Showing posts with label Science and Technology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Science and Technology. Show all posts

Thursday, September 19, 2013

Samsung Galaxy S II: How to change/customize default home screen in android phone

This is a simple and quick fix for “custom home button” issue in Samsung Galaxy Android phone. If you press home button and it takes you somewhere else rather than your "home screen", then this post is a solution for you. You can choose which screen to show when you press home button. I had a similar issue with my Samsung Galaxy S2 and I just fixed it. I thought it would be worth to share everyone. Just follow the following steps to get it done.    
  1. Press menu button on bottom left corner
  2. Click on Edit page
  3. All available screens will be displayed on a single page. Home icon is highlighted on active home screen. Press on home icon of your preferred screen in order to make it "default home screen."

Monday, February 13, 2012

How Do I Disable New Tab Showing Most Visited Sites in Google Chrome?


I guess you landed to this post because you have Google chrome and that shows the history of most visited site when you open a new tab. I personally feel this function of chrome pretty annoying. There are various options available to avoid this situation. However, if want quick fix to stop displaying most visited sites in the new tab, then this post would be for you. This method utilizes a Firefox extension called "Blank New Tab" from DarkByte. I have tried this extension and worked well for me.

How to Open a Blank New Tab?

1. Click on wrench icon update notification, choose Option, click on Extension, and go to the "Get more extensions" (Figure 1 and 2)

Figure 1

Monday, February 6, 2012

Blogger Font Size: Normal Size is too Small and Large is too Big

If you are using Blogger and realize that the font size is either too small for "Normal Size" and too big for "Large Size" or your new Blogger post in different font size than old post, then you can try following option to fix the text size, default font type, and color:
  1. Log into your blog's dashboard
  2. Go to the Template Designer (Template > Customize)
  3. Choose Advanced and click on Page
  4. Adjust the default font type, text size (in pixel), background color of the post, and the text color. 
  5. Click on Apply to Blog to save the setting. 

Friday, December 23, 2011

How to Show List of Entire Blog Posts/Titles in Blogger Page

I was searching for html code or any widget that can show a list of all my blog posts/entries in a my blogger page. Eventually, Google search returned me a post "Listing Post Titles In Alphabetical or Chronological Order" by Blogger Sentral. Wow! this is exactly I was looking for...If you are looking for table of content (TOC) for your blog, click here and follow the tutorial... 

Here's how it looks like. 
Blog Entries  

Acknowledgement: My sincere thanks goes to Blogger Sentral.

Sunday, December 4, 2011

Mammoth Could be Brought Back to Life by Using Cloning

Woolly mammoth (Source: Lyme Bay Cottages Blog)

Scientists from Japan and Russia have claimed that the extinct woolly mammoth could be cloned from the bone marrow that were found well preserved in a thigh bone recovered from permafrost soil in Saiberia.

According to AFP report on Saturday, teams from the Sakha Republic's mammoth museum and Japan's Kinki University will launch fully-fledged joint research next year aiming to recreate the giant mammal, Japan's Kyodo News reported from Yakutsk, Russia.

By replacing the nuclei of egg cells from an elephant with those taken from the mammoth's marrow cells, embryos with mammoth DNA can be produced, Kyodo said, citing the researchers. The scientists will then plant the embryos into elephant wombs for delivery, as the two species are close relatives, the report said.

Securing nuclei with an undamaged gene is essential for the nucleus transplantation technique, it said. For scientists involved in the research since the late 1990s, finding nuclei with undamaged mammoth genes has been a challenge. Mammoths became extinct about 10,000 years ago. But the discovery in August of the well-preserved thigh bone in Siberia has increased the chances of a successful cloning.

Global warming has thawed ground in eastern Russia that is usually almost permanently frozen, leading to the discoveries of a number of frozen mammoths, the report said.


Short Video: Evolution of the woolly mammoth - BBC science 

Walking with Beasts Ep6 Mammoth Journey, a documentary BBC

 

Video: Walking with Beasts Ep6 Mammoth Journey1/2

 

 

Video: Walking with Beasts Ep6 Mammoth Journey2/2

Related Article Link: 

Mammoth 'could be reborn in four years



How to clone a mammoth (Source: The Telegraph)



Mice cloned in Japan after 16 years in freeze. 

I am hopeful to welcome back mammoth...cheers!!!