Anas Ismail Khan

There are several such services on the cloud that enable you to build a website for free. Some, like my3gb, offer you some hosting space and a subdomain (like domain.my3gb.com), and some also offer a site builder. Webs.com is an example, that offers a free subdomain, and an awesome site builder.

But most of these services have several limitations, e.g. you cant add more than 10 static pages to a free web made using Webs, and this wont work. To make a proper website, you need some hosting space, and a domain name.

What if i told you that you can get 1500mb, and a custom.tk domain name, for FREE?

It is possible. 000webhost.com is one of those sites that offer you 1500mb hosting space + a subdomain + a site-buillder, and the best thing about it is that they also allow you to associate your exisitng domain name with your 000webhost account,  with a fully featured cpanel, webmail, subdomains e.t.c. it is the closest you can get to real webhosting.

So, hosting, we’l take from 000webhost, and that leaves the domain. Dot.tk offers you a proper free *.tk domain name, for e.g. domain.tk, and yes, this is where we are gonna get a domain name.

Now all you need to do is:

1. First check whether your desired domain name is available or not, and if it is, register it immediately. Dont worry about the DNS, redirect thing, you can change that later, just complete the signup process.
2. Sign up for an account on 000webhost, and in the box titled “i want to use my own domain,” write the .tk domain name you just registered.
3. Once your account is set up, go to the cpanel of your site, and there you’l get a message, asking you to update the nameservers of your domain to something.000webhost.com. To do so, just login to your my dot tk account and go to the domain panel. There you’ll see a list of all the domains you registered on the site, or rather, the only domain youve registered there. 😀
4. Just click modify, and in the box that pops up, check “Custom DNS.”
5. Leave the IP addresses empty, and in the host name boxes, write down the nameservers of your 000webhost account. Save the changes, and thats it! you are done.

The process may take a day or so, but once it has completed, this is what you will see when you go to your .tk domain.

On Feb 18, I posted about Slax – A Plug and Play OS, which is absolutely free, but often, some people who are not much into computers, have trouble installing it. The simple + quick method is:

1. Download Slax. ZIP or ISO doesnt make much difference but personally, i prefer ISO. (and if you are not sure whether ur computer supports 64 bit or not, just download  the 32 bit version, which is recommended.)
2. Download and run the Linux Live USB Creator.
3. Choose the USB key, and select the ISO file.
4. Persistent data; leave it to the reccommended settings.
5. Check the options you want, and click on the lightning button to start the process.

That’s it! you are done. Once it has completed, just restart the computer and boot from the  usb. When it asks you for the user name and the password, input the following credentials

• username= root
• password= toor

Chat with a CleverBot with Artificial Intelligence. 

Let me google that for you

LMGTFY is a tool, or more like a sarcastic search spider, that tells google to search for whatever keywords you input. The actual idea behind it is that some annoying jerks keep on asking you stuff every now and then, without bothering to research (at all) themselves, and finally, there comes a time when you give up and tell them to google whatever it is that they want to know.

LMGTFY generates a link, that you can send to any such jerk, and it actually googles _the query for them. _Confused? eh?

Here’s an example (click on the following link):

http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=Anas+Ismail+Khan

Built by Romotive, a team of nerds, Romo is a small, and affordable personal robot which uses an iDevice as its brain. In itself, it is nothing but a set of wheels, but place your iPhone or iPod on it, and it’ll come to life. Romo wanders about, talks to u, plays with you, and it learns from its surroundings. He even tilts his head back and forth.

Romo can also be remotely controlled by a mac or just another iDevice, and you can also invite your friends or family from all over the world to control Romo through a private url.

Once they download the SDK, users can create and distribute their own apps for Romo, using a simple graphical-programming interface.

The First Lego League National Championship was held on Saturday 2nd March 2013, at the Lahore University of Management Sciences(LUMS), and everyone was expecting a lot from us, The Aftershocks, and who wouldn’t, after seeing our performance at the Regional. 😀

But we didnt live up to the expectations 🙁 , cause due to some reason, our bot went mad, and we didnt have the time nor the resources required to fix it, so the first two rounds at the robot game went terrible, but before the start of the very last match, of the very last round, we tuned up our bot a bit, and scored over two hundred. This brought us to the seventh position, which was a great deal for us, seeing as we were an underdog team, the last, in the first two rounds. The Robot Game Trophy was awarded to Musa’b School, with a high score of 280.

Now, coming to the Project. Well, the judges did really like our idea, which was a device, the “Comfort-Sole” that can be fit-ted inside any shoe, and would spray aerosol on the person’s heel whenever the pain-intensity-sensor gets a value over 60, but maybe it wasn’t good enough for the trophy, so the Project-Research Trophy went to the Team Lego-Core from Generations School Karachi.

And now (skipping over core-values) to the RObot Design. Ever since the other teams arrived at LUMS, and we saw their bots, we knew that the Robot Design Trophy was ours for sure 😎 , seeing as none of the other bots were anything close to ours, and guess what? We were right!

That leaves the overall championship, which was awarded to the Team Roots Pakistan from the Roots School Islamabad.

Well, overall, the experience wasnt that bad, and I should say that the LUMS Rausing Executive Development Centre (REDC) is quite some place to stay. 😉

You are familiar with the term plug-and-play; if not, well, just google it 😉 Anyways, we use countless plug and play devices, but ever heard of a plug and play Operating System(OS)?
Slax is just another one of the countless linux distros, but the best thing about it is that it’s plug and play. Just boot using a Slax live CD or USB, and it’d start up. The initial setting-up processes hardly take a minute, and no install required.

It’s quite stable and pretty useful, plus the total size of the disk image is just 210MB, now isnt that efficiently coded!

Here, grab your own copy of slax and give it a try, and i assure you that it won’t at all mess up your existing OS as no installation is required.

It’s a project, led by Google engineer Sebastian Thrun, director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and co-inventor of Google Street View. No need to tell you what its about as the name says it all.

Well, Thrun’s team did succeed in making this award winning vehicle called Stanley, and this happened back in 2005 and this car won some DARPA challenge.

This is a simple but useful trick for hiding folders in your phone without any special software/tool. This works in almost all phones, at least it did in every single one i tried.

Well, thats all you have to do.

1. Name the folder “anything.jad“, at first this would be visible, But that’s normal.
2. To hide it, all you have to do is, create another folder with the same name but  replace the last bit, i.e. the extension, (which in this case is jad,)with .Jar. That’s it.
3. Now the Jar folder would be visible but the jad one wont.

Its not exactly the best choice, as the “.jar” is visible in the folders name, but still, its the quickest and easiest way, plus, not everyone knows about these extensions.

Note: To un-hide that jad folder, just delete the jar one.

Raspberry Pi is a credit card sized computer that you can plug into a tv and a keyboard. It uses an ARM processor and can run various llinux distros like Debian, Ubuntu and even some version of android, and is capable of almost anything that a normal pc, belonging to a normal user does.