Tuesday, 4 October 2016

'Pixel' The Google Phone announced by Google

Following an absolute deluge of pre-event leaks and revelations, Google's new Pixel and Pixel XL smartphones are now finally official. Differentiated primarily by the size and resolution of their screens — 5-inch 1080p display on the Pixel and 5.5-inch Quad HD panel on the XL — these two devices are built by HTC, but Google takes full credit for their design and makes this explicit with its "phone by Google" branding. Both Pixel models are powered by the latest Snapdragon 821 processor and run a specialized version of Google's Android software, which includes support for the Daydream virtual reality platform that was announced at Google I/O in the summer.

The Pixel name, says Rick Osterloh, Google's recently hired hardware chief, "has always represented the best in hardware and software, designed and built by Google, together." He highlights five key points for the new Pixel phones:

- Google Assistant. Pixel is the first phone with the new Google Assistant built in. When you touch and hold the home button or say the "hot word," the Assistant "jumps into action." In Google's event demo, the Assistant is used to bring up photos from a particular time or place from the past, and also plays whatever music you ask it to play, choosing your favorite music app by default. Similarly, it integrates the Google Now on Tap functionality, allowing the user to swipe up with information on the screen, such as a restaurant name, and provides further information, such as reviews and the restaurant's address. Also, like a bot, the Google Assistant will take your reservation for that same restaurant using only voice prompts.

- Camera experience. The Pixel and Pixel XL rear camera scores an 89 in DxOMark, the highest rating ever. That benchmark isn't the most consistent measure of good performance, but at least it's an indicator of the sensor's potential in the new Pixel phones. It has a 12.3-megapixel resolution with large 1.55-micron pixels and an f/2.0 aperture. Google claims that its new camera has "the shortest capture time on any mobile camera ever." There's also very intricate, gyroscope-based video stabilization on board, however there's no optical image stabilization for stills. Google isn't shy in presenting this as the best smartphone ever.

- Endless cloud storage. Google will allow free unlimited storage for full-resolution images and videos shot with the Pixel. That's much like the standard Google Photos backup ability, but takes off the size limit and compression, even on 4K video shot with the new phone.

- Connectivity and communications. Pixel users will be getting the latest Android updates directly from Google as soon as they become available. This is one of the biggest pain points with Android, and Google is stressing its lead in this category. The company has also paid close attention to the Pixel's endurance on the move, adding fast charging that gets you up to 7 hours of power in 15 minutes of charging. Google has also built in 24-hour live phone support right into the Pixel's software, so that a tech support operator can see exactly what's on your screen and thus help you better. And yes, the Pixel comes with Google Duo preinstalled, if you've been hankering for the company's video chat app.

- Made for mobile virtual reality. The Pixel is the first Daydream-compatible phone and Google today also announced the $79 Daydream View headset to accommodate the Pixel for VR use. The Daydream View comes bundled with a tiny motion controller that is so precise, claims Google, that you can even draw with it. When you're done using it, the controller tucks inside the Daydream View itself for safe storage.

On the hardware front, the Pixel phones are both made out of aluminum with a big glass window at the back, surrounding the camera, flash, and the fingerprint sensor (now dubbed Pixel Imprint). The Pixel XL has a 3,450mAh battery and the Pixel has a 2,770mAh battery. Both displays are AMOLED, both devices have 4GB of RAM, USB-C, a choice of 32GB or 128GB of storage, Bluetooth 4.2, and a 3.5mm headphone jack. Yes, Google felt the need to advertise that last one. Google is also bringing back the Live Cases it introduced with last year's Nexus devices.

Pricing starts at $649 for the smaller 5-inch Pixel with 32GB of storage, available for preorder today. That number scales up to $749 with 128GB of onboard storage, $769 for the larger Pixel XL with 32GB, or $869 for the XL with 128GB. Google gives a choice between black or silverfor color, with an exclusive "really blue" option with Verizon in the US, though the latter is limited to just 32GB of storage.

