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@Javanian,

Make sure you have someone to accompany you tomorrow.

All the best.

Cheers.

GraphicsPlus: We must not be too sentimental. If a 14 year old boy knows java, php and j2me and yet his principal didn't know about it and says his parents are a problem, then there is a comma somewhere.

I strongly disagree with you on this.

Just because you didn't start your tech dreams early enough doesn't make the feat unachievable.

A lil insight into my background: I started hacking when I was 14/15yrs. .At age 18, I was already consulting for banks. .Performing security assessments and doing technical presentations for C-level Management staffs. .So every time I meet young folks with such rare talents, I immediately make friends with them and also try to encourage them.

One of such young folks is Fayimora. .He is just 18yrs. .(lemme chip this in: He is one of the finest programmers on NL), another promising dude is Mobinga. .I did some background checks on Mobinga then and realised he was a secondary schl student (He's in university aiidy tho).

We have so many of them out there and when Elvis Chidera sent me a request to trash this thread https://www.nairaland.com/1326232/xmx-me-www.-sale-30k , I went through it and saw where he mentioned being featured on techmoran .

I immediately encouraged him and told him to start a thread showcasing his programming talent with the end goal of getting potential clients so as to raise the money for the laptop.

Was hoping it'ld turn out just the same way the Broke Professional Webmaster story ended here

Alas, my good intentions backfired.

Lesson Learnt. .

We have to move on

Alas, the Almighty Chief Judge of the Webmaster Section started this thread just before hitting the submit button.

Let me start by apologizing to ALL Nairaland stakeholders for pushing the thread to the homepage without due verification of the authenticity of Elvis Chidera's claims.

I solely accept responsibility for this grave mistake.

Henceforth, I will hereby go the extra mile before pushing such.

Thanks.

GraphicsPlus: @databoy247, am not discouraging him. U ar the one getting Kiyasoki wrong. Kiyasoki's kids ar in school right now. Here is my point, if the parents cant help him, let him sell the app and face his studies. Lots of young guys have been deceived into thinking that so many great technological innovators like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and so on dropped out of school. But these young people have nt been told the full story.

OP Never mentioned dropping outta school. .I honestly don't know where you got that from.

You've prolly been outta Nigeria for so long that you've lost grasp with current happenings. .

While most of his mates are still glued to the TV screen watching the latest episode of Samurai Jack/Ben 10, the young chap has made himself useful. .which I think is a great feat & he should be commended for. .

You need to consider 3rd party factors like Yawatide pointed out. .as this aint a one-man project. .

GraphicsPlus: Tell your parents to buy a laptop for you. If they cant afford a laptop, then sell the xmxme and focus on ur education. U shouldn't come here looking for financial assistance. Sell off the stuff and face ur education. Bulk sms app is not even a ground-breaking innovative app. More stuff are yet to be needed. Face urr education for now. Just look at, u have missed three weeks class already. Dont allow what u think is the next big thing to joepardize ur future.

Dude, you shouldn't just shut people up that way. .especially young smart chaps like the OP.

OP didn't ask y'all to raise money. .or make some sort of donations. .

All he needs is a small scale freelance project to kickoff his dreams. .plus a mentor too. .

If some of us started our tech journey at such a tender age, you can imagine what we'ld have become by now.

GraphicsPlus: Well, i agree that she makes big money from her blog. But people like us will not bookmark or read that kind of blog. But does it matter? People like us may even be too small in number, so we make no difference to her traffic.

Exactly. .You got the drift. .

Same way some folks will call mashable.com "rubbish/inconsequential" .

GraphicsPlus: The last time i visited, i noticed that her blog is full of frivolities. In her blog, you can see something like: 'So so and so shows off her bikini body. Beautiful. Hehehe.' With a picture of a lady wearing a bikini. To me, that's useless. It has nothing to add to my life, business or career

You are missing it bro. .What you call "frivolities" is actually her selling point. .

What you termed "useless" rakes in millions for her. .

Linda sells gossip. .After all, people like gossip and interesting bits of information: you only have to look at the number of celebrity-focused blog posts to realize that we have a huge appetite for discussing other people's lives.

All a blog needs to thrive is the Traffic. . .What brings in this traffic? Posts like
[LOOOK] Toolz shows off her big butt,
Female Pastor shows nipples during sermons,
Checkout Tonto Dikeh's new tattoo,
..and so on

Talking about adding value to people's lives, most people visit Linda's site just to have a laugh. .Nothing works faster or more dependably to bring your mind and body back into balance than a good laugh. Humor lightens your burdens, inspires hopes, connects you to others, and keeps you grounded, focused, and alert. We can conclusively say she adds value to her followers.

