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Note: Recently my web host went down along with my files. Some of the posts are re posted with new dates and might have missing images. Please don't get frustrated if the images are missing; will try my best to recover them!!
According to Gizmodo, you can upgrade to iOS 5 without an Apple Developer’s Account; but after delving on the web further, it seems the process described on their page doesn’t work. It doesn’t activate your phone, rather turns it into a brick!!
To upgrade your iOS device to iOS 5, you’ll need to register your device UDID with
Apple. If you’ve a friend who’s a registered Apple Developer, you can ask him to add your device UDID through his account; if not, you can pay someone to do it for you. Price goes from around $5 to $10. iMDZL, Activate My UDID, iOS UDID Registrations etc are some websites where you can buy your UDID activation. I can not guarantee their legitimacy however I did mine with iMDZL successfully!!
If you own a Mac, there’s no worry and you can go ahead with the upgradation but if you own a Windows PC, iMDZL FAQs says it is not supported. However, I upgraded mine on a Windows system so as some others, and my iPhone 4 is working fine.
Tools needed
1) iTunes 10.5 Beta & iOS 5 Firmware (Download from here or here)
2) TinyUmbrella (Download) [I needed TinyUmbrella as error 3194 showed up. In some cases, it may not be needed.]
The market is filled with plethora of web hosting services and it is making the search for an ideal company quite difficult. The vital part before hosting a website is to check for the expertise of the service provider. Besides, it should be wise to keep the choice within your budget as many hosting companies impose high charges. By using a good search engine, the web hosting company details can be acquired. However, the testimonials provided on the company’s homepage are not at all reliable.
Web hosting directories are another way to sort out the best and professional web hosting provider within minutes. It supplies listings of the service providers where all the details regarding the types of services and relative cost for each different service are made available. This is the best place to compare and pick the most suitable service provider for any kind of website.
There are still different ways available to find out the best web hosting service provider. Forums related to hosting services provide true reviews from the real users of the service. Suggestions and tips can be gathered from such experienced users & hosting guides to help in selecting the best web hosting service provider.
pTAM Media Player is an innovative media player designed keeping in mind, the word – Simple.
The player is mainly developed for the emerging mobile market although a PC (or Mac) version of the player sure do play a major role in its marketing strategies. And accordingly, I can’t give you all the details about the player, but through this post you can get a glimpse of the UI for the PC version of the player.
The player consists of 3 main parts or modules, of which this particular post focus only on the main player module. The player is designed as an application to be made available online, that means, the media player is an ONLINE MEDIA PLAYER. So let’s get to the UI.
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pTAM Media Player Modules The above diagram talks!! I guess you have got the hunch why the Media Player is developed as an online application?? The player has the options to upload your music collection online, manage it, create playlist from your own collection and blah blah. The music has to be streamed online, such that you don’t have to carry a high capacity storage music player wherever you go. Personally, I don’t own a music player which have the storage capacity of ~40gb which is my collection in my PC.
Well, the previous post let you know the main structure of the media player. If you’ve not gone through it, check the post at pTAM Media Player: an innovative media player 1 before continuing this post.
Now, let’s get closer to the Player Control Area.
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Control Area
Like I told you earlier, the image above speaks.
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Playlist
The player will look as below.
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The Player
So, that’s it for the present. The UX designs for the player is still under development. If you’ve your say, don’t forget to leave me a comment.
So tell me, how many times do you look at the URL for the pages you are visiting while you are browsing? Once, twice… every time you visit a new link??
I’ve come to notice that when people visit a website, all he needed the address bar is just once, the first time he types in (or ctrl+v in) the main URL to which page he is visiting. After that, he keep following the links in the page and hardly ever needed to see which URL he’s visiting. Or, to do more justice, think of yourself, are you interested in looking at all the random URLs generated or those real long URLs of every page you visit? Do you ever keep track of them?? Of course, for security purpose, you may perhaps want to make it sure that you are still in the particular domain you intend to visit!!
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Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer: Notice how many screen real estate does the address bar occupy.
So, the conclusion is, we don’t need the address bar to occupy so much screen real estate.
http://www.e-pao.net is a great website on the small state of Manipur situated in the north-eastern part of India. The website acts as a portal for all thoses Manipuris staying outside the country as well as quite a large number of internet users from the state who are spreaded across the country.The website features the current news, happenings and updates in the small state apart from national and international news.
Innovation, the key thing to bring changes, making the developmental process for this society existing, is the major talk these days. Every company is now getting an innovation department or something more or less the same. “Open Innovation“, as Henry Chesbrough, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley, coined describes a growing number of initiatives by companies to reach beyond their own walls to use talent and ideas from others. Open Innovation is supported by various Companies seeking for the fruit from the mass to solve challenging problems with simple and elegant ideas where anyone can participate. InnoCentive, a Waltham (Mass.) company spun out from Eli Lilly (LLY) in 2001 is one of the company running online to recruit Innovators who could be anyone..even you. The key thing is that, these companies are tapping ideas from the mass to bring out changes in the world. Who know, maybe the idea you propose today becomes the world of tomorrow. The challenges ranges from Physics, Chemistry, Science, Engineering, a greener earth and so on. Non-Profit organizations raised challenges, and we, the general people, who have ideas proposed their ideas and you are rewarded if your idea turns out to be the next big thing! Take a look yourself at Innocentive, the places where innovators are groom. See the various sections and the pavillions to find the right topic you are interested at. Open a project room for the challenge you want to participate, make your proposal. Wait for the result. Open Innovation: let’s make a change!
With the launch of the new Orkut, there’s been a lot of expectation from the orkut lovers considering the ongoing competition between the two gaint social networking sites, Orkut and Facebook. Being among one of the few users who got the priviledge to use the new orkut in it’s early phase, I’ve come across numerous flows, or simply un-expected structural non user friendly systems and here, as a viewpoint from a User Experience Designer, I’m giving certain things that needs to be revamp at the earliest.
1) Commenting System
The very first thing that I’m going to talk about is the Fb style commenting system which is just introduced newly with the New version of orkut.
New Orkut Comment Feature
If you’ve gone through the comment text-box, you see that it is a single line text-box. This conceals the beginning part of the comment itself and since we human have a short memory span, we forget what we’ve just typed; or most of the time, we usually read what we’ve written in the comment after finishing typing it, and for that, this make us use the arrow keys or the mouse to look back to what we have written.
Now, let us see how Facebook avoid this system:
Facebook Comment System
In Facebook, the comment text-box is in the form of a multi-line text-box. On top of that, to avoid masking the comment while typing, instead of a scroll bar, the height of the comment box itself keeps on increasing as you press the return key. This is one good example of a nice Facebook feature.
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