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Container Cargo Tracking Through iPhone

Sarv007 — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 07:39:00 +0000

Container cargo tracking occurs when someone observes or watches the shipping of a cargo vessel (that which holds the possessions or goods) as it leaves from the place of origin to the cargo’s destination. Cargo containers are large boxes (often metal) that are placed in massive shipping vessels and shipped to an intended place. “Container cargo tracking,” refers to the monitoring of shipping containers by way of the Apple iPhone.

Apple iPhones contain global positioning system (GPS) capability, which means they can send signals to and receive signals from satellites that are placed all across the globe. These signals allow you to see where any given object is at any given time on earth. All that is needed for the IPhone GPS capability to function is a GPS mobile phone application. Mobile phone applications often comes as downloads. With your IPhone, you can actually download a mobile phone application from the Internet directly onto your IPhone! The GPS application serves as a window or “server” by which the GPS function operates.

In the same way you need a GPS mobile phone application to experience GPS capability, you also need a mobile phone application in order to track cargo containers. The following are examples of container cargo tracking mobile phone applications:

TrackThat
gTrax (AIS Vessel Tracking)
Safmarine Freight Tracking App for IPhone
TrackThis

TrackThis has 13 carriers, chief among them FedEx, UPS, USPS, DHL, TNT, Aramex, Smartpost, Canada Post, CEVA, DHL UK, UK City Link, and UPS Mail Innovations. TrackThat provides what are called “push updates,” where you receive a notification via your cell phone every time a package or shipment of yours moves from one county, city, or state to another. To access the TrackThis container tracker, you must create a TrackThis account and download the TrackThis mobile phone application.

How does TrackThis work? First, go to the TrackThis website (http://www.usetrackthis.com/) on your IPhone and place your tracking code in the section labeled “start tracking.” You can choose a nickname for your package or not. There are other features on the page, such as deciding whether or not you will track your packages on facebook and twitter as well.

The advantages of TrackThis are that 1) you can track all of your packages in the same place because of the various carriers the mobile phone application can track, and 2) you can track your packages by way of social media, such as Facebook and Twitter.

GTrax is another container cargo tracking mobile phone application put out by MIS Development and Refresh Media that tracks cargo containers in sea vessels to aid mariners in ocean shipping. GTrax uses certain antennas to find a commercial vessel in the water and send a signal back to your iPhone as to the location of the cargo container and vessel carrier. Once the antennas find the commercial vessel within the range, the iPhone will show the vessel location via Google maps.

Both TrackThis and gTrax are examples of container cargo trackers that have been turned into mobile phone applications for your Apple iPhone. There are many container cargo tracker mobile phone applications out on the market…but you will not know what they are, how they work, and which ones are best until you get out there and try them. To use the French wishing-well, “Bonne chance!”

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Apple AirPlay: The Remote of the Future

Sarv007 — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 12:31:07 +0000

Apple commenced the development of audio and video streaming with the release of Airtunes in 2004. Then, six years later in fall of 2010, late Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced that Airtunes has expanded and evolved into AirPlay. This new and improved streaming service now enables users with the ability to stream audio, video, and photo content through a Bluetooth or Apple streaming device. AirPlay also transforms your iPhone into a remote by controlling your entire sound system with a few touches.

What you need: The first necessary component of Apple Airplay is a iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch, (iDevice) that is running iOS 4.2 or higher. Next, one can choose from a variety of devices, an Airport Express base station, or Apple TV. Also, with the expansion of AirPlay, Apple has allowed third-party developers to design Bluetooth supported sound systems and base stations that are compatible with AirPlay.

How it works: A triangle going into a rectangle will appear on any app that utilizes standard video controls. Touch this button and the audio or video will play from any television or speakers that are linked with your device.

Stream video content: One of the major affordances of the AirPlay is its ability to stream video content from an iPhone or iPad to an Apple TV synced television. AirPlay allows for the user to stream video content that can be filmed or downloaded onto the device and wirelessly streams it via the Apple TV.

Development of Applications: Other than streaming audio through your device, more and more video streaming apps are popping up in support of the AirPlay. Some current free audio and video streaming apps compatible with AirPlay are: TED, IMDb, Vevo HD, Discovery Channel HD, and NPR. Top paid apps that run on the Apple AirPlay include; iMovie, EyeTV, Air Video, and Justin.tv.

AirPlay Mirroring: One feature that was added to the AirPlay following the release of iOS5 is AirPlay Mirroring. This enables the user to stream whatever is on their iPhone or iPad 2 through Apple TV to be displayed on the users TV.

