Internet and Technology

Silverlight Technology developed by Microsoft incorporates the same functionalities as Adobe flash. It helps integrate graphics, multimedia, animation, and interactivity in one runtime environment. The latest version of the technology was introduced in July 2009. The technology gels well with Microsoft windows as well as Mac operating system.

Why use Silverlight?

High definition video files can be viewed with Silverlight Technology and Microsoft will responsible for transferring these files to the Internet. The transfer of large media files is expensive but Microsoft will still take the trouble to stream Silverlight media files. However, the service will be optional. Streaming done by microsoft will save content distribution network fees for small developers. According to Microsoft, 700 kbps throughput will be reliable and the free distribution of network content will last for a year.

In addition, the applications based on Silverlight Technology are delivered to browser in XAML. The advantage of using XAML is that it is easier for the search engines to find scan XAML than compiled Flash applications. The Flash based applications have an added web code which facilitates the search but adding that means extra work for developers. Even if the web code is added to the application, the result will not be as good. This is because Silverlight Technology helps search engines index the actual application instead of just searching for the keywords.

Lastly, Microsoft is marketing Silverlight Technology along with its live services. It is introducing Application Program Interfaces (APIs) for search engine, Virtual Earth, instant messenger and other services. Microsoft networks and resources will be used to create these services which will be supported by advanced online applications. Silverlight Technology will spearhead the development of Rich Internet Applications because of these reasons.

Now all that you want to know about the different types of car software and other necessary information about the most priced possession your vehicle that is so lovable to you and of whom you would want to provide the best care of all. All this information today you will get via the internet that is so easily available.Internet application these days is so much easier that you do not require any great knowledge to learn how to use it. Just give it a try and you will know. Just check a few car rental software websites and you will get all the information you need to take care of your car very well and with so much ease. You do not need anybody’s help for this. You just need to be a little computer literate. There is commercially available Linux software that you need for the operation of your car rental software does not need any special software to be installed in your personal computer, just the normal internet browser will do.There is an ASP Service providing) software that is easily available online. Again this follows the same rule; you need to have sound knowledge about internet applications and the services it provides to put it to your best in use in various activities. There is nothing you cannot know through internet applications. Once you learn how to use it there will be a tremendous change in the way you see things in life. Even the toughest of things will seem possible.Internet is a window to the world outside. The more you surf the more you learn and in depth you will learn. Internet applications will help you in every way possible giving you information about everything under the sun. From clothes, shoes to everything else you will get pages of information through this wonder net called internet. Even children today use the net so freely and have such a nice time on the net. But it should be seen that they make the right use of it. So you see there is such a huge benefit of this internet that you can put to the best use of it to the betterment of yourselves and of your environment around you.So you see the benefits of this internet are much more than its banes and ill effects. Make the most of this facility provided by the new technology created by man and use it to learn many new things in life. All applications invented are for learning something new and in return for you to invent something innovative for the betterment of the world. All in all the conclusion that can be drawn is that everything that is created in the world can be taken in to manners the good or the bad and it is up to us to make the best use of it. Learn to use these internet applications and you will surely benefit from them, you will have an insight to a whole new world of the latest technologies.