Wednesday, 7 September 2016

Using ADSI Edit to Add or Remove E-mail Aliases on On-Premises Active Directory – Office 365

If you are synchronising your Office 365 account with your on-premises exchange/Active Directory, you will know that you cannot edit exchange user properties using the Office 365 administrator portal.
If you try, you will come across this error or a similar one:

The operation on mailbox “X” failed because it’s out of the current user’s write scope. The action ‘Set-Mailbox’, ‘EmailAddresses’, can’t be performed on the object ‘X’ because the object is being synchronized from your on-premises organization. This action should be performed on the object in your on-premises organization.

The reason for this is due to the fact that the AD and O365 are synchronised. Office 365 knows this and does not allow you to make any changes on O365 if there is a corresponding attribute that links up with your Active Directory.

In this article, I will show you how to add e-mail aliases using the Active Directory Service Interfaces Editor (adsiedit).

Go to Start > Run and type adsiedit.msc
Now, find the unit where your AD user’s reside
Right click the user you want to edit and click Properties.
Find the variable proxyAddresses – this is the one you want to edit.
When you add new e-mail aliases, you want to make sure that your primary e-mail address will start with upper-case SMTP. Your aliases, aka, secondary addresses should be lower-case smtp.For example, I want my primary e-mail address to be firstnamelastname@example.com
In the proxyAddresses attribute, I would put:
SMTP:firstnamelastname@example.com
As my alias, I want firstname.lastname@example.com… to do this, I will use lower case smtp:
smtp:firstname.lastname@example.com

Apply the new settings and wait for your active directory to be synchronised with Office 365 (by default this happens every 3 hours but you can force this on your synchronisation server by following thesesteps)

Tuesday, 26 July 2016

Michelle Obama’s full speech at the 2016 Democratic National Convention

First Lady Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama is a lawyer, writer, and the wife of the 44th and current President, Barack Obama. She is the first African-American First Lady of the United States. Through her four main initiatives, she has become a role model for women and an advocate for healthy families, service members and their families, higher education, and international adolescent girls education.

When people ask First Lady Michelle Obama to describe herself, she doesn't hesitate to say that first and foremost, she is Malia and Sasha's mom.

But before she was a mother — or a wife, lawyer, or public servant — she was Fraser and Marian Robinson's daughter.

The Robinsons lived in a brick bungalow on the South Side of Chicago. Fraser was a pump operator for the Chicago Water Department, and despite being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis at a young age, he hardly ever missed a day of work. Marian stayed home to raise Michelle and her older brother Craig, skillfully managing a busy household filled with love, laughter, and important life lessons.

A product of Chicago public schools, Michelle Robinson studied sociology and African-American studies at Princeton University. After graduating from Harvard Law School in 1988, she joined the Chicago law firm Sidley & Austin, where she later met Barack Obama, the man who would become the love of her life.

After a few years, Mrs. Obama decided her true calling was working with people to serve their communities and their neighbors. She served as assistant commissioner of planning and development in Chicago's City Hall before becoming the founding executive director of the Chicago chapter of Public Allies, an AmeriCorps program that prepares youth for public service.

In 1996, Mrs. Obama joined the University of Chicago with a vision of bringing campus and community together. As Associate Dean of Student Services, she developed the university's first community service program, and under her leadership as Vice President of Community and External Affairs for the University of Chicago Medical Center, volunteerism skyrocketed.

Mrs. Obama has continued her efforts to support and inspire young people during her time as First Lady.

In 2010, she launched Let’s Move!, bringing together community leaders, educators, medical professionals, parents, and others in a nationwide effort to address the challenge of childhood obesity. Let’s Move! has an ambitious goal: to solve the epidemic of childhood obesity within a generation. Whether it's providing healthier food in our schools, helping kids be more physically active, or urging companies to market healthier foods to our children, Let’s Move! is focused on giving parents the support they need to make healthier choices for their kids.

In 2011, Mrs. Obama and Dr. Jill Biden came together to launch Joining Forces, a nationwide initiative calling all Americans to rally around service members, veterans, and their families and support them through wellness, education, and employment opportunities. Joining Forces works hand in hand with the public and private sector to ensure that service members, veterans, and their families have the tools they need to succeed throughout their lives.

