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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...

Samsung Galaxy Note 2: How to use multi-window

The   Samsung Galaxy Note 2 comes with a really cool feature called multi-window. With multi-window you can do full screen multitasking on the Note 2. A feature that was not available on many previous devices from Samsung. Once you enable multi-window on the Note 2, you have a small ticker at the bottom of your screen which you can scroll through to find the apps you want to open in full-screen mode. Not all apps are supported but works on most anyway - you can try this and see how it works on your device. It is a really cool feature since you have a list of all your apps at the bottom and you can open any one you want to view in full screen by just tapping on the app. This way you can work on many apps at once - you could be writing mail while watching a movie or playing a game. Quite a cool feature on the Galaxy Note 2. How to activate, turn on or enable multi-window on the Samsumg Galaxy Note 2. 1.On your device long press the back button and it should slip into multi-window mode. ...

How to compare the size of SmartPhones before you buy

There is a wide range of SmartPhones available today for you in the market. Each phone comes with its unique screen-size and features. Some phones have bigger and wider screens and different resolutions. Some are clearer that the other. There are a whole lot of phones out there. So how do you check the actual size of each phone before going to a retail store and holding it in your hands. Versusio is a web app that helps you do just that. Once you compare once phone against the other you might still want to get a realistic feel of how big the phone would actually be if you were holding it in your hands.  There is a link called 'Show original size', clicking this link will put an American express credit card in between both phones and you can adjust till you get the real-life size. In addition to giving you a look and feel of the phone size the web app also gives you the pro and cons of each smartphone. So you can compare the Samsung Galaxy Note against the iPhone 4S 64GB or LG O...