MUST HAVE ANDROID APPS

Top 5 android applications that are quite interesting

Yay! Free stuff! Everyone loves free stuff. And there's plenty of it on Android, with more than 927,000 free apps available in the Google Play store right now.

1. GOOGLE TRANSLATE

We've seen a few clever translation apps in our time, but recently Google Translate has crushed them all. It now offers (sometimes clunky, word-for-word) translations of over 70 languages with input via text, handwritten words or symbols, spoken words or even text recognition via the camera. It can then give you the translation in the form of text or speak it for you.
The core app can do all this with a data connection, and language packs can be downloaded for free so you can use it abroad without the need for Wi-Fi or the fear of roaming data charges.

2. NASA App



This isn't the best looking app in the world, but it's full of geek-level info and media from the NASA archive, along with news and updates on what's going on up there and back at base. Maybe one day they'll get a slick front end for it all, but for now this raggle-taggle collection of links, pictures, videos and news feeds has plenty to keep space cadets informed and entertained.

3. TWICKETS


Twickets is a way to buy or sell spare tickets to gigs or events, but what makes it special is the rule that tickets can only change hands for their face value or less. That means the profiteering touts stay away and genuine fans get to recyle spares in good faith - great if one of your mates has dropped out and left you in the lurch, or you need an extra seat at short notice.
You can browse what's available or offer tickets via the app and finalise the deal via Twitter (hence the name).

4. Audible for Android



Long journey? Tired eyes? Audio books! A bit like radio shows that you actually want to listen to, a bit like podcasts before all the funny people stopped doing them, a bit like books being read to you (OK, mostly the latter), audio books are a treat to be savoured.
Amazon's Audible app is a gateway to its own audio book service, drawing you in with free tasters of some of its best sellers. It's worth downloading even if it's only for those free nibbles.

5. Navfree


You've got Google Maps already and that's lovely. However, that relies on a data connection, which isn't always available even in your home nation and will sting you with ludicrous charges abroad. Navfree is based on an open-source map database and provides mapping and voice-guided sat-nav for no cash at all.
You can load it with paid extras if you like, but it's fine as it is. Download the local variant for any country you're visiting before you leave and you'll always have a map and a sat-nav tool at your hip.

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Pranav Mistry's Sixth Sense Technology

'SixthSense' is a wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world around us with digital information and lets us use natural hand gestures to interact with that information.

We've evolved over millions of years to sense the world around us. When we encounter something, someone or some place, we use our five natural senses to perceive information about it; that information helps us make decisions and chose the right actions to take. But arguably the most useful information that can help us make the right decision is not naturally perceivable with our five senses, namely the data, information and knowledge that mankind has accumulated about everything and which is increasingly all available online. Although the miniaturization of computing devices allows us to carry computers in our pockets, keeping us continually connected to the digital world, there is no link between our digital devices and our interactions with the physical world. Information is confined traditionally on paper or digitally on a screen. SixthSense bridges this gap, bringing intangible, digital information out into the tangible world, and allowing us to interact with this information via natural hand gestures. ‘SixthSense’ frees information from its confines by seamlessly integrating it with reality, and thus making the entire world your computer.

The SixthSense prototype is comprised of a pocket projector, a mirror and a camera. The hardware components are coupled in a pendant like mobile wearable device. Both the projector and the camera are connected to the mobile computing device in the user’s pocket. The projector projects visual information enabling surfaces, walls and physical objects around us to be used as interfaces; while the camera recognizes and tracks user's hand gestures and physical objects using computer-vision based techniques. The software program processes the video stream data captured by the camera and tracks the locations of the colored markers (visual tracking fiducials) at the tip of the user’s fingers using simple computer-vision techniques. The movements and arrangements of these fiducials are interpreted into gestures that act as interaction instructions for the projected application interfaces. The maximum number of tracked fingers is only constrained by the number of unique fiducials, thus SixthSense also supports multi-touch and multi-user interaction.

