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Top 5 Smartphones to Buy Right this Minute

The smartphone market in India is hot like never before. Nokia is losing its sheen and Samsung and Apple are racing ahead.

Consumers have a plethora of options to choose from. This may lead to a serious brainstorming session on their part. In case, you're planning to buy a smartphone, we've made life a little easier for you by complining a list of the top 5 smartphones to buy at present.

Take a look and then take your pick:

Samsung Galaxy S II

Okay, believe it or not but the truth is that Galaxy S II has usurped iPhone 4 from the throne of the smartphone empire. In a short period of time, it has stormed ahead of iPhone, which looked invincible at some point of time. The Galaxy S II's combines a thin and light design with the flexibility of hugely popular Android. Add to this a dazzling display and the best-in-class performance. It may have some minor flaws but they can be easily ignored for the great features it offers.

Why should I Buy it?

Big on performance, excellent display, ultra thing and light design, loaded with features, great battery performance.

Price: Rs 29,999

MensXP Rating: 4.5/5

Apple iPhone 4

Well, one of the reasons you should get this baby is because it's an Apple product after all! And iPhone 4 is in many ways the best phone Apple has ever made. It's faster that its predecessor, the 3GS. The Retina Display is simply amazing and sets the new standards in cellphone displays. The FaceTime App is indeed path-breaking and redefines the entire concept of video conferencing. And then its killer looks. It feels awesome to hold the phone in your hand.

Why should I Buy it?

Revolutionary features like FaceTime and iMovie, Stunning high-res display, brilliant camera (for video and still photography), superb battery life

Price: Rs 40,900 for iPhone 4 32 GB

MensXP Rating: 4.5/5

HTC Sensation

Often peddled as HTC's answer to Samsung's Galaxy S2 and iPhone 4, this Dual Core wonder is highly likely to attract people looking for an alternative to the first two phones. And the phone is indeed giving some serious competition to them. With a weight of just 148 gm and a beautiful design, Sensation is a pure joy in the hand. The phone was a CNET Editors' Choice Award winner and they said that it is “sensational in many ways”.

Why should I Buy it?

Excellent user interface, lovely display, 1.2 GHz Dual Core processor, 8 MP camera, excellent HD video recording, remarkable battery life

Price: Rs. 28,899

MensXP Rating: 4/5

HTC Desire S

This is an evolved successor to its massively popular ancestor - HTC Desire. Unibody design, a great interface, and the inclusion of Android 2.3 are being lauded all over. It is a seriously appealing mobile phone. Although is camera is mildly disappointing, the other features, which come at a competitive price, more than make up for that. Its software is intuitive and processor powerful.

Why should I Buy it?

Fantastic Unibody design, great performance, value for money,

Price: Rs 22,399

MensXP Rating: 4/5

LG Optimus 2X

Optimus 2X from LG is fitted with a speedy processor (Dual Core Tegra 2 1GHz) that makes it insanely fast and revs up the apps and user-interface transitions. Its appearance and feel may be slightly bulky but it offers some great hardware. Multimedia features are overwhelming. Once again, a good choice for those looking for options beyond Apple and Samsung.

Why should I Buy it?

Excellent display, powerful 1GHz Dual Core processor, slick scrolling and zooming, bustling with features

Price: Rs. 25,449

MensXP Rating: 4/5 (MensXP.com)

Use of Internet affecting our memory

Researchers have found that the widespread use of search engines and online databases is affecting the way people remember information.

To know whether people were more likely to remember information that could be easily retrieved from a computer, Betsy Sparrow, an assistant professor of psychology at Columbia and her collaborators, Daniel M. Wegner of Harvard and Jenny Liu of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, staged different memory experiments, reports the New York Times.

In one experiment where participants typed 40 bits of trivia, the team found that the subjects were significantly more likely to remember information if they thought they would not be able to find it later.

"Participants did not make the effort to remember when they thought they could later look up the trivia statement they had read," wrote the authors.

A second experiment was aimed at determining whether computer accessibility affects precisely what we remember.

"If asked the question whether there are any countries with only one colour in their flag, for example," the researchers wrote, "do we think about flags - or immediately think to go online to find out?"

In this case, participants were asked to remember both the trivia statement itself and which of five computer folders it was saved in. The researchers were surprised to find that people seemed better able to recall the folder.

"That kind of blew my mind," Dr. Sparrow said.

The experiment explores an aspect of what is known as transactive memory - the notion that we rely on our family, friends and co-workers as well as reference material to store information for us.

The Internet's effects on memory are still largely unexplored, Dr. Sparrow said, adding that her experiments had led her to conclude that the Internet has become our primary external storage system.

"Human memory is adapting to new communications technology."

How to Use Strong and Secure Passwords

How we can come up with string and secure passwords. Explains the methods hackers use for breaking into the accounts and also tells about a few password managers.

In all probability, most of us would be aware that using obvious or guessable passwords such as “password” or your pet's name isn't a good idea at all.
But then what options do you really have to come up with astrong and secure password?

First things first, you should have a different, fairly long and very strong password for each account. It's tempting to use the same password for all of your online accounts, but doing so puts every account in jeopardy if one of them gets hacked.

To break into accounts, hackers often employ a method called “dictionary attack”, which involves using words straight from the dictionary to guess the passwords. So it is strongly recommended that you don't use standard words as your passwords; rather try creating meaningless words from a combination of letters, numbers and symbols. And don't just replace letters in a word with a simple (e.g. 'A' with the @ symbol) because that's a very common trick. The password can be strengthened by using a blend of lower and uppercase letters.

