Android Phone – Unveiling the Hidden Features
Are you an Android phone user, but are unaware of most of the features it provides? Do you want to discover safer and interesting features on your phone? Go through this article to know some of the Android tips and tricks, which will be useful for you.
Most of the people in the present world use Android phones daily, for calling, messaging and more. Android is the mobile operating system, which most of the phone manufacturing companies use in their phones. There are lots of features, rather than calling and messaging to be examined. Explore the hidden features and many time-saving tricks in your gadget.
The basic problem, a phone user face, is the battery issues. Most of the Android phones have an inbuilt power strip option, which when activated, provides faster disconnection of all the phone ‘s battery thus killing the applications. Another feature is that, you can be the developer of your own phone settings. Go to the ‘Settings’, select ‘About phone’ option and tap seven times on your phone’s ‘Build number’.
An onscreen countdown will be shown on the screen, which will be followed by a command telling that you are now a developer and ‘Developer option’ will be shown just above the ‘About phone’ option.
This ‘Developer option’ can be utilized well to reduce the lagging of your Android phone as well.
By reducing the ‘Window animation scale’, ‘Animator duration scale’ and ‘Transition animation scale’ in ‘Developer option’, from 1x to 0.5x, your phone may actually … Read more
Computer Resgistry Cleaner Issues
Let’s talk a little bit about computer registry and registry cleaners. The registry is the holding area for the computer programs in your computer. Without a computer registry your computer would not boot up to the main operating system. There are literally thousands of lines of code in the computer registry. To keep all this code in order the registry is broken up into file drawers like a file cabinet. Each drawer holds the lines of code for the programs in your computer. When the processor of the computer is calculating the code for a program the computer processor goes to the registry and pulls the code it needs to process the request. The problem arises when there is junk files in the drawers of the registry, this can cause a fast computer to run slow.
Over time the registry gets over filled with junk files or files that are left behind when you remove programs from your computer or bad links to files that lead to a dead end. When the registry gets overfilled with garbage files the computer can get very sluggish, the compute can start crashing unexpectedly, your pages start freezing up, you may start getting memory dump issues, or worse of all you start receiving the blue screen of death when you go to fire up your computer.
The problem that I run into a lot when going out to fix customer’s system is that the customer ran a registry cleaner and now the computer has … Read more
How to Calculate the Intrinsic Value of Stocks Like Warren Buffett
One of the most sought after calculations in all of investing is Warren Buffett’s intrinsic value formula. Although it may seem elusive to most, for anyone that’s studied Buffett’s Columbia Business Professor, Benjamin Graham, the calculation becomes more obvious. Remember the intrinsic value formula that Buffett uses is an embellishment of Graham’s ideas and fundamentals.
One of the most amazing things about Benjamin Graham is that he actually felt bonds where safer and more probable of an investments than stocks. Buffett would strongly disagree with that today due to high inflation rates (a whole different topic), but this is important to understand in order to understanding Buffett’s method for valuing equities (stocks).
When we look at Buffett’s definition of intrinsic value, we know he’s quoted as saying that the intrinsic value is simply the discounted value of the future cash flows of a company. So what the heck does that mean?
Well, before we can understand that definition, we must first understand how a bond is valued. When a bond is issued, it is placed on the market at a par value (or face value). In most cases this par value is $1,000. Once that bond is on the market, the issuer then pays a semi annual (in most cases) coupon to the bond holder. These coupon payments are based on a rate that was established when the bond was initially issued. For example, if the coupon rate was 5%, then a bond holder would receive two annual coupon payments … Read more
Planning for a Mortgage Application After Bankruptcy
Getting approved for a mortgage after a bankruptcy has always been tricky. Now, it is very difficult in the current mortgage climate, but it is not impossible.
The best way is to plan ahead, the same as with any real estate or mortgage transaction. The time to worry about how to get the next loan is before filing bankruptcy. Most people do not have a plan and the process after the BK is a lot more difficult.
All lenders follow the same basic underwriting rules for standard loan types. If you understand these rules it will help while planning the next move.
For conventional mortgages a Chapter 7 or 11 Bankruptcy must usually be discharged for 4 years. In rare exceptions such as a BK caused by the death of a wage earner it may shorten the waiting period to only 2 years. And a Chapter 13 might also get by with only 2 years. Notice I did not say an exact period but used words like “usually” or “might.”
Borrowers with a bankruptcy in the last 7 years will always require manual underwriting by an actual live mortgage underwriter as opposed to automated underwriting software. They will look at the entire loan application, not just the credit report. So the entire application must make sense to the underwriter.
For example, if the BK was caused by the death of the primary wage earner and the surviving spouse has made several late payments after the BK was discharged then the … Read more
The Importance of Stocks & Sauces
The great French Chef Master, Auguste Escoffier wrote:
“Indeed, stock is everything in cooking, at least in French cooking. Without it, nothing can be done. If one’s stock is good, what remains of the work is easy; if, on the other hand, it is bad or merely mediocre, it is quite hopeless to expect anything approaching a satisfactory result.”
Escoffier and other French chefs revolutionized early French cooking by inventing a lighter and reduced sauce, a variation of traditionally heavy cream sauces, known as stock.
Since the 16th century, stocks have been used in soup and sauce preparation. Stocks are the extraction of flavor from ingredients with a liquid base. The ingredients often include include bones, vegetables, herbs and spices simmered in water.
There are a few French stocks and sauces that are used traditionally. ‘Glaces’ are stock that have been reduced, while a ‘demi-glace’ is reduced even further to form a thick brown sauce. They are used for numerous dishes to intensify the flavor, texture and color. A ‘jus’ is the natural liquid rendered from the drippings of a roast. An ‘au jus’ is usually prepared using stock and meat trimmings. An ‘essence’ is the vegetable equivalent of a meat stock added for a touch more flavor in the sauce.
Why are stocks so rich in flavor? Simmering ingredients allows extraction of flavor in addition to reduction in volume – it’s this reduction that concentrates the flavor of the stock even more.
As a result, stocks and sauces are … Read more
Why Do Businesses Need Custom Mobile Application Development?
All customers use mobile apps. In fact all customers prefer a mobile app over a website these days. It’s simply too convenient to have anywhere anytime access to the facilities we use so often. For example, banking apps, shopping apps and apps for paying domestic bills etc. Are so popular these days that we wonder how we got things done without them! Well, more and more businesses today ensure that their customers have easy access to their business.
Businesses of today, in fact, depend on mobility solutions and custom mobile application development to cater to their unique requirements. Custom apps create extraordinary value to businesses especially if they are developed by targeting the right customer base and are tailored to perform as per business requirements.
Here’s how custom mobile application development could be beneficial for your business:
Improves efficiency
Custom mobile applications are built with the business requirements in mind and at the same time cater to the needs of your customers. Since the focus is on your business, they are developed to improve the efficiency of your business. Statistics show that by implementing mobile solutions, businesses saw a significant 46% increase in their operational efficiency. Conducting business become easy for you and you can better manage your customers too.
Increase in productivity
This is in a way linked to the first point. Once business efficiency is improved, it positively impacts the productivity too. It is a known fact that the productivity sees a 41% rise after implementing mobility solutions. … Read more