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Start building apps for iOS
Interested in Mobile application development? You should be- whether it is for your business, startup or professional needs. Apple’s iPad is predicted to rule throughout 2011 and better half of 2012, which happens to be most promising mobile/tablet platform as of now. So as you can see it’s a great time to crack on to some iOS application right about now. If you are entrepreneur might be a fine time for a child project flavored around iOS, if you are a developer very good time to start on iOS (if already haven’t done so). Why? Apple released a fifth beta version of iOS 5 to developers last Friday, which is kind of odd as Apple usually does this over the weekdays not last day of the week. The release notes suggest this include some fixes but no major features, apart from a Hearing Aid Mode designed to improve compatibility between iOS devices and hearing aids. Android is an awesome platform but for freelance developer just to bank on only one platform and leave the other promising one isn’t such a great move. Today’s financial crunch requires you to be expert in multiple platforms, in order to sell your service more…
Skyfire on iPhone backfired, dose it matter at all?
Skyfire the special web browser for the iPhone which offers the ability for iPhone users to view Flash video content by transcoding it into HTML5 on the fly. We all know Apple has this thing against Flash, the Web’s most popular video format; says it’s buggy, it’s not secure and depletes the battery and bla bla. So why sudden change of heart? Why did Apple approved Skyfire, which brings Flash on iPhone? Is it because Skyfire built in accordance with Apple guidelines, including the use of a WebKit browser core shared with Safari, and H.264 adaptive streaming and Apple wants’ to prove it excepts any application which follow guidance laid out by them. Or is it some other agenda like prove a point that Flash isn’t that big deal and fading away. So what happen to Skyfire? A lot of people were seriously existed to see Flash coming on iPhone. But despite widespread excitement over the first app to work with Adobe’s plug-in, it turns out that Skyfire isn’t very useful. My experience of Skyfire – it’s disappointing and i just wasted my hard earned $2.99. Despite all he whistle blowing and overwhelming hope it didn’t work any where near…
MS office on the cloud: Office 365
So finally Microsoft has released its much anticipated, cloud version of the traditional MS Office dubbed as Office 365, that will provide with online access to MS Office, Exchange Online, Lync Online instant-messaging software and SharePoint Online. The fact is it’s actually a newly rebranded and refreshed hosted version of its Office productivity software suite, which used to be Office Live Workspace (More or Less). Office 365 lets users access Office 2010 applications and documents from a PC, Smartphone, iPad or just about any device with a Web browser (Finally folks at MS started to realize there is a whole world out there that don’t give a damn about IE, thus it is compatible in most of the well known browsers). It also supports online collaboration and offline use with a client version of Office. Launched to limited beta and slated for a 2011 release, Office 365 adds a lot pricing variables to woo rival Google Apps and Zoho collaboration suit users. Pricing Plans Small businesses with 25 or fewer employees can pay $6 per user per month for Office Web Apps, along with hosted versions of Exchange and SharePoint. Larger enterprises can choose from products costing anywhere from USD…
Travel management software, do we need one?
For individual who travel extensively or barely set his/her foot out of their territory Travel Management software don’t play any significant importance. But when it comes to business such as travel agencies, or part of business or organizations that solely handle travels and tours the Travel management software are as essential as air to us. Depend on the size and type of the business/organization and as well extensiveness of travel software requirements and capabilities vary. That’s the reason there are numerous verity of Travel management software in the market. We will cover only the extensively searched Travel software categories. At the time of writing this article, there are three major categories of Travel management software basically dominate the market: Travel Expense Management software Travel itenary, audit and expense management software Travel Management CMS Apart from these types there are also custom tailored travel management software, hybrid software which got some feature of every type (more or less). Travel Expense Management software These software are mostly desktop based, targeted for individual and small business uses. But off course due to web 2.0 boom, more and more online/web version of travel expense management software are seen on the horizon. There are…
Leading ecommerce platform review: dashCommerce
We all aware of that finding an open source software based on Microsoft technology is like searching for needle in a hay stack, let alone a suitable one. dashCommerce is one of those very rare open source .NET ecommerce platforms in the wild, other two available option you have- DotShoppingCart and nopCommerce (we will come to these two in the future). dashCommerce formerly known as the Microsoft Commerce Starter Kit, is a complete CMS (Content Management System) and ecommerce open source solution. Current stable version dashCommerce 3.0 is quite flexible and robust in nature, as it’s incorporates all three major components of an ecommerce application: Product Catalog Shopping Cart Order Fulfillment Key Features Key features of dashCommerce: One page checkout Drop-In skinning / themes Configurable shipping and tax rates Drop-In Provider Model for- Shipping Providers Payment Providers Tax Providers (US and Canada only. Real-time. Tax tables are updated monthly. Requires Yearly Subscription) Coupon Providers Simple model for creating Sku’s Partial Refunds Product cross sales & automatic thumbnail generation for images. Fully Localizable, currently translated into 11 languages. Drawbacks Well until now everything sounds cool right? you found a .NET ecommerce platform, which happens to be open source and…
