This is a practical guide on how to make a logo. This guide has been widely used by designers of a world famous logo and it proved effective to create the famous logos, functional, and able to win the attention of target consumers. Hopefully this brief guide can contribute and be a source of learning for those who dig the field of logo design.
Some important steps that must be considered in
AppCookr enables everyone to create and self-manage iPhone and Android smart phone applications for free. Get excited because the release of WP7 is expected at the end of this year.
Features
News View
- Deliver your latest news to customer
No RSS1.0, RSS2.0, or Atom? No problem. Most websites and blogs deliver news to their users using either RSS1.0, RSS2.0, or Atom. However, you don’t have to worry if you aren’t familiar with RSS1.0, RSS2.0, or Atom. You can still deliver news to your users via our AppBoard. AppBoard takes care of all that making managing your websites and blogs much easier.
Once you download RSS data, the data is stored in your phone’s memory. Not only does this save network usage allowance, but also allows you to read the news offline, anywhere, anytime!
- It provides features such as sharing contents using "Share on Twitter" and "Send in Email"
- Using "View in Brower", you can also refer back to the original website.
- If you want to save certain contents, you can add data to “favorites” and view it later in the "favorite view."
Photo View
- Go wild with your photo gallery
Photo View allows you to use any photo source based Media RSS like Flicker’s RSS. AppBoard’s photo source allows you to upload pictures anytime, anywhere!
Use features such as zoom-in &-out based multi-touch and picture sliding to enhance your photo viewing experience.
Twitter View
- Subscribe to your favorite news with twitter view.
With a Twitter ID, you can subscribe and receive the latest news from Twitter. You can navigate from Twitter to other web destinations directly from the Twitter view.
- Share tweets using “Send to Twitter.”
- Using the “Send to email” feature, you can forward any tweets.
Map View
- Mark your location on google map
Use pins to mark multiple locations. Based on the Google map, you can view the name, address, and description of your location.
Youtube View
- Get your videos out there
You can subscribe to any Youtube channel. Android and iPhone platforms provide a united player with Youtube.
HTML View
- Drive traffic to your website
You can drive traffic to your website and share information using the html view. If you link to AppBoard, you can control and manage information shown.
Contact View
- Offer quick and easy access for your users
It allows the viewer easy access to contact informating such as phone numbers, emails and Webpages. Thanks to group management feature, users can easily find contacts provided.
Media View
- Get your videos and audios out there.
Impress users with fresh audio and video contact by importing your podcast feed (Media RSS). Users can view detailed descriptions of each track and share links to your content via email and Twitter.
It provides file formats that Android and iPhone can support. The viewer automatically runs as video or audio viewer.
Setting View
- Offer optimized enviorment as users' preferences
The Setting View offers useful features such as Font Expansion, List Simplification and List Auto Update. Using the Favourite View, users can go back to their Favourite contents.
GuestBook
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Calendar
- It is going to be released soon!
Platforms
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Sample Apps
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- Football in UK
- Prospect
- UKMotorTalk
- HTB CHURCH
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Graphic design is one of the areas covered in the creative industries. It's called "creative" because graphic designers are required to find solutions and find the right ideas to solve problems. Then, what's creativity? What about the so-called creative people!? In this article, we will describe more about what is creativity, its properties, and how the process for creating creative ideas.
What
While Windows Phone 7 (WP7) sounds intriguing as a platform for iPhone-type applications, TechEd 2010 was very illuminating on the many things that this new platform does not include and why you will unlikely be able to migrate your existing Windows Mobile applications forward. Let me go through the laundry list of the have-nots:
- No native code support. Silverlight 3.0 and XNA are the only ways to develop applications for WP7. If you are not developing games, then Silverlight is probably the path you will be forced to take.
- No Database support. SQL Server Compact is not part of WP7. Nor will SQLite or any other 3rd party database engine run either. One TechEd session had the gall to suggest that we should all use collections of objects and Linq as a replacement for SQL Server Compact. Access to data is only available through Web Services and what the application can store in Silverlight’s Isolated Storage. No one would confirm or deny that database support would ever be added to WP7.
