A Professional Logo : The Ultimate Guide


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
- It is going to be released soon!

Calendar
- It is going to be released soon!




Platforms
iPhone Platform
They provide two app grades: Personal (FREE) and Premium (£699 inc.VAT)

Android Platform
They provide two app grades: Personal (FREE) and Premium (£299 inc.VAT )

Customizing Service
Looking for something more than what’s offered in AppCookr?
Their developers and designers can build almost anything to your specifications. 
Contact:  customize@appcookr.co.uk

Sample Apps
Here you can see many apps that created with AppCookr! (You will need Microsoft Silverlight to try them out!)
- Football in UK
- Prospect
- UKMotorTalk
- HTB CHURCH 

Below are some Screenshots: 



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So What Is Creativity?


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.

Blog Structure, Design & Usability


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

Environmental Graphic Design


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

7 Blog Post Ideas for Graphic Designers


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
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