Kathmandu Living Labs To Host STATE OF THE MAP ASIA 2017 Conference

Source: State of the map ASIA

A two days conference on State of Open Map Data  is going to be organized here at Nepal, this September 23-24,2017. This is the Third State of the Map Conference which is happening in ASIA specifically in Nepal. Last year the STATE OF THE MAP was conducted at Brussels, Belgium. This year Kathmandu Living Labs, an emerging Tech Organization which works rigorously on Geographical Data, Maps and various areas of Open Data is hosting the event. Along with Kathmandu Living Labs OSM Community of Nepal is also a Co-Host of this event.

Rob Savoye, a pioneering Open Source Contributor since the very beginning of Open Source Movement will be conducting workshop on Mapping via Open Street Map. State of the Map Asia is an event for all mappers and OpenStreetMap users. Enjoy two days in Nepal with talks, discussions, workshops, and networking all around the free and open map of the world. 

Please go through the details about the Conference here at STATE OF THE MAP ASIA 2017

FoundersClick: Creating A Wave of Entrepreneurs In Nepal

Creating A Wave of Entrepreneurs In Nepal

FoundersClick has now brought its roots in Nepal as a platform for those people who are Entrepreneurs or are striving to become one. Opportunities are limitless, You want to be self employed, searching for online jobs that match your talents or whether you are students looking for side jobs and projects, Founders Click is the perfect platform for you. 

FoundersClick is a growing ecosystem with an active community of Professionals, Entrepreneurs, Students, Businesses, Service providers & Domain experts and Investor/Incubators and Non-Profits. FC hosts a business community of mid-size to small and early stage business and all their allied member stakeholders to Connect, Promote to Effect results with the understanding that it takes an intricate ecosystem to build and nurture your business.

Why Founders Click?

Founders Click (FC) provides platform for individuals and teams with global aspiration to take a step forward. Many entrepreneurs, students with dream or people involved in NGO/Social sector faces resource constraints. With the limited resources available in Nepal, FC act as a bridge to the global resources. Whether it is fund that you seek or consultation from the experts, possibilities with FC are unlimited. So, what are you waiting for? Sign up today and do not miss opportunities for your future!

FoundersClick an important opportunity for Nepalese !

We, Nepalese are forever striving for jobs that rewards them for their talent, even better if it is online, and could be completed without any hassle. FoundersClick connects them with Jobs providers from all over the world. We can conveniently connect with Entrepreneurs & make teams with people from all over the world. Founders Click follows a unique matching algorithm that matches you with the best team members who is best suited to your idea and who helps you achieve your goals. What better to promote your idea, connect with the best professionals and turn it into effect.

One thing, Nepal certainly lacks is Resources. Resources required to have your own start up, pursue your dreams. FC enables you to get access to the resources of the western countries such as United States, Canada etc. Knowledge, guidance, papers, and investments , whatever resources you need. Founders click is the platform for you. For example, you can connect with experts from United States and how stock management works United States by not moving an inch in Nepal.

If you are looking for exposure to international investor bodies, high chance is that you will fall down the pecking order compared to other startups from Developed Countries. It is a mountain of a task to grasp the attention of of international investors and companies. With FoundersClick, that will be a piece of cake, as it is focused in helping startups of South Asia reach out to the Investors and Incubators of the world.

It’s REALLY amazing that FC partners are focused on South Asia. And, are looking to promote countries like Nepal get exposure around the world.

With FC, your chance are higher chances, as the platform is created by South Asian Team based in Silicon Valley with a prime purpose to connect talents of South Asia with the resources in the world.

What are you waiting for?? Be the part of it. Sign Up Now !!

https://www.foundersclick.com/reg/step1?offer=AMAGE2

National Conference on ICT Integrated Pedagogy for Effective and Meaningful Learning Held in Nepal

National Conference on ICT Integrated Pedagogy for Effective and Meaningful Learning was held today at Lumbini Banquet, New Baneshwor, Kathmandu. Event was organized by UNESCO Resource Distribution and Training Centre (RTDC) and Kathmandu University School of Education (HUSoED) In Collaboration With Ministry of Education(MoE) Open and Distance Education Centre (ODEC) Tribhuvan University.

