Prone to heartburn? Avoid these triggers. Milk: It feels soothing, but the fats , proteins and calcium it contains can stimulate the stomach to secrete acid. Coffee, tea & cola: Caffeinated drinks relax the lower oesophadeal sphincter and irritate an inflamed oesophagus. Chocolate: It’s loaded with two heatburn triggers-fat and caffeine. […]
Things you can do with aluminium foil
Bake a perfect pie: keep the edges of a pie from getting burnt by covering them with strips of aluminium foil. The foil will prevent the edges from getting overdone while the remainder of your pie gets perfectly browned. Decorate a cake: If you don’t have an icing bag, form a piece of heavy duty […]
How To Measure Broadband Speed
Want to check if you are getting the promised Broadband speed? Here’s a site that can help… Log on to Speedtest.net, a website that provides an application which runs a small test on your internet connection and tells you what speeds you are getting currently. Measure speed at different times of day, especially […]
Mac Hacked in Half Hour
Macs Easier To Exploit In what turned out to be an exercise in how to insert foot in mouth, a Swedish Mac fan set up a Mac Mini as a Web server & challenged the hackers of the world to "try and gain root control." Less than six hours later, the box was compromised, and […]