You can auto-update non Play Store apps without going through the Play Store. Although, Google Play Store is the home to most of all the android apps available to an android user, be it apps that were developed by Google team, private teams or even by a user as you.

Although, even with the freedom to develop an app and place it in the Play Store for downloads, Google still would remove some apps from it Store simply for violating it terms of service. But the good thing is that, google will not stop you from side-loading any app, you just simply have to download it directly from the web and install.

Having apps that are not Play Store supported can be frustrating at times, because you have to manually check for updates for those apps without having a prompt unlike the Play Store that will alert you anytime there’s an update to a app.

Below are the steps that will enable you to Auto-update non Play Store apps

Setup your device to install non google supported apps.

First, you must ensure that your device settings is set for you to install apps that are outside the Play Store.

To do that, go to your device Settings and click on Security, locate Unknown source (Allow installation of apps from sources other than the Play Store) and click to approve it.

How to Auto-Update non Play Store apps

You will have to download and install the free app APKUpdater from XDA. The app provide a free and easy way to check for updates for any app, be it from the Play Store or not.

After installing the app, APKUpdater checks multiple sources for updates, and lets you schedule update checks so you don’t forget to. It supports every version of Android back to 2.3 Gingerbread, and provides notifications when it finds an update. If you want to ignore updates for some apps, you can just add them to a whitelist.

Using this app, you can effectively manage your apps without ever touching Google Play. Combined with a custom ROM, you can free your Android device from Google completely. It’s also great for rooted users who keep a lot of apps installed from outside the Play Store. Give it a try if you fit any of these profiles and let us know your experience with it.

Source: http://techablaze.com/blog/how-to-auto-update-non-play-store-apps/

Cc lalasticlala, seun, mynd44

I heard this is a magical ward that does the needful.
Prove me right bro

11Anonymous:
For those using Amigo3.1, I mean Gionee OS of Android v5.1 lolipop. Swipe up and hold the camera icon at the bottom for some time, A photo using your back camera will be taken without anyone looking at your phone noticing :-)

OK, I will try this on a friend's Gionee.
Thumbs up dude

There are genuine reasons you would want to snap photos with your smartphone without being noticed. Although, at times taking pictures at events without prior approval can cause bridge of understanding and can lead to legal actions.

But there are times your reasons are genuine and taking some shots without being noticed would be the next best thing to do. You might want to take a shot on your kid to capture memories without him knowing cause of his shyness with the camera, or maybe you are in a crime scene and you would like to capture the face of the perpetrators in such a way you wouldn’t get caught, or you just felt to take some shot for fun. Whatever your genuine reasons might be, you have to do it like a pro and I will show you ways which you can do it in the most discrete way.

Disable The Shutter Sound

The first thing to do is disable the most obvious giveaway of taking photos: the camera shutter sound. Seeing as smartphone cameras have no moving parts, the sound itself is just software-based audio feedback, and turning it off is usually as simple as toggling a setting.
Most modern Android and iOS device will respect your current volume setting, so if you set your device to mute or vibrate, the shutter sound goes away.

Disable Your Flash Light

After disabling the shutter sound, the next most obvious photo-taking giveaway is the camera flash. Although not all smartphones even have a flash, so if yours doesn’t have one, feel free to skip this step. But if you do, there’s no way to take a stealthy photo while it’s on.
The flash setting is usually controlled by the camera app you’re using so it’s tough to give universal step-by-step instructions, but it’s pretty simple: poke around in the interface options for the flash icon (looks like a lightning bolt) and tap to disable.

Partially Hide Your Phone

The actual camera lens on a smartphone is quite small and is usually located towards one side of the phone’s body, typically the top area. This means you can tuck most of the phone away, leave the camera lens peeking, and still take a shot.

Maybe you want to get prepared ahead of time, you can carve the inside of a book leaving out only a small hole for the camera lens and place the book in a position for best shots coupled with a camera app that allows for sequenced captures.

Use a Stealthy Camera App

If all of the above is too cumbersome, then you might be better off with a stealthy camera app. These are designed to make the whole process as easy as possible: no need to fiddle with settings, no risk in accidentally taking a shot before silencing the shutter, etc.

For Android devices, Spy Camera OS 3 is about as good as it gets. It’s free to use and comes with two notable features: it runs in the background (so you can take photos while chatting or playing music) and it can auto-shoot when it detects faces.