- No Side Loading Applications. Except for development mode, applications can only be loaded to WP7 devices through the Microsoft Marketplace. It doesn’t matter if the app if for internal use in your organization or not. Also, it is not free to use the Microsoft Marketplace.
- Application approval is required. Microsoft claims that it will not be a blackbox like Apple where you stick an app in and hope it comes out; however, they also said they there is a list of applications types that will not be allowed. VOIP was they only example provided.
- No access to data on SD cards. Since Silverlight applications can only use isolated storage, there is no way for an application to access information on an SD card. While some devices may support an SD card, the additional memory will apparently be made available for isolated storage, but you can’t preload the content.
- No File System support. Again only Isolated Storage is available to a Silverlight app.
- No RAPI support. There will no interacting with a WP7 device via the desktop. Obviously there will be some synchronization with Outlook, but nothing the developer will have control of.
- Applications must be Silverlight 3. Silverlight 4 will not be available for WP7.
- Out of Browser Silverlight support only. Silverlight is not going to be supported in browser on the phone.
- Default Browser must be Internet Explorer. While Microsoft claimed that other browsers will be allowed on the phone, they can’t be the default. This is probably okay as long as the new Internet Explorer is better than the Windows Mobile version; however, is it possible to write a viable browser in Silverlight or XNA?
- No Bluetooth API. While there is going to be Bluetooth support on the phone, there is no Bluetooth API.
- No inter-process communications (IPC) and no Socket support.
- No Video Capture Support. Phones will have a camera but not video capture support, and also no video brush.
- No Outside TrueType Fonts - Microsoft experts claimed that you will not be able to use TrueType fonts other than the ones delivered with the device. This limitation makes since, how would you get them on the device. While there is supposed to be support for embedding TrueType fonts in your xap file in Silverlight 4, this will not be the version used on the device.
- The TechEd demos of WP7 applications had a common theme; they crashed, hung up, or gave peculiar error messages. For a platform that is going to be delivered in the October timeframe (3 months away), it is hard to have much short-term faith in the new platform.
On the positive side, the list is not quite as long:
- The Silverlight apps running on the phones looked good even if they were only Silverlight 3.
- Lots of different soft input panels (SIPs) provided like numeric, URL, email, etc.
- Built-in support and APIs for multi-touch, accelerometers, vibrator, microphone, and camera.
- Phones are not going to be feature locked like Windows Mobiles. They should be upgradable like the iPhone.
- Applications on the phones do not have the strange isolated storage limits that desktop Silverlight applications have.
Microsoft continually offered up that they were so rushed to get this phone to market that they had to leave a lot of things out. Since the phones are not feature locked (so they claim), maybe there will be a quick release cycle of new versions to fill in the missing components. If you are not planning on developing iPhone type applications (casual games or casual apps usually requiring a connection to a backend), you may be stuck waiting for a new release will new features (or jumping ship to Android or the iPhone). The WP7 platform as it is depicted today will not be able to support the sophisticated applications that are currently running on Windows Mobile, so it cannot be thought of as a successor to the Window Mobile platform. There are many new and great things you can do on WP7, but this constitutes a different kind of platform (one to compete with the iPhone). Will it grow to be a successor to Windows Mobile? How long will this take? What if it flops against the iPhone and never takes hold? Too many questions around the platform to invest a significant amount of development into it if you are not focused on creating iPhone type apps.
Most blog authors used to use the blog as a place to vent, now its function has changed, stout people use it as a publication medium for the general public (Citizen Journalism). In this post we will discuss some visual elements that have created a blog to an optimal design.
