How Mark Zuckerberg Started

How Mark Zuckerberg really started is not how the movie The Social Network showed it.

http://fundersandfounders.com/how-mark-zuckerberg-started/

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Mark Zuckerberg meets a computer

His father, although not an engineer, was an early computer enthusiast. Running a dental office he had a vision that computers would change the way people communicate. But for the time being he used them for taking scanning people’s mouths. At age 10 Mark was bored with school. His father noticed and introduced him to his Altair computer. Together they wrote a program that connected the computer at home with the computer in the office. They called it “ZuckNet.” It alerted doctor Z, as he is known, when a patient arrived. It worked better than having the receptionist yell, “Patient here!”

Mark Zuckerberg starts hacking
Mark quickly learned everything his father knew about computers. He started studying with a tutor. Then he started taking a college class in computer science while still in middle school. He read books. But he really started learning to code when he transferred to a private school where he met a programming whiz kid Adam D’Angelo. Together they started hacking. They made an artificially intelligent music player that learned the user’s music taste. Soon Microsoft found out about it and offered money and a job. Zuckerberg was not interested.

There is a running theme in how Mark Zuckerberg started. He would be offered millions and even billions at least 11 times since then, and every time he walked away. He might have a bigger plan every time.
Source: The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World

Wow - Dual Boot MIUI and Cyanogenmod (any rom) on Mi3 !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eL2zdFSHznc

To get all stock again of MIUI v5 follow the guide over here - https://youtu.be/5sT-rcTHoTM

FOLLOW ALL THE STEPS CAREFULLY AND DON'T SKIP ANYTHING !

You can dual boot with MIUI 5 and MIUI 6 too using this method !

Cyanogenmod thread - http://sh.st/yRLyp

[ Skip the ad you get after clicking on link - Only 1 paid link per video (Just to keep me alive on YouTube) ]

All the downloads are available there.

Gapps - http://goo.gl/tLuJLX

If you are on MIUI 5 and want to upgrade to MIUI 6 then check this video MIUI 6 flashing guide - http://goo.gl/ZnF0t1

For CWM - http://en.miui.com/thread-19405-1-1.html

How to flash CWM ?
Download the CWM_recovery_r7_cancro_final.zip 
Then put this in the sd card and then 

Goto settings - About phone -System updates - then click option -- Select update package and then select the CWM zip file !!

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Xiaomi Mi3 Gaming review - http://goo.gl/L5WSMp

Xiaomi Mi3 Gaming review part 2 - http://goo.gl/JYQoLj

Xiaomi Mi3 Root - http://goo.gl/GQzpxK

Xiaomi Mi3 Tips, Tricks, Features (Software) - http://goo.gl/JYnPsJ

Xiaomi Mi3- Google Now launcher - http://goo.gl/67JWv9

MIUI 6 official - http://goo.gl/ZnF0t1

Android KitKat vs Android Lollipop

http://richdemuro.com/2014/10/26/side-by-side-android-kitkat-vs-android-l-10-screenshots/

Android Lollipop (5.0) marks a big improvement for the operating system. It’s the first time Google has put a big emphasis on beautiful design – or as they call it, “material design.”

To illustrate what the changes look like, I loaded a developer preview edition of Lollipop onto a Nexus 5 and put it side by side with a Moto X (not 100% stock but pretty close). Remember, this is not the final edition of the Lollipop operating system and things can change before it’s released “in the coming weeks.”

Note: KitKat is on the left, Lollipop on the right.

1. Homescreen
You’ll notice the status bar has a slightly different look, as does the Google Search bar, Google Now and the menu buttons at the bottom of the screen. The shapes are now much simpler and clean looking. Also, notice the homescreen dots – they are no longer bigger to indicate which screen you are on, just bolder.

2. Google Now
You’ll see some of the most dramatic changes here. On the right, Lollipop information is easier to grasp in an instant, with the most important stuff in strong text and highlighted in bold colors. (Side note, what a terrible loss)

3. Dialer
Dialer looks cleaner, numbers are spaced out a bit more for more comfortable dialing. Also, there are less choices on screen. Gone are the recent and menu options. There is no doubt where to press the call button.

4. Quick Settings
Some excellent and useful changes here. Everything is clean looking and you get instant access to your most important toggles including brightness. On the right in Lollipop you’ll notice the addition of a flashlight (yay!) and Cast Screen is now part of the defaults for easily screen slinging to Chromecast. The “user” toggle is now smaller and up near the top of the screen.

5. Notifications Pull Down
Here’s what it looks like after you just took a screenshot and pull down on the notifications bar. Material design is apparent on the right in Lollipop as you can clearly see the distinction between the three parts of the notification: the explanation at the top, the snippet in the middle and the action option at the bottom. Also, notice the toggle to clear all notifications has moved below them, which makes it easier to clear them using one hand on a giant phone screen (Nexus 6 et al).