Office 2010 could have been better
This Tuesday Microsoft officially released Microsoft Office 2010, which includes all version of the productivity suite. With around 755 million of user worldwide Microsoft office definitely dominate Office productivity market share, closest match are way behind down the line. The last office suite, Office 2007 was released by MSFT way back in January 2007, so definitely it has been long awaited version. User can now upgrade to their choice of new Office versions: the $149.99 Home and Student bundle of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote; the $279.99 Home and Business edition, which adds Outlook; or the $499.99 Professional release, including all of the above plus Access and Publisher. With a new version available, consumers are deciding whether to upgrade now, later, or at all. Office 2010 is the first release of Office that comes in 32-bit and 64-bit flavors. Office 2010 is the slickest, most feature-rich version of the suite Microsoft ever released. For those who might expecting to see some remarkable UI changes in this new Office suite, will be disappointed as Office 2010 looks remarkably like its predecessor. Though the UI remains almost same there were some significant feature addition and upgrades in Office 2010. Have to say…
Back your blog, mobile, Windows and Mac with IDrive
IDrive might sounds like another Apple product spinoff, but it’s no way anything like that. IDrive is an online backup solution by Pro Softnet Corp. a company specialized in the fields of Online Backup, Storage, and Remote Access. Online backup system and services are in demand and gaining significant momentum recently yet remains expensive when it comes to reliable backup. IDrive might be the change we all have been longing for. There are couples of high profile online baking systems out there like MSFT’s SkyDrive, Carbonite Online PCBackup, HP Upline, SOS Online backup etc. Some of them offer huge amount of free space for free or some even offer unlimited backup in exchange of a fixed price tag. IDrive certainly have the features and speed to tag along with these high flying bunches. IDrive offers 2 GB of full featured Online Backup for free. Features include Automatic Backup, True Archiving, Versioning, Continuous Backup, Mapped Drive Backup and more. Well off course for those business and individuals who need more than 2GB IDrive got 3 flavors of paid solutions. Their pricing is comparably minimalistic, yet got one little issue. IDrive Pro for business which costs almost triple than family pack has…
Leading ecommerce platform review: PrestaShop
PrestaShop is what we consider a one-stop shop and a lot simpler to install and setup than most open source ecommerce platform. This is a scalable open source platform, which means it can grow as your business grows. PrestaShop is a free solution, and their easy-to-use back office tool allows anyone, regardless of skill level, to use and maintain an online store (sort of like ecommerce for dummies ). PrestaShop is available under the Open Software License and officially launched in August 2007 for small to medium-sized businesses. The software, which is based on the Smarty template engine, has approximately 24,000 active stores as of August 2009. Two dude name Igor Schlumberger and Bruno Lévêque from Paris founded PrestaShop. Official PrestaShop 1.0 was released on July 31, 2008. PrestaShop is based on LAMP solution stack. This makes it preferable choice for new startups, small or medium size companies looking to start online shopping web site. The makers of PrestaShop have an official marketplace for priced modules and themes entitled PrestaStore. The store houses both free and paid modules (Note some paid modules can be very expensive). They also have a turkey based e-shop solution dubbed as PrestaBox which runs on…
Leading ecommerce platform review: Magento
Varien a LA based Web firm turn ecommerce platform provider developed Magento, one of the most vibrant, feature rich open source ecommerce platform. Varien was founded in 2001 which worked with osCommerce. They originally planned to fork osCommerce but later decided to rewrite it as Magento. Though Magento version 1 publicly launched on March 31, 2008, the official development started way back in early 2007. Magento is built on components of the Zend Framework. It’s available under the Open Software License version 3.0. Since version 1.1.7 some parts are licensed under the Academic Free License version 3.0. On April 15, 2009 Enterprise Edition, a paid for version of Magento is being introduced for large companies. This version provides a service agreement with Varien and starts at $11k+ USD/ year (It’s a shit load of money-well it’s definitely worth though). So if you are counting evolution lifecycle Magento is just 2 years old, seriously underage compare to all those expensive horn blowing propriety ecommerce software. But guess what? It’s all the things anyone can expect from professional web stores. Honestly I’ve never seen another ecommerce platform well architected and well designed as Magento. It’s robust, simple to use/customize and dripping with…
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