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Glass artists often compare the similarities in the technique of glass blowing and making artwork using honey or caramel. But with honey or caramel, it is perfectly harmless if the sweet nectar gets into your mouth by mistake. Can you imagine the skill required to blow orange-colored molten glass at a temperature of approximately 2300°F? Well, I have just compiled the detailed steps of glass blowing process for better understanding.
•You start the process by gathering molten glass from a furnace at the tip of your blowing pipe. See to it that the pipe is always held in the downward direction to prevent molten glass from flowing over your hands or towards your mouth.
•Hold the blow pipe with molten glass blob over a marver table and roll to create an elongated cylindrical form. Remember that glass starts cooling down from the moment it is taken out of the furnace. So you might need to do the rolling process quickly and accurately.
•Now, blow some air into the pipe and block the open end of the pipe with the tip of your thumb. Do not shake the pipe so as to form the perfect glass bubble. This bubble gently expands as the air pressure increases within the pipe on account of its blocked end.
•For any malformation of this bubble, use the glory hole to reheat the glass. Blow into the pipe again as mentioned above. You need to be careful that the glass bubble is even all around.
•Use a moistened newspaper to gently turn the glass bubble into whichever shape you want. The moist newspaper helps you shape your glass without burning your hands. Now, gently blow into the bubble using the blow pipe and watch as the glass bubble expands.
•Once done, use your free hand or take help of a knowledgeable accomplice to add a neckline to the bubble using the jack. Make it large enough to avoid shutting off the bubble hole.
•Once the required shape and size of the glass is achieved, use a paddle to make a flat bottom of the glass bubble. This is the stage where you have the option of adding colors to your glass. Reheat the glass if required, using the glory hole.
•Use the tweezers to grip the glass and drop some water at the neckline of the glass bubble. You may tap the blow pipe to separate the glass from the blow pipe or just use the shears to do the same.
•Once done, place the glass in an annealer to cool it down. The time required for setting of glass may vary from minutes to days. You just need to be patient. read more »

Recently, Facebook launched the facial recognition technology in United States and soon made it available in ‘certain’ countries. One usually clicks their pictures at a party or some other event with friends and uploads it next day on Facebook. The site quietly identifies each of the friends featuring in these particular photos. If they have been previously tagged in different photos, the Facebook facial recognition software will try and identify them. In doing so, the user is automatically given suggestions of the people it thinks are featured in the photo. All the user needs to do is select the particular friend name and say ‘yeah, Tag them’. They can even ‘Save’ a particular tag and tag all the pictures at once. This makes things easier for the user and helps in saving time, apparently. This is all the fun part, now coming down to serious business. We need to think about Facebook facial recognition privacy issues as well. We shall deal with these later in the article. We will first continue with the instructions to disable Facebook’s facial recognition feature, the reason you landed on this page.

Instructions for Disabling the Facial Recognition Feature on Facebook
Like always, this feature is automatically activated and has become functional before the users get a chance to understand it. If you opt to disable it then Buzzle will help you learn how to disable the facial recognition feature. The method is quite simple and explained below:

1. You need to first log into your Facebook account.
2. Now, go to your Profile page or stay on your Home page and click on the ‘Account’ drop down menu. You can locate the ‘Accounts’ tab on the far right corner of the page.
3. From the drop down menu, select ‘Privacy Settings’.
4. Now, click on the tab that says ‘Custom’ and then ‘Customize Settings’. You will see, a tiny little pencil icon near the Customize settings tab.
5. You need to look for the section that says ‘Things others share’ and go to ‘Suggest photos of me to friends’. This is what we are looking for and you need to click on ‘Edit Settings’.
6. A new window will pop up and ask you ‘Photos: Suggest Tags’. Here, you need to select ‘Disable’ and then click on ‘Okay’. This will help you save your settings.

Silica occurs in nature in more than 13 different structures, each one slightly varying from the others. The physical properties might be different but the chemical properties remain the same, irrespective of the structure. In order to obtain a clearer understanding of the many properties of silicon dioxide or silica, it is important that we have the basic idea about the molecular structure of this oxide of silicon.