The value of freedom in a country is priceless. If one country has freedom of speech and thought then they are sure to have a bright future ahead of them. How so? If a society has freedom of thought then they are free to explore their interests or whatever else that may pique their curiosity, which could eventually lead them to great knowledge and amazing discoveries.
Take the United States for example. America has surpasses all the other countries of the world not only economically but technologically as well. Although it is true that most technological inventions and other scientific discoveries did not really originated from the Americans themselves but rather are attributed to citizens of other countries. However, it is undeniable that these technological inventions are enhanced and further developed in America. Thanks to America’s innovative patent system these technological inventions are put to better use.
Just what is a patent you asked? The term “patent” is generally defined as a set of exclusive rights granted by the government to a person for a certain period of time (usually for 20 years) in return for the regulated, public disclosure of some information about their invention. It was Thomas Jefferson who initiated the first national patent system in the United States of America during the year 1790. From then on, this exclusive right has been protecting the inventor’s interest by preventing other people from copying, using or selling the already claimed invention.
So how exactly are these patents significant in technological advancement? According to the World Intellectual Property Organization or WIPO about 90% to 95% of all the world’s inventions can be found in patented documents. However, these technological inventions comprise only a small percentage of all the patents that are applied for and granted. Therefore it is safe to assume that the latest patent applications are the kernel of technological advancement.
Take a look closer at the Internet. This technology has undergone numerous changes from the time that the concept of the World Wide Web was first introduced a few decades back. In an attempt to put Internet into better use, various inventors who aim to further develop and enhance the existing models filed numerous patent applications that are related to this technology.
One of the latest patent applications is called system and method for scoping searches using index keys. The invention involves a set of index keys, which is to be included in an index search system that are related with the scope of the search instead of the content of the documents, which are the target of the search. These so-called “scope keys” enables the scope of the search to be customized, thus reducing the number of documents that a search supposed to sort through in order to acquire the results.
Another latest patent application that is related to technological advancement in the Internet is the “system and method for performing a search and a browse on a query”. Now, in this invention a search and a browse on a single user query is executed. Then a refined query is chosen from the results of the first user query. After that, a list of concepts from a first directory that are related with the refined query is acquired.
Here, the “concepts” are categorized in a hierarchical relationship. Concepts with broader scope are obtains a higher position. Meanwhile, the concepts with narrower scope get a lower position in the hierarchy. In addition, a list of web sites that related with the search concept is also acquired from a second directory.
The forming intent-based clusters and employing same by search, is also a patent application that is related in further enhancing the Internet. This patent application is associated to a system and method that will be use for identifying and forming intent-based clusters based on search requests that were sent by the users to the search engines, as well as to the search engine utilizing the formed intent-based clusters to answer the search requests made by the users. To be more precise, the invention is associated to recognizing and utilizing intent-based clusters so that a search made by a user with similar intent may receive a respond more quickly and efficiently. Most importantly, with search results that more directed to the search of the user.
All three patent applications are dedicated in making the Internet searching process less complicated and not to mention, much more efficient in terms of coming up with results.
Today, patents are considered as the leading source of technological information that is vital in technological advancement. Thanks to the innovative Information Technology industry, particularly to the Internet, the general public can now easily access these constructive documents. Just about anyone who is familiar with the Internet can browse through different patent databases available and obtain the specific patent document that they needed.
There are various patent databases that are accessible by the public, USPTO, EPO, JPO, to name just a few. For instance, if you are looking for patents that are related to a certain technological area you will find countless information regarding the entire process of technological innovation, such as the evolutionary path of a specific technology, it’s technological development, technological diversification, technology merges, as well as the major players in specific technological area, and the key points of the specific technology.
The secret behind each major technological advancement and inventions are thousands of patents that were applied, filed and then put it into practical use. Fortunately for us the public are well aware of the significance of patent application in developing tomorrow’s technology. The number of patent applications is growing at an enormously fast rate. Inventors not only from America but from other countries as well, are diligently working on their inventions as well as on patenting their ideas — a clear indication that our nation’s future is indeed in good hands. For as long as the American government continues to nurture innovation, then they will remain as global leaders both in economy as well as technology.

Since my very first Adobe Max conference five years ago, the then Macromedia (before their acquisition by Adobe) were talking about Rich Internet Applications or RIA’s as the future of the Web. At the time they had recently launch Flex 1 and were predicting a very different Web experience for the end user.

5 years later and I have to ask myself whether the end user’s experience of Web has change that dramatically. Apart from the massive amount of video content that is available today, the majority of websites are still produced using HTML and only companies with endless budgets have been able to produce glimpses of Adobe’s vision. So was Adobe wrong in their prediction? No, I think they were spot on, but the main problem was that the software did not exist which would allow Web designers and developers to build RIA’s.

Flex 1, by Adobe’s own admission, was a crude first attempt at creating RIA’s. Flex 3 by comparison is a much better program, but there is still a problem. Flex is a developer’s program, its internal language is Flash ActionScript. Therefore unless you are familiar with ActionScript or you are a coder and like learning computer languages then Flex is probably not a tool the average Web Designer will adopt.

Even larger Web production houses with teams of graphic designers and developers found the work-flows, moving from the designers vision into the back end development, confusing and frustrating.