Future of AirPlay: The development of the Apple Airplay leaves the user very optimistic about the possible wireless affordances this may allow them, and the future is bright. Some developers are hopeful that in the future users will be able to stream content from their iPhone to a friends Apple TV in a different household. Also, many also hope that all Apple devices will be able to sync wirelessly through AirPlay.

Some things to look out for the future involving the continued development of AirPlay is the possible usage as the iPad as a controller for apps streaming to the television. The affordances of the touch screen on the iPad 2 really lead to endless possibilities of streaming technology made possible by AirPlay.

Overall, the AirPlay is a very innovative development in Apple’s strives to interconnect its users media wirelessly. To even further prove their commitment to this movement, they have dropped the price of the Apple TV to $99. Apple has also opened up to numerous third-party audio companies to help them expand the versatility of AirPlay.

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Top Contacts Management Apps for Android Phones.

Sarv007 — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 17:04:31 +0000

Are you facing this problem? Constantly deleting same copies of numbers on your Android phone by manually searching each number and deleting it?
The reason for duplicate contacts is that you’re synced with Gmail , facebook and other services.

You can remove these duplicate contacts from your android phone using a wide variety of apps available with a flick of a second.

Here are the apps.

1.Contact Analyzer 2

Contact Analyzer for Android helps to analyze contacts and then optimize them accordingly by deleting or merging identical numbers, emails, IMs, and postal addresses.

2.Go Contacts

Go Contacts not only manages the contacts well but also beautifies your stock Contacts and dialer interface. It is featured by fast search, grouping, duplicates merge and secure backup/recovery.

3.Contact Remover

Contact Remover is small tool to let you delete multiple contacts. Select one, many, or all. Search to identify contacts to delete. Touch to show contact details in app to help you decide which contacts to delete. Search works across all contact information (name, company, address, etc.).

4.Contacts Merger

Contacts Merger fixes address books bloated with many duplicate contacts. Contacts Merger finds and merges duplicate contacts in your address book.

What apps have you been using for contact management?

MacX iPhone Mounter:Transfer files, iPhone to Mac[Giveaway]

Sarv007 — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 17:36:20 +0000

Although iPhone, iPod and iPad extend the entertainment for our boring life, they have obvious shortages due to its limited storage. And it is a known fact that iTunes does not allow us to transfer media files on iOS devices. Must we delete them when the device is out of space? No, you don’t need to. MacX iPhone Mounter allows you to transfer the stuff on your iPhone, iPod, iPad to Mac without delete original files, so you can backup your favorite choice on Mac and delete the files on devices to make more room. It can be your best choice to transfer tool for iPhone, iPod, iPad users.

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How To Protect Computer from Infected PDFs Files?

Sarv007 — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 06:06:37 +0000

Virus scanners recognize the code of most viruses. Therefore, hackers split the code and distribute it often through encrypted- as smaller units of code in PDF documents. PDF docs consist of objects like text, fonts, spaces, forms,and hyperlink. there are at least 10000 objects in every 100 pages. Hackers split and distribute malicious codes to several objects so that they cannot be detected by virus scanners.

57% of web based malware attacks target vulnerabilities in PDF readers.

Ways to protect your PC from infected PDF files.

The first line of defense is to keep anti-virus software and Adobe Reader up to date to automatically scan and repair infected PDF files.

1. Switch Off Scripts:

In Adobe reader deactivate scripts in ‘Edit|Preferences|JavaSript’. In the menu item ‘Authorizations’, prevent the execution of external programs.

2. Use alternative PDF reader:

Since most of PDF exploits target Adobe Reader, an alternative like Foxit Reader is naturally more secure. Of course, this should also be updates regularly.

3. Online File Check:

Criminals send infected PDFs via email. To check such files, upload them with VirusTotal Uploader or use any other scanner.

10 Seducing Features Of Firefox 4.

Sarv007 — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 07:22:47 +0000

The Mozilla’s Senior Director of Engineering Damon Sicore has confirmed that the final build of the browser is ready to launch , and the date is Tuesday March 22.

Firefox 4 introduces several changes, including tabs now being placed above the address bar, mutli-touch support, a new add-ons managers, improved HTML 5 support and more. There are some features which would seduce a large number of internet users. Here are some of the highlights of what we can expect:

1. More Speed

The Firefox 4 uses JägerMonkey as JavaScript engine, Firefox 4 delivers huge performance enhancements, including faster start-up times, graphics rendering and page loads. Bottom line: It’s blazingly fast.

