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When you are participating on a huge trade show, the pop up trade show displays will be the perfect choice to display your promotional tools. It is not only for the huge trade shows but pop up displays are also used at retails stores or mega job events as they provide the best effect on the visitors. You can choose among the various shapes or sizes of the trade show pop up displays that can match to your needs at the trade show.
It depends on your choice whether to use a graphic oriented pop up boothsor not. Many of the trade show pop up displays come with added graphics or even if you cannot find one then it can be added later on. If the pop up booths already have the graphics technology, you simply need to Velcro the graphics and start the display. For new and growing companies, those participates the trade shows for the first time should choose the latest pop up trade show displays that has a good quality displays and graphics as well.
If you are one of the person who just bought the latest Apple iPad 2 and are having trouble enabling Airtel’s 3G service, you might want to follow the following steps.
Before this, you need to enable 3G service on your Airtel SIM. If you’ve already activated 3G service, go ahead with the following steps below; if not, text “3G” to 121 to activate 3G service on your Airtel SIM.
Now follow the steps and check out the screenshots:
1) Go to “Settings” from your iPad 2 Home Screen
2) Go to “Cellular Data” on the “Settings” pan on the left (as shown in the snapshot below)
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- iPad Cellular Data Settings
3) Keep the “Cellular Data” On (tap on it to toggle On/Off)
4) Now go to APN settings (step 3 in the snapshot above)
Axure RP
Axure RP Pro is a dedicated tool for prototyping web sites, web applications, for a rapid creation of wireframes and specifications for applications and web sites. It’s based on concepts known from Visio and web design tools, and elegantly combines the best of the two worlds. It is a software tool that encompasses several information architecture deliverables in the one software package.
The main functional elements that Axure can do is create
- Annoated Wireframe
- HTML Prototypes
- Specification Documents
I’ve not gone much into using it but the software seems real interesting as I delve into it, the things it can do.
I’ve come across this a lot of time myself and it made me realise that there is a need to ‘think’ on this issue. To get to the point, just look at the image below and see what has been typed in the text-box.
I’m guessing, your answer probably might be ”yes.. il” or “yes.. ll” or ”yes..tl” or ”yes..H” and it keeps on going!
What I’m trying to point out is that, the text pointer there shades the text typed which created an usability issue. Usually, since the text-box may not be active at the time the user wants to type something, the user brings the pointer right where he wants to type and then click inside the text-box area. This usually leaves the ‘text pointer’ few chars away from the starting point and as the user types on, the characters itself got covered up as can be seen on the image above.
Update:
Check out IXDA discussions on the topic athttp://www.ixda.org/node/27454
Like any other great idea, this thought passed along while I was in the bathroom!!
Google Instant, the hype at the moment, the so call “real instant time” search has changed the way we interact with Google.com. Well delving in a little into the ‘interface’ however, one can always ask, what do we see??
The answer would be Redundancy!!
Here is the Google.com homepage with instant search on.
Google.com Homepage with Instant Search Enabled
So what do we see here. Forget about the top links and the footer links. Let’s try to focus on the main content.
We’ve the Google logo, an extra large search text field, two links on the right to go for ‘Advance Search’ and ‘Language Tools’ and then two buttons, ‘Google Search’ and ‘I’m feeling Lucky’.
Now, I shall give you a task and before continuing reading this article, try it out yourself and come back to this.
The task is simple. Goto www.google.com, type in your name in the search text field and use the button to google it!!
Guidelines are a tool: building a design knowledge management system for programmers (5 years old but still applicable) 1. Designed for developers. Programmers are the users of guidelines. The structure of a tool for them should be built around their needs. 2. Focused around tasks, rather than design elements. The practice of writing software is different from that of designing interfaces, and should be reflected in how documentation for it is structured. 3. Specific, not principles. Programming is an applied art, and specifics address developers’ needs better than theories. Examples that resemble the current situation make it easier to understand the theory and make applying the guideline easier. 4. Prioritized. Design and development is a web of choices, and explicit prioritization helps make some of those choices. Not all guidelines have equal impact. 5. Succinct. Extra words won’t get read and supplementary diagrams will not get examined when the reader is in a hurry, and the reader is always in a hurry. Originally a case study describing the creation of an internal design knowledge management tool for web developers as a means to encourage user-centered development practices.
