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…
The Android Lollipop is here and brings with it bugs that we thought Google would have ironed out before its launch. After all, the hype and anticipation before the release suggested this to be the perfect OS after a long time and expectations were naturally high. However, even before its launch, Google had to deal with the battery draining issue that delayed the roll out and now that it is out, users are encountering other issues as well. To be fair to Google, some of these issues would…
The good times of Android are likely to continue into the future as per the firm IDC. Though the frenetic growth of smartphones is no longer the same, Android shipments are expected to cross the 1.05 billion mark this year. This will give Google a whopping 82% of the market share and with Apple a distant second at 14% and with only 178 million shipments and Windows at a 2.7% market share having sold only 35 million pieces, Google really has nothing much to worry about. Alternative OS…
While there are multiple apps for regular health and fitness, however, there is special care of health required during pregnancy. Thus, following your regular routine is not advisable because you might be a daredevil otherwise but when you are carrying a child, you need to be extra careful about everything, starting from your diet to the kind of exercises you do. Thus, to help you with this is an app called Babybump Pregnancy which is a comprehensive pregnancy app that keeps soon-to-be…
While there are dozens and dozens of photo editing apps out there, each of us has our favourites. This is because there are different people having different views and preferences on this planet. Each app has that one thing that suits their preference. This is the reason why there are so many picture editing apps and more are being created at a very fast pace, to give you the best editing experience ever. After all, life is turning out to be more about the virtual existence, protected by layers…
Now that technology has reached new heights, some mundane everyday things that we used to do - like reading books - has become a thing of the past. Now no one wants to get into the hassle of carrying books here and there, flipping pages or making space to store books. One can just download it and read it once or as many times as we like. This is also known as an e-book or an electronic book. When one talks about an e-book the first thing that comes to our mind is Kindle. Kindle is basically…
The more number of online accounts we have, be it social media, various subscriptions or our various work and personal email ids, the more number of passwords we need to remember because it has always bee wiser not to use the same password for two things. But the increasing number of online activity has led to so many passwords, along with non-online passwords like out credit and debit card pins, the combination of our safes and even out briefcases containing vital documents, that in all, it…
