Introducing UMLet: excellent free UML tool

Just as the saying stands: "Reduce everything to its essence so that form harmonizes with function", graphical diagramming notations have considerably helped for better communication and understanding in Software Development. A diagram can help us better express our ideas about Software Design without putting textual explanations. It's already...

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Age of Empires on Android and iOS

Age of Empires Fans. Brace yourself! One of the most famous and played games of all times Age of Empires will be developed for mobile devices. Apparently, Microsoft has made a licensing agreement with KLab Inc. to develop a mobile version of Age of Empires franchise. This news...

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Android Jelly Bean 4.2.2 coming for Samsung Galaxy S III

Android Jelly Bean 4.2.2 It's been revealed. Just as promised,  Android Jelly Bean 4.2.2 comes for Samsung Galaxy S III with many of the features already present at Samsung Galaxy S IV.  Samsung seems to care about updating their older mobile devices with newer System Updates.  The update...

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Tips: How to Make Money Online

Online Money The Internet is definitely one of the most important Innovations that the humans have made. It has tremendously changed almost every human activity and perspective of the world starting from easier communication, economic bust, widespread knowledge as well as a global world system which connects people...

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Unreal Engine 4 : New features and scripting systems

Legions of developers rely upon Unreal Engine 3’s Unreal Kismet, which is used to quickly build gameplay prototypes and level events. With Unreal Engine 4, Epic introduces Blueprints, a revolutionary new visual scripting system that replaces Kismet and provides a massive leap in functionality and productivity for projects...

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OUYA: New Android based Game Console

OUYA Console Another innovative project funded via Kickstarter.  It is Kickstarter's most backed project exceeding $8 million, it was named OUYA and it is a video game console with it's own Android Operating System aiming to bring games into big screens. The console is open for anyone to easily...

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Boolean Algebra - Digital Logic

Motherboard Boolean Algebra plays a crucial role on every aspect of Computer Science. In programming we know it as true or false statements whereas in digital logic we have 1 and 0. We can use these statements to determine different types of behavior whether in programming or in...

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Case Sample: Cinema Application SQL Queries

Cinema App Features In one of my previous posts i explained the creation of Database Structure of our Cinema Application. You can proceed reading it here: Case Sample: Cinema Application ER Diagrams In this post, i started from scratch by firstly putting the requirement for Cinema Application and then designing...

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Binary Numbers - Addition

Binary Numbers Arithmetic operations with binary numbers can be useful especially if you want to learn machine language, or you are programming an electronic chip or maybe a central processing unit CPU. We can do arithmetic operations with binary numbers just like we do with decimals. Simple enough,...

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Which programming language should i learn ? - Answer yourself !

Programming Languages Choosing a programming language can be difficult. It all depends on your needs. But the overall logic is always the same. When programming you are solving problems. When choosing a programming language you are not choosing simplicity, rather you are changing the syntax of commands you...

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Binary numbers - Digital Logic explained

If you ever asked yourselves how computers think and logic then what you are asking is Digital Logic. There is an order and logic on how computers do all that stuff for us. If you are a computer science student then you know that in the very end...

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Top 10 Indie Games

Indie Games We have always had the stereotype and belief that what constitutes a good and playable game is the ones made by big companies and the games with 3D Graphics. Independent Developers have seen a tremendous rise recently and proved wrong most of stereotypes by reviving the...

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Learn coding at Codecademy

Codecademy Do you want to learn coding but you find the material on books very hard and not catchy for your brain? Codecademy which is an online interactive website offers you a great and simply way to start your first steps toward the world of programming with a...

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Introduction to CrowdFunding, Kickstarter as a successful example

Crowd funding an Idea Do you have a brilliant and creative idea, or you know other people who have creative ideas, but you/they need funding so the idea can be put into practice? Crowdfunding is a new way which through collective cooperation and the use of Internet as...

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Top Free Android Games

Android Games Computer Gaming is one of the biggest industry in the world. A lot of people take their time to try various genres of games. With the improvement of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Graphics Gaming have been taken into an almost revolutionary step with splendid games being...