[quote author=yawa-ti-de]At any rate, in the future, make sure the main CSS file is hosted on your server. That way, you just turn background color and text black.[/quote]Hahaha.. . Nice one

cold: A moving train contains energy, known as kinetic energy, which needs to be removed from the train in order to cause it to stop.  The simplest way of doing this is to convert the energy into heat.  The conversion is usually done by applying a contact material to the rotating wheels or to discs attached to the axles.  The material creates friction and converts the kinetic energy into heat.  The wheels slow down and eventually the train stops.  The material used for braking is normally in the form of a block or pad.The vast majority of the world's trains are equipped with braking systems which use compressed air as the force to push blocks on to wheels or pads on to discs.  These systems are known as "air brakes" or "pneumatic brakes".  The compressed air is transmitted along the train through a "brake pipe".  Changing the level of air pressure in the pipe causes a change in the state of the brake on each vehicle.  It can apply the brake, release it or hold it "on" after a partial application.

Oga Physicist,

You shoulda just quoted your source here http://www.123seminarsonly.com/Seminar-Reports/027/59963106-Vacuum-Braking.pdf

Great write up

These Lagbook guys and their propaganda. .

First, they came up with this lie & got busted : Lagbook Acquires Top-level Domain Name Naijabook [dot] Com For $10,000 USD

Then they spinned another tales by moonlight story here : America Business Man Acquired Lagbook.com For $10,000

And another one : Lagbook Reaches One Million Registered Members

Lagbook's core values definitely have to do with Lies . .SMH

Fake9janews.com is a Satirical News site. .You shoulda figured that out from the name

Sad

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Android is open and customizable. iOS is closed, designed for ease.

Apple’s concern is likely that novice users might download and install an interface-changing app and not know how to remove it — “a bad experience.”

Find below a list of what Android has that iOS has not:

1. Keyboard Replacement

The most commonly requested customization we hear from iOS users is the option to replace the default keyboard. Simply shrinking a typewriter keyboard down for a tiny touch screen may not be the most efficient way to type, especially one-handed. Android lets you replace the default tap-to-type version with third-parties keyboards like SwiftKey which learns how you type to predict your words, and the popular Swype gesture typing keyboard. Advanced prediction and the ability to drag your finger between letters can drastically speed up communication.

2. Widgets

The iOS lock screen and home screen have begun to look quite static. With so many real-time feeds of information out there, from weather to finance to social, staring at wallpaper or a set of dead icons and folders buries information. Android lets you pull that data out from apps and splay it across your lock and home screens for value at a glance. While Apple has sought to make the iOS interface consistent, more experienced users would appreciate the ability to deviate to their own tastes.

3. Phone App Modifications

One under-appreciated advantage of Android is the ability to change the most basic part of a phone — the phone part. Apps can allow you to block certain numbers or entire area codes from calling you or send their calls straight to voicemail — handy for dealing with insistent telemarketers or ex-girl/boyfriends. You can set up custom Do Not Disturb modes that repond to calls or SMS with a pre-written text message. There’s even crowd sourced caller ID apps that pull in what other people have named numbers so you always know who’s calling. Mr. Number was a particularly powerful phone app mod who was rewarded for its innovation by being acquired by WhitePages. Mr. Number doesn’t even offer an iOS version because none of this functionality was allowed on iOS 6 or older.

4. Homescreen / Launcher Replacements

Launchers have long been a favorite of Android users, but Facebook Home brought the open / closed issue to the mainstream, demonstrating how your entire phone experience can be reskinned. Home lets you read the news feed from your lock screen, while others like GO Launcher EX, LauncherPro, and SO.HO let you navigate through gestures, offer quick access to certain settings, and provide pre-made themes amongst other options.

5. Cross-App Functionality, Data Sharing, and Defaults

Android doesn’t erect boundaries between apps like iOS. Thanks to App Intents, apps can easily share information and content with each other so you can send a photo from one editing app to another. They can even run over the top of one another, like Facebook’s Chat Heads which overlays chat conversations on whatever app you’re currently using. On iOS, Chat Heads is trapped within the Facebook app. Android also lets you pick which app you’d like to default to for opening certain media types, or doing certain actions.

