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Cloud Computing
Cloud computing, is a technology that is changing the way enterprises look to meet their IT hardware and software requirements. Cloud computing is a mix of the latest ideas, technology and delivery models including Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS), and other models in the IT sector that use the Internet for delivering services to the user.
Users can access infrastructure namely, the servers, software, and data center space or network equipment; the required computing platform and solution stack for a building an application, covering the cycle of development, testing, deployment, hosting and maintenance; and also most of the regular software applications; these are all provided cheaply and efficiently over the Internet.
Cloud computing seems to be all the rage right now. Here is a lowdown on how it actually works:
Cloud Computing is computation, software, data access and storage services that don’t need end-user knowledge of the particular physical location and configuration of the system that delivers the services. You can actually compare it with the electrical power grid, you don’t require the specialized knowledge to use it. Just plug in the device and you will be ready to go!
Here are some examples of cloud services:
• Gmail
• Hotmail
• Facebook
• Amazon EC2/S3
• Salesforce.com
• for gamers there are Sony’s PlayStation Network or Microsoft’s Xbox Live.
Recently, Apple launched its iCloud service too, letting you wirelessly sync your music, apps and files across all Apple gadgets you own (and even with family).
If you want to have a location independent business, Cloud Computing is the way to go! Instead of running applications locally on your computer and store data your self, they run on a shared data center maintained by the best industry experts.
Here are some advantages of going with the “cloud”:
1. Decreased costings.
2. Scalability and speed.
3. Innovations.
4. Convenience.
There is a blog called chillisync that recently released its chillisync review of computing services. Be sure to check it out!
iPhone 4 and iphone 3gs Side by Side Review
Filed under: Applications, Computers, Electronics, Gadgets and Gizmos, Gaming, Internet, Software, Technology, Telecommunications | Tags: apple, compare 3gs iphone 4, features iphone, Firmware updates, iphone, iphone 4, iphone 4 signal problems
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Thanks to PhoneArena who did a very comprehesive side by side review of the latest two iphone versions, the apple iphone 4 and apple iphone 3gs. The iphone is a phone created and issued by Apple Computers, pre-empted by a commercial called “Hello” in 2007. It changed the way mobile consumers used their cell phones.
iPhone App Feature: Ranch Rush
Filed under: Applications, Computers, Electronics, Gaming | Tags: farmvile, Free App, free iphone game, Fun App, Iphone App, iphone game, Ranch Rush, Top Game App
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Ranking Top 1 in Appstore’s Games is Ranch Rush, a fun, fast-paced interactive farming game.
The gameplay starts as the Sara finds out that her boss is going to sell the ranch and making her loose her favorite job. She goes on a mission to keep the ranch and have it earning. She starts planting produce and raising ranch animals such as sheep and cow for wool and milk, it also machines that turns produce into processed food such as cheese and katsup, etc. Every day of the week farms for customers and on fridays takes them to the Farmers market.
It is a very busy game, and you will be in your toes at all times. It requires fast thinking and methodology. You also get trophies as you finish various tasks.
It’s good to know that Ranch Rush donates 20% of it’s proceeds to Action Against Hunger.
Featured App: California Gold Rush – Free
Filed under: Applications, Gadgets and Gizmos, Gaming, Software | Tags: Apple App, California Gold Rush, Gold Bars
Leave a Comment What we are featuring today is a “classic” favorite of iPhone gamers, called California Gold Rush.
The game is simple yet very very entertaining. You can direct your pointer and select where you want to mine your gold from. Upon surfacing you can sell your gold coins or use it to buy items to help you gain more skills and abilities such as supports and explosives.
There are various goals at each level and and you need to complete these goals before the clock ends. The game actually keeps players on their toes.
This Lite or free version offers two levels of gaming fun. Those who will to continue will have to buy the full version from the App Store.
The game also features a California Gold Rush trivia including information on how people made wealth by mining and investing in gold. Back in the mid 1800′s a lot of people got rich when gold was discovered in California. Gold totalling to today’s wealth of 50,ooo was mined. They became multimillionaire of their times who became owners of businesses, banks, train operation, utility companies, amonst others.
