Large Menu Icons

August 10, 2012 – 1:24 pm

Menu-Icons.com announces the release of Large Menu Icons, a royalty-free library of stock menu images for application developers and web designers. The new set includes 398 icons drawn in matching style, color and gamut. The Large Menu Icons collection sells for $49.00.

About Large Menu Icons

Large Menu Icons is the perfect choice for busy application and Web site developers. This collection of stock icons with matching properties such as style and colors, can be used in various projects and scripts, as well as on portals, blogs, forums, and web sites. Large Menu Icons will make an application, blog or applet look modern and consistent throughout. All icons in the Large Menu Icons collection are royalty-free. The entire collection is immediately available and comes with an online preview.

What’s Inside

The Large Menu Icons collection contains images representing all sides of the application work. Some of the icons in the set are: open, close, edit, validate, time, clock, error, OK, data, computer, archive, people, user, girl, man, admin, horse, car and more.

Large Menu Icons


Technically, the set includes icons in a number of formats, sizes, color resolutions, and image styles. Every icon from the library comes in sizes of 16×16, 24×24, 32×32, 48×48 and 64×64 pixels. Normal, disabled, and highlighted versions are included for every icon. 256-color and semi-transparent True Color icons are supplied. Large Menu Icons are delivered in Windows Icon (ICO), Bitmap (BMP), GIF and PNG formats for instant integration into any systems. The entire Large Menu Icons collection is available for only $49.00. Source images are also available in SVG and AI formats for an additional payment.

Menu-Icons.com also plans to release a number of new original icon sets including Lumina Menu Icons, Windows Menu Icons, New Menu Icons, Cool Menu Icons, Win8 menu Icons, Vista Menu Icons, Mac Menu Icons, Android Tab Icons, Linux Menu Icons, Nokia Menu Icons, iPhone Menu Icons, Mobile Menu Icons.

About the Company

Menu-Icons.com offers thousands of icons in the most difficult small resolutions. PDA and mobile developers and designers can enhance their software with smooth, perfectly rendered icons in the most convenient resolutions. Menu-Icons.com are available in all sizes common to desktop and mobile applications for mobile phones, communicators, and desktop applications. All icons offered by Menu Icons are royalty-free, ready-made and instantly available.

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Why Designing a Mars Rover Like Curiosity Just Got a Lot Easier By Tim Maly

August 9, 2012 – 12:24 pm

MSL Rover NX CAD model


You’ve all seen the artist renditions. This is what Curiosity looks like to an engineer.

A few minutes into our interview last Thursday, I ask Tim Nichols, managing director of Global Aerospace, Defenses and Marine Industries at Siemens, if he was nervous about the Curiosity’s fate on Sunday. “Of course I am,” he says with a laugh, “We all know about missions to Mars — they’re complex.” None moreso than Curiosity’s elaborate landing sequence, designed to get the SUV-sized robot down safely.

He needn’t have worried. Late Sunday night, the rover successfully set down on the Martian landscape, overseen by a tense room of Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) engineers and watched by so many people here on Earth that all of NASA’s websites crashed. Like the rest of us, Nichols was glued to his screen. Unlike the rest of us, Nichols gets to say he had a hand in it. His company’s software designed Curiosity.

Curiosity is much larger than her unexpectedly long-lived predecessors, Spirit and Opportunity. This meant that she couldn’t just land bundled inside airbags like the smaller rovers.

Instead, the mission executed a complex series of maneuvers to eject the robot from its capsule and lower it to the ground, via a rocket-powered sky crane in a sequence of events that NASA called the Seven Minutes of Terror.

Curiosity was designed by the JPL at the California Institute of Technology. When it came time to coordinate the enormous team of designers and engineers that built Curiosity, the capsule, and the sky crane, JPL turned to Siemens. They needed to design the robot (relatively) cheaply and they needed to design it fast — the launch window for missions to Mars comes once every two years. If you miss the deadline, there’s a long wait ahead.
MSL Capsule with Rover NX CAE thermal model


If you squint, you can see Curiosity and the sky crane folded up together in the capsule.

Luckily, Siemens had developed software suited to this sort of project. They call it Product Lifecycle Management (PLM).

