GOOGLE SPACES WILL SHUT DOWN ON 17th APRIL 2017

Google initially launched SPACE with its goal of creating a better small-group sharing experience on May 16, 2016. The stable release was also launched on same month. Space was made available on Android, ios, Mac and Windows. Space is a proprietary product from Google.

Google is going to out shadow this product which couldn't make its fame among its customers. It is an application for group chat and all of us are familiar with famous chatting applications like Messenger, Skype, Viber, WeChat and SnapChat. Even though being a huge tech giant Google failed to establish this product. This is why it will be shut down on 17th April, 2017.

Here are some important details for SPACE users:

Spaces will be read-only on March 3rd:This means you can't create new spaces, posts or comments. Also, new invitations can't be sent, and new members can't be added to spaces.

Between now and April 17th, you can: 

See, save, print, and delete your content. Delete any spaces you created, leave any spaces you joined, and remove people from your spaces. Report abuse in Spaces, and block other Spaces users. 

After April 17th, 2017:

Spaces and their content will be deleted.

Source: support.google.com

KATHMANDU UNIVERSITY: OPEN DATA DAY CELEBRATION BY KUOSC

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Kathmandu University, Nepal, celebrated International Open Data Day in Kathmandu University Central Campus, Dhulikhel on 4^th March, 2017. The event was organized by Kathmandu University Open Source Community(KUOSC) an autonomous wing of Kathmandu University Computer Club in order to mark, promote and encourage use of Open Data in Nepal. Open Data Day is celebrated every year throughout the world to bring together the people and organizations based on shared enthusiasm for open data.

During the talk program Volunteers from KUOSC shared their ideas and experience on Open Source Technology and use of Open Data. Pratit Raj Giri explained the motive of the program. He further talked about what is open data and the state of open data in Nepal. Rishi Raj Gautam  shared about how could we contribute for Open Data in Nepal. Sandeep Neupane shared his idea and experience from the survey he had done in Kavre district related to Open Data. He shared his experiences and findings on the program. Mahesh kafle new open source enthusiast of KUOSC, talked about how to get involved in open data. He shared his experience from the Recent Open Data Hackathon that was organized in the Kathmandu. Sanjog Sigdel also added few points on contributing to Open Source Community and Open Data. He also talked about his contribution on Open Street Mapping, Ubuntu Localization and Wikipedia at the end of the program.

Everyone who attended the program came to a conclusion to make a commitment to contribute for Open Data.They also did some brainstorming and came up with an idea of Hackathon within the University to promote Open Source Technologies. They came to a conclusion that this Hackathon could identify possibilities of doing a long term Open Source Project which could be continued by their juniors.

In different part of country, Open Source Enthusiasts and Open Hacktivists are celebrating OPEN DATA DAY. You can find the hash tag #OpenDataDay trending on  Social Networking Sites.

Here are some glimps of today's wonderful event:

OPEN DATA DAY 2017 | ओपेन डाटा डे २०१७

यहि मिति २०७३ फाल्गुन २१ गते तद अनुसार मार्च ४ २०१७ का दिन विश्वभरि वर्ल्ड डाटा डे मनाइएको छ। वर्ल्ड डाटा डे को अवसरमा नेपालमा पनि विभिन्न कार्यक्रमहरु आयोजना गरिएको छ। यसैक्रममा काठमाडौँ विश्वविद्यालयको कम्प्युटर साइन्स तथा इञ्जिनियरिङ्ग विभागको कम्प्युटर क्लबले पनि डाटा डे लाई काठमाडौँ विश्वविद्यालयको केन्द्रिय क्याम्पस धुलिखेलमा एक कार्यक्रम गरेर भव्यताका साथ सम्पन्न गरेको छ। कार्यक्रम काठमाडौँ युनिभर्सिटी कम्प्युटर क्लबको ओपन सोर्स सम्बन्धि कम्युनिटी, काठमाडौँ युनिभर्सिटी ओपन सोर्स कम्युनिटीले  गरेको थियो।