The Conference started with welcome remarks from rof. Dr. Mahesh Nath Parajuli, Dean KUSOED. Dr. Hari Lamsal, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Education(MoE) gave his Keynote Speech on ICT in Education: Policy, Implementation and Challenges. Like wise Dr. Bal Chandra Luitel, Associate Dean, KUSOED gave Keynote Speech on ICT Integrated Pedagogy: Principles and Practices. Mr. Sagun Dhungana, Technology Integration Coach, Google Certified Educator gave a presentation on Educational Apps in Pedagogical workflow.

The one day Conference continued with parallel sessions like Oral Presentations and workshops on various ICT related topics. Many researchers presented their case studies and proposals on ideas of improving ICT standards.

Eight valuable publications on ICT Policies and Standards were presented today on the National Conference o nICT Integrated Pedagogy for Effective and Meaningful Learning.

Additional Resources on the research papers:

Please email us and let us know if you are hosting any IT related event. We would love to cover your event in our blog.

3 Basic Things to do After Installing WordPress

Now that you’ve successfully installed WordPress site and its up and running, now you can login to your WordPress site’s dashboard. Read this post to know how to visit WordPress login page of your site. After you’re logged in, there are many options to play with. This is the main backend section of your site. Everything you see on the front-end, the menus, header, sidebar footer, widgets, design, etc everything can be manipulated from here.

Once you’re familiar with the WordPress dashboard, you can easily customize your WordPress site as per your requirements. You can either turn it into a blog, company or personal site, or even a social network.

But beginners might get to get started, so here are 3 basic things which a WP user can do after fresh installation of their WordPress site.

1. CHANGING WORDPRESS THEME

For starters, changing their WordPress site theme can be a confusing task. So, here a quick guide for WordPress beginners which shows how easy they can change WordPress theme on their website.

Installing Wordpress Theme on Your Website

• Log in to your WordPress Dashboard
• Visit Appearance Menu > Themes
• Now click Add New Button
• In WordPress repository themes are subdivided under three categories: Featured, Popular, Latest. You may search for the theme of your choice. Hover over any theme’s thumbnail to Preview the theme and once you come across a theme you like, click Install button.
• If WordPress asks for your FTP credentials, Add your HostName, FTP username and Password and Click the Proceed button.

WordPress will now install the theme and you can click Activate to use the theme for your website.

Installing Themes Downloaded From outside WordPress Theme Repository

Some may want to install themes downloaded from outside the WordPress theme repository. To do so,

• Make sure you’re logged into your WordPress Dashboard
• Visit Appearance Menu > Themes
• Click Add New to go to Add Themes page
• Now click on Upload Theme Button
• In the next page, you can upload the theme which you downloaded
• If asked, Add your HostName, FTP username and Password and click the Proceed button

Now the theme will be listed in Themes section, now click Activate to use the particular theme for your website

2. ADDING A USER

WordPress provides you to add users with different kinds of roles: Super Admin, Administrator, Editor, Author, Contributor and Subscriber. Each roles have different actions which permits each users to perform various tasks.

Adding a User to Your WordPress Site

• Login to  your WordPress Dashboard
• Go to Users > Add New
• Enter Username (used for logging in), Email, Name and other details. If you want to manually set a password for that user, click on generate password. WordPress will automatically generate a strong password, or you can enter the password manually in the password field.
• Carefully select the role, which you’d want to assign to that user
• Click on Add New Use

Now the new user can have access to your WordPress site with the role which you’ve assigned.

Note: If you do not generate password while adding the user, the user gets a link in their email, which lets them set their own password.

3. ADDING MENUS

WordPress provides its users an easy and user-friendly interface to quickly manage menus in their site. Menus are one of the must have elements for easy navigation. WordPress users can add various items like categories, tags, pages & custom links to their menu.

