(Mashable)Google I/O Starts Tomorrow: What to Expect

Google‘s annual developer conference kicks off tomorrow, and Mashable will be on the scene covering it live. It’s bound to be packed with news about Google products — from Google+ to Android — and there will be lots in store for consumers.

Although this looks to be an eventful conference, company CEO Larry Page is likely to be a no-show. It’s rumored that Page lost his voice late last week and won’t be in shape to appear at I/O. He says there’s “nothing seriously wrong” with him, so there’s no reason to be nervous about the overall health of the Google CEO.

Google I/O begins with a keynote at 9:30 a.m. PT tomorrow (watch for our live blog). A host of Google executives will take the stage, going through Google’s products and strategy, one by one. But since Page has taken over as chief executive in 2011, the company has shown better focus, and we’ll probably see more about how Google’s myriad products integrate with each other in this year’s show, from cloud to search to mobile and beyond.

Google+

It’s been almost exactly a year since Google launched its in-house social network, Google+. The timing of I/O might be a coincidence — it was in May last year — but it could also mean Google has some plans for Google+’s anniversary.

Google’s made a lot of tweaks to Google+ recently, launching new apps for iOS and Android and integrating the network with local search results. It’s also available as a channel on Flipboard. At I/O, Google may release more extensive APIs for Google+ so Web developer can start integrating its content into more apps.

In any case, we’ll certainly get updated stats on the network, hopefully getting an idea if it will ever be as pervasive as Facebook.

Android Jelly Bean

Google’s next major Android update will be “Jelly Bean,” which will be either version 4.1 or 5.0.

While we’re not expecting any major visual changes to Jelly Bean, we do expect that Google will continue to refine the experience on both the smartphone and the tablet. It’s taken a while, but we’re finally seeing Ice Cream Sandwich handsets ship — including the HTC One X and the Samsung Galaxy S III. With Ice Cream Sandwich penetration still below 10%, it will be interesting to see if handset makers decide to jump directly to Jelly Bean (assuming the hardware is compatible).

The Jelly Bean upgrade could bring with it a final version of Chrome for Android, which has been in beta for a while. That could mean the standard Android browser is about to be replaced, or it could remain as a separate download but that seems more than a little redundant.

The final version of Chrome for Android could mean a more definitive plan for how Google’s mobile platform will interact with Chrome OS. Google recently launched a revamped Chrome OS along with new devices. The company is still clearly betting some money on Chromebooks, but exactly what hand Google’s playing with them is still a little unclear. Perhaps more focus for Chrome OS will be on tap.

Nexus Tablet

A Google tablet has been rumored to be in the works for a while. It makes a great deal of sense — even more in the wake of Microsoft’s Surface announcement. With the Google tablet, it’ll mean almost all of the major platform providers — Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Google — will have a “reference” tablet product. The only exception will be Facebook, which so far doesn’t make hardware of any kind.

However, let’s be clear: If Google introduces a Nexus tablet, one of its hardware partners will actually build the device, most likely Asus. The tablet is also rumored to represent an expansion of the Nexus line of Google-endorsed devices running stock Android — Google is said to be planning several more Nexus phones and devices.

Google Maps

Earlier this month, Google unveiled what it dubbed “the future of Google Maps” at a special event in San Francisco. The latest features include offline mapping for Android devices, updated Street View options and 3D Google Earth maps.

The bigger story with Google Maps — and with mobile mapping in general — is the disruption taking place in the space. When Apple officially announced that it was dropping Google Maps in iOS 6, it raised some interesting questions about the future of Google Apps in iOS.

It is very likely that Google will announce its own Google Maps app for iOS, much like it offers apps for Google Voice, Gmail, Google Earth and Google+.

As for disruption, Google is facing a lot of it — and not just from Apple. OpenStreetMap is becoming an increasingly popular mapping API for mobile app developers.

In February, Foursquare announced that it was dropping Google Maps for OpenStreetMap, in part because of Google’s pricing. Earlier this week, Google announced big price cuts to its Google Maps API, perhaps as a bid to keep developers from moving away from the platform.