For iOS devices, Easy Calc Camera Eye is a solid option. It shows up as “Easy Calc” in your apps so it raises no suspicions, it has multiple camera shooting modes (such as delayed, sequenced, or motion-detected), and it can auto-protect photos with a PIN.

Thanks for reading and drop a comment below on any tips and tricks you think I missed.

http://techablaze.com/blog/how-to-secretly-take-pictures-with-your-phone-without-being-notice/

Who's getting the iPhone 8? It going for just only a $1,000

As Apple gear up for it upcoming 10th anniversary of it original iphone, the Cupertino in September. The company is expected to bring on big hardware changes and software updates to it iphone 8 which will be setting the bar high with it ever more sophisticated rivals and satisfy the iphone enthusiast who have become bored with it not too differ previous versions.

Rumour has it that the phone will have a glass and steel body with a curved edge OLED display against it former LCD screen, wireless charging and no more physical home button. But the most anticipated upgrade for the new iphone 8 will be it Iris scanner. Although both Samsung and Microsoft have implemented this feature in their phones in the past but this will be the first time an Apple phone will feature the technology and this have become a talk-about on various tech blogs.

Adding an iris scanner to the iphone 8 only means one thing: advanced bio-metric security. Just like what Samsung did with its Note 7’s iris scanner but the Samsung Note 7 later took a sad end. The eye-examining feature would likely serve the purpose of authenticating the user’s identity. This sophisticated technology could then be used in unlocking the 10th anniversary iPhone. Among other things, the new feature is expected to simplify the authentication process for mobile services like Apple Pay.

An iris scanner is more advanced than the fingerprint scanner, which has undeniably become ubiquitous among flagship devices on the market. For one thing, iris scanning is a more specific type of bio-metric technology because each person’s iris has a complex and very unique pattern.

Given that the forthcoming iPhone is slated to arrive in three different models, it remains unclear whether iris scanning will land on all versions but rumor has it that henceforth, Apple will design phones with the iris scanner as it main form of user authentication.

With rumors going around on how and what the new iphone 8 would come with and as usual, it ever die-hard users and enthusiast are hoping and hungry for this features to come along with the new flagship phone. As usual, our team at TechAblaze will keep you updated and wait for the big day in September and hopefully everything anticipated will be fulfilled.

SOURCE: http://techablaze.com/blog/expected-features-of-the-new-iphone-8/

You can add any other fact you know about Linux if you think it not listed here.

Let's put the last 25 years of Linux in perspective with these 25 stunning facts about Linux.

Fact #1: There are 115 million lines of code in The Linux Foundation’s collaborative projects. Compare this to the 45 million lines of code in Windows XP.

Fact #2: The Linux kernel is by far the most active open source project on Earth. Its accepts an average of 185 patches each day.

Fact #3: It’s taken about 41,000 person-years to build Linux — the equivalent of about $5 billion in developer salary.

Fact #4: The Linux Foundation pays Linus $10 million per year to continue his work on Linux. His net worth is $150 million.

Fact #5: Despite this the sums of money involved — and all the systems that rely on Linux — Linus works from home, alone, with his cat.

Fact #6: While Linus was serving as in the Finnish military — doing ballistics calculations — he bought a copy of Andrew Tanenbaum’s Operating Systems: Design and Implementation. This book described Minix — a simplified educational version of Unix — and opened Linus’s eyes to the Unix philosophy.

Fact #7: Even though Torvalds wrote 100% of Linux’s first release, his original contributions now account for less than 1% of its total codebase. These days he says he’s too busy merging in code written by other contributors to do much programming himself.

Fact #8: Other famous software icons like Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg dropped out of college to pursue their projects full-time. Linus not only continued school after the initial success of Linux — he even stuck around to get his masters in computer science.

Fact #9: Even though Linus created Git, he doesn’t accept pull requests through GitHub. Linux is listed on GitHub, though, and it has more than 35,000 stars.

Fact #10: Linux’s mascot is a penguin named “Tux”:

Fact #11: Developers from a wide range of companies contribute to Linux.

Fact #12: 97% of the world’s supercomputers run on Linux — including clusters used by NASA.

