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Friday, May 27, 2016

Link found between cell phones and cancer

Cellphone-cancer link found in rats
A major U.S. government study on
rats has found a link between cellphones and cancer. It's a potentially
huge development in the space, but will something like this actually
decrease our massive use of mobile phones?
Source: Yahoo

Monday, May 23, 2016

Tuesday, May 17, 2016

A Milestone for Renewables in Germany

Germany, world's industrial super-power, has generated almost all of its electricity needs on a Sunday afternoon from renewable sources. Definitely a milestone for renewables.



Source: Bloomberg


Friday, May 13, 2016

World Population

Interesting data about the world population and a chart with population density.


Source: world of meters

Tuesday, May 03, 2016

Clipboard hotkeys with Dvorak keyboard

As a long-time user of Dvorak keyboard, I was always struggling to use the benefits of the keyboard shortcuts, or hotkeys, for common operations of cut/copy/paste and undo operations on Windows.

A very simple solution is to use AutoHotkey application (link), along with a simple script that redirects

the keys so that Ctrl+C, for example, is still at the same place where it is on a QWERTY keyboard.

Below is an example of a script that does this:

^q::^x
^j::^c
^k::^v
return
If using the keys that are overwritten this way, you can also remap those to their Qwerty locations, too. The contents of the script are to be saved in a simple text file with .ahk extension and run by the AutoHotkey application. The good thing is that there is a portable version so no installation is required.