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The Verizon Galaxy Tab 10.1 SCH-i905 like pretty much all embedded devices has a special maintenance mode which is like a mini OS which enables various maintenance functions to be performed, such as flashing updates to the device. This maintenance mode is referred to as the “recovery”. The stock recovery is the recovery system that…

“Tethering” is a feature of a mobile data device like a smartphone by which the device acts as an access point allowing other computers locally to connect to the internet through its mobile data (such as 4G) connection. One would think that, if a device such as a smartphone, is capable of providing such a…

Rental bikes are now a booming business in San Francisco, mostly with tourists. Not long ago I had the opportunity to closely examine one that was parked outside a cafe I was at. It looked like a very good bike, not something cheap. Here are the specs I noted: bike model: Fuji Sunfire 2.0 19″…

I was at this restaurant a while ago and they served these amazingly delicious little hors d’oeuvre wrap things which are called maing kham. I wanted to create this post about it for reference purposes. Want to experiment with different recipes and ideas. The ones I had had cashew, prawn (which I no longer eat),…

To me the issue with Romney is not merely what seems to be the recent meltdown of his campaign. The deeper question is how a person who could not manage to visit the London Olympics without insulting the British government, who went to Israel and made racist remarks which only served to inflame longstanding, bloody…

By now everyone has heard about the massive failures of the electric grids in India, leaving hundreds of millions of people without electricity and transportation for days now. What is disconcerting is that India is also a country which has a stockpile of nuclear weapons. Doesn’t it seem like modern technology has advanced far too…

http://www.livescience.com/21971-drought-smaller-gulf-dead-zone.html: Though the parched conditions have wreaked havoc on natural habitat and agricultural crops, drought may have one upside, bringing the fourth smallest dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico since mapping of this annual oxygen-free zone began in 1985. http://www.capitolcolumn.com/news/noaa-report-study-suggest-chronic-drought/: Every year, nutrient runoff from agriculture and other sources flows from the Mississippi River,…

There has been some stuff in the news [abstract] recently about new findings related to Oogonial Stem Cells. It has traditionally been believed that all of the oocyctes (eggs) in a human female’s body are present when she is born and that the system which produced the eggs no longer creates new ones after this.…

Just read an article about a published paper which has found that the introduction of the Asian ladybug to Europe 20 years ago has had multiple deleterious and unforeseen effects. The initial purpose for introducing the bug into Europe was to combat aphids. Apparently the aphids living in trees lining streets would drop goop onto…

source: http://www.yunnanadventure.com/YunnanGuide/Tacheng-Black-Snub-Nosed-Monkey-National-Park-Diqing.html This picture is so cute I could almost cry! “The Black Snub-nosed Monkey, also known as the Yunnan Snub-nosed Monkey, is an endangered species of primate in the Cercopithecidae family. It is endemic to China,[1] where it is known to the locals as the Yunnan Golden Hair Monkey and the Black Golden Hair…