यो कार्यक्रमले हरेक वर्ष जस्तै यस वर्ष पनि ओपन डाटाको महत्व र त्यसका बारेमा भईरहेका क्रियाकलापहरुको समीक्षा गरेको थियो। यसका साथसाथै ओपन डाटाको नेपालमा कत्तिको महत्व छ र नेपालमा ओपन डाटाको अवस्था हाल कस्तो रहेको छ भन्ने बारेमा पनि कार्यक्रममा जानकारी दिइएको थियो। कार्यक्रममा कम्प्युटर साइन्सका प्रतित राज गिरिले ओपन डाटा डे  र कार्यक्रमको बारेमा जानकारी दिएका थिए। त्यसैगरी कार्यक्रममा काठमाडौँ विश्वविद्यालयकै ऋषि राज गौतमले ओपन डाटा को लागि कसरी योगदान गर्न सकिन्छ भनेर जानकारी दिएका थिए।

काठमाडौँ युनिभर्सिटी ओपन सोर्स कम्युनिटीका संयोजक सन्दिप न्यौपानेले आफुले ओपन डाटाको लागि काभ्रेमा गरेको सर्भे र आफ्नो अनुभब बताएका थिए। कार्यक्रममा काठमाडौँ विश्वविद्यालयकै महेश काफ्लेले ओपन डाटामा कसरी लाग्ने र ओपन डाटा ह्याकाथनको बारेमा आफ्नो अनुभब सुनाएका थिए। अन्त्यमा कम्प्युटर साइन्सका सन्जोग सिग्देलले ओपन सोर्स र ओपन डाटाका बारेमा थप जानकारी दिदै ओपन स्ट्रीट म्यापिङ्ग, उबन्टु लोकलाइजेसन र विकिपेडियामा  आफुले गरेको योगदानको बारेमा प्रेरक कुराहरु प्रस्तुत गरेका थिए। कार्यक्रमको अन्त्यमा सबै सहभागीले ओपन डाटाका लागि योगदान गर्ने र छिट्टै काठमान्डौ विश्वविद्यालयमा ओपन डाटा सम्बन्धि ह्याकाथन गर्ने निष्कर्ष निकालेको थिए।

Open Data Day 2017

Open Data Day is a gathering of citizens around the world to write applications, liberate data, create visualizations and publish analysis using open data. It is an effort to show support and encourage the adoption of open data policies by worlds local, regional and national government.

Open data is yearly event based on shared enthusiasm for open data since 2010. This year also with the same enthusiasm we are celebrating Open Data Day on March 4, 2017. Last year 262 cities celebrated open data day. During this event, participants are able to grab an opportunity to share their experiences with open data, open map, future projects, etc.

Why is it celebrated in Kathmandu, Nepal?

Kathmandu is one among many cities around the world taking part in international movement on open data to create awareness of what and how it can be greater use to government and to general public. With the communities like Open Nepal, Kathmandu Living Labs, Open Knowledge Foundation, FOSS Nepal, Mozilla Nepal, Wikimedia Nepal; open data has now established an important concept and these communities played a role in promoting transparency, accountability and citizen engagement in Nepal.

What will happen during Open Data Day in 2017 in Kathmandu?

Open Data Day is all about motivating data enthusiasts around the world. Following the same spirit Open Data Day 2017- Kathmandu will provide opportunities for people to explore and collaborate on open data for solving issues regarding public procurement and health in Nepal. They are organizing a various programs such as:

Thematic presentation and Panel Discussion

Lightning talk session

Hackathon showcase ( P. S. this event has began from 25th February, 2017)

Who can participate?

Open Data Day 2017 is for everyone. Anyone with an interest in open data , open map, transparency, accountability and civics can participate. Participation is free of cost BUT they must come with passion to learn, share and collaborate.

Source:

opennepal

3 Quick Tips to Help You Use Facebook More Effectively

I don’t think it is necessary to introduce Facebook. With almost a billion plus users around the globe, Facebook is the top social networking site, at present. The social network allows its users to share photos & videos, update status about what they’ve been up to, manage businesses via pages, chat with friends, play games, and more.

Facebook has always updated itself according to the need of the time and its users. Tons of new features have been brought into play and dozens of times the user-interface has changed, since it first went online in 2004.

But there are specific updates and features which some users might not want to make use of.