In 2014, Mrs. Obama launched the Reach HigherInitiative, an effort to inspire young people across America to take charge of their future by completing their education past high school, whether at a professional training program, a community college, or a four-year college or university. Reach Higher aims to ensure that all students understand what they need to complete their education by working to expose students to college and career opportunities; helping them understand financial aid eligibility; encouraging academic planning and summer learning opportunities; and supporting high school counselors who do essential work to help students get into college.

In 2015, Mrs. Obama joined President Obama to launch Let Girls Learn, a U.S. government-wide initiative to help girls around the world go to school and stay in school. As part of this effort, Mrs. Obama is calling on countries across the globe to help educate and empower young women, and she is sharing the stories and struggles of these young women with young people here at home to inspire them to commit to their own education.

As First Lady, Mrs. Obama looks forward to continuing her work on the issues close to her heart — supporting military families, helping children lead healthier lives, and encouraging all our young people to fulfill their boundless promise.

Monday, 13 July 2015

Reassignment ShoreTel Extension

When a Shoretel user travels to/from multiple offices, how do we set them up to make/receive calls at both locations? Recently I have seen cases where a single user is configured with two separate extensions in the Shoretel system, one at each site. Although this does give them the phone functionality at both sites, this is definitely not the most efficent way to accomplish this task. Not only does having an additional extension license cost the company money, but it also forces the user to keep track of two seperate maiboxes and passwords. It also creates a duplicate name listing for the user in the system directory, only adding to the unecessary confusion A better way of resolving this dilemma is by using the Shoretel Extension Reassignment. This feature allows a user to assign their extension to any other Shoretel phone so that calls will flow to/from their phone just as it does at their "home" phone. When the user is done using that particular phone, they can simply unassign their extension and calls revert back to their "home" telephone. The steps to activate/de-activate the Shoretel Extension Assignment feature are listed below:

REASSIGN EXTENSION TO ANY PHONE

Press # #.
Enter the extension number you wish to reassign.
Enter the password for that extension.
Press Option 7, Mailbox Options.
Press Option 3, Reassign Your Extension.
Press Option 1, Assign YourExtension To This Telephone.

REVERT EXTENSION BACK TO YOUR HOME PHONE

Press# # (twice).
Enter the extension number you wish to reassign.
Enter the password for that extension.
Press Option 7, Mailbox Options.
Press Option 3, Reassign Your Extension.
Press Option 2, Unassign YourExtension.

Wednesday, 19 November 2014

Benefits of Muskmelons

Cantaloupe is commonly known as muskmelon and kharbuja especially in India however also famous as rock melon and sweet melon all over the world. It is found in many varieties, shapes and colors and belongs to the Cucurbitaceae family.

It was originated in the India, Iran and Africa whereas first cultivated in the Europe and then spread in various regions of the world. It is greatly found during summer season especially from April to August. It is a sweetest and amazing fruit having cooling effect on the body during whole summer season. Its high water, minerals and vitamins content are great source of nutrition required to nourish the health.

Benefits of Muskmelon (Cantaloupe/Kharbuja) Fruit

It is considered as the ideal summer fruit because of its high water, minerals and vitamins content which helps in balancing the fluid and electrolytes loss during summer season. It involves in managing body heat as well as helps in combating heat related health disorders because of its cooling effects. Some of the outstanding nutritional health benefits of the muskmelon are mentioned below:

Benefits of Muskmelon for Digestive System

Its high water and dietary fibers content help people to get relief from the constipation and other digestive disorders if consumed regularly.
This fruit is very good for the digestion provides relief from the acidity and stomach problems.
It properly nourishes the digestive system, stimulates its functioning and helps in treating lack of appetite.
It makes the bowel movement very smooth and easy thus helps in keeping proper digestion.
It provides relief from the diarrhea if it is eaten by sprinkling the mixture of kali mirch, ginger powder, sendha namak and roasted powdered jeera.