The synergy of designs and contents
The essence of the blog exists on the content itself, but like on our previous
Every day and everywhere we go either to the mall, museums, office buildings, hospitals, colleges, schools, or the airport - we always meet and look at the signposts, information boards, banners and others. These graphical elements had turned out not only as a mere decoration placed to complete a building or place. These graphical elements have discipline knowledge, it's named: Environmental
Sometimes graphic designers get stuck about what to write in their personal blogs, it may happen because they are usually familiar with their visual work. Though media publications such as blog will be very effective for online marketing purposes at this time.
If the problem is just about the need to spare time to write it certainly can be planned in advance, Just usually when leisure time has
Believe it or not, becoming a graphic designer requires us to master many things. Therefore, many say a graphic designer is someone who is multi-talented. And I think it should be considered after seeing what they can do.
Ok, here it is, a graphic designer is:
Creative Artists
It is definitely a designer is an artist as well. 'Artist' meant not only as an expressive artist, but also
Interesting quotations always be an inspiration to the designers to understand more about graphic design. It is also a motivator who encourages designers to continue to learn digging ability. The following are inspirational quotations about graphic design made by great people about what they understand about graphic design and creativity. I hope these quotations will inspire you.Enjoy!
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If so, a design similar to the art, the difference lies in the word 'applied'. To qualify as an 'applied', the design must be oriented to the funtion of art that applies to the public, not just a useful art as an expression of its maker. Designs must adhere to objectivity, free from the influence of subjectivity. The design is based on engineering issues rather than on the desires and needs of
Windows Phone 7 Means Business
Microsoft’s annual TechEd Conference started today and we’re taking this opportunity to share more about what Windows Phone 7 means to business through keynotes, sessions and product demonstrations. I thought I’d take a few minutes to share an overview of what attendees are hearing.
Many of us interact with digital content on several screens throughout the day and have growing expectations for the range of capabilities and quality of experiences available to us wherever we go. In business, people increasingly expect more than a palm-size workstation from their phones. At Microsoft, we recognized that in order to meet customer needs and significantly improve the mobile experience for end users we had to redefine the role our software and services play in delivering rich experiences that are uniquely mobile. By adding Windows Phone 7 to our portfolio, Microsoft is well positioned to address the needs of customers with active personal and business lives who desire a single device that delivers rich end-to-end experiences and navigates seamlessly between work and play. Demand for Smartphones that play as hard as they work is fueling the continued growth for new devices, with IDC projecting 31% growth in Smartphone units in 2010 and another 22% in 2011.
More than 90% of our target customers for Windows Phone use their Smartphone for business purposes and 61% use their phones equally or more for business than personal use. This is why we designed Windows Phone 7 to combine a smart new user interface with familiar tools such as PowerPoint, OneNote, Word, Excel and SharePoint into a single integrated experience via the Office hub. Integrating these business capabilities along with rich email, calendar and contacts into a mobile platform that supports compelling business applications enables increased productivity. Windows Phone 7 is designed to excel at the business scenarios most commonly used. This means Windows Phone 7 will appeal to a larger number of people working in businesses of all sizes, creating a more versatile and accessible productivity tool as well as a larger market opportunity for application developers and system integrators.
What hasn’t changed is our ability to deliver a great user experience while reducing complexity by enabling business organizations to utilize their existing IT investments like Exchange and Exchange ActiveSync to support Windows Phone access to enterprise assets such as corporate email. Exchange remains an industry standard with an annual growth rate of 11% and an expected install base of 347 million mailboxes by 2013 (Microsoft Exchange Server and Outlook Market Analysis, 2009 – 2013, The Radicati Group, March 2009). With Windows Phone 7, rather than attempting to replicate the experience of the desktop, we focused on delivering end-user experiences that are uniquely optimized for the phone through tighter integration with Exchange and Office, the addition of SharePoint and our Silverlight development platform for delivering new user experiences.
