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What is Jailbreak and Gingerbread for Smartphones!!!!

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24 Most Common Words Used in Mobile Phones

Thanks to the advent of smartphones , we have started living in a world which is full of technical terms such as Jailbreak, Rooting superuser etc. Some of us are familiar with these terms where as to others its as good as Greek. So here is a short explanation on various jargons which I feel all of us should know about given the world we live in.

1. Jailbreak: Anyone who has an iPhone or even those who don’t , have heard this term somewhere or the other. What is it? Well when you jailbreak your idevice, what you really do is, you give it the freedom to do some awesome stuff. The most advantageous feature of jailbreaking is the ability to download all the paid applications for free. So if someone jailbreaks their device, this means, they have “tweaked” their operating system(with the help of various 3rd party applications). There are two kinds of jailbreaking, tethered and untethered.
2. Cydia: It is nothing but a second application store. You get this when you jailbreak your device. Same as the apple application store, only instead of applications it has a plethora of tweaks and utilities which increase the productivity of your idevice.
3. Mango: To people who don’t care about technology , mango is just a fruit but in the world of smartphones, Mango is an Operating System developed by none other than Microsoft. So all the buzz you hear about windows phone, it is running the operating system Mango.
4. Rooting: Rooting is restricted to android operating system. Rooting is to Android what jailbreaking is to ios. It helps you remove limitations and gives you administrative privileges. Whereas jailbreaking is easy, rooting an Android device is an intricate task and if it goes wrong, it can brick your device.
5. Siri: I hate to include this term in the list of jargons but still there are few people who don’t know what Siri is. A virtual personal assistant Siri which lives inside an iPhone 4S. Equipped with artificial intelligence, it keeps you entertained, you can converse with her, ask her to do your tasks and also remind you about your chores.
6. Iris: This is what I call cut throat competition. Iris is same as Siri. Iris belongs to the android family. Only some people (including me) think siri is better.
7. Gingerbread: What is it? A sweet?  Well no its not. I wish things were that simple. It’s an Android Operating System, well technically Android 2.3 is also known as gingerbread which is one of the most popular Android OS. It added the support of VoIP calls and Near field communication to Android and various other UI enhancements.
8. Honeycomb: Again, its not a dessert. This thing of beauty (as android lovers call it), is android 3.0, an update to Gingerbread. Basically designed for Android based tablets.
9. Ice Cream Sandwich: Welcome to the world of Android. Where operating system names are the names of desserts. Android 4.0 or ICS is the latest android operating system. Its main purpose was to bring the features of honeycomb(meant for tablets) to smartphones and also added many features such as facial recognition unlock( James bond style) and unified social networking contacts etc etc.
10. iOS: This was supposed to be a jargon but thanks to popularity of iPhone, it is not anymore. The iPhone, runs on the operating system which is known as iOS. Best out there? Enough said.
11. Saurik: Well not really a jargon, but an alias, belonging to Jay freeman. Everyone in the technological world know who he is. He is the man responsible for Cydia and freed the iPhone from all the limitations and gave it wings. Respect for the man.
12. Repository: In Cydia, All the tweaks and utilities are stored in what is known as a repository. There are various developers and these developers have their own repository. They develop a tweak and store it in the repository so that users like you and me can download it.
13. Tweak: Any application which does not show on the application screen but can be configured by going in to the settings of your phone and helps you overcome a flaw which according to you should have been there in your phone is known as a tweak.
14. HDMI: High Definition Multimedia Interface is HDMI, with the help of this technology, you are able to view all your videos in high definition. All our laptops and televisions have a HDMI port.  Basically it gives you high definition picture and a superior sound quality whe connected to an HD television.
15. MicroUSB: We all know what a USB is. Thesedays its analogous with a pen drive. But what is a Micro USB? It is a variant of USB, and thesedays, all of you are using a Micro USB in some way or the other. The data cables which we have to transfer the data between our electronic devices and computers , they all use micro USB .
16. ROM: This term again belongs to the Android family. It can be analogous with the word firmware. Just like you update the firmware of a device, same way you can change the ROM of your android device. Though this can be done only after rooting, but once done, it changes rather completely modifies your android device.
17. Boot loader: It is nothing but a computer program. It starts your device. In the mobile world, it loads your operating system.
18. Gorilla Glass: Gorilla glass is the baby of Corning. Designed with the purpose of being thin ,light and damaged resistance. Mostly all the smartphones we see today, their screen is made up of gorilla glass. Its USP is, its very tough, scratch resistant and also very light.
19. Overclocking: Again belonging to the Android smartphones. With the help of overclocking, you can make your phone run faster than the specified limit by the manufacturer. Not really advised , but there are some people who love to see their phone running at lightning fast speeds.
20. Underclocking: Like the name suggests, making your phone run slower than the specified limit is known as underclocking. Now why would anyone want their phone to go slow? Some of my friends do use this. They say it saves the battery, but would you want it?
21. Keynote: It is an event really with a theme. Generally by an organization who when launch their product do so by giving a keynote. You must remember the keynotes given by Steve Jobs while launching iphones and ipads. And the latest one by Tim Cook. Sorry for being so biased. I am an Apple fan and proud to be one :D
22. Open Source: Open source operating system, as the name suggests, lets you play with the source code of the original operating system. You can change it according to your own free will. And also gives the developers some task to do. IT also gives free redistribution. Basically open source allows you to see the back stage work behind a product.
23. Dev-Tools:  These are basically programs and applications which the developers use to develop more new programs. These tools can only be used by developers as they are the only ones who can understand them.
24. Android:  Well I had like to end this list of jargons by explaining none other than Android. The operating system which took the world by a storm and still going strong. Its an open source operating system which means it will never die. The developers will never let it die. Something or the other will keep coming out. Android belongs to google. And we all know what google is capable of.
I hope this post would help you get a little more intimate with the world of Technology. Is there any other terminology you feel I might have missed out on, and you would like to add on? Do let me know.!!!!!