Adding Menus to Your WordPress Site

• Login to WordPress Dashboard
• Go to Appearance > Menus
• Click on Create Menu
• Add Name to your Menu and click on Create Menu
• Select items (categories, tags, pages, custom links) you want to add in your Menu and Click Add to Menu
• Select the theme location option where you want to place the Menu
• Drag items to arrange their position (order them in the way you want them to appear)
• Click Save Menu

WordPress automatically places the menu which you’ve just created to the location where you wanted it to appear.

How to Prevent Others From Embedding Your YouTube Video

When you upload a video on YouTube, the video will be by-default publicly published and also other can embed that video on their websites/blogs, until you manually play with the video settings. But some users might want their video to be public (able to be searched on YouTube), but do not want other people to embed their video on external sites.

Well, here’s a quick guide that shows how you can prevent others from embedding your YouTube video.

PREVENTING OTHERS FROM EMBEDDING YOUR YOUTUBE VIDEO

• Login to your YouTube account
• Visit Videos Manager after you’re logged in
• Now find the video which you do not want others to embed, and click on edit option
• Go to Advanced Settings
• Uncheck Allow Embedding option, below Distribution options heading
• Finally click on the blue Save Changes button

Now on other people won’t be able to embed your that specific video on their Websites and blogs.

Angular2 [Part 2]: How to associate Angular2 Project with existing git repository

This article is second blog post from our Angular2 Series. As our first attempt on Angualr2 Framework we started about "How to start Angular2 Project via angular-cli?".

Make sure your have basic idea about creating project via your machine. We can move ahead to this second blog with assumption that you have set-up angular project in your local machine.

Here we will create a repository online on GitHub. We will than initialize configuration locally in order to can keep track of our code to the repository we just created.

1. Create a project on Github and copy its repository url ending with .git which is like for example: https://github.com/algosig/project-angular.git
2. Open your git console. Point directory which has your angular project that you created with angular-cli as a part of previous tutorial "How to start Angular2 Project via angular-cli?"
3. Initialize Project via npm. In your console type:
   npm initThis loads all configuration needed to initialize in your project. And stores all those settings creating a new file package.json in your project.

After you'll enter the values for above mentioned configuration, you will see following information set by npm:

You can notice above in the screenshot the url we proided is listed inside "repository" with "type":"git". So we have added a git repository in package.json with the help of npm init. There is two more things to notice in this configuration they are the bugs and homepage.You can see adding a single url of project repository, we are by default provided with the urls for issuing the bugs and also the home page to read the ReadMe of our repository.

Now that we've linked our github repository we can now commit straight to the master and keep proper track of our project contribution. These steps are pretty easy to catch up with. But do let us know if you face any problem during configuration. 

That's all about associating git repository. Second part of blog is completed here. We will continue to write about Angular2 on our next blog. Keep subscribed with our email list to get update of PART 2 of Angular2.

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How to Quickly Import Music and Movies Straight into iTunes

What do you do when you have to add some music or movies into iTunes library? Well, the answer is obvious that you’ll open iTunes and visit music list or movies list accordingly and import the music or movies which you’ve wanted to import.

Instead of doing these (opening iTunes, visiting the proper music or movies list, and drag the files) , did you know that there is a hidden folder in Mac OS X which automatically does the same thing for you.

QUICKLY IMPORT MUSIC AND MOVIES STRAIGHT INTO ITUNES

• Within Finder, Visit go > go to folder
• Type this location in the field: ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/

Once you’ve reached that location, one of the folder you see is Automatically Add to iTunes.

Whenever you place any music or movie file inside this folder, it is automatically imported into your iTunes Library.

AUTOMATICALLY IMPORT DOWNLOADED MUSIC & MOVIES TO ITUNES

If you use any software to download music or movies, make its default download location to that folder. That means the downloaded music or movie will be automatically imported to your iTunes library.

