SMARTPHONE SCREENS

LCD V/S AMOLED SCREENS OF SMARTPHONES 

These days you really only have two choices of screens when you are buying a smartphone or tablet, i.e. an LCD or AMOLED. Many of you probably can’t tell the difference between the two screen types, but both technologies have their own strengths and weaknesses. LCD has been around for a while, but AMOLED phones are gaining popularity thanks to Samsung and other manufacturers. There isn’t a clear winner at this point in time, so here’s a look at both.

LCD :

 

LCD, Liquid Crystal Display, has been part of our lives for years now. Besides mobile devices we see LCD screens being used with almost every computer monitor, and in the majority of recent TVs. While these screens are made of wondrous liquid crystals, they also require a couple panes of glass, and a light source. LCD screens produce some of the most realistic colors you can find on a screen, but might not offer as wide of a contrast ratio (darker darks and brighter brights) as AMOLED or OLED.

Some common terms you will find associated with LCD displays are TFT and IPS. TFT stands for Thin Film Transistor, which makes the wiring of LCD screens more efficient by reducing the number of electrodes per pixel. One benefit of TFT displays is improved image quality over standard LCD screens. Another popular LCD technology is In-Plane Switching, or IPS, which improves upon TFT by offering much wider viewing angles and color reproduction on LCD screens. IPS screens are able to achieve this by keeping all the liquid crystals parallel to the screen. IPS is generally preferable to standard TFT.

Notable Devices with LCD Screens: iPhone 4/4s, iPad, and HTC One X

AMOLED :

 

AMOLED, Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode, technology is actually fairly old but their emergence on the market at high end screens is recent. AMOLED screens consist of a thin layer of organic polymers that light up when zapped with an electric current. Due to this simple construction, AMOLED screens can be extremely thin and don’t require a backlight. The benefit of losing a backlight is readily apparent: these screens are able to produce blacks so deep that the screen pixels can shut right off. Shutting off pixels can also save electricity and battery life in phones and tablets. Just keep your backgrounds close to black and you’ll save energy.

Sometimes when you read about AMOLED screens, you might hear people complaining about something called a “pentile” display. This is a feature of most color AMOLED screens. Instead of having just a single red, blue, and green sub pixel per actual pixel, pentile displays have a RGBG sub pixel layout which has two green sub pixels for each red and blue. The positive of this technology that you are able to create a screen that is just as bright as normal screens with one third the amount of sub pixels. The negative of pentile screens is that they can appear grainy, or appear to be lower resolution due to the larger, more visible sub pixels. Samsung’s newest screen technology is Super AMOLED Plus, which does not use a pentile sub pixel layout and also improves viewability in direct sunlight — traditionally a weakness for AMOLED. Samsung used Super AMOLED plus screens in Galaxy S II phones, but reverted back to Super AMOLED screens for the Galaxy S III citing screen life as the reason for the switch. 
Notable Devices with AMOLED screens: Samsung Galaxy S series, Nokia Lumia 900, and HTC One S.
Read more: http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/amoled-vs-lcd-which-screen-is-best-for-your-phone/#ixzz2LkWU6yI4

MESMERISED : mantramugdha (Franz Anton Mesmer)

Ever wondered from where did the words come from..... here we will talk about origin of another word "Mesmerise"... some people has become  immortal due to this kind of words no matter for what sake.. same is with Franz Anton Mesmer (healer of Animal Magnetism):-

MESMERISE is an intense facination..like Spellbind OR 

simply "Mantramugdha Hona" in our mother tounge;

        Mesmer's name is the root of the English verb "mesmerize". He used the controversial concept of animal magnetism to cure various disease of his patients. 

      This therapy is controversial in the sense that there is no proof behind this so called theory, and also to the existence of a new physical fluid in human body which was supposed to be causing the healing. He had this strong faith that health is the free flow of the process of life through thousands of channels in our bodies and Illness was caused by obstacles to this flow; and that his "therapy" was able to streamline that flow again causing to cure the patient. He was then proved wrong by 5 commissioners appointed (for the purpose investigation of the therapy to be true) includingAmerican ambassador Benjamin Franklin.

     While the theory of animal magnetism has paved path for various similar  practices which are followed until now, like hypnotism, reiki etc....

;-)

SO if u want your own name to be immortal for decades.. then What r u waiting for.... 

just GO AHEAD and start working on your own theory.. who knows.. you too may become famous.. just kidding Pals...

(ref- wikipedia)

"YoUr NaMe is MUD"

"YoUr NaMe is MUD" - 

                

                  It basically means "what you say isn't to be trusted." or simply "you are going down"... It came from Dr. Samuel Mudd, who was believed to have helped John Wilkes Booth in the assassination plan of President Abraham Lincoln (America's 16th president) . He insisted he wasn't, but no one believed him...

    Many Americans have used the expression, "Your name will be mud," in the mistaken belief dat it had something  to do with the kind of dirt or slime that is found in the streets.

The brief story of what happened is here...: 

On the night of April 14, 1865, Lincoln was watching a play in a Washington theater. A young actor, John Wilkes Booth, sneaked into Lincoln's private box and shot him in the back of the head on April 14,1865 at about 10:13 pm (aiming at the back of Lincoln's head and fired at point-blank range).