WARREN BUFFET”S BRILLIANT INVESTMENT INSIGHTS…….

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Warren Buffet or ‘The Sage of Omaha’ is one of the richest men in the world. He is noted for his adherence to the value investing philosophy and for his personal frugality despite his immense wealth. Buffett’s speeches are known for mixing business discussions with humor.

 

Each year, Buffett presides over Berkshire Hathaway’s annual shareholder meeting in the Qwest Center in Omaha. Berkshire’s annual reports and letters to shareholders, prepared by Buffett, frequently receive coverage by the financial media.

 

His words reflect his attitude and mind-set towards money which made him eminent in the world. Here are few brilliant and inspirational investment insights from the legendary Buffet which will make you reorganize your mind-set towards the way you handle your money.

 

“Rule No. 1: Never lose money. Rule No. 2: Don’t forget rule No. 1”

 
“I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful.”

 

“Never invest in a business you cannot understand.”

“Chains of habits are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.”

“Enjoy your work and work for whom you admire.”

“A great investment opportunity occurs when a marvelous business encounters a one-time huge, but solvable problem.”

“I never buy anything unless I can fill out on a piece of paper my reasons. I may be wrong, but I would know the answer to that.”

“It’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.”

“The business schools reward complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.”

“Anything can happen in stock markets and you ought to conduct your affairs so that if the most extraordinary events happen, that you’re still around to play the next day.”

“I don’t measure my life by the money I’ve made. Other people might, but certainly don’t.”

“If at first you do succeed, quit trying on investing.”

“Turnarounds seldom turn.”

“I always knew I was going to be rich. I don’t think I ever doubted it for a minute.”

“Always invest for the long term.”

“Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.”

“Buy a business, don’t rent stocks.”

“Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.”

“Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”

“The fact that people will be full of greed, fear or folly is predictable. The sequence is not predictable.”

“Only buy something that you’d be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.”

“Our favorite holding period is forever.”

“I really like my life. I’ve arranged my life so that I can do what I want.”

“I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.”

“I am a better investor because I am a businessman and a better businessman because I am an investor.”

“I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for ten years.

“I try to buy stock in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them. Because sooner or later, one will.”

“Whether we’re talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down.”

“Most people get interested in stocks when everyone else is. The time to get interested is when no one else is. You can’t buy what is popular and do well.”

“Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.”

“The Stock Market is designed to transfer money from the Active to the Patient.”

“We don’t get paid for activity, just for being right. As to how long we’ll wait, we’ll wait indefinitely.”

“Risk can be greatly reduced by concentrating on only a few holdings.”

“Never count on making a good sale. Have the purchase price be so attractive that even a mediocre sale gives good results.”

“In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.”

 

“The investor of today does not profit from yesterday’s growth.”

“You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.”

“In a commodity business, it’s very hard to be smarter than your dumbest competitor.”

“Investors making purchases in an overheated market need to recognize that it may often take an extended period for the value of even an outstanding company to catch up with the price they paid.”

“A hyperactive stock market is the pickpocket of enterprise.”

“Valuing a business is part art and part science.”

“Chains of habits are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.”

“In a commodity business, it’s very hard to be smarter than your dumbest competitor.”

“A hyperactive stock market is the pickpocket of enterprise.”

“Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.”

“Valuing a business is part art and part science.”