Prasanth's blog

I have seen products from manufacturers that look-alike a costly branded one. These products costs less (sometimes far cheaper) than the branded one, but an initial look and feel will be the same as the branded one. Be it dress, shoes or Smart Phones. But when considering long term usage, we are spending more with the cheaper products. Take the case of Smart Phones (Apple iPhone does not need a comparison here!) You have the market leader Samsung and other Chinese made like Moto/Lenovo, Honor, Oppo, Lava etc. They advertise the components used are faster and better than the market leader but costs half or less. But, they are not durable. An accidental fall is just enough to kill them. Recently when Corning introduced the Gorilla Glass 5, they mentioned this variant is harder than the predecessor, but they don't have control over the Smart phone manufacturer on how it is integrated with the device. So, the health of the display depends in part on the housing that holds it. ...

Youtube videos are everywhere over the net. Anybody can embed the videos to their sites. We can go to the site, click 'Play' and view the video. There are chances that after a few seconds of viewing you find that you did not like the video and click 'Stop'. This will stop playing video, but will continue to buffer the data in the background adding to your data charges. The best practice is to RIGHT CLICK anywhere inside the video and choose 'Stop download'. This will immediately stop buffering the rest of the video.