Korean emergency alert messages on your phone

If you bought a phone in Korea, now and then you'll receive Emergency Alert text messages from the Korean government. These arrive as alerts that make your phone vibrate or sound multiple times, presenting a message on-screen, which then gets saved as an SMS text message. I received one tonight: If you don't know any Korean at all, the above might make you panic. No, North Korea is not attacking. They're just precautionary warnings. For example,...

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RSS feed for Reddit searches

I'm a big fan of RSS and Reddit. I follow all my subreddits in Feedly, and it turns out that you can also follow Reddit search results via an RSS feed. All you need to do is add ".xml" to the Reddit search results URL, right after the word "search".For example, here's a Reddit search query for professional actor George Takei: http://www.reddit.com/search?q=george+takei&sort=new&t=allAnd here's the corresponding feed URL you can plug into your RSS reader:http://www.reddit.com/search.xml?q=george+takei&sort=new&t=allNote that you'll...

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Dragnet (1987) Korean subtitles - 드라그넷 한글자막

I'm a fan of most anything with Dan Aykroyd, so I decided to watch the 1987 film Dragnet with some Korean friends. But my usual source of subtitles only provided the Korean subtitles split apart two files (CD1 and CD2) which wouldn't work on my TV.So after some hassle, I was able to combine the files into one. I don't know how exactly to submit files to the site, nor do I suspect many people are looking for these. But, in case you are one of those amazing few weirdos looking for Dragnet 한글자막, you've found it.>>> Dragnet.smi...

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RSS feeds for Facebook Pages

Facebook Pages have RSS feeds available for all their wall content posted by the admin. The feed URL follows this form, where XXXXXXXXXX is the Facebook I.D. number for the page:http://www.facebook.com/feeds/page.php?id=XXXXXXXXXXXXX&format=rss20Here is an example of a real Facebook Page RSS feed, this one for George Takei's wall:http://www.facebook.com/feeds/page.php?id=205344452828349&format=rss20Finding the Facebook ID number of a page...

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How to fix the graphics drivers on a Dell Inspiron 1501 on Windows 8

I use an old Dell Inspiron 1501 that I recently upgraded to Windows 8. Although it's an old computer, most all the features of Windows 8 worked fairly well right after installation. I had had only one problem: the graphics drivers. This laptop has a ATI IGP Radeon Xpress 1150 graphics card, but the Windows 8 system was using a generic driver for the display, resulting in a low-resolution picture. This wasn't terrible for using the system, but when it came to video playback, VLC, GOM Player, nearly everything, would freeze up and be unable to play...

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