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TOP 20 must have ANDROID APPS

noreply@blogger.com (Soumik) — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 07:40:00 +0000

Android operating system is the most in demand OS because of its open source capability,due to which it supports lots and lots of applications.today in this blog I am going to write about 20 must have apps and games in your android phones.so lets start our blog for today.

1)

WordPress

WordPress is one of the most popular blogging platforms, boasting over 25 million software downloads and 15,000 plug-ins. If you wish to blog while away from your computer, this WordPress app will let you do just that, but on your Android phone. Bloggers can quickly create drafts, edit posts, and approve comments without the need for a Mac or PC.
2)

Wheres My Droid

If you're anything like me, you've "lost" your phone many times only to find it tucked away in a jacket pocket or some other obvious—or not so obvious—locations. Now you can save yourself plenty of worry with Wheres My Droid, which forces your phone to ring at maximum volume or vibrate when the phone receives a text message containing a specified phrase, such as "Where's my Droid?" The app can also tell you the phone's location, as long as its GPS is enabled.

3)

Dictionary.com

Stuck on a word's definition? The add-supported Dictionary.com app is a great tool for quickly looking up word meanings. Best of all, the dictionary and definitions live on your phone; no need to connect to the Web to pull down the information that you seek.

4)

Google Maps

Google Maps is a potent tool for any Android smartphone owner who needs location information. A few of its signature features, such as navigation and layers, work better on Android than most other mobile operating systems. It's indispensible for finding addresses, service providers nearby, and basic navigation.

5)

WebMD for Android

WebMD is much more than a diagnosis app, although you certainly can use it to input symptoms you are experiencing and find some clues as to what's ailing you. It also contains listings for healthcare professionals and pharmacies in your area, as well as first-aid guides—simple instructions for dealing with an emergency that everyone should have accessible at any time. This free reference app is one you hope you don't need, but, the moment you do, you'll be glad you downloaded it.

6)

Wikidroid for Wikipedia

Smartphone are called "smart" because they enable you to keep a hefty amount of information in the palm of your hand. Wikidroid is a prime example of this; the app pulls articles from Wikipedia and optimizes their display for easy reading and searching from your mobile phone. The app has elegant search functionality, too.

7)

Catch Notes

Catch is a cloud-based service that lets you save notes of all kinds—audio memos, typed notes, and photos. If you think it sounds like Evernote (see below), you're right. It's similar to that app, and well customized for Android phones. If Evernote isn't quite your speed, but you're looking for something similar, give Catch a try.

8)

Dropbox

Nearly everyone works and plays on multiple computers, which means that you have files scattered across numerous machines. Dropbox comes to the rescue with a service that lets you keep files in sync across multiple computers simply by moving them into the Dropbox folder. The Dropbox Android app lets you access those files—and sync new ones—on your Google-powered smartphone.

9)

Facebook for Android

Social networks thrive with a reliable app, and Facebook's for Android is solid. The Android app has the quintessential Facebook-branded interface but some unique functionality that's absent in Facebook's iPhone app, such as a side-scrolling preview pane of recently shared photos in the dashboard area.

10)

Foursquare

Love it or hate it, no respectable app store is complete without Foursquare, the popular social networking application that lets you check you into locations. You can easily tell your friends where you are, share photos, and view comments. Plus, many businesses offer discounts and freebies to foursquare users, so you may save cash while checking in.

11)

Gmail

Gmail, Google's e-mail application, comes to Android devices as a dedicated app. With it, Gmail users can star, label, search, and access synched messages when offline. It also supports multiple Gmail account, so you can check messages from all your accounts on one device without signing out.

12)

Google+

Social networks need mobile apps to thrive, and Google+'s is a fine start for the platform that arrived in July 2011. The app taps into conventions established by other online social networks, like Facebook and Twitter, while finding some of its own strengths at the same time. Google+ Mobile works fairly well, due to a smart design and comprehensible interface.

13)

Google Voice

With voicemail, text messaging, and other great features, Google Voice is an excellent service that is a welcome addition to Android phones. Use it whenever your traditional phone carrier would otherwise charge you big bucks—such as when placing pricey international phone calls.

14)

Angry Birds

You can't have mobile devices without Angry Birds. The causal game juggernaut that just keeps rolling, challenges you to destroy structures (inhabited by villainous swine) by flinging crotchety little birds at it using a giant slingshot. The franchise has dozens of titles, like Angry Birds Rio and Angry Birds Seasonal, but the original Angry Birds is the one to download to your Android phone first.

15)

Guns 'n' Glory: WW2

The follow-up to the award-wining action-strategy game Guns 'n' Glory Wild West puts you in the role of a military commander (either the Allies or Axis) during The War. You mission? Guide your troops, tanks, and warbirds to World War II victory. A RPG-like skill and leveling up system lets you power up your squad to achieve an advantage over the enemy.

16)

Words with Friends Free

Words with Friends, Zynga's take on popular board game Scrabble, is among the most popular (and addictive) mobile social game. If you own an Android phone but your friends are on other devices, such as iPhones or iPads, you can still challenge them to head-to-head wordplay. Some Android users have reported stability problems with the game, but Zynga has pushed out updates that should improve the apps overall performance.

17)

FxCamera

If your Android smartphone has a less-than-stellar camera, don't fret. FxCamera adds filters and effects, such as "ToyCam" and "Warhol," to enhance even the most modest photos. It also helps to arm yourself with some additional tips for getting better photos from your phone. In short, if you take snaps on your Android phone, consider this a must have app.

18)

Google Goggles

Google Goggles is an augmented reality experience that layers additional information from the digital world onto the physical world. For example, you can whip out your phone, take a snapshot of anything from a painting in a museum to a placard that's written in a language you don't understand, and Google Goggles will give you more clues to help you figure out what's in front of you, or why it's important.

19)

Kindle

Read books, magazines, and newspapers right on your Android phone without ever buying an e-reader. The Kindle app is by far the most popular reading app in the Android Marketplace because it gives you access to buy or download for free hundreds of thousands of books, and more than 100 different newspapers and magazines. And while some users have complained that they can't uninstall Kindle once they've downloaded the app, it is possible (but it takes a little effort).

20)

RedLaser Barcode & QR Scanner

RedLaser, an app that turns your Android's camera into a barcode scanner, has long been on every new smartphone owner's list of free apps to download. Overtime, the app has only improved, and it's now a multi-functional scanner that works on QR codes, too. When shopping, scan any item with a barcode, and RedLaser delivers detailed information about the product, including whether you can buy it at a better price nearby.

Your feedback for any more application you know about which are great is always welcomed.. :)

How to find creation date of your Gmail account?

noreply@blogger.com (Soumik) — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 09:09:00 +0000

You might think for what reason would we require your Gmail account creation date, but you would thank me once you forget your Gmail password. when you forget your password and can't even remember security question you are left with this option, it asks you creation date of your gmail account. so here are the steps to know your gmail creation date in a easy manner.

image courtesy: wikihow

Method 1:

This is one nice method to know creation date of your account. Gmail team sends you a welcome mail during creation of your account so you can click on oldest post on your Gmail account and get that mail. After opening it you will find its creation date. so keep that in mind. might be helpful if your account is hacked and security question is not quite helpful.

Method 2:

This method is little complicated then previous one but will help you in case you have deleted that mail accidently before.

GoTo www.google.com/takeout

there you will find "transfer your google+ connections to another account" click it

New tab will open with name google pus transfer tool,

where account type and creation date will be given,

take note of it and close that tab without making any changes

Method 3:

We have one more method to know creation date of our gmail account,

Goto Settings in gmail/google+

then click on forwarding and POP/IMAP

In Pop Download 1) Status: POP is enabled for all mail that has arrived since

Creation year of my account is 2007, whats yours?

Project Glass-Next big thing in tech world.

noreply@blogger.com (Soumik) — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 09:23:00 +0000

We people are always hungry for change in the way we live, we were not satisfied with telephone so we invented mobile, we were not satisfied with cycle hence we invented bikes and scooter. our only aim here was to make that particular product better and reduce human effort. so one of our finest company 'GOOGLE' was not happy with normal eye wears so they came up with something new.and interesting. basically we can say that they have made new category itself for this product. As apple made new category of products with invention of iPhone, Google is trying to do the same here. Project glass is basically an eye wear having an android operating system, it can basically display information in a smart phone type display and main thing is it can interact with internet. it is basically a eye wear which can do lot of thing.
glass on it looks like only the headband of a pair of glasses — the part that hooks on your ears and lies along your eyebrow line — with a small, transparent block positioned above and to the right of your right eye.

photo courtesy verge

According to Wikipedia project glass can be described as-- Project Glass is a research and development program by Google to develop an augmented reality head-mounted display (HMD).Project Glass products would display information in smartphone-like format hands-free and could interact with the Internet via natural language voice commands.

This project is still in development process so just developers are being provided with it for $1,500.

how google glass works

So you people would be thinking what use this project glass or google glass will to us?

Google is not planning to release it before 2014. this glass are lot more then normal eye wears it can click photos, tell you current temperature, time, Google has proposed icons for things like taking a picture, recording video, making a phone call, navigating on Google Maps, checking your calendar, surf net (Google said it will have cellular radio later through which it can get online, at present it uses your phone's wireless network to connect online). Inside the right earpiece that is, the horizontal support that goes over your ear Google has packed memory, a processor, a camera, speaker and microphone, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi antennas, accelerometer, gyroscope, compass and a battery. All inside the earpiece. Glass is designed for two primary purposes sharing and instant access to information hands-free, without having to pull anything out of your pocket. Google has also shown that you can use speech recognition to control Glass. You say “O.K., Glass” to call up the menu.

This is wonderful project and a realistic one if it is priced correctly. Google co founder SERGEY BRIN is seen with this glasses in almost every tech events.we can be pretty sure that this invention is going to be huge step in making us lazy, as even removing your mobile from your pocket will be of no use as it will fo all task of mobile phones. only thing Google need to do is to keep price of these glasses down, and it will be the next big thing in tech world.

Here are some videos which might amaze you:

Google glasses demo by Sergey Brin

Google glass demo

How Search engine works?

noreply@blogger.com (Soumik) — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 15:11:00 +0000

No matter what our age is,what our nationality is we always rely on search engines for getting our facts right, to get some data which we know can be known best when found online.we always depend on search engines, search engines could be any Google or altavista. but all works in same way. I came across this topic through online course of Google i.e "powersearching with Google". so at the end of this post I am going to post the link for that course, incase you want to learn power of searching from Google.

Whenever we want to search some data we head to search engines or say Google for most of us, but have you ever noticed that like us there would be many people who use search engine at that very moment. Search engines receives millions and millions of queries per day, so how exactly would it serve so many people? our common assumption is that Google gives us the page which is most viewed by most people on internet, and your assumption is right also. But you should even consider the amount of websites which are started daily. for example, say 1000 of sites mentioning user interface on your mobile devices, so you cannot assume that no one is ever going to write about that topic in future. yesterday 1000's were there today you may get 5000. so search engine has to scan all the websites that it receives daily, because they can't leave any website without considering or checking.so we can clearly assume that on daily basis it has to add hundreds and hundreds of websites to its databases, so we can have most relevant and useful data. According to Wikipedia :- " A web search engine is designed to search for information on the World Wide Web". so basically you get sites related to term you searched on search engine.Search engines don't create any website or give you any data but it gives link or reference to the data you searched in search engine, that to in the form of websites or links to that websites. And these search engines give you result irrespective of the name the blogger or writer on that particular website has named his article as.There are many instance where the heading of the articles is not at all matching with the term you had searched in search engine then to you got the reference of that site and the material or the data in that file is what you were searching for.so how do search engine gives you reference of the sites from billions of site out there on internet?

so how would this search engine would be working?

The main three things on which search engines works are:

They search the Internet -- or select pieces of the Internet -- based on important words.
They keep an index of the words they find, and where they find them.
They allow users to look for words or combinations of words found in that index.