Fact #13: SpaceX uses a special fault-tolerant design of Linux in each of its Merlin rocket engines. Through this, Linux has helped complete 32 space missions.

Fact #14: In 2009, the government of Munich, Germany switched from Windows to Linux. They claim to have saved more than €10 million in software licensing fees so far. But the switch may have cost them that much or more in lost productivity.

Fact #15: Linux powers the tiny $5 Raspberry Pi computer.

Fact #16: Is Linux the king of the world? Titanic was the first feature film produced on Linux servers.

Fact #17: Even though video game developer Valve’s founder Gabe Newell has publicly stated that he thinks Linux is the future of gaming, his company’s Linux-based Steam Machine console flopped. Linux’s overall market share has fallen a bit since 2010.

Fact #18: Dronecode is Linux for Drones. About 1,000 companies develop drone services that run on top of this operating system.

Fact #19: Toyota and Jaguar plan to run their future cars using Automotive-grade Linux.

Fact #20: Linux is available in many distributions, or “distros.” Most distros are based off of other distros. The most popular distro is Ubuntu, which is based off of Debian.

Fact #21: Red Hat is a company that makes an enterprise-focused distribution of Linux. It is the largest company built around open source software, and is on track to make $5 billion in revenue this year.

Fact #22: Linux doesn’t necessarily come with a graphic user interface (GUI). Many developers interact with it through a command line shell — usually Bash. You can choose from a variety of GUI shells, such as Xfce and KDE. When you hear the term “Xubuntu”, it means “Ubuntu with Xfce.” Can you guess what “Kubuntu” means?
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Fact #23: Linux uses the GNU General Public License.
“The licenses for most software are designed to take away your freedom to share and change it. By contrast, the GNU General Public License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change free software — to make sure the software is free for all its users.” 

Fact #24: Linux uses a “Unix-like” design, where it's monolithic Linux kernel oversees file systems, networking, and process control. The rest of the functionality is handled by modules — many of which are from the GNU project.

Fact #25: Even Microsoft Windows — Linux’s biggest competing operating system — is embracing Linux. It recently integrated Ubuntu Bash into Windows 10

Source: https://medium.freecodecamp.com/linux-is-25-yay-lets-celebrate-with-25-rad-facts-about-linux-c8d8ac30076d#.gqcqbodo0

We must learn the ways of the pros; their glories and also their pitfalls. By this, we shall stand the test of time

Yes, I started out with Yahoo; it mail and Messenger.
I learnt the Internet with them.

warrenweste:
Thanks to bad yahoo had to end like that

Yahoo just sold it core asset to Verizon for a mere $4.8 billion. This is only slightly more than Verizon paid for AOL — another washed up dot-com-era company — last year.

Yahoo’s market capitalization reached $125 billion in 2000. Over the next 16 years, it steadily tumbled — mostly due to inaction and missed opportunities.

Here are the mistakes that cause Yahoo it downfall.

Mistake #1: Yahoo confused being in the right place — at the right time — with being smart.
If Yahoo had launched a year or two later, they probably would have been irrelevant. They rose to dominance in large part by benefitting from what Y-Combinator cofounder Paul Graham — who worked there — called a “de facto ponzi scheme”:
“Investors were excited about the Internet. One reason they were excited was Yahoo’s revenue growth. So they invested in new Internet startups. The startups then used the money to buy ads on Yahoo to get traffic. Which caused yet more revenue growth for Yahoo, and further convinced investors the Internet was worth investing in.”
The growing revenues from this runaway feedback loop tricked Yahoo’s management into thinking that they were smart, when really they were just lucky.

As the dominant web portal, money came easy for Yahoo. They never bothered to build a strong engineering culture, like Facebook and Google did. After all, why should Yahoo invest in its underlying technology when they could just hire more sales people to sell banner ads?
Yahoo’s initial success gave them the hubris they needed to start acquiring other companies, thinking that they could run those companies better than the companies could run themselves.
Here are some companies that Yahoo bought:

Geocities ($3.6 billion)
Tumblr ($1.1 billion)
Mark Cuban’s Broadcast.com ($5.7 billion)

Broadcast.com and Tumblr are widely considered two of the worst acquisitions of all time, and were largely written off as losses. In less than 10 years, Geocities went from being the third most visited website on earth to being shut down everywhere but Japan.

