Happy news! I successfully donated blood for the fifth time since I started donating around a year back. A national conference on ‘Advances in Biotechnology and Health Science’ was organized today at my University by the Department of Biotechnology in association with the Rotary Club of Anna Nagar (West), Chennai. Before Blood Donation There was a […]
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How to use OpenDNS/Google DNS on Linux OS
Why you should change your DNS server Changing your DNS servers allows you to bypass through the DNS blocks and connect to most of the blocked websites on the internet. Many people in countries with strict laws use a global public DNS on their routers and personal computers to be able to connect to popular blocked websites. […]
Book Review: Delivering Happiness By Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh
How I discovered the book You might all know that I am interested in landing myself a job at Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Jetpack, etc. Few months back, when I was looking at their ‘Work with Us’ page, I was intrigued by the job description for Happiness Engineer. After reading through it carefully, […]
Quick Recap Of Mozilla Campus Club – First Meet At Dr.M.G.R. Educational & Research Institute
Okay, most of you would have heard about Mozilla – the community of people helping to keep the internet healthy, open and accessible to all. A few days back, we had the first meet of Mozilla Campus Club held at our college, Dr. M.G.R. Educational & Research Institute to discuss on how we students can contribute […]
Wire Secure Messenger – The best open source alternative to WhatsApp
What is Wire Private Messenger? Wire is a modern, private communications application offering free text, voice, video, pictures, and much more. Moreover, Wire is a opensource project, that is, anyone can review or audit the code and contribute to the development of the application. Here’s the link to Wire’s repository on GitHub. Why Wire? Previously I […]
Chrome’s Autocomplete Is Not Secure. Here’s How You Can Turn It Off
The Chrome browser which we are all using is not as secure as it seems to be. It has got a vulnerability which is yet to be fixed. This vulnerability was first outlined by the good people at Yoast way back in 2013 itself. Basically, by using this exploit a hacker can hide form input […]