Any website you give search engine permission to scan( there are many personal blogs and sites on the net that many don't want to share with whole world) or include it in their database are searched throughout. all the terms are noticed by it and stored in its databases with the location of your site. so next time when someone comes searching for term that was mentioned in your website or page is shown there but according to the priority given to your site by search engine which notices web traffic to your site.so scanning of the pages are done according to the popularity of the page and that site. so the page with more visitors will be scanned first, and so on. so what is that program called as? it is known as "spiders", it is software robot which is made to scan any webpage that is added or modified on internet (that page has to give access to spiders,otherwise it won't be listed on net). it not just scans the page as it is, it scans the site and saves the words used there, that words are stored in its database along with the location of the site. The process in which whole document is scanned is known as web crawling ( so you can use more technical term for scanning as crawling).All the spiders have there own approach

what are web spider?how they work are explained here When the Google spider looked at an HTML page, it took note of two things:

The words within the page

Where the words were found

Words occurring in the title, subtitles, meta tags( Meta elements are HTML or XHTML elements used to provide structured metadata about a Web page) and other positions of relative importance were noted for special consideration during a subsequent user search. The Google spider was built to index every significant word on a page, leaving out the articles "a," "an" and "the." Other spiders take different approaches. These different approaches usually attempt to make the spider operate faster, allow users to search more efficiently, or both. For example, some spiders will keep track of the words in the title, sub-headings and links, along with the 100 most frequently used words on the page and each word in the first 20 lines of text. I got this very nice thing to read about Google from howstuffworks,

" Google began as an academic search engine. In the paper that describes how the system was built, Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page give an example of how quickly their spiders can work. They built their initial system to use multiple spiders, usually three at one time. Each spider could keep about 300 connections to Web pages open at a time. At its peak performance, using four spiders, their system could crawl over 100 pages per second, generating around 600 kilobytes of data each second.Keeping everything running quickly meant building a system to feed necessary information to the spiders. The early Google system had a server dedicated to providing URLs to the spiders. Rather than depending on an Internet service provider for the domain name server (DNS) that translates a server's name into an address, Google had its own DNS, in order to keep delays to a minimum."

how search engine works? explained here.

click on this link to register for registering for power searching seminar by Google, you also will be getting an certificate (that to from Google.com).There are many thing that would surprise you there. so guys if you want, do register there and get some great knowledge from master himself and certificate as complimentary gift.

*many things in this post are referred from howstuffworks, just to give you right technical knowledge about the topic and not with intention of making any revenue through it.

Technology have to play a role in saving water

noreply@blogger.com (Soumik) — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 07:12:00 +0000

I think that technology is the only thing that can help us save water now,because the way we are using our resources I don't doubt it will be exhausted in few decades.but we might only think that we have enough resources that will easily be available till 80-90 years after that we will not be alive to bear its after effects so its okay if we don.t care about it,but that's wrong mentality we have towards nature because even if we won't be alive our children will have to suffer through this and I can bet that no parent will want their children to go through Hell for the sake of water which they wasted because it was available to them.

For me water is the most important natural resource even more important than oxygen.because for oxygen we are blessed by some nice invention by some great personality(I am not searching Google for that personalities name here because our today's topic is for water) who have invented oxygen cylinder and even more technologies are been found for the same.but we cannot say the same thing for water because till date we have not found substitution for water.Water is such a resource that is used in almost all thing you use in daily life,let it be your morning coffee or cola or pepsi you drink,let alone foodstuffs it is used in manufacturing purpose also,it is used in power plants,Pressurized water is used in water blasting and water jet cutters. Also, very high pressure water guns are used for precise cutting.

so this were some of the uses of water we can think of at any given time.

So basically we can say that we have not found any substitution for water till date.And what effect it will have on us will be known in long run.so many will ask what type of technology will help us to conserve water resources.so now if truly speaking, I feel that we are way beyond that part when merely closing tap will help us save water.Now that is just basic thing we have to do for saving water.so which technology and how to implement them can be best explained by our scientists because always EXPERT help us get through tough times,we are the ones who can just write about it but they are the one's who have to implement it. so talking about technology we would have never imagined that we will receive water by merely turning the tap and water from hundred's of kilometer away will flow to us. so that is what which was made possible to us by experts.next example can be of Air conditioner,our fore fathers would have never imagined that we can get below room temperature by just a click of button,and even that is possible now.so you consider any technology let it be fan,computers,mobile phones,toasters or any electrical equipment ,nobody would have imagined before the discovery of that product that it would be so easy to perform that activity.In the same way we want just one technology that can do the same for water,because by turning the tap we all receive water but think of that day when, after turning the tap you would receive water after 7-8 days because there is no water available for us.and luxury of getting water everyday will be the thing of past.

You might think of above statement as an example but it is reality in many remote parts of India.You won't believe it but in remote parts of Gujarat people receive water after gap of almost 7 days,that's not because Government is not taking initiative for water conservation project but due to water scarcity in that region.And due to that building dams yields no result as there is irregular rainfall in that region.And due to water scarcity people started using ground water for daily purposes due to which ground water level has also decreased.so what steps to take to slightly normalize the situation? steps are same that you,me all would have learnt at some point of time

"To plant more and more trees in your environment".

But we don't have time for such filthy works now as we are very busy with our daily life.but think we just have to give few minutes for it..and it can help you,your children and maybe even their children.Few days back I had read about level of pollution in our rivers(and it includes most of major Indian rivers) which has made it unsuitable even for agriculture purpose let alone drinking that water.if we would have helped in maintaining that rivers then we can at least get some other sources of water to consume apart from dams but due to human nature one more source of water has been exhausted.so now we are left with only one alternative, i.e. Rain water in our dams.Rain is unreliable source of water so relying on it will leave us with no water in long run because of deforestation activity undertaken by us.

we need many activists to join hands to save this resources,to make government know the importance of water and to clean our holy rivers(so that it can be of some use to human race).

So guys spread this article for the sake of water you consume.

THIS GOVERNMENT HAVE TO DO SOMETHING SOLID FOR THE SAKE OF ITS OWN PEOPLE.

Sixth SENSE TECHNOLOGY

noreply@blogger.com (Soumik) — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 14:58:00 +0000

Whenever we start counting great technologies that have made science look real to human race,sixth sense technology cannot be left behind. As many may think,that this technology work on your sixth sense,but sorry to disappoint you this technology has nothing to do with your sixth sense. This technology fascinates me because of two reason, First reason to describe it as great technology can be the fact that it is invented by an Indian, and second can be the mere fact that you can can access an information with your bare hands wearing an gesture interface.

'SixthSense' is a wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world around us with digital information and lets us use natural hand gestures to interact with that information.

We've evolved over millions of years to sense the world around us. When we encounter something, someone or some place, we use our five natural senses to perceive information about it; that information helps us make decisions and chose the right actions to take. But arguably the most useful information that can help us make the right decision is not naturally perceivable with our five senses, namely the data, information and knowledge that mankind has accumulated about everything and which is increasingly all available online. Although the miniaturization of computing devices allows us to carry computers in our pockets, keeping us continually connected to the digital world,
there is no link between our digital devices and our interactions with the physical world. Information is confined traditionally on paper or digitally on a screen. SixthSense bridges this gap, bringing intangible, digital information out into the tangible world, and allowing us to interact with this information via natural hand gestures. ‘SixthSense’ frees information from its confines by seamlessly integrating it with reality, and thus making the entire world your computer.

The SixthSense prototype is comprised of a pocket projector, a mirror and a camera. The hardware components are coupled in a pendant like mobile wearable device. Both the projector and the camera are connected to the mobile computing device in the user’s pocket. The projector projects visual information enabling surfaces, walls and physical objects around us to be used as interfaces; while the camera recognizes and tracks user's hand gestures and physical objects using computer-vision based techniques. The software program processes the video stream data captured by the camera and tracks the locations of the colored markers (visual tracking fiducials) at the tip of the user’s fingers using simple computer-vision techniques. The movements and arrangements of these fiducials are interpreted into gestures that act as interaction instructions for the projected application interfaces. The maximum number of tracked fingers is only constrained by the number of unique fiducials, thus SixthSense also supports multi-touch and multi-user interaction.

The SixthSense prototype implements several applications that demonstrate the usefulness, viability and flexibility of the system. The map application lets the user navigate a map displayed on a nearby surface using hand gestures, similar to gestures supported by Multi-Touch based systems, letting the user zoom in, zoom out or pan using intuitive hand movements. The drawing application lets the user draw on any surface by tracking the fingertip movements of the user’s index finger. SixthSense also recognizes user’s freehand gestures (postures). For example, the SixthSense system implements a gestural camera that takes photos of the scene the user is looking at by detecting the ‘framing’ gesture. The user can stop by any surface or wall and flick through the photos he/she has taken. SixthSense also lets the user draw icons or symbols in the air using the movement of the index finger and recognizes those symbols as interaction instructions. For example, drawing a magnifying glass symbol takes the user to the map application or drawing an ‘@’ symbol lets the user check his mail. The SixthSense system also augments physical objects the user is interacting with by projecting more information about these objects projected on them. For example, a newspaper can show live video news or dynamic information can be provided on a regular piece of paper. The gesture of drawing a circle on the user’s wrist projects an analog watch. This article has been taken from Pranav mistry's official site

Distributed Computing

noreply@blogger.com (Soumik) — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 06:13:00 +0000

First you'll think what is distributed computing? you might have heard of distributed systems where a collection of independent computers that appears to its users as a single coherent system. where many machines are working together to fulfill users requirement but user feels that he is working on a single machine. so what is distributed computing then? Distributed computing is a science which solves a large problem by giving small parts of the problem to manycomputers to solve and then combining the solutions for theparts into a solution for the problem, In a distributed computing setup, the program runs like itwould in a single computer even when it is, in fact, usingdifferent computer processors.

why to use distributed computing?

A computer that is part of a distributed computing network usually has a program installed in it that is its direct link to the administrative server or servers.
The software remains dormant in the individual computer until such time that the computer's system becomes idle .
At this point, the software will be activated and will inform the administrative server about available resources in the computer.
The administrative server will respond by sending an application package to the requesting computer.
The moment the user has need of his own resources again,the management server will immediately relinquish the resources that it has been monopolizing, back to the owner of the computer.

what are the challenges you will face in distributed computing?

Heterogeneity

Various Systems in the Distributed must be able to communicatewith each other despite of different:

Hardware
Programming Language
Operating Systems
Network

2. Scalability

The system should work efficiently with increase in number of users.

3. Security

Security in Distributed system consists of two Components:Confidentiality: Protection against unauthorized users.Integrity: Protection against alteration.

Encryption techniques can be used.

4. Transparency

The Entire System Should appear as a Single Unit and theInteractions between the Components should be typicallyhidden from the Users.

Applications:

Telephone Network.
Computer network such as the Internet.
aircraft control systems.
Banking system

Disadvantages of distributed computing:

A lot of extra programming is required to set up a distributed system.
If not planned properly, a distributed system can decrease the overall reliability of computers.
A node could get a work unit, and then not complete it, which would affect remaining nodes.

My Colorful day-HOLI

noreply@blogger.com (Soumik) — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 12:02:00 +0000

First of all, HAPPY HOLI . I am sorry about writing nontechnical topic on this blog, and I wrote this topic because this is the festival I like the most among all INDIAN festivals. And I will not bore you with this topic . and first of all this topic is for all our friends outside India or people in India who doesn’t play Holi. You all will be thinking that this guy is trying to make us understand what holi is, but I am sorry to disappoint you’ll again because I won’t tell you’ll what is HOLI and why is it celebrated..Because that data you can easily get it on net by taking our friends help . So bear with me for this topic where I share with you all things we (by specifying we I meant along with my friends) used to do while playing holi.