Mistake #2: Yahoo forgot what it was that got them there.
Distracted by all the acquisitions, Yahoo’s leadership forgot about its healthy core products. Here are a few multi-billion dollar industries it ceded to new entrants:

Yahoo Mail lost to GMail
Yahoo Answers lost to Quora
Flickr lost to Instagram

And most humiliating of all, Yahoo Search lost to Google Search — to such an extent that in 2009, Yahoo scrapped their 13 year-old search engine in favor of licensing Bing Search, which Microsoft had just launched.
These were all services where Yahoo had a multi-year incumbent lead, with millions of active users. They had the funds. They had the traffic. They could have experimented and improved upon these services. But they failed to take the initiative. Instead, they got out-designed and out-engineered at every turn.

Mistake #3: Yahoo slaughtered its golden goose while it was still producing eggs.
In 2005, Yahoo cofounder Jerry Yang made one of the smartest investments in history — he purchased 40% of Chinese e-commerce site Alibaba for $1 billion.
Today Alibaba is worth more than $200 billion, and it’s still growing. That means that Yahoo’s stake in Alibaba must be worth $80 billion dollars!
Except, wait. In 2012, Yahoo decided to sell off significant portions of its Alibaba stock. They sold even more in 2014.
Yahoo thought they were pretty clever at the time, because they profited a few billion dollars off of these sales.
Today, Yahoo only owns 15% of Alibaba, but that asset alone is worth $30 billion — six times as much as all of Yahoo’s core businesses.
But, oh, that bittersweet $50 billion that they let get away.

Mistake #4: Yahoo fell for CEOs who were professional professionals.
You may think Marissa Mayer was a bad CEO. She did, after all, preside over Yahoo’s disastrous Tumblr acquisition in 2013 and sale of Alibaba stock in 2014. And she did little to slow Yahoo’s descent.
But Mayer looks like a business genius when you compare her to the managers who preceded her.
Instead of promoting executives from within, Yahoo chose to hire from the “professional CEO” circuit. And they did not choose wisely.

Scott Thompson kicked off his tenure as CEO by laying off 2,000 people. Then he sold a ton of Yahoo’s Alibaba stock (which, as we established, would have been worth tens of billions of dollars today).
He was so worried about appearing qualified to run a tech company that he straight-up lied about having a degree in computer science.
At first, Yahoo’s board doubted this accusation because it was coming from an activist shareholder.
But then the university Thompson attended publicly confirmed that they didn’t even have a computer science program back when he had attended.
A public relations fiasco ensued, and Yahoo quickly fired Thompson. He had only worked there for 130 days. Despite all this, Yahoo ended up paying him $7.3 million for his time there.

And then, there’s Terry Semel, who is considered one of the worst CEOs of all time.
Semel failed to acquire Google when Yahoo got its
second opportunity to do so. Then he proceeded to do nothing to stop Google from devastating Yahoo’s previous dominance of the search industry.
Semel also botched acquisitions of both Facebook and DoubleClick (the technology that became the centerpiece of Google’s advertising empire).
And after all of these missteps, Semel blew his one shot at redemption: he turned down Microsoft’s offer of $40 billion to buy Yahoo outright.
The real kicker is that, over the 7 years that Semel drove the company into the ground, Yahoo compensated him with half a billion dollars.

Mistake #5: Yahoo let their assumptions blind them to new opportunities.
Larry Page and Sergey Brin tried to sell Google to Yahoo in 1998. They only wanted $1 million.
Yahoo rejected them because they wanted their users to spend more time on Yahoo directories, where they would be exposed to banner ads. Better search — like the kind Google was offering — would quickly route users away from Yahoo.
It didn’t occur to Yahoo that doing what was best for users might ultimately be best for the company. Or that Google might use this technology to, you know, compete with Yahoo.
Of course, we all know how this story ends — with Google being worth $500 billion, and Yahoo being carved up and sold to a utility company for one one-hundredth of that.
For those of you who are running a company or planning to start one, learn from Yahoo’s mistakes. Take these lessons to heart:

1. Don’t confuse being in right place at the right time with being smart.
2. Don’t forget what it was that got you to where you are today.
3. Don’t slaughter your golden geese while they are still producing eggs.
4. Don’t fall for people who are professional professionals.
5. And most of all, don’t let your assumptions blind you to new opportunities.

