Smart Watch or Smart Phone?

Samsung gear is the one kind of technology that is launched as a wearable gadget like watch. There are different variations launched already like Gear 2 neo, Gear 2, Galaxy Gear and Gear fit. Each gear as it's own purpose. Gear 2 neo does not have camera, but it can connect to your smartphones bluetooth and help you to take the calls, message or listen to music through your smart gear. Also it has a feature to record your hear rate all the time as there is a device backside of the watch which will take care of this.

Samsung Gear 2 (With Camera)

Samsung Gear 2 Neo (No Camera)

How it works?

This watch is like other smart phones, swipe to your left/right to navigate between the apps and it has one home button. In case if you want to go to the previous screen, then swipe from top to bottom to go back to your previous screen.

This gadget has various other features that can be used without smartphones, to keep track of your heart rate, stop watch, listen to music, TV remote control, Camera, Voice memos etc...

Watch more about this in these videos:

Private Browsing/Ad Block

Browsers are the only way that can connect us to the external world. There are different types of browsers out there like Internet Explorer (IE), Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari, Opera etc… What browsers are doing while you are visiting web pages? Does it give the smooth experience? If you set your browser to the right settings, it will enrich your browser experience while you visit the web pages.

Always use the Private browsing mode (In particular when using public computers), which will ensure that your existing cookies are not used by any websites that you are visiting. By doing this, the website that you are visiting will not be able to track you and show the customized web pages. This is advantage if you do not want to be tracked with existing cookies, but downside is, if there are any ads shown in the page, then it will be irrelevant to your browsing history as your cookies are not being read.

Private Browsing

There are multiple agencies (like Bluekai, quantcast, etc…) in the market which will be used in most of the websites to read the demographics for the user and understand them, so that it can track down you with relevant information when you are visiting web pages.

What this means to you?  Those agencies will be tracking all your browsing activities like cookies, to collect all the demographic information to read the person’s browsing pattern and activity, which could be used to sell your data for the online advertisers.

What you can do to escape from all these tracking? Always use the private browsing mode which will be safe browsing and does not remember any of your history, cookies and cache what you do after you close your browser.

Also there are different types of free plug-ins that can be installed in your browser which will detect and disable the advertisements displayed in your page. Example:

Chrome AdBlock Addon

Firefox AdBlock Addon

Internet Explorer AdBlock Addon

No Advertisements

How to turn on private browsing mode in different browsers that will not store any of your history, cookies and cache.

Internet Explorer – Ctrl + Shift + P

Firefox - Ctrl + Shift + P 

Chrome – Ctrl + Shift + N

Health benefits of drinking alcohol

What people think about you if you drink beer?

Do they say that you are drunk always?

Then throw all their thoughts to somewhere and show all these health benefits to them. Moderate consumption of alcohol may have some considerable health assistance.

Here are some of the benefits:

Beer Mug

It Can Lengthen Your Life

Drinking occasionally could add a few years to your life. A study by the Catholic University of Campobasso reported that drinking less than four or two drinks per day for men. "Little amounts, preferably during meals, this appears to be the right way (to drink alcohol)," said Dr. Giovanni de Gaetano of Catholic University, another author on the study. "This is another feature of the Mediterranean diet, where alcohol, wine above all, is the ideal partner of a dinner or lunch, but that's all: the rest of the day must be absolutely alcohol-free." 

Reduces Risk of Heart Disease

All alcohol, whether it is beer, wine, or liquor, is known to help reduce heart disease. According to a 2008 article in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association, moderate consumption of alcohol makes blood less sticky, and so it is less likely to clot. Alcohol can also increase good cholesterol and lower the bad, as well as lower your blood pressure. A Harvard study of 70,000 women found that those who consumed beer had a lower blood pressure than those who consumed wine or hard alcohol.

Reduces Risk of Diabetes

In 2011, Harvard did a study of 38,000 middle-aged men, which showed that, when they upped their intake of beer to two a day, they dropped their risk of developing type 2 diabetes by 25 percent. There was, however, no noted benefit from drinking more than two beers a day.

Reduces Risk of Cancer

Just putting your meat in a marinade of beer can eliminate almost 70 percent of carcinogens from the meat, a Portuguese study found. That might not transfer to drinking the beer, but who doesn’t love a good beer marinade? If you do just drink it, though, it does contain loads of helpful antioxidants that can keep you healthy.

