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GPS tracking for Vehicles, Fleets, Trucks and Asserts
4618 days
by webNivaran
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Trackwhatmatters.com offers superior Real-Time web based GPS tracking solutions to both commercial and private consumers, providing detailed monitoring of fleet vehicles, cars, ships, trucks, construction equipment, and people. Empowering you to efficiently manage mobile assets, lower operation expenses, and improve personnel accountability.
As long as companies have been trucking goods, they have needed a system for managing that transportation, including route scheduling, methods for drivers to check in with base, and systems to monitor drivers, especially during vehicle breakdowns. Efficient fleet management can reduce overtime and increase profits. Implementing a truck tracking system is a major important part of fleet management, and the best tracking system today is provided by Trackwhatmatters.com
GPS (Global Positioning System) was established by the U. S. Department of Defense and consists of 24 orbiting satellites that continuously transmit radio signals. By placing a GPS receiver in a vehicle, the distribution center or warehouse can keep track of the exact location of each truck on the company’s delivery route.
To determine the exact position of each truck, the GPS receiver must be able to lock on to three satellite signals. By measuring the difference between the time the signal was sent and the time it was received from these three satellites, the receiver can calculate latitude, longitude, and altitude.
Managing the GPS data and monitoring the trucks is a two-part system. First the equipment must be installed into the vehicles, and then a system set up at home base to receive the information. The type of system can vary depending on the specific needs of each trucking company.
For example, a company with a small fleet may only require basic vehicle tracking. This system shows location, route, stops, and speed of the truck. Independent contractors and executives may also find the basic system helpful as a way to keep record of trip mileage, time, and travel records.
A company with a larger fleet or who needs more detailed information, may select a real-time GPS truck tracking system. These systems can provide location updates every few minutes, automatically email reports, provide digital and satellite maps, and help keep a record of vehicle maintenance.
Insight to Web Hosting
0631 days
by webNivaran
in Internet
You keep hearing the term ‘web hosting service’ but you’re not sure exactly what it means. A web hosting service is the service you use to load and make your website live. This service provides you with a way to make your website accessible to other people on the Internet by providing you with space on a server to save all of your website files and other associated content. Servers are located in a data center and the web hosting service maintains the data center and some data centers even host servers for other companies that they do not own. This service is called colocation. Web hosting services can be free for personal websites or can cost up to $400 for business websites depending on the level of service you need.
Web hosting services vary widely from company to company. The simplest service is basic web pages and small scale file hosting. Files are uploaded onto the server by using a web interface or File Transfer Protocol (FTP) that allows you to upload multiple files at one time. The files are not changed when you load them onto the server and many Internet service providers offer this service free to their customers or you can secure service through another web hosting provider. Most personal web pages need very little in the way of extras in their web hosting package while larger sites, especially e-commerce sites, can utilize the additional software and application provided by the web hosting service, such as database support, forums, and SSL certification. As the website owner, you will be provided a control panel or some form of interface to use to manage your website on the web hosting server.
When you first look into a web hosting service one of the things you are going to want to verify is the uptime or the percentage of the time the host server has your website accessible on the Internet. Any web hosting service company should be aiming for a 99% uptime. Server restarts and maintenance – planned or unplanned – usually make up that other 1%. Occasionally a server’s downtime – when the server is being worked on, upgraded, etc. – will be longer than the web hosting company expects. You will want to make sure that there is some form of refund or reduced price in your service contract with the company to compensate you for this downtime.
Types of Hosting
The web hosting industry has spawned a broad range of niche markets over the years. Ranging from shared hosting to dedicated hosting, as well as all the hybrids in between, each type of web hosting presents its own set of pros and cons.
Shared Hosting – Cost Effective, Easy to Use and Feature Rich
Whether you call it conventional, regular or normal hosting, shared hosting is the most common web hosting service on the market. In fact, a large majority of the websites you encounter online are running on this type of platform.
As the name implies, shared hosting is a service arrangement where you share bandwidth, disk space capacity and various network resources with other paying customers. The structure of this model equates into a low-cost solution that is typically easy to maintain for even the most inexperienced of users. Although the price is usually reasonable, these packages do not slack on power, as they come loaded with an arsenal of useful features. The economic value, simplicity and hassle-free aspect makes shared hosting a viable option for most individuals and small companies.