Tip: You can make a shortcut of that file in your desktop. So whenever you like to add any music or movie, you can simply drag it into it.

How to Hide/Exclude Certain Files from Sidebar in Visual Studio Code?

Currently I'm learning Angular2 and building a test project using Visual Studio Code.  VSCode is a lightweight but powerful source code editor which runs on your desktop and is available for Windows, OS X and Linux.

So what happens while working on Angular2 Project is that we write TypeScript codes. The tsc: typescript compiler generates respective JavaScript Code for our typescript codes. For this single process there are 3 files created which are listed below:

For a typescript file: event-details.component.ts, typescript compiler creates event-details.component.js.map and event-details.component.js. This is two additional files for a single components. Imagine an application with 20 components and 10 services, your side bar will be full of files. Because of similar names you cannot locate your required files easily. 

So in Visual Studio Code, here is how you Hide/Exclude certain files from your sidebar:

1. Goto File
2. Click Preferences
3. Click Settings
   You will see the user Settings and Workspace Settings in your Visual Studio Code Text Editor.
4. In your text editor add following code:
   "files.exclude": { "**/**.js.**" : true, "**/**.js": true, "**/**-lock.**": true } 

Above code listed every file with extension .js , js.** (example: *.js.map), *-lock.*(example:config-lock.json) will be hidden from sidepanel.

This small tips will help us refine our sidepanel and also vase much time in finding the right file we want

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 Free. Open source. Runs everywhere.

Visual Studio Code is a lightweight but powerful source code editor which runs on your desktop and is available for Windows, OS X and Linux. It comes with built-in support for JavaScript, TypeScript and Node.js and has a rich ecosystem of extensions for other languages (such as C++, C#, Python, PHP) and runtime. Visual Studio Code is one of the greatest committed open source project on Github by Microsoft. 

Owner: Microsoft

Github: vscode

Why Visual Studio Code?

VS CODE provides development environment for most of the programming languages which follow Open Specification (technical standard) known as Common Language Insfastructure(CLI) 

VSCode is lightweight. Comparing it with the Visual Studio it has many pros which promises developers to dive into it.

Visual Studio	2015(V14.0)	CODE
Software Size	1.9GB	54MB

Visual studio Code consists of three components:

1. Side Panel
   Here we can see the tree structure of your project. We see a search icon where we can perform advance search in files as well as folders. Visual Studio has integrated Git where we see the change in file immediately. We can perform every git operation that can be done from other git application. We can browse extensions and download from side panel too.
2. Text Editor
   This is where you do all the coding stuffs. The color customization and Theme Selection from VSCode is pretty straight forward. You can split the screen and see multiple text editors.
3. Terminal
   Here we build and run the project. Once we run the program from terminal it fetches and downloads all the necessary referenced library online while building the project.

You can perform all other activities that you do from Visual Studio 2013, 15, 17 and other IDEs.

This can be a major alternative of Visual Studio IDEs where you need to buy the licence key and also need ore space and memory to execute it. VS CODE mimics the Command Line Interface implementation of developing and deploying a project. So this could be a good tool for software development.  

Because it's free   . Free as in you can view and customize the source code. Do you believe that Microsoft launched a software for free? Means it's worth it.

I use visual studio code for web app development in ASP.NET MVC Framework, Angular2. 

Explore more about Visual Studio Code.

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How to Run Any Chrome App as a Desktop Apps in Windows 10

Previously on my Windows8.1 Machine, I installed Google Keep from Chrome Application Store. Chrome automatically set the app as my Desktop Application. After I installed Windows 10, it didn't happened automatically. I didn't  see Google Keep installed on my machine. So I did a small tweak from which I will now onward use my Chrome browser to run an instance of my desired chrome app from Desktop only. I wont need to open Chrome and type the url time and again.

Following are the steps to Create Shortcuts of the Chrome Apps, which lets us browse standalone apps as our new desktop Apps.