Benefits of Muskmelon for Skin

It is naturally loaded with the high level of phytonutrients (alpha and beta-carotene), folates, folic acid, potassium, vitamins like C, E, K and A which are highly required nutrients to keep skin natural, soft, glowing, healthy and younger looking.
Including it as a part of daily diet gives fast result for skin.
It contains a most essential element of the skin called collagen which helps in maintaining the natural skin integrity and texture. It also fastens the wound healing process as well as maintaining the skin firmness.
It prevents from the rough and dry skin problems, removes black spots, blemishes and other scars.
It helps in maintaining skin hydrated and rejuvenating as it contains vitamins K, B and E.
It helps in inducing skin regeneration process by inducing the collagen formation thus provides skin youthful glow and natural elasticity.

Benefits of Muskmelon for Women

Its high potassium level helps in excreting extra sodium in the body and maintains blood pressure to the normal level thus helps women during menstruation by reducing the heavy blood flow and clots formation.
Regular consumption of the musk melon during lactation helps mothers by enhancing the sufficient breast milk production to properly feed their baby.

Benefits of Muskmelon for Weight Loss

It is a very low calorie fruit having high amount of dietary fibers, water, minerals, vitamins and phytonutrients which acts as a great snack in between the meals.
It calms down the hunger pangs in very healthy ways so it is great to have as a snack instead of eating unhealthy items.
It is a very good option for those greatly conscious towards their health and weight as it effectively helps in managing the weight without much effort.

Benefits of Muskmelon during Pregnancy

It is rich in folic acid and iron which are very essential for both mother and baby. It keeps baby healthy and provides better environment for the proper growth and development by preventing baby from the birth defects.
It provides relief from the morning sickness during first trimester of pregnancy.

Benefits of Muskmelon for Heart

It prevents from the risk of stroke and heart diseases as it contains an anticoagulant compound called adenosine which has ability to stop the blood clot formation.
It contain high potassium and no cholesterol thus helps in regulating the blood pressure under control and very helpful for the normal heart functioning.
It prevents from the arteriosclerosis means hardening of the arteries and reduces the risk of heart attacks.

Benefits of Muskmelon for Cancer Prevention

It reduces the risk of cancer as it contains antioxidant flavonoids and carotenoids which are anti-cancerous in nature and inhibits the growth of cancerous cells.
It safeguards the body against harmful effects of free radicals thus prevents from early ageing and various cancers like colon cancer, breast cancer, prostate cancer, uterus cancer, lung cancer, pancreatic cancer and etc.

Benefits of Muskmelon for Diabetes

It prevents from the diabetic nephropathy (damage of the kidney cells due to high blood sugar level) as it is a fruit of low glycemic index and contains simple sugar (fructose and glucose) thus safe for people suffering from diabetes.

Benefits of Muskmelon for Hair

It is the richest source of vital nutrients and essential minerals which helps in maintaining the growth of hair and health of scalp.
It prevents from the hair fall and hair loss by promoting proper hair growth if consumed regularly.
It acts as a good hair conditioner in the hot season if hair scalp is massaged properly with muskmelon pulp and then wash.

Other Health Benefits of Muskmelon

Its high water and minerals content provides natural cooling and soothing effects thus provides relieve from the heartburn and kidney problems.
It is highly diuretic in nature which keeps kidneys safe by keeping it away from the kidney diseases if it is taken once in the morning regularly.
It reduces the risk of kidney stones formation as well as prevents from the age related bone loss.
It is the rich source of vitamin C which acts as a powerful antioxidant agent and provides body a disease fighting ability by enhancing the immunity level.
It prevents from the urinary tract infections, ulcers and etc problems.
It is a very good energy booster because of the B group vitamins availability.
It has mild laxative property which provides relief from the tiredness by promoting proper sleep.
Vitamin A found in it nourishes the nerve tissues of the eyes thus prevents from the age related macular degeneration, loss of vision, cataracts and etc.
It helps in maintaining the proper nervous system functioning by regulating proper electrolyte balance in the extracellular fluid. It helps in reducing water retention in the body thus prevents from being edematous.
It is a mild anti depressant thus provides relief from stress by stimulating the proper brain functioning.
It makes defense mechanism of the body stronger to check the foreign bodies attack thus prevents from various infections.
It reduces the bad cholesterol level in the blood, stimulates weight loss, cures infections, ulcer, constipation, skin disorders, acidity, and nervous system disorders.
It makes body strong and healthy by preventing from the sciatica, arthritis, bone diseases, urinary diseases and various skin diseases.
It helps in removing internal problems by purifying the blood and making the joints healthy and strong.
It helps in keeping the brain healthy and strong by improving brain power and preventing from the stress, depression, sleeping disorders, summer heat and other brain problems.
It prevents from the heat stroke during whole summer season by keeping the body cool and rehydrated.
It keeps liver healthy by regularizing its functioning and removing swelling problems if it is consumed regularly.