As a web developer, you need to understand basic knowledges on html, xhtml and css to begin creating a page of your own. Web-articles.info carries a whole lot of articles on html, xhtml and css which are among the best articles for someone learning this scripting languages.
The site carries numerous articles where some of them explains basic steps on many frequently use methods or “how to do it” in plain simple way. Whether you are a beginner or an expert looking for some understanding of how a certain thing is achieved using html, xhtml or css, html xhtml and css @web articles has a lot to tell you. Going through the articles, you will be able to combine the worlds of html, xhtml and css. Topics on “how to use html flexibly”, “Anatomy of an XHTML Document”, working with Cascading Style Sheets and so on are described in details. Articles are added regularly and there is a growing numbers of tutorials in the category as well as other categories available on the main home page of the website. The interesting part is that, if you need a daily fresh updated content for your website in any category available, web articles offers free fresh content for your website.
Of all the articles at web articles, the “anatomy of an xhtml document”by albert lichtblau is one cool article. As the articles quotes
The transition from HTML to XHTML will come with a fair number of bumps. While later chapters introduce tools to help you get past those bumps – and figure out where they come from – this chapter examines what’s going to change and demonstrates a few strategies for handling those changes. Along the way, we visit the ghosts of browsers past and explore problems that exist in current browsers. In turn, you discover how prepared and unprepared various tools are for XHTML.
A logo design is an IDENTITY (almost always represented in a visual form) by which a company delivers an image of itself in a quick and effective manner taking advantage of the visual sensitiveness of the human mind!! As the Human mind can grasp a visual representation quicker than any other form of communication, a simple logo speaks of the whole company within the short attention span a human has.. just through a half glance!!
pTAM Online Music Player (Alpha):
1) What is pTAM?
pTAM is a new generation Online Music Player. The main concept lies in its portability and user friendly aspects. In pTAM, users can upload their own mp3s on the SIBI server, create their own SIBI playlists, manage their uploaded files and listen it through the SIBI online player from their home PC or Mac, PMPs such as the Ipod, or through their mobile devices which supports the required platform.
2) Why pTAM?
pTAM is different, or in fact the first of its kind. It is NOT an online Radio Player.It is different because users can upload their own music collection on the server and access it from anywhere on this planet (of course when you are connected!!). It can be imagined as the Winamp combined with your hard drive online. Many people usually have a wide collection of music in their PC or Mac, which usually of course, exceeds the capacity of a common PMP (say of 4gb or 8gb, I myself have a collection of more than 90gb!!) and almost everyone hears music while on the travel, on the way to college, on the way to his friends place and so on; but none have the time or the patience to choose out his favorite ones to be uploaded in his 4g or 8gb PMP. No one likes to sit down and make a new collection of his mp3s which will squeeze in his PMs Memory capacity and at the same time includes all his favorites. As a person’s music collection grows over time to time, he may have a lot of albums that he may like to carry around with him but which is not possible because: Low Memory capacity of PMPs (Large Memory PMPs cost a fortune!) Doesn’t have time to sit and pick out the ones he like; or to be precise, hardly if anyone is asked what are their favorite ones, he’ll be able to say just a few out of his huge collection. The truth is, the brain doesn’t give out like a printed list saying, ‘Here’s the list you would want to put in your PMP’… pardon us, we are HUMAN!! But when you are on a journey, say a cross country tour, you won’t want to carry your laptop or PC over to everywhere you go, but the PMP, sure is meant for that time and moreover, you won’t know which type of songs you are going to listen during the journey; it depends on the place you visit, or the people you meet or it could be anything. Bottomline: You do not know which one to put around. You just want to listen to it when you feel like listening to it.
Early morning today, we’d planned for a trip to thehanging bridge at the locality. The bridge is situated east of our college campus and we’d to walk across the unfinised iron bridge and the Post Graduate students’ block (Block H).We planned to start our journey at around 5:00am but as usual, as an engineering student, we were late and started at 6:00am (IS dragged me out of my bed!!). We’d never been there before, only that we’d seen the bridge from a distant.