6. Battery
Battery stats are a bit easier to understand on the right, plus Android Lollipop will give you an approximation of how much time you have left to use your phone. Apparently, battery life is much improved in this update. Additionally, while you charge your phone both this screen and the lock screen tell you how much time it will take until your phone is fully charged.

7. Clock
Just a little cleanup here, plus I noticed the background color seems to change based on the time you’re looking at the clock. Also, the globe icon at the bottom has changed to match Material Design standards.

8. Settings

9. Storage
Not too many visible changes here, but an overall clean and clear look. Also, gone is the “gear” icon since it doesn’t seem to match the simplicity of Android 5.0 Material Design.

10. Interruptions
One of the more useful additions to Lollipop (both screenshots are from 5.0). It’s their version of Apple’s “Do Not Disturb,” but offers even more functionality (BTW, if you aren’t getting Lollipop anytime soon check out a fantastic Android app called Agent that does some of this). You can schedule quiet times for your phone or allow only certain “priority” callers and messages to ring your device. There are various ways you can customize here. Additionally, when you adjust the volume on your device, you now have the option to toggle “interruptions” (aka notifications) off for an indefinite or timed amount of time, or only allow interruptions from your priority list.

Conclusion
This is by no means a full review of Lollipop, just a fun look at some of the changes in store for Android users. Overall, the look and feel is best described as a combination of clean and useful. There isn’t a lot of unnecessary stuff floating around – until, of course, OEM’s get their hands on it!

It feels more like a modern day operating system, and less like an “operating system.”

GMail vs GInbox - One Father Two Sons

http://en.miui.com/thread-59488-1-1.html

We all have have our inboxes filled  of email, right?

1000+ of emails and its not at all easy to figure out the important ones :)

So coming to the point.

Here we are comparing two apps named Gmail 5.0  and  the new Inbox .

Taking about Gmail 5.0 First

Gmail

After being teased back at Google I/O and then appearing in numerous images here and there, as well as being featured in a ROM built for the Nexus 4, we can finally talk about its beauty (and new functionality). In case you were wondering, yes, this is the Material Design update with ripples, layers and transitions that also includes support for Exchange and other email accounts like Yahoo, Outlook, AOL, etc. You now have an all-in-one email client on Android that has been built by the Gmail team. How awesome does that sound?

Taking About The Structure

The first thing you will notice is the big, beautiful red action bar at the top of the app that blends into the status bar. We have a pulled out hamburger menu icon, a move that seems to be born from Material Design. Tap that icon or swipe from the left and you expose the slideout menu that houses your accounts (including Outlook, Yahoo, etc.) and email categories/tags.

This is How You Submit Different Accounts

The rest of the app is mostly the same, in terms of settings, notifications, and swiping. I didn’t notice any new settings or options in notifications, plus the swipe-to-archive/delete is the same. You still won’t find swipes across messages that can do multiple actions, like you will in Google’s new Inbox app.

Options Avaliable

Inbox

Inbox is a new interface of Google, which intelligently categorises your email, allows you to hide messages until later and highlights the most important information from your inbox.

Do I get a new email address?

No, Google Inbox is really just a new interface for your existing Gmail account.

You keep your existing address, and you can even still use the regular Gmail interface if you wish.

Google say the standard Gmail interface isn't going anywhere - Inbox is an optional extra.

1. Snooze emails

Previously seen in third-party clients (most notably Mailbox), Inbox lets you snooze emails to deal with later—it's the same as archiving Emails except these messages pop back into view after a predefined time. In the apps, swipe left on a thread; on the webs,click the clock icon. Available options include later today, tomorrow, next week or some day. The email remains snoozed until you manually move it back.

2. Enhanced Search engine

As with the main Google portal, the idea is that you don't even need to finish your search to see the information you need.

3. Create reminder

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Reminders are a Google Now feature really, but they make it into Google Inbox as well. You can create simple reminders that hang around as sticky posts in the Inbox view and the Pinned view. Unfortunately, there's no ability to associate a reminder with a particular time, date or location (as you can in Google Now) so presumably Google will improve this feature over time.

4.Pin emails

Pinned emails are to Inbox what starred emails are to standard Gmail. You can quickly view pinned messages—"emails you need to get back to" in the words of Google—by toggling the master switch at the top of the Inbox interface on Web and mobile. Emails that you've snoozed are automatically pinned and show up in the same view as well as any reminders that you've created.