We’ve designed an Office hub that is both engaging and familiar to the more than 500 million people worldwide who already use Microsoft Office, while introducing a new level of integration with SharePoint, which grew by more than 20% last year alone. We’re looking at people and productivity in a new and different way from anything in the market today, as evidenced by our focus on smart design and integrated experiences. We’re delivering a fresh take on the business functions that people care about most; email, calendar, collaboration and keeping up with colleagues and contacts.
The vast majority of individuals make their own personal decision regarding which Smartphone to purchase. Given this, we often hear from IT professionals that their most important considerations for Smartphones are that they are phones people want and that they meet the organization’s IT needs– enabling them to increase usage and productivity. Organizations are interested in investments they have already made (e.g. Exchange, SharePoint, Office). Windows Phone 7 enables the IT support most organizations need without the need for additional infrastructure.
Specifically, Windows Phone 7:
- Is built from the ground up using industry best practices in secure software development (Secure Development Lifecycle).
- Deeply Integrates email, calendar and contacts with Exchange Server enabling rich, seamless email and calendar management to enhance productivity.
- Integrates with SharePoint through the SharePoint Workspace client, enabling enhanced collaboration through offline document access and syncing.
- Helps protect corporate information by securing the device through PINs and passwords. Information is further protected by not allowing access to data via PC tethering or support for removable SD cards. In addition, Windows Phone 7 supports IT managed EAS policies such as Require Password, Password Strength, Remote Wipe and Reset to Factory Settings with multiple failed unlock attempts.
- Helps ensure data reliability and integrity through application sandboxing and managed code. Windows Phone 7 ensures communications channels between applications cannot be opened and critical system resources cannot be accessed. Most malware threats are introduced through the browser. IE Mobile helps ensure that malicious code cannot be launched from web sites, thus reducing this threat.
- Provides certification and verification of applications and content through Windows Phone Marketplace, further enhancing security.
- Enables secure data transmission through 128 or 256 Bit SSL Encryption.
- Supports secure access to on-premise applications and network resources using Forefront Universal Access Gateway (UAG).
- Is future ready with cloud / services integration. Through the Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS), Microsoft offers hosted Exchange and SharePoint services. Windows Phone 7 will support mobile access to BPOS from Outlook Mobile and the Office Hub.
Windows Phone 7 is a new platform that we will continue to improve and evolve. We needed to restart in order to build the right foundation for the future. We are delivering a great business phone that improves productivity by taking a fresh approach to the most common Smartphone business usage scenarios such as email, calendar, contacts and collaboration. At the same time, with support for Silverlight, XNA and the full suite of development and design tools from Visual Studio 2010 to Expressions, Windows Phone 7 provides a rich, efficient and familiar development platform that also meets the IT needs of many organizations with support for the most common EAS policies for management.
We understand that migrating from Windows Mobile 6.1 or 6.5 to Windows Phone 7 will take effort. However, many customers we have spoken with thus far have told us that these are steps they are willing to take in order to achieve a new level of usability and productivity.
Windows Phone 7 is the newest addition to the Windows Phone portfolio that includes Windows Mobile 6.5, more specialized CE based devices for ruggedized or task-worker scenarios, and the new KIN phones targeted at social communicators. We understand that while Windows Phone 7 will bring a new level of business productivity to a broader range of customers than we’ve ever reached before, for more highly managed corporate scenarios or where customers have made significant investments in applications on Windows Mobile 6.X, Windows Mobile 6.5 may remain the best choice in the near-term. We’ll continue gathering feedback from customers and steadily evolve the new Windows Phone 7 platform to enable additional scenarios and capabilities for all customers. Business customers can prepare for Windows Phone 7 by reviewing the Business IT Resources at Windowsphone.com/business.
P. S
See Brandon Watson’s post on the Windows Phone 7 Developer blog for an update on Windows Phone Marketplace.
Source: windowstreamingblog.com
Typography is the most unique design elements, it's not just reading text, but also can produce beautiful works. Text Art is an example.
Text Art is a technique in the world of graphic design in order to form an artistic object that composed of series of letters and words. Well, for more details, here are some collection of Text Art creations.
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