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While alternative mobile applications connect only one or to two dots in the mobile world, such as push email or mobile instant messaging, Morange technology is to connect simply everything.
Morange empowers the user to access any information, communicate with anyone and have control on everything from mobile phone. We see the limitation in the current WAP/Browser architecture or isolated program running on each different program device. Instead, we choose to innovate based on the thin-client computing architecture as foundation. We build an open and extendable platform, elegant user interface that works across all different platforms and networks: may it be Windows Mobile, Symbian, J2ME, or Linux. Imagine that Morange is able to offer users the widest choice of applications: Professionals may require Push Mail; yet young generation may prefer instant messaging with their buddies.
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Location Masti
Mobiance announces "Location Masti" - inviting all hackers for a month long celebration of innovation, creativity and technology.
Location Masti is an opportunity for hackers to use Mobiance's pioneering mobile location technology with other sources of data/ APIs and build innovative applications
What
Location Masti is a location hack event to build innovative mashups based on Location based services using Mobiance's location technology. The event organized by Mobiance is aimed at exploring the countless avenues to build useful and relevant location aware applications by hackers in a spirit of innovation, creativity and masti.
Mobiance will be inviting hackers to take part in this 30 day event building innovative location enabled applications in the fields of social networking, navigation, local search and a whole lot more. In addition to Mobiance's unique technology to determine the location of mobile phones, hackers can aggregate multiple sources of data, make use of various available APIs and tools to deliver their next "killer" application!
Registrations would be open on the 1st of December, 2007. The event will stretch for a period of 30 days from 15th January, 2008 where the developers will be able to use Mobiance's location feeds and build applications that are useful and relevant to individuals by using their location.
When
Announcement of Location Masti: 26th November, 2007
Registrations: 1st December, 2007 to 31st December, 2007
Event run dates: 15th January, 2008 to 15th February, 2008
Final demo and submission: 15th February, 2008
Announcement of results: 1st March, 2008
Live pilots with winning applications: Second quarter 2008
How
Hackers at Location Masti will have simulated location feeds of 20 people available through a web service that they can use in building their applications. The web service will allow requests for both real time location and the archived location of the person at every quarter of an hour for the past day for use by the applications.
If the participants would like to have live location of privacy approved phones instead of simulated feeds, Location Masti allows that too. Just a form to be submitted online and the location feed will be available.
Details of Mobiance's Location feed APIs and web services will be made available to registered hackers at the time of registration.
Participation
Location Masti is open to all people above 15 years of age and who are accepted by Mobiance as "hackers". Hackers can participate
Number of entries
Hackers or teams can submit any number of hacks but will need to specify their hacks at the time of registration.
Accessing Mobiance location Feed
Hackers will be provided a unique access code for each application at the time of registration. This code will be needed to access Mobiance's APIs and/or web services by the applications. Hackers will be required to maintain the privacy of this access code.
Submission of entries
The hackers can make their application available through a URL for demo purposes subject to presentation rules. For submission of entries, the code will have to be uploaded with documentation and instructions through a mechanism communicated to the hackers by Mobiance.
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Hawth's Analysis Tools for ArcGIS
Hawth's Tools is a FREE extension for ArcGIS (ArcMap) that performs a number of spatial analyses and functions that cannot be conveniently accomplished with out-of-the-box ArcGIS. Most of the tools are written with ecological analyses in mind, though many will be useful to any GIS user. Visit the Hawths Tools page for further information, or to download the extension. This is one of the modules of the Hawths tool, which is very helpful and not readily available in ArcGIS. for more details on HAWTHS tool visit http://www.spatialecology.com/htools/tooldesc.php
Everyone can be a relative term, however... It implies availability of an Internet connection. This is not always the case; for one, many people would love to have Wikipedia on their laptop, since this would allow them to instantly check for things they want regardless of their location (business trips, hotels, etc). Others simply don't have an Internet connection - or they don't want to dial up one every time they need to check something.
With GeoServer you can publish and edit data using open standards. Your information is made available in a large variety of formats as maps/images or actual geospatial data. GeoServer's transactional capabilities offer robust support for shared editing. GeoServer's focus is ease of use and support for standards, in order to serve as 'glue' for the geospatial web, connecting from legacy databases to many diverse clients.
