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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...

SkyDrive now available for the iPhone and iPad

Image: SkyDrive SkyDrive the file storage cloud from Microsoft is now available on your iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. The service which has been available to all Windows Desktop users and Windows phone users for sometime now transitions and comes to all iPhone users. With this new App you can do the following: 1. Login to the service and create folders 2. Upload images, videos and other files from your PC or Mac and access them on your phone 3. Files you upload from your PC, phone or mac are stored securely and will be then available whenever you launch the app on your iPhone ot iPad. 4. You can access files shared by other users with you 5. Upload all your photos and your videos to Microsoft SkyDrive and have them stored for free. 6. SkyDrive offers 25 GB of free personal storage  If you already use Hotmail, Messenger or Xbox live you already have a SkyDrive account. If not you can head on over to SkyDrive and create a free account. SkyDrive on the Web .  Download the App on your iPhon...

Best sites to download free eBooks

Your eReader is that much more fun when you have free books to read. The good thing about the internet is that there are millions of books out there, that can be downloaded and read on your device and the best part of it is that it is totally legal and pretty easy to download and read. There  have been millions of books that have been printed from the time the printing press was invented and millions of them are available as classics which come with no copyright issues.There is a vast difference between people who love reading books and those who are satisfied with blogs and articles. If you are that person who needs your books no matter what. We hope this post will definitely lead you to your pastures. These ebooks can be downloaded on your SmartPhones, Tablets and eReaders.  List of best sites to download free eBooks online. 1. You can visit Amazon's Limited Time Offers or Amazon's Kindle Popular Classics .  Limited time offers from Amazon has a whole lot of free books whil...

WordPress 3.3 now available for download

WordPress 3.3 'Sonny' is now out and ready for use. It has been named in honor of Jazz saxophonist Sonny Stitt. The new version of WordPress looks more modern and features have come to it that should have come long ago. It seemed old and from another era but the new WordPress looks set for success. The new version is now iPad optimized and in addition to all the other services you could import blogs from. You can now also import your Tumblr blog to WordPress. So what are the significant improvements in WordPress 3.3 The uploaded now has a drag-and-drop feature, so when you're uploading your media files to WordPress you can now drag-and-drop them into the new uploaded and it gets the job done. There are new hover menus for navigation, so you don't need to click on each link in the navigation bar to get further options. Hovering brings those options out. An all new toolbar Improved co-editing support, the message that your friend is also editing the same document will not...

Use myGP.is to give your Google+ profile a Vanity URL with User Stats

Here is a convenient service that allows you to create a vanity URl for your Google+ profile along with the ability to track users who click on it. If you are new to Google+ and wondering why you would need a proper name for your profile, it is because as of now Google+ does not allow users to name their profile and if you want to share your profile with others. It looks something like a long string of letters with plus.google thrown in. So a service like this adds to the aesthetics of your Google+ profile address. In addition the service also offers user stats so once you share your profile address on your blog or other platforms you cna see how many people clicked on it and how they found you. How does myGP.is work: Once you sign-up for the service you can get your own Google+ vanity URL with an address that would like like this www.myGP.is/username You get a QR code for your profile that can be shared online and offline so people can land on your profile after scanning the code. You...

This Website knows what you've been illegally downloading

If you have been a pirate online and been downloading illegally movies, games and music, this website knows all about you. All you BitTorrent users need to be aware that even though you think that downloading files from a file-sharing site might keep your activity anonymous. Think again, this site shows that all activity can be tracked and if you are using the same IP address for a long time, chances are that files you have been downloading have been tracked and can show up on sites like this.  If you want your IP address to be removed from the system you will need to login with your Facebook ID and then send in your removal request. Now you might be wondering if this is something to be worried about and is it going to cause you any problems. Well the site owners say not really. This is more for novelty purposes and to send a message. You need to keep a track of what your downloading and maybe even cover your cyber footprints. This site can show your IP address and says that you have d...

How to Use Google applications via SMS text message

This is one cool mobile app feature from Google. There are a number of Google services that you can now use on your phone via SMS text messages. The cool part of this whole thing is that you don't need a smartphone, neither do you need one of the new phones being sold these days. All of this works over on an old feature phone and you can now get your Grandma to use Google on her feature phone. The only condition is that your phone should be able to handle SMS and be able to receive and send texts. Google SMS Applicaitons: How does it work 1. Google SMS search: to get updates on your favorite topics each time there is something newsworthy 2. Calendar SMS: to check your calendar while you're on the go 3. Blogger SMS: Update your blogger blog even when you're not in front of a PC. Update from your phone. 4. Gmail SMS: to sms or text to your Gmail contacts while you're on the move. 5. Google Voice SMS: send and receive SMS text messages through Google Voice. How to get star...

How to use Airplay to connect your iPhone's camera live on Apple TV

Now we did not come up with this idea, we will give you the links at the bottom of the post which contain the idea's origin and the blog that pointed us to it. This however is an amazing iPhone 4S trick and works with iOS 5 devices. The basic use of this cool trick is that once you connect the two you can use your iPhone to see stuff that would have otherwise been almost impossible. like the inside of your ear, back of your neck, some hidden place under your bed, a dark corner in the attic. There are a lot of fun tricks and uses for this trick. So once setup you will be able to beam wirelessly images from your phone live to your Apple TV. To watch live footage from your iPhone on your Apple TV 1. Double click on your device's home-button to enable Airplay mirroring.  2. Swipe to the right twice ad then select Apple TV as your Airplay destination and enable mirroring 3. Next click home and run the camera App. All the images your camera sees will now be seen on your TV and you ca...