Fortunately all of these issues may soon be a thing of the past. Without a doubt the most talked about product at Adobe Max 2008 was a new Flash Catalyst program. Even though Flash Catalyst will only be released in 2009, you get the feeling Adobe is so excited about it they simply could not wait to tell us.

So what is Flash Catalyst? Well essentially it’s a designer’s tool which will really simplify the RIA work flow process between Designers and Developers. Designers for the first time will have a program where they can import all of their artwork from programs such as Photoshop, Illustrator and Flash and then design the fully functional RIA interface. As the back-end will still need to be coded by a developer, the key distinction with Flash Catalyst is that designers can save all their work in a format that a developer can easily understand and work with.

This is indeed an exciting new change, the work-flow within the Web community, and designers should be excited about picking up a copy of Flash Catalyst in 2009.

Create events for desktop and rich internet applications Events are very important to create rich and high-fidelity application wireframes, and thus their creation and managing must be as simple as possible. Event triggers are events that may occur during the simulation of a prototype and that cause event actions to execute. The Justinmind Prototyper® provides several event triggers: OnClick, OnDoubleClick, OnRightClick, onKeyPressed, OnMouseOver, OnMouseEnter, OnMouseLeave, OnPageLoadOn, PageUnload and OnChange. Event actions are the processing that takes place when an event triggers. Several actions can be defined for the same trigger upon the same element so that they are taken sequentially. Event actions are: Link to, Execute Action, Set Connection, Hide/Show, Change Style, Enable/Disable, Set Focus on, Set Value. Creating a tab menu In order to create a tabbed layout we recommend you to work with the Layered box widget which is able to display several layers one above the other and switch their visibility using events.

Simulating a tooltip A dynamic tooltip can be easily simulated following the next steps:

Component libraries and examples Justinmind has prototyped a set of component libraries and examples to help you better understand the power of our wireframing and simulation tool. You can find the examples and component libraries here.

Harness the Benefits of Rich Internet Applications with Adobe Flex

The current economy notwithstanding, today’s business market is a competitive place.  Customers are becoming more demanding and competing brands are getting more difficult to ignore. The overall value of effective branding cannot be overestimated as more and more consumers are motivated to shop based on their familiarity with your name, your logo, and your reputation. Moreover, we’re in an era where the marketing industry is more dynamic than ever and new media and technologies are changing the way we establish said brands. The internet has made the consumer far more fickle but also more difficult to engage which is why rich internet applications (RIA) are a cornerstone of many modern marketing campaigns. With RIA, the customer experience is fuller and more affecting as many RIA require the total engagement of the customer.  In short, RIA help you to create a much more memorable brand experience which will ultimately equate to more stability and greater profit for your organization.

Engaging the Customer

Of course, from a marketing standpoint, engaging your customer with your advertisements is critical. Throughout the evolution of marketing, advertising, and branding, professionals in the industry have gained a greater acceptance and understanding of the notion that in order to influence a customer to buy your product, you must first make some kind of connection with them. As we have seen the predominant marketing media change from radio and print to television to the internet, we have also seen a change in the way advertising seeks to make this connection.  In the early days of branding, companies generally sought to gain connect to customers by providing information. Customers were also given a sense that their choices were important and it was especially important not to make the wrong choice. As television became more central in our lives, branding was a matter of arousing a strong and influential emotional response that would later be associated with the brand thereby making it far more memorable. But as advertising and branding focus has shifted to online mediums, we are seeing the importance of consumer engagement skyrocketing.  With the multitude of sensory input we face on any given day, our attention spans have become shorter. RIA can help you to engage your customers in such a way that they give you their focus. They learn about your brand, product or service while engaged by your RIA.

Reaching the Customer

Business executives are quickly learning the value of engaging your customers. Recent research suggests that customer engagement translates directly into customer loyalty. RIA are interesting and dynamic and are developing quickly. But RIA are more than marketing tools for improving customer engagement, with RIA you can also reach customers across a broad spectrum of sources. Mobile web, for example, is becoming increasingly popular. With applications like Adobe Flex and Flash, developers can create interesting, highly engaging applications that can reach the vast majority of mobile web users. In addition, we all know that web presence is international and once you commit to branding online, RIA are the only way you are going to keep up with your competitors.  The fact of the matter is that as online technologies are getting more sophisticated there are more people going online. Any organization that did not adapt to these changing technologies, in this case creating RIA with Adobe Flex, will be left behind.

