Solar Panel

Solar panels are great alternative to energy saving now that more and more households are concerned with the harm that burning fossil fuel cost the environment. With that said, solar panels are simply put, a bunch of panels, which converts the sun’s power into electricity. Solar panels differ in terms of use and size depending on whether it will be used for commercial purposes such as seen on satellites or for residential purposes, which is used by individual homes to power their homes.

Types of Solar Panel

Photovoltaic and solar water heating are two types of solar panels. The photovoltaic solar panels or commonly called as solar panels are usually the ones one see on top of one’s home and are used to harness the sun’s energy and convert it into electricity which usually powers one’s home. Solar photovoltaic or solar thermal on the other hand are heaters that converts the sun’s energy into electricity and heats up the water system in the locality or place. Continue reading →

Bullet Proof Glass

Bullet proof glass are popular nowadays especially in commercial establishments such as jewellery stores who wanted to show off their jewellery collections without having to worry too much of burglary. Bulletproof glasses are also popular and use by government officials and other government agencies.

What is a Bullet Proof Glass?

A bulletproof glass is a combination of two types of glass which when mix can be resistant to bullet or any other blast. The glass is usually made up of one soft and one hard glass where the soft glass enables the glass material to become elastic thus not breaking or shattering when a bullet hit it. Although repeated targeting of the same area can shatter the glass at the long run as it is not impenetrable completely.  The glasses are balance together to ensure that the transparent view is maintained on both sides of the glass mirror. Continue reading →

Green Technology

Green technology is the latest when it comes to sustainable development and reducing the impact of global warming to the environment.

Green technology, in simple terms, are simple technologies that are environmentally friendly and uses little to no natural resources thus conserving the Earth’s natural resources.  

One of the best examples of using green technology is the used of recyclable materials which makes use of materials or products and turning them into other usable items or commodities. An example would be plastic bottles that are converted into plastic chairs. Continue reading →

Google Niantic Project

Google’s latest project has been getting attention for the past few days. Codename as Niantic Project, the project is actually a reality multiplayer game called “Ingress” and is available for download for Android users and is available in Google’s Play Store.

What is it all about?

Ingress is a multiplayer reality game play wherein players around the world can play the reality game. The players can choose which side they are in – “The Resistance” or the “The Enlightened.”

As players compete, the numbers of local players are also factored in on the game. The number of local players also determines the success of the player, the higher the competition for resources the harder it is or the more competitive the game would be. Continue reading →

Windows 8

 Windows 8 is the latest OS from the Microsoft giant, released on October 26, 2012 to the public. The OS minimum requirements include support for PAE or physical address extension, SSE2, and NX bit, 1GB RAM and 20GB free disk space.

Cloud Based Connectivity

With the Windows 8 OS, one is directly connected to all of his MS devices including phone, tablets and pcs.

The user would be prompted to enter his MS account, which links, to MS SkyDrive. This enables the user to update his files or documents without having to login to each individual account. The OS also allows the user to synchronize all his files to other devices and can opt to choose the applications that do not need synchronizing. The user can also add other user accounts to the OS. Continue reading →

Microsoft Office

Microsoft Office is popular desktop office software, which is considered as the number one in desktop publishing. Depending on what one needs, Microsoft offers several applications, which are quite useful, and the ease of use and the ever-present help button ensures that one can easily navigate its functions and features.

History

Microsoft Office was first introduced in 1989 by Microsoft and includes MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint. In recent years, the bundled packages of the MS Office would include other applications such as Visual Basic, Outlook, Publisher, OneNote, Visio, Lync, Access and Project. Microsoft also developed several MS Office platforms, which caters to different users.

MS Office Basic contains basic Office package whereas Professional package contains added features that are not available in the Basic package. Microsoft offers service packs to update the software and online support is available as well as remote assistance. Continue reading →

Cloud Computing

Cloud computing is a popular term in the internet at present. With internet usage increasing every year, many internet companies now, offer “cloud” or “internet spaces” to clients. Clients will only need to install software to their gadgets and access the information remotely.

