How a programmer differ from a hacker or a developer ?
Most of us often use this three terms — probably without knowing their actual job. So it’s important to understand that these are not all the same thing.
In this article we are going to break it down to you — difference between a programmer, a hacker and a developer, What their actual job ? How they related to each other ?
Although, a programmer,a hacker and a developer somewhat related to each other. All of these guys how a programming language can be utilized , but in different ways. Lets start :
Programmer :
A programmer is a person with well defined skills who entirely focused on writing code.Programmers are mostly mastered in one or more programming languages and have reasonably good knowledge of related areas as well.
Hacker :
A hacker is someone who makes things. They mostly alters the thing created by programmers and make them work in a different way. Yes,they also writes code. And hackers have a deep knowledge about functionality of computers and other hardwares. And also they are damn researchers.
Developers are creators, everyone can’t become a developer because they are trained to write codes. They are expert at finding ways around problems and plugging components together to fulfill a set of requirements. They create things or solve problems by following a set of design and implementation principles.
So these are the basic difference between a programmer, a hacker and a developer.
In short, all three solves problems or create one by writing codes. Anyone who knows programming languages can become a programmer while anyone who knows both programming languages and working of computers could be a hacker but mostly only a trained programmer can become a developer.
And actually they are all related to each other. Mostly people who writes codes can be any combination of these.
Because all hackers and developers are considered as a programmer.But many programmers and even developers are not creative enough to be considered as a hacker. And also many programmers, and even hackers, are not educated or experienced enough to be considered as a developer.
If you came under any of these categories,then you are awesome. You should be proud for being a programmer or a hacker or a developer because solving problems using code is a superpower by itself.
Now we got Widows 10 or OS X or a couple of awesome Linux distros to ligthen up PC and laptops. What about the classic versions of operating systems.
Yes, of course present generation feels it as the worst operating systems ever made but they are ruled the old computing world.
Those of us who love technology aren’t likely to forget our first desktop operating systems. But it might be difficult to fire up the first PCs you ever owned today. Interestingly some computer enthusiasts have made it easy for us to relive what it was like to use them again with almost no effort at all.
Yes with help of your browser now you can run your classic versions of Windows and Mac operating systems. Here are a few such websites or we can say some online emulators to fuel your tech nostalgia 🙂 .
It’s the very first version of the most widely used desktop operating system in history, released in 1985. And you can live in the past right now by clicking on jsmachines.net, short for “JavaScript Machines.”
The emulator is in black and white rather than color, and you can’t save any changes, but you can use the mouse cursor and run the earliest Windows programs, like Reversi, Notepad, and Paint.
Mac OS System 7
This website lets you run Mac OS System 7, released in 1991, on a simulated Macintosh Plus, a computer introduced in 1986. As a nice touch, it runs the OS within an illustration of the physical computer.
You can try out some freeware included with the system. Highlights include Shufflepuck, an astronomy program called Orion, and an early version of Microsoft Word for Mac.
Mac OS 8.6
Released in 1999 and one of the last versions of the classic Mac operating system before it was replaced by OS X, you can find this old operating system at VirtualDesktop.org. They also emulate Windows 95,Windows 98,Windows me,Windows 2000,Mac OS X etc..
Andrea Faulds, a 19-year-old developer from Scotland, has been able to get run Windows 95 in almost any web browser. She used used emscripten, an emulator that converts C++ code to JavaScript in real-time. It requires no downloads, plugins, or any special software.
Windows XP
Windows XP still famous operating system from Microsoft also have an online emulator. XP simulation comes courtesy of Total Emulator, a neat little website that isn’t pretty but makes it easy to switch among Windows ME, 98, 2000, XP, and Vista.
So these are a bunch of browser-based emulators that show you what the old OSes looked like and let you click on a few things. If you want to be able to use all the features of an old operating system, you’ll probably have to find the software and load it in a virtual machine.
There are over 1.43 million apps on the Google Play Store, and more than 500 billion downloads. And we already installed some of the popular Android apps without knowing the fact they just want to harm us.
Yes,there are some popular Android apps in Google Play Store which disguise themselves as your friend, but some of them are tracking you while others comes with a lot of bloatware or malware or ad-ware.
Today we are going to list 10 popular Android apps which you have to avoid. If you already installed these apps – uninstall now.
Popular Android web browser, no one can beat UC browser – because have many exclusive features. UC Browser is developed by Alibaba-owned UCWeb and it is the #1 Android web browser in China and India. The application is said to have more than 500 million users worldwide. It claims to have a “fast mode” that’ll save you MBs of data usage thanks to compression.
Why you have to avoid UC browser :
Recent reports shows that your favorite browser have some privacy issue, yes – they are spying on their users.
It’s found that the users’ search queries are sent without encryption to Yahoo India and Google and the browser’s AMAP component, an Alibaba mapping tool, sends device identifiers (IMSI, IMEI),Android ID,Wi-Fi MAC address and location data (cell tower data) to Umeng, an Alibaba analytics tool without encryption.
