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In this internet regime, we depend greatly on internet based services to accomplish our tasks by expending little or no time and even with the least effort possible. Just think about our dependence on internet for a second ! We use it for bank transactions, purchases and even pass our time with some social networking and other entertaining stuff. This is a very minute list of tasks that we usually carry out using internet but our original list will be very humongous. One thing we find in common in all these internet based services is the authenticating procedure that the user encounters before he/she access the actual content in the service. This is a common and necessary procedure in order to avoid the one's individual content to reach the hands of lunatics and people with bad instincts. In order to protect the confidential and personal information every internet related service, let it be a banking website or a social networking site prompts you to create a membership and login with the registered username and password every time you visit their websites. This is the only procedure we are following to protect our online data for decades. Even though many complex encryption techniques were evolved in recent past, these techniques ultimately failed to restrict the hackers from intruding into the websites of some leading services with a massive user base. Usually we come across several incidents exposing the loopholes in the leading servers through which the black hat hackers grab the access of other's bank accounts and loot their money in a flash.

A better smart phone experience for visually impaired !!!!!

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         In this world of comfort loving people, gadgets play a crucial role in easing our tasks. We have a plethora of gadgets available like music machines,tablets,mobile phones and many more, which assists us in various ways. Since the past decade users started rating their gadgets based on the simplicity in the interface. In this span of a decade the conventional screens were completely substituted by the touch screen. Here arises a question. "Does these fancy touch screens provide same sort of user experience for the wide variety of users in the market?" The answer is obviously no. In this smart phone era we are utilizing our mobile phone in many ways for a wide variety of tasks with a matter of a touch. But we have to keep in mind that with these kind of touch screens and smart phone experience, we are actually complicating the mobile phone experience for some kind of users who are suffering from bad sight because it is hard to use a touch screen than a conventional keypad for visually impaired (Even we can hit an SMS without having a glance at the keypad but replicating the same task with a touch screen is practically impossible). Around 285 million suffer with the problem of bad eye sight world wide and one-fifth of that total value live in India. In order to overcome this barrier lot of proposals and utilities were introduced to provide a better experience for people with bad sight but they were not so successful due to several practical problems.