Samsung Galaxy S II vs Apple iPhone 4

The Samsung Galaxy S, along with the HTC Desire, is one of the most popular Android smartphones on the market in Australia. Samsung has just lifted the lid on its hotly anticipated next-generation Galaxy S, aptly titled the Galaxy S II. Does it have what it takes to compete with the Apple iPhone 4?
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The Samsung Galaxy S, along with the HTC Desire, is one of the most popular Android smartphones on the market in Australia. Samsung has just lifted the lid on its hotly anticipated next-generation Galaxy S, aptly titled the Galaxy S II. Does it have what it takes to compete with the Apple iPhone 4?

Read our original Samsung Galaxy S review, and our Apple iPhone 4 review.

Check out our detailed preview of the Samsung Galaxy S II preview and see our roundup of the best upcoming smartphones in 2011.

Boasting a 4.3in Super AMOLED Plus display with a resolution of 800x480, an 8-megapixel rear camera that doubles as a 1080p HD video recorder, a 2-megapixel front camera for video calls, and an integrated Near Field Communications (NFC) chip, the Samsung Galaxy S II definitely holds some advantages over the iPhone 4.

With this in mind, how does the Samsung Galaxy S II stack up against the iPhone 4 when it comes to specifications?

source. http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?id=DE4E7311-1A64-6A71-CE2A94E63DEF9A8F

Apple to release new MacBook Pros on Steve Jobs' birthday

BEIJING, Feb. 22 (Xinhuanet) -- Apple will release updates to its MacBook Pro line on Steve Jobs' birthday this Thursday, according to reports citing the company insiders.

Jobs, Apple's co-founder and chief executive, turns 56 on February 24, and this birthday will be celebrated with new Apple Mac books being released in every iStore.

Packages of the new models are being reportedly delivered to resellers and Apple Stores, and they will be unwrapped on Steve Jobs' Birthday.

Reports also say that Apple partners are under strict warnings not to open or examine their contents until they are told to do so, or else their licenses to sell might be revoked.

The company wished to honor Steve Jobs while he is on his medical leave.

Jobs has been battling pancreatic cancer and underwent surgeries in the U.S. and Switzerland. He also got a liver transplant while continuing his revolution in music, smartphones, mobile software, tablets and highly mobile notebooks.

source. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/sci/2011-02/22/c_13743718.htm

The Uniform Resource Locator was created

The Uniform Resource Locator was created in 1994[2] by Tim Berners-Lee and the URI working group of the Internet Engineering Task Force.[3] The format is based on Unix file path syntax, where forward slashes are used to separate directory or folder and file or resource names. Conventions already existed where server names could be prepended to complete file paths, preceded by a double-slash (//).[4]

File formats may also be specified using a final dot suffix, so that requests for file.html or file.txt may be served directly whereas file.php needs to be sent to a PHP pre-processor before the processed result is served to the end user. The exposure of such implementation-specific details in public URLs is becoming less common;[5] the necessary information can be better specified and exchanged using Internet media type identifiers, previously known as MIME types.

Berners-Lee later regretted the use of dots to separate the parts of the domain name within URIs, wishing he had used slashes throughout.[4] For example, http://www.example.com/path/to/name would have been written http:com/example/www/path/to/name. Berners-Lee has also said that, given the colon following the URI scheme, the two forward slashes before the domain name were also unnecessary.[6]

Search Engine Optimization

website design ideas

Such elements as text, forms, images (GIFs, JPEGs, Portable Network Graphics) and video can be placed on the page using HTML/XHTML/XML tags. Older browsers may require Plug-ins such as Adobe Flash, QuickTime, Java run-time environment, etc. to display some media, which are embedded into web page by using HTML/XHTML tags.

Improvements in browsers' compliance with W3C standards prompted a widespread acceptance and usage of XHTML/XML in conjunction with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to position and manipulate web page elements and objects.

Typically web pages are classified as static or dynamic:

    * Static pages don’t change content and layout with every request unless a human (web master/programmer) manually updates the page. A simple HTML page is an example of static content.
    * Dynamic pages adapt their content and/or appearance depending on end-user’s input/interaction or changes in the computing environment (user, time, database modifications, etc.) Content can be changed on the client side (end-user's computer) by using client-side scripting languages (JavaScript, JScript, Actionscript, etc.) to alter DOM elements (DHTML). Dynamic content is often compiled on the server utilizing server-side scripting languages (Perl, PHP, ASP, JSP, ColdFusion, etc.). Both approaches are usually used in complex applications.

With growing specialization in the information technology field there is a strong tendency to distinguish between web design and web development.   Web design is a kind of graphic design intended for the development and styling of objects of the Internet's information environment to provide them with high-end consumer features and aesthetic qualities.

This definition separates web design from web programming, emphasizing the functional features of a web site, as well as positioning web design as a kind of graphic design.[1] The process of designing web pages, web sites, web applications or multimedia for the Web may utilize multiple disciplines, such as animation, authoring, communication design, corporate identity, graphic design, human-computer interaction, information architecture, interaction design, marketing, photography, search engine optimization and typography.

    * Markup languages (such as HTML, XHTML and XML)
    * Style sheet languages (such as CSS and XSL)
    * Client-side scripting (such as JavaScript)
    * Server-side scripting (such as PHP and ASP)
    * Database technologies (such as MySQL and PostgreSQL)
    * Multimedia technologies (such as Flash and Silverlight)

Web pages and websites can be static pages, or can be programmed to be dynamic pages that automatically adapt content or visual appearance depending on a variety of factors, such as input from the end-user, input from the webmaster or changes in the computing environment (such as the site's associated database having been modified).