Better Alternative :
Chrome and Firefox are the obvious choices, but some people have worries about privacy concerns there too – because Chrome and Firefox are also sending users data to company server but unlike UC browser they are sending encrypted data.
2. DU Battery Saver & Fast Charge
A popular “battery-saving” app with an insane number of downloads. It has 7.6 million five-star reviews. Well, sorry, but all of those 7.6 million people are wrong.
Why you have to avoid DU Battery Saver :
Fast Charge? An app does not have the ability to change how fast your device charges. This is also the king of adverts – it sponsors almost every ad that you see in any other app and manifests its own ads on your lock screen and notifications bar. Also, all those fancy speed graphs and cool animations? Totally fake.
Better Alternative :
For proper battery saving, try the aforementioned Greenify.
3. Dolphin Web Browser
An ad-free, Flash-supporting, HTML 5 video-enabled browser. It’s got 150 million downloads and counting.
Why you have to avoid Dolphin Web Browser :
Like UC Browser, this is a tracking nightmare. Worst of all, it saves your incognito mode website visits in a file on your phone – go and check. Don’t believe the hype; delete it now.
Better Alternative :
As mentioned earlier, Chrome and Firefox are your two best options.
4. Photo Collage
A collage creator that boasts 120 different frames, addable text, and fun backgrounds.
Why you have to avoid Photo Collage :
Lots and lots of ads, the most annoying of which is the DU Quick Charge ad on the lock screen.
Better Alternative :
Once again, there are plenty of photo editors out there. Photoshop is great for heavy-duty work, or you could also try Google’s increasingly-impressive Snapseed.
A “junk file cleaner” that’s been installed 10 million times and has 85 percent four- or five-star reviews.
Why you have to avoid CLEAN it :
Most of what it advertises is detrimental to your phone. For example, clearing the cache will ultimately slow your phone down when it needs to be rebuilt, clearing your RAM only leads to more battery usage, and killing running apps does not save your battery as claimed.
Better Alternative :
Greenify is a much better option for reducing apps’ battery drain, and SD Maid is a more useful junk filter for ad files and logs, etc.
6. QuickPic
QuickPic used to be a friendly and easy-to-use photo gallery. It was never flashy, but clear communications and frequent updates saw it steadily grow a well-sized user base.
Why you have to avoid QuickPic :
It was bought by Cheetah Mobile last year. The company immediately started uploading users’ data to their own servers, as evidenced by one Google Plus user who found a raft of new DNS requests that were attributable to the app.
Better Alternative :
One alternative that’s been gathering pace recently is Piktures. It claims to be the first gesture-based gallery app and is completely ad-free.
7. Clean Master
Another insanely popular “speed booster, battery saver, and phone optimizer”. It has 600 million users and 26 million five-star reviews.
Why you have to avoid Clean Master :
Firstly, it’s made by Cheetah Mobile. We referred to them earlier – the company is renowned for packing ads, bloatware, and nag screens into their apps. Secondly, it doesn’t do anything useful; RAM-saving apps were valuable once upon a time and Android now has its own native handler for assigning RAM and ensuring it’s all being used in the most optimal way – in many cases, it even deliberately keeps RAM loaded to help performance.
Better Alternative :
Honestly, nothing. If you really insist, SD Maid is your friend.
Amazingly, it’s probably the most popular file explorer app out there. That’s because it used to be really, really good – five years ago.
Why you have to avoid ES File Explorer :
The free version has been pumped full of bloatware and ad-ware, and it endlessly nags you to download additional apps via non-disable-able notification bar pop-ups.
Better Alternative :
If you want an open-source offering turn to OI File Manager; if you’re more concerned with design try out FX File Explorer; or if customization is your thing, you can look to Total Commander.
9. Music Player with Ads
As implied, it’s an app that lets you play audio files saved on your device.
Why you have to avoid Music Player :
It has lots of ads, but more worryingly from a user standpoint, it eats through data plans and destroys your battery. People who’ve commented on its Google Play listing report gigabytes of data being consumed, as well as massive battery drain.
Better Alternative :
There are lots of ways to stream music on Android, while Google Play Music and Phonograph are both good ways to manage audio that’s already on your device.
10. Almost Every Anti-Virus Apps
There are loads to choose from; most of the well-known desktop anti-viruses now have a smartphone offering.
Why you have to avoid Anti-Virus Apps :
They aren’t bad per se, but they are largely unnecessary – that’s why the biggest names in the industry now market their apps’ anti-virus capabilities as part of a larger security package. There are a couple of caveats, however; if you install software from third-party sources (i.e., not the Google Play Store), or if you have a rooted device. Both these situations can open you up to malware that Google has no control over.
Better Alternative :
In this case, it’s not so much what you should install instead, but rather that you need to make sure you’re installing a full-fledged security package from a recognized provider. The apps from companies like Avast and Avira tend to offer additional features such as password-locked apps, remote device wiping, and call blockers.