When we were of around 9 year Holi meant lot of fun. We used to go around splashing water on everyone in our way while returning from school, after returning from school we used to directly head to our house to get our water gun, and after getting water gun we used to spray water on every one coming in our sight (Holi and diwali are the only festival in Indian calendar where you can literally grab a gun and run around everyone but obviously I am talking about toy gun) and believe me it was fun then. Then gradually we age with time and holi meant something different for us. Now being of around 16years holi had some other meaning. Grabbing a gun was thing of past and doing so meant you are immature among your friends. After this holi had another meaning, we used to throw water in small plastic bag (you can call it water bomb) . When you are in college it seems so much cool to throw this water bombs on pedestrians or your friends from your building terrace. And many times it takes some help from police to stop us from throwing it below. But personally nor I or my friends have experienced police intervention in any past years during holi. I was just saying about police by knowing about many people from my locality.

this is the color(gulaal) I was talking about.

applying color

And during day of colors (we call that day as dhuleti) you cannot imagine in your wildest dream your body can be so colorful, and that color being normal one made from flower petals used to get off body fast and easily.
But as you grow up you learn many things such as use of water bombs was limited. Now we use it only occasionally to take revenge among ourselves or to relish your gone days. Now with age even your habits changes, first we used natural color to apply on each other’s face or body. Then as you grow up playing with it also means now you have to change it, so now we play with OIL PAINT (yes you heard it right).

during holi your face looks somewhat like this

And to tell you oil paint takes nearly 3-4 days to restore your skin to same color. I know it is harmful to play with but you can’t really help because friends will be friends and you can’t change them by saying that dude please stop applying me this paint because its affecting my skin. But truly speaking even I like to play with it. Holi is the festival you can play freely and enjoy playing it.

this is how your face look after holi,you can compare this photo with one I have in my bio section.

[All the thing described above is the way I have played holi, I can’t say that this is how whole INDIA plays it. But it would be something similar only. And photos shown here are some of the extreme way you can play holi. I don’t think everybody plays in same way.]

GIANT on the verge of being forgotten -THE NOKIA

noreply@blogger.com (Soumik) — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 08:37:00 +0000

Now a days we all use i phones, or some galaxy device or some other android device but there was a time when having a phone was luxury and at that time only one company used to rule the market,it was NOKIA. During that time using a phone having camera would make make you richest among your folks. And along with camera if you would have phone with Bluetooth( Nokia 6600 ruled market then) then it was considered same as you are having Samsung Galaxy Note in today's time.we are not here to discuss history of Nokia but we are here to share something about Nokia's downfall according to us( company would have surely discussed this matter with their official but according to us it will give them user's feedback on their role in market).JY998W3B8WZM

For company which started as a paper mill and went on to be the number one company in whole world and that to in the field which was totally different from what it owner would have thought at that time. Only for that reason I think we should salute Mr Fredrik Idestam and Mr Leo Mechelin,founder and co founder resp of NOKIA,who himself would have never thought that his company would be number one in field which is totally different from where he started it.

IT IS NOT AS IF WE HATE NOKIA, IT IS JUST THAT WE DON'T LIKE IT NOW.

why don't we like Nokia now?

People used to buy Nokia devices because they were sturdy. you don't had to worry if your phone slips from your hand, with Nokia you can have that trust that even if your phone had great fall, you'll just need to attach battery and case, and voila your phone is ready for use again. so what is the problem now? so now Nokia doesn't give you enough sturdy models?

none of the people who have used Nokia once in their life will say that thing, because they would also had their phone intact after some great falls.

So now what is the main factor for Nokia slide down?

I personally feel that the main reason can be its old operating system, because when you see human nature it tends to get bored quite easily and fast after using same thing for many years, same thing might have been instrumental in Nokia's downfall, you can't expect people to use different device with almost same features and same operating system which will enable you to play same games and use same software. people want something new, and by something I mean some big change is needed you can't make minor tweaks in existing operating system and give it back to user (for example you can take android, if currently you are using android v 2.1 then you know you are bound to get update of v 2.2 in some time and that to in same device itself) so I think that is one aspect where Nokia has been overtaken by android.

next factor can be increase in usage of applications.

Before android and apple revolution begin,people used to be quite happy using their old phones equipped with camera and Bluetooth only, but now a days people want all types of applications they can get on market to be installed in their phone. but Nokia is not open source as android so there are lesser applications to use in Nokia then android. so that is where Nokia looses to android, because youngsters are now more and more inclined towards application which make their life easier and Nokia doesn't give them that option.

User interface also plays an important role.
user interface of Nokia or we can say of Symbian is very very dull, and in android you can customize your user interface with all kind of widgets. so if Nokia can get what android offers us on User interface part then it can be partly competitive with android.
In this blog I am not saying that NOKIA is working for a lost cause( I am myself using Nokia from last 6 years and personally I am happy with its body or exterior of my phones but not with its hardware and operating system) It is a company which makes nice sturdy phones but what it needs is not solid models but some nice software even some change in operating system , which it has made to some extent also by introducing windows in its phone. but it will have to work harder to get it lost ground.

User Interface ON DIFFERENT MOBILE BRANDS

noreply@blogger.com (Soumik) — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:40:00 +0000

We always feel that particular mobile of this company is having very good graphics and some mobile have very dull and slow graphics.so what does that particular graphics is? It is known as USER INTERFACE .User interface of particular company are different from other companies.so what exactly is User Interface? according to Wikipedia "A user interface is the system by which people (users) interact with a machine." but according to us it is nothing more than a screen which helps us in making your device look better and make you fall in love with it.so you might be thinking,what's so special in this topic that I am writing about it.but believe me this topic is one of the important part which should be looked after when you go to buy your phone but it is always ignored.believe me many people here would not be knowing also about such a thing exist even though they might be using one.

so starting with some of the best User Interfaces in the market,we have:

1)HTC sense-Htc uses it

2)Touchwiz-Samsung uses it

3)Motoblur-Motorola uses it

1) HTC SENSE-

HTC sense is User Interface which has been made by HTC to improve its performance,display quality and user experience.so what does htc sense have so much that needs description?

Friend Stream widget- Previously on HTC Sense, you could view all of your contact's social networking streams from their contact card. Now there's a widget called Friend Stream that sits on your homescreen and streams every tweet, post, comment and new posting from every contact's Facebook, Twitter and Flickr.

Email- You can also search Exchange mail, whether it's been downloaded from the server or not.

Helicopter View- Helicopter View is probably the most exciting aspect of the new version of HTC Sense. Just by pinching the screen, you can enter into Helicopter View that displays a mini version of each home screen.

2)TOUCHWIZ-

htc sense VS Samsung touch wiz

As it is htc sense in HTC phones ,all Samsung phones use touch wiz interface for user interface purpose.features of touchwiz UI are:

The Samsung F480 combines a new and unique UI, having specially designed widgets to customize and personalise the way you use your phone, packaged in a slim and premium form.
The quick and simple ‘drag and drop’ feature lets users have instant access to their favorite functions at a moment’s touch. A unique menu of widgets display functions such as the clock, radio player, music player and more personal elements including photos and birthday reminders, which users can ‘drag and drop’ onto their home screens to suit their personal needs. Samsung’s differentiated tactile technology also gives users a tangible and pleasing feedback sensation when items are selected.

The ‘smile shot’ mode makes its first appearance ever on a mobile phone in the Samsung F480. This intelligent feature enables the camera to detect when the subject is smiling and automatically take a picture, so you can capture your happiest moments.

3) MOTOBLUR -

Motoblur is user interface made by motorola for its android phones. Motoblur (often stylized as MOTOBLUR) is an Android UI replacement and push-based service focused on social networking developed by Motorola. It aims at functional similarity to Palm's Synergy, including such features as Remote Wipe.

Motoblur includes a variety of widgets which combine various social networking portals such as Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter as well as other services (news or weather reports) all in one place.When first turned on, first generation Motoblur-based phones requires a new user to create a Motoblur account, denying access to the main screen until the account is established.

User account information is stored on Motorola's servers for access from web browsers and future phones. The newer devices allow users to defer Blur services for a later registration and has more filtering options and better battery management to optimize the Blur service experience.

motoblur UI

want to compare all three then see this video.

SURFACE COMPUTING

noreply@blogger.com (Soumik) — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:49:00 +0000

We always wonder, when will we be able to do things which actors do in sci-fi movies? Are you still wondering what am I talking about? I am talking about technology which has made our films actually look sci-fi i.e. surface computing.

Where you see actors accessing there machines merely with their hands. This technology is a new way of working with computers that moves beyond the traditional mouse-and-keyboard experience. It is a natural user interface that allows people to interact with digital content the same way they have interacted with everyday items such as photos, paintbrushes and music their entire life: with their hands, with gestures and by putting real-world objects on the surface.
This technology like others will take lot of time to come to use in mainstream in India like other technologies which has taken forever to come in use in mainstream like you can say cctv camera which are used more often in western countries to check crime effectively in that region, but it is not at all used in India till recently. So you can expect this technology to come in mainstream use in India within some years.
Surface computing is a completely intuitive and liberating way to interact with digital content. It blurs the lines between the physical and virtual worlds. By using your hands or placing other unique everyday objects on the surface – such as an item you’re going to purchase at a retail store or a paint brush – you can interact with, share and collaborate like you’ve never done before. Imagine you’re out at a restaurant with friends and you each place your beverage on the table – and all kinds of information appears by your glass, such as wine pairings with a restaurant’s menu. Then, with the flick of your finger, you order dessert and split the bill. We really see this as broadening content opportunities and delivery systems.

KEY ATTRIBUTES OF SURFACE COMPUTING

Surface computing features four key attributes:

•Direct interaction
Users can actually “grab” digital information with their hands and interact with content through touch and gesture, without the use of a mouse or keyboard.

•Multitouch contact
Surface computing recognizes many points of contact simultaneously, not just from one finger as with a typical touch screen, but up to dozens and dozens of items at once.

•Multi user experience.
The horizontal form factor makes it easy for several people to gather around surface computers together, providing a collaborative, face to face computing experience.

•Object recognition.
Users can place physical objects on the surface to trigger different types of digital responses, including the transfer of digital content.

Technology used in surface computing
Microsoft Surface uses cameras to sense objects, hand gestures and touch. This user input is then processed and displayed using rear projection. Specifically, Microsoft Surface uses a rear projection system which displays an image onto the underside of a thin diffuser. Objects such as fingers are visible through the diffuser by series of infrared– sensitive cameras, positioned underneath the display. An image processing system processes the camera images to detect fingers, custom tags and other objects such as paintbrushes when touching the display. The objects recognized with this system are reported to applications running in the computer so that they can react to object shapes, 2D tags, movement and touch.

Technology has been used currently by Microsoft after it has made Microsoft surface. Microsoft Surface (“Surface”) is a commercial computing platform that enables people to use touch and real world objects to share digital content at the same time. The Surface platform consists of software and hardware products that combine vision based multi touch PC hardware, 360-degree multi user application design, and Windows software to create a natural user interface(NUI) for users.

What are the uses of this technology?

still from movie Minority report

Playing with the unit felt a bit like being in the movie Minority Report (in a good way ), but it also felt like a more natural and enjoyable method of doing certain computing tasks. Sharing and looking at family photos, for example, is more fun on Surface than on any other device. The retail applications, particularly the dining application, show how businesses could use the technology to really stand out from competitors, though one wonders how diners will react when their table locks up and needs a reboot.

Object recognition:Users can place physical objects on the surface to trigger different types of digital responses, including the transfer of digital content.

One of the marvel of technology-"THUNDERBOLT"

noreply@blogger.com (Soumik) — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:37:00 +0000

Whenever we start transferring data onto our pendrive we always think once that there should be some technology that should literally make life easier for us by increasing the transferring rate.There are many advances in this field but it is always marred by not making our life simpler by some or other mean.some common thing can be as transferring rate will differ little much between them as not much difference had been made in newer technology .so in this post we are going to take into note this technology which has made life simpler and easier for apple products user.so what comes into your mind when I say port which transfers data at faster rate?

