We're back! :)

I'm sick of not writing a blog post but the college got us stuck up and the project as well (we'll tell you about that.....)
so... back to square one!!! :-)
We've got many posts lined up which you'll see in upcoming days.
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Nokia N9 (KIRF) Hands On

Whenever there is a beautiful device by some big company, Chinese manufacturers try to encash the device’s success by making a KIRF( Keeping It Real Fake).
KIRF’s are phones which look very familiar to the actual device, including the phone’s branding and design, but are no match for the user experience and construction quality of the actual one.
Today itself, when I went to get my mobile phone talk-time topped up, I came across a KIRF which at first look bluffed me and made me believe that it was an actual Nokia N9. But, one close look and it’s truth was revealed.
The phone mimics Nokia N9 in terms of the horizontal slab-like design that Nokia has incorporated in N9, Lumia 800 and the newly announced Lumia 900. But, the phone is made up of cheap plastic and runs some crappy OS which is nowhere near (my favourite) Meego.
Here are some pics of the KIRF device and see it for yourself.

Technological Singularity

Technological singularity will be an event in the future of humanity when artificial intelligence will surpass human intelligence and the immediate and long-term future would be impossible to predict.
Simply put, the time when your robot is more intelligent than you, will be Technological singularity.

Some people might argue that their smartphone is already more intelligent than them just because it can connect to the Internet and collect any information that it is programmed to do. Intelligence is more related to decision making than with knowledge-compendium. A guy called 'Wikipedia'  already knows more than any single individual in the world but he cannot make decisions in complex situations as a human can. This barrier will be broken, if and when singularity occurs. After it, robots would have decision making intelligence greater than humans and therefore it is impossible for any normal human to think of what will happen next.

Shift + Delete.. Wait.. Why???????? :’(

Exams are over. Time to get back to the stuff I was working on before the exams (No not studies. I was not studying before the exams. That was done during the exams). Time to get back to that simple stock keeping application I was making for my Dad. Before the exams I had completed quite a lot of the basic aspects of the software that kind of made it a basic and functioning stock keeping software. When the exams started I had no choice but to leave it till the exams got over. So now I was with my exams over, ready to get back to working on the software. I was happy until….. that Shift + Delete Syndrome came over me. So here’s what happened.

Why WindowsPhone can rule them all

In an earlier post, I wrote how iOS is better than Android and how it will be ruling the smartphone arena for some time to come. I regret to say that it is not the case anymore. Android has already overtaken iOS in terms of total market share around the world and has as many apps. However, still I believe that none of these two will rule the smartphone kingdom. For me, the winner in the long run would be WindowsPhone.

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Microsoft announced the WindowsPhone7 (WP7) in December 2009 and even arranged for a symbolic funeral for iOS and Android indicating it's intentions to kill. The first devices running WP7 were released in the Europe and USA in October-November last year, whereas in India the OS has been launched officially only very recently.

For starters, let me first tell you some background history around the WP7 development. Microsoft earlier had it's Windows Mobile platform in the market which was aimed more at enterprise users rather than the youth and the man in the street. When Apple introduced iPhone which was followed by Google launching Android, Microsoft decided to go back to the basics and start from scratch. After some time of hard work WP7 was born.

Ra.One: Review

The Story:

Ra.one is about a game developer who creates a game "Jismein villain kabhi nahi haarega" to please his son. The villain Ra.One somehow comes out of the game, creates havoc until G.one, Good One comes and the epic battle follows.

Time travel – myth or a fact ??

Is time travel a myth or a fact??


To know the answer, head on past the break.

Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot: Review

 

I used Ubuntu for the first time in my college (version 10.04) last year and the experience was although good but not breathtakingly different from Windows UI. It also had the same menu-style approach that windows has popularized over the years. Then, I downloaded the version 11.04 on my system at home which was the first to come with Unity UI. This approach was different and refreshing for a windows user and I liked it.

First of all, let me tell you something about Unity UI and then we'll talk about Oneiric Ocelot.