      Booth had broken a bone in his leg when he leaped to the stage to runaway from the theater. Booth ran away with a young boy who waited for him with a horse. He needed a doctor badly and finally arrived at the home of a doctor whose name was Mudd, Dr. Samuel Alexander Mudd. He treated the actor's injured leg without knowing what has Booth done. Although he had some meetings earlier with BOOTH (that's still controversial as some say it was related to the Mudd's farm which the Doc. Mudd wanted to sell and Booth showed interest in the farm while some say it was just to recruit MUDD for the plot). 

            A small group of people helped Booth plan Lincoln's murder. They were all captured and sentenced to death or prison terms. Mudd escaped the sentence of death for just one vote and was given life imprisonment. In jail, Dr. Mudd saved many prisoners and guards in an epidemic of yellow fever. And President Andrew Johnson pardoned him in 1869 after the doctor had spent almost four years in jail. 

       The assassination of Abraham Lincoln came as a terrible blow to the American people. Altough Dr. Mudd was freed, but people never forgave him. His name passed into American folk speech as something bad, odious. The Mudd family also suffered because of the name. No one knows how many descendants changed their name because of the trouble it caused them.

Not long ago, however, a state legislator felt that something should be done to do justice to the name of Dr. Mudd. He offered a proposal to the Oklahoma legislature that would declare Dr. Mudd's innocence, and finally clear his name. "The good name of the Mudd family," said the Oklahoma legislator, "has suffered enough in the past century for the injustice done their ancient ancestor."(refference - wikipedia, http://www.eigozai.com/LL/WTS/MUD_E.htm )

story of national anthem

The Story of National Anthem – The controversy : 

Jan 24, 1950 – Jana Gana Mana selected as the National Anthem; Vandemataram the national song

The Constituent Assembly, after a long debate finally choose Jana gana mana adhinayak … as the national Anthem of India. For generations to come the song will continue to infuse new spirit in the veins of every Indian.

same day yet another song Vandemataram was given at par status and adopted as National Song of India. In fact generations of freedom fighters who died dreaming for Independent India were almost sure that one day it will be our national anthem.

Both songs had patrons, both had polarization and both team battled hard to see their get the grand position. And when the resolution was adopted, it was thought that it is a perfect win-win situation and will settle the issue once and for all. It just didn’t happen.

Unfortunately the two team still do bat; still throwing the mud balls, not realizing that they are insulting The Indian Nation.

December 1911

Gurudev Rabindra Nath Tagore, wrote the song Jana gana mana adhinayak. The song was sung by Gurudev himself on December 27th, 1911, on the second day of Indian National Congress Convention, Calcutta. Same day Indian National congress also extended their welcome to then Visiting King George V.  Few other poets actually composed song in praise of the Monarch and they too were recited the same day.

The event were highlighted in the leading dailies in the following manner:

December 28th,1911 – The Statesman

The Bengali poet Babu Rabindranath Tagore sang a song composed by him specially to welcome the Emperor."

December 28th, 1911 – Englishman

"The proceedings began with the singing by Babu Rabindranath Tagore of a song specially composed by him in honour of the Emperor."

December 29th, 1911 – Indian

"When the proceedings of the Indian National Congress began on Wednesday 27th December 1911, a Bengali song in welcome of the Emperor was sung. A resolution welcoming the Emperor and Empress was also adopted unanimously."

They suggested the song was in honour of the the Monarch. That the word Adhinayak (the leader) and Bharat Bhagya Vidatha (the master of India’s destiny) referred to the Monarch. Incidentally the same press also attributed authorship of Vandemataram to Rabindra Nath Tagore and reported Jana-gana-mana as a Hindi song.

It was also later confirmed that some members of Indian National congress had approached Gurudev and requested him to write something in honour of the Monarch.

1937 – 1940 and onwards

The controversy, started when Jana-gana-mana became a  candidate for National anthem. There were  unfortunate controversies surrounding the most popular Indian song Vandemataram that forced the search for an alternatives song. It must emphasised that the controversy related to vandemataramwere both unfortunate and unjustifiable. It had sentiments and endorsement of millions of Indians both living and dead of all religions, sects and sections. It appears quite natural that the patrons of the vandemataram vented the anger against the other alternative that was being considered. However, it was carried out in as dirty a manner as the other one carried against Vandemataram.

Jana-gana-mana was condemned as being a praise for monarch and thus unsuitable for being the national anthem for India. So the news papers were dug out in an attempt to justify their stand and disgrace Jana-gana-mana. Worst the controversy was still being populated in year 2009 and on.

December 1911

A High official in Indian National Congress approaches Gurudev and requests him to write something in the praise of Visiting Monarch. Gurudev felt quite disturbed at the very idea.

It seem quite natural. You are asked to do a job against your conscience. And what do you do? You revolt and do something magnificent and exactly opposite way.

This is what Gurudev did. He wrote a poem in praise of God – The real monarch. And the song was sung.


( source: http://india.vnc.in/the-story-of-national-anthem-the-controversy.html  )