6. Multi-User Support

Sharing one device between many people is a huge pain on iOS. You all have to use the same instance of the operating system. That means frequent log-ins and outs of different apps, overlapping phone books, a shared camera roll, and big issues for parents who don’t want to let their kids meddle with their whole phone or tablet when they hand it over to let them play a game. Android lets each user customize their account to their liking.

There are plenty of other personalization options on Android, including automation for scheduling tasks; quick controls for brightness, wifi, and airplane mode; the ability to track and manage your battery and data usage by restricting what certain apps can do; and SD cards for slotting in new data.

Of course, Apple isn’t fond of just following so we’ll hopefully get some true innovation in iOS 7 at WWDC tomorrow. But adding some of these features could unlock new opportunities for the developer community, attract more hardcore tech users, and let people feel like the Apple devices they carry everywhere are truly their own.


http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/09/many-shades-of-android-apples-all-the-same/

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@greenmouse I hope u kno most webdesigners dont know NL exist.

Wrong man. .I doubt if there's any competent Nigerian website designer that hasn't come across NL before. .I mean where dyu start your SEO from if you don't know the most visited site in Nigeria. . .and then Africa?

@Greenmouse, how exactly do you mean by "web design fair" ?

sad

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and

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I even thought he was gon mention getting paid for his Anti-Gej's tweets. .

awodman: @ OP pls do you have the soft copy of that Mid-term review document...If yes,pls share with forum members

Upload to 4shared.com

naijafinder: Respond to your complaint had already been attended to by Naijafinder.com Admin.
If your content is posted on Naijafinder and you contact us we respond accordingly to your request either by deleting the post or linking back to your site.

Naijafinder also linkback to original author of the post.

Feel free to contact me http://www.naijafinder.com/sendmessage.php for any request and i will be willing to attend to you within 24 hours.


Am sorry for the inconvenience this must have cost you.
Naijafinder do not wish to cause any harm to any website in anyway.

All these are balderdash. .

Your primary reason for setting up Naijafinder.com is to rip other people's contents and you are here yarning bballs. .

I can categorically state that there is NO legitimate post on your website and ALL threads/posts were ripped from other websites.

Even our dear own Nairaland is not left out

See Ripped Nairaland's threads below

http://www.naijafinder.com/threads/34070-Nairaland-is-a-place-you-get-information
http://www.naijafinder.com/threads/34071-How-to-place-advert-on-nairaland
http://www.naijafinder.com/threads/300462-HOW-TO-SC0RE-280-IN-THIS-UPC0MING-JAMB
http://www.naijafinder.com/threads/17105-Addax-Petroleum-Nigeria-Oil-and-Gas-Recruitment-September-2012
http://www.naijafinder.com/threads/481314-Nigerian-Forums-List-Nigeria-Message-Board
http://www.naijafinder.com/threads/46850-How-Can-I-Make-Money-with-My-Liberty-Reserve
http://www.naijafinder.com/threads/583528-What-is-Low-Quality-Traffic-and-How-to-Avoid-it
http://www.naijafinder.com/threads/255000-Laptops-For-Sale-Nigeria-Brand-New-Used-Refurbished
http://www.naijafinder.com/threads/263106-2012-Top-10-Nigerian-Websites
etc. . .

If you want to know if your site is being ripped by this criminal, use this google dork

site:naijafinder.com PutYourSiteNameHere

Ucheosefoh: Face ur studies and leave relationship cus its meant for adults

Just like that?

I've studied the naijafinder site for a while now. .

Everything they do is automated. .It's a blackhat scraping tool. .

All they need do is 1.) Scrape keywords 2.) Add the websites containing these keywords to a list 3.) Automatically scrape/hijack contents once there's a new post

There are several complaint threads discussing how Naijafinder has been hijacking their contents such as this , this and this

Try sending complaints to abuse@namecheap.com

@Topic,

I know some of those schools at Ikeja. .I even saw one of those adverts here on Nairaland where the amount required to pay to learn hacking is N500naira (NOT N500,000) . .

Great hackers NEVER went to school(s) to learn hacking. .

Despite all the FREE hacking resources, forums, IRC channels, 'm still quite surprised people fall for these cheap scams. .

Even those schools that claim to teach Ethical Hacking (CEH) have all opened doors to yahoo guys, fraudsters and the likes..

Gone are those days having a CEH (Certified Ethical Hacking) Certificate could be likened to getting the prestigious black belt. .Not anymore. . .SMH

Anyways, when we get to the field, the wheat shall be separated from the mountain of chaff