Today, investors still buy gold bars in hopes that they maintain their wealth and earn profit.
On Online Faxing
Filed under: Applications, Computers, Electronics, Internet | Tags: business solutions, facsimile, Faxing, how to send fax via internet, internet, internet fax, Online faxing, Sending fax
Comments (1) When the internet was discovered, everyone (and I mean every business, individual, government agency and more) immediately tapped the internet and harnessed the power of being connected to multitudes of computer even at the far end of the globe. The accessibility and connectivity that the internet provides was seen as a powerful tool that can significantly improve communications, increase productivity and attract or reach more audience/clients.
With more and more businesses, agencies and firms that are joining the internet, it is no wonder that most companies are compelled to join the internet revolution and invest on recent technological innovations. The introduction of the internet also made possible mobile workplaces as it allowed employees to go mobile yet connected.
One of the biggest innovations introduced with the dawn of the internet technology is online faxing services. This particular technology uses the internet to send and receive fax messages. This actually way cheaper than its traditional counterpart and is also faster, more reliable and more efficient. It does not matter if your recipient doesn’t have an internet connection because as long as they have a fax machine (the big old bulky one), then you can be assured that your fax message will come through.
Obviously, if you are on a business trip and your destination is on the deepest point of Eastern Siberia, and from where you are there is no internet connection, and then you will not be able to enjoy the full convenience of online fax. However, if you are in the mountains of the Himalayas and from there you can access the internet using your smart phone, then you will still have the capability to send and receive your fax messages.
One setback of online faxing is hacking. Since your data will be sent over the internet, there is always the possibility that your data will be intercepted by a third party and this can be pretty dangerous especially if you are sending very important data. To counter this flaw, most online fax facilities uses encryption technologies that scramble your data before it is sent over the internet. This way, even if your data is intercepted, it will not be read by hackers because the data is scrambled. At this point, however, some argue that traditional faxing is way better than online fax.
However, if we will try to look at online fax using the “benefit lens”, then we can really say that online fax is way better than conventional faxing. For one reason, online fax would allow you to send one fax message to hundreds of recipients (called fax broadcasting) without necessarily dialling and redialling each number one by one. You will never be online with online fax because the internet is never busy. Your customers or clients will never complain that they can’t reach you via fax because fax tone is a never heard concept in the field of online faxing. You can send and receive fax messages simultaneously just as you would send and receive email messages. What more can you ask?
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iPhone App Feature: Angry Birds
Filed under: Applications, Computers, Electronics, Gadgets and Gizmos, Gaming | Tags: angry birds, apple, cheats, game walkthrough, golden egg locations, iphone
Comments (2) Hint: Golden Eggs
Here are the locations of the Golden Eggs.
* Golden Egg 01 – Get 3 stars in worlds 4-5
* Golden Egg 02 – Tap the sun on the select screen
* Golden Egg 03 – Tap the egg at the end of the credits
* Golden Egg 04 – Go to the help screen and tap the egg at the end
* Golden Egg 05 – In Level 1-8, tap the out of reach chest
* Golden Egg 06 – In Level 2-2, bust the beach ball
* Golden Egg 07 – In Level 4-7,tap the egg at the very top right of the map
* Golden Egg 08 – In Level 5-19, on the top right of the left tower
* Golden Egg 09 – In Level 6-14, bust the yellow balloon
* Golden Egg 10 – In level 6-14 bust the yellow balloon in the lower right corner
* Golden Egg 11 – In theme 8′s level page, brush the screen right to left to reveal a golden egg
* Golden Egg 12 – Get 3 stars for every level in Danger Above
* Golden Egg 13 – In level 8-15 break the boxes in the far left corner
* Golden Egg 14 – In level 9-14 fire the boomerang bird at the hat on the far right side of the screen on the small cliff.