• Right Click your Desktop
• Add New Shortcut
  Add this path to the interface shown below:
  "C:\Program Files(x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --app="https://keep.google.com"
  

  What this does is, it uses the Chrome Application installed on your local machine and provides an instance to launch Google Keep.
• Next name the application as Google Keep or simply Keep as your wish.
• Save it.
• You will now see a new shortcut icon of chrome on your desktop like shown below:
  

  

This icon is little confusing. It would be better if you could get the Google Keep Icon for Keep. Otherwise you will be confused when you will try to open chromium browser next time. So this is quite simple. All you need to do is:

• Right Click your Shortcut that you recently made.
• Click to the properties.
• There you can see Change Icon
• Download the Google Keep Icon and locate that icon.
• Save it

And here we are with separate icon for separate app. This small tweak is valid for every chrome apps.All you need to do is change the url of the app in this particular section: "C:\Program Files(x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --app=keep.google.com. Instead of keep.google.com you can replace it with pictures.google.com or contacts.google.com as you wish.

Here you can see I created five new Desktop Apps i.e. linked Chrome Apps as shortcuts which are now browsable as desktop apps on my Windows 10 Machine.

Regarding Memory usage:  I find out that all apps ran independently are threaded inside chrome app in Task Manager and consume memories which is managed by Chrome itself.

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Is Artificial Intelligence Free?

I saw someone asked a question  How-can-AI-be-free? on Quora. Having keen interest in this field I tried to think of all possible reasons inside my mind. The question was not precise whether s/he wanted to know about whether the tools that we use for an AI project is free, or he was talking about languages, platforms and frameworks. But the answer was quite straightforward, AI is not quoted as a patent of any tech giant, neither it is a private hardware which only an individual can have access to. Artificial Intelligence is a subject/ field of study and knowledge is always free, all it requires is your mind to capture as much as you can. So I answered my logic or simply what I think about it. But together with this question another question which is my Blog Title to "Is AI Free" also seems to be valid. And here is what I answered:

 

Artificial Intelligence, this exciting research field in Computer Science itself is in it’s initial phase. And hundreds of tech giants, institutions, universities researchers are doing independent researches. And within last 8–10 years such research bodies have published Tools, Languages, Datasets, Frameworks and Libraries as well as community support platforms. It’s the knowledge about AI and necessary skills for performing the executions required prior to the concern about whether or not AI is free.

Just assume you’ve knowledge about AI and enough skills to program your robot/IoT whatsoever you want to, there won’t be any hindrance for you to implement your algorithms for a AI Project.

• There are huge datasets available from ImageNet to process, there are abundant online courses for free on Coursera.
• There are libraries in python liky SciPy , NumPy and Pybrain for the statistical analysis of data you use in your Machine Learning Projects.
• There are now foundations like Open AI and AI4ALL which aims to make this huge knowledge base of Artificial Intelligence to the open community.

And the lists about where you can get the resources for AI for free is abundantly available online. All you need to do is explore :)

Unboxing Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8+

Big Companies Dream Big and never stop surprising with smart and Intelligent Products. Entangled to the wide world with technology, Mobile Phones acts as mirror as well as your screen to envision  innovative ideas. We live our lives through our phones. They're now our screens of choice to enjoy everything from TV shows to mind-blowing games. But smartphones still look the same as they did a decade ago. Until Now.

With bunch of surprising features Samsung, one huge tech giant has Officially Unleashed Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8+. on 29th March, 2017. Infinity Display,Intelligent Interface,Face Recognition, Iris Scanner, Samsung DeX,Gear VR and Gear 360 are some of the major attractions that Samsung provides to its customers in Galaxy S8 and S8+. Let's review some of its outstanding feature here.

[Infinity Display]

bezel-less, full-frontal edge-to-edge screen,

The new Infinity Display gives you an incredible full screen experience. By creating a bezel-less, full-frontal edge-to-edge screen, the Galaxy S8 gives you more space for the things that matter. With this infinity display it gives you feeling of wide screen interface like you are viewing every corner of the object over your screen. Experience the cinematic looks of your world transparent through your phone. 

