iPhone Application Development Launching War in the Market!

The market of mobile phones is literally brewing at present. Cellular phones have not only improved on their appearances and features. Rather, a brand new genre of the gadget - in form of Smartphones - has become extremely popular in the market. In simple words, the devices come with an in-built computer system, which makes it possible for an user to access the internet anytime and anywhere!

This is the undeniable age of IT, where human connectivity has been redefined like never before. People prefer to stay connected to each other - across different corners of the world - almost through every single moment of a day, all the days a year with help of different virtual platforms like email, Social Media platforms (Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, etc.) and others. In this backdrop, it is no wonder that the latest genre of cellular gadgets, as mentioned above, has attained almost unprecedented popularity in the recent times.

Samsung vs. Apple

However, out of all the innumerable brands available in the market, there are two specific brands that have the highest stakes in the market. These are iPhone and Galaxy. Interestingly, these are respectively manufactured by two of the most renowned manufacturing giants in the world! iPhone, as it is known to almost anyone, is owned by Apple; whereas, Galaxy is the product of the Korean electronics giant Samsung.

In other words, competition between these two brands that exist presently in the market can be considered as the war for attaining superiority among the two manufacturing giants. With a smart and innovative set of user-friendly features both the brands are out there into the ring to subdue the other. In the midst of this ongoing strife between two powerful corporate giants, here is a quick comparison of the latest features of the two products.

The Samsung Smartphone developers use Android as the Operating System (OS) and thus, these are more commonly known as Android phones.

Samsung has launched its latest element S4 in the extremely popular Galaxy series as late as in March 2014. Its quoted price is INR 40,500. It comes with a full 6.3" display screen, with a 1.7 GHz Processor. Moreover, its front camera is 1.9 mega pixels, displaying a resolution of 720X1280 pixels. It has a massive 1.5 GB RAM, which inadvertently, makes fast retrieval of files and applications. Android version is 4.2, with a storage capacity of 8 GB. The rear camera is 8 GB and along with all these, it comes with a pretty sustainable battery of 3200 mAh capacity. Finally, it is pretty handy to use, impressing High Definition screen display, performs a whole lot of jobs brilliantly. Last but never the least, its infinite numbers of smart and user-friendly apps add to all the more rating of this device!

On the other hand, iPhone application development program - as mentioned above - is owned by Apple. iPhone 5 is the latest product in this category. It comes with a screen dimension of 4: and a 1.3 GHz processor. Quoted price of iPhone 5 is INR 45,500. It has - moreover - a 1.2 megapixel front camera, displaying a resolution of 640X1135 pixels. It has a RAM of 1 GB with storage capacity of 16 GB. The rear camera possesses configuration of 8 mega pixel and its battery capacity is 1440 mAh.

The Aspect of Website Development in PHP and the Popular Frameworks

PHP or Hypertext Preprocessor is the most popular platform to design and develop websites. Actually, it is the most powerful tool to design dynamic and interactive web pages. Here are a few crucial points regarding this powerful application.

ü  It is an open source scripting language; it comes for free

ü  PHP scripts are executed on server machines

ü  Apart from generating dynamic web pages, it can create, open, read, write, close, delete files on server

ü  It can collect, encrypt, append, modify and delete data in an existing database

ü  Moreover, it can run smoothly on various platforms, including Windows, Linux, Unix and Mac OS X, etc.

ü  PHP supports a wide range of databases

Because of all these great advantages a large number of PHP website development services prefer various PHP development frameworks. Here is a brief discussion of three the most robust PHP development frameworks.

Code Igniter

It is a robust framework having a small footprint. This version is preferred by those developers who build simple, yet elegant online applications. It is most ideal to work upon if one wants

·         a framework with small footprint     

·         clear and thorough documentation

·         broad compatibility with standard hosting and

·         nearly zero configuration, etc.

Zend

It is another popular framework in PHP, having a high fan-following. Reasons behind its popularity are many and as such, here are some of the most relevant factors that contribute to its huge popularity.

·         Zend can be implemented with modular approach. Each of the building blocks in this framework can be used separately, piece by piece.

·         Moreover, these can be combined together with other applications or frameworks.

·         It provides a high level of security, thanks to a wide array of cryptographic and other dependable coding elements.

·         Zend is pretty flexible; it smartly meets customized requirements of each user.

·         It has a vast user base and as such, seeking help from the community is most easy.

·        Above everything else, this entity possesses an excellent track record of performance.

Cake PHP

It is another trustworthy PHP framework having huge popularity. There are several genuine factors behind its rise to prominence among the fraternity of web developers. Here is quick summation of the advantages it offers.

·         Most importantly, this framework helps in delivering outputs pretty fast.

·       Interestingly, this one does not have the complicated XML or YAML files. All it requires from a user is to set up a database and one can start baking cakes right away!

·         Easy license procuring facility that it offers, thanks to MIT, Cake PHP is the obvious choice in designing almost all commercial applications.

·       It comes with a wide range of in-built facilities, including translation, database access, validation and authentication, caching and much more.

·         Unlike starting from abstract, this framework offers a rich set of conventions to guide the developers all through the development course.

Cake PHP offers a rich set of in-built tools to emphasize security. It offers in-built help to developers in form of input validation, form tampering protection, CSRF protection, SQL injection prevention and XSS prevention, etc.

Marginalizing Confusion While Hiring Skilled Website Designers

There are several factors that are responsible to bring a corporate entity to the doors of a website designer. However, given the utmost popularity of the internet along with its associated feature of online business, the prospect of success for any business, in the contemporary times, is vastly dependent on smart and user-friendly virtual portals. As such, unprecedented prominence of website designing has facilitated a huge number of players in the field, providing service to a multitude of clients. The overly saturated condition – prevailing in the said business – is a genuine reason that most of the clients get confused with while picking the right player for their job.

Interestingly, sorting out this confusion is not a big deal! However, one has to keep a few things in mind while hiring a web designing organization. Here are some helpful tips to easily team-up with some of the most competent service providers from the website designing fraternity.

Zeroing on a competent website designer

Stamps of reputed training schools and certificates actually do not indicate much about an individual in any creative field. Being a thoroughly artistic vocation, the above fact holds true for any professional working in the domain of web design services. Therefore, it is preferable not to go for the glitz of reputed training institutes and flashy post-training certificates. Rather, people with flair of creativity and having a basic sense of logic can, actually, design more effective and smart websites than others.

Secondly, any true competent web design company in India, or anywhere else for that matter, prefers to work on as many varying types of websites as possible. This exposure counts a lot and as such, builds the morale of a team, boosting its self-confidence. Therefore, it is much sensible to hire web designing experts who have a truly varied working experience.

Given the huge number of service providers in the concerned sector, competition is severe in this business at present. Thus, factors like cost-cutting and on-time delivery are some of the basic elements that any website designing entity tries to stick to, irrespective of just anything else.