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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...

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,...

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 d...

Does your smartphone need a case?

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- You invest your savings to buy a smartphone and as usual you want to use it for long time. To be used for long time your smartphone must be kept externally and internally safe. The main way to keep your phone externally safe is by using a proper phone case. Nowadays people have different views about the use of phone cases and this might have confused you too. Let us talk about some pros of using a smartphone case. The case you use in your phone is responsible for protecting it from any kind of external damage. A good quality cover protects your phone from fall damage or rough handling damage which includes screen cracks, dents , scratches and many more. You've noticed or not your case also protects your camera and screen from scratches due to it's thickness. To summarize, phone cases are made to protect your phone anyhow and a good quality & properly designed phone case does it perfectly. Nowadays people are talking about some cons of phone cases. Th...

Why are hyperlinks blue?

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- Each day you share many links and most of you have noticed that it's blue. But literally, Why blue? Couldn't any other colours be tried out or couldn't it left black like other texts? The whole story begins from 1990s , when the internet was at its first phases. The first web browsers at that time like NCSA Mosaic had a greyscale theme ( black text and grey background). The links were special as they directed users from one page to another. Keeping those links in the same colour and manner as the other texts would result in confusion to the users as they were less known about it at that time. A study was conducted and the conclusion was drawn that keeping those links in different colour than that of text would be a good way to tackle that problem. But a question arised " Which colour should be chosen? ". The three primary colours i.e. Red, Green & Blue were suggested. But why blue was chosen?  During study, it was found that many users ...

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...