Paraphrased from a Right Choice magazine article with my own opinions:Keep the brightness of the screen as low as possible. If portability & long battery life are important for you then buy a laptop with a lower screen size. The laptop's biggest power drain is the screen.Disable Wi-fi and Bluetooth when not neededUnplug all external devicesRun only as many programs as you need. If you have a 100 browser tabs open, your battery life will be about 1 hour shorter.Lower or turn off the volumeKeep the laptop in a cool place and avoid propping...
Monday, 28 October 2013
Saturday, 26 October 2013
It cost at least $400 million to put together the problem-plagued HealthCare.gov website. What went wrong?The PM perspective (from Don’t Blame IT for Obamacare’s Tech Troubles):Blaming programmers, coders, and project managers for disgraceful design flaws and technical turmoil is too easy and obvious. Crap rolls downhill. Look deeper. The underlying truth for virtually every large system’s implementation initiative is that success demands leadership and oversight that holds itself accountable for assuring best practice. Good governance, not...
This Week I Learned:Browsers:The auto-fill feature in Chrome also fills hidden fields.Like in Nigeria, the top three browsers in India (UC, Opera Mini,Nokia Xpress) are proxy browsers —browsers that leave the interpreting and rendering to the server and only show the resulting page. This process saves their users a lot of money, both because an old device is sufficient to run a proxy client, and because they essentially get one image instead of a full web page, which leads to low data usage.Security:eBooks have one feature that can't be found in...
Tuesday, 22 October 2013
I was pleasantly surprised to find that Wordament, my favorite word game, is available as an Android app.Wordament is an addictive MMOWPG or Massively Multiplayer Online Word Playing Game built by 2 Microsoft-ies using the Google App Engine.I found it funny that the Content Rating for this app is Low MaturityMicrosoft currently has 21 apps on Google Play. Among them, SkyDrive, Bing & Lync 2013 apps are highly rat...
Sunday, 20 October 2013
uCertify is a provider of test preparation software for 400+ IT certification exams from 18 different Testing agencies including Microsoft & PMI. uCertify offered me access to an online PrepKit in exchange for an unbiased review. I tried their PrepKit for the PMI Project Management Professional (PMP) course and found it to be comprehensive and useful.For me the best part of the PMP v-5 online PrepKit is the collection of 710 Practice Questions...
Saturday, 19 October 2013
This Week I Learned:Web:Google crawls for websites. Shodan crawls for devices. The Shodan search engine crawls the internet looking for devices, many of which are programmed to answer. It has found cars, foetal heart monitors, office building heating-control systems, water treatment facilities, power plant controls, traffic lights and glucose meters. It has become a crucial tool for security researchers, academics, law enforcement and hackers looking for devices that shouldn’t be on the internet or devices that are vulnerable to being hacked. Its...
Friday, 18 October 2013
After deprecating Image Charts within Map Charts, Google has added Geochart & Geomap as part of the Google Visualization API. A Geochart is rendered within the browser using SVG or VML while Geomap is rendered using an embeddable Flash player. Both types of maps don't allow dragging or scrolling.I adapted a code sample meant to show a chosen State in USA to highlight a chosen State in India.You can adapt the original sample to...
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