Prisma: finally out for android

Prisma has officially launched the android version in playstore. Its cool now for android users who depended on iphone mates to generate prisma filtered pics of theirs.
First impression is awesome some 20000 downloads already and the processing is faster. But due to high popularity and huge number of android phones out there prisma servers will really be tested to their toes.

Windows 10: few days to go

Yes 7 days to be exact, clock is ticking. If you happened to own a windows 7,8 or 8.1 os then you have very limited time(7days from the day) to update it to windows 10. You dont have to spend a penny on it if you own any prequel to windows 10 but yes you may have to download close to 5 gb of data.
But if you have a corrupted  windows you can upgrade still and later you need to activate.

VR: The next big thing

Pokemon GO, has just woken up the sleeping giant of technology. Its the virtual reality and augmented technology that is going to be most talked about and interestingly the popularity of pokemon go will help all those developers working in VR/AR to get more exposure and interest from industry and people. Thus pokemon go has become lucky mascot for VR/AR.
So what exactly has the technology to offer and what is it thats so interesting in this. From desktops to laptops to handheld mobile device the technology has grown exponentially. What next after smartphone there came the modular phones which is in its developing stage. Socializing apps, dating apps, messaging apps wasnt the end of socializing. There wasnt an end for interesting and breakthrough ideas which came in form snapchat which showcased augmented reality. The next big thing to socialize is your pic or a vdo with virtual objects. Simpler but quiet interesting, but how long these may last depends on how useful they are on day to day basis. So its fun to see your face transformed to  realistic images just in few clicks without a makeup and what was high tech with the release of avatar is now available in your phone.
VR/AR is being brought into education, social, gaming, design, movies, architecture and not to forget porn. The craze about Virtual reality and its future can very well be This is evident from a recent report that pokemon go has overtaken porn sites in maximum number of active users. Atleast for the time pokemon go will give tough competition to some of the famous.

Online Courses towards achieving college degree

Every netizen have once in a while encountered the word online course, many may have even visited few online course providing sites. Not many knew that online education will be a trend these days. People busy with day to day schedule have no time to be a day scholar, the really serious ones give it a try. But the world has been changed for those who consider age no bar for education. 

 
Online education has been there for quite while now, with informational videos, slide shows, documents and one to one discussion online education has grown exponentially over the years. The subject that is covered isn't a fact that decides the audience, the method of serving the subject has been a crucial deciding factor for people to prefer online education materials. 

 
More and more technologically advanced course materials with frequently updated curriculum are getting uploaded on to some of the leading educational sites. From the beginning the presentation of a topic has been the crucial deciding factor for a student to understand and learn a subject. Many online education sites have done advanced and deep research in presenting a topic to the audience. Coursera, edx, alison, nptel  and Stanford online are to name a few. Like the internet the opportunities for an online course is limitless as far as the standards are high. There are channels on popular video hosting sites that are dedicated for educational content for eg; khan academy. These online delicacies are a treat for any student who is serious about learning new technology, latest developments in science , arts , commerce and the history of course. Learning is an ageless technique and teaching is an art thus with time the art needs to be upgraded to match the ageless learning.

The traffic to online courses have increased substantially, with more and more people joining the network of internet the growth seems to continue for unforeseen future. The advantage and demand has rose to sky high with companies in need of technically learned employee. The need for employees who constantly update their knowledge is high the demand for online courses has also risen. This proves the fact that most linkedin accounts a social network for professionals have more and more people updating about the online courses they have taken over the years.

Online courses will no longer be a fancy among the netizens serious people out there are making use of it and its right time to bring about the change, the next big thing of providing university equivalent graduation certificates. This will be a game changer for more and more people deprived of a good quality education due to personal or professional responsibilities and for those who want to just gain some additional knowledge.

The positive takeaway from it is we are in a world that is growing exponentially and to catch up we need to enhance our knowledge base.

Windows 10 : Here it comes for free

Finally the wait is over and the date is set for the launch of Windows 10 operating system. With this all PC's , mobiles, tablets having windows 7 or higher will be upgraded to windows 10. The upgrade is free for licensed users of previous windows versions if you are one lucky guy then there are some things that you might need to have a look at it before thinking for this early free upgrade.

• You are going to lose some features which includes mediacenter and you require a separate playback software for playing your DVD's (if VLC is their then why afraid).
• Card game hearts is the next one they are removing. I don't remember any attempt of mine to try the game but reports indicate it will no longer be their.
• Windows 7 desktop gadgets the next in line was a pretty cool stuff but no it wont be their anymore.
• Any one in the habit of using Floppy disks (What's that ? Search google it existed as a storage medium) will have to install separate drivers to work with it. 
• And reports indicate that some features such as XBox and cortana will require region based licenses.

Microsoft has also listed the minimum system requirement to carry out the upgrade in its official website. 

Apart form latest version of windows 7 SP1 , windows 8.1 or windows 8 you may need

Processor > 1GHz.

RAM : 1 GB For 32 bit and 2 GB for 64 bit

HardDisk 16 GB for 32-bit OS 20 GB for 64-bit OSGraphics card: DirectX 9 or later with WDDM 1.0 driverDisplay: 1024x600.

So if you fall in the required specification list you are one lucky man for the upgrade. But before the upgrade you need to have all your important stuffs backed up safely.

More on the windows 10 upgrade you can check google.com

The following sites helped me summarize 

1. NDTV gadgets
2. the verge.com
3. gordon kelly on forbes
4. Microsoft

Popular Snake game in nokia is back with a reboot

Its time to bring out everything you gained by playing 'Snake' in late 90's and early 2000. On your fathers or a relatives nokia phone when you played a 'Snake' game it was a fight to beat your own highest score. Before the gaming apps even existed we enjoyed gaming with snake on a monochrome handsets. It was most popular of its time but  as they say old is gold, the graphics were black squares and you were limited to move in four directions. Taneli Armanto design engineer at nokia was responsible for 'Snake' father of mobile gaming. Even though available on computers in late 70's the mobile version was a big hit, when it was launched in 1997 on a nokia 6110 model.

 

More than a decade later Armanto have partnered with Rumilus design a finland based gaming studio to give it a reboot. With monetizing a key feature in most games released via different app stores the rebooted 'Snake' will too have its share and ways to interest the customer. The first major step has already been taken by releasing the game on all three mobile platforms iOS, Android and Windows on same day. With 'Snake' concept already out their with numerous clones and only few handful of games have really garnered a fan base its a wait and watch whether it will build a fan base or will remain in stores. 

Brush up your computation science knowledge

These links i found online for an easy way understanding of what computational science is and what it's contribution to main branch science is , hope you will get a more clear picture on this.

1. https://www.shodor.org/chemviz/overview/compsci.html
2. http://www.shodor.org/cserd/Help/whatiscs

Some high rated publication

1. http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-computational-science/
2. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/groups/science/