Benefits of Muskmelon Juice

It is a natural diuretic and laxative in nature thus prevents from many problems like lack of appetite, infections, acidity, constipation, ulcer, weakness and etc.
It is a natural aphrodisiac which enhances sexual desire among men and cures erectile dysfunction.
Drinking musk melon juice by mixing with powdered mishri and lemon juice prevents from the stone formation, constipation, urinary tract infections and various digestive system disorders.

Benefits of Muskmelon Seeds

Eating muskmelon seeds provides help to get rid of intestinal worms and regulates proper digestion. It also helps in curing cough, indigestion, fever and etc.
It helps in relieving from the mind tension if paste of the musk melon seeds is applied to the forehead for some time.
Drinking juice (sarbat) of the musk melon seeds by mixing it properly also keeps mind stress free and cool.

Nutritional Value of Muskmelon per 100 g

(Source: USDA Nutrient database)

Energy: 34 Kcal

Carbohydrate: 8.6 g

Protein: 0.84 g

Fat: 0.19 g

Dietary Fibers: 0.9 g

Sugar: 7.86 g

Vitamins

Thiamin (B1): 0.017 mg

Riboflavin (B2): 0.026 mg

Niacin (B3): 0.734 mg

Pantothenic acid (B5): 0.105 mg

Pyridoxine (B6): 0.072 mg

Folates: 21 µg

Choline: 7.6 mg

Vitamin A: 3382 IU

Vitamin E: 0.05 mg

Vitamin C: 36.7 mg

Vitamin K: 2.5 mcg

Electrolytes

Sodium: 1 mg

Potassium: 267 mg

Minerals

Calcium: 9 mg

Copper: 41 µg

Iron: 0.21 mg

Phosphorus: 15 mg

Magnesium: 12 mg

Manganese: 0.041 mg

Zinc: 0.18 mg

Phyto-nutrients

Alpha-carotene: 2020 µg

Beta-cryptoxanthin: 1 µg

Lutein-zeaxanthin: 26 µg

How to Enjoy

It can be enjoyed in variety of ways such as simple slicing, decorated slicing, fruit salad, juice, seeds, jam, sorbet, ice-cream, cold soup, mix musk melon slices with yogurt, lemon and mint.

How to Select and Store

It is widely available in the market during summer season. Try to buy only organically grown muskmelons as they contain more nutrients and no harmful chemicals. It should be with intact, smooth, soft skin, well shaped and mature, bright color and fresh. Avoid buying bruised, wrinkled skin, deformed, dull color and unripe muskmelon.

Disadvantages, Side Effects and Precautions

Muskmelon does not have any disadvantage, side effect or allergic fruit however eating inorganically grown muskmelons should be avoided to get prevented from pesticide residues. Eating more muskmelons should be avoided during pregnancy, breast feeding or any serious condition of the health. Whole muskmelon should be washed properly under running water as it may cause some infections and digestive problems.

How Much Muskmelon to Eat a Day

Eating muskmelon during summer season is very good and healthy for the body nourishment however its high dose should be avoided. 300-400 gm of the muskmelon can be eaten by any normal person during the summer season but should be immediately consulted by the physician if any problem occurs.

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