USB 2.0? or USB 3.0?? which can transfer data @ speed of 5Gbit/sec,it can be considered slower compared to technology which we are going to discuss today...so can you all guys decide which technology it can be??

ITS THUNDERBOLT

Thunderbolt was developed by Intel and brought to market with technical collaboration from Apple. First of all its speed 10Gbps, which is around twice as fast as USB 3.0 and 20x faster than traditional USB 2.0,so it is for you'll to decide what we have in store if this technology is used in our daily life.It was introduced commercially on Apple's updated MacBook Pro lineup on February 24, 2011,so now you know why apple products cost BOMB.

And you know what it is backward compatible also because Thunderbolt combines PCI Express and DisplayPort into a serial data interface that can be carried over longer and less costly cables. Thunderbolt driver chips fold the data from these two sources together, and split them back apart again for consumption within the devices. This makes the system backward compatible with existing DisplayPort hardware upstream of the driver. so you don't have to worry if your device support Thunderbolt. You can hook up to 7 daisy-chained devices for multiple connections without affecting performance and in case of USB 2.0, when you connect a non-high speed device, it affects the performance of entire bus.

Intel Thunderbolt controllers interconnect a PC and other devices, transmitting and receiving packetized traffic for both PCIe and DisplayPort protocols. The thunderbolt controller is developed and supplied by Intel and requires a small connector, which will be bundled in the platforms supporting this tech hence, PCI Express is built-in that makes, external connected devices as fast as internal ones. The above added graphs and images of connector and controller are enough to make you understand how does it itself work and how is its cable.

What you can do with it??????

You can transfer a your full HD movie (15 to 20GB approx.) within just 30 seconds.

Backup 1 year of continuous MP3 playback in just over 10 minutes.

This thunderbolt technology has wide applicable areas, such as faster storage drives, faster transfers of huge files between PCs, Cameras, DisplayPort as a link to displays and many even unimagined.

When would this technology be introduced to us?

It was long rumoured that the early-2011 MacBook Pro update would include some sort of new data port, and most of the speculation suggested it would be Light Peak. As the system was described, Intel's solution to the display connection problem became clear: Thunderbolt controllers fold data from existing DisplayPort systems with data from the PCI Express port into a single cable. Older displays, using DisplayPort 1.1 or earlier, have to be located at the end of a Thunderbolt device chain, but newer displays can be placed anywhere along the line.Thunderbolt devices can go anywhere on the chain. In this respect, Thunderbolt shares a relationship with the older ACCESS.bus system, which used the display connector to support a low-speed bus.

This products are currently using Thunderbolt technology:

Apple

MacBook Pro (February 24, 2011)

iMac (May 3, 2011)

MacBook Air (July 20, 2011)

Mac Mini (July 20, 2011)

Mac Pro (N/A)

Sony

Vaio Z21 (N/A)

so what can be technical description of this technology??

Thunderbolt is based on the physical Mini DisplayPort connector developed by Apple. Mini DisplayPort is electrically identical to Display Port, but uses a smaller, non-locking connector.

Thunderbolt is inter-operable with DisplayPort 1.2 compatible devices. When connected to a DisplayPort compatible device the Thunderbolt port can provide a native DisplayPort signal with 4 lanes of output data at no more than 5.4 Gbit/s per lane. When connected to a Thunderbolt device the per-lane data rate becomes 10 Gbit/s and the 4 lanes are configured as 2 channels with each bidirectional 10 Gbit/s channel comprising one lane of input and one lane of output.

what are the main difference from USB 3.0 and Thunderbolt??

First of all speed of thunderbolt is 10Gbps, which is around twice as fast as USB 3.0 and 20x faster than traditional USB 2.0.

It provides up to 10 watt of power to connected peripherals on the other side, USB 3.0 does, 5watt.
In theory, a single Thunderbolt port thus has four times the throughput of a USB 3.0 port
It can drive greater than 1080p resolution displays and up to eight channels of audio simultaneously.
You can hook up to 7 daisy-chained devices for multiple connections without affecting performance and in case of USB 2.0, when you connect a non-high speed device, it affects the performance of entire bus.

SO NOW MAIN QUESTION ARISING IS WHY DON'T WE USE THIS AWESOME TECHNOLOGY IN OUR REGULAR LIFE??

ANSWER TO IT IS ITS COST because As of July 2011, the first two meter Thunderbolt cable from Apple costs US$49.00. As an active cable, it includes circuitry inside the connectors. The cable has 5 wires, 1 for management and two uni-directional pairs, one for incoming and second for outgoing traffic.

so hoping that its cost will reduce and this technology marvel comes to use in our day to day life we end this blog.

Affordable LAPTOPs and NETBOOKs

noreply@blogger.com (Soumik) — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 04:44:00 +0000

Education now a days is very expensive,now during your studies it has become important to buy an laptop,but buying an laptop means additional pressure on your budget(oops sorry pressure would be on your parent).so what to do in this scenario? we can't live without it but also can't afford it. but laptop manufacturing companies have taken this factor in consideration and have released many easy on wallet machines.but which are they?? we have shown some of the best buys,you can get in market for below 20k.

1) Dell Inspiron M101Z (price-Rs 19212)

PROCESSOR
Processor :- Athlon dual core
Chipset :- AMD M880G chipset
Brand :- AMD
clock speed:- 1.3 Ghz
Cache :- 1MB

MEMORY
Expandable Memory :- Up to 8 GB
System Memory :- 2 GB DDR3

STORAGE
Hardware Interface:- SATA
HDD Capacity :- 320 GB

PLATFORM
OPERATING SYSTEM FREE DOS

DISPLAY
SCREEN SIZE :- 11.6 INCH
RESOLUTION :- 1366 X 768
SCREEN TYPE :- HD WLED GLOSSY DISPLAY WITH TRUELIFE

GRAPHICS
Graphic Processor :- ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4225

INPUTWeb Camera:- 1.3 megapixel

MACHINE DIMENSIONS
Weight :- 1.56 kg
Dimension :- 292.1 x 204.9 x 35.1 mm
Color :- Black

2)HP Compaq CQ43-300AU Laptop (Price:- Rs 19312)

Processor:-
Processor:- Dual Core
Variant:- E-300
Chipset:-AMD A50M FCH Brand AMD
Clock Speed :- 1.3 GHz
Cache:- 1 MB L2 Cache

MEMORY
EXPANDABLE MEMORY UP TO 8 GB
MEMORY SLOTS 2 (UNUSED SLOTS 1)
SYSTEM MEMORY:- 2 GB DDR3

STORAGE
Hardware Interface:- SATA
RPM 5400
HDD Capacity:- 320 GB

PLATFORM

Operating System Free DOS

DISPLAY
Screen Size:- 14.0 Inch
Resolution:- 1366 x 768 Pixel
Screen Type High-Definition LED Bright View Display

GRAPHICS
Graphic Processor AMD Radeon HD 6310

INPUT

Web Camera 0.3 Megapixel
Pointer Device TouchPad
Keyboard Standard Keyboard with Homeroll keys

POWER

Battery Backup Up to 3 hours
Power Supply 65 W AC Adapter

MACHINE DIMENSIONS
Weight 2.50 Kg
Dimension 376 x 247 x 35.8 mm
Color Charcoal Grey

3)Asus X Series X101H (price- Rs 11,632)

PROCESSOR
PROCESSOR:- ATOM VARIANT N455
CHIPSET :- INTEL NM10
BRAND:- INTEL
CLOCK SPEED 1.66 GHZ
CACHE 512 KB

MEMORY
SYSTEM MEMORY 1 GB DDR3

STORAGE
HARDWARE INTERFACE SATA
RPM 5400
HDD CAPACITY 250 GB

PLATFORM
OPERATING SYSTEM INTEL MEEGO

DISPLAY
SCREEN SIZE:- 10.1 INCH
SCREEN TYPE HD DISPLAY

GRAPHICS
GRAPHIC PROCESSOR:- INTEL GMA 3150

INPUT
WEB CAMERA 0.3 MEGAPIXEL

POWER
BATTERY BACKUP UP TO 3 HOURS
POWER SUPPLY 100-240 V AC

SECURITY
LOCK PORT YES

4)Lenovo Ideapad S Series S100( price-Rs19,149)

PROCESSOR
PROCESSOR:- ATOM DUAL CORE VARIANT N570
CHIPSET:- INTEL NM10 EXPRESS
BRAND INTEL
CLOCK SPEED 1.66 GHZ
CACHE :- 1MB

MEMORY
MEMORY SLOTS 1 (UNUSED SLOT - 0)
SYSTEM MEMORY:- 2 GB DDR3

STORAGE
HARDWARE INTERFACE SATA
RPM 5400
HDD CAPACITY :-320 GB

PLATFORM
OPERATING SYSTEM :- WINDOWS 7 STARTER

DISPLAY
SCREEN SIZE :- 10.1 INCH
RESOLUTION :- 1024 X 600 PIXEL
SCREEN TYPE :- SD LED GLARE DISPLAY

GRAPHICS
GRAPHIC PROCESSOR :- INTEGRATED INTEL GRAPHICS

INPUT
WEB CAMERA :- 1.3 MEGAPIXEL

POWER
BATTERY BACKUP UP TO 6 HOURS
POWER SUPPLY 40 W ADAPTER

MACHINE DIMENSIONS
WEIGHT :- 1.25 KG
DIMENSION :- 268 X 168 X 16-24.4 MM

5)Samsung N Series NC108-A05IN (price-Rs 14,424)

PROCESSOR
PROCESSOR:- ATOM VARIANT N455
CHIPSET INTEL NM10
BRAND INTEL
CLOCK SPEED 1.66 GHZ
CACHE 512KB

MEMORY
MEMORY SLOTS 1 (UNUSED SLOTS 0)
SYSTEM MEMORY 1 GB DDR3

STORAGE
Hardware Interface:- SATA II
RPM 5400
HDD Capacity:- 320 GB

PLATFORM
Operating System :- Free DOS

DISPLAY
SCREEN SIZE :- 10.1 INCH
RESOLUTION :- 1024 X 600 PIXEL
SCREEN TYPE :- LED HD DISPLAY

GRAPHICS
GRAPHIC PROCESSOR:- INTEL HD GRAPHICS

INPUT
Web Camera 0.3 Megapixel

POWER
Battery Backup Upto 14hrs
Power Supply 40 W AC Adapter

SECURITY
LOCK PORT:- KENSINGTON LOCK PORT

MACHINE DIMENSIONS
WEIGHT :- 1.18 KG
DIMENSION :- 259.0 X 179.5 X 33.7 MM

If you are in India then you can get all this product delivered to your place from this site
(prices here are subject to change from time to time)
(prices as of on 1/1/2012)

Why do you need COMPUTER SECURITY?

noreply@blogger.com (Soumik) — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 09:32:00 +0000

Computer Security is the main concern we have in today's electronic world,because today all the transactions are done online so to safeguard this transactions we have to take some preventive measures,and the manner in which you take this measures decides how much secure your computer is!!! so this blog is not on steps you should take to safeguard your online world because that point you can easily get with help of our FRIEND ,so instead I will write about why is it necessary to take this steps,and what will happen if you fail to do so.

Your online world is always in danger,sometimes because of faulty servers,sometimes due over-excited friends who can't keep secrets and spread your details with others,and sometime due to an individual who we call as HACKER.your online world is your responsibility,you can't blame any other organization for anyone breaking into your account it should always be our respectability to protect our virtual world .lets take an example to understand better You buy an car lets say from X company and then after some day somebody breaks into it and take away all your valuables from it,so whom are you going to blame the manufacturer who have made the car ( in our case say X company) or the distributor who have sold you the car.? let it be in that case or in our case we cant blame anyone for this as it is our duty to protect our digital world,you can't blame facebook if your facebook account is hacked into or say that facebook is very easy to hack,because as an multinational company nobody likes to tarnish their image so they try to provide us with the best security but even then your account is hacked into then it should be some mistake you would have done by giving your password or details to anyone or keeping easy to break password or keeping same password for long time or some individual brilliance i.e hacker. It is not that it is always our mistake if you are hack into,it can also be as their servers are vulnerable to attack but it is not always the case.so for majority of case we have to protect ourself from this attacks.

