Monday, December 19, 2011

Pimp My Cube Contest

This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Contest Factory for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine.
Pimp My Cube Contest by Contest Factory is in search intended for the most horrible, most wretched as well as muddled cubicle or else office that might have awful furniture, untidy, unorganized, filthy, and some further features that put together it an appalling room to work. . .

They would like people to upload a video viewing their workspace cubicle whilst they put in plain words the particulars on the subject of why it is hideous as well as why it is consequently significant that Contest Factory dock and Pimp their office cubicle.

At once your video is ready; you may request your friends, relatives as well as your colleagues to cast their vote intended for your video. You obtain entry points meant for registering, voting, commenting as well as requesting others to register for the contest.

The ostentatious reward of your cube being ‘pimped’ will be chosen by the judges anchored in a variety of criterion counting for the majority votes, really most horrible video as well as most convincing story.

A second prize of USD $200 gift card will be honored to the registered user selected through random draw on the conclusion of the contest time. Just persuade the person who reads to stopover the PMC site, register as well as upload videos to go into in the contest. Formerly while your video being approved just persuade your friends and family cast their vote on the video to improve the winning chances.  Last but not the least, Don't forget contest period is from 12/5/11 at 12:00 PM to 1/31/12 at 12:00 PM.

Sunday, December 18, 2011

ITunes Match: what is it and how does it work?


iTunes Match is running and you will not have had the good surprise to see it happen in France. As announced by Apple this summer, the United States are served first. It is always the case when the labels are part of the ... things come to those who wait. In the meantime, here's a summary of what the Americans have discovered that night.
 
What is iTunes Match?

iTunes Match is one of the pillars of icloud, the new service offering in the cloud of Apple. It complements "iTunes in the Cloud." Little reminder with iTunes in the Cloud can redownload at will on their Mac or PC (provided they have iTunes), the iPad, the iPhone and iPod touch (or streaming on the Apple TV) the songs has been purchased over time from the iTunes Music Store.

ITunes Match: How to "clean up" the MP3


One of the interesting aspects of iTunes Match is its ability to restore luster to the music tracks that were encoded in low quality. It is this faculty that has earned this new service from Apple the qualifier of "washing" or "washerwoman." An "old" MP3 may indeed be turning into an AAC brand new and much better sound quality. All in a jiffy and with the blessing of joint Apple and labels. However, under certain conditions a blessing, magic has its limits. Explanations ...

Saturday, December 17, 2011

The Apple TV and magazine jailbreaks


Like Apple's mobile devices, it is possible to jailbreak the latest Apple TV (version 2 black, € 119). This manipulation is permitted through the firmware of this unit, similar to that of iOS. Unlike the first generation that was close to OS X then "hack" and not "jailbreak". The purpose of jailbreaking is to fully exploit the impressive capabilities of the device with software a bit more practical than those offered as standard by Apple.

To jailbreak your Apple TV there is no need for technical prerequisites. However you must obtain a micro USB cable that is not provided by Apple.

Flash: why do you still need

After the defection of Flash on mobile platforms, supporters of HTML5 have in sight the battlefield following: computers. But things are far from a foregone conclusion, because Flash keeps some benefits that HTML5 can still claim.

Ubiquity Runtime

If Flash was given as a rapid adoption of browsers and web sites is that it offered a solution to a real headache for web developers: it offered a runtime unique and universal to all browsers, while the HTML often requires adaptation to each browser. This is the famous "write once, run anywhere" (write once, run anywhere) was once the promise of Java, fully completed by Flash, at least until the advent of mobile platforms.