What goes around comes around.. The immortal grandma

Jeanne Calment. She lived to 122, from 1875 to 1997.

She said that she met Vincent Van Gogh as a child, and that he was dirty, poorly dressed, and disagreeable.

She smoked until she was 117.

One of the funnier things about her life is that when she was 90, a 47 year old lawyer got her to sign a contract so that if she died, he’d get her apartment. In return, he’d give her a monthly stipend.

He assumed she’d be dead within a couple years at most, so he was hoping to get her apartment on the cheap.

But she just kept living. Eventually he died at 77, never having received the apartment. His widow kept paying Calment after his death per the contract.

By the time she died, she’d been paid $180,000… over twice the apartment’s worth.

Something you should know when you eat an Apple the next time..

Perhaps many of you know it already but just thought of sharing it if you don’t –

1. What the stickers on apples mean –

4 Numbers = Conventionally grown. If the sticker contains only 4 digits, It is a conventionally grown apple.

5 Numbers starting with digit 8 = Genetically grown apple.

5 Numbers starting with digit 9 = Organically grown apple.

I hope it is something interesting for a few 😉

Source: Quora

Know more about LibreOffice – The best substitute for MS office in a Mac

LibreOffice is an office suite (word processor, spreadsheet, presentations, drawing tool) compatible with other major office suites. The Document Foundation is coordinating development and maintenance of this OpenOffice.org fork.

Many different language versions are available here.

What’s New

Version 5.2.2.2:

• This is the second bugfix release of the 5.2.x branch of LibreOffice which contains new features and program enhancements.

Requirements

• Intel, 64-bit processor
• OS X 10.8 or later

 

MacOS Sierra – Everything you want to know

macOS Sierra new features: Auto Unlock with Apple Watch

Apple is putting several new features into the OS. The first announced on the night was Auto Unlock which allows you to unlock your Mac using your Apple Watch. No more typing in lengthy passwords after the screen goes off! A small addition, but no doubt will prove useful to those who have invested in the Watch.

macOS Sierra new features: Universal Clipboard

Universal Clipboard was slightly overlooked, but it is a new, great way to sync your copy and paste data between devices. This could be best put into practice with an iPad Pro and a Mac: drawing direct onto the iPad before intelligently copying and pasting on to Mac documents. This is a great way of syncing information between devices and will stop the brain-hurt of emailing yourself pictures or even sticking stuff in the cloud to download to another device.

macOS Sierra new features: Tapback in Messages app

While the macOS variant of the Messages app may be lacking in some areas (text animations and smileys aren’t available at the time of writing) it does have one very cool feature – tapbacks. Tapbacks, as introduced during the iOS 10 section at Apple’s WWDC conference, allow users to react to a text message without sending messages like ‘LOL’. In a Facebook Reactions-esque way, users can react to incoming messages by giving it a thumbs up (or down), Question mark, Heart and more.

macOS Sierra new features: iCloud Drive and Optimised Storage

iCloud Drive is also receiving a much needed update. For those of us familiar with sprinkling our Mac desktops with files that we need, rejoice – those files are mirrored on your other Macs (if you’re rich) and on your iPhone.

Optimised storage for iCloud will automatically back up older files, particularly those that you’ll never use again like cache files. It’ll make your storage go a lot further before you have to fork out for more, which is great news. It’s nice to see Apple thinking about the smaller nuances of its services.

macOS Sierra new features: Apple Pay

A further excellent feature coming to macOS Sierra is Apple Pay for Mac. Apple Pay icons will now appear on the buy pages of certain merchants – all you need do is verify your purchases with Touch ID on your iPhone or using your Apple Watch. This will be initially supported in nine countries.

Ahead of Apple’s keynote, rumours had suggested that at some point Apple will add a Touch ID fingerprint scanner to its Mac range. This more conservative way of introducing Apple Pay to the Mac still provides many of the benefits, and it’s still possible that Touch ID will eventually come to the Mac, too. However, the introduction of Auto Unlock mentioned above seems to be the solution to unlocking the Mac securely without the need for Touch ID.

macOS Sierra new features: Tabs

Tabs have also been lovingly reimagined – no longer restricted to Safari, those apps that allow for tabs now (with no developer work needed) will allow you to multi-tab.

macOS Sierra new features: Picture-in-Picture

Picture-in-Picture mode allows you to thumbnail view photos and, more impressively, videos from certain apps while doing other things. So long, productivity! Although, for those who work in video editing, features like this will be another Godsend.

macOS Sierra new features: Apple File System (APFS)

Now while this may not be as appealing as many of the other features of macOS Sierra, Apple’s new proprietary file system is worth a mention. Why? One of the most exciting features of the new file system is space sharing, which helps partitioned drives utilise space on the fly. Let’s say you had a 1TB drive with two 100GB partitions, with one nearly full and one almost empty. In this situation, space sharing wouldn’t limit the almost-full partition, and would instead note that there is 800GB of free space (the total free disk space) for both partitioned drives. Essentially, APFS treats the partition limits as containers that can be expanded when required.

Duplicated files won’t take up any extra space either – if you duplicate a 2GB drive it wouldn’t take up 4GB, instead the copy would access the original version. Then, if you make changes to the oriignal version, the new data is copied to a separate block preserving the original state.