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CoinKeeper: excellent financial application for Android

CoinKeeper We use our Smartphones for a lot of tasks, ranging from mandatory to simply for entertainment purposes. Android offers wide variety of applications to fulfill the needs and requirements of it's users. What the Android user base wanted was a decent Financial Application to keep records for their daily life transaction...

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How to get more likes and reputation on your Facebook page - Strategies and examples

Facebook Likes Facebook pages can be very interesting and more importantly profitable. You have a fan page and you want to increase your likes, reputation and reach. If you follow some useful tips and steps you will end up with a very successful fan page that can bring...

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Case Sample: Cinema Application, ER to Relational Model mapping and SQL implementation

Cinema App ER Diagrams We have already covered a topic regarding the design of ER diagrams for a Cinema. We have tried to capture as many relationships as possible. Please, refer to this topic so you can have an idea about our first post regarding the Cinema Application....

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Building an E-Commerce Website

E-Commerce has had a tremendous rise globally. It has challenged and dramatically changed the traditional business models and value propositions of many business organizations. People now are employing at mass E-Commerce Website to do their business electronically since Internet and the security of transactions through Internet has become...

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A comparison between iPhone and Android

iPhone vs Android iPhone and Android are the biggest sharers of smartphone market in the world, and apparently they offer the best and fastest smartphones with the latest technologies being applied into their respective models. But some question arises, which is better, iPhone or Android? Or, which of...

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Ubuntu 13.04 to be released today

Ubuntu 13.04 The most famous Linux distro in the World Ubuntu maintained by Canonical is bringing it's new release Ubuntu 13.04. Ubuntu 13.04 was promised to come in April 2013 with new improvement in design, speed and functionality.The main design for Ubuntu 13.04 will be again Unity but...

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Curiosity - People that changed our lives in the history of information technologies

We are here, in this modern era with technology and intelligent digital devices all around us. We depend on them, we live with them, and they play very significant role in every society. Ask yourselves what can you do today without the help of any digital device ?...

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Curiosity - World records on Social Networks

Social Networks Google, Facebook, Youtube and other social networks just make our lives more funny and entertained. Ever wondered what are the best things that live on these websites ? Discover the mosts and bests that happened on these networks during their experience and lifetime. ...

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Linking C# Applications with MySQL Databases on Visual Studio

Visual Studio as we know is a very powerful IDE from Microsoft. It has build in languages like C# C++ and Visual Basic. Development with Visual Studio can be pretty fun and successful. Visual Studio also has methods for creating and connecting to Databases like ADO.NET technology. However...

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Learning programming concepts through a game

Light Bot Learning programming concepts can be quite abstract and not catching for youngsters and many  people who enter the world of programming. ArmorGames have found a way to express their programming skills through a game. That's it ! You can now learn some basic programming concepts by...

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Introducing Bitcoin, will it rise or we will witness a bubble?

Bitcoin Classical definition of currency is that it is a medium of exchange which is standardized and widely employed to perform some kind of transaction. Lately, a new digital currency called Bitcoin has gained the attention in the market. In comparison with the other currencies (euro, dollar) bitcoin is...

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I want to be a Web Developer, where do i start ?

So you have a feeling like you want to create some art on Internet that others can enjoy it ? Or maybe you have ideas that no one else can understand and you want to start on your own. Or you have your own business you want to...

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Best Android note taking applications

Android Notes Saving ideas within a mobile application has become quite seeking and popular. These ideas could be saved at various forms as text, photography, voice etc etc. Smartphones have made possible for very interactive and joyful note taking applications. Android as leading Smartphone Operating System in the...

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Case Sample: Cinema Application ER Diagrams

Cinema ER Diagrams Product or Service design is one of the most important steps on engineering. It's the step where you graphically create the specifications, features, goals and the main notes of the product/service requirements. In Software Development we have Software Design which is the activity after the...

