Category: IT
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Science: Why charging phones overnight is a bad idea
I’ve wrote an article on why you shouldn’t leave your phones to charge overnight on Alvinology.
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A Candid Look At My 10 Years Of Entrepreneurship Journey In 8 Minutes (Lessons included)
My earliest recollection of something resembling Entrepreneurship was when I was 15. I’ve picked up programming for about 2 years by then, and I have created a couple of random apps and tried to sell it online. One of the app was called Wicked’s Developers’ Suite and contains a html text editor, a search engine scraping…
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Featured in ST – Jobs that didn’t exist 15 years ago
I’ve been featured in ST today, page 2 & 3 of Life section. From an app to determine the time one’s bus will arrive to an immersive virtual reality app for a property firm – these are some of the products by home-grown digital marketing and mobile app development house Originally Us. It is among…
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The UX Myth – 5 simple reasons why good UX isn’t THAT important for startups.
If you had ever put thought into launching your own app or startup, you would have come across a thousand and one articles on how user experience (or UX) is the pillar of any self-respecting startup. Unlike other articles like this, I am not going to justify this post by delving into a list of…
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The Huawei Nexus 6P: Android Phone With No Compromises
Just What Is “Huawei Nexus 6P”? Every year, without fail, just as surely as Apple would release the latest installment of their highly popular phone, Google will collaborate with a manufacturer of choice for its flagship Nexus phone. This year, it’s Huawei’s turn. The yearly Nexus device is akin to Olympics. Like how countries would ravish on the…
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The Startup Ecstasy For Virgins
Working on a startup gives people a kind of high. A high that you would experience, only if you are a startup virgin. It starts with an idea. An idea you came up with that will allow you to change the world. No one else seems to have done it yet. The world is for…
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For your own good, stop trying to look for “free” developers
For those who have ideas and go around looking for “partner” developers – know that developers have their own, and sometimes more awesome, ideas. Unless the developer is just starting out, he/she gets flooded with such requests everyday that he/she is immune to your kind of request. If you are looking for developers to help…
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The True Cost of Building Mobile Apps
Background A little introduction about myself: I’m a Programmer and the Account Manager at Originally US. We build iOS & Android mobile apps and help people fulfill their dreams. Building iOS and Android mobile apps seems to be all the rage now. Start-ups are building apps, SMEs are building them and even large MNCs are…
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Top 4 Bullshits That Startups Tell You
Before you proceed…. Please know this. I was a blogger known for being a troll before NS unplugged me from the internet. I like to joke, I like to be sarcastic, and that’s the voice I was used to writing. I was a fan of Douglas Adam’s style too, and always tried to imitate his voice…
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10 Signs that a student startup will not work out
Students startups are all the rage now, given the easy access to government-based fundings. However, why do we not hear any meaningful success story out of that? From my own experience and by observing other student startups… I present to you… 10 Signs that a student startup will not work out: 1) More than half…