7Reasons why Google Allo will kill WhatsApp

7 reasons why Google Allo will kill Whatsapp

We live in an age where technology rules almost every aspect of our overbooked schedules. Today, almost all of our actions, hobbies and even free thought stems from what we read or see online, or which apps clogging up our now limited 16 GB memory space, can offer us. These give us the easiest medium to communicate with fellow humans, even robots (case in point Siri and Cortana) and cares nought for geography, since you can virtually be facing your sister living overseas- spending hours ‘hanging out’ like you would in your room at home. With all the upcoming technological advancements and developments in the field of Artificial Intelligence, our brains are relentless to create more for us, offering us maximum comfort and minimum effort.

And that’s where Google’s new app- ‘Google Allo’ comes in. It has all the oldies in the block sitting at the edge of their seats, because its new and user friendly features will give them all a run for their money.

While Whatsapp dominates the world of Android and iOS messaging alike, and has a user-base of a population of a few large countries combined, Allo might just be on its way to steal its spotlight. Although Whatsapp, with Facebook Messenger and iMessage hot on its heels offers a plethora of highly advanced features that is definitely making life easier for the smartphone user community, Allo does one better and introduces a bunch of ‘smart abilities’, where it can pretty much act as your personal virtual assistant, that will give it its edge.

Although Whatsapp loyalists may speak out against the new app, which is the second part to Google’s new messaging plan with Duo, and remain fiercely loyal to the Facebook-acquired app, here’s a comparison between the two bringing light to the possibility that Google Allo may soon be ‘trumping’ (all puns intended), Whatsapp.

The Google Assistant

The reason why this app is like having your own personal assistant is because it is one, albeit virtual of course. Although Whatsapp has unique features of sending across a location, file, picture, audio recording and so on- these are all saved files that are being shared via the app, which makes communication so much closer. However, where Allo differs is that you could be wondering about the travel time to a certain place, or the best available flights to a certain destination or discounts on hotels and all you have to do is type in @google followed your question or order. Next thing you know, it will be providing you with all the details, accompanied by a series of pictures wherever available.

In-message searches

You could be making dinner plans or raving about the hot new song to people on WhatsApp – each time you wish to share and exchange information – you have to close WhatsApp (or run it in the background, if it suits your fancy) and get to a food/music app to copy the concerned links/files to send in the chat. With Google Allo, you can just type @google and ask about prospective restaurants or the particular song in the middle of the chat and it will provide you with the links to both in the chat- so it can be viewed and shared with your contact at your discretion. So it’s saving the user the trouble of temporarily closing the chat to find the relevant data, providing it on screen for both instead.

Automatic Responses

The app can provide automatic responses to messages on behalf of the user. It does this through a software that contains machine-learning technology, which gets better at picking up the user’s most frequently used responses with increased usage of the app. For instance if someone sends you a ‘How are you?’, the app will offer you the automatic response of ‘Good, how about you’ that you can send across. It may seem impersonal at first but it builds up with greater use and is definitely convenient for those who are on the run and are too busy to type out a response.

Picture Recognition

Google has incorporated ‘photo recognition’ in this app, making it possible for it to recognize a received picture and suggest an automatic response. For example, if someone sends you a picture of a sunset, it will suggest ‘beautiful’ or ‘wow’ as a response, depending on your maximum usage of either, from which you can choose the more applicable one and send it across.

Selective end to end encryption

While both Whatsapp and Allo offer end to end encryption for chats, the latter allows for ‘selective end to end encryption’, which means that you can select the contact you want to chat with in incognito mode, through its ‘Incognito Chat’ option. Along with this, the chat history will disappear after you have finished the talk, depending on the expiration period you have set. In case, you have switched off your expiration period, the chats won’t disappear.

Text formatting and more advanced features

Google Allo allows you to format your text and send across larger and smaller font sizes of text messages, allowing you to increase or decrease the text size by sliding the send button up and down respectively, a feature that Whatsapp does not allow. It also has a wider array of sticker-collection and even allows the user to scribble on pictures before sending it across.

It’s got the Google brand tagline

Of course, WhatsApp has been acquired by Facebook, but Google Allo is a pure Google creation. The intention behind not incorporating features like direct calling or video calls is to redirect users to other Google apps like Duo and Hangouts. It has the power of the sworn-by ‘google search’ both inside and outside a chat-box and also makes communication easier and much more secure for the user.

Although Whatsapp is the current undisputed leader of the virtual-chat communications platform, there is a possibility that Google Allo will soon take the lead. What do you think? Let us know in the comments below!

12 Physiological Hacks.

These are some cool psychological hacks that will help you to improve the outcome of any social situation.

#1. If you want to know about something from someone , ask them a question and when they are done answering , keep silent and maintain an eye contact. They will tell you some more stuff, almost everything.

#2. When you try to convince someone over something, make sure they are sitting and you are standing. This makes them believe you sooner.

#3. The key to confidence is walking into a room and assume that everyone already likes you.

