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The move by Google who is considered to be the leading mapping and location aware experts anywhere on the internet (except for the military and intelligence community maybe), and Mozilla have joined forces to take part in the Geode, an awareness add-on package that allows Firefox to display locational data along with Google’s maps. This may be their answer to Yahoo’s Fire Eagle project that resulted in the Geocoder API, allowing yahoo to be web aware. The partnership may be well-placed with Google’s extensive data centers and mapping data to go with it, and Firefox’s overall dominance of the browser market, its a mix of two good things that allows your browser to tell you where you are and possible where other people are. Read the rest of this entry »
The software giant from Redmond just can’t let Google take a way most of their market without at least some resistance and with that, they release Microsoft Office 14 set for release this coming 2010, a version of their world renowned Microsoft Office System that is still one of the most widely used software in the world to date. It comes with stripped down version of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and more, allowing people over the net to share their work online through the internet, Google Apps style. Microsoft has done an almost complete turnaround with it’s embracing of PHP that has surprised industry experts who regarded Microsoft as more of a proprietary software maker who shares nothing and buys everybody they step on. Read the rest of this entry »
The world has forever been changed with the advent of the social web and one other technology that has made finding friends where ever they are a breeze. New generation web apps like “Glympse“, allows people to share their whereabouts in real time, enters the email number of the people they have to meet at get real-time feeds on where they are and vice versa, even going as far as presenting estimated arrival times to your agreed meeting place and more. You get a page that has a map with your geo-location based on your smart-phone’s coordinates changing as you move through traffic making meeting as real as it can get. The nifty feature, the fed shuts down after a few a few hours leaving you and your friends to finish your drinks or go home and rest. Read the rest of this entry »
Ever wondered how you could make your photos stand out more by adding effects and backgrounds WITHOUT having to go through a complicated process via professional programs like Adobe Photoshop?
An online site, Picnik.com allows you to do just that.
The good thing about Picnik is that it is, for one, absolutely free. It does not require any personal information for your to use it, nor do you have to download any clients or programs to make it work. Everything is done on the website.
All you need to do is to upload your pictures to Picnik, and through its simple user interface that even beginners will be able to understand at once, you can start adding all sorts of effects and backgrounds to make your pictures more artistic and unique.
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Creating web applications is as complex as writing a thesis paper or a dissertation. It does not only necessitate quite a tedious amount of effort to perfect the function of the program but also demands one stable thing from the user: internet association.
Whenever a program is being written, it takes several factors in deliberation but the most important of them is the user-interface. It is imperative that the application’s interface is easy to understand, lest it will not be used as it was intended to be so.
Using a atypical office text created raises an issue on standards compliance, moving the evasive issue of file partaking and association. What must be noticed is that these browser applications are used by accessing the internet through the remote servers. It is threatening however, for the document, if the connection is suddenly lost or interrupted. Chances are, the document being programmed online will be lost and inferior, irretrievable.
This kind of disadvantage poses a threat to the survival of the web applications, hence, companies such as Google have made preliminary solutions to this problem. However, for now, only prototypes have been developed to repress the threat raised by this problem. Just like so, Google has created Google Gears—a beta display place that aims to improve the usability of web applications.