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Jeremy Andrews · February 24, 2013 · Originally from Mr. Geek

If you've followed tech news over the last couple of years, you may have heard of the \"6 strike\" plan outlined by some major American Internet Service Providers (ISPs) with the goal of curbing piracy. After almost two years of delays, this policy is set to be rolled in starting this Monday. So far

Ali Gajani · February 19, 2013 · Originally from Mr. Geek

Are you feeling down today? Don't worry, a dose of 15 inspiring stories can change that. The world is filled with stories that teach you to never give up and build your self confidence. Here it is, a list of 15 inspiring stories to make you believe in yourself even more, and to remind you that you

Bilal Khan · February 16, 2013 · Originally from Mr. Geek

Multinational companies like Starbucks, Google and Amazon have come under fire recently for paying very little or no corporation tax at all despite the fact that they generate millions of pounds in UK sales.  It is unfair to ordinary people and small businesses who face rigorous action and are

Ali Gajani · February 15, 2013 · Originally from Mr. Geek

Ever seen Russian videos on Youtube or other video channels? Noticed a common thing in most of them? The use of Dash-cams. Today, a meteroite entered a Russian city and caused enough damage to injure 400 people, mostly by glass debris. What was common in all of the meteor videos from Russia was that

Ali Gajani · February 12, 2013 · Originally from Mr. Geek

There is a growing consensus that Microsoft, after dropping the ball spectacularly in the last decade, have come to the tablet party a little too late. The reception of their Surface Tablet RT was lukewarm; failing to remove the veil of uncertainty that surrounds the company. Now, the software giant

Ali Gajani · February 12, 2013 · Originally from Mr. Geek

Just when you thought RIM had run out of ideas, they come back with their most ingenuous smartphone yet- the new Blackberry Z10. But, rather than take the time to actually innovate, the beleaguered Blackberry maker has created a phone that is almost identical to Apple's market leader in a desperate

Ali Gajani · February 11, 2013 · Originally from Mr. Geek

HTML5 has been the most hyped technology for quite a while now. While most browsers have implemented the W3C specifications of HTML5 natively, some still lag far behind like IE (as you'd expect). As HTML5 continues to amaze us with the awesome CSS3 as its sidekick, there are a fair share of

Ali Gajani · February 8, 2013 · Originally from Mr. Geek

Hi there. I've noticed a couple of my readers asking me to better organise the Bootstrap tutorials on Mr. Geek. To do that, I am creating this specific article that is going to host links of all the Bootstrap tutorials on this blog. This list, as more content builds, will be updated frequently. 

Ali Gajani · February 8, 2013 · Originally from Mr. Geek

A lot of the Bootstrap tutorials (including ours) forget to address the problem of responsive text in Bootstrap. I personally have had a hard time finding tutorials on the topic, and have even gone far using FitTextJS, but that's not the right solution.  The right solution is using media queries.

Ali Gajani · January 31, 2013 · Originally from Mr. Geek

I have noticed a lot of angel-backed Silicon Valley startups using Bootstrap as their front-end framework of choice. This includes companies like Cinemagram and SocialCam. The reason is simply the awesomeness of the framework and the community it has garnered over the last few years. I am thrilled

Robbie Done · January 23, 2013 · Originally from Mr. Geek

In Part 2 of our Getting Started with Ruby on Rails series, we will go ahead and add some authentication so that only the admin of the blog can manage articles and the associated categories. Live Demo | Source Code  You can find Part 1 here. To get us up and running quickly, we are going to use a

Ali Gajani · January 23, 2013 · Originally from Mr. Geek

I got Graph Search on Day 4 (4 days after it released). I know most of you reading this are still waiting for it, or, worst case scenario, don't know what Graph Search is. Ok, so Graph Search is a search engine from Facebook that queries a minefield of data at core of Social Graph and brings it into

Ali Gajani · January 15, 2013 · Originally from Mr. Geek

Facebook is holding press event in Menlo Park, California to show off its next big thing. If you want to follow the live updates, keep this page open as I will post the information in real time (after gathering and verifying it from various sources).

Robbie Done · January 14, 2013 · Originally from Mr. Geek

Ruby on Rails is a full stack web development framework developed by David Heinemeier Hansson. David is a partner at 37 signals, creators of Basecamp, Highrise and Campfire. The framework was built upon the Ruby language developed by Yukihiro \"Matz\" Matsumoto in the mid 90’s. The framework has

Ali Gajani · January 11, 2013 · Originally from Mr. Geek

When your customers are away from their computers, there is no better way to reach them than on their mobile phones.  Now with Voice and SMS services from Twilio, it's possible for anyone to build an advanced phone system at a price anyone can afford.  Telephone numbers in the Twilio cloud are

Jesse Herman · January 9, 2013 · Originally from Mr. Geek

CES 2013 has arrived and it is time to sort out the best from the madness. CES always delivers hardware of the future but the hype levels can exceed actual product performance and usefulness. This is a top 10 list of products we can expect to enter our lives sometime soon. 1. 85 inch 4K TV A TV

Ali Gajani · January 1, 2013 · Originally from Mr. Geek

Steve Jobs was unarguably the greatest presenter I've ever seen in my life time. In fact, he was more. He was a master visionary who just happened to be a great story teller too. This is a powerful combination gentlemen. We all know how Steve and Apple have impacted our lives today. What were the

Ali Gajani · January 1, 2013 · Originally from Mr. Geek

Happy New Year everyone. I am sure you all have welcomed the year 2013 with a fair amount of partying. I think it's going to be one hell of a ride, so why not have some fun. Me? I am here, sitting on my Mac, typing this blog post.  I was in London last year to celebrate the New Year (2012), but

Ali Gajani · December 29, 2012 · Originally from Mr. Geek

Have you ever dreamt of doing something great in life? I am sure most of you have, or probably will at some point in your lifetime. Today, I am going to share with you a few secrets that I have acquired by studying some of my favorite personalities. One could ask, what was common in all of them? The

Ali Gajani · December 26, 2012 · Originally from Mr. Geek

The popular torrent website The Pirate Bay has been blocked in the UK by many ISPs (Internet Service Providers). This is a short tutorial to show you how you can continue enjoy downloading torrents from The Pirate Bay whilst the block is still active. Remember, this could theoretically work