#4. Refer to people you’ve just met by their name. People love being referred to by their name and it will establish a sense of trust and friendship right away. Example: “Nice to meet you Alex. So, Alex how do you know John?” And continue to repeat name throughout the conversation.

#5. If someone is attracted to you, their eyes start blinking more than usual during a conversation with you.

#6. Spot the difference between a fake smile and a real one. You can find out if someone is smiling for real or faking it by looking at their eyes. Wrinkles form near eye corners when the smile is genuine.

#7. Pay attention to people’s feet. To know if someone is interested in a conversation look at their feet, if they are pointing towards you, they are. If they are pointing sideways or any other direction, they aren’t. Feet don’t lie.

#8. When at a party or a meeting. When at a party or a meeting, crack a joke and observe the people who are laughing around you. People who feel close to each other will be looking at each other. This is useful for discerning out friendships and other relationships.

#9. The life hack to make people do what you want them to do. Offer someone a choice instead of a command. For example, instead of saying drink your milk to a toddler, ask which mug would he/she like to drink milk from. This gives the person a sense of control hence produces a higher chance of a better outcome.

#10 How to win an argument?. If the person arguing loses his temper and starts shouting, natural human tendency is to shout back. DON’T! Stay calm and reply in silence. This will piss them off even more. Try it! It works.

#11. Mirror people’s body language to build up trust. If you subtly mimic the body language of the person you’re talking to, you can effectively build up trust with them. By mirroring the way they speak and how they move they’ll like you more, because, to them, it will seem as if you are pretty good compatible.

#12 Inception To plant a seed of idea in someone’s mind, ask them to not think of a particular thing at all. Let’s say I ask you to NOT think about ELEPHANTS. What are you thinking of? 

17 Motivational Quotes Every Entrepreneur should Live by


The nature of being an entrepreneur means that you fully embrace ambiguity and are comfortable with being challenged regularly. Choosing this career path is completely irrational because the odds of succeeding are dismal, but most succeed because of their unwavering belief, laser focus on delivering and persistence.

Starting a company is a riveting roller coaster of emotions with tremendous highs and at times, difficult lows, but one thing that always helps me through the ups and downs is to connect with some of the greatest minds. Below are just a few of my favorite quotes:

1. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.”

– Peter Drucker

2. “Winners never quit and quitters never win.”

– Vince Lombardi

3. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

– Steve Jobs

4. “My biggest motivation? Just to keep challenging myself. I see life almost like one long University education that I never had — everyday I’m learning something new.”

– Richard Branson

5. “Every time you state what you want or believe, you’re the first to hear it. It’s a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don’t put a ceiling on yourself.”

– Oprah Winfrey

6. “It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.”

– Bill Gates

7. “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.”

– Warren Buffett

8. “One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest on themselves. You don’t choose your passions; your passions choose you.”

– Jeff Bezos

9. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”

– Thomas Edison

10. “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”

– Albert Einstein

11. “As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big.”

– Donald Trump

12. “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”

– Winston Churchill

13. ”Genius is 1% inspiration, and 99% perspiration.”

- Thomas Edison

14. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”

– Mark Twain

15. “The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.”

– Vince Lombardi

16. “If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.”

– Napoleon Hill

17. “I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.”

– Bill Cosby

Words of Wisdom from Bill Gates. (Inspiration)

A quote from ~ Bill Gates ~

This should be posted on every wall so that kids all over the world can read and digest these wise words.

Love him or hate him , he sure hits the nail on the head with this!
Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a High School about eleven things they did not and will not learn in school. He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the real world.

Rule 1: Life is not fair - get used to it!

Rule 2: The world doesn't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

Rule 3: You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: They called it opportunity.

Rule 6: If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were: So before you save the rain-forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. *This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. (Do that on your own time.)

Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life, people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

If you agree, like and pass this on because everyone should read this. -A_delhiwala. 

30 Street Photography Images to Inspire Us All

A Post By: Darlene Hildebranst

Street Photography – that subject that makes many an experienced photographer run and hide. Done well, it documents daily life, society as we know it today.

Today I want to share some street photography images I found particularly good for different reasons. Whether you do this type of photography or not, appreciate the art and skill and enjoy these images. Notice there are a lot of black and white images. It’s pretty common for street photography as it really narrows down to the subject, light and shape.

By publikaccion

By Stepan Mazurov

By praline3001

By Chris JL

By Pavel P.

By Thomas Leuthard

By Thomas Leuthard

By Thomas Leuthard

 

By gato-gato-gato

By Pavel P.

