[How to] Block Facebook Game Requests

Not everyone likes getting constant game requests from friends. This is a simple most effective way to completely block Facebook game requests.

This tutorial is to be followed using and android or iPhone.

1. Open the Facebook app and tap on More on the bottom right, then scroll down and tap on Account Settings.

2. Scroll down and tap on Apps.

3. Now tap on Platform.

4. Finally under “Game invites and App Notifications” select NO or OFF. From now on you will never get any game invites.

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Teach yourself Touch Typing with Free Tools

Touch typing, or the art of typing with your 10 fingers, can do wonders to your productivity. Most technologically literate people know a bit of typing but if you can type without looking at the computer keyboard, you can get work done faster and gain an edge. Touch typing is also a useful skill to have for mobile and tablet users because when you perfectly know where the keys are, you can “Swype” faster.

Master the Art of Touch Typing

I learned the basics of typing on an old typewriter. Two decades later, I am busy hunting a good typing software for my kid and the number of choices that are available on the web now is mind-boggling. I’ve shared my research here and, whether you are a beginner looking to learn typing or typing to improve your typing speed, this list should help you.

If you are just getting started, the BBC’s Dance Mat Typing should be your go-to resource. It is a browser-based game for kids where each lesson touches a different set of keys and there’s a game at the end of each level to test what you have learned. The lessons would require the Adobe Flash player enabled in your browser.

The next recommended resource is Typing.com, a free website where you’ll find interactive tutorials and drills to help you learn typing step-by-step. Typing Study is a similar resource but unlike other typing lesson that focus on the English keyboard, Typing Study has lessons for keyboards of most popular languages including Hindi and it requires no Flash Player either.

Tipp10 (Mac, Windows) and Typist (Mac only) are desktop software that teach typing offline and you also have the option to upload your own text – like pages of your favorite novel – for practice.

Practice Typing with Online Games

The best way to learn typing is through practice and there are a plethora of online typing games that will help.

The very-addictive Z-type and QWERTY Warriors are shooter games where the ships are assigned a word and you’ve to type as fast as you can to shoot these advancing ships. Type Racer and TyprX let you test your typing speed while playing a basic game of car racing with other users. 10fastfingers lets you practice typing the most common English words while Typing Club allow you to practice individual keys that you you need think need more trainging. Advanced users can try theTyping Karaoke to test their typing skills.

Also see: Typing Shortcuts for iOS

Touch-typing is not difficult and you can become a pro if you set aside 30 minutes everyday for a week or two. Also, it is OK to make mistakes during training but always avoid looking down at the keyboard while typing.

Finally, invest in a good comfortable keyboard – I use Microsoft’s Sculpt keyboardand recommend it highly for ergonomics.

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[TORO] a Torque Controlled Humanoid Robot

In the past few months, we have covered many exciting robots here. The TORO is another exciting robot that was developed as a research platform for walking and whole body control. This torque-controlled humanoid robot has a total 39 degrees of freedom and can be operated in position and torque-controlled modes.

The robot has 25 joints and prosthetic hands with 12 DoF in total. It has stereo cameras and force/torque sensors at the ankles and two IMUs at its trunk and head. As you can see in the above video, the robot is capable of performing dynamic walking. There is a lot to like here. We can’t wait to see how this robot improves in the future.

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[How To] See If Your Emails Are Being Tracked

You might not realize it, but there are now email-tracking tools that make it easy for people to see when you open an email, what you click, and where you're located.

"Emails appear no different to your contacts, but you get data when, where, and how a contact interacts with your message," says a cheery video advertising Bananatag, an email-tracking service for Gmail designed for job seekers, advertisers, and those working in public relations. 

In response, a handy new tool called Ugly Email shows you when your emails in Gmail are being tracked, and it starts working before you click anything. 


When Ugly Email is installed, a tiny little eye symbol appears next to any email in an inbox that is being tracked by tools like Bananatag, Streak, or Yesware. 

Installing Ugly Email is easy. First, you'll need to make sure you're using Google Chrome as your web browser. 

Next, click this link to take you to Ugly Email on the Chrome Web Store, click the "Add to Chrome" button, and you're all set. 

Any email arriving in your Gmail inbox will then be vetted for tracking tools, and the Ugly Email team promises that it is "actively working on adding more" email-tracking services to its list. 

Ugly Email just showed up on Product Hunt, so if you're looking for a similar email-alert service that has been around for a while longer, you can always try out PixelBlock, which does the same thing.

Source: TOI

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Find Facebook Profile Using Image URL or Saved Image

It wouldn't be a great thing?, if you could find a path to that profile or page from where you have downloaded a image from a long time ago. You can do it within a few clicks. I will show you, how will you come to know that profile or page from that photo.

So, here we go...

STEP 1: Copy the image file name.

STEP 2: Image file name would be like: number1_number2_number3_n.jpg

STEP 3: Copy the number2 carefully from file name.

STEP 4: Paste that number to the following input box.

Number 2: 


STEP 5: You will be redirected to Image's album, then you can simply find that whose profile it was. You have done it.! ;)

                                                                                                -Ammy Agarwal

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