This phone is redesigned to function better than its previous version by making components smaller without compromising the performance. The Home Button is embedded under the screen and this phone has smoothly curved edges which looks so perfect. It has a wide area for doing multiple tasks at the same time. While you will not feel ani glitches during multitasking.

[A Whole New Way To Interact]

The Galaxy S8 also presents a whole new way to interact with your phone – Bixby. Bixby will be a new intelligent interface on our devices. With this feature, you can Say "Bixby"  to take the screenshot and text it to your friend on your contact list. It does that very fine. Isn't that cool to interact with your phone. Bixby also analyzes the object that it sees and provides insight about them. 

Once it learns about your routine, it will display only necessary information in your screen. This helps you to be updated with your routine and way you interact with your phone.

[Removing Everyday Barriers]

We constantly push ourselves to give you technology that makes your life easier through Face Recognition, Iris Scanner, Camera and more. You can unlock your phone with one touch i.e. finger scan or thorurgh face recognition. More to that you can secure your important file just with your eyes. Your eyes can only now see your important document.

Samsung DeX provides you a studio like experience with its feature of adding HDMI Cables and wireless keyboards, Mouse and Audio cables. You can use your phone like a computer and take advantage of it in your workstation.

[Opening New Worlds]

Virtual reality is another way to experience your new world. Like in S7, the Galaxy S8 connects with the Gear VR and also has a motion sensing wireless controller which makes it more realtime experience. It also has a Gear 360 which taker your 360 experience and enables you to livestream your special moments with your close ones.

This phone is still water resistant, captures high quality images and detects face for taking awesome selfie. Camera works perfect even during the low light and it's now easy to zoom. 

SPECIFICATION

Color Availability :  Midnight Black, Orchid Gray, Coral Blue, Arctic Silver, Maple Gold

Dimensions:  Galaxy S8                                           Galaxy S8+ 

                     (148.9 x 68.1 x 8.0 mm, 155 g)                  (159.5 x 73.4 x 8.1 mm, 173 g)

Display:         Galaxy S8                                                   Galaxy S8+

                        5.8" Quad HD+ Super AMOLED              6.2" Quad HD+ Super AMOLED

                        (2960x1440)                                               (2960x1440) 
                        570 ppi                                                       529ppi

Camera:  [FRONT]                         
8MP AF
F1.7 Aperture
Pixel size: 1.22µm
Sensor size: 1/3.6"
FOV: 80
Wide selfie
[REAR]Dual Pixel 12MP AF
OIS (Optical Image Stabilization)
F1.7 Aperture
Pixel size: 1.4µm
Sensor size: 1/2.55"
FOV: 77
Max Zoom: 8x (digital)
Pro mode
Panorama
Slow motion
Hyperlapse
Food mode
Save as RAW file

• Video Recording:
• 4K video recording at 30 fps
• 1080p HD video recording at 30 fps or 60 fps
• 720p HD video recording at 30 fps
• VDIS (Video Digital Image Stabilization)
• Digital Zoom 8x
• High CRI LED Flash
• Slow Motion video support for 720p at 240 fps
• Hyperlapse video with stabilization
• Continuous Autofocus video
• Face Detection
• Tracking AF
• Take 9-megapixel still photos while recording 4K video
• Playback Zoom
• Video Location tags

Performance

• Octa-core (2.3GHz Quad + 1.7GHz Quad), 64 bit, 10nm processor
• Octa-core (2.35GHz Quad + 1.9GHz Quad), 64 bit, 10nm processor
• Memory:
• 4GB RAM (LPDDR4)
  64GB (UFS 2.1)
• OS: Android 7.0(Nougat)

Fore more details/pricing/specificaiton visit the official site of samsung which we have listed below at our reference section:

Reference: 

1. Samsung Galaxy 8 Specs
2. Samsung Official Youtube Channel
3. Images Credit: Samsung( taken from youtube, screenshots)

Goodenough Inventor of Lithium-Ion Battery Reveals Fast Charging, Noncombustible Batteries

King of Battery for almost four decades John Goodenough, Unleashes a new technology, first ever all-solid-state-battery cells that could lead to safer, faster-charging, longer-lasting rechargeable batteries. With this breakthrough in the world of advanced batteries the skeptical world is finding a hard time to believe if this could drain the market of current lithium-ion batteries. Researchers demonstrated the new battery they invented have at least three times as much energy density as today’s lithium-ion batteries.