Cloud Platform and Google Drive

Because I/O is a developer conference, some of the most future-facing — and important — announcements and sessions might also be the most unsexy. Still, we think it’s worth paying attention to what Google announces and unveils about its Cloud Platform and Google Drive products.

With its Cloud Platform, Google offers cloud solutions for application developers and service vendors. It also faces stiff competition from Amazon, Rackspace, Heroku (Salesforce) and Joyent. At I/O, we expect Google to announce its latest cloud initiatives, perhaps with a focus at helping existing businesses and services migrate to the cloud.

As for Google Drive, looking at some of the session descriptions, it’s clear the emphasis is on adding Google Drive support to apps and services.

As we’ve argued in the past, it’s this kind of integration that could make Google Drive a real contender against the likes of Box, Dropbox and SharePoint.

Google TV and Google Play

The biggest advantage that Apple, Amazon and Microsoft have over Google in the mobile and media space is access to commercial content. Google has tried to mitigate the situation with its rebranded Google Play store. Google Play offers users a one-stop shop for apps, movies, music and books. At least, in theory.

In practice, Google is still having a hard time signing major commercial media partners to its services. It’s also not seeing the adoption on its own platform.

At Google I/O, we expect Google to focus on integrating the Google Play ecosystem across services and devices — putting more emphasis on building a viable content platform.

The living room is a crucial part of any content platform.

Let’s face it, Google has not found success with Google TV. More than two years after the platform was announced at Google I/O 2010, neither consumers nor device makers have flocked to the service. Still, with the living room largely considered to be the “next” battleground, Google has to do something — especially if it wants to compete with Microsoft and Apple.

We expect that Google will discuss the ways it is going to help developers port their Android or web content directly to the television. We also expect to see Google make good on some of the promises it made last year in regards to controlling the living room.

Rules For Website Development

Marketing is the key to all the doors of the world today. It is that tool that can take a person or product to the heights of success or can make them decay at the bottom of the hierarchy. A strategy, its implementation and control over the same are all essential for ensuring that the entity being marketed is going in the right direction and is gaining all the publicity it needs. Any service, product or even people need to be promoted to the masses for making maximum profit. Web Design and Development services also need to be marketed extremely carefully and attractively to generate clients and extend the offerings to the appropriate clan of people.

In this modern world of technology, everything is digital and web-based. Right from shopping to taking courses, everything can be done online and hence it is essential for a company or a service provider to design and develop a website that is compatible and user-friendly to all its customers. Web Design is not as simple a task as it sounds. It includes everything from the graphics to the user experience design and even search engine optimization. In addition to website designing, web development also plays a crucial role as it involves a complete generation of the content, server scripting, network security configuration and so on. But advertising these tools that are themselves used for promotional purposes can be a daunting task.

The very first thing you need to take care of while marketing these services is your deliverables, as the website design may decide the future of the product or company. The area being highly vast and cosmic, requires you to pinpoint and specify all the details of your services. The clients should not have any doubt with respect to your offerings. Only specifying your services is not enough. You also need to be able to stand up your promises. Gather a team of members with excellent skills because retaining customers is equally important as getting new customers.

You can even try the art of specialization by developing an area as your specialization and core competency. If you excel in creating an USP (Unique Selling Point) for your services, there will be no looking back. Getting contacts at the initial stages can definitely be a challenge. You even need to build a portfolio, where in you can demonstrate your talent and abilities through some examples for giving the customers an idea of your capabilities. Higher the visual and user appeal of your web design, higher will be the number of customers flocking at your doorstep. Do not forget to align your competencies with that of the market. Website Design is an important and crucial aspect for any individual or company. The appropriate budget and strategy for marketing mixed with your technical skills can really take you to the heights of recognition and accomplishment.

Good News for Google Drive users – Quick Office acquired by Google

Just got an update from Quickoffice that its has been been acquired by Google. Wow, Great news for Google Drive users.

Quickoffice Acquired by Google

I am a big fan of QUICK OFFICE & think its revolutionary app for all the official use of your iPad or Android Tablet. It really makes it easy & fun to create, edit & manage your official documents whether they are Word docs, Presentations or Excel documents.

