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Are we using smartphones more than we need to? - The darkside of our smartphones

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                  As a precious gift of 21st century's technology, smartphones fill a great part of our daily lives. Our routine is now linked with them. Ashamed to say but we are in their custody now. Every time I unlock my phone, the first thing that comes to my mind is " What brought me to unlock this phone ? " and mostly the answer is " nothing " . If the answer is " something " sometimes, than that "something"  is no other than checking messages, notifications, and statistics of my social medias. It's not that every time I unlock my phone there is no logical reason. I often use it to have important communications,  to Google out my doubt or to solve my curiosity about something but after sometime that ghost of my phone takes me under it's control. So here's a question " Why are we checking our smartphone ever now and then just to find nothing (rarely something) new? or Why we remain hooked up with our smart

Why celebrities followers rise suddenly after their death?

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Few weeks ago on 29 April 2020, Indian actor Irfan khan died. He had few lakhs of followers on Instagram but after his death, rise in number of his Instagram followers was significant. Same thing happened when another actor Sushant Singh Rajput died on 14 June 2020. He had about nine and a half million followers on Instagram but about a million followers increased in less than 6 hours of his death. After these incidents, many people posted before-after followers comparison on social media questioning why this happens almost every time? So here is the answer of this question from the point of view of a social media analyst. First of all, how someone's followers or subscribers rise? Of course, When he/she trends or his/her content (posts/videos/writings) trends. Now, in the case of death of a big actor or actress, the news of his/her death trends popularly in every platform. In most cases, death of any big & important person is disclosed to public through press conferences then t

Why isn't your smartphone fully charged at the time of unboxing? - Top 5 battery myths busted

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Every time you boot up a new smartphone, you may have noticed the battery percentage; It is not 100%. Why is it so? There are a lot of reasons behind it. First, Smartphones are mass produced. Fully charging the batteries of those phones  consumes a lot of time and power. This won't be economic for the company. So they charge the smartphones only upto a certain limit making sure the batteries don't die during shipping. This saves both time and power. Another reason is: Loss of power during shipping and storage.  Today's smartphones have lithium ion or lithium polymer batteries which losses charge with time. Most companies have their factories in China and world wide supply is done from there. After those smartphones leave factory, they are shipped throughout the world which takes few weeks to few months. You might never know how long your smartphone has been sitting on the retailers or warehouses before you buy them. This time is a lot for Li-ion or Li-poly batteries to lo

The reality of coffin dance meme!

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From past few weeks, you might have seen a meme in your social media where someone meets an accident and few African guys dance in a rock music carrying a coffin. This meme has provided a bit humour to our busy day but have you ever wondered who are those guys and why are they dancing with a coffin in somebody's funeral. Their story is very interesting. Lets breakdown the meme with some facts. Before knowing who those guys are and why are they dancing in someone's funeral, I would like to tell you some unknown facts about the meme. Many of you think that the dance and music used in meme are from same album & many of you even google for  the full version of the song. But you are wrong here. The dance and the music are totally different. I mean, dance and music are taken from two different sources. The dance video is taken from a BBC documentary where those African guys are featured dancing in their own band music in a funeral. All the clips used in memes are taken

10 things you can do during lockdowns.

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How can you utilise your time at home during lockdowns? Due to the widespread corona virus (COVID-19), citizens of many countries are ordered to be at home so that the chain of infection could be broken. Due to these lockdowns, people have a lot of free time to spend at home with their families. It's time to let Mother Nature refresh and spend your time at home to be safe and keep others safe. Many of you are thinking about how to pass this time. No worries, here are some things you can do during your stay at home to make this time productive. 1. Acquiring new knowledge Education is a never ending process. During your time at home, you can gain a lot of knowledge through the Internet. You can search your topic of interest and know much about it through websites, blogs and Wikipedia pages. You can also note your new discoveries for future. You can take courses online about any topic if you want to. For example: coding, graphic designing, etc. You can also try learning new la

The notch game is over!!

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The smartphone nowadays have a cut-out at the top bezle which is called notch. First introduced by Sharp , the notch got popular as the release of iPhone X in September 2018. Following the trend of Apple, other smartphone manufacturers including the tech giant Samsung implemented this design. Some of them modified it's shape to avoid being said "Copied" which gave birth to dew drop & punch hole but the concept was the same; squiz front camera and other stuff in a little space and claim it as innovation. But now in 2020, the popular notch has started fading. The tech conscious users are now having questions like: Is the notch disappearing ? , How will the notch go? or What technology will take over the notch? The answer to the first question: Yes, the notch is disappearing. The smartphone you will be using in 2021 will have no notch at all. The day will come soon when we will have complete bezzle less display and be sure that it will have screens in more than two s

How to speed up your internet? 8 tips to increase your internet speed

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         Many of you may have internet connections at your home but sometimes your favourite social media apps or your required website may delay or deny to load. This is due to slow internet speed which is not an everyday problem to everyone but the level of irritation you get when this happens is often high. I suffered from the same problem last week and this is my experience of solving that problem which I am sharing to you today. There are various factors causing these problems. Sometimes you mess up with your router settings, sometimes your hardware might be damaged and sometimes just the way you hold your smartphone is causing the problem. Here are some methods or techniques that you can use to speed up your internet connection. 1. Basic Make sure you turn off your router/modem and restart it again. There is high chance that the problem is due to some software issues and restarting it might solve it. You should also disconnect all the cables, clean their attachment

Does megapixel really matters for taking good quality images?

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   You experienced a lot from VGA to 12, 16, 48, 64 megapixel cameras in our smartphones & 108 will be the next number. This count will be reaching 200 and more after 2021 AD. Today every smartphone company is running after megapixel war so here comes a question " Does megapixel really matters for taking good quality image? " The answer is NO. The megapixel is not always needed for good quality images. There are more other factors which influence your image quality. More megapixel means your camera sensors have more amount of pixels and the image captured by it is in large size and resolution. More megapixel is not equal to image quality. It helps only 1-2% on making your image good. The remaining 98% are other factors which should be good or you should be able to manage them to capture a good photograph.     Your camera sensor captures light which needs to get through post processing before final image is shown to you. Every smartphone has different