Firstly, there are some Facebook users who might not play games and use apps on Facebook. They just want to get status updates, interact in status & photos. If these people start receiving tons of Facebook games requests, they’re definitely going to get irritated.

HOW TO STOP RECEIVING GAME REQUESTS ON FACEBOOK

Games like Candy Crush Saga, Farmville, Criminal Case, Mafia Wars, and many more keep on sending notifications which are actually very irritating for especially non gamers like me myself. I hate them more than anyone else.

Blocking Game Requests on Facebook

• Login to your Facebook Account
• Go to Settings > Account Settings
• Click on Apps
• Go to Platform
• On next page you’ll be asked if you want to receive notifications for games invite or not. Simply click NO

Now on you’ll never receive any sorts of requests or invites from games on Facebook.

Secondly, not every Facebook users might be making use of WiFi while surfing their news feed. Recently, Facebook rolled out an update which makes videos play automatically, without having you to click on the play button. Well, those users using Mobile data (without subscription) are definitely going to have problem in this case.

HOW TO DISABLE VIDEOS AUTO-PLAY ON FACEBOOK

From Mobile/Tablet FACEBOOK app,

• Open the application, click the option on the top right below the chat bar
• App setting > Videos play automatically
• Click the option off
• Likewise you can use On or WiFi only options whenever required

From desktop,

• Login to your Facebook account
• Visit Setting
• Go to, Videos > Auto play videos, and turn it Off

That is it! You can now soundly go through your Facebook news feed without worrying about your mobile data usage.

Lastly, If you are on a slower wireless network, or using Mobile data to surf Facebook on your Mobile phone, you can choose a proper setting to control how much data Facebook uses on your phone.

Photos are the data hungry element of Facebook; higher the quality of photos – the more it takes time to load the page. So when you’re on a slower WiFi network or on mobile data, you might want to decide how you want your posts to appear while surfing Facebook.

CONTROL HOW MUCH DATA FACEBOOK DOWNLOADS ON YOUR PHONE

• Login to your Facebook account on your phone
• Scroll down to the bottom and click Settings & Privacy
• Open General Page
• Tap on Edit next to Data Usage
• Choose one option between : Less, Normal & More

What does Less, Normal & More Data Usage Mean on Facebook

• Less data usage means Facebook will no more display any photos on your newsfeed.
• Normal data usage means Facebook will show all the photos, but in low quality.
• More data usage means Facebook will show all the photos in high quality. If you’re on a much faster Wireless network or you’ve mobile data package subscription then you might want to select this option.

How to Get .NP Domain Name for Free

If you’re unaware about this then let me make you clear that you can easily get .np domain name either for personal use or for your business purposes. The domain registrations done under under .NP ccTLD (A country code top-level domain is an Internet top-level domain generally used or reserved for a country, sovereign state, or dependent territory identified with a country code. All ASCII ccTLD identifiers are two letters long, and all two-letter top-level domains are ccTLDs.) is free of cost and is done by Mercantile Communications.

You can apply for a domain like COM.NP, ORG.NP, EDU.NP, NET.NP, GOV.NP, NAME.NP, etc. These are only some of the domains, if you want the full list please visit register.com.np. And today in this post I’ll discuss how easily you can register a .NP domain name for yourself.

Disclaimer: .NP domains are available only for Nepalese citizens and businesses based in Nepal.

Without wasting time around, let’s move directly to the tutorial. I’ll try my best to explain whatever steps you’ll have to go through for .NP domain registration. For your comfort, I recommend watching the above video.

HOW TO REGISTER .NP DOMAIN NAME FOR FREE

• Open up your browser and go to register.com.np.
• Now enter any domain name and check if it is available. Once you come across an available domain, and you’re satisfied, drag the box to the basket on the right.
• Next thing you’ll have to do is register for the site. Choose a username, and enter your email ID and verify it. And finally click on the red ‘register’ button (it will become red when you’re done).
• Check your email and activate your account. After activation, enter your username and password to login to the site.
• In the new page, you’ll see that you’re domain has been added to just requested tab. Now click on ‘edit’ and you’ll be taken to next page where you’ll have to enter your details.
• Enter your details: your name, address, phone & mobile number. After you’ve added these details, click on ‘NameServers’ from the sidebar on the left.
• This is an important section.  Here you’ll be asked to upload your scanned photo of either your citizenship or passport or driving license. Once you select the scanned file, click on upload button. And your scanned photo will be uploaded on the site.
• And below you’ll have to enter name serves for your domain. Okay, you might ask what are name server. For clear understanding, I recommend you to research about it.