Unlockable: Sound Board
To unlock the Sound Board, get 3 stars on every level in worlds 1-3
Friends introduced me to Angry Birds about 3 months ago, since then I still play it. Somtimes I get frustrated and want to find cheat sheets, but I just stick to it and try to solve the levels by myself. You should try it as well.
Microsoft Keyboard Shortcuts
Filed under: Applications, Software | Tags: Keyboard, Keyboard Shortcuts, Microsoft, MS
Comments (1) Ever wondered how those fast typing geeks go through their keyboard and menus as fast as they do well, I did some research and got these awesome cheatsheet of key stroke combinations or shortcuts for Microsoft applications. I hope you find them helpful. To bookmark this page on your internet explorer browser, press CTRL + D and ADD
F1: Help
CTRL+ESC: Open Start menu
ALT+TAB: Switch between open programs
ALT+F4: Quit program
SHIFT+DELETE: Delete item permanently
Windows Logo+L: Lock the computer (without using CTRL+ALT+DELETE)
Windows program key combinations
CTRL+C: Copy
CTRL+X: Cut
CTRL+V: Paste
CTRL+Z: Undo
CTRL+B: Bold
CTRL+U: Underline
CTRL+I: Italic
Mouse click/keyboard modifier combinations for shell objects
SHIFT+right click: Displays a shortcut menu containing alternative commands
SHIFT+double click: Runs the alternate default command (the second item on the menu)
ALT+double click: Displays properties
SHIFT+DELETE: Deletes an item immediately without placing it in the Recycle Bin
General keyboard-only commands
F1: Starts Windows Help
F10: Activates menu bar options
SHIFT+F10 Opens a shortcut menu for the selected item (this is the same as right-clicking an object
CTRL+ESC: Opens the Start menu (use the ARROW keys to select an item)
CTRL+ESC or ESC: Selects the Start button (press TAB to select the taskbar, or press SHIFT+F10 for a context menu)
CTRL+SHIFT+ESC: Opens Windows Task Manager
ALT+DOWN ARROW: Opens a drop-down list box
ALT+TAB: Switch to another running program (hold down the ALT key and then press the TAB key to view the task-switching window)
SHIFT: Press and hold down the SHIFT key while you insert a CD-ROM to bypass the automatic-run feature
ALT+SPACE: Displays the main window’s System menu (from the System menu, you can restore, move, resize, minimize, maximize, or close the window)
ALT+- (ALT+hyphen): Displays the Multiple Document Interface (MDI) child window’s System menu (from the MDI child window’s System menu, you can restore, move, resize, minimize, maximize, or close the child window)
CTRL+TAB: Switch to the next child window of a Multiple Document Interface (MDI) program
ALT+underlined letter in menu: Opens the menu
ALT+F4: Closes the current window
CTRL+F4: Closes the current Multiple Document Interface (MDI) window
ALT+F6: Switch between multiple windows in the same program (for example, when the Notepad Find dialog box is displayed, ALT+F6 switches between the Find dialog box and the main Notepad window)
Shell objects and general folder/Windows Explorer shortcuts
For a selected object:
F2: Rename object
F3: Find all files
CTRL+X: Cut
CTRL+C: Copy
CTRL+V: Paste
SHIFT+DELETE: Delete selection immediately, without moving the item to the Recycle Bin
ALT+ENTER: Open the properties for the selected object
To copy a file
Press and hold down the CTRL key while you drag the file to another folder.
To create a shortcut
Press and hold down CTRL+SHIFT while you drag a file to the desktop or a folder.
General folder/shortcut control
F4: Selects the Go To A Different Folder box and moves down the entries in the box (if the toolbar is active in Windows Explorer)
F5: Refreshes the current window.
F6: Moves among panes in Windows Explorer
CTRL+G: Opens the Go To Folder tool (in Windows 95 Windows Explorer only)
CTRL+Z: Undo the last command
CTRL+A: Select all the items in the current window
BACKSPACE: Switch to the parent folder
SHIFT+click+Close button: For folders, close the current folder plus all parent folders
Windows Explorer tree control
Numeric Keypad *: Expands everything under the current selection
Numeric Keypad +: Expands the current selection
Numeric Keypad -: Collapses the current selection.
