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Today the iPhone - not just a popular device, but a real living legend. Legends of the walk and those who managed to earn astronomical programs for him, according to Belarusian standards, the sums of money. Where to start, so you got your piece of cake under the name iPhone/iPad? Success stories Starting without inspiration is not worth it, because programming is like art - even if you write a program solely to earn money with the help of money, not to self-realization, best of all it will be released in the case when she is called, " is the soul". Perhaps the best way in this case can motivate the history of those who have already achieved success on the field to build applications for "apple" devices. So, here is the first of the success stories. Was working as a programmer at Sun Microsystems Ethan Nicholas, in a difficult financial situation because of the birth of her son, decided to try his luck and make money by selling their own games for "apple...

1. When and how did the name Microsoft? For the first time the company name appeared in the correspondence of the two co-founders - Bill Gates and Paul Allen. The future is the richest man on earth shared the opinion that the name should reflect the essence of business - a symbiosis of "iron" and "a software" entities (Micro-Soft). This name and has become established formally. Then the partners have registered a new company in the state of New Mexico, where they would work on its first customer - Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems, stationed in Albuquerque. 2. Who composed "Ringtone Microsoft"? Melodious warble when you start Windows OSes, first appeared in Windows 95 and continues to accompany the more modern version of the platform. Author melodies became famous composer and producer Brian Eno, who worked with U2, David Bowie and other prominent performers. In the words of Ino, compose a melody to run the OS it was for him the task akin...

This term is used by IT professionals often enough, but not always correctly interpreted by users. So it makes sense to discuss it. Under the intranet is usually understood to a local area network (detailed, for example, within an organization), based on the same technical solutions as the "big" Internet, that is, based on the IP-protocols. In their own corporate intranet contains information resources - corporate portal, corporate forum, corporate bulletin board, etc. They are implemented in such a way as to be accessible only to internal users (employees of the organization), but are accessed using a conventional browser. It is worth noting that although the above at all times referred to the intranet as a corporate network, in practice this internal network can exist not only in organizations but also, say, in the dormitories or in private homes. And absolutely not necessary that the intranet was organized in some sort of separate geographically localized place - throu...

Microsoft has released an updated version of its subsidiary set of developer tools called Visual Studio 2010 Productivity Power Tools. Among the main differences between the new version should be noted the new ability to selectively disable individual add-ins and Solution Navigator tool for easy navigation of code complex multicomponent solutions. Now users of Visual Studio 2010 have the discretion to enable and disable add-ins. Besides, now all options for add-ins are configured through a single dialog. Utility Solution Navigator provides the user with the support dialogue, which operates in the same way as a more powerful tool Solution Explorer, designed for professional project management in software development. Community Center Solution Navigator can easily deploy the files with the code for easy transition to fit classes, as well as quickly find members of the classes within the class you want. Solution Navigator also offers users a search by code, the filtering project, view inf...

If ten years ago you told someone that he could be put behind bars because of the comments on a blog or post on the forum, people would laugh at you and walked away. Today, it is no longer funny - than, as they say, farther into the forest, the more cyber space penetrates all our lives and the more potential trouble can bring such penetration... In fact, more than logical. The Internet has become a very important part of society, which is already being called the post-industrial, and most important resource in this society is no longer gold and even oil, and information. But property information such that it can not sell its weight ", as sold at traffic megabytes ISPs. The cost of one megabyte of information can vary from zero (when the megabyte - a meaningless "noise" or simply "zeros") to almost infinity (eg, per megabyte which some secret information to the Pentagon). And for a society where information is not just an important commodity, and perhaps most...

July 5th State Duma deputy from the "United Russia" Robert Schlegel has published in his blog the text of the draft law on the internet. Rather, it is about 30 pages of amendments to the law "On information, information technology and information security. On July 7, had already been officially declared that the working group of the Duma committee on information policy, prepared a draft law regulating the use of the Internet in Russia. Changes for the better Duma amendments to the law "On information, information technology and information security for the first time in the history of Russian law-introduce such basic concepts as" global computer networks "and" operator of a web-site. " They also determine the limits of jurisdiction of national legislation on the World Wide Web. It is known that the Duma bill will be introduced no earlier than autumn, when he sent to the presidential administration and government. The Working Group is predicated o...

Apple announced financial results for the third quarter of 2010 financial year ended 26 June 2010 record revenues of U.S. $ 15.7 billion and net quarterly profit - 3.25 billion dollars, or 3.51 per diluted share. Company's revenue for the same quarter the previous year amounted to 9.73 billion dollars and net quarterly profit - 1.83 billion, or 2.01 per diluted share. Gross margin was 39.1 percent, which exceeds the figures for the same quarter last year (40.9 percent). International sales accounted for 52 percent of quarterly revenue. For the quarter, Apple sold 3.47 million PCs Mac - 33 percent more than in the corresponding quarter last year. The company sold 8.4 million iPhone - 61 per cent more than in the corresponding quarter last year. Quarterly iPod sales totaled 9.41 million units, up 8 per cent less than in the corresponding quarter last year. The company began selling iPad during the quarter, total sales of which amounted to 3.27 million

Immigrant and U.S. Customs Service ( ICE ) «dismantled" nine major pirate streaming movie sites, which laid out movies in just a few hours after the premiere show. This is only part of the anti-piracy initiative called "Operation on our sites," which began to ICE and the District Attorney of the Southern New York . Promoting law enforcement has the American Association for film companies . Eliminated the following domain names: Movies-links.TV, nowmovies.com , thepiratecity.org, filespump.com, planetmoviez.com, zml.com , tvshack.net, ninjavideo.net и thisninja.net. Sites earned from advertising, and some of them even begged donations. Federal authorities have frozen the assets of 15 accounts. The searches conducted in several states. The head of ICE, John Morton explained that the number of illegal movie sites has increased dramatically recently in the U.S. and abroad. For some of them is organized crime. Recently, Hollywood has recognized these resources to thei...

According to estimates analyst firm Gartner, worldwide PC sales in a quarter of 2010 increased by 27.4% to 84.3 million units. This means that the results of the quarter exceeded even the most optimistic forecasts. And, it's interesting - personalok sales grew not only in developing countries (as expected), but also in developed countries, where users have changed your PC for the transition to Windows 7. Previously it was thought that the PC market will grow by 22%, mainly due to developing countries. However, in developed markets much earlier than expected, revealed a tendency to repleysmentu - replacing old PCs with new ones. The impetus for repleysmentu became, in particular, the launch of Windows 7. Now, Gartner analyst Mikako Kitagawa said that the influence of the G-PC sales will be felt until early 2011-th. With regard to specific PC manufacturers, the market leader is HP with a share of 18.2%. Second - Acer c 14.2%, third - Dell with 12.1%. Close to the first three crept Ch...

It seems carefree existence torrents and sharing services comes to an end. And the question here is not even on nabivshem nauseam The Pirate Bay. This year, the torrent trackers were persecuted all over the world - even in countries where nothing like this has never happened - for example, in Russia. But the most unpleasant - fighters for copyrights launched a massive attack on users of torrents, presenting the tens of thousands of lawsuits. Downloading files with torrents? Then they come to you! Start hostilities "Full-scale hostilities" began in late 2009. In November worn harassment The Pirate Bay tracker is closed and moved to the technology ligament (magnet-links + DHT). At the same time the largest torrent tracker Mininova court decision had to be removed from its database all the illegal content. Creator torrent tracker isoHunt judged by threatening to jail. Anti-piracy group BREIN of the Netherlands announced that during 2009 she was able through the courts to close ...