GeoServer supports WFS-T and WMS open protocols from the OGC
to produce JPEG, PNG, SVG, KML/KMZ, GML, PDF, Shapefiles and more. More information on specific features of GeoServer can be found here, and some samples of GeoServer in action are in the gallery.
GeoServer is built on Geotools , the same Java toolkit that udig uses. GeoServer is a truly open community, with a well documented and modular codebase, so don't hesitate to get involved.
XTools Pro - extension for ArcGIS
XTools Pro is one of the most popular and full-featured extensions for ArcGIS Desktop.
 | Originally developed as a set of useful vector spatial analysis, shape conversion and table management tools for ArcView GIS 3.x. XTools extension was then converted by Data East to ESRI ArcGIS environment and now is re-designed, enhanced and extended as XTools Pro to get to the newer level of functionality and performance. |
Latest version – XTools Pro 5.0
XTools Pro 5.0 release is a major upgrade introducing following new and updated tools and features for ArcGIS users:
| - new tools for viewing current ArcGIS map locations in Google Earth, Google Maps and Microsoft Live Search Maps |
| - a new feature for auto saving backup copies of .mxd map documents |
| - a new tool allowing fixing broken links to data sources in the map documents |
| - a new tool for flexible identifying features and creating advanced feature |
| - a new tool for importing data from KML/KMZ files |
ArcGIS File Geodatabase Support
| - Create file geodatabase tool - Create file geodatabase geoprocessing function in XTools Pro toolbox - File geodatabase support as output data format |
| - a new feature that will notify users about newer XTools Pro versions |
Catalog Tab and Catalog Dockable Window
| - "Add to current display" context menu item added - preview window in the Catalog tab of the TOC can be hidden if not required - datasets deletion now requires user confirmation |
| - layers with classified symbology now can be exported to KML files |
Other changes
| - Smooth Polylines and Convex Hull are now free tools - XTools Pro 5.0 provides new 30-days trial period - Minor bug fixes and enhancementss |
| - XTools Pro 5.x version is compatible with ArcGIS 8.x/9.x |
Google Analytics shows you how people found your site, how they explored it, and how you can enhance their visitor experience. Improve your website return on investment, increase conversions, and make more money on the web.
With over 80 reports, your free Google Analytics account will track visitors through your site, and will keep track of the performance of your marketing campaigns - whether they're AdWords campaigns, email campaigns, or any other advertising program. With this information, you'll know which keywords are really working, which ad text is the most effective, and where your visitors are dropping off during the conversion process. Don't be fooled by the fact that this functionality is available to you for free - Google Analytics is a full-featured, powerful analytics package.
AdWords advertisers can find all of these benefits from within their AdWords account - Google Analytics has been fully integrated with AdWords. All of your reports and settings are available from the Analytics tab.
To get started with Google Analytics, simply visit www.google.com/analytics or click the Analytics tab in your AdWords account. You'll be guided through a simple sign-up process, which will require the addition of a code snippet. Once that's done, you'll start gathering data immediately, on track for improved ROI!
I am not aware of the rates of these pendrives that come in different storage sizes ranging from 256 MB to 2 GB or more.
Active Server Pages
Part of Microsoft's Server software that allows for the creation of dynamically generated web pages. The files commonly have the suffix .asp
Address
An address is a unique identifier assigned to a web page. The address is more commonly referred to as the URL (Uniformed Resource Locator).
Attachments
Multimedia files that are "attached" to an E-mail. These can be text, graphics, sound, video, spreadsheet, database, or even an entire application. Great to send, but it is not always great to have to download a 100Mb photo of your best friend's cat.
Bandwidth
In simplistic terms, bandwidth is the amount of information travelling through a single channel at any one moment in time. On web servers, there is usually a limited amount of bandwidth that any one particular web site can use. So if you get more "hits" on your site continually over a period of time, your ISP will probably ask you to pay for a higher bandwidth allowance.
