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YouTube, world's largest video-sharing network, has over one billion users. YouTube reaches more under-50 audience than any cable network in the US. YouTube has a design which gets users addicted easily. You can rarely stop after watching a single video. It has autoplay, theater mode, speed and quality options, full-screen mode, and engaging conversations. YouTube's autoplay starts the next video in the up next queue as soon as the current video finishes. The theater mode allows users to view a video in a wide frame with a black background. Speed (0.25 to 2) and quality (144p to 1080p and beyond) options let users see videos in their preferred speed and quality. Full-screen mode is a favorite of users. YouTube comments section is a place where users participate in interesting conversations. A complaint raised by many YouTube users is the cognitive overload . People do not like a cluttered user interface all the time. It creates stress on users and last time we checked, no...

This article is for system administrators. Windows Command Prompt is a command line interface used by system administrators for performing administrative tasks. A command line interface is an important part of an operating system and without it, an operating system is incomplete. The graphical user interface is for common users and the command line interface is for more advanced users. Although the modern versions of windows have been built in such a manner that even complicated administrative tasks can be performed from graphical user interfaces, the command prompt will always be unparalleled for system administration in windows. System administration often requires automation. There are third-party softwares for automation on windows. Knowledge of vanilla automation or automation without installing additional tools is an important prerequisite on the path to becoming an efficient system administrator. With command prompt, you can automate a lot of tasks sim...

In our childhood, we loved colors. Although we don't hate colors when we become adults, it gets significantly lost under tons of mundane things. Well, Color Tab from Color Hunt will rejuvenate your love for colors.  Color Hunt  is a social platform for people who love to play with colors. The man behind Color Hunt is Gal Shir , a designer from Tel Aviv, whose work has already received wide acclaim. Color Hunt was developed as a place where people can share and discover ravishing color palettes. The color palettes are submitted by users. The Color Hunt team reviews the submissions and a select few are added to Color Hunt's collection. Due to the crowdsourcing, Color Hunt receives lots of interesting color palettes from users which is why the platform's collection keeps getting huge and huge every month. The platform offers you the option to create your own color palette. One color palette comprises four colors. On the create page , you can add four colors of your cho...

If you are trying to create a site on wordpress.com  on Tor Browser , during domain name reservation, you will almost certainly face this error, "An active access token must be used create a new Site for the User." The solution requires three seconds. Go to Tor Browser "Privacy and Security Settings", uncheck "Restrict third party cookies and other tracking data", click on OK, reload the page and finish the procedure. When done, don't forget to restore the privacy and security settings to defaults. A significant number of Tor users have faced this issue lately and this solution is also recommended by wordpress.com team. As of now, this is the only way to get a site or blog on wordpress.com with Tor. Tor is a browser built especially with privacy, security, and anonymity in mind. A team of highly skilled individuals well-versed in networking and web technologies work day and night on this open source project to ensure the anonymity of millions of ...

There was a time when emojis were used by young people, mostly teenagers. Emojis are used everywhere now. Actors, models, sportsmen, singers, tech enthusiasts everyone seems to have fallen in love with emojis. They give life to otherwise boring textual status updates on social media. If you don't use emojis when you update your status, your update will be less attractive to people. People won't be able to connect to it. During the week of last year's World Emoji Day, over 314 K tweets were posted with the hashtag #worldemojiday with a velocity of around 220 tweets per minute. 4% of mobile users use emojis at least once a day. People love emojis mainly because sometimes words are not good enough to express their feelings. Psychologists say that people react to emojis as if they are reacting to a real human face. Emojis put life in lifeless conversations in the digital world. Emojis even have their own conference . Emoji One , a group focused on contemporary emoji develo...

350 M people suffer from depression worldwide. Anxiety and Depression Association of America, ADAA reports, "Anxiety disorders are the most common mental illness in the U.S., affecting 40 million adults in the United States [...]." When a person feels depression, their unhappiness not only affects their own lives, it ends up affecting the lives of people around them. Depression costs the US $210 B every year. In the US, 80% of people suffering from depression do not receive any treatment at all.  People often end their lives when they fail to fight their depression. From morning to evening, most of us live under severe stress. Stress at home, stress at workplace, stress at social places, all these take a huge toll on us, and we start to forget the simple things which make us happy. If you are in the information technology industry, then you need to understand that dealing with stress is the first thing you need to learn to achieve success in this industry. Momentum  is...

