’s easier to flip out an iPhone (or, any phone) and take a quick snap-shot? Is it because the iPhone’s tonal quality is stunning right out-of-the-box, requiring…

Save the Planet and Save Money With E-Cycling

The holidays are right around the corner and it looks like pretty much everyone wants a new phone for Christmas. The only problem is that new plans have made upgrading more complicated than ever and getting a new phone is almost never cheap. Plus, you have to figure out what to do with the stack of old phones piling up in that desk drawer. Devices are upgraded so quickly and by so many people…

East Coast Road, Chennai — Sunrise [PIC]

Taken @ Pebble Beach, East Coast Road, Chennai. Canon 600D with Canon 35-135mm USM lens. Color corrected in Lightroom. [Flickr]

JBL Control One Bookshelf Speakers Review

I have always been a big fan of JBL. When they marketed their products with statements like ‘Hear the truth’ and ‘Legendary JBL Sound’, I had to take these with a pinch of salt; until I first experienced that legendary sound with the JBL J33 in-ear headphones. Impressed by the J33, I also bought the J22 headphones (while not as punchy as the J33, it’s definitely good enough in terms of clarity).…