Google Glass: What you need to know.

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What is Google Glass?

Google glass is a wearable technology with an optical head-mounted display (OHMD). That revolutionary smart eyewear looks like its buzzing many people around until they experience the awfully nice sensation of wearing it.

It displays information just like conventional Smartphone does but in a hands-free holographic format via a small prism found on the frame. Unlike casual Smartphone information is input through voice commands instead of the traditional input methods (Touch screen or keys).

How does Google Glass work?

Google Glass interface uses voice commands as well as an integrated button which facilitates the execution of certain commands. The message “Ok glass” is the most common one you see, it activates as you tilt your head up or tap the side.

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Components inside google Glass

The device runs on Android 4.4.2, has an OMAP 4430 SoC, dual-core CPU with 1GB of RAM and a total storage capacity of 16GB out of which only 12GB are usable.

Google glass also comes fitted with an accelerometer, a gyroscope, a magnetometer, an ambient light sensor, and a proximity sensor.

Google offers a companion Android and iOS app called MyGlass, which allows the user to configure and manage the device.

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Visual programming languages for desktop and mobile

Since the late fifties, digital computers, even when they weighed several tons and filled entire climate-controlled rooms, have always received their instructions in text form. These instructions differ from spoken languages by their restricted syntax, since the machines that they are meant for must first convert them into simplified mathematical operations. Of course, with progress we have gone from machine language programming in octal or hexadecimal notation to assembler and to modern languages like COBOL, FORTRAN, C, BASIC or JavaScript which allow programmers to concentrate on finishing their projects faster instead of focusing on the intricacies of the machines themselves.

With the spread of multimedia, windowing systems and the invention of the mouse near the late seventies, some researchers wondered if it wouldn’t be more efficient if computers could be programmed by drawing easily understood diagrams instead of writing pages upon pages of text for these machines. Even though this method of programming hasn’t really been democratized yet, there are now several software programs that have been created to allow for a truly visual way of programming computers.

Apple Automator:

The most widespread visual programming software is Automator, which is distributed for free inside every Macintosh computer from Apple Corporation. With it, people can create workflows to automate simple tasks such as the resizing of photos in a folder, the automatic connection to servers and the download of files that might be there or the automatic reformatting of documents. However the extreme simplification of this software rarely enables the creation of more complex programs. To program games or more serious calculation software, other programs are needed.

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Automator

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How to create the best website ever?

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“Don’t worry about creating the perfect website. Just work on making it better. If we’re constantly evolving with the changing technology we’re going in the right direction.”

This idea has guided our team over the years and has encouraged us to always look for new adaptive approaches to web design.

Who knows? Maybe someday someone might build the “perfect website”. In the meantime, we will focus on progress, consistently striving for perfection, as we continue to make small but significant improvements along the way.

Now, coming to your website creation, here are some fundamental questions you should be asking yourself before getting started:

  • Why are you creating this website?
  • What audience (s) are you trying to reach?
  • What do you hope to achieve with this website?
  • What action do you want the audience to take as a result of visiting?

Designing the website can be deceptively difficult, as it involves achieving a design that is both usable and pleasing, conveys information and enhances brand equity, is technically sound and visually coherent. Let us consider some of the basic principles that will help you achieve web greatness.

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10 Top Social Media Sites

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10 Top Social Media Sites

Here is fresh top 10 social networking sites’ market share data in US. It has some interesting changes.

Moving up

Youtube has jumped to its highest level ever. Seems that people are watching more and more clips and that brings the video site to 24.15 percent market share of visits. LinkedIn is another site that has reached its highest market share of visits. I

t has grown from low 0.63% in December 2012 to a record high 0.89 percent last month. LinkedIn moved to 6th position in the top 10 overtaking Google+. April and May are the active business months that may help the business social network to grow its market share even more.

Tumblr is also at its highest market share of visits, reaching 0.42 percent in March 2013.

Moving down

Facebook has fallen to its lowest market share of visits in almost 3 years. Facebook continues to be the dominant social networking site but the loss of 3% of market share means 100 million visits.

Twitter is down, too. It has fallen to 1.72 percent of market share of visits. This is the lowest number in 12 months and the trend-line seems to point down.

Pinterest is slightly down. It has moved from 1.17% in February to 1.14% in March. Although a down this level seems to be stable for the pinning site. It is hard to say what’s behind the declining numbers if the leading social networking sites.

My guess is that one factor that brins down the numbers is the fact that usage through mobile apps is not tracked. The other factor may be that the market is saturated and people are less active when using these sites. This does not mean that they stop using social networking sites but there’s less “excitement” that translates to less frequent usage.

Instagram is back in top 10. Yahoo Answers continues to inch up. Google+ is moving sideways.

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