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A NYC Taxi driver wrote: I arrived at the address and honked the horn. After waiting a few minutes I honked again. Since this was going to be my last ride of my shift I thought about just driving away, but instead I put the car in park and walked up to the door and knocked.. 'Just a minute', answered a frail, elderly voice. I could hear something being dragged across the floor. After a long pause, the door opened. A small woman in her 90's stood before me. She was wearing a print dress and a pillbox hat with a veil pinned on it, like somebody out of a 1940's movie. By her side was a small nylon suitcase. The apartment looked as if no one had lived in it for years. All the furniture was covered with sheets. There were no clocks on the walls, no knickknacks or utensils on the counters. In the corner was a cardboard box filled with photos and glassware. 'Would you carry my bag out to the car?' she said. I took the suitcase to the cab, then returned to assist the w...

Via  Thenewstribe Islamabad: Reiterating his opinion about ineligibility of Dr. Samar Mubarakmand in operating Thar Coal Project, Pakistan national hero Dr. Abdul Qadir Khan says Dr. Mubarmand is only befooling the nation. “You see, as I am a Doctor in Metallurgy and this is my field of expertise so naturally I could work efficiently in my field only,” he said in an interview. “Similarly, he (Dr. Mubarakmand) is an expert in Nuclear Physics and not in mineral sciences to work on projects like Thar Coal,” he added. The leader of founding team of Pakistan’s nuclear program, Dr. Qadir is a strong critic of Dr. Mubarakmand over his stance on producing power from Thar Coal and digging out gold from Recodec in Balochistan. “Billions have been spent on producing energy from coal but this is not the way to work,” he says in sarcastic tune. “A Chinese firm Shen Hua had been working on generating electricity from Thar coal which was ready to invest billion of dollars...

On any mobile phone, you need to backup your data and that too, regularly. Well, your favorite android phone is no exception to this ultra-true rule. So, today, we have got 6 Top Free No-Root-Required backup applications for you, right here. Without wasting much time lets just go straight into applications. Note: There are other (than what we’ve discussed below) great backup apps like Titanium Backup ( link to Android Market ), myBackup, etc. but we’ve just picked up only those which don’t require Root access and that they are not just trial apps too. BTW, we’ll cover such apps shortly in our upcoming article on Best Backup Android Apps for Rooted phones — paid and free.  For now, if you’re looking to back up yous apps with app’s data too, Titanium backup is the best choice, provided you’ve rooted you phone. Backup Everything Backup Master     Backup Everything isn’t available in the Android market now, but the good news is this that another app called Backup...

You may need to backup your data if you are planning on changing your phone, be able to get back everything in case of a theft/loss or to just get the phone the way it was before (without losing Contacts/SMS). I did it for the last reason & surprisingly the battery life doubled, exactly what I needed (probably because of lots of background services not running anymore). Better backup before the world gets upside down on you. (Note: This guide is for both non-rooted & rooted phones but users having root access should try Titanium Backup) Things we will Backup Contacts System Settings SMS Call Logs - Applications Software you’ll need Astro File Manager SMS Backup & Restore Call Logs Backup & Restore AVG Anti-Virus Free  (Optional) Contacts & System Settings If you have a Gmail account associated with your phone (& definitely it is) than it’s a non-issue because all your contacts are automatically backed up with Gmail & in the ...

From the Newspaper |  Cyril Almeida  | 26th August, 2012 IT began with the flag. A strip of white slapped on, but separate and away from the sea of green — the problem was there from the very outset: one group cast aside from the rest. A more prescient mind would have thought to put the white in the middle, enscon-ced in a sea of green, a symbolic embrace of the other. But why blame the flag? It began with the founding theory. A country created for Muslims but not in the name of Islam. Try selling that distinction to your average Pakistani in 2012. 1947 was another country and it still found few takers. Pakistan’s dirty little secret isn’t its treatment of non-Muslims or Shias or the sundry other groups who find themselves in the cross-hairs of the rabid and the religious. Pakistan’s dirty little secret is that everyone is a minority. It begins with Muslim and non-Muslim: 97 per cent and the hapless and helpless three. But soon enough, the sectarian ...

From the Newspaper |  Cyril Almeida  | 26th August, 2012 IT began with the flag. A strip of white slapped on, but separate and away from the sea of green — the problem was there from the very outset: one group cast aside from the rest. A more prescient mind would have thought to put the white in the middle, enscon-ced in a sea of green, a symbolic embrace of the other. But why blame the flag? It began with the founding theory. A country created for Muslims but not in the name of Islam. Try selling that distinction to your average Pakistani in 2012. 1947 was another country and it still found few takers. Pakistan’s dirty little secret isn’t its treatment of non-Muslims or Shias or the sundry other groups who find themselves in the cross-hairs of the rabid and the religious. Pakistan’s dirty little secret is that everyone is a minority. It begins with Muslim and non-Muslim: 97 per cent and the hapless and helpless three. But soon enough, the sectarian ...