Dedicated Hosting – The Utmost in Control, Flexibility, and Responsibility
Dedicated web hosting is the exact opposite of the shared variety. Instead of sharing the server with other customers, the hardware is dedicated exclusively to your website needs. Since you are not forced to share resources, dedicated hosting can provide you with a superior level of control, flexibility and performance. This is an arrangement wherein you can choose your own operating system, install your own software applications, and incorporate the security mechanisms you feel will provide the server with the best protection. It also a scenario that requires you to have a certain skill set in order to administer and maintain the server. Unlike shared web hosting, dedicated hosting is not recommended for the inexperienced user.
VPS Hosting – Immense Power and Great Performance
A virtual private server, or VPS, represents a technology that is rapidly emerging in the web hosting industry. A VPS is created by software that partitions a single physical server to establish multiple virtual servers within it. Known as virtualization, this process results in a number of isolated environments with the ability to perform many of the same functions as an individual machine.
A virtual private server tends to provide more guaranteed resources, better performance and security than your typical shared platform at a price that is notably less expensive than a dedicated server. With these factors in mind, many view a VPS as the perfect compromise between shared and dedicated web hosting.
Managed Hosting – Hassle-Free But Costly
In its most common application, managed hosting refers to the full servicing of a dedicated server. This service aims to alleviate the complexities and technical challenges of managing a web server. Though server management is the main feature, other options range from web application and database administration to monitoring and extensive support. Managed hosting services are geared towards customers who lack the technical abilities needed to handle a dedicated server, as well as those who do not have the time to fully immerse themselves in all the management aspects. Although cost efficient under the right circumstance, the biggest downside of managed hosting is its price tag, as it is considerably more expensive that other forms of web hosting.
Reseller Hosting – Substantial Profit Potential
Reseller hosting has emerged in recent times, providing entrepreneurs and small businesses with an opportunity to profit from the flourishing web hosting industry. As a reseller, you purchase a service plan from a hosting provider equipped with a certain amount of disk storage, bandwidth and features. This gives you the ammunition you need to sell web hosting plans to customers looking to build their presence online.
What makes this type of arrangement so attractive is that you pay a flat fee and have the potential generate substantial income from your investment. When selecting a respectable web hosting provider, a reseller account can run seamlessly and transparently enough to give you the presence of a large, established company.
Redirecting Naked Domain to its www subdomain : A Problem in Blogger Custom Domain Redirection
1633 days
by webNivaran
in Internet
Many of you must be having a blog on blogger/blogspot. There is a option in the blogger settings section, to host your blog on a custom domain.
If you want to host your blog on a domain name of your choice, first you need to register that domain name and then set it to point to blogger servers using a cname record. You will get a detailed tutorial for this on blogger help section here.
But blogger allows only the use of a subdomain to host your blog. You cannot host your blogger blog on a naked domain like http://example.com. You need to create a subdomain like http://www.example.com or http://blog.example.com to host your blog. The process of creating a cname record for a domain is explained here.
And then there is a option to redirect the naked domain on its subdomain you are using for your blog.
Now, the problem arises here. If you’ve registered you domain name through blogger, then this redirection option of redirecting the naked doamin on the used subdomain will work fine. Otherwise, it will not work.
If you already own a domain name and want to have your blogger blog hosted on that, then first you’ll have to create a subdomain for this. And host your blog on this subdomain by using the cname records in the DNS control panel of your domain.
Now, to redirect your naked domain on this subdomain you’ll need a bit of web space to host files for redirection.
Remember, if you use a separate hosting with your domain, you’ll need to update the name servers of your domain name and also you will have to create the cname once again using your hosting control panel.
PhotoFiltre: Lightest image editor
0633 days
by webNivaran
in Internet
Commercial software like Photoshop comes with an exhaustive list of features that is ideal for professional graphic designers. Here, we’re looking at PhotoFiltre, which, is in comparison, a tiny and free image editor. However, it’s something that you’ll find useful for everyday use — crop photos, make wallpapers or do simple artwork.
