What are some facts about Facebook and Google that not many outsiders know about?

1)The Facebook notification icon which is globe shaped changes its map view with your location.

• access Facebook from the US and countries in Latin America:

• And this is the icon for countries in the Eastern hemisphere:

 

2)Facebook is "Blue" because Mark Zuckerberg suffers Red-Green color blindness.

3)Google owns a bunch of domains that are common misspellings of Google, like gooogle.com , gogle.com, googlr.com and more. Google also owns 466453.com

4) Yahoo  had an option of buying Google for $1 Million, but they refused to buy it. This reluctantly made Larry Page and Sergy Brin to quit their Phd and work full time on Google.

5) Yahoo now had such similar option of buying Facebook for $1 Billion, but this time Mark Zukerberg rejected the offer.

Imagine the position of Yahoo if it would have made these both deals.

6)Facebook's messaging feature was created and implemented in one of the company's first hackathons.

How come the iphones 1GB RAM is touted to be able to compete with more than 2GB RAM of android smartphones???

One of the reasons is that IOS does not do true multitasking as Android.
In IOS, when you switch to another app, it requests the background app to shut down and stops giving CPU cycles to it after 5 seconds. That is why it is snappy as only one app gets CPU at a time.  Small number of apps that really need to run indefinitely in the background are allowed by IOS.These are apps that play audio as most audio decoding nova days is hardware decoding and does not slow down the phone. Also, apps that track your location in background are allowed. Then VIOP apps are allowed such is Microsoft Skype and also Newsstand apps while downloading content.

These are the reasons iPhone can get away with only 2 cores and 1GB of RAM. Android supports true multitasking and problem is that some of the apps are badly written and fight for CPU cycles even after hours in background. It is good that a lot of android phones have up to 8 cores and 3GB of RAM. More than that would not make sense as it would require 64bit OS (I think Android L has 64bit flavor).

IOS just need a relative small ram size to achieve the same ram performance as android does. Also, More ram chips means killing the battery faster. Note that multitasking is not a problem in iphone but battery problem is serious.

Note that each time a procedure in program has finished, some new trash memory occupies spaces in ram.IOS is Obj-C base while the android is java base. Obj-C actively remove trash memory inside ram after each procedure but Java remove them after certain period of time.
There are a garbage collection in java allocated in ram for storing all the trash memory before they are removed. The java system remove the garbage collection regularly(this garbage removing procedure draw cpu resources as well which slow down the speed). So the ram in java system always stored with trash memory inside ram while Obj-C doesnt. Thats why android ram efficiency is much lower than IOS. It doesnt need large ram size.

Google This-Things you didn't know Google could do

1)Stopwatch

• As a timer

2)Nutritionist

• To decide what to eat based upon the nutrition information

3)Tilt

• It tilts the search screen.

4)Barrel Roll

• It does a barrel roll.

5)Recursion

• You get stuck in a loop where autocorrect feature shows the same search.

6)Anagram

• As a anagram solver




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• Google tries to outwit us even when we try to search for its defenition




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7)Etymology

• It shows the etymology of the mentioned word.

9)Atari Breakout

• It is a google doodle game which appears in the search screen when you search for "Atari Breakout",
  in the google image.

• It commemorates the 37th anniversary of the game's release.

10)Zerg Rush

• It is a google doodle game which appears in the search screen when you search for "Zerg Rush",
  in the google.

11)Tip Calculator

• It is a tip calculator

How to convert dynamic disks to basic disks

Basic disks

• Most of the personal computers we use in our day-to-day life are configured with basic disks and they are simple to use.
• Basic disks are supported by all version of Windows. Using the disk management tool in your Windows Operating System or using some other third-party software you can shrink or extend the volumes and you can also shrink the boot partition i.e. the volume in which you have installed your current operating system.

Dynamic disks

• Dynamic disks are for advanced users who wish to multiple hard disks within a single computer. Dynamic disks have increased performance.
• They have additional features than basic disks and they support Windows 7 Professional and above. But, other operating systems will not be able to read dynamic drives.
• Converting a basic disk to dynamic disk is one way process and you will lose the data if you have to revert back i.e. convert dynamic disk to basic disk.

Converting Dynamic disks to Basic Disks in Windows:

Before converting the dynamic disks into basic disks in Windows, I would recommend you to create a recovery media of your operating system and move the other important files into an external hard drive. Once you are ready, you can use the following steps to convert dynamic disks to basic disks.

Step 1: Open the Run dialog box by using the hot key combination Windows Logo Key + R

Step 2: In the Run dialog box type in diskmgmt.msc and hit enter.

Step 3: Now in the Disk Management window look for the dynamic disk you want to convert into a basic disk.

Step 4: Right click on each volume of the corresponding dynamic disk and click Delete Volume for each volume on the disk.

Step 5: When you have completed deleting all the volumes, right click on those disks and select Convert to Basic Disk.