Archive for September 30th, 2009
The Multi-purpose Mobile Phone
The mobile phone is moving swiftly from being just a device you use to make phone calls. It is steadily moving into the world of individualized digital assistants (PDA’s) and entertainment devices. It is very simple this day to get a mobile phone which serves as a phone, diary, MP3 player, video player, word processor, and games console. In short its one device but with many functions which you do not need to purchase separately.
This is good news for the mobile phone manufacturers who are now classifying phones as multimedia computers. They are expecting stealing business from companies who up to now have built single purpose gadgets such as MP3 music players. Interestingly, Apple, who sell the market leading music player, the iPod, have just announced they will manufacture a mobile phone.
It’s also good news for the mobile operators who sell the phones, because they can sell a more costly device with higher profit margins. They can also sell additional services such as music downloads over their mobile network.
The phone which I use is a Nokia E61 which does all of the above things. It has a keyboard which grants me to type notes or indeed articles such as this one. I can download my MP3 files and play them using it’s music player, and also download and play video files. There are vast amounts of games which it can play, and I can hook it up to my office diary and email system. It weighs 144 grams and is about 12 cm by 7 cm with a depth of 1.5 cm. So it fits easily in a pocket.
With early phones which attempted these functions demand of memory storage space on the device was a severe limiting factor. However my phone can use a plugin memory card which can wage up to 4GB of storage space. In theory this would grant me to play many hours of movies on my phone!
There are many other models of phones offering all or many of the above functions. Some use the standard phone keypad layout so are not so good at typing massive amounts of text. Others use a stylus based input mechanism for inputting text by writing on the screen.
So anticipate to see people doing more and more with their mobile phone. In fact attempts are now being prefabricated to use phones as a type of smartcard for paying for things in place of cash or credit cards. So it might not be long before the mobile phone replaces your wallet!
Announcing DotNetBar for Windows Forms 7.0 Release With Office 2007 Style Controls
Announcing DotNetBar for Windows Forms 7.0 Release With Office 2007 Style Controls
Novi, MI (PRWEB) October 25, 2007
DevComponents LLC announced this day release of DotNetBar Suite 7.0 a toolbox of 37 powerful User Interface components with Office 2007 look and feel that enable VS.NET developers to create professional individual interface with ease.
7.0 release of DotNetBar includes 6 all new controls which dramatically improve developers capability to create professional looking applications in Office 2007 style.
New Date Time Picker control in Office 2007 styles removes the limitations of standard Date Time Picker control, like null value support, and adds built-in international support, custom buttons, extensive styling capabilities and database binding options with custom parsing support.
New Advanced Month Calendar control in Office 2007 style enables developers to extensively customize control appearance without writing any code. Borders, gradient backgrounds, text colors and much more can be customized using Visual Studio.NET designers. Developers can also wage absolutely custom rendering for the control for one-of-a-kind look and feel.
Double and Integer input controls wage simple data entry and data binding to the numeric value types. Out of box international support is provided as well as database binding to any types through custom value parsing.
Reflection Image and Reflection Label controls wage an simple way to polish the application appearance through reflection visual effect that can be applied to images and markup text.
DotNetBar Suite 7.0 is compatible with the latest Visual Studio.NET 2005 as well as with all other publicly released Visual Studio versions..
DotNetBar Suite 7.0 includes following controls:
Office 2007 Style Ribbon controls
Dockable auto-hide windows with Diamond Docking Hints guides and split-view document docking technology
Date/Time Picker Control
Numeric Input Controls
Month Calendar Control in Office 2007 style
Reflection Image and Reflection Labels controls
Tab control with 9 visual styles http://www.devcomponents.com/dotnetbar/TabControl.aspx
Explorer Bar control
Side Bar control
Flat Side Bar control
Tab Strip control
Balloon Control
Alert Control
Balloon-Tip Control
Navigation Pane control
Navigation Bar control
OneNote style Tab Control
Multi-Functional Panel Control
Expandable splitter control
Wizard Control
Item Panel Control
Office 2007 style forms
Much, much more…
For more information and fully functional trial version please visit our web site at: http://www.devcomponents.com
DevComponents LLC is a leader in User Interface component design. Our honor winning components and tools are benefiting massive corporations, consultants and ISV’s all around the world as a cost effective solution for building great applications. Our mission is to wage innovative frameworks and components that help developers build the ideal applications that today’s competitive market place demands.
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