So do not install these popular Android apps – even if they are the best in the market, don’t let them to track or hack you and only install content from well-known and well-trusted developers. And of course, if you see any suspicious activity after installing an app, delete it and its residual cache .
We are using different methods to copy or move files in Windows. Some of us use traditional “right-click —> cut/copy — paste” method while some other use drag-and-drop feature in Windows explorer to copy their files.
Drag-and-drop feature is most convenient method to copy your files in Windows. With drag-and-drop feature you can easily copy or move files around in Windows.
But what if i say there are some hidden Windows tricks that can make this feature more handy.
We normally use our Left mouse button to drag files from one drive to another ,which usually copy files after releasing mouse. But this is not the only thing you can do with drag-and-drop feature.
Actually using drag-and-drop feature you can handle your files in three different ways :
Method 1 : Simply drag files from one drive to another by holding “Left Mouse Button” and drop files by releasing mouse. to copy files.
Method 2 : Hold “Shift + Right mouse button” while drag to move files from one drive to another.
Method 3 : Use only “Right mouse button” to dragging files and when you drop the files, you will be prompted to choose which action to take. You can either choose “copy” or “move” or “create a shortcut” or “cancel” the operation.
So now onwards use this simple hidden Windows drag-and-drop features to handle your files.
Now you can play Solitaire and Tic-Tac-Toe directly in Google search results through your desktop and Google mobile apps.
Today in their official blog, Google announced the addition of two of the oldest and most popular games for all ages – Solitaire and Tic-Tac-Toe in Google search engine.
How to play Solitaire and Tic-Tac-Toe in Google search ?
So how to play them ?
Its easy – you just have to type in “solitaire” or “tic-tac-toe” to Google, and it will display the game for you to play, right in the search results.
Each game allows you to pick the difficulty level, and with tic-tac-toe, you can also play against another player sitting next to you. The company also included the ability to flip a coin by typing in “coin flip.”
play Solitaire in Google searchplay Tic-Tac-Toe in Google search
Apart from these games, Google also added some neat tricks as well: type in “what sound does a lion make?” and it will bring back an audio result, as well as a short list of other animals. The list is a bit limited, but hopefully it will add more to the list before too long.
Researchers from Stanford University – Steve Engelhard and Arvind Narayanan, recently found that your smartphone’s battery status may now provide a way for websites to track you online – “thanks to HTML5”.
With rise of HTML5 web developers can do a lot of things, in that HTML5 Battery Status API – information on your battery life percentage and time to discharge, as well as how long it would take to charge your phone can be used to track you online.
HTML5 Battery Status API allows servers to determine when they need to send an energy-efficient version of a website. It lets them see how much charge a laptop, tablet, or smartphone has in terms of time remaining until discharge, and as an overall percentage.
And according to researchers – these two figures can be combined to provide a the unique combinations of the numbers which would give websites a way to match your battery information with your IP with fairly good certainty and there are about 14 million different combinations of battery life as a percentage and remaining time.
And also these figures about battery status updates after almost every half a minute, so these statistics can be used to identify the user on the website within the time frame of 30 seconds. Researchers claim that website can possibly reconstruct your battery’s identity, within that given 30-second timeframe, even if you visit a website using a proxy and then revisit the same website without proxy.
The worst part of this attack is that it’s hard to mitigate against it. You can’t deal with it as easily as you would wipe your browser cookies. VPNs and AdBlockers won’t help either. The only option is to plug the device into the mains. Although it’s unclear whether this sort of thing is being routinely used against users, for some time, many in the security community have held concerns about the Battery Status API.
Right now only Firefox supports Battery status disabling feature. So if you are too much concerned about your privacy switch to Firefox.
Click here to check if Battery Status API is Enabled/Disabled in your browser.
Google already created two operating systems – Android and Chrome OS – but both are based upon the Linux kernel.
Reportedly some rumors states that Google is secretly developing a new Open Source OS – which is not just an upgrade to Android or Chrome OS and also hat’s not derived from the Linux kernel.
The new Google operating system is codenamed Fuchsia,which Google planning to implement in future smartphones and computers.
While Google hasn’t officially announced anything about the OS, it released details about the project on GitHub with the cryptic description “Pink + Purple == Fuschia (a new Operating System).” However, at the moment, the repository doesn’t include any source code.
So according to some reports, the upcoming Google Open Source OS – Fushia uses Magenta kernel, which is designed to compete with IoT-oriented operating systems like FreeRTOS or ThreadX. Dart is the main programming language and Flutter support indicates that the OS will likely use Material Design for its user interface.
Till now Fushia OS is in dark and may be we can hope one day this Google’s new Open Source OS will be a better competitor for Microsoft Windows.
Sometimes its happens – Once you installed an awesome app from Google Play Store and because of low memory or some other reason you deleted that app. Now you have a better Android phone and like to install that particular Android app that you uninstalled years ago :
But your memory sucks! You forget that app name.
But don’t worry Google knows you…. because your Google account saves the list of all the apps you’ve ever installed on your Android phone from Play Store.