Theme Creator is a chrome app which lets you create your own Google Chrome themes. This awesome app is from Theme Beta , a platform for theme designers where they share their wonderful themes. Although chrome is an excellent browser with a stunning user interface, sometimes the default user interface fails to satisfy us, especially those of us who do a lot of web browsing. After all, who wants to see the same user interface week after week, month after month, and year after year. So, we install themes in chrome, themes which suit us, themes which refresh our mood, themes which make browsing a pleasant experience. A lot of exciting chrome themes are available online. But, sometimes we want something more. With Theme Creator, we can create a theme exactly according to our preferences. Installation takes a second. After installation, you will automatically be taken to the chrome apps page. There you will see Theme Creator with all other apps you have installed. When you clic...

Uber has launched Movement , a platform which will offer access to Uber's high-quality traffic data in areas where its services are available. The platform is aimed at improving traffic conditions in the cities. As of now, Uber has over 2 B trip data available. Although the platform's present intended audience are city officials, planners, and policy makers, the platform will eventually be made open to the public. The platform will offer thorough historical insights which will enable city officials to gauge the effectiveness of newly built roads etc. In addition to that, the huge amount of traffic data presented will help the city planners and policy makers understand important traffic patterns which will be extremely useful in taking smart infrastructure investment decisions. The platform has received enthusiastic responses from all corners of the world. The District of Columbia is one of the early partners of Uber Movement. Muriel Bowser, Mayor, Washington DC , ...

Quora is a Q&A platform headquartered in Mountain View, California with a Global Alexa Rank 127 & US Alexa Rank 69. The website quora.com has an estimated net worth of $973 M. The stated mission of Quora is "to share and grow the world’s knowledge". The site is a favorite of millions of people who love to know more about topics of their interest. On Quora, people engage in Q&A and the entire process is moderated by Quora to ensure the platform does not lose its dignity and become just another Q&A site full of boring questions and even more boring answers. Let's have a look at how Quora started its journey and how it made through the strenuous first few years. 2009. In June, Adam D'Angelo & Charlie Cheever started Quora. Before starting Quora, Adam D'Angelo was the CTO in Facebook. Adam D'Angelo left Facebook in January, 2010 , to fully focus on Quora. 2010. In March, Quora raised $11 M in Series A funding led by Benchmark . In June, Q...

We want to keep our data secure. It's important to us. If our data falls into the hands of criminals, we can face grave consequences. Imagine you work in the product design division of a hardware company and you and your colleagues are working on a prototype, a prototype which has the potential to change the market position of the company overnight and catapult the company to the top spot. If information about the prototype leaks and it falls into the hands of the competitor company, all the hours you and your colleagues have put into the design of the prototype will become meaningless in a second. If the prototype design leaks due to your negligence from your machine, that can very well mean the end of your professional career . We are talking about how data leaks can threaten our professional life. Are we immune from data leaks in our personal life? No. We are not. If a criminal gets unauthorized access to our personal files, our life will be in jeopardy. All it takes is ju...

Facebook, the company which started its journey from a Harvard dorm room , is now a worldwide phenomenon. Facebook, headquartered in Menlo Park, CA, started its journey in 2004, and now it's a company with total assets of around $50 B . Facebook Newsroom reports, the social networking platform has more than 1.79 B monthly active users (September 30, 2016). Over the years, the company has acquired numerous promising companies. Others have tried time and again to snatch the top spot from Facebook, but have failed miserably in the end. Facebook remains the number one social networking site. People love Facebook so much that, to many, logging into Facebook and checking the updates from friends, colleagues, and relatives or updating status have become an essential daily activity, something they cannot live without. An average smartphone user checks Facebook 14 times every single day. The platform takes good care of its users. It frequently updates the site and launches interesting...

Demonetization was done by the Government of India with the purpose of making India a clean country, financially. Through demonetisation, PM Modi sent a clear message to the corrupt of India. The message was so strong that people who accumulated wealth illegally are spending sleepless nights since the day the prime minister made the announcement. In a big country like India, there are millions who had accumulated black money. While demonetization was very successful, there are also people who are honest and live a simple life. They faced some challenges due to demonetization. PM Modi was aware of this issue.  National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) , India's premier retail payment systems development, coordination, and management agency, has developed  BHIM to alleviate the common man's problems and to take India one-step closer to a cashless country. For the uninitiated, Bhima, based on whose name the app has been named, is a mythological character from Indian...