A walk through the usual features
The software layout is quite simple — the main toolbar is located to the right and the image properties toolbar on the top. You can access the effects in the Adjust and Filter menu. You can adjust the image and canvas size, and the image properties using the Image menu. Overall, PhotoFiltre is similar to Photoshop itself, so getting around the interface shouldn’t be a problem.
1. Adding files to PhotoFiltre
Loading files is a straight-forward process in PhotoFiltre, as in any other image editor. However, there is another way to do this. A feature called Image Explorer lets you view images in an entire folder including subfolders. You can access this feature by clicking on clicking on Tools > Image Explorer. A pane will appear at the bottom of the screen. Right-click on it and go to Explore > A folder. Select a folder and click OK. You can open images shown here by double-clicking on them.
2. Colour selection tool
The colour selection tool in PhotoFiltre has a few different modes which can be accessed by clicking on the left and right buttons below the colour selection tool. This presents a more accurate way of selecting colours.
3. Saving, loading and positioning shapes
Every good image editor has shape tools with presets, and PhotoFiltre is no exception. Simple shape presets can be selected from the toolbar on the right. The polygon and lasso tool can be used used to create your own paths. With PhotoFiltre, you can also save these shapes, for future use. To save these shapes, click on the Selection menu and then on Save shape. Give it a name and click Save. To load, click on Load shape item in the same menu. You can also move this shape accurately to the centre or to any other point on the image by clicking on Selection > Manual Settings. Size of the shape can also be changed from the same dialog box.
4. The PhotoMasque feature
The PhotoMasque feature allows you to set a mask for your entire image. The feature can be used by clicking on Filter > PhotoMasque. Here you can load a mask file and a list of supplied masks will be present. Select the mask you want, and click Open. You can choose the effect you want to get, by using the mask. To do this, click on the Mode dropdown menu. You can select the intensity of the effect you want, and the mask can also be inverted. Click Preview to see if you like the results, then click OK.
5. Batch processing in PhotoFiltre
The batch processing feature allows you to process multiple photos or images in one go, instead of opening every single image and processing it. Click on Tools > Automate / Batch to start it. First, select the photos that you want to process, by selecting the source folder and then the output folder where the processed images need to be saved. The other tabs can be accessed to set parameters and effects that you need for the images.
6. Reading EXIF info
Each image you capture using a digital camera, has pieces of information stored on it. This includes information about the camera and the photo taken. You can read this information by clicking on Image Properties under the File menu. Click on the EXIF button. You can export this information to a text file by clicking on the Export button.
7. Creating an icon
PhotoFiltre has a convenient feature that lets you create icons for Windows, without having to manually set colour depths and sizes. First, open the image or create one that you want made into an icon. Simply click on Tools > Export as icon to create your icon. The ICO file can be used with any application.
Algadon Medieval / Fantasy Online Game
2645 days
by webNivaran
in Internet
Algadon is a medieval/fantasy themed multiplayer RPG with all the usual aspects that one has come to expect from an online RPG these days – such as being able to perform quests, battle other human players but also boss monsters, buying and selling, weapons, armors, potions and so on. Algadon has it all – and more.
The storyline takes you back to the beginning a thousand years ago, telling how the world is a turbulent place between the various races. You’ll get updated all the way up to present time (which of course is not 2010, but is the present time within the game).
Algadon has over 16,000 members who enjoy the simple gameplay without having to worry about downloading heavy graphics and such. Algadon is a browser-based game, the one that you get to suck your teeth into. For premium members, there are some additional character classes, i.e. mage, mystic warrior and warrior angel. After registering an account and selecting your character class, you can start exploring the game by exploring the land, perform quests, battle monsters and other ferocious beasts, fight other players, place a bounty on another player, and attempt elite missions.
Algadon is a free browser based game; light loading for those of you with limited computer resources. Creating an account is as simple as selecting a username, password and your email address. You will also need to select the type of player you want to be from a whopping 14 different free character classes. I recommend reading though these different races first, to determine which one best suits your typical style of play, as each character generates gold, energy and hit points at a different rate.
