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Apple AirPods with Case Apple introduced AirPod after killing the century old headphone jack. This is really a bold move by apple by repeating their courageous tradition of removing what doesn't make their products great. It stirred up internet anger and also raised some eyebrows. Large number people are angry, but few are quite impressed by the technology and its future with apple. Lets read from a Quora user  Jeffrey Kantor  in his insightful answer there at Quora [ Link ]: It may seem like just another bluetooth ear bud, but look again at the technologies embedded in the AirPod. It senses when it’s in your ear, uses accelerometers to detect motion. With a tap the beam-forming microphone accepts input to the Siri assistant which, like the Amazon Echo, is rapidly becoming a primary user interface to the internet. AirPods sync across all your Apple devices via iCloud placing the AirPod as a peer to the Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch. It’s an iPhone in your ear. ...

Payoneer has recently started asking for a Refund Policy if you want to continue receiving money from clients using their platform. Here’s the refund policy I follow: The entire amount will be refunded if I can’t manage schedules after accepting a project. I accept payment by milestones, there will be no refund for milestones completed (as agreed by the client). If I can not finish the project within deadline, the client can ask for refund of the current milestone and they can end the contract

Hello! Here's another doodle. It categorizes the people based on how they keep their desktop and folders organized. and there are others who love to keep their desktop like chaotic mess.  Both have their own arguments to defend the situation. Check it out: I, being a computer user keep the desktop and every folder on files system clean and organized, ie this let me find anything within few clicks and doesn't require me to remember everything, like where did I put the timeline of particular project. Let us know in the comments how you prefer your desktop organization.

Hey guys, Here's our first doodle entry. There're many types of pointer tracking available on modern personal computer operating systems, like mouse, trackball, trackpad or touchpad, track point, joystick, graphic tablet, stylus etc. Two of them are very popular. 1. Mouse 2. Trackpad or Touchpad Mouse being the most traditional and conventional pointing device is very popular among computer users, but the advancements of laptops and notebooks the trackpad has been becoming more popular and giving the users more independence and portability. User can switch between these any time by pressing the keyboard functional keys. The people who're used to any of these find themselves more comfortable using their desired device and sometimes the opposite device can be very frustrating. We've categories these two types of people in our today doodle, check it out and let us know what do you use typically and are more comfortable with. There're two types of people. ...

There's so much to love about the new all-metal MacBook released in March 2015. Its the redesigned version of late 2009 MacBook, which was silently discontinued by introducing the Macbook Air. The new Macbook targets all the educational and consumer markets. It has many cool features as follow: All metal: Its the first ever macbook to come with all metal. So aren't the existing all-metal? no, they're not, the  hinge mechanism  has  some  plastic in it, as well as a plastic cover. Retina: It has stunning 12-inch retina display. Colors:  yesss, we love them, the first ever MacBook to come in three colors, Silver, Gold, Space Grey. Better Stereo Speaker: Unlike Macbook Air that has speaker hidden in vents near the hinge, the speakers in MacBook are above the keyboard, which throws music right at you. USB-C port: basically a new all in one port for charging, video sharing and data transfer. Others: Full size keyboard, New trackpad. Now the qu...

Hi, Android Speech Bubble example Today I'm going to discuss how to make a ListView with speech bubble same as native android message app or some other apps out there. First of all we need to discuss the making of a row layout with speech bubble. How to make Speech Bubble? Well that is the most interesting part of the development. I've already posted a blog post about how to make 9 patch image of speech bubble, you can find that post here. Android How to use 9 patch png? Here we will discuss how to use them in our application. You will copy them into your project in relevant  hdpi, ldpi, xhdpi and mdpi folders accordingly. Now we come to the coding part. We need to make simple ListActivity with ListView . There are lot of tutorials available: Vogella ListView Tutorial TechnoTalkative ListView and lot more. You can f ind customizat ion of the ListView there too. Here I'll discuss the Adapter part of the ListView  only. What is Adapt...

Hi, 2nd blog post after almost 1.5 year :) Today I'm going to discuss about 9 patch image and how to use 9 patch png in android apps. What is 9 patch? 9 patch is technique used to scale the image in such a way that the 4 corners remain unscaled, but the four edges are scaled in one axis and the middle is scaled in both axis. So the graphical representation of this scenario will be something like this: Icon when divided into 9  patch Simple Icon file The image at left side when divided into 9 patch will look like the image at the right side. Now the interesting part, the four corners of the image will be remain unscaled and the edges will be scaled in single axis, which may be X or Y. and the center of the 9 patch image will be scaled in both axis. Now we include an image which will represent the parts of image unscaled, scaled into Y axis and scaled into Y and scaled into both direction with color differentiation. Here it is. 9 ...