The building block of the structure of silica is the SiO4 unit. The structure of crystalline forms of silica is represented as continuous links of the SiO4 unit. The image above shows the structure of silicon dioxide. Silicon dioxide is formed when silicon is exposed to the oxygen in the atmosphere. If you look at the atomic model of silicon dioxide, you’ll see that the four oxygen atoms (shown in blue) are located far apart from the silicon atom at the centre (shown in green), with the molecule forming a tetrahedral structure (as shown by the thin black lines). Here are some facts about the molecular structure of silicon dioxide.
•The angle formed between each -O-Si-O- bond is 109.5 degrees. However, in quartz, this angle is around 144 degrees.
•There is uneven charge distribution between parts of the tetrahedron, with the center being highly positive and the corners being strongly negative. This is because of the strong polarity of the Si-O bond.
•In gaseous state, the structure of silicon dioxide forms linear O=Si=O molecules.
•Each individual SiO4 tetrahedron is connected with adjacent tetrahedrons at the corners, forming a three-dimensional structure.
•The “bridge” formed by the oxygen atoms between the silicon atoms of adjacent tetrahedrons, is responsible for some of the unique properties of silicon dioxide.
•The tetrahedral shape is responsible for the rigidity of the silicon dioxide molecule.
•The length of the Si-O bond is 0.16 nm.

HTC Sense

HTC Sense 3.0 is a UI designed to make you go, “Oooh!”. Beautifully textured and colored, the widgets, icons and whatever is on screen looks so realistically vibrant, that it seems to waltz out of the phone and into your palm. Widgets, apps, icons, all have been redrawn and tweaked in some small way or the other, to look and feel different. For example, the mail app now shows a little preview of each email.

7 home screens, to navigate through them, drag your finger left and right on the screen. But Sense presents your home screens in a 3D carousel form, so just turn the carousel around, choose your desired home screen and voila! You are there in a jiffy! A nifty little alternative to finger swiping.

The old reliable Leap Screen function is also present for home screen to screen navigation. Pinch your fingers on a screen, all 7 home screens are displayed in a zoomed-out form, tap which one you want. Pressing the Home button on the main screen will also show you all home screens at once.

Mobile profiles allow you to set a different profile for work, at home, traveling, silent mode etc. Similar in concept, the HTC Sense allows you to setup or design a screen, with wallpaper, widgets-which and where you want them to appear and the home-screen. Once you have designed the said screen, you can save it and apply it like a profile when needed.

One of the most used, yet most little designed screens, is the lock screen. Typical lock screens just show the time and date and a few notifications. Sense puts 4 app shortcuts on your lock screen. So even if your phone is locked, just drag the app to the ring at the screen’s bottom and use it. Need to type a quick message? No problem, drag the message app to the ring and type away, without unlocking your phone. And you can decide what apps you want to use, through the Personalize menu. The lock screen is also customizable, you can add your photo gallery or widgets, like the weather to the screen and they can drift or fly by. Also instead of the swiping motion to unlock, just move the onscreen ring to the center of the screen.

Enabling the Shortcuts
If a computer mouse is disabled or cannot be used, then the only way to navigate through a computer is by using keyboard shortcuts. Similarly, using keypad shortcuts is the only way to navigate through your BlackBerry phone without the use of your trackball. There are a lot of shortcuts, each for different areas and functions of the phone. But the option of using such shortcuts is disabled on the BlackBerry by default. To turn them on, follow the steps listed below:

I. Press the green Phone or Dial key, located on the farthest left side of the trackball.

 
II. Press the Menu button, which has the BlackBerry logo as its icon and is on the immediate left hand side of the trackball.

 
III. Press the O letter to select Options, then press the Enter key. Then select General Options by pressing Enter again.

 
IV. Scroll through the General Options list by pressing Enter. When you are over the choice Dial From Home Screen, press the Alt key and then the text will change to NO. Press the letter N, the NO choice will be selected, then press Enter.

 
V. Press the Escape key, which is the key to the right of your trackball (looks like a curved arrow) or press the letter S on your keypad to save your changes.

 
VI. The option ‘Dial from Home Screen’ when enabled, assumes whatever keystrokes you enter are part of a number. By turning it off, you can now use all BlackBerry keyboard shortcuts but you will need to press the Dial key to type phone numbers.