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Saturday, January 23, 2016

Trick to save instagram pics

Instagram offers some of the easiest tools to edit pictures. So far it was like, the edited photos will be available in the phone internal memory (atleast in android platform) and we can access them easily. BUT, recently they scrapped this method and left us like, the edited pics can ONLY be posted onto your Instagram account.
duh.. a little hiccup to access those beautiful pics outside the Instagram world !!

>> Now comes the necessity, followed by this tricky stuff >> and Quora never fails to answer such:

Saturday, January 2, 2016

Websites you should know

thanks quora!!

Frog lessons..

Do you know what happens when you put a frog into a vessel filled with water and start heating the water?
As the temperature of the water begins to rise, the frog adjust its body temperature accordingly.
The frog keeps adjusting its body temperature with the increasing temperature of the water. Just when the water is about to reach boiling point, the frog cannot adjust anymore. At this point the frog decides to jump out.

Saturday, October 12, 2013

Say no, to Tit-for-Tat

Say no, to Tit-for-Tat


..there were two guys, Ashwin & Anand. Sincere and energetic they were, such that few co-workers built-up a big greed on them, went ahead to report false stuffs about them to the higher officials - and that's been habitual. Eventually, Anand started being sluggish in his work; yet inspite of all such nonrecognitions, Ashwin remained taut and maintained his pace in the work.


Anand reasoned the greedy co-workers & the misled officials, rather Ashwin simply reasoned that to be loyal to the heavenly master than the worldly masters - both seems to have VALID reason, but checkout who wins--

The answer is on 'Matthew 5:39-48' - and that's what been expected to do - Ashwin wins!
 

The story of Anand & Ashwin ends here, yeah with no climax of their such lifestyle.
No matter, these verses from Matthew, IMO, is the better climax.

..Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you..
Its tough, very tough, to show the second cheek to our haters. But if that's been expected by our creator, we can dare to do it. For there's a thumb rule >> being truthful won't keep rewarding every time, but just in times when you actually need a reward.

Wireless Charging

Wireless Charging


This is a new tech, I came across in few Lumia phones and iPhone5.

Wireless charging - as the name says, its rightly wireless...

The phone needs to be placed in a dock (Apple products basically) or on a charging pad (for Lumias and Samsungs).

The principle here is 'induction charging' - wherein two induction coils (say A & B), current is passed through one coil, and by an emf creation there would be a current flow in the other coil.


Likewise, here the phone would have an A coil, joined with the battery terminals. The pad/dock have the B coil. Now place your phone in the pad/dock - switch on the pad/dock - there's A & B coil creating induction that charges the battery.
 

Though wireless, you would still require the pad/dock to be wired.
In terms of efficiency, this wireless charging looses to its typical wired counterpart - there is more charging time.
Using the phone while charging is impossible in this new tech, since the gap between phone and pad/dock matters. May be, users would need to evolve by using it from the pad/dock straightaway, similar to the way people started texting even on a walk ;)
 

Wireless charging had been a vogue in most of the premium smartphones since September 2012. Yet, right from the 90's this concept was used in electric-toothbrush, automobile battery charging, laptops...
Unlike the standardized wired charging tech (micro USB), wireless charging isn't standardized - and that's eventually a temporary setback.
There are 3 competitive standards here, each having their own design perspective on the induction principle, with pros & cons.

  1. Qi standard (pronounced as 'chee' - of Wireless Power Consortium, WPA)
  2. PMA (Power Matters Alliance, of Procter & Gamble)
  3. A4WC (Alliance for Wireless Charging)
Though Qi standard is been widely used with leading number of members and products, A4WC has the leading chipset vendor Qualcomm. Samsung signed up with all these 3 standards. So as of October 2013, confusion and competition persists in the standardization of Wireless Charging.
 

Technically about these standards - they all revolve upon the maneuvering of emf creation, magnetic induction, types of coil, range of emf, efficiency of charging, space between device & pad/dock etc.,
To be brief, 

the Qi standard is high in efficiency but low in range and A4WC is vice-verse. Simply, the Qi standard charges your phone quickly; but it requires the space between your phone and pad/dock to be in centimeters, rather what the A4WC requires in inches. 
I'm not sure about WMA's such impact.
 

Ironically, induction-charging could be an apt name here. Still its wire-free; a main breakthrough to reduce the phone size without the charging port.
Yet another interesting innovation!

Sunday, September 22, 2013

The way we live upon..

The way we live upon..


On his way to home, from Sunday morning church, Mr. Joe, waved to a cab.
Once boarded down, he offered the driver a few bucks extra, out of great generosity, the Sunday-morning happy mood, blah-blah.. just a few extra bucks.
Still, the driver denied it, but just took away the actual charged amount. Just delightedly replied that it would make him to expect the same from all the future customers; would create an unwanted worry; loose a peaceful mind. He departed then, complimenting a hearty thanks - obviously the signature of his happy mind.
A surprised Mr. Joe, though could have someday forgotten the message of that Sunday morning church, but could never forget this lesson from the taxi driver.
Yes, a contended heart is a big asset -- look at the impact it does either