Basic Web Tools

Yep there is such a thing as a psychology of colors. It mostly practiced in commercial establishments such as supermarkets and restaurants. For example, the reason why those popular fast food chains choose yellow, orange, and red for their color theme is because those colors make you hungry! Hmm� if this is the case, then why not employ the same science to your own Web site?

Here�s the color code which you can mix and match:

White: Easy on the eyes, perfection, peace, purity, sense of professionalism
Red: warmth, hunger, and excitement
Yellow: Happiness, vibrant
Green and blue: Calmness, content
Black, brown, grey: Serious, Somber

Source: Free Webmaster Tools

Another company, this time a fitness company, has decided to take advantage of the latest technology to market their services. The Snap Fitness Inc. has recently announced plans to launch a new online tool for members of its gyms. This large and still growing chain of 24-hour fitness gyms (based in Chanhassen) has formed partnerships with nutritional supplement company Bioceutica (based in Newbury, Mass.-), Health Solutions – a health care assessment firm based in Wisconsin, and HyperStrike , a California fitness firm. to create a Web site for customers to customize their workout schedule. The new tool will enable customers to design a personalized fitness plan complete with designed customized workouts and nutritional assessments. And all these with the help of wellness coaches.

Source: Biz Journals

I had to post something like this to help other readers get familiarized with certain applications and tools available online. Let’s start with Twitter.

This is basically a social networking service that sends text-based posts to update the user’s status and be displayed on a particular site or blog. People who have signed up to receive updates on a particular user are the only ones who can see these updates. Updates can be received instantly after the update is delivered via the service’s website, instant messaging, and even via SMS. Updates depend on the location of the user and receivers.

File sharing is easy with Easy File Sharing Web Server. This is a software program that allows user to share files online with friends and co-workers with the use of web browsers such as IE, Netscape and Mozilla. The program also enables users to search files from either party’s computers and download them as well. A Bulletin board system is included for easy communication. The program supports SSL encryption for protection against site spoofing and data corruption. Easy File Sharing Web Server enables easy organization and management of files for web site administrators who work remotely.

Picnik, which has already begun to get some traction as the primary editing tool for Flickr has teamed up with Photobox, another large photo host in the United Kingdom.

Photobox is about a fifth of the size of Flickr in active users, and the two have very different services. Photobox provides 1,000MB of storage and gives users more space each time they order prints while Flickr operates on a paid premium membership that requires a yearly subscription of $25.

Also starting today Picnik users will be able to print their shots using QOOP which lets you print your photos on items such as coffee mugs, posters, and T-shirts.

iFob, developed by Montana’s iCloseby and available for the iPhone, the iPod touch and laptop computers, attempts to bridge a gap between social networks and the real world. iFob sends out a “homing beacon” at wireless hotspots like coffee shops, alerting other users that you’re nearby and receptive to socializing.

Two Missoula, Mont., entrepreneurs have launched software for the iPhone, iPod touch and laptop computers that upends the conventional sense of social networking. Unlike online dating and friendship Web sites where connections are made in cyberspace, the software’s goal is moving people from virtual relationships into real ones.

Web tools are aid in creating and building web pages. Creating web pages before requires inclination and training like programmers and designers but with the help of easy-to-use applications, creating and building web pages without having knowledge about HTML or serving web pages becomes possible.

Web tools have different use and there are web tools and collaboration of applications that can assist teachers and instructors in creating online learning activities and online lessons. Filamentality is a good example of the easy-to-use web tools application. It is a fill in the blank tools wherein users are guided in choosing topics, searching the internet, gathering good internet link and turning them into online activities. This web based activities can be shared to others.

Polls and votes are among the normal things we would stumble upon in most sites. They normally focus on a certain topic to which people are given the liberty of voting and seeing results that will stand out after a periodic poll. A great add-on that can serve as a sidelight for site owners who want something interactive in their site.

They do not have to be too technical. Simple polling and vote casting are enough to change the attention on your site in a jiffy. But make sure though that you have topics worth voting for. If not, no one will even bother to notice it.

iPhones have been selling like hotcakes and with every new model comes several updates to their operating systems and applications that allows them to attain better security making them maintain relevance in terms of current threats. Being one of the most popular smart-phones on the market and seen by many as the role-model with their iPhone lookalikes it is only fitting that it has one of the biggest library or applications created by companies, users and other developers. Some of these are pre-built into the iPhone fresh out of the box, known as native apps but other than those that came from Apple that was designed for the smart phone itself, everything is considered to be non-native and is run in a window that can make it a bit hard to use. Read the rest of this entry »

From e-Prescriptions to pollen forecasts, the health industry is gaining ground on their share of health-related applications that are available from many vendors. Health being one of the most critical areas of society, it was only time before they got into the smart-phone market which allowed people to get relevant issues from the web or through their vendors who provided them with the applications.
Applications like the Allergy and Immunology Headline News app, which brings the latest pollen forecasts for those who are quite susceptible to the seasonal flu and more. The developing H1N1(swine flu) outbreak is also on the web and on the many smart-phones, helping people cope with the rising threat as they get up to date information from some of the most reliable sources like the US CDC and more. Read the rest of this entry »