Announcement was made today(Tuesday 6th June 2012) with an email from the CEO & Co-Founder of the company, Alan Masarek.  You can check a screenshot above. Its a great news for Google Drive users because the moment Google launched the drive & merged its DOCs service to the Drive. I was hoping it would give the docs editing functionality to all the devices as it gives you on Android(But still it was weak compared to of Quick Office). But Google launched G-Drive without any app to access it on Apple iPads. And we all know if it is to complete with services like Dropbox, Box & SugerSync with something better which of course is availability of Google’s Docs on all devices in your drive. Plus docs really don’t have much use if you can’t really create or edit them on the device you are using G-Drive on. Analysts also said Google is trying to come up with its own mobile office suite looking ta the situation that Microsoft is not really eager to release its Office suit on other mobile platforms like Android or iOS.

So to solve that problem for its beloved users, Google have done a great job acquiring QuickOffice. Because Quick Office really is the best docs editing facility you can have on your mobile devices.

Details of the acquisition like how much money & people involved were not disclosed. All we know till is that Quick Office is offering a Full-Refund withing next 30 days and asking to move your data prior to 15th of July which is the last day of operation for Quick Office.

Stationary Designing

Design Your Own Stationary

The Stationary Designing, like the Corporate Identity Design, can be explored as a method of various official stationary goods like official stamps, visiting cards, letter heads, billing heads, official designer bills, logos etc. The main difference in both is that where the Corporate Identity Design include the animated, moving identities as well as still identities, at that place, the stationary designed item just include only the still designing identities just like logos, visiting cards, letter-heads etc. So, the DX now launches some great, everlasting stationary designing’s for your strong entry into the corporate world and get advertised as a best organization in the Commercial world.

We use the latest designing softwares for designing some ultimate, extra-ordinary stationary designing items for you like Adobe’s Photoshop, Flex, Pagemaker, Corel Draw, Microsoft’s PowerPoint are some of the software tools can be made in use by our designing professionals and can provide you some gorgeous stationary identities as a best marketing results proven, for your business. Where on one hand, Adobe Flex, Pagemaker and Photoshop can avail you some ultimate designing in various stationary identities, just on the other hand, the powerful Microsoft’s PowerPoint can provide you some ethical designs for various company logos, designer bills, graphic letter-heads etc.

In the end, How can we forget the Corel Draw? The Corel Draw can be treated also as an another extreme designing solution for creating some terrific stationary items to best revealing your business worldwide. So for best and prompt services regarding stationary designing, come to us at DesignersX Chandigarh.

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Design Your Corporate Identity

Establish Your Identity in Corporate World

Now, DX(DesignersX) brought to you some latest skills and features to establish your corporate identity amongst the various people worldwide. The Corporate Identity Designing can be explored as a designing strategy of a business/commercial Identity by which a special expression of a corporate organization can be exhibited to the various visitors worldwide. A businessman can identify itself in the corporate world. The Corporate World can be treated as a business/commercial world in which the visibility of the various businessmen and business-tycoons is being revealed to the world and their business is being swelled.

In the sweep, the corporate identity designing can be taken as a process in which, the Identification of a business is being designed to show it to the world. The Corporate Identity Designing includes its various identities like visiting cards, letter heads, bill heads, logos, official stamps etc. These all can be efficiently designed by the various designing softwares & other methods. The designing softwares including Adobe Flash, Photoshop, Flex, Microsoft Silverlight, PowerPoint and Corel Draw, where there are some languages exists to better create and design your web corporate identity like HTML, DHTML, JAVA, JAVA script etc. Specially JAVA is mainly concerned language in which extreme graphic identities can be designed. The various animated web letter-heads, web logos, web bill-heads can be designed through JAVA. So much nice as JAVA, the Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight too are the great tools for all this. To design a charming animated identity for your corporate identity, these softwares will surely be proven best on your designing strategies.