RIGHT ARROW: Expands the current selection if it is not expanded, otherwise goes to the first child
LEFT ARROW: Collapses the current selection if it is expanded, otherwise goes to the parent
Properties control
CTRL+TAB/CTRL+SHIFT+TAB: Move through the property tabs
Accessibility shortcuts
Press SHIFT five times: Toggles StickyKeys on and off
Press down and hold the right SHIFT key for eight seconds: Toggles FilterKeys on and off
Press down and hold the NUM LOCK key for five seconds: Toggles ToggleKeys on and off
Left ALT+left SHIFT+NUM LOCK: Toggles MouseKeys on and off
Left ALT+left SHIFT+PRINT SCREEN: Toggles high contrast on and off
Microsoft Natural Keyboard keys
Windows Logo: Start menu
Windows Logo+R: Run dialog box
Windows Logo+M: Minimize all
SHIFT+Windows Logo+M: Undo minimize all
Windows Logo+F1: Help
Windows Logo+E: Windows Explorer
Windows Logo+F: Find files or folders
Windows Logo+D: Minimizes all open windows and displays the desktop
CTRL+Windows Logo+F: Find computer
CTRL+Windows Logo+TAB: Moves focus from Start, to the Quick Launch toolbar, to the system tray (use RIGHT ARROW or LEFT ARROW to move focus to items on the Quick Launch toolbar and the system tray)
Windows Logo+TAB: Cycle through taskbar buttons
Windows Logo+Break: System Properties dialog box
Application key: Displays a shortcut menu for the selected item
Microsoft Natural Keyboard with IntelliType software installed
Windows Logo+L: Log off Windows
Windows Logo+P: Starts Print Manager
Windows Logo+C: Opens Control Panel
Windows Logo+V: Starts Clipboard
Windows Logo+K: Opens Keyboard Properties dialog box
Windows Logo+I: Opens Mouse Properties dialog box
Windows Logo+A: Starts Accessibility Options (if installed)
Windows Logo+SPACEBAR: Displays the list of Microsoft IntelliType shortcut keys
Windows Logo+S: Toggles CAPS LOCK on and off
Dialog box keyboard commands
TAB: Move to the next control in the dialog box
SHIFT+TAB: Move to the previous control in the dialog box
SPACEBAR: If the current control is a button, this clicks the button. If the current control is a check box, this toggles the check box. If the current control is an option, this selects the option.
ENTER: Equivalent to clicking the selected button (the button with the outline)
ESC: Equivalent to clicking the Cancel button
ALT+underlined letter in dialog box item: Move to the corresponding item
the above mentioned information was from the Microsoft website. I am in no way connected with Microsoft, and this blog post is merely for information only.
iPhone App Feature: Snack App – keeping your diet plans real
Filed under: Applications, Gadgets and Gizmos | Tags: Apple App, Apps, Calorie Calculator, Calorie Counter, Gizmo Zone, Healthy Living, Losing Weight, Snack App, Weight Control, Weight Management
Comments (3) Trying to reach a perfect score on a pc or console game sometimes forces you to be lazy and not mindful of what you eat. For example a lot of gamers feed on mountain dew (for the sugar rush and caffeine) and potato chips while in the midst of playing or hacking a program and most often not eat a decent meal. That’s why there are some of techies out there who can use some sort of calorie calculator as those from FitClick.com an online tool to help you reach your weight loss goal. The website also features a calorie counting tool that allows you to find what and how much food and calories you should within the course of the day so you can meet your goal.
Here is one of the latest app I found in the AppStore — Snack App. This App let’s you search a snack depending on your craving — could be sweet, salty, crunchy, etc. What’s great is that it allows you to find the best snack to meet your craving at a range of 50, 100 up to 200 calories snack — really helpful when you are trying not to blow your calorie budget from your diet plans for the day. The calorie counter feature in this app is also a great tool as it tells how much exercise or activity can burn what you just snacked on. Cool right?