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* never keep score
* agree to disagree
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* do what was needed for each other and family

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2 must do steps before selling your Android device

Recently an Internet security company (Avast) bought some used android from eBay and manged to retrieve loads of data even after a factory reset!

Here are 2 must do steps before you sell the android device.

1. Go to settings -> security -> encrypt device.

2. Do factory reset.

In this way, the data get encrypted into meaningless bytes without the encryption key.

More details from this cnet article.

The best way to completely wipe your Android device.
by Dan Graziano

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O levels Physics Kinematics Gravity and Energy

Question:
A ball of mass 100g is thrown vertically upward with an initial speed of 72 km/hr. Calculate:

(a) time taken for ball to return to the thrower:

1. Make sure that the units of measurements are the same.  Notice that the question gives initial speed as 72 km/hr.

Convert that to meters/second
where:
1 km = 1000 m and
1 hour = 60 minutes and
1 minute = 60 seconds

Therefore:
72 km = 72 x 1000 m = 72 000 m
1 hour = 60 minutes x 60 seconds = 3600 seconds
=> 72 km / hr = 72000/3600 m/s = 20 m/s
=> Initial speed, U = 20 m/s

2. Recall that acceleration is the rate of change of velocity.
=> acceleration = (change in velocity) / time

In this case, when the ball reaches the maximum height, the final velocity is ZERO. => 0 m/s
And the acceleration is acceleration due to gravity ~ 10 m/s/s (seconds square)

So change in velocity is from 20 to zero = 20
acceleration = 10
plug these values into the formula above to get
10 = 20 / t
t = 20/10 = 2 seconds.

So the ball took 2 seconds to reach the maximum height where it's velocity is 0 m/s
It will take ANOTHER 2 seconds to reach back to thrower.

Therefore, time to reach back thrower will be 2 + 2 = 4 seconds.

(b) the maximum height reached:

1. Maximum height reached is area under velocity time graph. Which is the area of the triangle.

maximum height = (20 m/s X 2 s) / 2 = 20 meters

(c) gravitational potential energy when ball is half way up?

When ball is half way up, height = 20/2 = 10 meters

PE = mass X gravitational field strength X height,

Where: 

mass is given as 100g and gravitational field strength is 10 N/kg.  Notice that the mass is given in grams. But the gravitational field strength is in newtons per kg.  So convert 100g to kg = 0.1 kg

Using the formula PE = mgh

PE = 0.1 x 10 x 10 = 10 J

(d) Kinetic energy when ball is half way down.

First, let's find out the potential energy when ball reaches maximum height (which is 20 meters)

PE = mgh = 0.1 x 10 x 20 = 20 J

Recall that at the maximum height, velocity is ZERO therefore ZERO kinetic energy too!

At the maximum height, all the energy is potential energy.

And recall the Law of Conservation of Energy. Where total energy should remains the same and they can only be converted from one form to another.

So.... When the ball is half way down, the potential energy IS THE SAME as when the ball is half way up which is 10 J

Therefore, kinetic energy half way down = Maximum PE - PE half way down = 20 - 10 = 10 J

ALTERNATIVELY:

Calculate using the kinetic energy formula

KE = 1/2 x m x v2

Where the kinematics formula to find velocity using acceleration and displacement is

 v2 = u2 + 2as

v2 = (20)2 + 2(-10)(10) 
*** noted a = -10 because we are taking upwards direction (initial velocity direction) as positive. So a downwards g will be negative ***

v2 = 400 - 200

v2 = 200

Put into the kinetic energy formula:
KE = 1/2 x 0.1 x 200 = 10 J

Sync Android with iPhoto Seamlessly for FREE!

Have been googling for sometime to find an easy way to sync photos taken on my Android with iPhoto on my mac.  Finally, arrive at this super simple, seamless and FREE solution.

1. You have to have a dropbox account.
2. Install dropbox on both your mac and your android.  You will have a dropbox folder after you install dropbox on your mac. 

3. Enable "Camera Upload" from dropbox settings in your android.  So that any photos taken will be uploaded to your dropbox's "Camera Uploads" directory.  If the Camera Upload is ON, you will see that the options available is to "Turn off Camera Upload"
   
   
4. Download this automator script. Unzip it and you will have "AutoImportPhotoFromDropBox.workflow".  Double click on it and automator should open. Save the script within the Automator.
   
   
   This simple script does the following:
   - Check for new photos in Dropbox->Camera Uploads
   - When photo is present, import it into iPhoto.  An album "Synced" will be created.
   - Delete the original photo once it is imported into iPhoto. (** Note, sometimes i have to clean up manually if there are many photos being synced from dropbox, maybe it has to do with how the automator fires up the script.  Feel free to add a comment if you have a better solution)
5. This step seems to be essential for Mac OS Lion and above.  Right click on Dropbox->"Camera Uploads" folder. Select "Services"->"Folder Actions Setup...". Enable folder actions. Check all the required boxes.
   
   
   
   
   
6. Try taking a photo and wait for a few seconds for it to sync to drop box and then gets automatically imported into iPhoto!
7. As a note. Since you started using Dropbox you will find many useful conveniences that it adds to your work online. You can drop any text file into Dropbox and edit the text file from any device anywhere via www.simpletexteditor.com