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YouTube Monetization disabled and re-enabled!

L ike many small time YouTube creators, I also got an email in January 2018 about changes to the YouTube Partner Program (YPP)  regarding changes new threshold of 4,000 hours of watchtime within the past 12 months and 1,000 subscribers. The revenue wasn't much but it was good to get some revenue from the little effort made in creating some videos. Unfortunately, my channel did not meet the subscriber threshold though watch time was alright. So, as per the new rules, monetization was set to be disabled. Read more »

Health Care and Body Piercings

The popularity of getting various body parts pierced has been growing over the past few years, but the concept is as old as humanity itself going back to ancient times. Ever since mankind figured out that it could poke a hole through some physical part of the body, piercings have been seen as a statement of individuality and fashion. People from many different cultures have pierced their bodies for centuries. If you look in a history book, you will find that Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans decorated their bodies with piercings and tattoos. Many pierced their bodies to show their importance in a group, or because they thought it protected them from evil. Today, we know much more about the risks of body piercing. Body piercing is a serious decision. Before you decide to get a piercing, ask your parents, trusted adults, and friends what they think. More information is available at this site: http://youngwomenshealth.org/2013/08/07/body-piercing/ . In recent modern times the art of body pier...

Health Care and Pregnancy Massage

A growing trend in pre-natal care is pregnancy massage. Massage therapy during pregnancy is a wonderful complementary choice for prenatal care, according to Massage Envy. It is a healthy way to reduce stress and promote overall wellness. Massage relieves many of the normal discomforts experienced during pregnancy, such as backaches, stiff neck, leg cramps, headaches and edema (or swelling). In addition, massage for pregnant women reduces stress on weight-bearing joints, encourages blood and lymph circulation, helps to relax nervous tension -- which aids in better sleep -- and can help relieve depression or anxiety caused by hormonal changes. More information is available at this site: https://www.massageenvy.com/massage/massage-types/prenatal-massage/ . If you�re visiting or living in the UK, here�s a website that can direct you to a local massage therapist for this type of care:   http://www.bodyworkmassage.co.uk/ . According to Massage Envy, m...

Drupal Tips - How to redirect user to Drupal frontpage after login

Drupal usually redirects a user after login to the account information page. But if you would like users to redirect to the Drupal Frontpage after login, the this post is just about that. In this Drupal Tips , we shall discuss how to redirect user to Drupal Frontpage after login.   Read more »

Best Free Movie Video Editing Software For Windows PC (2017)

Video editing is not only for professionals. Even regular users sometime end up editing videos for various purposes. And with increasing use of smartphones with decent video quality, we are taking videos more than ever - birthdays, videos of places we visit, and so many more. A regular user may not have any need of a video editing software for making fancy movies and high end editing stuff, but there comes a time when we need one to do some basic video editing stuff for our home videos, travel videos etc.  In this post, you will find video editors for basic video editing as well as for professional video editing. If you are looking for  "Best Free Movie Video Editing Software For Windows Computer", here are a few you can check out. They are not in any order. Read more »

Check out new responsive Blogger themes released by Google!

Image Courtesy: Official Blogger Blog If you are one of those people who use Blogger to blog and are bored of the same old themes, you might want to check out the new Blogger themes released by Blogger! Officially announced on the Official Blogger Blog here on 20 March 2017, there are four sets of new Blogger themes released. Each theme seems to have been designed with mobile and responsiveness in mind. They look sleek and modern. An excerpt from the Official Blogger Blog reads: To make it easier for you to express your unique style, we’ve created a new set of blog themes for you to choose from. Each theme comes in a variety of colors, is fully customizable, and can be added to your blog with just a few clicks.   These themes aren’t only designed to look great, they’re designed to work great too. Each one has been built to automatically adjust to any screen and load quickly, so you can rest assured that your readers will be able to easily see your work whether they’re on a compu...

How to mount an ISO disk image in Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10

A disk image is an exact copy of a physical disk. Commonly, the file extension of a disk image is a .ISO file.The ISO file can then be loaded or mounted in a virtual drive to run. In this post, we shall see how to mount an ISO disk image in Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10. Read more »

Ubuntu: "unable to resolve host" when running sudo or other commands

Installed Ubuntu and ran "sudo" command, and I'm getting "unable to resolve host". The message "unable to resolve host" is occurring because the hostname was changed. The initial hostname during the installation of Ubuntu was something else and after the installation, the hostname was changed. Changing the hostname:   Read more »

Facebook Tips: Removing Facebook account from Android device properly

In this post, we shall see how to remove a Facebook account from an Android device properly. One way is to simply uninstall the Facebook app from the Android device. But let's suppose we do not want to uninstall the Facebook app, we just want the Facebook account removed from the Android device, then we can do the following to remove the account properly.  Read more »

Health Care and Java

How do you feel about coffee--that java that makes you jump, that black elixir of silky goodness, the cuppa joe for the morning wakeup call? Well, believe it or not, adding coffee to your daily diet can help with your health. If you already drink it, you�ll be glad to know that in addition to providing a boost to get you going, and the taste that may make you happy, coffee has some remarkable powers to help your body and brain. According to this website, http://coffeeandhealth.org/ , a new study examined the relationships between coffee (total, caffeinated or decaffeinated) and tea consumption and risk of melanoma in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC). EPIC is a multi-centre prospective study that enrolled over 500,000 participants aged 25-70 years from ten European countries in 1992-2000. Consumption of caffeinated coffee was inversely (i.e. favorably) associated with melanoma risk among versus non-consumers, but not among women. There were no st...