Even if you consider any company related to transactions like paypal or say ebay or any bank account ,these company have the best technology in business but as they are green pasture for hackers as once they are through they can get hold of some really big amount so along with company it is our duty also to take protection and prevent your virtual world from being misused by someone.

It is always as prevention is better then cure so you have to take prevention before your account is hacked into because getting back what you have lost can be virtually impossible.

you might also think as nobody till now has hacked into your account to cause you harm and will never be able to, but you should always remember that particular NOBODY wants only one chance to get hold of your account once done you will have to pay price for it,so remember ONE SINGLE ATTACK IS NEEDED BY ANYONE TO DESTROY YOUR ONLINE WORLD ,SO avoid that single attack by taking proper preventive measures.

so along with this article I will post link from which you can help yourself to protect your online world.so you can click HERE if you want to know about prevention against such attack and secure your virtual life.

so friends this was the last topic for this year,thank you'll for reading it and HAPPY NEW YEAR to all .

STEVE JOBS AWARDED WITH GRAMMY

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 15:13:00 +0000

Apple co-founder Steve Jobs is receiving a Grammy for his technological innovations in the arts.
Jobs is among a dozen people, music groups or companies receiving honourary awards February 11, the day before the Grammys. He died of cancer in October.Grammy organisers called him a ''creative visionary'' for the innovations that include the iPod, iPhone and iPad.
“He took technology and turned it into art, becoming a key player and leader in the entertainment world, particularly music, and changing the way we all use the Internet and consume music, TV, movies, books, graphics, and more,” the Recording Academy said.
Without jobs creating i-tunes the sales for albums and singles would'nt be the same and his innovations that gave the music lovers the heavenly experience.without STEVE JOBS the music industry would not have been the same his grammy is well deserved.

But why does the grammy academy always honours a man after his death?

NEAR FIELD COMMUNICATION

noreply@blogger.com (Soumik) — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 12:59:00 +0000

All latest phones have technology called as NFC (near field communication).but what is the use for this technology??specially when we have other better technologies like Bluetooth and infrared. this technology should have some more advantage or some better application then last two technologies.
so lets start
what is nfc technology ?

Near field communication (NFC) allows for simplified transactions, data exchange, and wireless connections between two devices in proximity to each other, usually by no more than a few centimeters.

which companies were instrumental in making this technology??

Nokia has been active in this line since 2004. Along with Philips and Sony, it has founded the NFC Forum. Participation of 130 countries in this forum clearly signals that NFC is set to become a way of life in the years to come.The 140 NFC Forum members include Samsung, Nokia, Huawei, HTC, Motorola, NEC, RIM, LG, Sony Ericsson, Toshiba, AT&T, Sprint,Rogers, SK, Google, Microsoft, PayPal, Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Intel, TI, Qualcomm, and NXP.

what are the USES of NFC?

NFC can share a contact, photo, song, application, or video, or pair Bluetooth devices.
NFC can share a contact, photo, song, application, or video, or pair Bluetooth devices.
Emerging NFC standards allow users to transfer information by touching devices.
Social networking

NFC simplifies and expands social networking options:

File Sharing: Tap one NFC device to another to instantly share a contact, photo, song, application, video, or website link.
Electronic business card: Tap one NFC device to another to instantly share electronic business cards or resumes.
Electronic money: To pay a friend, you could tap the devices and enter the amount of the payment.
Mobile gaming: Tap one NFC device to another to enter a multiplayer game.
Friend-to-friend: You could touch NFC devices together to Facebook friend each other or share a resume or to "check-in" at a location.
Bluetooth and WiFi Connections

NFC can be used to initiate higher speed wireless connections for expanded content sharing.

Bluetooth: Instant Bluetooth Pairing can save searching, waiting, and entering codes. Touch the NFC devices together for instant pairing.
WiFi: Instant WiFi Configuration can configure a device to a WiFi network automatically. Tap an NFC device to an NFC enabled router.

eCommerce

NFC expands eCommerce opportunities, increases transaction speed and accuracy, while reducing staffing requirements. A Personal identification number (PIN) is usually only required for payments over $100 (in Australia) and £15 (in UK).
Mobile payment: An NFC device may make a payment like a credit card by touching a payment terminal at checkout or a vending machine when a PIN is entered.
PayPal: PayPal may start a commercial NFC service in the second half of 2011.
Google Wallet is an Android app that stores virtual versions of your credit cards for use at checkout when a PIN is used.
Ticketing: Tap an NFC device to purchase rail, metro, airline, movie, concert, or event tickets. A PIN is required.
Boarding pass: A NFC device may act as a boarding pass, reducing check-in delays and staffing requirements.
Point of Sale: Tap an SmartPoster tag to see information, listen to an audio clip, watch a video, or see a movie trailer.

Identity documents
NFC's short range helps keep encrypted identity documents private.
ID card: An NFC enabled device can also act as an encrypted student, employee, or personal ID card or medical ID card.
Keycard: An NFC enabled device may serve as car, house, and office keys.
Rental Car and hotel keys: NFC rental car or hotel room keys may allow fast VIP check-in and reduce staffing requirements.

what are the Technical specifications of NFC technology?

NFC is a set of short-range wireless technologies, typically requiring a distance of 4 cm or less. NFC operates at 13.56 MHz on ISO/IEC 18000-3 air interface and at rates ranging from 106 kbit/s to 424 kbit/s. NFC always involves an initiator and a target; the initiator actively generates an RF field that can power a passive target. This enables NFC targets to take very simple form factors such as tags, stickers, key fobs, or cards that do not require batteries. NFC peer-to-peer communication is possible, provided both devices are powered.

	NFC	BLUETOOTH	Bluetooth Low Energy
RFID compatible	ISO 18000-3	active	active
Standardisation body	ISO/IEC	Bluetooth SIG	Bluetooth SIG
Network Standard	ISO 13157 etc.	IEEE 802.15.1	IEEE 802.15.1
Network Type	Point-to-point	WPAN	WPAN
Cryptography	not with RFID	available	available
Range	< 0.2 m	~10 m (class 2)	~100 m
Frequency	13.56 MHz	2.4–2.5 GHz	2.4–2.5 GHz
Bit rate	424 kbit/s	2.1 Mbit/s	~1.0 Mbit/s
Set-up time	< 0.1 s	< 6 s	< 0.006 s
Power consumption	< 15mA (read)	varies with class	< 15 mA (transmit or receive)

SO with that lets finish topic for todays blog,which is NFC technology its uses what is it,what are it differences from bluetooth. but we can be assured that this technology won't come to India soon it will take some more time then rest of world but we can be assured that it will take its own time to be noticed in India,not because people in India are not capable of using it but due to laidback nature of Indian people, to not use all the technological resources to to its optimum.

Affordable ANDROID PHONES(below Rs10,000) * UPDATED*

noreply@blogger.com (Soumik) — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 11:13:00 +0000

Right now market is abuzz with various new smart phones being launched in market and the main phone with largest interest of world users is APPLE IPHONE 5. but money is the main factor in many of us going in for a particular phone. so the best smart phone in today's market with affordable price and many applications and softwares will be an ANDROID phone. so now in this post I will give you insight into ANDROID phones which have already launched or will launch in INDIAN market in near future, albeit with budget which anyone can afford i.e below Rs10k . so let us start our post for today on affordable ANDROID phones.
so lets start with the lowest range phone:-

1) MICROMAX ANDRO A60 :- (Rs 6,798 ONWARDS)

FEATURES:

Smartphone
Google Android 2.2
Touch Screen (Capacitive)
Motion Sensor
GPS & Maps
Voice Dialing/Voice Commands
Voice Record
Conversation View SMS
5.0 Megapixel Camera
WiFi
3G
Internet (GPRS+EDGE
Android Market
Document Viewer
Battery Life-Charge once in 1 day(s)
Screen Size-3.2 inches
PROCESSOR/RAM-600 MHz Processor

2)MICROMAX A70:-( Rs 6,798 ONWARDS)

FEATURES

Google Android 2.2
Touch Screen (Capacitive)
Motion Sensor
GPS & Maps
Voice Dialing/Voice Commands
Voice Record
5.0 Megapixel Camera
Camera Features: Auto-focus
Secondary Camera (Video Calling Support)
WiFi
3G
Internet (GPRS+EDGE)
Internet Connection Sharing (over USB/WiFi)
Android Market
Document Viewer
Document Editor
Mundu TV
BATTERY LIFE-ONCE IN 1 DAY(S)
SCREEN SIZE-3.2 INCHES
PROCESSOR/RAM MEMORY-600 MHz Processor

3)MOTOROLA CHARM :- (Rs 6,999 ONWARDS)

FEATURES:

Google Android 2.1
Touch Screen (Capacitive)
Motion Sensor
QWERTY Keypad
GPS & Maps
Compass
Noise Filtration
Voice Dialing/Voice Commands
Voice Record
Exchangeable Covers
Conversation View SMS
3.2 Megapixel Camera
Automatic Lyrics Fetching for Music
WiFi
3G
Internet (GPRS+EDGE)
BATTERY LIFE-CHARGE ONCE IN 1 DAY(S)
SCREEN SIZE-2.8 INCHES
PROCESSOR- 600 MHz Processor + 512 MB RAM

4) LG OPTIMUS ME P350:- (Rs 7259 ONWARDS)

FEATURES:-

Google Android 2.2
Touch Screen (Capacitive)
Motion Sensor
GPS & Maps
Compass
Voice Dialing/Voice Commands
Conversation View SMS
Speech Recognition
3.0 Megapixel Camera
WiFi
3G
Internet (GPRS+EDGE)
Android Market
Document Viewer
Document Editor
Music Recognition
Live Mobile TV
Layar
LG World
PicSay Pro
Movie Finder
BATTERY LIFE-CHARGE IN 1 DAY(S)
SCREEN SIZE-2.8 INCHES

5)DELL XCD35 :-(Rs7,690 ONWARDS)

FEATURES

Google Android 2.2
Touch Screen (Capacitive)
Motion Sensor
GPS & Maps
Voice Dialing/Voice Commands
Voice Record
3.2 Megapixel Camera
Camera Features: Auto-focus
WiFi
3G
Internet (GPRS+EDGE)
Internet Connection Sharing (over USB/WiFi)
Android Market
Document Viewer
Document Editor
SCREEN SIZE-3.5 INCHES
PROCESSOR/RAM MEMORY- 600 MHz Processor + 256 MB RAM

6) SAMSUNG GALAXY POP S5570

FEATURES

Google Android 2.2
Touch Screen (Capacitive)
Motion Sensor
GPS & Maps
Compass
Voice Dialing/Voice Commands
Conversation View SMS
3.0 Megapixel Camera
Camera Features: Smile Detection
WiFi
3G
Internet (GPRS+EDGE)
Internet Connection Sharing (over USB/WiFi)
Android Market
Document Viewer
Document Editor
BATTERY LIFE-THRICE IN 1 DAY(S)
SCREEN SIZE-3.14 INCHES
PROCESSOR/RAM MEMORY-600 MHz Processor

7) SAMSUNG GALAXY PRO B7510:-(Rs 8,494 ONWARDS)

FEATURES

Google Android 2.2
Touch Screen (Capacitive)
Motion Sensor
QWERTY Keypad
GPS & Maps
Compass
Voice Dialing/Voice Commands
Smart dialing
3.0 Megapixel Camera
Camera Features: Auto-focus, Smile Detection
WiFi
3G
Internet (GPRS+EDGE)
Internet Connection Sharing (over USB/WiFi)
Secure WiFi Connection (provided by CCX)
VPN support
Device management and Security solutions from Sybase Afaria
Android Market
Document Viewer
Document Editor
BATTERY LIFE-ONCE IN 1 DAY(S)
SCREEN SIZE-2.8 INCHES
PROCESSOR/RAM MEMORY-800MHz Processor