5. Use the Low Priority label

It's likely that a lot of the email traffic that arrives in your inbox is "low priority" and Google does make some attempt to sift out automatic emails, special offers, confirmation messages, social updates and the like. Inbox introduces a new Low Priority label that you can use instead of or alongside bundles like Social and Promotions. Find it on the app's main menu to activate it.

6. Building bundles

 

Bundles are another of the headline features of Inbox but you might find yourself a little wary of the way they automatically hoover up many of your incoming messages. They're like the preset tabs in the Gmail Priority Inbox, but they stay in line with your other messages. You can move individual emails to and from these bundles, and (as with Priority Inbox) each time you do this the app will ask if you want to sort these kinds of emails automatically in the future.

Conclusion

Over all Its an awesome & worthy upgrade for me.

The new inbox  looks far too much impresive to be ignored; initially you need to have an Invite :)

Enjoy.

A new app that claims to tell when you will die

http://ibnlive.in.com/news/a-new-app-that-claims-to-tell-when-you-will-die/510516-11.html

Developers of a new app claim it can determine the date of your death by analysing data on your lifestyle, height, blood pressure, sleep and physical activity.

The app, called Deadline, uses iPhone's Healthkit to "determine your date of expiration."

Healthkit tool records statistical information, like the user's height and diastolic blood pressure, and monitors their sleep and the amount of steps they take in a day.

The Deadline app analyses data on your lifestyle, height, blood pressure, sleep and physical activity.

Using this data and a short survey with more questions about their lifestyle, the app determines the approximate date and time of a person's demise, and then counts down how much time they have left, 'bustle.com' reported.

The app's developers Gist LLC pointed out in the product's description, "no app can really accurately determine when you will die."

Instead, the company suggests using the app as a way to monitor your own health and motivate yourself to make better lifestyle choices or consult a physician, if necessary. Users can change their predicted date of death by following a healthy diet and an active exercise routine.

SHAREit

Website

http://kc.lenovo.com/

Android App

http://kc.lenovo.com/AnyShare-Lenovo-Phone-KCWEB.apk
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lenovo.anyshare.gps&hl=en

Iphone App

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lenovo-shareit/id725215120?mt=8

Windows Exe

http://kc.lenovo.com/SHAREitSetup.exe

The world's fastest way to share photos, apps and more across devices… without network charges or Wi-Fi connection.
Lenovo SHAREit eliminates the need for cables to wirelessly transfer information rapidly between devices – either with friends, or to take your personal content on the go.

• Share everything with other devices – pictures, videos, music files, documents, contacts… even apps(Android only)!
• Devices with SHAREit can automatically find each other when in range.
• Transfer HUGE files and videos in seconds… up to 60x faster than Bluetooth®.
• Share without the need for Bluetooth, phone network or active Wi-Fi network… you don't pay a cent for network charges. Devices wirelessly connect directly.
• Even the app itself can be shared to other devices wirelessly, and rapid sharing can begin immediately.

How Einstein Started

http://fundersandfounders.com/how-einstein-started/

Einstein’s start in life, if boiled down to a formula, would be something like this:


http://fundersandfounders.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/how-einstein-started-infographic.png

Tinkering with a compass + contempt for school and authority + thought experiments + having an office next to a clock tower and a train station + a government job with a boss who turned a blind eye to what he did at work = genius.

Thinking Visually

There is more to it, according to Walter Isaacson, the biographer, Einstein was an obsessive reader. There was a school that practiced a new teaching method – a visual thinking method. There was a lover,  the only female physics student, who became a sounding board for Einstein’s early work. There was an uncle who was an electrical engineer, letting Einstein ticker with lights.  And another rich uncle in Belgium who was certain Albert was a prodigy ever since he was a kid.

How Einstein Really Started – A Thought Experiment

But what was at the beginning of it all? According to Walter Isaacson’s book, it was a compass. A five-year old Albert was lying in bed sick when his father brought him a compass to play with. Albert asked how it worked. No, just saying that compasses work because of Earth’s magnetic field was not enough. He wanted to know how it really worked.  He wanted to visualize it.

Since that encounter with a compass, and many books later, there was one book that especially stuck Albert’s imagination. So much that he started visualizing in his head everything he read in it. This book was People’s Book on Natural Science. The author specifically asked his reader to take an imaginary trip through space. And Einstein did. At 15, while walking around Italian countryside, he first imagined what it would be like to ride along a beam of light. That was his first thought experiment, one of many more that would later make him who he became.

About his thought experiments, Einstein famously said;

 The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Get Gmail 5.0 for Android right now

http://www.cnet.com/how-to/get-gmail-5-0-for-android-right-now/

Editors' Note, November 3, 2014: The link to the Gmail 5.0 APK has been updated to point to a newer version.

