Bellandur's toxic foam now visible on Google Maps

 

Bellandur's toxic foam is making news for all the wrong reasons, lots of news channels have covered the growth of the damage. But now , you can even see it from high above ! If you look at the area on Google maps, you can see the white foam on the canal leading from the lake.

This is the main choking point, the canal flows next to the road to Bellandur and sees the foam flying off in the wind. It can be seen that the area is heavily occupied, there are lots of people staying all around the area.

The second catchment area is further north, under the Yemlur bridge.

There are a lot of people staying around this area too,  and there are new luxury apartments coming up on the poisoned land.

Dropbox Paper feature turns off your Public folder

 

If you started using Dropbox before 2012, you know of its awesome Public folders features. Basically, anything you put there can be shared as if it were on a public webserver, the public link enables others to download or see your file without any authentication. It is a great way to make files available for direct linking or downloads.

Recently, dropbox announced its Paper feature, providing a way for groups of users to share notes and files. But if you turn this feature on, dropbox turns off the public folders feature. There is no easy way to revert it either. It does not delete any files, but all your public links will stop working and require a basic authentication.

 

To get your public folders back, you need to turn of the Paper or Teams feature. Follow the steps here.

 

Score -1 to dropbox. Hope they get these bugs fixed soon.

SNL: The Usual Suspects sketch . This is awesome !!

 

 

#olaboat trending

 

News companies around the world are rushing to cover the olaboat news in Chennai.

The ‘Lol’ Emoji is Oxford Dictionary’s Word of the Year

 

Oxford Dictionary’s lexicographers study linguistic trends every year and announce a word annually. In the past words like ‘GIF’ (2012), ‘selfie’ (2013) and ‘vape’ (2014) have made it to the list.The close contenders this year were ‘dark web’, ‘refugee’, ‘they’ and ‘lumbersexual’, among others.