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E-cigarettes ‘do further damage than good’

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 Battery-powered e-cigarettes can do further injury than good, as they in fact contain injurious chemicals, experts claim. Two most important Greek researchers have advised consumers to discontinue using the devices until ongoing protection studies are reported back. The recognition of e-cigarettes has improved as consumers can inhale nicotine without tar, tobacco or carbon monoxide. Nevertheless, the US Food and Drug Administration have expressed anxiety after learning different brands delivered noticeably diverse amounts of nicotine vapor with every puff. They have detected traces of dominant cancer-causing chemicals as well. In addition, private enterprise Health New Zealand has found cancer-causing chemicals in the product. “The sparse facts indicate the existence of different toxic and carcinogenic compounds in e-cigarettes, although in possibly much lesser concentrations than in usual cigarettes,” the BBC News quoted the researchers as saying. In the meantime, a D

5 Useful Tricks for Ubuntu Power Users

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Power users are the oft-adored geeks that everyone else looks up to; they do things that are seemingly complicated, they know what a proxy is, and they may or may not tweak with their neighbors unprotected wifi. Many desire to enter the Fraternity of Power Users, but few know where to start. If you’re a power user coming from a different operating system and want to get a foothold in Ubuntu, or if you’re an accomplished Ubuntu user looking to streamline your efficiency and workflow, these five tricks will take you to the next level. Save App Instance Let’s say that you have a dozen documents and spreadsheets open, as well as chat, a calculator, and a few other handy apps, when suddenly you need to leave your workstation. You’re left with two options: log out and have all of your programs close, or leave the station up and risk having your work messed with. The solution? Set Ubuntu to automatically restart any open applications from their last instance when you log back in.

English anuvaada:Ahaa enthaha kalavida:-)

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            Posted via web from Madhav Joshi

The Top 15 Google Products for People Who Build Websites

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Google’s strategy of empowering site developers and owners with free and valuable tools has proven to be effective in garnering a fair bit of geek love for the company. But this affinity to Google by technology enthusiasts is not without warrant—they really do make excellent products that can be instrumental in building, maintaining, and improving websites. What’s more, they’re all usually free.   Check out some of the best Google products for developing, analyzing, maintaining and tinkering with websites . 1. Google Chrome Developer Tools Most developers know the advantages and convenience of testing and debugging in a web browser. It’s this fact that has led to the popularity of browser add-ons such as Firebug and Web Developer Toolbar . Google Chrome, the latest major entry in the web browser market, has a robust, capable, intuitive, and downright helpful suite of tools geared for developers comparable to—and some might even argue, better than— web development tools

MacBook Pro GPU is always on in Windows 7

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MacBooks have great battery life for a few reasons, including, but not limited to, GPU switching. However, as Ubergizmo discovered, when you run Windows 7 in Bootcamp the GPU stays on all the time, essentially sucking down battery like a fiend. The 2009 MBP also had issues – the screen was too bright and the keyboard backlight was always on – but otherwise there wasn’t much of a problem. However, with the GPU always on you move most rendering from the power-sipping processor to the power-sucking NVIDIA GeForce 330M. Sad, but true. But what are you running Windows 7 for anyway? Quicken? Posted via web from Madhav Joshi