8) MOTOROLA FIRE :-(Rs 8,660 ONWARDS)

FEATURES

Google Android 2.3
Touch Screen (Capacitive)
Motion Sensor
QWERTY Keypad
GPS & Maps
Compass
Voice Dialing/Voice Commands
3.0 Megapixel Camera
WiFi
3G
Internet (GPRS+EDGE)
Internet Connection Sharing (over USB/WiFi)
Android Market
Document Viewer
BATTERY LIFE-ONCE IN 1 DAY(S)
SCREEN RESOLUTION-2.8 INCHES
PROCESSOR/RAM MEMORY-600 MHz Processor + 256 MB RAM

9)LG OPTIMUS PRO C660 :-( Rs 9,599 ONWARDS)

FEATURES

Google Android 2.3
Touch Screen (Capacitive)
Motion Sensor
QWERTY Keypad
GPS & Maps
Compass
Voice Dialing/Voice Commands
Conversation View SMS
3.2 Megapixel Camera
WiFi
3G
Internet (GPRS+EDGE)
Internet Connection Sharing (over USB/WiFi)
Android Market
Document Viewer
SCREEN SIZE-2.8 INCHES
PROCESSOR/RAM MEMORY-800 MHz Processor + 256 MB RAM

10)VIDEOCON ZEUS V7500 :-(Rs 9,994 ONWARDS)

FEATURES

Google Android 2.1
Touch Screen (Capacitive)
Motion Sensor
GPS & Maps
Compass
Conversation View SMS
Extra Battery
Car Charger
Carry Case
5.0 Megapixel Camera
Camera Features: Flash
WiFi
3G
Internet (GPRS+EDGE)
Android Market
Document Viewer
BATTERY LIFE- ONCE IN 1 DAY(S)
SCREEN SIZE-3.2 INCHES

11) SONY ERICSSON XPERIA X10 :-( Rs 9,499)

FEATURES

Google Android 1.6 [Upgradeable to 2.1]
Touch Screen (Capacitive)
Motion Sensor
GPS & Maps
Compass
Voice Record
Exchangeable Covers
5.0 Megapixel Camera
Camera Features: Auto Focus, Flash, Video Light,
WiFi
3G
Internet (GPRS/EDGE)
Android Market
Document Viewer
E-Mail
Instant Messaging
Music Recognition
SCREEN SIZE - 2.8 INCHES
PROCESSOR/RAM - 600 MHz
STORAGE MEMORY -128 MB + External Memory Slot (Free 2 GB Card)

12) SAMSUNG GALAXY Y :-( Rs 7,290)

FEATURES

GOOGLE ANDROID 2.3
TOUCH SCREEN (CAPACITIVE)
SNS integration
MP4/WMV/H.264 player
MP3/WAV/eAAC+ player
Organizer
Image/video editor
Google Search, Maps, Gmail,
YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk, Picasa integration
Quickoffice document viewer/editor
Voice memo
Predictive text input (Swype)
2MP CAMERA
CAMERA FEATURES : AUTOFOCUS
832 MHz processor
3G -HSDPA, 7.2 Mbps

Friends this prices are subject to change with respect to time. if you want detailed review for any of this phone then click here.

Cheapest TABLET "AKASH" !

noreply@blogger.com (Soumik) — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 17:05:00 +0000

Today's topic is on CHEAPEST TABLET having made of india tag,we all feel very proud to know that the cheapest tablet in this world is having MADE IN INDIA tag and for a change it is not having MADE IN CHINA tag. so once again India has produced engineering marvel to the world,but I can tell you that there can be many such marvels only if our Government strives for it. so surprisingly this tablet is made with the help of Government but if they can achieve this feat then if they work more in this field then for sure it would prove helpful to our nation. so moving on to our topic I would like to say that this seems to be the tablet which being cheaper is having many features which would surprise many I think.

so moving on lets name features it contains:-

While it was once projected as a laptop computer, it is actually a tablet computing device. At the inauguration of the national Mission on Education Programme organized by the Union HRD Ministry in 2009, joint secretary N. K. Sinha had said that the computing device is 10 inches (which is around 25.5cm) long and 5 inches (12.5cm) wide and priced at around $30. However, he refused to comment as to why was it being projected as a laptop when it was not.India's Human Resource Development Minister, Kapil Sibal unveiled a prototype on July 22, 2010. The price of the device exhibited was projected to be around $35 per piece, gradually dropping down to $20 and ultimately to $10 each.

Aakash
Prototype of Aakash
Developer	DataWind, Canada and DataWind, India
Manufacturer	DataWind, UK
Type	Tablet
Release date	2011
Introductory price	1,300 (US$28.99) ;2,250 (US$50.18)per unit cost to government ;retail price = 2,999 (US$66.88)
Operating system	Android 2.2
Power	2-3 hours. Internal rechargeable non-removable lithium-polymer battery
CPU	366 MHz processor ;on chip Graphics accelerator and HD Video processor
Storage capacity	2GB (Internal)Flash memory, expandable upto 32 GBmicroSD
Memory	256 MB LP-DDR2/DDR2
Display	7-inch ; 800x480 resolution
Input	Multi-touch resistive touchscreen display,headset controls
Connectivity	Wi-Fi connectivity ;GPRS
Online services	1 year warranty
Weight	350 gm

Hardware

7-inch 800x480 resistive touchscreen
Rugged casing with a rubberized feel
Wi-Fi enabled (802.11 a/b/g WiFi)
Mini and full USB
miniSD card slot
Subscriber Identity Module (SIM card) slot
Video out
Headphone jack
256MB of RAM
2 GB of storage memory. 32 GB Expandable microSD memory card.
2 Watts of power consumption with solar charging option
366 MHz + HD video co-processor
Audio out: 3.5mm jack / Audio in: 3.5mm jack
Display and Resolution: 7” display with 800x480 pixel resolution

Software

Android 2.2 operating system

Document Rendering

Supported Document formats: DOC, DOCX, PPT, PPTX, XLS, XLSX, ODT, ODP

Educational software developed at Indian Institute of Technology

Web browsing, video conferencing and word processing software

PDF viewer, Text editor

Multimedia and Image Display

Image viewer supported formats: PNG, JPG, BMP and GIF

Supported audio formats: MP3, AAC, AC3, WAV, WMA

Supported video formats: MPEG2, MPEG4, AVI, FLV

Communication and Internet

Web browser - Standards Compliance: xHTML 1.1 compliant, JavaScript 1.8 compliant

Separate application for online YouTube video

Safety and other standards compliance

CE certification / RoHS certification

150000+ applications

Accessories:

Car charger
External antenna
Keyboard case
Convert it into a laptop

The Aakash Ubislate tablet has not yet reached the market, however you can book one by entering your details over here (aakashtablet.com). You can also call toll free number 1800-180-2180 for more details.

What is SUBNET ?

noreply@blogger.com (Soumik) — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 13:39:00 +0000

Believe me friends finding topics for writing blogs is very very difficult so now I have started writing blog on topics which I had gone through before and had feel that topic difficult. many people feel that writing blog is very easy you have to just copy paste materials from here and there but believe me it is very difficult to get the idea of topic in first place .and you are reading this topic on this blog because the information is there , you were not going to search on internet for topics like subnet,proxy server,cloud computing so I write this topics so that any doubt which you would be having in future is cleared now itself. so this is the new topic which i will share with you'll.
so friends lets start with our topic for today "WHAT IS SUBNET???"
so now what is SUBNET ?
A subnetwork, or subnet, is a logically visible subdivision of an IP network. The practice of dividing a network into subnetworks is called subnetting. All computers that belong to a subnet are addressed with a common, identical, most-significant bit-group in their IP address. This results in the logical division of an IP address into two fields, a network or routing prefix and the rest field. The rest field is a specific identifier for the computer or the network interface.

create a subnet by dividing the host identifier.

The routing prefix is expressed in CIDR notation(CIDR notation is a compact specification of an Internet Protocol address and its associated routing prefix) It is written as the first address of a network followed by the bit-length of the prefix, separated by a slash (/) character.For example, 192.168.1.0/24 is the prefix of the Internet Protocol Version 4 network starting at the given address, having 24 bits allocated for the network prefix, and the remaining 8 bits reserved for host addressing. The IPv6 address specification 2001:db8::/32 is a large network for 296 hosts, having a 32-bit routing prefix. In IPv4 the routing prefix is also specified in the form of the subnet mask, which is expressed in quad-dotted decimal representation(Dot-decimal notation is a presentation format for numerical data) like an address. For example, 255.255.255.0 is the network mask for the 192.168.1.0/24 prefix.Traffic between subnetworks is interchanged with special gateway computers called routers; they constitute logical or physical borders between the subnets.

if you want more information on this topic you can click here to know more on subnet

WhAT IS PROXY SERVER ?

noreply@blogger.com (Soumik) — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 08:58:00 +0000

Friends we always face this term in our normal life,for example if we cannot connect to any website then it notifies as "NOT CONNECTED TO PROXY SERVER",so what is this term proxy server?? some might even get this term in your syllabus, so it might be better to get some basic knowledge about this term.
So WHAT IS PROXY SERVER?
A proxy server is a computer that offers a computer network service to allow clients to make indirect network connections to other network services. A client connects to the proxy server, then requests a connection, file, or other resource available on a different server. The proxy provides the resource either by connecting to the specified server or by serving it from a cache. In some cases, the proxy may alter the client's request or the server's response for various purposes.For example, it may filter traffic by IP address or protocol. If the request is validated by the filter, the proxy provides the resource by connecting to the relevant server and requesting the service on behalf of the client. A proxy server may optionally alter the client's request or the server's response, and sometimes it may serve the request without contacting the specified server. In this case, it 'caches' responses from the remote server, and returns subsequent requests for the same content directly.

schematic representation of a proxy server, where the computer in the middle acts as the proxy server between the other two.

A proxy server has a large variety of potential purposes, including:

To keep machines behind it anonymous (mainly for security)
To speed up access to resources (using caching). Web proxies are commonly used to cache web pages from a web server.
To apply access policy to network services or content, e.g. to block undesired sites.
To log / audit usage, i.e. to provide company employee Internet usage reporting.
To bypass security / parental controls.
To scan transmitted content for malware before delivery.
To scan outbound content, e.g., for data leak protection.
To circumvent regional restrictions.
To allow a web site to make web requests to externally hosted resources (e.g. images, music files, etc.) when cross-domain restrictions prohibit the web site from linking directly to the outside domains.

You may see references to four different types of proxy servers:

Transparent Proxy
This type of proxy server identifies itself as a proxy server and also makes the original IP address available through the http headers. These are generally used for their ability to cache websites and do not effectively provide any anonymity to those who use them. However, the use of a transparent proxy will get you around simple IP bans. They are transparent in the terms that your IP address is exposed, not transparent in the terms that you do not know that you are using it (your system is not specifically configured to use it.)

Anonymous Proxy
This type of proxy server identifies itself as a proxy server, but does not make the original IP address available. This type of proxy server is detectable, but provides reasonable anonymity for most users.

Distorting Proxy
This type of proxy server identifies itself as a proxy server, but make an incorrect original IP address available through the http headers.

High Anonymity Proxy
This type of proxy server does not identify itself as a proxy server and does not make available the original IP address.

some of the uses of proxy servers are:-

1)FILTERING:-
A content-filtering web proxy server provides administrative control over the content that may be relayed through the proxy. It is commonly used in both commercial and non-commercial organizations (especially schools) to ensure that Internet usage conforms to acceptable use policy.

