Thursday, May 1, 2014

On updating Lumia to wp 8.1 using "preview for developers" app

Microsoft releases the new update for windows based phones for the developers. Code named "BLUE", upgrades the phone from wp8 to wp8.1.
The preview might have been discontinued at present(this fact points towards the ill made os update).

PROS:

1.CORTANA-The new personal assistant for windows phone analogous to SIRI and google NOW.

2.Notifications centre-Inclusion of new notifications bar that slides from the top just like android.

3.Swipe to type-The all new record holding in fast typing swipe keyboard introduced.

4.Storage sense-Now move your apps to SD and recover some space on your phone memory.

5.Grouped caller list-Now the caller list groups together the similar entries which is quite a necessity.

6.Start screen background-Change the old boring tiles to new wallpaper of your choice.

7.Volume control gets a makeover-Handle the volumes of media and ringer separately.

8.Calender and IE get updates-better looking calender and new IE with reading mode.

9.Music and videos updated to sync with Xbox.

10.Extra grid icons.

11.Photos app get a makeover.


CONS:

1.Very poor Battery life after update.

2.Xbox Music-No swipe to change track(as on wp8),no 'newly added',no 'history' and you get to know about storage of music(whether on SD or in phone) only while multi-selection.

3.Wifi-Auto disconnect on screen sleep now not available.Also you can only turn on wifi from notifications bar.

4.Sounds-Delayed lock/unlock sounds.

5.Games-Now all the games show up in the menu,ungrouped.

6.Photos-pinch unzoom to browse through photos now not a feature.

7.New camera app not ass satisfying as the earlier one.

8.Apps lag when moved to SD.

9.CORTANA released only for US. 

Tip:You can get CORTANA by changing the phone region to US and language to English(US) and check for update again.

VERDICT : DO NOT UPDATE YOUR PHONE TO WP8.1. RIGHT NOW IS NOT THE PERFECT TIME.WAIT FOR A STABLE UPDATE FROM MICROSOFT.

*Tested on Nokia Lumia 720 in India.

Sunday, April 13, 2014

Meet CORTANA

Windows phone 8.1 update to roll out soon (LESS than 12 Hours from now)....

It features some of the most awaited things for a windows phone such as :
-CORTANA (analogous to SIRI in iOS and GoogleNow in android devices)
-Action center (analogous to notification bar in Android)

Tuesday, March 4, 2014

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Saturday, January 11, 2014

Purpose of human life defined.

The question that everybody has in his/her mind. We may answer it in our own different ways depending on our past observations and experiences. And here is how I would answer it :

To survive as long as you can, and in the meanwhile you will/should find the answers to all your questions.

Wednesday, January 1, 2014

PLEASE LEAVE A HINT THAT YOU ARE A HUMAN (like/share/dislike/comment/ anything thats available in the options..)

VISITOR

If you are a real human and not a robot,please leave me some hint.
Or one day i'd find that it was just an audience full of robots viewing my content
and that would make me feel like a fool.

PARADOX

How about finding the identity of the word 'identity' and knowing the uniqueness of the word 'unique'? Also how identical are the two identical objects to each other ?

Glad you are still reading...

If I am a boy and I wish to create an identical twin of mine,is it possible ?
Let us assume that bio-engineering has advanced to the levels that we can create an 'exact' replica of a man. And here we are,with a new me. But where is he standing right now ? Of course not at the very spot that I have occupied. Because it is already occupied(by me).

Such questions arise while conducting experiments. We may perform various tests on various samples but the can not be called identical to each other. "Why?",glad you asked.

Consider a piece of sodium. This is the test piece we will use for our experiment.
Consider another similar(not using the word identical!) piece same in dimensions and from the same origin. We now perform our experiment with this sample.
Of course we will get the same results on the scales we have right now with us.

But because the atoms of second piece are not occupying the tiny dot of space occupied by those of the first piece,the atoms and other particles of the two samples could be assumed to be in different environments, and the 'difference' in environment is bound to cause differences in results (in a scale we might not have developed yet but I call it uncertainty ).
Congrats,you have reached the end.

Experiments and their results

It is not possible to make an absolute observation."What is absolute observation ?",you ask.
Glad that you asked!
An absolute observation is the one which does not affect the observed process/phenomenon/thing by 'any' means.And by any I mean everything. From the smallest and the lightest particle to the blink of your eye,everything can cause imperfections in your observations by distracting the experimental setup.
But till now I have not come across any such experiment/process where we require such high levels of accurracy.
(If you have,please leave a comment below)