2. Panorama

First it was introduced as an add-on, Firefox 4′s new Panorama feature is another one designed to battle tab clutter. Using it, Web surfers can drag and drop their tabs into manageable groups that can be organized, named and arranged intuitively and visually.

3. Do Not Track

With a single check box, Firefox 4 users can ensure that any time the browser requests a Web page, it will send along a header specifying that the user does not want their browsing behavior to be tracked. Firefox 4 has the HTTP header feature disabled by default. To turn it on, users must go to Preferences/Advanced, and check the “Tell web sites I do not want to be tracked” box.

4. Less Clutter

Tabs are now given top visual priority in Firefox 4 so as to enable more efficient and intuitive browsing. In addition to its new “tabs on top” layout, however, the software now also offers a number of other features to make it simpler and more streamlined.

A Switch to Tab feature, for instance, helps reduce tab clutter by automatically calling up an already-tabbed URL rather than duplicating it all over again. “It took my tab list from 80 to 90 down to 50 or 60,” Nightingale said.

5. Sync

Another new feature that started life as an add-on is Sync, which synchronizes an individual’s multiple copies of Firefox across various platforms. So, a user might look up directions to a restaurant from their work computer, for example, and then be able to easily find and pull down those same directions from their Android phone on the road, Nightingale explained.

6. Improved Security

With HTTP Strict Transport Security, or HSTS, sites can now make sure information is always encrypted, thereby preventing attackers from intercepting sensitive data.

7. HTML5

Firefox 4′s new HTML5 parser and full support for Web video, audio, drag & drop, and file handling mean that it’s capable of supporting the latest Web environments.

8. Multiplatform Support

Whereas Microsoft’s IE9 can be used only on Windows–and only Vista and Windows 7 at that–Firefox, as always, is multiplatform. So, whether you’re on Windows, Linux or a Mac, you can enjoy its powerful new features.

9. Under the Hood

A number of other features–some visible to users, others not–will also appear in Firefox 4, including support for the WebM format for HD-quality video; 3D graphics via WebGL; elegant animations through the use of CSS3; and multitouch support.

Then, too, there’s super-fast graphics acceleration with Direct2D and Direct3D on Windows, XRender on Linux, and OpenGL on Mac enabled by default on supported hardware.

10. The Community Touch

Firefox has been shaped significantly by the people who use it. In fact, between 30 percent and 40 percent of its code was developed by the community, Nightingale told me. It’s hard to imagine a better way to make sure a product delivers what users want. Not like IE9 are developed by Microsoft’s team of paid developers to reflect their own vision of what users want.

Which internet browser seduces you?

Web Browsers From 90′s.

Sarv007 — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 16:47:11 +0000

Twenty years ago this month (December) , Tim Berners-Lee created and tested the very first Web browser, WorldWideWeb. To commemorate this anniversary, let’s take a look back through the main Web browser launched from 1990 to 2008 .

WorldWideWeb (1990)

This is the world’s first Web browser. The earliest versions ran only on NeXTSTEP.

ViolaWWW (1992)

ViolaWWW was the first Web browser for the Unix-based X Windowing System.

Cello (1993)

Cello was the first Web browser for Microsoft Windows (version 3.1, in fact).

Lynx 2.0 (1993)

CERN created the world’s second Web browser–the text-only “Line Mode Browser”–in 1990 so that the Web would be accessible across all platforms via Telnet.

NCSA Mosaic 1.0 (1993)

NCSA Mosaic brought the WWW to the general public’s attention, thanks to its ease of use, its presence on Windows and Macintosh platforms (Unix XWindows version shown here), and its ability to display images inline with text.

IBM WebExplorer (1994)

IBM broke into the Web browser field relatively early with the Mosaic-based WebExplorer, designed for the company’s OS/2 Warp 3 operating system. Critics hailed IBM’s browser.

Netscape Navigator 1.0 (1994)

After finding success with Mosaic, that browser’s creators left NCSA to form Netscape Communications, which developed Netscape Navigator 1.0.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 1.0 (1995)

Seeing Netscape’s success, Microsoft decided to jump into the browser business.

Netscape Navigator 3.0 (1996)

Here’s Netscape at the height of its popularity and influence–the period just before Internet Explorer stole the wind from its sails.

Opera 2.0 (1996)

Norwegian company Opera Software released the first public version of Opera browser, version 2.0, for Windows in 1996.

