The Mobile Device

It's surprising to see the evolution of mobile phones and the corresponding usage pattern of users. Right when it was on the anvil who could have foreseen the force with which it would upend everything. The need for communication and comraderie was always present in human beings, but so was the need to put a name or face behind it. The world was small afterall, an oyster, for most of the normal human beings. But the pace of technological change and the advent of globalisation created a powerful new economy as well as age, that was to seriously challange the old way of life. Add the current social media into the mix and one has a fundamentally new way of life.

Right when Motorola came out with Iridium phones and had to bear the brunt, or when nokia came out with hugely successful models, to when the call rates dropped and brought a new means (always on, always connected) of communication to the masses, to the age of data services,  when data is becoming more important day by day; no one has been able to clearly predict the pace of happenings.

Feature phones have taken a back seat now, with new touch screen smartphones the new currency in the scheme of things. The new 24*7 culture has the perfect tool in telecommunications revolution. Add to it the GPS, by which you are never lost, and never out of place, and the online translation/discovery services, with seamless travel arrangements,  and suddenly the world seems a smaller place. So much information is at hand, that it requires an extraordinary mind to cull the right information in a timely fashion.

Who would have thought that large screen phones would come into being, that phablets and tablets would become a new screen, and the most important at that. That information would be the new currency. When ownership would be immaterial, timely usage would be what everyone would be paying for. Things would come in sachets. True you don't need a powerplant for enjoying electricity and the gift it brings, but the concept would boil over to other areas, atleast that has been a revelation.

What would the future of mobile devices be? Cloud is where a major part of our online lives are stored..How pervasive is it going to be? How would we interact with the future devices? Is there life after data?
Will the future be wearable devices? Or will we be with an implanted supercomputer in our brain, always online, always connected to the master supercomputer that is the internet now? A tantalising future indeed. How's it gonna be?

How to enable Windows Defender in Windows 8

Windows defender is an anti virus/spyware program that has been built into win8. However it is generally disabled as various other third party AV softwares are bundled along. For activating it one will have to uninstall the other AV s/w present. The steps for activating:

Method 1:

To make the “Windows defender Service” startup type to “Automatic”.

Follow these steps:
a. Press “Windows key + R” from keyboard.
b. Type “services.msc” without quotes in the “Run” Window and hit enter.
c. Search for “Windows Defender Service”.
d. Make “Startup Type” to “Automatic”.
e. Restart the computer and then check how it works.

Method 2:

Perform System File Check (SFC), and then check if this fixes the issue.

Follow the steps:
a. Press “Windows Key + Q” to open Charms Bar.
b. Type “cmd” without quotes in the search box.
c. On the left pane, right click on the “cmd” option and select “Run as Administrator”.
d. Type ‘sfc /scannow’ without quotes and hit enter.

However if methods 1 & 2 don't work then there is a simple fix:

You can enable Windows Defender simply by typing in the command line: sc start WinDefend Enable

Had to search for hours in order to get this fix. It should work.

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Two Years...

It's been two years since i wrote last. I guess i should have a lot more to write now for the two year sabbatical should do one good. Yet I find no ideas to write about- It's as if life has gone through a vacuum where the fate has just changed the dates with no change in the character. Haven't you gone through such feeling where time flies by but you have no major recollection, no memories? 

Life has been kind, with many happy moments inter-spread in between not so happy ones. The period has seen a change in my living city- I have moved from Mumbai to Delhi. Each city has its own unique soul, its own language, weather, people and ways. I had thought that Delhi would be easy after living in Mumbai... Yet it is a different experience. For one I am happy that I can manage to stay in an independent house with nice gated community (unlike a flat in Mumbai). And I am sad that I can't take the 24 hr electricity or life guaranteed ( NCR). 

I do hope that I get into groove and start writing again- for it is the only occasion when one gets to sit alone with himself and have internal dialogue. The rest of the time is spent chasing one thing or the other.