That’s it! Now after one or two days your domain name will be registered.

Above the Clouds: A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing : A SUMMARY

DISCUSSION

Conventionally cloud can be referred as Service over Internet and hardware, but now the term cloud computing is referred for Software as a service. Cloud is now the demand for all tech giants due to some of the benefits like: decrease in cost of electricity, network bandwidth, operations, hardware availability at very large economic scale. We can make a lot of money, leverage existing investment, define a franchise, become a platform and attack a business incubation, by adapting the cloud computing. Cloud services were not user earlier, it is due to the reliability scale which was not prominent. But now cloud efficiently provides new tech trends and business models included as cloud platform. Cloud these days provide new application opportunities, mobile interactive application and parallel batch processing , which has been the reason for catching the huge mass of cloud service consumers. 

FINDINGS

Cloud computing strongly follows the ‘pay-as-you-go’ principle, which enables the feature elasticity providing its vendors the usage based pricing. Cloud vendors provide Virtualized resources as computation models or Virtual Machine, Storage model and Networking model. Cloud is more economic to rely on then other existing alternatives. Cloud computing application is focused on three models: Model of Computation, Storage and Communication. Software Licensing as an alternative cloud provides Pay-for-use Licensing. Conventional alternatives has limited storage but cloud provides invent storage Data-Lock In was the main issue in conventional alternatives whereas cloud provides many standardize APIs for maintaining and manipulating our data. Earlier there were no availability of services to host or run our system, but now cloud providers provide business continuity. Even cloud uses Elasticity to defend against the DDoS attacks. Cloud has improved virtual machine support: Flash memory gang scheduling Virtual Machines. Earlier bugs in Large-Scale Distributed Systems were a major issue, bug in a single hub used to damage the whole system but cloud provides invent debugger that relies on distributed virtual machines which solves the bugs without hampering the system. 

ARGUMENTS

From the cloud provider’s view, the construction of very large data centers at low cost sites using commodity computing, storage and networking uncovers the possibility of selling those resources on a pay-as-you-go model below the costs of many medium sized data centers, while making a profit by statistically multiplexing among a large software startup to build its own data centre as it would for a hardware startup to build its own fabrication line. Cloud specifically focuses on following concerns:

• Application Software of the future will likely have a piece that runs on clients and a piece that runs in the cloud. The cloud piece needs to both scale down rapidly as well as scale up, which is a new requirement for software systems.
• Infrastructure Software of the future needs to be cognizant that it is no longer running on bare metal but on virtual machines.
• Moreover, it needs to have billing system built in from the beginning, as it is very difficult to retrofit an accounting system. 
• Hardware Systems of the future needs to be designed at the scale of a container (at least a dozen racks ) rather than single rack.

Reference:

A Summary on " Above the Clouds: A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing ". Available from: researchgate.org  [accessed Feb 27, 2017].

Note: This Article is an exact copy from my Summary Paper which I wrote on Researchgate, a year ago. It was a part of Assignment of my Elective Course Cloud Computing. I thought sharing is good.

Graphene Super Capacitor : Future of dash charging

Today’s technology has push the mobile devices far beyond than its limit. We can possibly imagine how smart phones has made our life comfortable and straightforward. With the ratio of developing smart phones their batteries hasn’t been able to be in the point where they should be. Of course there are dash charging but still they are time consuming and not completely developed as they need to be. And still we are adopting the traditional way of charging, using lithium ion and lithium polymer batteries. 

The concept of Graphene Super Capacitor might be the history changer for tomorrow’s world of fast charging. A battery, high energy storage charges slowly and discharges slowly this ability is energy density. Similarly, capacitor , a low energy storage charges rapidly and discharges rapidly which is the power density. Combining the best of both will lead to fast charging and slow discharging. Super capacitors lies between the concept of this two energy storage methods. 

