Ethereum is a decentralized blockchain platform that enables developers to build and deploy decentralized applications (dApps) on the blockchain. Ethereum was created in 2014 by Vitalik Buterin and has since become one of the most popular blockchain platforms in the world. In this article, we’ll provide a development history of Ethereum, an overview of its…
Thunderbird is a nice email client and calendar management software. iCloud calendar is the native calendar cloud service in Apple devices such as iPhone. So far there is no native support from Thunderbird to support iCloud calendar, excepting reading the read-only public iCloud calendars which has privacy concerns as long as lacks of editing functionalities….
R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics, providing a wide variety of statistical and graphical techniques. The R environment is open source software under GPL. R has rich software packages and is widely used for statistical analysis. RStudio Server is an R integrated development environment (IDE) that provides many useful features…
Feedburner used to a powerful tool for RSS feeds publishing and subscriber management. However, feedburner will unlikely leave its maintenance mode because there has been no new features yet less features for quite some years. But RSS feed is still an important part of the Web supported by many software such as WordPress. follow.it is…
Gmail’s authentication is secured by rejecting access from less secure apps. By default, adding Gmail SMTP in Thunderbird with your Google account password as SMTP authentication password will not work. And Google is beginning to shut off Google Account access to less secure apps. To solve this, the method is to use OAuth2 authentication instead…
OneDrive is one of the good cloud storage services available and there is a business version called OneDrive for Business. Microsoft’s Office 365 plan is widely used including Exchange Email service and OneDrive for Business. However, there is no official client released yet for Linux users. Insync is a third party cloud storage syncing software…
How to debug the media print view set by @media print {} in CSS of Web pages in Firefox? In firefox, after opening the Web page, First, hit “Shift + F2” to open the “Developer Toolbar” at the bottom. Second, in the “Developer Toobar”, input media emulate print and Firefox will show the print view…
Firefox on iOS can view bookmarks from PC. But how to sync the bookmarks made on iOS to PC? It seems the bookmarks made in Firefox on iPhone is local only. No, you can’t yet. Bookmarks saved on your iOS devices will not sync to your PC at current (by Nov. 25, 2015) version of…
Firefox needs an email address and a password to login and sync. Is Firefox Sync safe, that is, could someone else read my password saved in Firefox without my password? In short, only you with your password can see your data. Others, even Mozilla’s servers, without your password, can not see your decrypted data. In…
From the opening window by JavaScript window.open(), we can pass info to the opened by hash. But how to pass results back from the opened window to the openning window in JavaScript? Assume in the opener window, a JavaScript variable is defined like var exchangeVar = ”; In the opened window, you can update the…
How to capture the close event of an opened window by window.open() in JavaScript? This JavaScript code works well for me: var newwindow = window.open(“/newwindow.html”); newwindow.onbeforeunload = function () { // processing event here alert(“new window closed”); } Note that after the callback function is executed, the newwindow is closed.
How to install the Chrome browser on Fedora Linux from Google? Google provides a repository for yum/dnf on Fedora. First, following http://www.systutorials.com/3471/additional-repositories-for-fedora-linux/#google-chrome-repository to add Google Chrome repository. Then, you can install Google Chrome by yum/dnf: # dnf install google-chrome-stable
How to open a URL in a new window in JavaScript? For example, to open a new window to browse “http://www.systutorials.com“. Open the URL in a new window: url = “http://www.systutorials.com”; window.open(url); Some browser will open the window in a new tab depending on the configuration. If you want to force the browser to open…
Hi there, Quite recently I’ve created a native app (webview app)of my wordpress website and this wordpress site is using responsive theme as well. Now I want to publish this app at play store. The problem is that Adsense are not allowed to be shown in a native android app. So I want to know…
What suggested web browser in command line? This will be very useful for browsing the Internet from a command line via SSH. You may use Lynx, a fully-featured World Wide Web (WWW) client for users running cursor-addressable, character-cell display devices, in Linux. Homepage: http://lynx.isc.org/ Lynx is a fully-featured World Wide Web (WWW) client for users…
Which video player for iPhone is good for uploading video files from my computer and watching them? For example, I download some video files and would like to watch them on my iPhone on the go. I know iTune can do this. But I am on Linux and I want something easier. Many apps can…
How to get a tree-like view of the git commit history? My favorite command line: git log –graph –oneline It will prints a text based graph like (with colors): * b5dc8b9 Merge branch ‘master’ of https://github.com/layerzero/libi0 | | * 7514ef1 revised the README.md a little bit | * 6692428 align size to page for both…
On Linux, how to download a webpage as a mobile browser? You can change the agent of curl to be a mobile browser’s and the remote webserver may be consider the request from a mobile browser: curl -A “Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 6_1_3 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/536.26 (KHTML, like Gecko) CriOS/28.0.1500.12 Mobile/10B329 Safari/8536.25″…
How to remove cookies for a specific site/domain in Chrome? I just want to delete the cookies by one site, not the whole cookies stored by my browser. In Chrome’s settings (open chrome://settings/ in the URL bar): Search for “cookie” and you will find “Privacy” -> “Content Settings”. Click the button “Content Settings”. In the…
I backup my iPhone with iTune to my local computer. Where can I find out the backup files of my iPhone by iTune? And how to get the real files (like songs, notes, etc.) from the backup files? The location of the backup files from iTune It depends on the computer’s operating system: Mac: ~/Library/Application…