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The process of Innovation

Innovation I suppose everyone asks questions as what are the innovation drivers? Well, observing the world and it's complex events we can firmly deduce that one of key innovation drivers are the market pull, technology push, and society demand.  To this point it's clear that depending on the...

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Facebook: new design for NewsFeed

This week, Facebook has released a video which warns new design Facebook News Feed, which is currently being designed for personal computers and mobile devices. As stated earlier, Facebook's new design brings some significant changes for the user, ranging from optimizing the new site for Apple devices such...

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Age of Empires II HD

Age of Empires II HD I suppose you remember the Age of Empires II which was so widespread and popular game before. Well, the classical strategy game from Microsoft is being updated and is coming in 9th April. Age of Empires II was perhaps one of the few...

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Top 5 image storage sites to store your website's images.

So you have a website. And you dont want to waste too much hard disk space on your host for images that are part of your articles, users or your website UI. Rather you would like to store these images somewhere else but you are afraid from loosing...

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PS4 - The new gaming console - Sony hides many things we should know.

Earlier this week we finally got a look at the next generation of console gaming (sorry, Wii U). Though Sony announced some amazing features for the PlayStation 4, the announcement left some of us a little underwhelmed  - most likely because of what we still don’t know about...

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Business Processes and Innovative Technologies deployment

We have already defined business processes but we will repeat in a different manner the definition of it and also explain the role of IT in implementing the business processes of an organization. A business process: Is triggered by an external event. Is composed by different activities or...

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Information Systems and Organizations

First of all, let us define what is an Organization. An Organization can be defined as a formal structure which takes resources from the environment processes them and makes output.  One organization can be divided into some functional areas like: Production and Manufacturing, Sales and Marketing, Finance and...

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Digital Library: Data Design with UML, identifying couple of business processes

Analyzing the data and designing core and supporting processes for a certain problem is very crucial in Software Development. In fact the requirements and the analysis of the data is the first step to do in the development of a software. To demonstrate Data Design and identification of...

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Innovation: Definition and Trends

Let us make a definition. What is Innovation? According to Schumpenter: Innovation is the process and outcome of creating something new, which is also of value. It involves the whole process from opportunity identification, ideation or invention to development, prototyping, production marketing and sales, while entrepreneurship only needs to...

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OpenGL Backface Culling - Removing unseen faces to improve performance

OpenGL can be very useful if we know how to use it. But sometimes it can tire up our computer and eat performance resulting to slow application. No one likes this especially gamers. They want smooth games and  experience with 90 FPS during their gameplay. It is useful...

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Opengl Mesh Loader OBJ

OpenGL as we know is a low level API for manipulating computer graphics. It is very powerful and cross platform which means all operating systems support it. This is the main reason i want to develop apps with opengl. I dont want to stick with Windows only, rather...

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Automation of Business Processes

What exactly is a business process? According to various definitions a business process is a collection of activities or tasks that produce a specific service or product or a particular goal for a particular customer or customers. Usually in an organization the business processes are divided upon to:...

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New Ubuntu Mobile Operating System

Ubuntu Community has recently announced their new release, open source Ubuntu Mobile Operating System which aims to enter the racing game with Google's Android. Ubuntu plans to release this devices by late 2013. Ubuntu for Mobiles is described as fast OS with basic code and no Java overhead....

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Installing SDL libraries and creating your first window on Ubuntu

SDL is used for creating graphical user interfaces or small games. But if its used correctly you can also create robust graphics applications or games. Simple Direct Media Layer is used to manipulate pixels to create different ui layouts for your applications and even games. In my other...

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Compiling and running C++ source codes in Ubuntu

With its clear fonts and pixel percet ui Ubuntu makes it so comfortable for me to code in many programming languages. With a lot of free tools and support Ubuntu is an amazing work desk for every developer. Coding in C++ under Ubuntu is all about using the...

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Ubuntu installation - Dont play with swap space ! It can cost you data loss !

This article is not going to explain the ubuntu installation as its very easy and it can be done with some 4 or 5 steps. But if you dont pay attention to what you are doing you can very easily loose your data and become an old man...

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