The password should be quite complicated. But still, try and use something which you would be able to remember. Come up with something which incorporates various alphanumeric characters. Ideally, it should be a mnemonic sort of thing which you can instantly memorise. But if you see that this is not happening then spend some time in memorizing that password.

Now remembering more than one passwords can be a daunting task. This is where a password manager comes into the picture. KeePass is a fairly good, free password-management tool that runs on Windows and Mac OS X. It stores all the passwords in one encrypted database which can be accessed by a single master password.

Then there's a multi-platform password manager called LastPass which comes with the capability of auto-syncing different computers and browsers, thereby, giving you the access to your encrypted database from any device. However, the catch here is that you sacrifice the security of keeping your password list combined to a single drive. These password managers are great but not 100% safe. The best password is the one you generate yourself, which is highly complicated with a mix of upper and lower case letters, symbols and numbers. The trick lies in picking up a short phrase or a long word and get creative with it.

Office Tricks

*Remove all hyperlinks (weblinks) at a sigle click:
Press CONTROL + A. Once the document is selected, press CONTROL + SHIFT + F9.

*Delete Pictures in Microsoft Word
Press Ctrl + F and Replace (CTRL+H) in Microsoft Word.
Enter ^g in the “Find what” box.
Enter whatever you want to replace with in the “Replace with” box or leave blank to simply delete all the images.
Click “Replace All.”

'Sees the invisible'

Chemists from the University of South Carolina are reportedly developing a camera that has the ability to see the invisible - be it bloodstains or any other substances.

Called multimode imaging in the thermal infrared, they claim the new technology could help in crime scene investigations.

Michael Myrick, Stephen Morgan and their graduate student colleagues said that the luminol test (mainstay method for detecting bloodstains and other body fluids at crime scenes) has certain disadvantages.

Luminol, for instance, is potentially toxic, has been reported to dilute blood solutions below DNA detection limits, can smear informative blood spatter patterns, and can provide false positive results.

In their reports, the scientists described the construction and successful testing of a camera that takes images in several different ways.

It captures hundreds of images in a few seconds, while illuminating its subjects with pulses of invisible infrared light waves.

Some of these photos are taken through special filters, which block out particular wavelengths, allowing certain chemical components to stand out from their surroundings.

The camera detects blood diluted to as little as one part blood in 100 parts water.

In tests, the camera was able to make invisible stains and patterns emerge from a background of four different types of fabric, also distinguishing between blood, household bleach, rust, soda pop, and coffee.

The camera also successfully detected an invisible watermark that the team printed on a piece of fabric.

"These results indicate that this system could be useful for crime scene investigations by focusing non-destructive attention on areas more likely to be suitable for further analysis," concludes the report.

While buying an i-pad

Make no mistake while buying an iPad, the iPad is certainly a cool product - an amazingly capable machine. In fact, if you are the sort of person who buys an expensive computer just to surf the Internet and occasionally check e-mails, it is the perfect device. Well, almost. That's because the iPad does not support Adobe's Flash software.

And while Apple's iPod has its reasons for not allowing Flash support on the iPad - not in the least because Flash is a resource-hungry software - it remains very popular with web developers looking to add interactive multimedia to their websites. The iPad does not have cameras or output cables such as an HDMI port to connect to high-definition televisions.

Yet, the iPad faces a slew of competitors - some releasing their tablet devices now and some over the next few months. Devices such as the Samsung Galaxy Tab and the Dell Streak, both of which run Google's Android version 2.2 mobile operating system. There is also the BlackBerry PlayBook, which albeit smaller than the iPad, is far more powerful pound-for-pound, thanks to its dual-core one gigahertz Cortex A9 processor.

Then there are local tablets, such as the OlivePad. It was reviewed in this column a few months ago and left us quite unimpressed. And that is not all there is on the local (or Chinese) front.

The big difference between local tablets and big-brand ones is in the quality of the screen. You can make out the poor screen resolution on cheaper tablets. Worse, almost all of them lack capacitive multi-touch. Instead, they have resistance touch, which, if you ask someone used to multi-touch devices, is like going back to a standard definition TV from high-definition TV.

So, if you were to buy a tablet, or are considering buying one, go for a big-name brand. But which one? The iPad has a 9.7-inch diagonal screen, while the PlayBook and GALAXY Tab both have seven-inch diagonal screens. This means that the latter two products are, at a stretch, pocketable. But the iOS operating system is proven and the iTunes Apps Store has a lot more applications than the Android Marketplace. The QNX operating system on the PlayBook will be familiar to drivers of Audi and BMW cars, and its makers claim that it will allow "true" multitasking of various applications at the same time.

Many newer tablets on the market have far better hardware than the now slightly dated iPad, though keep in mind that I use the term dated with care as the iPad is still under a year old. Things move in the real world at a dizzying speed. But there should be a newer version of the iPad out sometime next year. Maybe, Apple might eventually even start selling the iPad in India and I believe they will soon. Also, the basic 16 GB WiFi-only version of the iPad should be a lot cheaper than some of the competition.

So, should you get one? Deciding which one to buy will become a lot easier once there are some more products officially available in India. But, for now, is the format worth it? If you type a lot from home, maybe not. It will not replace your work computer though it is an incredible tool to have even away from work. Besides, it is a lot lighter and cheaper than a laptop. But if all you do is reply to mails, keep your replies short since typing is an issue. On the other hand, products such as the iPad have a lot of cool, time-wasting applications - perfect for use when you are stuck at airports, flights and during boring meetings.

Most importantly, tablets are still cool. Like laptops were a decade ago, before they came to signify you were a corporate drone if you toted one. So yes, go, get a tablet.