Cloud computing is made up of several types including: (a) infrastructure or “IaaS” (b) Platform or “PaaS” (c) Storage or “STaaS” (d) Security or “SECaaS” (e) Data or “DaaS” (f) Test environment or “TEaaS”  (g) Desktop “DaaS” and API or “APaaS”

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is one of the major cloud computing types, which deals with the client paying the service on a per use basis only. Services rendered include automation of administrative task and storage for hardware and shared data. Applications are accessible on the server by the user without using the same computer. Continue reading →

Electronic Books – e-Books

As defined by the Oxford Dictionary of English as an electronic version of a printed book, e-Books can be downloaded on your personal computer, iPads, and cell phones (mostly smart phones).

E-books consist of text and images published digitally. It can either have a printed version or not.

The Adobe software providing a PDF format has been the most common design or layout used in e-books. The devices used in accessing the e-books like cell phones and iPads are called the e-readers. An e-reader serves its purpose of reading digital periodicals and e-books. Continue reading →

Patents – Benefits Of Having Your Products Registered

Patents – Benefits Of Having Your Products Registered

Patents are particularly important as it gives one the exclusive right to a certain product that one invented and prevented another person, entity or company to manufacture the product without the express consent of the inventor for a limited period, which is usually 20 years or less depending on the country of issuance.

Patents are given to inventors or creators and can be sold, transferred or even freely given to another by its inventor and can be improved by other inventors subject to the approval of the original inventor if it is still covered by the patent agreement.

For one to claim and granted a patent for one’s invention one should follow the rules and international agreement under the WTO or World Trade Organization concerning Trade-Related agreements on Intellectual Property Rights.

Types of Patents

Utility Patents. Utility patents given to inventors who invented or discover new products or machine, which are useful in the manufacturing industry. Utility patents are given to protect functionality of a machine or manufactured product.  The patent prevents the selling or making of the product by the competitors for up to twenty years.

Design Patents. Design patents are given to those that have invented original designs or ornamental features or altering the appearance of an invention or product. In the US, inventors who apply for design patents can prevent and exclude others from selling, using or making the designs for up to fourteen years.

Plant Patents. Plant patents are given to people who have invented or reproduced a new variety of plant without use of tubular plants and reproduced it asexually through means of root cuttings, grafting, bulbs, nucellar embryos, runners and tissue culture among other means of asexual reproduction method.

Benefits of Patents

Having a patent for your product provides additional benefit that excludes other inventors. For one, inventors are allowed to sell the invention and thus have added capital to pursue other innovations or products as well as improve on the invented product.

Another benefit is that one can license and sell the product while retaining the IP rights. This allows the inventor to retain the rights to the product and improve the product at the same time. With having one’s invention patented, others cannot sell the product without the permission of the inventor.

Before applying for patents for one’s invention, it is important to note that not all countries follow the same patent ruling it is therefore essential for the inventor to check out international patent rights of each country that one wants.

Oracle Database Management Software

Oracle is currently the number one relational database software management that allows users the freedom to choose where to store their data. For many businesses, the Oracle software is integral to the company’s success especially the software’s advance features.  Oracle was first developed by Larry Ellison and his former co-workers Bob miner and ED Oates in 1977.

Core Components of Oracle

The core components of Oracle program are composed of the following – responsibilities, menus, option, concurrent manager and security concepts.

Responsibility addresses the user function that one is limited to. It limits the data that the user I allowed to use as well as access. One example would be a purchaser checking out the gross price of a certain product and the stocks availability. The sales or marketing on the other hand will only be limited to the stock availability and the retailed price that is set by the company. This allows each user to access the same product but is restricted to see only the data set.

Menus deal with the functions that are assigned to certain responsibilities. The menus are already integrated on the program, however new menus can be built if the existing ones are not enough. One advantage with using the program is that one can change the menu name and those underneath it will automatically integrate themselves under the new menu name.

A profile option on the other hand improves the security of the program by setting different security control level. There are six different levels where profiles are established including – site level, application, server, organization, and responsibility and user level.

Concurrent manager is another core component of the Oracle application. Here, users can request to generate report while still executing or using the program. The system identifies which user requested the report and how many are allowed to do so in a certain period of time. This allows the server to run smoothly and not bog down due to the flow of request coming in.

Security concept is the most important and crucial component of the application. The application segregate the security based on database and function. Database distinguishes which user or Oracle Id he database depends on. This allows for upgrading of the data of the said user without slowing down the application for other Oracle user in the process. Function security on the other hand limits the application that a user can access.