Source:
https://medium.freecodecamp.com/the-rise-and-fall-mostly-fall-of-yahoo-ddbceb44670c#.mbuny9nj3

5 steps on hw 2 achieve ur 2016 goals
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NumberOne2:
That list is not complete. Its missing HTML and JavaScript the King and Queen of the Internet?

I think they fall into Pentecostal... come as you are.

NumberOne2 I later add those in between the body of the trend, jst search properly, or stil

Javascript wud b a self acclaimed righteousman that bliv he doesn't hv 2 fight wit any other religion 4 superiority but cn embrace all religion mst especially if they bliv in a all knowledge deity(the internet).
He also bliv in togetherness n communing wit one anoda is d purpose of life.

HTML - Some people still see it as a religion while a majority sees it as a lifestyle. Simply put, all religion people can be seen casually dress (say a jean and a shirt) but alot of some die hard, older religious people still hold strong to their traditional attire and see these casual dressers as amateurs if being casual is their only form of dressing.

Although ur Pentecostal notion ws cool "Come as u are"

Machine code would be man's first religion. This was the first way man interact with a deity(computer). The practice of this religion or calling as best appropriate to you, can be likes to the early prophets of old with long beard. They were able to interact with a deity and only them knw till date, the only language to communicate with him one on one.

HTML - Some people still see it as a religion while a majority sees it as a lifestyle. Simply put, all religion people can be seen casually dress (say a jean and a shirt) but alot of some die hard, older religious people still hold strong to their traditional attire and see these casual dressers as amateurs if being casual is their only form of dressing.

COBOL would be Ancient Paganism - There was once a time when it ruled over a vast region and was important, but nowadays it's almost dead, for the good of us all. Although many were scarred by the rituals demanded by its deities, there are some who insist on keeping it alive even today.

Mrval20:
What about Assembly?
By the way, Humanism all the way!

Assembly would be Taoism - It is so different from other languages that many people don't understand how can anyone use it to produce anything useful. Its followers believe that it's the true path to wisdom, but that wisdom is beyond the grasp of most mortals.

What would JavaScript be then?

Javascript wud b a self acclaimed righteousman that bliv he doesn't hv 2 fight wit any other religion 4 superiority but cn embrace all religion mst especially if they bliv in a all knowledge deity(the internet).
He also bliv in togetherness n communing wit one anoda is d purpose of life.

C would be Judaism - it's old and restrictive, but most of the world is familiar with its laws and respects them. The catch is, you can't convert into it - you're either into it from the start, or you will think that it's insanity. Also, when things go wrong, many people are willing to blame the problems of the world on it.

Java would be Fundamentalist Christianity - it's theoretically based on C, but it voids so many of the old laws that it doesn't feel like the original at all. Instead, it adds its own set of rigid rules, which its followers believe to be far superior to the original. Not only are they certain that it's the best language in the world, but they're willing to burn those who disagree at the stake.

PHP would be Cafeteria Christianity - Fights with Java for the web market. It draws a few concepts from C and Java, but only those that it really likes. Maybe it's not as coherent as other languages, but at least it leaves you with much more freedom and ostensibly keeps the core idea of the whole thing. Also, the whole concept of "goto hell" was abandoned.

C++ would be Islam - It takes C and not only keeps all its laws, but adds a very complex new set of laws on top of it. It's so versatile that it can be used to be the foundation of anything, from great atrocities to beautiful works of art. Its followers are convinced that it is the ultimate universal language, and may be angered by those who disagree. Also, if you insult it or its founder, you'll probably be threatened with death by more radical followers.

C# would be Mormonism - At first glance, it's the same as Java, but at a closer look you realize that it's controlled by a single corporation (which many Java followers believe to be evil), and that many theological concepts are quite different. You suspect that it'd probably be nice, if only all the followers of Java wouldn't discriminate so much against you for following it.

Lisp would be Zen Buddhism - There is no syntax, there is no centralization of dogma, there are no deities to worship. The entire universe is there at your reach - if only you are enlightened enough to grasp it. Some say that it's not a language at all; others say that it's the only language that makes sense.

Erlang would be Hinduism - It's another strange language that doesn't look like it could be used for anything, but unlike most other modern languages, it's built around the concept of multiple simultaneous deities.

