Blue Bugle: Mobile, Desktop & Web Technologies

Have you noticed our PDF documents appearing on some of our blog posts? I create a PDF file (which may be a public speech or any other important document available in the public domain) and I upload that PDF to a storage service. I then make the file available in a blog post by embedding a specific piece of code. In this post, let me tell you ways you can embed PDF and by extension other files (spreadsheets, presentations, etc.) on your blog. Let me make a riveting thrilling story from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle available to you through a PDF embedded file on this post. As a first step, if your document is not in the PDF format, you need to convert it. You can use any of the freely available PDF converters out there. Some popular PDF printers are CutePDF , BullZip Printer , PDF Creator , etc. Once you have the PDF file ready, you can use any of these services to get it uploaded—Slideshare.net or a cloud storage service  like Google Drive or Dropbox. Slideshare Method Slideshare ...

All the time, these companies out there, Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and what not, come up with miscalculated product innovations and in some cases plain gaffes, and in the end, they end up apologizing to their customers for their mistakes. Let’s look at a few of the famous apologies in this post. We are not targeting regular apologies due to natural product failures, but outright gaffes and arrogant wrongdoings that caused companies to apologize. Apple iPhone, the Original & Its Price In 2007, Apple released its groundbreaking product, the iPhone for the first time and they set its price at 600 dollars. It should be noted that Apple iPhone became one of the hottest selling products in history, thanks to Apple fans that run into billions. Within two months, Steve Jobs, the deceased former CEO of Apple, slashed the price of iPhone from 600 to 400. The millions and millions who purchased iPhone for 600 dollars stood with gaping mouths and fingers up their brain. They fel...

WCIT (World Conference on International Telecommunications) is about to be held in Dubai, from 3rd to 14th of December, 2012. Next month, this conference, held by ITU (The International Telecommunications Union), a body of the United Nations, is widely believed to spell the end of the free Internet as we know it. Is there truth to this? Google firmly disagrees  this move by ITU and WCIT. Facebook should disagree as well, and so should YouTube! What is going on really? There are proposals in WCIT that may be passed and if done could cause catastrophic effects on online business as we know it. Three fourth of 193 participants (country governments) of the current ITU WCIT should agree on the proposals to make them official. The first edition of the conference was held in Melbourne in 1988, and it made the Internet that we know today—an entity not ruled by anyone anywhere in the world, a place where people have the freedom of speech and innovation. The new conference received a n...

If you are holding your Apple’s new iPhone 5, the latest entrant of Apple’s products, you may be wondering how slick and vibrantly modern the device is. iPhone 5, just as any Apple product, is designed like a next generation device and manufactured with the precision of a Rolex. Many have wondered why iPhone is so luxurious. Why is Apple iPhone so expensive? Only the details of the parts that make up the smartphone will reveal why it is so costly. In this edition of Blue Bugle, let’s look at the parts of iPhone 5 and see what each costs. iFixit has recently torn down the iPhone and studied its parts. A market research firm, iSuppli has published the details of various parts of iPhone with its price. The breakdown is as follows: the component Details 16 GB model 32 GB model 64 GB model The Touchscreen display 4 inch LCD IPS display panel $44 $44 $44 Memory (Flash storage memory) NAND Flash internal storage $10.4 $20.8 $41.6 Main memory 1 GB (LPDDR) RAM $10.4...

Doesn’t it look quite so difficult to believe if someone offered you cloud storage for hundreds of gigabytes absolutely free? Symform  is a cloud storage company that offers exactly that. You have to pay no money to get cloud storage from Symform; all you pay them is extra storage space available on your computer. Symform has created this revolutionary idea of storing others’ files right on your computer as a means of networked storage (which is known as cooperative storage cloud). I have got questions in my inbox from people asking whether this is really true or if any scam is involved. It seemed to most too good to be true. Let’s look at the details in this post. The Basic Idea It’s an interesting idea. Let’s assume you need 10 GB of cloud storage. To get that 10 GB free, you have to sign up with Symform and allocate 20 GB from your computer for the Symform network. That is a 2:1 ratio that you have to maintain. Symform takes twice the amount of space you need in cloud fr...

So, here it is: Android is an operating system (the software) that runs on a phone, and phone is just your regular smartphone. Now in detail… You know, even if something becomes insanely popular there will always be people asking what it is… Last week someone told me that they heard about a new company called ‘Google’ and the big thing about it was that it makes mobile phones. ‘Maybe made-in-china type dimwit phones,’ that someone told me. A lot of the phone users out there (smartphone users and regular mobile phone users) are readers of this blog. In that case, most people assume that people know what Android is, what iOS is, and so on. However, there are people who are new to this industry and are always wondering what these mobile technologies really are? Here is an introductory post into Google’s Android operating system telling you exactly what an Android phone is. In order for a phone to work, it needs hardware as well as software. Without software, a smartphone is essen...

If you are using the Internet Explorer, Office Excel, True Type Fonts, IIS, or the now out-of-date Windows Briefcase, your computer may be subjected to security attacks. No sooner has Microsoft released its Windows 8 and RT versions than the security flaws of this OS were revealed. At the beginning of this month, Microsoft’s Security TechCenter  revealed the possible security flaws on Windows 8 and has released necessary patches. Here is what you need to do to immediately secure your Windows computer. If you wish to get notifications on any of the latest Windows security issues, subscribe to this newsletter . Most of these issues cause ‘remote code execution’ that helps an attacker, such as a hacker or a virus, work on your system like it belongs to him. On computers, the attack by a virus occurs when you start a program, and this program is an executable file (one with the file extension .exe or .dll in some other cases). When a program is executing on your computer, i...