All of you women out there will be able to relate to this nightmare or something similar at some point in your life - you are wearing your favorite new white cut off shorts and are out for a picnic on a nice summer day and suddenly your period just begins. Yes, you can put on a tampon quickly but are still afraid that you might stain your shorts. So you don’t get involved in any picnic activity and just sit still in a corner and sulk because your picnic is ruined and the sun is not going to…
It is all about the smart phone today. You might or might not have food to eat but you definitely have a smart phone, and why should you not? A smartphone is increasingly becoming the solution to every problem. The survival skills classes have been modified in schools and camps to incorporate a smart phone in the list of essential things, including water and food. And the stronger internet connection you have, the better. Internet is the fuel that enhances the smartness of a smart phone,…
There can be no doubt that the Android OS has traversed a creditable journey since it was launched six years back. There have been a lot of changes in its core libraries and other features that has enabled it to garner a market share of over 80%, leaving the iOS and Windows OS far behind. The APIs have been regularly updated to ensure a better user experience. The Android Lollipop is the latest showpiece and features the much talked about ART as well as a revised code base. Logically…
With the increase in the use of the internet, it is obvious that the good and the bad of the internet are bound to increase as well. Till some time back, acquiring viruses was just a desktop and a laptop problem but ever since our phones have become smart, they are at a higher risk of getting dumb through viruses. Ironic, I know but the smarter our phones will get, the more vulnerable they will be to lose their genius. To make sure that that does not happen, we need to take protective…
Diabetes is more common than we think it is. Diabetes is also more dangerous than we think it is. When someone hears the word diabetes, they just assume that the solution to this disease is merely avoiding sweets and anything that contains sugar. While that is true, it is only a fraction of the solution. Diabetes is not just getting an extremely high sugar level, diabetes is what follows after one’s sugar level shoots up when they take a high amount of sugar, or even a low amount - it all…
While we take our five senses for granted, there are people out there who are not fortunate enough to lead a life as easily as we do because one or more of their sense does not function like ours does. While it should not make them lose out on anything, yet, theirs is a life which is a little different than ours, and the challenges of their life almost always outweigh ours. Whenever we see differently abled people, our natural instinct is to help them out. But the truth is that we cannot…
No matter how fabulous or dull our day gets, one always needs some escape route. For some it could be watching a movie, watering the plants, baking, reading a novel and of course, playing video games. All of us have that inner child that needs to play games in our busy lives of working and paying taxes. There is no better way of forgetting the daily responsibilities and just letting the child in us go wild. But, yes, like everything else, even this has a but (no pun intended), we might have…
While breast cancer, or in fact, any kind of cancer, was a disease that rendered one helpless earlier, it has become much more common now. Maybe it was common then as well but just lacked detection or maybe our increasingly unhealthy lifestyle has made us more prone to breast cancer. But as the times have changed and technology has developed, cancer is far less fatal as it used to be. If detected at the right time, it can be cured. But this detection is preceded by our awareness of our bodies…
Android is already having a great run enjoying a market share of over 80%. Its latest Lollipop version with the Material Design has been received well. That is not all though. A new operating system based on the very flexible Linux has now been proposed and this would have a lot of the Lollipop Material Design specifications. Material Design Makes It Possible If you are wondering as to how a desktop platform can accommodate the Android one, which is a mobile platform, then you only have to…
The exponential growth of smart phones over the last couple of years has been good news for carriers. They have been able to make a lot of money from their routine data services offered as either bundled packages or stand alone. They have also been smart in subtly influencing users to try out pre-loading apps that they introduced. The maximization of revenue through a host of apps such as navigation, video services, downloading of music and various others has helped them a lot. Typically, most…