Perl would be Voodoo - An incomprehensible series of arcane incantations that involve the blood of goats and permanently corrupt your soul. Often used when your boss requires you to do an urgent task at 21:00 on Friday night.

Ruby would be Neo-Paganism - A mixture of different languages and ideas that was beaten together into something that might be identified
as a language. Its adherents are growing fast, and although most people look at them suspiciously, they are mostly well-meaning people with no intention of harming anyone.

Python would be Humanism : It's simple, nonrestrictive, and all you need to follow it is common sense. Many of the followers claim to feel relieved from all the burden imposed by other languages, and that they have rediscovered the joy of programming. There are some who say that it is a form of pseudo-code.

Visual Basic would be Satanism - Except that you don't REALLY need to sell your soul to be a Satanist...

Wat ur religion?

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Lead and we follow

Nathan2222:


You've missed the point.

Take writing for example, some people do it professionally i.e. as an occupation, some do it as a hobby. Point is, every literate person should be able to write.

Same thing with programming, every computer-literate person should know a thing or two about it, either professionally (like Google's employees) or just for the sake of knowing/as a hobby.

U nailed it bro. Good one there
Dis cn also b comprehend 2 d like of being a car owner, u dn't hv 2 b a full flag mechanic but u cn learn some few basics of fixing n putting up ur car in good shape e.g changing tire, monitoring n replacing oil n few other handy skills.

Hving basic understand of programming wil help individual in d future in a lot of ways even though they neither programmers nor IT prson's

Nathan2222:


"High" IQ is really irrelevant to learning programming.



Nope.

Bro I didn't mean u mst hv high IQ b4 venturing into programming but definitely, ur IQ wil increase as u engage ur brain in solving complex task

Also, being in d same league wit mathematicians is not meant by being able 2 solve n calculate complex math.
As a programmer, part of ur act is 2 be able 2 analyze n solve difficult problem.
Both mathematicians n programmers hv some characteristics in common

elvongray:
Saying everyone should learn programming is like saying every one should become a medical doctor. Both occupations are very intellectually and financially rewarding. Programming should be something you venture into because you love it, not because there are a lot of opportunity in it. This is the same kind of mentality that pushed people in the past into occupations like Medicine, Engineering and so. In the past, if you were not doing any of this professions, you have not arrived.

I do not meant everyone shld bcome a programmer..
I only put up some benefits 2 clear d doubt of those who hv flare 4 programming but do not see good enuf rson in becoming one

My little epistle is aim at shedding light on few of d benefits 2 dis dudes dat hv it in dem but do not think any good cn come out frm their choice

Ciao

Programmers and others complain of topic dat hit front page dis days.

Dis reminds me of d famous programmers saying on Nairaland "Gossip topics wil continue making front page wen programmers write nothing 2 interest novice n likes"

With dis little point of mine, I task u 2 help mk dis topic hit fp

Coding is the literacy of the 21st century. Time will come when the question are u a computer literate will literally mean can u code a computer?

The benefits of being a programmer is enormous and below ar few of them.

1. Problem solver: As a programmer you are definitely a good problem solver, I dn't need much talk on dis cos ur major task as a programmer is all abt problem solving.

2. Programming makes u think fast n sharp: The reason why mathematicians hv high IQ is simply because they mk more use of their brain in performing complex task and being a programming put u in d same league wit a mathematician.

3. It fun 2 code. Forget d idea that programming is hard n tedious, although that mayb right at a point especially wen u are jst venturing into d art. But after being use 2 d principle n application, that wen d fun part begins.

4. Be employed: If u really wnt 2 stay out of unemployment bcome a programmer. Programming is one job dat u rili dn't need uncle or daddy connection 2 get. Although I dn't speak in terms of connection not needed in d art but wat I mean is dat, it a job dat requires whoever is fit 4 it not jst a job 2 b filled by anyone.

5. Makes u rich: the nxt frontier in d millionaire or billionaire world ar programmers wit business orientation. I said d nxt frontier, yes cos we ar yet 2 hv programmers as billionaires here in Africa unlike d western world. So if u aim of being one in a less saturated atmosphere as that of Africa. Build up ur coding skill along wit ur business strategies.