Eesha Khare, a graduate from Lynbrook High School California developed a super capacitor prototype that charges very rapidly and would last longer for more charging cycles. And was runner up at Intel International Science and engineering Fair (2013) bringing out this prototype. Its still prototype in the current state but proved to be work.

Her prototype could be fully charged within time interval of 20-30 seconds and hold the charge for longer like on other similar devices. It lasts for 10,000 cycles compared to batteries in current world 1000 cycles. Much greater achievement in field of energy storage.

Nano scale and mass scale fabrication hasn’t been practically possible on today’s world. Gradually, scaling up this prototype will lead to powering phones and electric cars. Like increasing the technology the maH of batteries will also certainly increase in the future. 

Imagine plugging your phone in, charging it for about 20 second and of that charge it will work one day or more.

Reference:
Eesha_Khare

A Day's power in half an hour: One plus 3T

Like it's said 'Life is a race.If you don' run fast you'll get trampled'. And here we are talking about the most important part of a human life 'A cell phone'. We all have studied that cell is the basic unit of our life,so is our cell phones😼.
Like we are dependent on our cell phones, our cell phones are dependent on their batteries. What if we run fast in our life but our phone doesn't? What if we have to make an important call and your phone shows a low battery? What if you want to capture the best moment of your life and damn battery is low again? I mean who wants that? We expect our phone to work at least for a day without charging. We all are living in a busy life and we have no separate time to let our phone charge for hours. Big Problem, right??

And here keeping these all things in mind One plus have created a sibling phone named as OnePlus 3T. As the name suggests, this device is essentially a souped up or 'Turbo' version of Oneplus that builds on everything we loved about the first while giving it a slightly more competitive edge against the competition.
Oneplus 3T comes with Dash charge. Dash charge is faster, safer, cooler and simply better than any other charging technology available today. Unlike other technologies, charging remain consistent even while gaming, live-streaming or demanding activities. The 3400mAh battery features a 13% increase in capacity over the Oneplus 3 which gives the solution to all the battery problem we face in our busy life. It take just half an hour to charge which will last all day long.

Not only the charger and battery life OnePlus 3T has Qualcomn Snapdragon 821(2.5GHz) which runs the most demanding apps and games with enhanced performance. 6 GB of RAM can juggle countless task without slowing down and internal storage of up to 128GB means running out of space is a thing of the past. And the camera of this phone offers 16 MP front and rear camera which gives you the crisp and sharp shots because of the cutting-edge noise reduction and improved stabilization technologies. Lightening fast shutter speed, snappy auto focus and intelligent software combine to create unmatched smartphone camera experience.

As far as the design is concerned, the OnePlus 3T looks exactly like its older sibling, and features the same full metal uni body construction, with a slightly curved back and rounded sides and corners. Despite being made entirely of metal, the phone is surprisingly light, and because the back tapers along the edges, it feels thinner as well, making for a device that is very comfortable to hold.

With a 5.5 inch with AMOLED display with 1080p resolution we get rich and vibrant colors with lot of contrast, and the optical dark mode that is built-in to Oxygen OS taking fantastic advantage of deep inky blacks. If you are not fan of vibrancy though, it is also easy to switch to sRGB color mode display setting that provides a more natural and less saturated look.

" PLAY MORE, DO MORE,STORE MORE" this awesome featured gadget costs $439 in today's date. So, if your looking for a phone with dash charge, camera that allows you to click in every angle with 1080p resolution then do invest it on OnePlus 3T.

Refrence

1. oneplus.net
2. androidauthority.com

TECHCAST S01E01 With Feature Story Of Mahabir Pun | Episode 1

After a week of awesome experience, exploring new technology and concept TechJhola announces its first episode of TECHCAST. Techcast is a podcast recorder in Nepali Language for Nepali Audience. We did this in order to share the ideas, information and Information Technology News that is happening here at Nepal and all over the Globe.
We have featured the story of Tech Pioneer Mahabir Pun on Episode 1.

You can listen to our podcast from Youtube and Soundcloud. Here are the links:

1. TECHCAST on Youtube
2. TECHCAST on SoudnCloud

We will soon come with our second episode of PODCAST. Please provide your valuable feedback regarding the content, audio mixing, voice. We are new to this project and your feedback will help us to improve our mistakes. 

