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If you are familiar with Ruby language then you have probably heard of a resque scheduler. Similar to delayed_job but more efficient, a delayed jobresque provides you with full control of creating multiple tasks that need to run on the background while the system is active.

"It's a scary thought, but according to industry experts cars capable of driving themselves will be a reality within the current decade."

"LG is having a much better 2012 compared to last year. Following rumours of positive plans for a device capable of taking the Samsung Galaxy series and the iPhone, the South Koreans have been enjoying widespread recognition thanks to the success of the luxurious Prada phone. So it's fair to say eyebrows were projected upwards after the company announced its intention to move away from high-end smartphones towards the budget market. The LG Optimus L3 is the first of this new breed, promising a low cost smartphone with the same user experience offered by more wallet damaging handsets. But does the dinky pioneer live up to this billing?"

"It's been a long time coming but Samsung Galaxy Note owners across the globe will be shrieking with joy at the news that their beloved handset is finally getting a bit of Ice Cream Sandwich."

"Communications tech is the most important advance in the provision of justice since we first suggested maybe not murdering each other. Most Westerns are based on the idea of riding a horse until you find someone who's even heard of the guilty party, then riding further to find one who hasn't been shot. Nowadays you can call in crimes from anywhere, and in our efficient techno-world many criminals save everyone time by using phones to catch themselves. If phones were any more effective in reducing crime they'd be Robocops, but the authorities don't always have the best ideas for using these intuitive devices we all carry around with us."

"In the old days, women were encouraged to 'lie back and think of England', but these days it seems many may be lying back and tweeting about TOWIE."

"Smartphones. You probably take yours and all its nifty high tech features for granted, surfing the web, downloading apps, and generally doing loads of pretty amazing shizz on a daily basis. But lest we forget the lowly feature phone. The little sturdy fellas that began the mobile phone phenomenon, the forefathers that started us off on the communication tech journey that we find ourselves on today."

"People of Britain, we realise you love your mobile phones. We realise how wonderful Facebook, Twitter and Angry Birds are. Its always good to see a singing dog on your phone on a night out. We realise that without mobile phones this probably (nay, definitely) wouldn't be written or published. But this is just a bit, well, sad."

The most pivotal element of success, of any result-oriented Internet Marketing campaign, is the ability to not only generate traffic or attract internet browsers to your website, but to capture the interests of the visitor.

"If you love listening to music on your phone but often find it fiddly when you want to pause your song for a few seconds, the Galaxy Note has a magic feature that takes away the need for button pressing. You won't need to mess around franticly tapping on the screen when you learn this handy simple tip."

"The S Memo feature is great for those who love to jot down notes, but did you know that you can change the background depending on what type of paper you need for your scribbles? Well you can. Just follow these quick and easy steps to obtain background paper perfection and make your S Memo scribblings even more superb."

In our previous articles (I sure hope you are eagerly following suit), I discussed five of the iPhone apps that will surely jettison your iPhone experience from 'bland' to 'hallelujah!' It's rather blasphemous, but staunch religiosity has no bearing on the mind that thinks only expletives and cusswords can approximate the intensity of his amazement.

"We divided our list of the best 30 Android apps into four distinct categories. The top ten apps come from third-party developers, and, if not exclusive to Android, were created primarily for the platform. Additional sections include the best new or significantly updated apps from Google, as well as the best apps and games that appeared first on iOS but later arrived to Android in 2011."

"Did you, like countless others suffering the effects of a gluttonous Christmas, make it your new year's resolution to get fit and stop being such a slovenly sod? And in order to fulfil this most noble of pursuits, did you join a gym, only to sack it all off barely two weeks into 2012? (We certainly did). If so, then you might want to have a scan at Gym-Pact, an app that will not only help get you back on the treadmill, but will dangle a very lucrative carrot in front of your fizzog by financially rewarding you every time you cross the threshold of your local sweat and spandex-filled workout joint."

"Siri may be the ultimate intuitive interface between man and mobile but according to network management firm Arieso, iPhone 4S users are paying for up to double the amount of data for the privilege of using their new personal assistant."

"Eagle-eyed visitors to the wonderful P4u News & Community area might have noticed that our tea-timely Friday round-up failed to materialise last week and for this we can only apologise. This was due to a chronic shortage of people to actually write the chuffin' thing as P4u Towers resembled a scene from 28 Days Later for some reason, with people dropping like flies throughout the course of the day (we reckon that everyone went for a dodgy curry but didn't want to say in case we pulled them up for not inviting us - the bunch of cliquey sods). Anyway, enough of our craven attempts at justification, have a load of this week's news nuggets …"

"Mobile phones have come a long way since their conception over thirty years ago, when yuppies pranced the streets yelling into blowers that looked like large grey house bricks. At the time people thought they were just a fad, but even at this early stage having one was considered a status symbol. Costing more than an arm and a leg, a mobile phone meant you had money and you were someone important."

"How does one go about bringing Space Invaders, an established genre classic, but very much a product of its time, to a new generation of gamers? After all, however familiar the attacking aliens and their 'womp, womp, womp, womp' musical accompaniment may be, the incredibly primitive graphics and simple gameplay won't satiate many Uncharted or Gears of War fans."

"That burger you just ate may not have smelled suspect but if it harboured E. coli you could be in for a few days of food poisoning. A new phone-based imaging device could one day spot the gut-busting bugs before they make you sick."

"Whilst yesterday was all about that new iPad, other stuff did actually happen in the world of tech, although the majority of that news wasn't nearly as exciting as the Apple bombshells dropped inSan Francisco."