Can Symbian BREW Blackberry?

Posted by Sagasan Ravi
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Jun 20, 2016
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In the early days of computers, sizes were created related to binary. So a Megabyte (MB) was 1024 Bytes because 1024 could be represented with a single 1 in binary. A Gigabyte (GB) was 1024 Megabytes. Now, this didn't sit very well with the International Standards Organization because Mega should mean 1 million and Giga should mean 1 billion. Those pesky 24's were getting in the way of people's understanding of the terms. To BinaDroid conform, a Gigabyte is now officially classified as 1000 Megabytes. Which left us traditionalists out in the cold. The suggestion was a slight twist on the term, and the KibiByte, MebiByte, GibiByte were born. These now take the place of our beloved KB, MB, and GB terms of old. So 1GiB is "One Gigabyte in old money". Anyhow, back to the matter at hand. This has come about because G+ has followed Facebook's example of offering you unlimited space for photos on your Facebook account. Any photo you upload using G+ will automatically resize to 2048 pixels on the longest size (and scale accordingly). Of course, because it is using Picasa directly, there are alternatives. 

For instance, I use the Picasa 3 software on my laptop to organize my photo collection. By default, this is set to scale pictures so that the longest side is 1600 pixels (and thus, with my G+ account, is not included in the storage limit). All I do is what I've done for a long time, I create my albums in Picasa 3, sync to the Picasa site, and there they are in G+ as well, ready for me to share to my Circles (we'll look at those later).Google have also hinted that they will be offering some form of integration with Gmail and Documents (though they haven't worked out what that integration will offer just yet). Personally I would like to be able to share documents based on my Circles rather than just by e-mail address. I'd also like to see them do that with Google Calendars.G+ works around this concept of Circles. When you think about your "real life" friends, we supposedly think in circles. There is the circle of family members, close friends, acquaintances and so on and so forth. Google has taken this and applied it to G+. Also in the same way as real life, a person may consider you in a friendship circle, even if you don't feel quite the same way. In fact, Google has a pretty good explanation in a video.

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