Technology does play a lot in making life more convenient. I’m sure many globe trotters out there are familiar with the e-ticket, which is an electronic document used for ticketing passengers most prominently in commercial airlines. For those who are not so familiar with this electronic service, I’ll give you a short run-down of what it’s all about.
What basically happens is that a customer books a flight through an airline’s Web site or through phone. The following details are then assigned to the customer: confirmation number, flight number, date, departure location, and destination location. Although a hard copy can be requested to be sent by postal mail, one only needs to bring identification to be presented upon boarding.
This way, printing and mailing costs of airline companies are significantly reduced. This also reduces incidences of lost or forgotten documents.
July 01 2008 | Definition | No Comments »
I love this application! Seriously, but I’m not getting into the details of that lest I get into trouble if you know what I mean.
Anyway, what BitTorrent is, is basically a content distribution protocol written in the Python language by Bram Cohen under open source license. It enables efficient software distribution and peer-to-peer sharing of very large files by enabling users to serve as network redistribution points. Talk about cooperation. What it does is to share bits and pieces of the file among many customers until everyone is happy with a complete download. This makes it possible to share your file with many other people without individualizing downloads. Most of files on torrent are entire movies (without splitting them up into parts) and TV shows.
June 01 2008 | Application and Download | No Comments »
by: Djai Tanji
Firefox may seem very popular nowadays and is being used by majority of the population but according to survey, it indicates that almost 75 percent of people who use browse the internet still use Internet Explorer. If you are not a FireFox fan or that you are part of the 75 percent Internet Explorer users, you might as well check out the plug in that you must absolutely have, the IE7Pro. The said plug in powers up Internet Explorer with several of the features and functions that were once narrowed to other browsers in the net like a session manager, mouse gestures, prefetching and a lot more.
May 29 2008 | Uncategorized | No Comments »
by: Djai Tanji
Microsoft is borrowing many popular features from Firefox and Safari in the release of Internet Explorer 8. Although it is originally intended for developers, the beta is public and should be utilized with caution. In the latest release of Internet Explorer, the Safety Filter exists and an antiphishing portion of the browser. In this beta, version 8 adds malware prevention that actively scans a downloading page for some malicious codes and content. Another feature that was borrowed is Web Slices that allows you to create applets on your desktop with snippets from live websites similar with Apple Safari. After downloading Internet Explorer 8 beta and you think you don’t like it, you can click on the Emulate IE7 button to have the old version back.
May 25 2008 | Download | No Comments »
by: Djai Tanji
With 18 percent market share to 74 for IE by Net Application stats, Mozilla is surely a blast. And now, major websites just have to support FireFox. Apple’s safari which is available now in Windows too is third in rank with 6 percent share. Next contender is Opera saying that the browser is the single most significant piece of software made nowadays which badly needs innovation if you intend to extend the reach of the web. Having a lot of competitors and a richer web is surfacing, Microsoft knows the stakes are indeed high. And FireFox is becoming fiercer as it heightens its profile. There will be a Gran Paradiso, a 24-hour download record with FireFoz 3 set by Mozilla.
May 20 2008 | Application and Community | No Comments »
by: Djai Tanji
One of the best features of Flicks is its Camera Finder which lets you see what other people’s shots look like by using a particular model. This can be really helpful in figuring out if you basically need to get some new hardware or if you need to take a photography class. Video host Vimeo is a manual process that has a way to view which camera a user has although it is only through tags. If Flickr can find a way to make metadata more of like the equation, it could certainly produce some of the charts and graphs more appealing. Metadata for video clips though are all over and that could be the problem.
May 15 2008 | Uncategorized | No Comments »
by: Djai Tanji
Splashup which was formerly known as Fauxto is very similar to Photoshop. It is a layer-based with lightweight editor just like offline editor Paint.net that is able to pull in images from Flickr, Facebook or any URL you specify. In editing, the idea here is same with the basic Photoshop-style image editing instead of specifically photo-related retouching. Meaning, there is no control over exposure and touch-up options like red-eye removal or face-retouching. Sliders control the effects which can be previewed in your image as you fiddle with the sliders. All in all, the layers and effects are impressively powerful but it could have been better with a photo-retouching control.
May 10 2008 | Application | No Comments »
by: Djai Tanji
Adobe opened an online community with a word-processor, file storage and sharing, and deep tie-ins to a new Acrobat 9 enabled with Flash. This is a bold move for something that is best associated with the free and omnipresent Acrobat Reader that opens ready-print portable document format like PDF files (which will now play movies). The free Acrobat beta includes the Buzzword word processor with its ConnectNow Web conferencing desktop sharing tool allows chatting through text, video and voice. Users can also store files on Acrobat.com beta and join each other on virtual meeting rooms to share similar document views in real time. The said site will also host data from forms formed in Acrobat software. Its security was enhanced that allows users to add 256 bit encryption used by online banks to PDF.
May 08 2008 | Community | No Comments »
by: Djai Tanji
Curl began as a research project at MIT in the late 90s and was commercialized by Curl Incorporation that was then released by 2000. The latest version released is 6.0 which is available for Windows, Linux and Mac Clients. Any server can be used so there is no need for server side component. Curl has a simply accessible system that allows users with a variety of backgrounds to work at different levels of complexity as it provides varieties of features. The cree Curl plugin is in 10 MB in size but can be quickly installed by broadband users. Curl is available and free to use for non-commercial purposes and some of commercial uses. There is also a Pro version which offers extra enterprise class abilities. It supports software engineering of large and complex applications and it very efficient when it comes to amount of code needed in writing applications.
May 05 2008 | Application and Definition | No Comments »
by: Djai Tanji
Adobe Flash provides a way to build rich internet application as it is cross-platform and quite powerful in creating application UI. Adobe Flex is a framework which provides option for a developer to build user interfaces through compilations of MXML (XML-based interface description language). And this Adobe Flex framework is compiled and turned into a SWF file that is to be run in the Adobe Flash player. AIR or Adobe Integrated Runtime which is a platform that does not rely to the hosting operating system. This Adobe AIR allows Flash Player and Ajax applications to be developed or installed into a user’s desktop.
May 01 2008 | Application and Definition | No Comments »
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