Showing posts with label application. Show all posts
Showing posts with label application. Show all posts

Thursday, 8 November 2012

Top 10 iPhone Apps for Tracking Public Transportation Schedules



iPhone Transit Apps
Now selecting a public transportation service to your native city through mass transit has become very easy. It’s quite difficult to make a correct schedule in large cities. Fortunately, professional developers of mass transit schedule applications available at different apps stores can save your time.

HopStop is a free application that not only offers detailed information and exact schedule for buses and shuttle service in the hundreds of cities in United States, Canada and Europe, but also provides the official maps, locations and transit stops. The offline mapping gives you the opportunity to browse through the stuff even you are not in the range of internet connection.

This application is developed by the University of Washington. If you are in the Seattle area, it will provide you the details of real-time arrivals of mass transit in the area. You can find the bus stops address, bus and route numbers and with the help of global positioning, you can find your nearby stops.

This App is available in various cities of United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand at 4.49 US dollars. It tracks buses, shuttle service and subways and manages your route plans and information regarding your transportation. It ensures that you never miss your journey again.

It is also free application that covers more than five-hundred thousand stops of different cities. It provides the detailed schedule of transit arrival with route maps and ensures offline browsing.

Selected in Time magazine’s “Top 50 iPhone Apps” for 2012. It provides the transit alert, schedule and information about many areas of North America.

Available at $2.99, Nextime manages your transit schedule, tracks your bus and sends alerts with automatically calculated walking distance from current location to your selected bus stop.

It is also available at $2.99, provides offline transit locations, managing trips and scheduling capabilities up to two weeks in advance and tracks the train you’re currently riding to determine if it’s on time.

It is the best mass transit application in the world and available free of cost. You can schedule and find your bus and stops.

It provides scheduled departure times of all lines near your current location and also the local business locations through landmark. You can navigate the city when you get off your bus.

The free version of the transit application covers almost twenty cities and provides information and schedule for three transit routes of your area.

Rather than stressful driving to your office and to avoid car accidents due to the use of your phone while driving, it is safe to choose public transit and enjoy your cells safely.

Wednesday, 7 November 2012

Smart Phones Applications for an Easy Life



Smart Phones Applications
Mobile application development has become the immense growing business because a large number of smart phones are being sold every day. Thousands of programs for Androids and iPhones are developed along with blackberry apps; the smart phones are easy to use and provide customized settings and features.
The development companies have the applications (Speech Recognition Software, Location-Based Technology, Facebook, Twitter, Ditto, etc.) that allow the users to create their own programs and socialize them. These templates are for different video games, photographs, quizzes or gifts. The companies charge nominal price for the templates or take royalty of the profits made by the programs. This is the simple way that enhances the revenue of the specialized companies. Now a day, people browse through the internet to find the most suitable smartphone or to compare the prices. After selecting the price they buy online from popular shopping sites or visit the stores of their area.

Different phone software application can tap into GPS in the device to find out the exact location of the cell phone.  And people can download a special program that helps their friends to know about their location. They can disconnect the application if they are worried about their privacy.

Parents can use GPS system to track their children and set some limits on the apps and if their children cross that limit it alerts the parents. This way, companies charge extra and make more revenue.
Smarts phones have become more stylish with huge storage capacity and other features. People can download applications to enhance the storage space. These phones have great computing power and getting faster with every new model.
Game Applications for Smartphones
Mostly, the number of programs is being designed for the teenagers. Many youngsters like the programs and play games (Angry Birds, Uno, Fruit Ninja and X Construction) with each other. They share their scores and wins with their friends. They enjoy the social media activities and keep in touch with their friends with smart phones. They treat their devices as tiny computers.

Mobile application development has become an open market. Any computer professional with necessary techniques can develop and sell his programs. Everyone can participate in this market because it is a self-governing economic environment.

Thursday, 31 May 2012

Life before & after Computers!!

Today, let's just see how our dictionary & visual imagination have evolved with the emergence of technology & computers.
Just a few terminologies with their old meanings before computers & new meanings after computers...

Memory
old: ability of your mind to remember, store, recall anything of the past
new: ability of your computer to store data
Application
old: a written piece of paper to an authority, asking permission for something
new: a software running on your computer
Program
old: a show telecasted over TV or radio
new: coded instructions of your computer
Keyboard
old: a musical instrument - piano
new: input device of your computer
Mouse
old: a cute little furry mammal (animal, in simpler words)
new: a handheld device to move the cursor across your computer screen
Monitor
old: a class representative OR watching or observing someone or something
new: the screen attached to your computer
Web
old: a spider's home
new: interconnected network of internet sites
Virus
old: a type of flu
new: a harmful piece of code that forcefully enters your computer & replicates itself, thus corrupting your data
Log
old: a piece of wood
new: systematic recordings of your computer events
 
Cut
old: a wound made from something sharp OR making slices of something using a cutter or knife
new: delete part of a text or any other thing, usually to move it elsewhere (in your computers, of course)
Paste
old: using glue to stick something OR a squishy mixture
new: moving a text or any thing by cutting it from one place to other (in your computers again)
Copy
old: a notebook
new: similar text or something at various places (yet in your computers)
Key
old: a small piece of metal to unlock a lock
new: an alphabet over your computer keyboard
Zip
old: fastener attached to your bags or clothes etc.
new: a compressed file
Window
old: a square (or rectangle) made in the wall of a house to look outside
new: an operating system
RAM
old: kind of a goat
new: computer memory
Enter
old: pass through a door
new: a key on your keyboard to submit or move to next line
Shift
old: move a little from your current position
new: a key on your keyboard
Backup
old: moving back
new: extra copy of your data
Crone
old: an evil old woman
new: a daily or weekly or monthly job to run a specific task on your computer
Home
old: a place where you live with your family
new: landing page of your computer or website
Flag
old: a piece of cloth
new: temporary variables used to switch on/off a specific part of code
Class
old: a group of students who are taught together
new: a collection of things sharing some attributes
Register
old: to book up for something
new: part of a computer processor


So, these are some things i could thing of. There are loads of other examples like the ones i've mentioned above. So, what do you think, is the change for good or bad?? Can you think of any more examples like this??