Impressing the Customer

In addition to engaging and reaching customers, RIA can help you impress customers. As an example here are the details of an experience anyone can relate to. You’re searching the web for a product you want to buy. You stumble across two websites. One of those sites features black and white text and a crude online ordering form. The other website features eye-popping applications with streaming video and a well organized home page. Ask yourself which site you’d be more likely to buy from and also more likely to trust. Trust is an important element for consumers today and one of the great benefits of RIA is that they help make your site look professional while also achieving the lofty goals of engagement and reach. Moreover, as RIA can easily incorporate a variety of rich media, like embedded video or contextual help, they allow for better configurations.

The Specific Adobe Benefits

Perhaps the most important benefit of developing RIA with Adobe products is ubiquity.  Without a doubt, Adobe Flash is the world leader as far as its ability to reach internet-enabled desktops. In fact, it is estimated that 98% of computers with internet capability run Adobe Flash meaning the development tools like Adobe AIR or Adobe Flex provide you with the opportunity to create ubiquitous RIA. Furthermore, most designers and developers already have the skills necessary to start working with technologies like Flex and as these technologies evolve the developer experience doesn’t change all that much.  In a very short time developers and designers can adapt to these new technologies, in fact most already are.

RIA are a relatively new addition to the repertoire of marketing tools but they are already highly influential in terms of engaging, reaching, and impressing your customers.  Furthermore, Adobe technologies allow designers and developers to work together seamlessly within the bounds of their current skill set. Creating rich, meaningful online applications makes your brand unforgettable and as such you can’t afford to ignore the potential of RIA.

Adobe Flex is comparable to OpenLaszlo, Ajax, XUL, JavaFX and Silverlight. It uses MXML to lay out user interfaces for browser applications. Interaction is achieved through ActionScript, the core language of Flash Player. The Flex SDK provides interface components such as buttons, list boxes, trees, data grids, text controls, and layout containers. It is however a fully fledged development environment for a programmer and thus not as easy to use as for example OpenLaszlo. In principle you do need to get into programming to do anything pratical in FLEX.

We did something very different with our Papyrus EYE user interface. We defined a powerful graphics component set that is stored in the Papyrus WebRepository as models and implemented them in a QT-based library for PC applications, with native Flash Actionscript. We plan to implement it in AJAX too eventually. Because of WebRepository GUI deployment is fully version controlled and just-in-time with any other changes. The execution of Papyrus EYE calls a series of special PQL (Papyrus Query Language) commands from the Flash Player that dynamically present GUI information into the Flash player. All GUI components are dynamically loaded at runtime and no preloading of a compiled functionality (like i.e. in OpenLaszlo) is necessary.

Papyrus EYE makes the development of completely dynamic user frontends in the browser much easier than Flex. More importantly, ISIS has extended the full application life-cycle management to the user interface!

The Papyrus WebRepository manages all aspects of consolidated service applications across ECM, BPM, CRM, and ERP. IT enables business professionals to define and maintain powerful applications without programming that link into back end business applications with SOA or other message based interfaces. An application consists of metadata definitions that control the data federation from the service interfaces, business rules, the EYE user frontend, inbound and outbound business content, business rules, as well as trained business processes.

Flex 3 with Java is a new book from Packt that guides developers in building rich web applications using the Flex 3 framework. Written by Satish Kore, a Flex enthusiast and evangelist, this book helps readers build an end-to-end Flex e-commerce application using all major features of Flex 3.

Flex is an effective, free open source framework used to develop Rich Internet Applications for browsers, desktops, and operating systems. It provides a modern, standards-based language and a program model that supports common design patterns.

Developers will learn to build Flex applications with ActionScript 3.0, BlazeDS 3.2, and Java. This book will help readers mix ActionScript and MXML language to write Flex applications and use Flex Builder 3 and Ant Script to package them. Readers will be able to debug their applications, design CSS files, use data access methods, use RPC services and create custom components.