By Chris JL

By Hamed Masoumi

By Ines Njers

By gato-gato-gato

By Geraint Rowland

By Thomas Leuthard

By Thomas Leuthard

By Takeshi Garcia

By Eric

By Phil Hilfiker

By Charly ‘n Paris

By micadew

By Mario Mancuso

By Chris Ford

By Rakesh JV

By Björn Bechstein

By helmuthess

By DaiLuo

By Emanuele Toscano

By Thomas Geiregger

 

History of photography

The history of photography has roots in remote antiquity with the discovery of the principle of the camera obscura(a dark room) and the observation that some substances are visibly altered by exposure to light. As far as is known, nobody thought of bringing these two phenomena together to capture camera images in permanent form until around 1800, when Thomas Wedgwood made the first reliably documented although unsuccessful attempt. In the mid-1820s, Nicephore succeeded, but several days of exposure in the camera were required and the earliest results were very crude. Niépce's associate went on to develop the daguerreotype process, the first publicly announced photographic process, which required only minutes of exposure in the camera and produced clear, finely detailed results. It was commercially introduced in 1839, a date generally accepted as the birth year of practical photography.

Subsequent innovations reduced the required camera exposure time from minutes to seconds and eventually to a small fraction of a second; introduced new photographic media which were more economical, sensitive or convenient, including roll films for casual use by amateurs; and made it possible to take pictures in natural colour as well as in black and white. 

The commercial introduction of computer-based electronic digital cameras in the 1990s soon revolutionized photography. During the first decade of the 21st century, traditional film-based photochemical methods were increasingly marginalized as the practical advantages of the new technology became widely appreciated and the image quality of moderately priced digital cameras was continually improved.

Source: Wikipedia and a_delhiwala

10 great portrait poses for men.

While most posing tip tutorials usually focus on the female form, there isn’t that much information available about how to properly pose men for portrait photography. Here is a list of 10 great portrait poses for men.

1. CROSSED ARMS POSE

This is a very simple pose for a man’s portrait. Tilt the head very slightly and fold the arms across the chest. One hand sticks out while the other is tucked away under the arm. Two things to take care of: Shoulders should be pulled back a little, stomach muscles kept in check.

2. CROSSED ARMS POSE – FULL PORTRAIT

Crossed arms pose also work well in full height shots. You can also cross one leg in front of the other. But make sure the body weight is not supported equal on both legs, otherwise that would look just awkward.

3. HANDS IN FRONT POCKET

This is a popular pose for the guys since they tend to stand in this position normally. Simply Keep your hands fully or partly in the front pockets of jeans to achieve natural and relaxed pose. Try this pose with your body positioned differently by turning slightly away from the camera or leaning against a wall.

4. THE WALL

Leaning against a wall is another popular pose because there isn’t a whole lot to it. Start by leaning against a wall and moving your feet away from the wall. You can also put one leg on ground, one leg on wall. The sideways way of leaning against the wall also works very well for casual shots.

5. THE ONE ARM WALL LEAN

This pose makes for a great photo whether it’s shot up close or from further away. To accomplish this pose put one of your arms against the wall around where your head is. Lean into the wall slightly so only some of your weight is against your arm. You want to look natural.

6. JACKET OVER THE SHOULDER

Take a nice jacket or some piece of clothing and put it over the shoulder for a great look. Keep your thumb hooked in pocket, with the rest of fingers exposed and legs crossed.

7. THE LOUNGING

This is an extremely easy pose and works best with the guys. Sit on the ground against a brick wall in a comfortable position. Keep one leg laying straight on the ground, while the other leg is bent at the knee so your arm can rest casually across it. Other arm is resting on the leg on the ground. You can try different shooting directions and angles for this pose.

8. THE SQUAT

This a great pose for a variety of backgrounds. Start by squatting down and then drop and relax your arms over your legs.

9. SITTING ON THE GROUND

This is a easy and natural pose while sitting on the ground. It is suitable for outdoor locations. Try different shooting directions and angles.

10. STAIRS POSE

Sit on stairs, lean forward a bit more and ensure that your thighs aren’t actually on the seat. Raise your chin up a bit, rest the elbow in the middle of the thighs and have the hands do something.

Girls portrait

During the same return to home I came forward with this small girl.She was returning from her school with her brother.As she had seen me with the earlier boy clicking his pic she asked me why I was clicking his pic.I said if she also want to pose I will click of her too.She immediately agreed and posed with his brother but his brother refused to pose.She asked me to click his solo and I clicked.She requested me to show her the pic and I did.They both laughed and his brother started teasing for her pic.As it was a summer afternoon and it was very hard to handle the sun so I greeted them and came home.    

Corrupted photographs

As I was coming home from my college I saw this child returning from a plastic garbage shop in a sad mood.I approached him and asked what happened,he said that the shop owner doesn't gave him money for his beer bottles.I asked him that how much money he wanted, firstly he was hesitating but after my repeatedly asking he said 10Rs. I said, if I would give you that money will he would pose for a picture, he immediately said yes and asked for how to pose.After clicking this picture I handed him Rs 10.He was extremely happy after gaining RS 10. I asked him what he would do with this money.He said I would do lunch.I became some emotional and gave him a half packet of biscuit from my pocket.He again become extremely happy and said "Thank You Bhaiya".I patted his back and moved forward.