The SixthSense prototype implements several applications that demonstrate the usefulness, viability and flexibility of the system. The map application lets the user navigate a map displayed on a nearby surface using hand gestures, similar to gestures supported by Multi-Touch based systems, letting the user zoom in, zoom out or pan using intuitive hand movements. The drawing application lets the user draw on any surface by tracking the fingertip movements of the user’s index finger. SixthSense also recognizes user’s freehand gestures (postures). For example, the SixthSense system implements a gestural camera that takes photos of the scene the user is looking at by detecting the ‘framing’ gesture. The user can stop by any surface or wall and flick through the photos he/she has taken. SixthSense also lets the user draw icons or symbols in the air using the movement of the index finger and recognizes those symbols as interaction instructions. For example, drawing a magnifying glass symbol takes the user to the map application or drawing an ‘@’ symbol lets the user check his mail. The SixthSense system also augments physical objects the user is interacting with by projecting more information about these objects projected on them. For example, a newspaper can show live video news or dynamic information can be provided on a regular piece of paper. The gesture of drawing a circle on the user’s wrist projects an analog watch.
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Source:www.pranavmistry.com

HISTORY OF IPL-SEASON 3

As era proceeds people start moving towards shortcuts and easy going life which does not take much time the same rule was followed in cricket as time proceeded test matches where converted to one day and then one day matches to 20-20. Well this drastic change was very necessary as nobody gets so much time to sit the whole day and watch a match 20-20 given you the same excitement and fun in a compact form in which you don’t get bored. That is exactly what IPL has done from the last few years the mixture of bollywood and cricket has spiced up the entertainment factor and brings new excitement to people every year.
IPL was launched in the year 2008 and it was in this year when the first IPL match was played. It was Mr. Lalit Modi behind the whole effort which made IPL take the biggest mass entertainment program of the country. The formation of team and the matches involvement of bollywood made the viewers stick to the league for the whole season with no match going as *NO HOUSEFULL*. It had become the biggest business of the country which had effects on both side of the shore.

IRON LADY OF MANIPURA-IROM CHANU

A tube is attached to her nose, from where a calculated dose of food is inserted into her stomach forcefully, in order to keep her breathing and her vital organs alive. Despite her frail structure, which has developed from this condition, Irom Chanu Sharmila continues to be a tough nut for the 13th successive year. The reason she is on fast is her demand that the Indian government should repeal the draconian law that accords the armed forces absolute power in troubled areas.
Her picturesque state Manipur, with most friendly people and rain forests rich in timber and herbs, could have been a picture of peace if not for the simmering conflict between indigenous people and the government. Like all other places that witness separatist insurgency, in which case the government tries to overpower the locals with generous use of force and laws to support it, Manipur has been the hotbed of conflicts since the last five decades, with peace being an intermittently occurring phenomenon. Draconian laws have been revoked in Manipur ever since.
The incident that made Irom Chanu Sharmila both a legend and a victim of the government's conspiracies occurred just before the new millennium completed a year. On November 2, 2000, armed forces killed 10 innocent civilians who were waiting for a bus in Malon, a town close to the capital city of Imphal.
Sharmila, also known as Mengoubi (a fair girl), was onto her regular fasting routine when the news trickled in. She used to go on a day-long fast every Thursday. But that Thursday was going to be historical. Protesting the killings, she continued her fast into the next day, the day after and many days following November 2. Her vital signs deteriorated and the news that she was fasting to force the government to revoke AFSPA (Armed Forces [Special Powers] Act). She was admitted to hospital and a nasogastric intubation was forced down her windpipe to keep her breathing, while under arrest.
Sensing trouble with the growing support to Irom Sharmila, the government charged her with 'attempted suicide' and ensured her days were split between hospital and legal institutions. But what had to happen transpired like droplets of water trickling into a solid rock. With her silence, resilience and consistent efforts, the frail woman had made a dent, and a solid one at that. This poetess with shy eyes and silken skin had turned into a political activist, a human rights activist and also a fighter for civil rights.
And when she completed 500 weeks of continuous fasting, Sharmila even overtook Mahatma Gandhi, the undisputed protagonist of the Indian National Movement and the global icon who stood for peace and non-violence, with her fasting credits. All of 41 years of age, she has been fasting for over 13 years of her life! But her struggle has never been daunted, affected or lost sheen and grit in the absence of food. She has been consistently writing letters to the Indian government and international agencies to press for the revoking of AFSPA, which gives the army absolute power, which has mostly been misused to silence the voices that are demanding a separate state.
AFSPA, the legal provision that has turned Armed forces (read Assam Rifles) from messiah to maniac, was framed before India became independent. The British had created this act to discourage the citizens of the country from participating in the famous Quit India Movement. But that was way back in 1942.
The act was modified a bit in 1958 and amended in 1972, in order to accommodate six sections that accord absolute power to the army, in areas of civil disobedience. Thus was born the monster, which only created mayhem. Armed forces, in order to 'discipline' the citizens who were into activism, used it to snuff out lives indiscriminately, anywhere and everywhere.
Having seen the bloodshed and the temporariness of life, Sharmila decided somebody had to take the lead. And she did. Much to the relief of the people of Manipur, the news travelled far and wide, and national and international organisations began to meet up with her. Her story has become a glowing reference to peaceful activism, globally. Awards soon followed - both from within the country and outside India. There is even a play written on her life that continues to touch the audience throughout the country.
It is a noteworthy fact that Manipur shares its border with Myanmar from where comes another story of political resilience in the form of another soft-looking yet tough woman leader - Aung San Suu Kyi.
Maybe, just maybe, it's in the DNA of the people in this region. They are not the ones to accept a raw deal, be it from the government or the armed forces.