6. Make money while sleeping: programming like entertainment cn mk u money even wen u ar sleeping. All u hv 2 do is build up a useful app n put it up 4 a fee in d open domain n watch it make u money on autopilot.

7. Ghost worker: wat do I mean by d word. It means exactly wat it says. Yes u cn wrk as a ghost wit jst only ur laptop wit an Internet connection. Wit jst these tools u cn b hire 2 do a job 4 somebody on anoda edge of d world n get paid bountifully. Also u simply cn wrk in an office and go there at ur own wish time. To knw more on this, ask bankers hw they feel abt d IT guys going n cming in as they wish, hmmm, do they envy? Jst ask. Becoming ghost also mk it possible 2 wrk even wen u ar far away on vacation.

8. Plausible delusion: if a project is taking longer time 2 finish n ur employer or client is gving u a knock on d screen, jst speak some jargon n he wil b wit u on d same page. Please dn't do this on purpose or liberally

ITbomb:

I use it interchangeably but deep down, I know something is not right
Example

Increasing pressure will make oil production more effective / efficient

It depends. Effective/efficient can both b interchangeably use in ur example above but in other contest, they cannot cos they both have their unique usage

ITbomb:
What of Efficient and Effective

Put up d ways they cn b use.
Contribute ur quota

While I like to think I know a little about business writing, I still fall into a few word traps. (Not to mention a few cliché traps.) Take the words "who" and "whom." I rarely use "whom" when I should -- even when spell check suggests "whom" I think it sounds pretentious. So I use "who." And then I sound dumb.


Just like one misspelled word can get your resume tossed onto the "nope" pile, One incorrectly used word can negatively impact your entire message. Fairly or unfairly, it happens -- so let's make sure it doesn't happen to you.

Adverse and averse:
Adverse means harmful or unfavorable:

"Adverse market conditions caused the IPO to be poorly subscribed." Averse refers to the the feelings of dislike or opposition: "I was averse
to paying $18 a share for a company that generates no revenue." But hey, feel free to have an aversion to adverse conditions.

Affect and effect:
Verbs first. Affect means to influence: "Impatient investors affected our roll-out date." Effect means to accomplish something: "The board effected a sweeping policy change." How you use effect or affect can be tricky.

For example, a board can affect changes by influencing them and can effect changes by
directly implementing them. Bottom line, use effect if you're making it happen, and affect if you're having an impact on something that someone else is trying to make happen.

As for nouns, effect is almost always correct: "Once he was fired he was given 20 minutes to gather his personal effects." Affect refers to an emotional state, so unless you're a psychologist you probably have little reason to use it.

Bring and take
Both have to do with objects you move or carry. The difference is in the point of reference: you bring things here and you take them there. You ask people to bring something to you, and you ask people to take
something to someone or somewhere else.

“Can you bring an appetiser to John's party”? Nope.

Compliment and complement:
Compliment means to say something nice. Complement means to add to, enhance, improve, complete, or bring close to perfection. I can compliment your staff and their service,
but if you have no current openings you have a full complement of staff. Or your new app may complement your website. For which I may decide to compliment you.

Criteria and criterion
"We made the decision based on one
overriding criteria," sounds fairly impressive but is also wrong.

Remember: one criterion, two or more criteria . Or just use "reason" or "factors" and you won’t have to worry about getting it wrong.

Discreet and discrete:
Discreet means careful, cautious, showing good judgment: "We made discreet inquiries
to determine whether the founder was interested in selling her life company."

Discrete means individual, separate, or distinct: "We analyzed data from a number of discrete market segments to determine overall pricing levels." And if you get confused, remember you don't use “discretion” to work through sensitive issues; you exercise discretion.

Elicit and illicit:
Elicit means to draw out or coax. Think of elicit as the mildest form of extract. If one lucky survey respondent will win a trip to the
Bahamas, the prize is designed to elicit responses.
Illicit means illegal or unlawful, and while I suppose you could elicit a response at gunpoint ... you probably shouldn't.

Farther and further
Farther involves a physical distance: "Ibadan is farther from Ondo than Lagos."

Further involves a figurative distance: "We can take our business plan no further." So, as we say in the South (and that "we" has included me), "I don't trust you any further than I can throw you," or, "I ain't gonna trust you no further."