Essentially, the new file system should make your macOS life a little easier behind the scenes.

macOS Sierra new features: Siri for Mac

After all the little bits and pieces, Apple showed us what we were hoping for – Siri on a Mac. A particularly useful and impressive feature that was demoed live on stage was searching through documents using Siri. The voice assistant will also let you be far more flexible with macOS Sierra – you’ll be able to image search online with Siri, and have the ability to drag and drop those images directly into a plethora of apps.

Siri is already on iPhone, iPad and even the Apple TV, so it was only a matter of time before Siri came to Mac too. After all, Microsoft already has Cortana in Windows (and has done since Windows 8.1) and Chrome has Google Now.

Something which you need in life.. Takes just 2 mins to read

• Being chased by bees? Run under a bush/branch and shake it. They can only detect movement.
• Play your cards: Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing those cards you hold well.
• Relationship advice: Admit when you’re wrong and shut up when you’re right. That’s a simple way to drastically improve the quality of relationships.
• Want to avoid over-thinking? Always think about what to do next instead of what went wrong.
• Have good friends: Be friends with those people who make you forget to look at your phone.
• Choices matter: Your life is a reflection of your choices. Choose wisely!
• Be gracious: If someone giving you a ride, don’t insult their car.

Is Google Assistant better that Siri ?

1. When I asked why it has no fancy name.

• Bartholomew is an English name derived from Aramaic name meaning “son of talmai”.
• Where Bar is Aramaic for son and marks patronym (name derived from name of father or ancestors).
• Talmai comes telem “furrow” or is a herbrew version of Ptolemy or filius.

Source : bartholomew name meaning – Google Search

2. When I asked about the favorite fruit!

Yes assistant I’m glad I asked i thought I was couch potato and had this lines *potato potato ching chang tomato* always running on my mind,some one called me orange ^_^

3. When i was service-zoned!

4. This is why I love google assistant!

6. The bifurcation theory ….

7. That’s a great way to start your day when you exist virtually 😉

8. The new kid of google!

9. Captain america or iron man?

10. You’re always beautiful to some one 😛

11. The back flip..

12. Some more responses for are you better than siri!

13. 😀

14. Such a small world

15. 1,2…

16. The assistant always assures a smile

17. One more…

Source: Quora

Most beautiful thing in the world

This is the most beautiful thing in the world – The fibonacci series 🙂

How exactly? Because fibonacci is present in all forms of nature, everywhere you look, is a fibonacci pattern.

 

 

Source: Quora

Kodak Ektra – The smartphone designed with Photographers in mind

Kodak today announced a new smartphone called the Ektra that’s designed for photographers. The phone features imaging and editing capabilities that will help photography lovers to capture the photos they envision.

The original Kodak Ektra camera was released back in 1941, and Kodak says this new smartphone is the “latest reincarnation” of that famous model. It’s a phone that’s being produced by the UK-company Bullitt Group, which is licensing the Kodak brand name for the product.

Inside the Kodak Ektra is a 21-megapixel sensor behind an f/2.0 aperture. On the front of the phone is a 13-megapixel sensor with Phase Detection AF behind an f/2.2 aperture.

The industrial design and weight of the camera are both reminiscent of point-and-shoot cameras, and on the horizontal edge is a dual-press shutter button for holding the phone like a traditional camera.

On the back of the Ektra phone is a large 5-inch HD touchscreen with a digital interface that features DSLR-style dial, part of what Kodak calls “a tactile camera experience.” The dial allows you to shoot with manual settings, adjusting shutter speed and ISO.

Most important life lesson to learn – Must Read

When I was 13, I wanted a six pack. I did sit ups and curls intermittently with no plan or rigor. By 14, I’d given up.

When I was 16, I picked up boxing, Muay Thai and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. I wanted to be great at fighting. By 17, I’d decided in my head that great fighters have been doing this since they were 8, so I’d given up.

When I was 18, I wrote blog posts and started multiple businesses, I’d take them to a level of significance but nothing actually significant. By 19, I’d decided in my head I wasn’t going to make 6 figures at it anytime soon, so I’d given up.

Everything I wanted to get or do or be, I gave it one year tops before giving it up.

Now I look back and ask myself “Where would I be right now if I’d stuck with it? What if I’d had that foresight?“

I work out every day now.

I write every day now.

I train to fight multiple times per week.

I’m following the things I’ve wanted to do since I was a kid, because I now know the dividends I will get are going to have outstanding returns in 2 years, 5 years and 10 years from now.

1% better a day doesn’t look like much in 30 days, but it transforms you completely over the course of years.

The most important lesson I’ve learned in life is to play the long game.

The you in the past wants you to do better than they did, and the you in the future wants you to be better than you are. Don’t let yourself down.

Source: Quora

Entrepreneur vs Businessman – in a nutshell

The difference between an Entrepreneur and a Businessman is:

A businessman buys something for cheap and sales it for some profit, a businessman is a person who is not creative and can’t come up with good ideas. He only follows the “Trends” that others have been doing for ages.

On the other hand an entrepreneur is someone who can create something out of nothing. A person who doesn’t gives a shit about the community, a person who can create a startup from ash, take it to the sky. A person who starts from the bottom without any experience and is never afraid to take risks. A person who is creative and unique.

While it might sound like both are almost the same, there is a huge difference between an “Entrepreneur” and a “Businessman.”

A “Businessman” is a Businessman.
An “Entrepreneur” is a business, man.