Body
In E-mail terms, the part of the message containing the most textual content, sandwiched between the Header and the Signature.
Browser
Also called a 'Web Browser'. A browser allows the user to search the World Wide Web and other Internet facilities using a Graphical User Interface (GUI). Examples of the most common browsers are Internet Explorer, Opera and Netscape.
CGI
Common Gateway Interface - an interface-creation scripting program that allows you to make WWW pages on the fly based on information from fill-in forms, checkboxes, text input etc.
Cookie
A Cookie is a piece of software which records information about you. It holds this information until such time that the server requests it. For example, if you are browsing around a virtual shop, each time you place an item in your basket the information is stored by the cookie until you decide to buy and the server requests the purchase information.
CSS
Cascading Style Sheets - an addition to HTML for controlling the presentation of web pages including colour, alignment of text, typography, etc. Different browsers have varying levels of support for CSS and none of them conform exactly to the latest W3C specifications.
Cybercafe
A cafe or bar allowing customers to explore the World Wide Web whilst having a drink or snack, usually charged per half-hour of usage. They are now so ubiquitous that virtually every town in the UK has one.
Dialup
'Dialup Access' or a 'Dialup Account' is when a modem is used to gain access to the Internet.
Domain Name
Unique address identifying each site on the Internet. The actual address consists of a series of numbers. But, fortunately for our memories, these addresses are in the form of www.anydomainname.co.uk.
Domain Name Server
Computers connected to the Internet whose job it is to keep track of the IP Addresses and Domain Names of other machines. When called upon, they take the ASCII Domain Name and convert it to the relevant numeric IP Address.
Domain Name System
Allows users to relate to computers on the Internet by using textual addresses (e.g. www.ziskadesigns.co.uk) for ease of use, rather than the IP Address system.
DOS
Disk Operating System - the original, simple operating system developed by Microsoft.
Download
When you transfer information off a remote machine connected to the Internet onto your local machine, you are downloading data.
Emoticon
A common symbol used to denote a particular emotion in an e-mail. A happy face would be :-) A sad face would be :-( (you may need to look at them sideways!). Also known as smileys".
Firewall
Secures a company or organisation's internal network from unauthorised external access (most commonly in the form of Internet hackers).
Forms
Certain Browsers support electronic fill-in forms. A form on a Web Page can be filled in by users all over the world, and the information sent electronically to the relevant domain site.
Freeware
Software that is allowed to be distributed free by the author, but often with certain conditions applying (i.e. the software cannot be modified etc). May require the user to register their details on a web site.
FTP
File Transfer Protocol - a protocol for moving files over the internet from one computer to another. FTP programmes are used to upload web pages to a web server.
GIF
Graphics Interchange Format - developed by Compuserve. GIF is a platform-independent file format, used extensively throughout the Internet for graphic files. The other main file format for graphics on the web is JPEG.
Gigabyte (GB)
A thousand Megabytes.
Home Page
On a web site this is usually the main page from which hyperlinks are made to other pages on the site (or other sites). Home pages usually have the name "index.html".
HTML
HyperText Markup Language - the tagging language used to format Web pages. It allows pictures and text to be combined to create Web documents. The most important feature - hypertext - makes it possible for links to be made between different documents.
Hyperlink
On web pages, hyperlinks are highlighted text (usually underlined) or images which, when selected (usually by clicking the mouse button), follow a link to another page. Hyperlinks can also be used to automatically download other files as well as sounds and video clips.
ISP
Internet Service Provider - a Company or Organisation, such as Freeserve or Demon, who provide businesses and home users access to the Internet.
Image Map
An image with clickable "hot spots" that work as links. This allows several hyperlinks from a single image file. For example, the image could be of a house, split into different areas, each of which could be clickable and linked to a larger view of that specific area.
JPEG
Joint Photographic Experts Group - a standard of image compression developed especially for use on the Internet. Most photographic images can be highly compressed using this method, without greatly diminishing image quality. JPEGs are normally used for displaying photographs on a web page.
Keywords
Keywords are words placed in the Meta Tags that are hidden in the section of a web page. They help a search engine to index and find particular web pages.
