As a kid, comic books and strips were something we all looked forward to keeping track of with great joy and enthusiasm. Even today, some of us still love collecting the latest edition of comics as a hobby or casually glance across the morning newspaper cartoon section to amuse ourselves. For comic buffs and even casual readers, Garfield and Calvin are two of the most recognizable and celebrated icons that have brought regular doses of entertainment as comic strip characters in our lives.…
Movies have been the ultimate entertainment choice of the people and a fantasy vehicle of escape into dreamland for millions of movie lovers around the world. They are found everywhere today and give us a plethora of choices to dive into and enjoy. The movies at the theater don’t know what to play and as the ardent movie buffs that we are we come to loggerheads with our minds and analyse pros and cons of the movie on picture. So where do you go when in two minds with your mind battling it…
With a massive surge in global population and technological evolution, the rise in demand for energy resources has multiplied by several folds. The invention of automobiles was one of the landmark moments in society that helped in facilitating its transition to the fast-paced, ‘blink and you miss it’ lifestyle we see today. Hence, a consequent increase in demand for energy primarily in the area of fuel consumption and electricity generation was inevitable. The energy revolution has kicked…
Some Android apps are useful. Other Android apps are funny. And then there are some Android apps that just shouldn’t exist at all. TechHive.com recently wrote an article featuring over a dozen Android and iOS apps that “don’t need to exist.” Here are some of the highlights: 5) An app that finds users in a park in San Francisco When you think of a hipster American city, you think of San Francisco. Or maybe Portland, which is just a little ways up the coast and seems to have taken in…
I know mobile technology is here to stay. You know mobile technology is here to stay. And now, it looks like Kim Jong-un knows it too. That’s right, Kim Jung-un, leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, has embraced the mobile revolution. North Korea has developed three Android tablets over the past few years, but few Westerners have ever actually seen the tablets – which are almost certainly manufactured outside of the impoverished hermit kingdom. Finally, one western…
I’ve written about Chromecast a few times over the past week. It’s a cool Google-created Dongle that turns your dumb TV into a Chrome OS-powered Smart TV. But what if you don’t want a smart TV? What if you don’t want to tweet over your TV or pay for a Netflix subscription? Well, Chromecast is useful for a number of different reasons. Here are some reasons to buy Chromecast that you might not have considered: 5) Use it for traveling Unless you stay in some fancy hotels, you’re…
Android users, we’ve been duped: it appears that Samsung is falsifying benchmark results for the Galaxy S4. According to a recent report by AnandTech, the Galaxy S4 features a BenchmarkBooster function that includes hard-coded profiles for certain benchmarking applications. The BenchmarkBooster function basically told the Android to run at maximum performance when running benchmark applications. Instead of getting a reliable benchmark result, Android testers would get an inflated…
In the future, you may not have to ever learn a second language. Instead, you may be able to just walk up to foreigners and wave your smartphone in their face. Why? Google is working hard to develop real-time translation technology for Google Translate, and it’s a technology that could very well change the world. Real-time translation has always been in the future for Google Translate – at least, that’s what people wanted to think. But finally, we have official confirmation that it’s…
Millions of Android users do real work on their smartphones and tablets. That’s right: there are some people out there who don’t just browse the Twitter and Reddit apps – they create income reports and write press releases and do other important things. Well, fortunately for those winners, Microsoft finally released an official version of Office for Android. Office for Android requires a subscription to Office 365 and Android 4.0. With Office for Android, you can edit files and…
Android is the world’s most popular operating system. But like everything in this world, Android is far from perfect. One of the biggest problems plaguing Android today is fragmentation. Fragmentation refers to the fact that there are hundreds of different Android builds out there. Each carrier has their own Android build, for example, and each device has its own Android build, and each manufacturer tweaks Android in unique ways to create its own build. Not to mention the difference in…