HISTORY OF IPL -SEASON 2

As era proceeds people start moving towards shortcuts and easy going life which does not take much time the same rule was followed in cricket as time proceeded test matches where converted to one day and then one day matches to 20-20. Well this drastic change was very necessary as nobody gets so much time to sit the whole day and watch a match 20-20 given you the same excitement and fun in a compact form in which you don’t get bored. That is exactly what IPL has done from the last few years the mixture of bollywood and cricket has spiced up the entertainment factor and brings new excitement to people every year.
IPL was launched in the year 2008 and it was in this year when the first IPL match was played. It was Mr. Lalit Modi behind the whole effort which made IPL take the biggest mass entertainment program of the country. The formation of team and the matches involvement of bollywood made the viewers stick to the league for the whole season with no match going as *NO HOUSEFULL*. It had become the biggest business of the country which had effects on both side of the shore.

The second season was hosted in south Africa as India had general election so the country government could impart sufficient security to the players. Format was not changed as compared to its 2008 season. In captaincy of Adam Gilchrist, Deccan Chargers won the 2nd edition of IPL. Matthew Hayden won orange cap with 572 runs in his bag. R.P. Singh’s purple cap helped Deccan Chargers to lift the trophy. First time seven and a half minute time out break was introduced in tournament in the middle of each innings.

HISTORY OF IPL-SEASON 1

As era proceeds people start moving towards shortcuts and easy going life which does not take much time the same rule was followed in cricket as time proceeded test matches where converted to one day and then one day matches to 20-20.
Well this drastic change was very necessary as nobody gets so much time to sit the whole day and watch a match 20-20 given you the same excitement and fun in a compact form in which you don’t get bored. That is exactly what IPL has done from the last few years the mixture of bollywood and cricket has spiced up the entertainment factor and brings new excitement to people every year.


IPL was launched in the year 2008 and it was in this year when the first IPL match was played. It was Mr. Lalit Modi behind the whole effort which made IPL take the biggest mass entertainment program of the country. The formation of team and the matches involvement of bollywood made the viewers stick to the league for the whole season with no match going as *NO HOUSEFULL*. It had become the biggest business of the country which had effects on both side of the shore.

1st IPL season 2008 :-

The most consistent team was Chennai super Kings under the captaincy of Mahendra Singh Dhoni. It was a very consistent team and played really well but still couldn’t win the trophy as they were defeated by the Rajasthan Royals also known as the orthodox. Rajasthan Royal didn’t had many famous players still they won the trophy and marked the level for the IPL. Other teams like Kolkata knight Rider’s did really well which had many famous players and well experienced too. Opening batman Brendon McCullum hits first 100 of Indian Premiere League and took his team to the winning side on the day.

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