The newest version of the Gmail app features auto-updating email threads, the ability to add accounts from other email providers and Exchange support. This means that you'll no longer need to use two separate apps to access your email.

Want to try it out? Luckily, Android Police has just acquired the Android package (APK) of Gmail 5.0, and has shared it on its APK Mirror website. This means you can get a copy of it now and don't have to wait for the update through Google Play.

The APK is signed by Google, which guarantees its authenticity.

Here's how to get started:

Setup

Grab a copy of Gmail 5.0 from APKMirror. Once the download finishes, tap the notification and then press the Install button. This APK is signed and authentic, meaning that it will upgrade the version of Gmail you currently have installed.

                                                     Adding an account in Gmail 5.0.

After the app introduction, you'll be prompted to sign in. You can use your current Gmail if you want to get into the app right away or you can add accounts from other providers. The new version of Gmail supports accounts from Yahoo, Outlook, AOL Mail and others that use IMAP/POP. However, these accounts will not use push notifications, and you'll be asked to set a sync interval.

                                                     Switch between accounts.

If you add multiple accounts, you can switch between them by opening the left-hand slide-out menu and swiping across your profile banner. You can also tap the small arrow and choose an account from the list.

Exchange support

If you want to add Exchange support to your Gmail client, you'll need to download an additional APK.

If you installed Gmail 5.0 first, you may need to force stop your Gmail app in order for it to recognize the Exchange capabilities. This can be done by going to Settings > Applications > Gmail > Force stop.

After this, you'll be able to add your Exchange accounts just like the others above.

This new version is very similar to the last, save for the Material design and under-the-hood account support.

Google launches Indian Language Internet Alliance (ILIA); showcases Hindi voice search

Google has announced the creation of Indian Language Internet Alliance (ILIA), in partnership with leading Indian technology and content companies, to promote the growth of of Indic-language content on the Internet.

Network 18 is one of the founding members of this initiative and is represented by IBN Khabar and MoneyControl Hindi.

ILIA wants to be able to turn 300 million Indian language speakers into active Internet users by 2017 and the alliance would work towards accelerate building of Indic language content.

To support its effort in showcasing Indian language content on the web, Google announced the launch of www.hindiweb.com, which, according to the company, would enable Hindi speaking Internet users to discover the best Hindi content across websites, apps, videos and blogs. Google also demonstrated Voice Search in Hindi, at its event in New Delhi.

According to Google's figures, there are over 200 million Internet users in India, about 16 per cent of its population of 1.2 billion. Practically all of the India's English-speaking population of 198 million is already online. The remaining 90 per cent of Indians who are not online tend not to be English speakers.

Google, which currently offers voice search in English, has also added Hindi language service and plans to add other languages like Tamil, Marathi and Bengali to the list in coming months.

"India has about 200 million Internet users with about 5 million new users being added every month with 100 per cent coming through mobile devices. At this pace, India will overtake the US in terms of number of users in the next 12 months," Google India Vice President and Managing Director Rajan Anandan told reporters here.

However, only 198 million people in the country are estimated to be proficient in English with most of them already on the Internet, he added. With that in mind, the Indian Language Internet Alliance (ILIA) has been formed, he said.

APK Mirror

http://www.apkmirror.com/

Gmail 5.0 With Exchange Support And Material Design Has Landed [APK Download]

http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/10/31/gmail-5-0-exchange-support-material-design-landed-apk-download/

The day is finally upon us - the Gmail 5.0 APK has landed, and we have it for your (production-signed) downloading pleasure.

As we've expected since we first saw the app more than a week ago, the new Gmail is very... "material." It's got a FAB, the beautiful thread interface we've come to know and love from Inbox, and a drawer that complies with guidelines.

  

But Gmail's beauty isn't only skin deep - the app holds some new features, too. The first one we noticed is of course support for corporate/exchange accounts, a capability that obviates the stock email app and promises to unite all your inboxes under one roof (unless of course you're using Inbox, which supports neither Exchange nor Google Apps accounts).

 

There may be even more goodies hiding in the new app, but while we dig around, head to the download below to get it for yourself. Note that if you want to enable Exchange support you'll need to install both of the APKs listed below.

Download

The APKs are signed by Google and upgrade your existing app. The cryptographic signatures guarantee that the files are safe to install and were not tampered with in any way. Rather than wait for Google to push the download to your devices, which can take days, download and install these just like any other APK.

File name: com.google.android.gm-5.0_(1520254)-5000600-minAPI14.apk

Version: 5.0 (1520254)

• APK Mirror

File name: com.google.android.gm.exchange-6.5-1520254-500064-minAPI14.apk

Version: 6.5-1520254

• APK Mirror