Solutions for problems vs Problems for solutions!

Should work with people like this guy! Amazing

Love for Google Drive/ SpreadSheet

If you ask me what's has been the most usable, helping , lovely life saver software/Utility. 
I'd say GoogleDrive & Spreadsheets. I've been using it extensively for mapping and explain problems in real time across people from different geo loc.

Most problems could be brought into a simple matrix of table. That people take an hour to explain literally. This habit of using spreadsheet online have picked up in team, and we are truly benefited. as it lets us spot loop holes, use cases collaboratively. Many thanks to google!

Yeah Excel was there doing this stuff. The sharing feature was pathetic. Back in late 2000s, we share one sheet and it kept saying "User x locked this sheet for update". What? :x

It simply feels like putting the Mutex lock at the Root of things. when the lock is actually required just for a single line., in most cases , just a cell.  Google Spreadsheets locks it right! :thumbsup:

Drag select - Right way , Wrong way, Both from Microsoft

When you select UI objects from the Designer screens. many time we feel the difficulty for precisely selecting the UI items excluding the ones we don't want to get selected. 

Across different tools from different vendors, Selection tool logic works differently.  

1. Drag selecting in Power Point:

unless all 4 points are covered, the select tool will not select the particular UI. 

Fig1.1

 I'm drag selecting object 3, but the select tool is touching over 1,3,4 items also.  It has nil effect on the final selection.  Only object 3 is selected. (Below)

Fig1.2 Selected Object3.

2. Drag selection in WPF designer 

I try to select the middle object by dragging 

Fig2.1 I'm drag selecting object 2 alone, but just because the select tool touches Ob1 & 2, and the outer frame, check how the designer is behaving (Below)

Fig.2.2 Selects the whole screen!

Funny thing is , it selects the other two items, along with the ENTIRE GRID at the bg.  because it's working based on Edge tracing. Even if one pixel comes under the drag select from any where in the UI object, it's picked for selection.

Both Power point & WPF is from the same company.Don't know why WPF designer is kept the painful way. May be there's an option to change this behavior? If at all it's there, it's still wrong to keep the default behavior , the painful way. 

Kindle , Nook , KidsPad, Grand Pad & a whole pile of Hardware

The concept of selling "hardware" when it's just a matter of software.
I freaking dislike people selling "Kids learning tablet" and "Seniors Tablet" all BS.

A single hardware, can do every damn thing that these people are selling as different products. And even the Kindle & similar "readers", that they sell with such a simple marketing strategies.  They say its' paper white & don't damage your eyes much. Excuse me? Can't that be achieved with your normal smart phone / tablet? With a simple toggle between Reader/Play modes? People keep heaping gadgets in their homes. 
Just phones for adults & And a good Tablets for children should be good enough to do all these circus.

Check this link about "Grand Pad"
https://www.grandpad.net/


And Check this link about Kindle: 

http://www.zdnet.com/article/7-reasons-the-kindle-fire-is-better-than-the-ipad/

Later I'll go about every point that funny author has written. 

Reason 1: Price

Reason 2: Flash

Reason 3: Native USB drive mode

Reason 4: PC-format document viewer

Reason 5: Free Prime video

Reason 6: Amazon integration

Reason 7: Size

Windows Phone , The first step gone wrong

Like I've written in previous posts, I'm a gadget freak and I have plenty of devices on hand.  When Samsung Focus was released first, I got one.  And I wished Windows Phone a very good success. But how it would happen , if the first impression is so bad. The most critical requirement in a smart phone is battery.  No matter battery lasting long or not, we should be able to POWER ON the phone at least with the charger connected.  The Android devices I had can be restarted in seconds. Even if battery went down to 0. All it takes is to connect the phone to the charger and power it on. And we can continue to use it connected to the charger.  Just imagine you are sending a long urgent mail to a client or a friend , at the last minute the battery gets drained and you went mad. The moment you find your charger, the first thing you do is to connect it, Switch the phone on again, OS boots in a second, You get back to the mail client and click SEND and relax.

With Windows Phone 7. Samsung Focus,  We need to wait for MINUTES. All we would see is this screen :

And nothing else! for 10+ minutes, if I remember it right.  I asked my electronic friends, why this freak show happens in particular phones.  They say, it's based on the circuit. I don't know what the heck but why Microsoft always settles for the poor option available in the industry? What people need , is heavily overlooked. :(                                                                                                                                     

Useful Splash-Screens

Almost every App , may it be in our phones , Desktops or any other gadgets, takes couple of seconds to open.  Some bigger apps like Photoshop,  Visual Studio or any other heavy weight takes more than that.  To make sure user doesn't get bored , usually the App makers display a big fat colorful splash screen. Though it serves some purpose like, registering the brand in users minds, it does nothing else big.  We could use those two mins times to show something useful.  Like these :

REDUCE PRINTS. SAVE TREES.