To know about how we started, our objective and more about our PODCAST click here [TECHCAST]

Samsung Galaxy C9 Pro in Nepal know more detailed specifications.

Samsung Galaxy C9 Pro smartphone was launched in October 2016. Samsung has started taking pre-orders for their upcoming smartphone -Samsung Galaxy C9 Pro in Nepal. The expected price in Nepal is Rs. 60,000 and it can be pre-ordered from any Certified Samsung Stores for mobile phones.

Specifications descriptions.

Display and Configuration

The Samsung Galaxy C9 Pro comes with The phone comes with a 6.00-inch touchscreen display with a resolution of 1080 pixels by 1920 pixels with pixel density of 367 ppi. The capacitive touchscreen responds well to multi touch as well.

This Smartphone is powered by pair of quad-core processors, Cortex A72 and Cortex A53 respectively. With Qualcomm Snapdragon 653 MSM8976 Pro chipset and 6GB RAM enables the pair of processors to clock speeds of 1.95GHz and 1.44GHz respectively, which provides you the best multitasking experience. The GPU of Adreno 510 is like a hell boon for crazy gamers.

Camera and Storage

The Samsung Galaxy C9 Pro has 16MP primary cameras features a CMOS image sensor, autofocus, dual-color LED flash, ISO control and a 1.9f aperture which, together, processes images of 4,616 x 3,464 pixels resolution and records videos of 1,920 x 1,080 at 30 frames per second. And the most crazy thing for selfie lovers it also has a wonderful 16MP front camera same as the rear.

It comes with an inbuilt internal storage of 64GB, further can be expanded upto 256GB.

Battery and Connectivity

Samsung Galaxy C9 Pro has a 4,000mAh li-polymer battery which claims to render a long runtime.

This smartphone houses with dual 4G SIM slot, advanced Wi-Fi 802.11, a/ac/b/g/n/n 5GHz, mobile hotspot, advanced Bluetooth v4.2, A-GPS, Glonass, Near Filed Connectivity, and type C USB port.

Samsung Galaxy C9 Pro detailed specifications.

GENERAL

Release date	October 2016
Form factor	Touchscreen
Dimensions	169.90 (mm)x 80.70 (mm)x 6.90(mm)
Weight	189.00(g)
Battery capacity	4000(mAh)
Removable battery	No
Colours	Gold, Rose Gold
SAR value	NA

DISPLAY

Screen size	6.00(inches)
Touchscreen	Yes
Resolution	1080x1920 (pixels)

HARDWARE

Processor	1.44GHz octa-core
Processor make	Qualcomm Snapdragon 653
RAM	6GB
Internal storage	64GB
Expandable storage	Yes
Expandable storage type	microSD
Expandable storage up to	256 GB

CAMERA

Rear camera	16-megapixel
Flash	Yes
Front camera	16-megapixel

SOFTWARE

Operating System

Android 6.0(Marshmallow)

CONNECTIVITY

Wi-Fi	Yes
Wi-Fi standards supported	802.11 a/b/g/n
GPS	Yes
Bluetooth	Yes, v 4.20
NFC	No
Infrared	No
USB OTG	Yes
Headphones	3.5mm
FM	No
Number of SIMs	2
SIM 1
SIM Type	Nano-SIM
GSM/CDMA	GSM
3G	No
4G/ LTE	Yes
Supports 4G	No
SIM 2
SIM Type	Nano-SIM
GSM/CDMA	GSM
3G	No
4G/ LTE	Yes
Supports 4G	No

SENSORS

Compass/ Magnetometer	Yes
Proximity sensor	Yes
Accelerator	Yes
Ambient light sensor	Yes
Gyroscope	Yes
Barometer	No
Temperature sensor	No

About Samsung

Samsung was founded back in 1969 as Samsung Electric Industries, Suwon, it's headquarter is at South Korea. Samsung Electronics today makes everything from televisions to semiconductor devices. It's first Android smartphone was released in 2009 and it's first tablet to be said in 2010. The company one of the biggest players among the smartphone market in the world. It has recently developed smartphone running Tizen OS, as an alternative to its Android-based smartphones. In sooner future we will get to see many updates from Samsung.