KDE Konqueror (2000)

Konqueror, both a Web browser and a file manager, debuted with the KDE 2 desktop environment for Unix-like systems in 2000. Its open-source rendering engine, KHTML, later became the basis for Apple’s Safari Web browser.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 for Mac (2001)

With the coming of the Mac OS X operating system, Apple needed a new Web browser.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 (2001)

The era of IE 6 marked the height of Microsoft’s browser dominance–as well as the height of its sloth and sloppiness in browser design.

Netscape 7 (2002)

Facing dwindling market share, Netscape released much of its code as open source in 1998.

Mozilla Phoenix 0.1 (2002)

From the ashes of the bloated Netscape and Mozilla Communications suites rose the lean and mean Mozilla Phoenix project.

Apple Safari Public Beta (2003)

Internet Explorer 5 for Mac–the Mac OS’s default browser up to 2003–was a buggy, slow embarrassment compared with learner alternatives arriving at the time.

Mozilla Firefox 1.0 (2004)

After enjoying years of popularity in its beta incarnations, Mozilla’s Firefox Web browser finally released as version 1.0 to great fanfare and impressive download numbers in 2004.

Google Chrome Beta (2008)

As if Google didn’t control enough of the Web already, in 2008 the search behemoth decided to release its own Web browser.

Any browser I missed that you used in 90′s?

Top 5 Online Image Editing Tools

Sarv007 — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 15:08:39 +0000

Use these online tools(websites) to enhance your photos and images with ease in no time.

1. Sumo Paint is a free web-based image editor with some very impressive features. I’m not going to describe it as a rival or even a serious alternative to Photoshop, because it’s not. What it is however, is an excellent little graphics editor that is useful for web designers or developers who may not have or want to use Photoshop.

2. Pixlr is a user friendly online image editing application that is essentially designed for non professional users and allows them to effortlessly edit images. The application is surprisingly fast and it normally takes less than 2 seconds to upload on a user’s screen. Pixlr comes across as an effective application for editing images if one needs to use them in their blogs, image galleries, social networking sites etc; however it not suitable for editing large images.

3. Lunapic Do you have a Facebook or MySpace account? Would you like to edit your profile picture online? Enter LunaPic.com and check this online application you can use to edit pics online for free. On this site you can check this online photo editor features, including lots of picture effects and editing tools. Enter this site and try this free online editor.

4. Splashup , formerly known as fauxto, is an online image editing service that provides some advanced tools and is unique for its incorporation of image editing layer effects. The site is still in beta, and so does not offer full editing capabilities yet.

5. Phixr Online Photo editor has a sleek Web 2.0 look n’ feel and offers more features than any other tool. The edited photos can be directly uploaded to flickr, fotopic, livejournal, photobucket, fotolog.com, buzznet and dropshots without downloading them to your hard-drive. Phixr lets you edit multiple pictures and stay online for about 3 hours.

Features Which Make RockMelt Different From Other Browsers

Akshay — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 11:57:03 +0000

RockMelt is the latest thing about which each and everyone of us is talking about. These day it is quite common to see people writing on their facebook walls about Rockmelt, Some people update their status on Facebook as ” WOW , amazing browser” , some say “I have some invites left for Rockmelt is any one interested”. So what exactly is Rockmelt ? Rockmelt is the latest sensation in the world of web browsers. Nearly every one of you already know what RockMelt is and what does it do. Some of its salient features are :

Real time updates – Now you can get updates about your favorite sport or news directly into your browser.

Web applications – You can now run web applications directly from your RockMelt Browser.

Direct access to social media, Facebook, twitter, email etc.

So what does Direct access to social media means ? How can u get updates and what else these features means ? So lets look on these features one by one :

App Edge : You can manage all your web applications from the app edge provided on the right side of the web browser. Bet part is the browser has been developed on Google chrome base so it supports all the extensions made for Google chrome so you can install Chrome extensions easily and other web apps and manage them via app edge.

App Edge

Friend Edge : This edge is present on the left side of the Browser and shows all your friends which are currently online. You can adjust the settings to show your favorite friends instead of all friends. You just have to pick your favorite friends and then change option to show favorite friends.

Friends Edge

Javascript Console : The Browser has an in-built Javascript console.

Javascript Console

Besides these features RockMelt also has an inbuilt feature for developers called developers tools, which can be used by the developers for carrying out their work. You can also directly update your status on Facebook via RockMelt.

Are you a RockMeIt browser user? Do share your opinion about RockMeIt?

From Where Programming Originated?

Sarv007 — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 16:10:46 +0000

A woman was the first programmer?!?! Really? check this info-graphic.

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