2)CACHING:-
A caching proxy server accelerates service requests by retrieving content saved from a previous request made by the same client or even other clients. Caching proxies keep local copies of frequently requested resources, allowing large organizations to significantly reduce their upstream bandwidth usage and costs, while significantly increasing performance. Most ISPs and large businesses have a caching proxy. Caching proxies were the first kind of proxy server.

3) Bypassing filters and censorship
If the destination server filters content based on the origin of the request, the use of a proxy can remove this filter. For example, a server using IP-based geolocation to restrict its service to a certain country can be accessed using a proxy located in that country to access the service.Likewise, a badly configured proxy can provide access to a network otherwise isolated from the Internet.

4)Access control:-
Some proxy servers implement a log on requirement. In large organizations, authorized users must log on to gain access to the web. The organization can thereby track usage to individuals.I hope this post would have helped you to some extent,as topic was on technology reference was taken from wikipedia, thank you friends for your feedback on previous topics,and hope you give feedback on this topic as well.

A day for an EXTERNAL VIVA

noreply@blogger.com (Soumik) — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 08:42:00 +0000

when we were small our english teacher would always give us essay to write on subjects like "An hour at an Examination centre or at bus stop or at hospital but if you want to write it on External viva then you should make it "A day for an external viva" because it never finishes before say 4:30-5:00 pm and mine number being behind it always take one whole day for an external viva for me because once you come home at 6:00pm you are in no mood for studying anything, believe me if you have your viva's one after other then it is better to study from before as after giving one viva you will be in no mood to study. find any engineering student and ask him about the toughest part of engineering life would be three thing :-

1)practical exams

2)writing papers(or the main semester exams)

3) and the main thing EXTERNAL VIVAS

practical exams are the one we students try to pass anyhow or you could say "kuch jhol ho hi jaata hai " for practical exams(its better not to reveal how we do this jhol).

next is writing paper in which you know that the things you have studied or there in the portion will be asked so you are relieved that atleast you might know something to pass that subject.

but in vivas you know there is no point in studying because the question which will be asked will be something you would have never heard or will never hear again till you are in job and know that particular language better then you used to learn during college days( you can use this point if your parents ask you why aren't you studying for your vivas), but seriously speaking we don't really care about vivas till it is last minute so when the day come, we will think that this portion cannot be done in so many months and this professors think we will finish it in one week but reality is we got enough time but we had chosen to do it later .but when we felt that it is next to impossible to finish the portion in one day we leave whole subject untouched and think that tomorrow after going to college we will see what external asks others and will learn that particular part only.

And then finally the day arrives and you go to college well dressed up and reach early that particular day to see what does that external professor asks , but to our disappointment always that particular professor will comes late and you wonder that why I came so early. but when he arrives students get into intense pressure almost immediately panic as if war has been called or as if sachin is batting on 99 and the first question from some students will be "kaisa hai External?strict lag raha hai?" but how will one answer without going in for the vivas. after first batch goes in all the student wait outside that room and the scene will more or less similar to the operation theatre where all people are waiting outside to hear some good news from inside in this case the good news might be the questions asked by external viva. and same process is followed for next three batches then after getting questions from all this batch we start preparing for vivas as if external knows only that much question and he cant ask anything else. but taking into account the time factor this much questions cant be done properly.

if external is asking easy question then definitely he is getting blessing from all students but if he comes out to be someone strict then it would be something inverse ,students will curse him for that particular day and forget him after some days.

but external vivas are there for our benefit to make us more confident in front of others and more importantly to make us study but we will be we no one can make us study not even External,this will be mindset of many students including me but reality is if we had studied earlier then during study leave that part would be done perfectly and would help us in exams but........we will never realize something which is for our betterment.

BOMBay-NATIONAL CAPITAL FOR TERRORIST ATTACKS

noreply@blogger.com (Soumik) — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 05:49:00 +0000

Now going into into next topic for this blog I am thankful to all of you for reading my blog.when I was sitting to write my next topic I heard the most shocking news that Mumbai has been attacked yet again. you can call it cowardice act of terrorist or failure of our police intelligence,but at last you have to make do with the fact that whatever be the reason we can't prevent the terrorist from attacking the business capital yet again.we might tell that Mumbai is resilient city which gets on its feet even after suffering from the worst attack,but the fact is that you are made to work even in that condition because nobody can afford to miss one day from work and get fired from it and add to it the daily increasing prices of living in this city,if you you accept defeat from this situation then it will make your life worst.so you consider any city in any part of world that city has to recover from the shock in real time time.but that is completely different topic.
so coming again on our topic what has made terrorist organisation time and again attack Mumbai,might be because of the exposure,or the impact that particular attack has made on world. but Mumbai being the business capital of the nation, Mumbai is the commercial and entertainment capital of India, generating 5% of India's GDP,and accounting for 25% of industrial output, 70% of maritime trade in India (Mumbai Port Trust& JNPT),and 70% of capital transactions to India's economy. Mumbai is home to important financial institutions such as the Reserve Bank of India, the Bombay Stock Exchange, the National Stock Exchange of India and the corporate headquarters of numerousIndian companies and multinational corporations. It houses some of India's premier scientific and nuclear institutes like BARC, NPCL, IREL, TIFR, AERB, AECI, and the Department of Atomic Energy. The city also houses India's Hindi (Bollywood) and Marathi film and television industry(more info if needed on mumbai can be searched on google).city so much important to the nation's development is made target so easily,what do city ministers feel when they say that this type of attack are very hard to detect,so what the hell are you doing with our money ,we are not paying this money in the form of taxes to hear your after attack condolences and for your visit in hospitals after the attack.
Being a mumbaikar and to be taxpayer in near future I want to have the level of security high and give us the same amount of security which is visible to us when any minister visits our city.we are paying so much money in taxes not just for you to roam in your cars and give salaries to your ministers,we want you to make the police force ready for any form of attack and if possible make them in par with our beloved INDIAN ARMY.Mumbai being the only city in this country which helps in increasing national income and what are we getting in return attacks in the form of bomb blast and fidayeen style of attacks.And common answer given by Government for this attacks is POPULATION but if this population is used in rightful way it can help the nation hugely and that reason cannot be right because no common man like you and me is capable enough to carry out such attacks (and of course we cant do such cowardice thing) so this persons might be some specialist in doing all this so the security forces have only track such people having such network,such capability to destroy the harmony of our city.so if they can't keep tab on them then you can't prevent this attacks.

There is no need to catch any terrorist alive because our system has so many loop holes that any terrorist will never be punished.let it be Afzal guru or Ajmal kasab all at present are our national guest with the amount of security they have cannot be imagined by any mumbaikar .we as an Indian and as an Mumbaikar will only ask that"If you can't hang them then its Ok but the level of security given to them must also be given to us being taxpayer ofcourse".the money you are using to protect these terrorists are our money and we don't want our hard earned money to be used in protecting the person who has killed our countrymen and our faith on Government.

whenever you buy any particular weapon for our security forces then it is commonsense that it has to be passed through various tests but with the quality of this weapons that are given to the force we can easily make out that this weapon wont last longer.so corruption should be removed when such important thing is being talked about. According to the article in HINDUSTAN TIMES Mumbai is coming in par with Pakistan and Afghanistan in number of people dying in terrorist attacks.so if this attacks are not stopped now then we can be assured that we will soon top that list.
so now after removing some of the rant in this article I will like to end this article and by god's grace if this ministers have some brain and use it in right place we will be assured to die a natural death irrespective of the cause.SO AGAIN FRIENDS YOUR FEEDBACK/COMMENT NEEDED TO IMPROVE MY BLOGS.

CLOUD COMPUTING

noreply@blogger.com (Soumik) — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 08:26:00 +0000

Now into fourth topic I now want to concentrate more on topics which while giving seminars or presentation we try mugging up some part of the article so that we can say our part of article comfortably in front of our judges but in actual when we try to recall what we had learned for our presentation and apply it in our real life we just can't recall even the basic concept in it at that particular time but we had given proper presentation to our judges by seeing the slides in the powerpoint file sometimes or by recalling the things we had mugged up previously for our presentations,but with my own personal experience i can guarantee it to you that the topics you had mugged up previously will be of no use to you in future or at times when you have that topic in your syllabus in future you would simply feel like learning it for first time.
so after this experience I felt the need to write about the technologies which are commonly given to students for presentation purpose and i want you to learn this thing in our own way and not in the way wikipedia has information in it i.e. it might be having lot of data but the language used are highly technical and always takes more time in understanding the topic properly . so that it might be useful to someone in future.
so today our topic is " CLOUD COMPUTING " -Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction.
Traditionally, without a cloud, a web server runs as a single computer or a group of privately owned computers. The computer(s) are powerful enough to serve a given amount of requests per minute and can do so with a certain amount of latency per request. If the computer's website or web application suddenly becomes more popular, and the amount of requests are far more than the web server can handle, the response time of the requested pages will be increased due to overloading. On the other hand, in times of low load much of the capacity will go unused. but now with the help of cloud computing the given website is stored on the cloud with thousands of other website in the cloud so whenever demand or popularity for particular website increases the cloud can automatically direct more individual computers to work to serve pages for the site, and more money is paid for the extra usage. and if the demand is decreased the amount of money due will be less. Cloud computing is popular for its pay-as-you-go pricing model.Clouds are sometimes set up within large corporations, or other institutions, so that many users all share the same server power.
As computer power gets cheaper, many different applications are provided and managed by the cloud server. In many cases, users might not download and install applications on their own device or computer; all processing and storage is maintained by the cloud server. The phrase "software as a service" (SaaS) is sometimes used to describe application programs offered through cloud computing. A common shorthand for a provided cloud computing service (or even an aggregation of all existing cloud services) is "The Cloud".
Any computer or web-friendly device connected to the Internet may access the same pool of computing power, applications, and files in a cloud-computing environment. Users may remotely store and access personal files such as music, pictures, videos, and bookmarks; play games; or do word processing on a remote server. Data is centrally stored, so the user does not need to carry a storage medium such as a DVD or thumb drive. Desktop applications that connect to internet-host email providers may be considered cloud applications, including web-based Gmail, Hotmail, or Yahoo! email services.

Essential Characteristics:

On-demand self-service -- A consumer can unilaterally provision computing capabilities, such as server time and network storage, as needed automatically without requiring human interaction with each service’s provider.

Broad network access -- Capabilities are available over the network and accessed through standard mechanisms that promote use by heterogeneous thin or thick client platforms (e.g., mobile phones, laptops, and PDAs).

Resource pooling -- The provider’s computing resources are pooled to serve multiple consumers using a multi-tenant model, with different physical and virtual resources dynamically assigned and reassigned according to consumer demand. There is a sense of location independence in that the customer generally has no control or knowledge over the exact location of the provided resources but may be able to specify location at a higher level of abstraction (e.g., country, state, or datacenter). Examples of resources include storage, processing, memory, network bandwidth, and virtual machines.

Rapid elasticity -- Capabilities can be rapidly and elastically provisioned, in some cases automatically, to quickly scale out and rapidly released to quickly scale in. To the consumer, the capabilities available for provisioning often appear to be unlimited and can be purchased in any quantity at any time.