Fewer and less:
Use fewer when referring to items you can count, like “fewer hours” or “fewer dollars.” Use “less” when referring to items you can't (or haven’t tried to) count, like “less time” or “less money.”

Imply and infer:
The speaker or writer implies, which means to suggest. The listener or reader infers, which means to deduce, whether correctly or not. So I might imply you're going to receive a raise. And you might infer that a pay increase is imminent. (But not eminent, unless the raise will somehow be prominent and
distinguished.)

Insure and ensure
This one's easy. Insure refers to insurance. Ensure means to make sure. So if you promise an order will ship on time, ensure that it actually happens. Unless, of course, you plan to arrange for compensation if the package is damaged or lost -- then feel free to insure away. (While there are exceptions where insure is
used, the safe move is to use ensure when you will do everything possible to make sure something happens.)

Irregardless and regardless
Irregardless appears in some dictionaries because it's widely used to mean “without regard to” or “without respect to”... which is also what regardless means. In theory the ir- , which typically means "not,"
joined up with regardless, which means "without regard to," makes irregardless mean "not without regard to," or more simply, "with regard to." Which probably makes it a word that does not mean what you think it means . So save yourself a syllable and just say regardless.

Number and amount:
I goof these up all the time. Use number when you can count what you refer to: "The number of subscribers who opted out increase last month."

Amount refers to a quantity of something that can't be counted: "The amount of alcohol consumed at our last company
picnic was staggering." Of course it can still be confusing: "I can't believe the number of beers I drank," is correct, but so is, "I can't believe the amount of beer I drank." The difference is you can count beers, but beer, especially if you were way too drunk to keep track, is an uncountable total and makes amount the correct usage.

Precede and proceed
Precede means to come before. Proceed means to begin or continue. Where it gets confusing is when an - ing comes into play. "The proceeding announcement was brought to you by..." sounds fine, but preceding is correct since the announcement came before.

If it helps, think precedence: anything that takes precedence is more important and therefore comes first.

Principal and principle:
A principle is a fundamental: "Our culture is based on a set of shared principles." Principal means primary or of first importance: "Our startup's principal is located in Lagos."

(Sometimes you'll also see the plural,
principals , used to refer to executives or relatively co-equals at the top of a particular food chain.) Principal can also refer to the most important item in a particular set: "Our principal account makes up 60% of our gross revenues." Principal can also refer to money, normally a sum that was borrowed, but can be extended to refer to the amount you owe -- hence

principal and interest.
If you're referring to laws, rules, guidelines, ethics, etc., use principle. If you're referring to the CEO or the president (or an individual in charge of a high school), use principal.

Slander and libel: Don't like what people say about you? Like 'slander', 'libel' refers to making a false statement that is harmful to a person's reputation. The difference lies in how that statement is expressed. Slanderous remarks are spoken while libelous remarks are written and published (which means defamatory tweets could be considered libelous, not slanderous).

Keep in mind what makes a statement libelous or slanderous is its inaccuracy, not it's harshness. No matter how nasty a tweet, as long as it's factually correct it cannot be libelous. Truth is an absolute defense to defamation; you might wish a customer hadn't said something derogatory about your business... but if what that customer said is true then you have no legal recourse. And now for those dreaded apostrophes:

It's and its:
'It's' is the contraction of 'it is' . That means it's doesn't own anything. If your dog is neutered (the way we make a dog, however much against his or her will, gender neutral), you don't say, "It's collar is blue." You say, "It's collar is blue." Here's an easy test to apply. Whenever you use an apostrophe, un-contract the word to see how it sounds. Turn it's into 'it is' : "It's sunny," becomes, "It is sunny." Sounds good to me.

'They're and their': Same with these. 'They're' is the contraction for they are. Again, the apostrophe doesn't own anything. We're going to 'their house', and I sure hope they're home.

Who's and whose
"Whose password hasn't been changed in six months?" is correct. Use the non-contracted version of who’s , like, "Who is (the non-profit contracted version of who's ) password hasn't been changed in six months?" and you sound a little silly.

You're and your
One more. You're is the contraction of 'you are'. 'Your' means you own it; the apostrophe in you're doesn't own anything. For a long time a local nonprofit displayed a huge sign that said, "You're Community Place."

Hmm. "You Are Community Place"? No, probably not.

Now it's your turn: any words you'd like to add to the list?

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