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The Trump-Xi Beijing Summit: What the Smiling Handshakes Won't Tell You

On Thursday, Donald Trump will walk into the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, shake Xi Jinping's hand, and declare it a great meeting. There will be announcements. There will be numbers — billions of dollars in Chinese purchase commitments, a new bilateral mechanism with an important-sounding name, possibly a joint statement on Iran. Trump will post on Truth Social. Markets will rally briefly. Pundits will argue about who won. None of that will tell you what actually happened. What is actually happening in Beijing this week is something more consequential and more uncomfortable than the summit theatre will reveal: two leaders of two deeply mutually dependent superpowers, both of whom need this meeting to succeed for entirely different reasons, sitting across a table in a world that has already moved past the assumptions that defined their last nine months of negotiations. The Iran war changed the equations. The rare earth gambit changed the power balance. Taiwan is sitting in...

How to leave a Facebook group

Maybe you are one of those people who do not mind your friends adding you to random groups. A a result you get added to many groups and some of them are groups you do not want to actually belong to. In addition you keep getting notifications and post from it's members and it can get quiet annoying. In the old Facebook design it was very easy to leave the group. it still is easy but this post is to help you find the link to leave or quiet a group easily. Many of these groups are also visible on your homepage. How to quiet or leave a Facebook group 1. Log into Facebook 2. Click on the name of the group you wish to leave 3. You are taken to the groups homepage 4. On the right hand side tool bar just below the members photos are three options 5. The third one is "Leave Group" 6. Click that link 7. You will be asked if you really want to leave the group 8. If you sure you want to leave, simply click leave group 9. Your done Please be sure to leave comments An original post by ...

How to cancel a friend request you sent on Facebook

This is just a quick short post on how to cancel a friend request you sent on Facebook. There could be many reasons why this is done. Maybe you sent a request but the person has not accepted it for some time. You also know that it's not going to happen. The easiest thing to do is to simply cancel it and end the wait. Now the question to be asked is will the person know that the friend request was cancelled. There should be a message that the request was cancelled when they click on the friends icon. So how do you cancel a friend request on Facebook 1. Login to Facebook 2. Click on the profile of the person you sent a friend request to 3. Hover over the 'Friend request sent' button 4. From the dropdown menu click on "Cancel friend request" link 5. The 'Friend request sent' button should now change to 'Add Friend' 5. Your done If you have any further information related to this please use the comment box found below.  An original post by Sociolatte

#demandaljazeera How Al Jazeera is using Twitter to get onto US cable TV Networks

Al Jazeera has been at the center of all thats been happening in Egypt and now the news channel has started using Twitter to promote itself. What they want is to convince American cable TV networks to now start broadcasting their English news channel. Although we see news and a lot of videos on the going-ons in Egypt a lot of that comes from their media coverage. They have also said that 50% of all traffic coming to their live stream is coming from the US. A spokesperson for the news network has said that they have come up with innovative ways to broadcast their news in Egypt, pamphlets have been distributed when their broadcast signal went down and these pamphlets had the latest news for people to follow.  This according to Niemanlab.org When people couldn’t tune in because their  broadcast signal went down , Al Jazeera distributed pamphlets with the latest updates and information about alternate ways to access its news coverage. It also published phoned-in reports  using Scribble Liv...

How to print documents from anywhere on your personal printer

Google cloud print is a service that allows you to print from anywhere using a PC or your SmartPhone. This wireless printing service allows you once it is set up to send documents and emails to your printer from anywhere over the internet. Currently you can print using an iPhone, Andriod mobile phones and a Chrome extension is also available. With this service even if your printer is offline at the time you submit your documents for print it will be queued and will get printed as soon as it is turned on. You also have the choice of connecting any number of printers. If you plan to use Google Chrome to install Cloud Print a little icon will appear whenever your viewing PDF and other docs that allows you to easily print your documents. This service really comes in handy especially for those who need to travel and send documents for printing. To get Google Cloud Print head over here An original post by Sociolatte

CityVille New Buildings

CityVille  has got three new buildings to keep you busy. So it's time to gt busy again and start building to upgrade your city with three new buildings.  1. Observatory. Minimum requirement is a population of 6500 and it will cost you 200000 coins and will allow a population of 1900 2. Music Store. Minimum requirement is a population of 7500 and it will cost you 200000 coins with earnings of 910 coins and supply 170 goods 3. Furniture Store. Minimum requirement is a population of 6500 and will cost you 750000 coins with earnings of 864 coins and supply 160 goods. An original post by Sociolatte

Dell Streak 7

Dell has introduced the Dell Streak 7 which comes with the following features. With this Dell has made the first 4G compatible tablet, courtesy of T-Mobile and comes with a $199 contract with and $450 without. It also has Adobe Flash 10.1 support and front and rear cameras. With a very innovative shiny Andriod 2.2 running the device. Is this enough to distract from the number of Android 3.0 tablets set to arrive. Available now in the US. Android™ 2.2-based tablet with over-the-air upgrade capability for future OS releases Vibrant 7-inch, multitouch display with full Adobe ®  Flash 10.1  1.3 MP front-facing camera for face-to-face chats on popular services such as Qik or Skype  16 GB of internal storage, plus Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and built-in GPS Connect on your terms. Save with 2-year contract or flexibility with prepaid  pay-as-you-go plans An original post by Sociolatte

How Google has teamed up with Twitter to make sure peoples voices in Egypt are heard

As the final internet connections disappear in Egypt, people can still send their message out. Google acquired SayNow a company that can convert voice to Tweet. Users can now call in their messages which get converted into a Tweet and broad casted on Twitter. The last remaining ISP provider, Noor Group has also been abruptly disconnected.  Numbers to use to call into the SayNow service: +16504194196; +390662207294; and +97316199855.The message is then sent out as a tweet with the hashtag #egypt. People can listen to messages by dialling the same phone numbers (+16504194196 , +390662207294, +97316199855).The service will be very useful for people to communicate as no internet connection is required. People need to call into these numbers and their voice messages are then Tweeted. With the Government ban on internet people are turning to old technologies to get their message across like dial-up modem connections, ham radios and Fax machines. Anything to get their message out to the world...