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Why a QWERTY Keyboard???

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We have been using the keyboard everyday and in almost every aspect of our lives may it be the smartphones, tablets, laptops, desktops and all our smart devices. Ever wondered why our keyboard is not laid out in alphabetical orders?? In the early typewriters, the keyboard was laid out in alphabetical orders. Then why did it happen that the layout of our keyboard was changed to the current QWERTY type?? Let’s find out this in this post. The answer to this lies in the working of the old typewriters. In order to type something using a typewriter we hit a key. A mechanical system works such that with every hit a bar rises up and hits to the ribbon beneath which a paper is placed. Due to this hit an impression of the alphabet is printed on the paper. This chain of mechanical systems works so fast by the time another alphabet is pressed the type bar reverts back to its original position. This was the layout of the earliest typewriters. The issue with...

IS SWITCHING TO AIRPLANE MODE REALLY NECESSARY DURING FLIGHTS??

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Ever been annoyed by the air hostess or flight attendant to switch off your phone or put in airplane mode??? Have you ever wandered about the reason?? if YES,then this is the right place for your answers.  Sometimes when we need to fast charge our devices or smartphones and do not want to switch it off we take the use of airplane mode. But only some of us know the use of this multi-usable mode called by many names like aeroplane mode,flight mode, standalone mode etc which is present as setting in most most of today's electronic devices.  Before the takeoff, the flight attendants inform us that we should turn our phones, tablets, laptops and other signal generating devices to airplane mode. Most of us feel that this is a waste of time and achieves nothing. It has nothing to do with the flight or in anyways related to it. It is just a step of the practice manual to be followed foolishly. But as we will know form the post further that it helps the pilots in saf...

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