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  • Use secure messaging apps like Edward Snowden

    Are you using chat apps like Twitter, Snapchat and Whatsapp? You know it’s the most insecure and invasive messaging system around and you are just a marketing tool right?

    If you want true privacy for text and voice calls the same way NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and other professionals do. Then you want to use Open Whisper Systems’ app Signal. 

    The app is encrypted end to end. This means real privacy from governments and even the app maker does not have the capability to detect any messages.

    Give it a try for Android and iPhone

  • Facebook Privacy and Privacy in General

    One of the single most important settings on any mobile device is the LOCATIONS or GPS setting. 

    Anytime you hear an app is eating up your battery on a phone it’s not by mistake. It’s probably because it’s tracking your every move in real life by GPS. And guess what? You gave it permission to do it! Actually it came defaulted and you never turned it off. 

    So on iPhone the first thing to do and regularly you need to check is in SETTINGS, PRIVACY, LOCATION SERVICES. 

    Now your first instinct might be to just turn it off but Maps will really be useless without it. Instead TAKE CONTROL. Leave it on but turn it off for most everything, ESPECIALLY Facebook and photos. 

    Now your apps are not tracking you. When you upload photos you won’t be sending your location either. Why? Because photos are no longer meta data rich with where you are and when you were there. 

  • Windows 10 upgrade without errors

    We have been trying to install the Windows 10 upgrade for days now. After countless tries all we would end up with is errors like the dreaded 80240020 and 80080080 errors.

    But in the end the easiest way for us was to bypass Windows Update and swing over to the Microsoft download site and download a small 17MB file that upgraded to Windows 10 easily.

    All you have to do is choose which version you need 32 or 64 bit, this will download a Media Creation Tool. After you run this, you just sit back and it will install.

    Although it gives you the option of creating an install DVD or USB stick, after we chose upgrade this PC we didn’t do anything else.

    Here is the page
    https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

  • World’s first beef noodle vending machine

    This machine gives “Instant Ramen” a whole new meaning.
    A company has developed a noodle vending machine that not only cooks noodles but also adds fresh ingredients like beef and serves it ready to eat in 2 minutes.



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    The monkey is proud to announce the official T-shirt.
    Very high quality 100% cotton with graphics on both sides.
    Feed the monkey! $20 includes shipping to any jungle in the world.
    Available in XS, S, M, L, XL, XXL, XXXL and XXXXL

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