Flex users will learn to build a sample book explorer application with XML using the E4X approach, and use Adobe LiveCycle Data Services and BlazeDS components for accessing server-side data. Using Resource Manager class, they will localize Flex applications and with internationalization techniques they will be able to customize the application for multiple locales. They will also discover data access methods such as HTTPService, WebService, and RemoteObjects with code examples

Java developers, professionals or system analysts interested in developing Rich Internet Applications using Flex 3 will find this book useful. This book is out now and is available from Packt. For more information, please visit http://www.packtpub.com/flex-3-with-java/book

DOTNUTSHELL Technologies is at the forefront in creating attractive and affordable web solutions for our clients. We can build simple websites to advanced and intelligent web sites using AI and predictive software systems.

There are many aspects (design concerns) in this process, and due to the rapid development of the Internet, new aspects may emerge. For non-commercial websites, the goals may vary depending on the desired exposure and response. For typical commercial Web sites, the basic aspects of design are:

The content: The substance, and information on the site should be relevant to the site and should target the area of the public that the website is concerned with.

The usability: The site should be user-friendly, with the interface and navigation simple and reliable.

The appearance: The graphics and text should include a single style that flows throughout, to show consistency. The style should be professional, appealing and relevant.

The visibility: The site must also be easy to find via most, if not all, major search engines and advertisement media.

A Web site typically consists of text and images. The first page of a website is known as the Home page or Index. Some websites use what is commonly called a Splash Page. Splash pages might include a welcome message, language/region selection, or disclaimer. Each web page within a Web site is an HTML file which has its own URL. After each Web page is created, they are typically linked together using a navigation menu composed of hyperlinks. Faster browsing speeds have led to shorter attention spans and more demanding online visitors and this has resulted in less use of Splash Pages, particularly where commercial websites are concerned.

More info on FLASH based rich internet applications can be found on our website.

The most popular and most successful form of interactive programs in the world wide web are games. This is because they are not only beneficial in term of mind growth, they also allow social relationships to be fostered even if it is virtual. They are addictive, fun, intriguing and not to mention, readily available to anyone. All of these are important aspects in internet application as stated by Jonathan Boutelle, CTO of Uzanto.He has discussed the game inspired techniques of online casual games incorporated in Mindcanvas, a survey application and SlideShare, a social sharing application for interactive slideshows. Both of which he says, has the charisma of an online game.
There are a lot of controversy sorrounding “tagging” in the net applications data base. In his presentation, founder Thomas vander Wal, who also happens to be an expert in web information and applications architectural designs discussed that the current status of the tag industry actually allows for us to augment the idea of existing policies and pratices without hindering the path to new alternatives.
He also said that today, it is much more difficult to organize web contents and assures that his well developed tag allows for easier navigation.He also said that tagging allows user to double check web information first hand and that it allows free and personal thinking to be dominant.
Remember when we were kids and we used to love playing tags? Well were all grown up now but were still fond of playing the game although in a much more complex environment. In the past there were tremendous attention spot lighted on the idea of internet tagging. The deal was to ask individuals to associate words or phrases with the given summary provided on a web content and as if like magic, after quite some time you will be able to create a web organization which pretty much makes everything easier to find in a pulse. The word tagging pretty much sums up the nature of the sites wherein this process is implemeneted, and by the look of things, it is working even though that is an oddity in itself.
Yahoo offers the entire surfing population to access a graphic or visual dominion easier compared to everything and anything else that came before it. For the first time the components of a Flash program and the user friendly nature of an Ajax is merged to create and HTML based program that is beyond anything else that was created before. The easy uploads and easier theme designs made Flickr an instant hit among the art world seeing that they are now able to share and network their creations in a much more tolerant not to mention popular market in the web.Flickr just changed the face of web applications forever
We give you the first of the Web series, the Web 1.0 applications. It is basically monolithic in nature. It is made up of HTML only making use of amateur interface of a page-based model. This particular program is known to frustrate users seeing that it far from being simple and easy to navigate. There are times when certain online applications could be made out using Flash but well all know that is stand-alone and pretty much has its own dominion that is not a part of other web sites.
Flash offers a wider range of designs and is much more fun to make use of but because of its isolation, it is often rendered to be very limited in term of functionality.