On the other extent, to design still identities for a specific corporate business, you can endeavor on some other softwares like Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Flex, Corel Draw, Microsoft PowerPoint etc. These are the designing tools containing their stunning designing ability and power-packed graphics enhancing features and Dynamic Text writing strategies, can avail you some ultimate designer logos, letter-heads, graphical v/s dynamic visiting cards, well designed dynamic textual bill letters etc. So to design a superb and powerful designer identity of your business and attend its strong presence in the corporate world, just come to Designers-X, Chandigarh.

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DesignersX’s Content Management System

DX Launches Latest CMS For You

Discussing about CMS means that discussing some gossips and chatting about how to manage a website. DesignersX brought to you some latest CMS features and thinking’s about managing the website content. The CMS can be gradually expanded as Content Management System(CMS). The Content Management System tells us how we can manage the content of basic as well as Dynamic website.

As you thoroughly know that every website has its own content on which the whole building of a website is stood. So also we have to manage that website building by managing its content, so that a ful fledged dynamic website is being built for us and for various web visitors worldwide. You can see in the modern website, some special effected animations, graphics, text, images/photos, pictures, videos, wallpapers, screen savers, dynamic text and various other moving objects. Exactly, you can say all this as a content of a website and to create a better, these all things have to be managed. And managing all this can be treated as a three words term Content Management System(CMS).

Manage the Content Easily

Managing the content of a website is an activity to simply attract the various visitors to your website. To manage content of website and put a magnetic effect on the visitor’s mind, you have to work in some web standard programming languages like HTML(Hyper Text Markup Language), DHTML(Dynamic HTML), CSS(Cascading Style Sheets), JAVA, JAVA script, JSP(Java Server Page), ASP(Active Server Page), ASP.net, PHP(Hypertext Preprocessor). HTML is the basic language for standing the base of a website, without it you can’t expect any content of a website. Along with these languages, you must have the compete knowledge of various softwares like Adobe Flash, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Dreamweawer, Adobe Flex, Microsoft Silverlight and Corel Draw. To create a well animated, stunning graphical and sparkling effected website, these softwares are used. We, DesignersX, reveal you the best CMS services. So please visit us at www.designersx.com

Any question? please ask us at enquiry@designers-x.com

Online Application Design

Design Your Own Online Application

DesignersX launches for you some greatest designing features for any Online/ Web Application. The Online Application Design can be considered as a designing technique of any web application you use in your daily routine, see on the Web/ Internet every time like a website, search engine, animations, graphics, videos, visual graphics, images, photos etc. These all are the web/ online applications, which get visible on your computer screen over the Net, only by designing it with some interfaces and intermediatories e.g. various languages like HTML(Hyper Text Markup Language), DHTML(Dynamic HTML), JAVA, JAVA script, CSS(Cascading Style Sheets), ASP(Active Server Page), JSP(Java Server Page), PHP(Preprocessor Hypertext), ASP.net etc.

Gradually these languages play a unique role in developing and designing any web application, specially the basic ones HTML, DHTML, & the ultimate JAVA. These are the thumbnails of creation of a better website. Further to enhance the look of a website and layer it some charming effects, we can use various animated softwares and Image editing / enhancing tools. The Adobe’s Flash, Dreamweawer, Flex, Microsoft’s Silverlight are the software tools can be considered as the animations tools to redefine a simple, static website to a gorgeous looking animated, graphical website. And to apply some fantastic stunning graphics, Images, the Adobe’s Flash, Flex, Pagemaker, Corel Draw are used.

Plan and Design Application Easily

Now if you are planning to design and develop a web application such as a Website, then for this you must have the complete knowledge of various languages discussed above and along with these must have a great expertized and masterpiece mentality level in the Adobe’s Flash, Photoshop, and Microsoft’s Silverlight. Having consistent knowledge and perfection in these, you can reach your destination where you’ll get a perfect website.

Further you are wanting to create an animation, then animation softwares, discussed above will proven as a landmark for your requirements in creating a terrific animation. With the help of Flash’s ultimate expertise and Silverlight’s ultimate next generation features & abilities, you can design some grand featured animations and many other moving objects. So Now what are you thinking about? Rush to us at our head office Chandigarh…. or visit us at www.designersx.com

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