Is Apple gaining over Windows?

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Well, this might not be a probable question for those of who are native OS user or Windows user (specifically for those who are using Windows 7 or before). Whilst I have been a native Windows user for about good 13 years, there have been a few concerns over the workability of the Windows operating system. 

As we already know, all most every new Windows laptop comes with a factory configuration of Windows 8 or Windows 8.1 with or without touch-screen and it is almost impossible to downgrade to Windows 7. You may say:

"But I do not have touchscreen! neither do I like!.."

But trust me you are not missing out a lot by this time. Touch screen evaluation came when the Windows 8 rolled out to break the pressure of quite long period without a successful Windows version launch after the domination of Windows 7. Although it consists of metro style interface that works basically with the Windows apps, which is again still in its early stages. Most of the time you want to search for an app in the store, my experience is;

"You won't find it!.."

Of course you won't get a better touch-screen or any touch capability in Mac laptops either but is that a problem? For the moment No since they have not optimised the OS yet for metro style interfaces hence not been an issue. Just to add to the point, personally, I am currently using a Dell inspiron 7537 with touch-screen capabilities but I hardly ever use the touch-screen. Again this might not be the case with everyone out there but the context is the same.

The BiG point is..

What is the life after Windows 7 for Microsoft and for us, the users?

As a regular Windows user for general and development work I have seen a number of failures in Windows in the past 2 years, but not in my old Windows 7 laptop though.

•  If the all hailed Start button is removed you expect to have a proper alternative which never appeared as yet. 

Crucially I have questions on the reliability of Windows 8 and recent 8.1 update. 

• Once there was an instance it locked me out for around 2 hours without been able to identify my Live account credentials and asking me to reset. Neither did it sort itself out after a password reset online which eventually resolved after a time-out! (Windows 8.1)
• There have been certain occasions where programmes went  not responding while I was in a crucial stage of the same  (exists in all Windows versions to date whilst it is minimal now)
• Windows Recovery image tool literally destroyed my portable Hitachi 1TB hard drive where I had to spend hours for data recovery using Linux! (occurred with Windows 8.1)

• There has been an instance my Windows 8.1 internet connectivity completely went off after adjusting some power management settings only by tweaking available Windows options. This occurred while I am having a reliable Kaspersky virus guard on so that no malware or virus issue played but not solved through latest driver updates either. It was eventually sorted with a complete Windows Refresh. 

What does the market share analysis report?..

reference: www.netmarketshare.com

Apple guys any comments?

How to turn on Facebook Graph Search theme in 3 easy steps

Hello folks, if you were fancy using one of the most discussed facebook feature called "Graph Search" but if you've been waiting for this to happen, just follow the below steps.

1). Click the settings icon (gear symbol to your top right hand side of the Facebook page) and select Account Settings

2). You will be under the "General" settings. Just change the language to English(US) - ok now bear with this if you want the Graph Search since they haven't rolled out the feature yet for English(UK)

 3). Click Save Changes button and you will notice the theme changes at the same time!

and that is such a useful feature, or it's going to be..

Will the Samsung's flagship product take over the smartphone market?

Samsung, the current global leader in Smartphones sales who have beaten the all time undispute record holder Apple inc, is apparently drawing it's layouts for the future.  

Samsung released the Galaxy SIII in May 2012 leading the smartphone market and have eventually become Samsung's best flagship product yet along side with Galaxy Note II which got released in following September.Samsung sold recording 18 million units in 2012 Q3 whereas Apple managed 16.2M sales.

"Designed by Humans, Inspired By Nature" the slogan of the SIII played a fair part of being such for real, when some other slogans have just been left as slogans. Personally for me this been the best phone so far, I believe this has increased my efficiency in a positive way. It seems like the manufacturer have done a proper market research, people research and products research to enhance the most wanted features in an adequate manner. 

My favourites and most useful: 

• Smart stay - being the most useful feature as I tend to read articles, news updates and social media through the phone and it stays awake knowing that I am looking at it. Great!!
• Calender application ; being so user friendly, colourful and easy to organise
• Social media defaults such as Flipboard; being the most attractive way to read the news, social media and updates like never before. The feeling and view such as you are reading a proper news paper or magazine which has all your favourites and subscriptions. Isn't that a cool thing?
• Voice commands for apps - very useful for applications such as Camera. All you need is to say cheese/ capture/ shoot etc and you can hold your phone in your favourite agnle and leave the capturing part to the phone. Quite good when I can never reach the capture button for self-portraits or different angles.  Also for most other apps this works pretty well such as saying play/pause/next will operate the media player from distance.
• Easiness of typing using predictive text and Samsung swipe keyboard, also the bigger digital number pad
• Proper customisation features I always wanted such as overall font size, menu organising, favourites etc
• Regular device and application updates
• Enormous level of supportability and compatibility with almost any file
• Rich and colourful display and screen size, making it easier to view or organise - Web browsing is easier too, as it provides automatic zooming-in for tabs which are hard to hit. Personally I prefer to use the Google's Chrome browser.
• Powerful feel when I can run many different applications without having to worry about the available memory or processing power
• Quality of Skype video calling is as never before.. well, you need to experience that
• All the animations have been designed to feel natural and not to exaggerate
• Easy task killer - One press of the main button will open the very user-friendly task killer where you just need to swipe out the application.

 Aren't these the options that anyone would love to have in any phone, or most of the mobile users? I am not quite sure what more you can expect from a Blackberry as it is used to be the most secure way of electronic communication. But can it support the features like above which any person including business man would love to have?

Again, Samsung is laying out the release of S4 which will be composed of 8 cores with 4 1.8GHz for heavy process sentric functions and four cores of 1.2GHz for general purpose light to medium functions. This would anyway be a 4G LTE probably with a slightly larger 4.99'' screen with 1080p rather than SIII's 720p. And a improved camera such as 13MP for sure which is used in Sony Xperia ZL.

Below is a leaked image of the SIII vs S4 I could find online.

As you can notice, the shape has been differed slightly, probably to facilitate the slightly bigger screen size in a comfortable manner. By the look this is more like the S2 but with huge improvements.

  By February, the SIII will complete a good 10 months period and I would presume the new release will due in March / April which is said to be the biggest releasing event yet to witness.

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