A team of engineers led by 94-year-old John Goodenough, professor in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin and co-inventor of the lithium-ion battery, has developed the first all-solid-state battery cells that could lead to safer, faster-charging, longer-lasting rechargeable batteries for handheld mobile devices, electric cars and stationary energy storage.

--UTNEWS

John Goodenought says, Cost, safety, energy density, rates of charge and discharge and cycle life are critical for battery-driven cars to be more widely adopted. We believe our discovery solves many of the problems that are inherent in today’s batteries.

People would find it as a bluff if any random person had claimed the invention of all-solid-state-battery. Goodenough being the pioneer and father of Lithium-ion battery, after this invention, people are saying that this could revolutionize the era with the hype of Electric cars and could challenge the automobile industry with the help of this invention.

Source: UT News

Flight Mode (Airplane Mode) : On or Off

Traveling by plane has been one medium of faster transportation for few decades. Crossing miles & miles within a minute has made our life really simple. Air Transportation somehow signifies we are quite familiar with the fact of turning our phones into flight mode or airplane mode and turning some of our electronic devices off.

Question may arise why we need to do this stuff especially, during take off and landing. Why electronic device should be turned off during flight? Can the 900$ phone take 90 million dollar jet to the ground and burn it with its own jet fuel, just because

we didn't turn our phone off to the FLIGHT MODE?

Airplane cockpit i.e. the front part of the plane where pilot takes control over the plane is filled of highly sensitive equipment required for navigating, communicating and other requirement for safe flight. All electronic devices have electromagnetic field that can interfere with the radio frequencies. It’s not only the cell phone but there is electromagnetic radiation that emits from every electronic personal devices and interfere with the the plane’s navigation system, communication system. The electronic signal can also interfere with the signals between the plane and radio station during takeoff and landing.

Safety officials worries that the electromagnetic radiation might interfere with this sensitive equipment in the airplane and creates safety issues. Devices like portable DVD found to drift airplane GPS system few degrees (research from few years ago). This thing can be resolved by turning it off.

If you argue with the flight attendant over using cell phone, you could be arrested and taken off the flight. If you intimate the flight attendant, you could be jailed for decades.

Likewise, issue of frequency reuse also happens simultaneously.

The frequency can’t be distributed all over the places with single tower. So the cell phone company establishes tower from place to place to reuse the same frequency. With car driving along and people communicating from office and home, there is a little chance that this frequency will overlap in another area and create problems. 

It wont be hard to make a call when you are on a ground. You just communicate through single frequency with single tower. However during the flight when you are flying 500 miles per hour moving around the signal will reach out in different towers with the same frequency at same time and interfere with the ground base cell phone system. And increases the possibility to interfere with the plane’s equipment.

In America because of the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) one should put their phones with airplane mode on. FCC regulations ban the use of cell phones on planes in order to ‘protect against radio interference to cell phone networks on the ground.”

Present time most of the airplane flight provides on air time. Newer plane technology uses the pico cell which acts like a mini cell tower or base station on board and allows the plane on a flight and tower on the ground to interact normally. Basically, the range of a pico cell is 200m or less which is suitable for the plane on flight. Air France was the first airline to allow the use of cell phone in their planes to mail text make receive call.

“It’s never been proven that a mobile phone signal has interfered with the navigation performance of the aircraft. But just because it’s never happened doesn’t mean it will never happen.”

-A pilot tells Business insider