Helps the Kidneys

Alcohol gets a bad wrap for being hard on your kidneys, but beer can actually help in that department. According to the 2011 ADA Times, beer can actually reduce your risk of kidney stones. The hops not only help slow the release of calcium from the bones — too much calcium can cause kidney stones — but beer also has a high water content, which helps clear out those kidneys.

To learn more about the benefits, check here 

iPhone 6 – In 2 different sizes end of this year

iPhone 6 variations

Always people have different views when it comes to Apple. Particularly consumers are very eager to know what Apple is going to launch differently every year. Likewise, the same hope is residing across people and the expectations are growing year over year.

This year (according to rumors) Apple is going to launch 2 new versions of iPhone this year, one at the start of Fall (September) and the other one very end of the year.

Mostly the iPhone rumors are spreading widely here is about the screen size in iPhone 6. Because as we have seen that iPhone screen size has grown from 3.5 inches to 4 inches in iPhone 5 and the same is expected to happen in iPhone 6. Bigger the screen size and larger the audience is practical.

Even if Apple does not come up with any screen sizes from its own R&D team every year, there are people (who are called as rumors) who work freely for Apple to suggest the screen sizes for iPhone 6 between 4.7 inches to 5.5 inches.

Read more about this here

Apple Stock Split - 7 for 1

On April 23^rd, Apple (stock symbol: AAPL) announced to split its current stock to 7 equal parts, so generally it is called 7 to 1. (Example: Split 1 $100 bill to 2 equal $50 bills). The NET value remains the same, but it will allow the small investors or individual investors to bring forward or give a chance to buy the Apple’s stock at the lower price after the stock split.

Apple Stock Split

Market research analysts consider that most stock splits are 2-to-1, sometimes 3-to-1. But Apple’s 7-to-1 split is highly unusual

Some investors predict that this could be a magic and Apple can do anything as it is a trend setter for all its peers.

Within a day of stock split announcement, Apple’s share has gained $43/share. Today’s value per share is $567.77 (up 8%) compared to yesterday’s price $524.75

It’s a move not without risks. By reducing the share price, you make it easier to buy and sell stock, which can make the share price more volatile. But Apple’s board of directors probably figures that small investors are more likely to be those with loyalty to the company rather than the big institutional investors who may take a much more short-term view

To know more about this stock split, read here

Project LOON and YOU

What do you think about today’s world?

Can you live without internet for a day or two?

There are people who can live without food, but contrast to them, there are people who cannot live without internet, and they want to be connected always.

Many of us think of the Internet as a global community. But two-thirds of the world’s population does not yet have Internet access. Project Loon is a network of balloons traveling on the edge of space, designed to connect people in rural and remote areas, help fill coverage gaps, and bring people back online after disasters.

Google is coming up with BALLOON-POWERED INTERNET FOR EVERYONE.

Project LOON

Project Loon began with a pilot test in June 2013, when thirty balloons were launched from New Zealand’s South Island and beamed Internet to a small group of pilot testers. The pilot test has since expanded to include a greater number of people over a wider area. Looking ahead, Project Loon will continue to expand the pilot through 2014, with the goal of establishing a ring of uninterrupted connectivity around the 40th southern parallel, so that pilot testers at this latitude can receive continuous service via balloon-powered Internet.

Project Loon balloons travel approximately 20 km above the Earth’s surface in the stratosphere. Winds in the stratosphere are stratified, and each layer of wind varies in speed and direction. Project Loon uses software algorithms to determine where its balloons need to go, then moves each one into a layer of wind blowing in the right direction. By moving with the wind, the balloons can be arranged to form one large communications network.

Stratosphere

Situated on the edge of space, between 10 km and 60 km in altitude, the stratosphere presents unique engineering challenges: air pressure is 1% that at sea level, and this thin atmosphere offers less protection from UV radiation and dramatic temperature swings, which can reach as low as -80°C. By carefully designing the balloon envelope to withstand these conditions, Project Loon is able to take advantage of the stratosphere’s steady winds and remain well above weather events, wildlife and airplanes.

Navigate with the wind

Each balloon can provide connectivity to a ground area about 40 km in diameter at speeds comparable to 3G. For balloon-to-balloon and balloon-to-ground communications, the balloons use antennas equipped with specialized radio frequency technology. Project Loon currently uses ISM bands (specifically 2.4 and 5.8 GHz bands) that are available for anyone to use.

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