Measured Service -- Cloud systems automatically control and optimize resource use by leveraging a metering capability at some level of abstraction appropriate to the type of service (e.g., storage, processing, bandwidth, and active user accounts). Resource usage can be monitored, controlled, and reported providing transparency for both the provider and consumer of the utilized service.

some people may describe cloud computing in any ways given below:-

Some say it's because the computer functionality happens out there "in the clouds."

most technology diagrams depict the Internet or IP availability by using a drawing of a cloud

Not only is cloud computing a speedier way of getting IT together, it's more cost-efficient, too. As the W. P. Carey School's Demirkan says, similar to electricity, computing power is also "perishable and intangible." According to him, "If you buy a server and it's been running all day but you didn't use it, you can't store a computer system's capacity and use it later." It's a waste, but that is what happens when companies purchase their own IT infrastructure and don't operate it 24/7 with 100 percent utilization. "With cloud computing, companies don't have those set-up costs, and they don't have idle hours" wasting their IT resources.
In addition to infrastructure resources (i.e. hardware, software, power, space), those resources include the people who manage the systems, as well as the IT security. "With cloud computing, a company's IT operation costs will go down significantly," Demirkan notes.
now going to its working,A cloud user needs a client device such as a laptop or desktop computer, pad computer, smart phone, or other computing resource with a web browser (or other approved access route) to access a cloud system via the World Wide Web. Typically the user will log into the cloud at a service provider or private company, such as their employer. Cloud computing works on a client-server basis, using web browser protocols. The cloud provides server-based applications and all data services to the user, with output displayed on the client device. If the user wishes to create a document using a word processor, for example, the cloud provides a suitable application running on the server which displays work done by the user on the client web browser display. Memory allocated to the client system's web browser is used to make the application data appear on the client system display, but all computations and changes are recorded by the server, and final results including files created or altered are permanently stored on the cloud servers. Performance of the cloud application is dependent upon the network access, speed and reliability as well as the processing speed of the client device.
Cloud architecture,the systems architecture of the software systems involved in the delivery of cloud computing, typically involves multiple cloud components communicating with each other. The two most significant components of cloud computing architecture are known as the front end and the back end. The front end is the part seen by the client, i.e., the computer user. This includes the client’s network (or computer) and the applications used to access the cloud via a user interface such as a web browser. The back end of the cloud computing architecture is the cloud itself, comprising various computers, servers and data storage devices.

now without increasing the size of the blog i will give you name of the layers used in cloud computing:-

1)Provider

2)Client

3)Application

4)Platform

5)Infrastructure

6)Server

I hope this post would have helped you to some extent,as topic was on technology reference was taken from wikipedia, thank you friends for your feedback on previous topics,and hope you give feedback on this topic as well.

Mobile Operating systems

noreply@blogger.com (Soumik) — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 15:12:00 +0000

Now into third post for my blog I want to thank all people for reading my previous blog post.And again feedback/comment is expected from all reading it.
Now this topic covers the most important and popular thing among us youth,which is MOBILE PHONE.now again each person has different budget to buy new phone and more importantly different choice,different taste for buying new phone.we always make the choice by the outer display of our phone but we never see the inner thing which goes into its making it,i.e. OPERATING SYSTEM of that particular mobile phone.so through this post i will try my best to get this topic covered as much as I can,and references are also taken from different sites so as to give you exact information and knowledge about the topic.first of all different and popular mobile phones and their operating system are as follows:-

APPLE IPHONE-IOS.

BLACKBERRY phones-blackberry OS.

NOKIA phones-SYMBIAN OS.

SAMSUNG phones-BADA OS,ANDROID OS.
Now let us categories this phones according to their popularity ,usage of operating system

APPLE IOS-
One of the most advanced phone and phone which is first on any youth or any techno savvy person's mind will be this phone.this phone can be termed as rich man's phone,because as per indian market the starting price for APPLE iphone is around Rs.30000,and is one of the most advanced device consisting of one of the advanced operating system i.e. IOS.Apple Iphone is the device made by Apple.inc.At the MacWorld conference & Expo in January 2007, Steve Jobs revealed the long anticipated iPhone, a convergence of an Internet-enabled smartphone and iPod.

Apple does not license iOS for installation on third-party hardware. As of May 31, 2011, Apple's App Store contains more than 500,000 iOS applications, which have collectively been downloaded more than 15 billion times. In the last quarter of 2010, it had a 26% share of the smartphone operating system market in terms of units sold, behind Google's Android and Nokia's Symbian. As of May 2010, it accounted for 59% of mobile web consumption—not including the iPad—in North America.

BLACKBERRY OS-
Blackberry is the most desirable thing for the most of the youth just for its feature of supporting various social network's application.Blackberry is best known and most used for its messenger i.e. blackberry messenger. BlackBerry is a line of mobile e-mail and smartphone devices developed and designed by Canadian company Research In Motion (RIM) since 1999.They are primarily known for their ability to send and receive (push) Internet e-mail wherever mobile network service coverage is present, or through Wi-Fi connectivity. They support a large array of instant messaging features, including BlackBerry Messenger.

original blackberry

Blackberry bold first generation

BlackBerry commands a 14.8% share of worldwide smartphone sales, making it the fifth most popular device manufacturer after Nokia, Samsung, LG, and Apple.The consumer BlackBerry Internet Service is available in 91 countries worldwide on over 500 mobile service operators using various mobile technologies.
The BlackBerry platform is perhaps best known for its native support for corporate email, through MIDP 1.0 and, more recently, a subset of MIDP 2.0, which allows complete wireless activation and synchronization with Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Domino, or Novell Group Wise email, calendar, tasks, notes, and contacts, when used with BlackBerry Enterprise Server. The operating system also supports WAP 1.2

SYMBIAN OPERATING SYSTEM-
Symbain operating system is the operating system which has got the strong support of mobile phone giant Nokia.even when nokia got chance to adopt new operating system i.e android they choose to stay with their old operating system.now more market is being taken away by different operating system giants comprising of Android,blackberry and Iphone.
Symbian is a mobile operating system (OS) and computing platform designed for smart phones and currently maintained by Nokia. The Symbian platform is the successor to Symbian OS and Nokia Series 60; unlike Symbian OS, which needed an additional user interface system, Symbian includes a user interface component based on S60 5th Edition. The latest version, Symbian^3, was officially released in Q4 2010, first used in the Nokia N8.Symbian OS was originally developed by Symbian
From 2010, Symbian switched to using standard C++ with Qt as the Software Development Kit, which can be used with either Qt Creator or Carbide. Qt supports the older Symbian S60 3rd and 5th editions, as well as the new Symbian platform. It also supports Maemo and MeeGo, Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.(note:As of 2010, the SDK for Symbian is standard C++, using Qt. It can be used with either Qt Creator, or Carbide (the older IDE previously used for Symbian development)).

nokia phone consisting symbian operating system which of series 60v5

Bada Operating system-

Bada (pronounced /ˈbɑːdɑː/ and styled as bada) is a mobile operating system being developed by Samsung Electronics for use on mobile phones, ranging from low-end feature phones to high-end smartphones. Samsung announced the Bada platform on 10 November 2009. The name 'Bada' is derived from the Korean word for 'ocean' or 'sea'.
After the announcement, the Wave S8500 was first shown at Mobile World Congress 2010 in Barcelona in February 2010. At that time, applications running on the first Bada phone were demonstrated, including Gameloft's Asphalt 5.After the launch, companies such as Twitter, EA, Capcom, Gameloft and Blockbuster showed their support for the Bada platform.
In May 2010, Samsung released a beta of their Bada software development kit (SDK) to attract developers. Samsung also began the Bada Developer Challenge with a total prize of $2,700,000 (USD). In August 2010, Samsung released version 1.0 of the SDK.
The first Bada-based phone was the Samsung Wave S8500, released on June 1, 2010,which sold one million handsets in its first 4 weeks on the market.

Samsung Wave S8500 powered by Samsung Bada OS

In July 2010, Samsung Apps had 300 applications to offer, 70% of them being free. Samsung expected to have 7000 applications in its application store by the end of 2010. It did not achieve this aim and has around 3000 applications at the end of the first quarter of 2011.

Android Operating system- Android is a most famous operating system for various applications it can support.Android is a software stack for mobile devices that includes an operating system,middleware and key applications.Google Inc purchased the initial developer of the software, Android Inc., in 2005.Android's mobile operating system is based on the Linux kernel.The Android operating system is currently the world's best-selling Smartphone platform.Android has a large community of developers writing applications ("apps") that extend the functionality of the devices. There are currently over 200,000 apps available for Android.
Android Market is the online app store run by Google, though apps can also be downloaded from third-party sites. Developers write primarily in the Java language, controlling the device via Google-developed Java libraries. Google released most of the Android code under the Apache License, a free software and open source license.Android, Inc. was founded in Palo Alto, California, United States in October, 2003 by Andy Rubin, Rich Miner, in Rubin's words android is "...smarter mobile devices that are more aware of its owner's location and preferences."
Various versions of ANDROID operating system are:-

Android has seen a number of updates since its original release. These updates to the base operating system typically fix bugs and add new features. Generally, each new version of the Android operating system is developed under a code name based on a dessert item. Past updates included Cupcake and Donut. The code names are in alphabetical order (Cupcake, Donut, Eclair, Froyo, Gingerbread, Honeycomb, and the upcoming Ice Cream Sandwich).
The most recently released versions of Android are:
2.0/2.1 (Eclair), which revamped the user interface and introduced HTML5, W3C Geolocation API and Exchange Active Sync 2.5 support
2.2 (Froyo), which introduced speed improvements with JIT optimization and the Chrome V8 JavaScript engine, and added Wi-Fi hot spot tethering and Adobe Flash support
2.3 (Gingerbread), which refined the user interface, improved the soft keyboard and copy/paste features, and added support for Near Field Communication
3.0/3.1 (Honeycomb), a tablet-oriented release which supports larger screen devices and introduces many new user interface features, and supports multicore processors and hardware acceleration for graphics. The Honeycomb SDK has been released and the first device featuring this version, the Motorola Xoom tablet, went on sale in February 2011. The 3.1 update was announced at the 2011Google I/O on 10 May 2011.
3.2 (Honeycomb), which is similar to 3.1 but optimized for 7-inch tablets. On 20 June 2011, Huawei Technologies unveiled the MediaPad, which is the World’s First 7-inch Android 3.2 Honeycomb Dual-Core Tablet (running on a 1.2GHz Qualcomm Chipset).
The upcoming version of Android is:

4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich), a combination of Gingerbread and Honeycomb into a "cohesive whole."It was announced on May 10, 2011 at Google I/O that it will be released in Q4 2011.
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And friends lot of reference has been taken from www.wikipedia.org so as to provide you'll with right and exact information about the subject.

Why isn't there any Indian Mark Zuckerberg?

noreply@blogger.com (Soumik) — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 13:16:00 +0000

Now starting with our second article, I always use to imagine that how come someone of the age of 19 creates a website that is of great demand and is very well known. but always one question comes to my mind while thinking of such a great stalwart that even if India has such sharp minds, vast knowledge, great institutes (obviously should be only IITS), and last but not the least vast population we can't produce even one site which is even half in its popularity from Facebook, but 1 thing which can be held responsible in this issue can be our EDUCATION SYSTEM
Where till the age of 16 your knowledge of understanding things is not even considered, to get noticed you have to increase the capacity of mugging things up. till then you just have to wait till your exams and prepare yourself for mugging more and more of syllabus and if you survive this then you can achieve milestone in your result but that is of importance till you achieve your admissions in junior college then after that till the age of 23years you finish your college education and achieving your degrees, which is again very much important to get you a job in good company.
But the main thing in education system of any developed country revolves around practical knowledge given to students. But in India you can compare it to null. Nor can any student help in exploring any other ideas along with studies because of the vast syllabus he has to deal with.

Due to this the average youth of our country graduates around age of 23 years, and after that experimenting is the last thing on anyone's mind as they have to get settle in their respective job so as to get married according to their parent's wish where his age would be around 25-26 years. And after marriage every individual wants is only one thing that is steady flow of income to support his family. So many powerful brains which use to top in their respective school and colleges get is the only job of various post and dreams of owning such big sites or company might just get dimmer and dimmer for them.

While on the other hand MARK ZUCKERBERG started making his own projects from the age of 19, and he even left his education for making his dream come true and giving time to his dream. If any average Indian guy tries to do the same thing then it can tend to make him most vulnerable in the so-called civilized society. He is termed as FAILURE for rest of his life. So leaving college between his educations is a big No-No from them and even their families.
so we have to wait till our society becomes less civilized, which can be impossible. so next best thing can be done is government to make our education bear some fruit for all, for our country, for our parents and then lastly for our self.
So with this i have written second post for my blog,so friends please help me in improving myself by your beloved comments/feedback.