Kilobyte
1024 bytes, usually rounded down to a thousand bytes for simplicity.
LAN
A Local Area Network is a group of computers connected together to form a network.
Link
Links are the connections between web pages. Every time you click on highlighted text or an image to go to another page, you are following a link.
Lycos
A comprehensive and accurate search engine which you'll find at http://www.lycos.co.uk/
Modem
MODulator-DEModulator - allows the transmission of digital information over an analogue phone line. It is the piece of hardware that connects your computer to the internet.
Mosaic
Web browser developed by a group of people at NCSA. Provides a Graphical User Interface for accessing data on the World Wide Web.
MPEG
(Motion Picture Experts Group) A video compression format used for movie or animation clips on the World Wide Web.
Netiquette
Informal, largely undocumented set of rules designed to make the Web a polite and civilised 'society'. Sadly, netiquette seems to be losing its importance.
Netscape Communications
Creators of Netscape Navigator, one of the two most popular Web browsers in use. They did become a bit notorious after introducing several HTML "extensions" that were unsupported by other browsers. For example, the incredibly stupid and irritating
Offline
When your computer performs an operation when it is not connected to any other computers or the internet, it is working offline.
Online
Your computer is working online when it performs an operation and is connected to other computer or the internet.
Portable Network Format - a file format developed by Adobe Systems and used for capturing formatted page layouts for distribution. PDF documents, when viewed with the required Adobe Acrobat Reader, will appear exactly as they were intended.
Public domain
Usually refers to software that anybody can use or modify without authorisation of the author.
Actually, to be honest, we can't think of any technical word beginning with this letter - any suggestions greatly appreciated.
Router
Routers connect all the networks that make up the Internet together.
Search Engines
Used to find information on the web. With over one billion pages now in existence, finding relevant information is becoming harder and harder. Examples of search engines are Yahoo www.yahoo.com and Google www.google.com
Service Provider
The role of a Service Provider is to provide subscribers a gateway to the Internet. There are hundreds of Service Providers, two of the largest are Freeserve and Demon.
Shareware
Software distributed freely, but usually with certain conditions applying to it. Either the software is released on a trial basis only, and must be registered after a certain period of time, or in other cases no support can be offered with the software without registering it. In some cases direct payment to the author is required.
Snail mail
In the good old days before e-mail became so popular, there was another method that people used to get messages from one location to another. It went something like this - write the letter - buy a stamp - put stamp on letter - walk to the post box - post letter. Wait a day or two and hopefully it will have reached its intended destination.
Surfing
A popular metaphor used to describe a person exploring the World Wide Web.
Tags
The formatting codes used to create HTML documents.
Upload
Transfer of files off a local computer up to a specified remote computer (as opposed to download where files are pulled off a remote machine).
URL
A Uniform Resource Locater is basically the address of any resource on the Internet. You type the URL into your browser and you are whizzed off to the site.
Usenet
The huge system of discussion groups on the Net where comments are passed among many thousands of machines. The discussion areas on Usenet are called newsgroups.
Virus
A virus is a special type of program. Normally it has only two functions to replicate undetected and to create havoc.
W3C
The World Wide Web Consortium - a consortium of many companies and organisations that "exists to develop common standards for the evolution of the World Wide Web". It is run by a joint effort between the Laboratory for Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory, where the WWW was first developed.
Web server
A Web server delivers Web pages to your computer.
WWW
World Wide Web - also known as the Web. This is the generic name given to all of the hypertext-based HTML documents on the Internet. These documents have links to each other and are accessible from HTTP or Web servers. The WWW has been the "killer application" which has driven the Net's popularity.
XML
Extensible Markup Language - a formal markup metalanguage for the design of web pages.
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.zip
Files that have been compressed using the PKZIP program have a filename extension of ".zip". They are decompressed using the PKUNZIP utility. Popular zip programmes include WinZip.
Oracle Database 10g Express Edition (Oracle Database XE) is an entry-level, small-footprint database based on the Oracle Database 10g Release 2 code base that's free to develop, deploy, and distribute; fast to download; and simple to administer. Oracle Database XE is a great starter database for:
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