Showing posts with label basic idea. Show all posts
Showing posts with label basic idea. Show all posts

Monday, 21 March 2016

Things that you should never do with your android device

Things to avoid 

Smartphones have evolved massively, they are not just meant for calling and texting they have much more potential. But that doesn't mean you can do anything with your smartphone with that said here are some things you should avoid:

  • Protecting the screen with lamination: We are not living in 2006 so are the phones. Now they use touch screen technology rather than physical buttons, so applying a lamination to your device would significantly decrease the touch sensitivity. 
  • Rooting with android apps: Although the concept of rooting is not for normal users but if you do root your device then root it with proper PC not with Android apps. Because those apps could be malware or spyware. which could affect the performance of your device or hack your details.
  •  Installing third party app killers: Well this correct to some extent only. Installing third part app killers doesn't makes any sense as Android (after jellybean) OS is already smart enough to stop unwanted background processes. Using third party app killers cause further battery drain rather than saving it as the apps get killed and restated over and over again. But on the other hand first party app killers are effective and efficient in killing apps as they have device's root access. also the third party app killers spam your device with advertisements.
  • Splashing your phone in water: yeah I know this is quite obvious but there are phones which claims water proofing/resistant. But only trust that claim when the manufacturer says about IP certification (Ingress protection) for ex IP67. Also take a look of IP certification system http://www.dsmt.com/resources/ip-rating-chart/
  • Charging the battery with external changers for battery: Don't charge your battery with external charger (in which you have to take battery out of your device). They are unreliable and have extremely slow charging times. Also there's always risk of damaging your battery with those chargers as no software plays the role of stabilising the voltage and current. 
  • Installing apps with unnecessary permissions: While installing apps from the Playstore check for the required permissions for that app. Unnecessary permissions can cause battery drain and spywares on your device. Ex- if a flashlight app asks for call logs, contact information then it might be spyware.    
 So these are are the common things that you need to avoid.

Wednesday, 5 August 2015

Android and office

OFFICE

Since the beginning of android it was possible to edit word documents and spreadsheets. But it was a total miniature version of the real office suite. In the early days of android only editing of docs was possible, you can’t create new documents within the applications. Many application supported the functionality of creating documents with in the application but they all came at high price or a subscription basis. But things have changed now you get all the featu
res for free without paying a single penny.

In the early smartphone days it was widely believed that mobile phones have insufficient power to process docs and spreadsheets. But today you can even create high quality presentations with android devices. You don’t need a full size computer to create docs, spreadsheet or presentations all you need is a decent phone with good hardware support. In the early days of android there were many competitors for office suite software with similar functionality. Thinkfree office, WPS office, office suite by mobi systems, Polaris but today the competition is very limited. Today only google office suite and Microsoft office suite are the biggest rivals in android.  We all know Microsoft’s office suite is the king of office suites in pc. Even they came with their suite for android late but they instantly dominated the Google playstore. Microsoft has three separate applications: Word, Excel, power point meant for word processing, spreadsheet management, managing presentations (respectively). All of them looks and perform magnificently well in android devices. Microsoft’s office suite looks best with android tablets with high range of functions which almost feels like the desktop version. All though the application size after installation is huge which might be a problem for entry level devices with low memory. But Midrange devices and High end devices works like breeze with Microsoft’s office suite. Microsoft released their office suite late into android, because they wanted to make their office suite a selling feature for the windows phones but all their efforts on windows phone have failed miserably. The factor which made windows phone unique is no more a unique factor now it’s general to all the people. The ironic fact is that the android version of the office suite has more features than the windows phone version.
Google on the other hand also put their effort to make a functional office suite for android. Their office suite first came as a single application but recently they divided it into three major standalone apps (Google Docs, Google sheets, Google slides). They all feel native to android with Google’s material design and app integration. The Google’s initiative towards mobile office suite is also very effective although most of the feature of their apps are based on a working internet connection thus they are also very lightweight on the android devices. The user experience of their office suite is very clean and basic, highly recommended for new users or armatures. On the other hand Microsoft’s office suite feels more professional and complex so it’s totally up to the user’s personal preference. Both are well equipped with cloud technologies, Google works with its Google drive and Microsoft works with their own One drive (formerly skydrive). Any other application than these two is a complete ripe off. It is highly recommended to use from these two only. Any other subscription based office suite will be a complete waste of precious money. 
That’s all folks


Tuesday, 3 February 2015

The computer

Computer the fundamental unit of life,



A portion of Babbage's Difference engine.
The ancient Greek-designed Antikythera mechanism, dating between 150 to 100 BC, is the world's oldest analog computer.
Intertec Superbrain
Modern airplanes wouldn’t be able to fly without it, no it’s not a jet engine. It’s given us mobiles phones, compact discs and space travel. Without it money would effectively ceased to exist, Western society would collapse. So a big thumbs up for the revolutionary device the computer. Just about every area of our lives today is been touched by the silicon hand of the microprocessor. Computers keep us warm, they cook up food, they play our music, and even they protect us from harm in so many ways that a better faster us. On the other hand though the computers are bad tempered, petulant, they live in a permanent state. To make matters worse the computers have become so much more than glorifying typewriters. They are robots, cars, designers and pilots apparently computers now have intelligence they have become so bright that they can even chop vegetables. Computers then have certainly changed the world. Today computers are quite simply everywhere they are on your desk, on your lap, in your palm, they makes your washing machine work , they can play a cd, they are on your wrist watches, in short just about anything which uses electricity today will have a microprocessor a computer. But do remember in 1999 NASA’s mars climate orbiter was programmed by using both metric and imperial units. So after ten long months getting to mars the system got confused by inches here and centimeters there, the hundred and twenty million dollars space program got clouded somewhere else so that you see computer maybe great at doing Maths quickly they even appear to be clever but they are not you know they are daft as brushes and the reason why they are so stupid is that they blindly carry out human mistakes perfectly and uncritically. This stupidity should scare us to death but it doesn’t what scare us is something else, For years we have told that one day we’ll build a computerized emotionless cyborg that absolutely will not stop but is this really the future? Can we ever expect to be walking with robots in the towns? Yes Honda has it’s ASIMO but it’s not really that functional. For anything approaching that kind of world domination that governor Schwarzenegger deals in computers that robots would require at least a modicum of intelligence and this is what scares us. Very credible scientists out there are pushing AI as the next big thing. Even it wouldn’t be wrong to predict that one day computers will have minds of their own. There’s no doubt that the computer has changed our world out of all recognitions in an incredibly short period of time and it seems major developments still to come pretty soon they say the computers will become truly benevolent pandering to your dreams and fantasy. Or let’s say what they say because these are people who promised that people will be wearing a bakery foil suit by the year two thousand and will live on the diet of pills they said that the moon will be colonized within 2020. So if you forgive me if I remain a little bit skeptical about the claims being made for the future of the computer. Apart from something else I’m sure that I don't want voice recognition everywhere or a laptop saying hello Shayan in an American accent every morning and I definitely don’t want anything computer inserting in me.