One of the costliest parts of creating a new physical product is building and testing prototypes. With PLM’s robust suite of simulators and version tracking, you can avoid a lot of physical prototyping — saving both time and money, and speeding up the development process. In essence, PLM turns the physical engineering of a product into a process that looks more and more like designing code.

PLM runs on a laptop, connected to a central asset manager, called the Team Center. Engineers can check out parts of the project, work on their problems and assignments, and then check it back in to the main branch. This allows for a lot of concurrent design work. “In the past, engineering teams would be somewhat isolated by discipline,” says Nichols, “The overall leadership recognized that they needed to bring all the groups together.”

This is a far cry from past projects, which would be designed as a series of handoffs between teams. First the thermal profiles would be worked out, then the aerodynamics, on down the line. Propagating changes between teams could become a nightmare. PLM changed all of that, Nichols says, giving the team the ability to “compress the schedule and … do many more design iterations.”
MSL NX CAD Exploded view of seperation stages


With luck, this is the only exploded view of the Mars lander that we’ll ever see.

If this sounds a lot like software engineering, especially the open source variety, it’s because it is. There’s a version control system, the ability to check code in and out of the system, and a set of test suites that allow you check the performance of your part of the module in relation to the whole. By keeping the objects in software for as long as possible, you can treat them like software, with all of the speed and flexibility that this implies.

Nichols says their suite of tools has been used to design everything from golf clubs — “Golf clubs are pretty sophisticated, though they haven’t helped my game.” — to aircraft carriers. Looking ahead, he predicts an increasing incidence of distributed international teams of contributors working on a project.
“Global virtual collaboration and engineering is really the future,” he says. “We want to see more of that.”

But first, Curiosity had to make it to Mars. “We all have our fingers crossed,” he said on Thursday. You can uncross them now, Mr Nichols.

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Microsoft Discontinues Use of Metro Name

August 6, 2012 – 4:42 pm

By: Matthew Humphries

If you’ve read any news coming out of Microsoft over the past year relating to Windows 8 or Windows Phone, you’ve heard the name “Metro” used quite heavily. Metro refers to the design language and overall style of the interface Microsoft is using for both its desktop/tablet and mobile operating systems.

As of today, Metro is no longer a word Microsoft will be using to describe anything to do with their product line-up. It has officially been killed off as a term Microsoft’s staff and marketing is allowed to use.

The specific reason for this sudden change remains unclear. It was first thought to be due to a trademark infringement Microsoft couldn’t settle with German company Metro AG. Microsoft has since sent around an internal memo stating Metro will no longer be used following “discussions with an important European partner.”

It’s unlikely we’ll hear any further explanation beyond that officially, but we can expect to hear a replacement term and phrases coming out of Microsoft before this week is over.

It’s definitely a blow to the Windows 8 marketing campaign as Metro as a term is instantly associated with the OS and interface. And it will be interesting to see how Microsoft decides to handle discussing the interface going forward. Will we simply get Windows 8 and Windows Phone interface terms from now on? Or will there be a totally new buzzword coming out of Redmond? For the moment expect to hear “Windows 8 style UI.”

Another question that needs to be asked: why did Microsoft decide to commercialize a name without first checking (and trademarking worldwide) it wouldn’t cause an issue big enough to see it killed 3 months before a major product launch?

Windows 8 has already gone RTM, and anyone with an MSDN or TechNet subscription will be getting the final ISO on August 15. Will that still happen? It depends on whether Microsoft has used the Metro name within the OS itself and how easily it can be patched out. There’s also a question mark over how much marketing material Microsoft will now have to dump, and whether any training materials need changing, too.

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Apple iPhone or Android: the Epic Battle

July 18, 2012 – 2:05 pm

Android or iPhone? The debate goes on and on. When the iPhone was first released, there was really no competition. Apple was playing in a class of its own. First Android devices were mediocre: sluggish UI, lags here and there, and the overall “assemble-it-yourself” approach just didn’t with consumers.

iphone icons

Today, the market has changed. With the latest iPhone being a superb device and a wonderful system, the latest Androids leave little to be desired. Today’s Androids have no UI lags, feature most of the same apps in the Google Play store, and went away with the do-it-yourself, LEGO type approach. Today, choosing one phone over another is more of a personal preference. Let’s try to find out what’s good about going the Apple route, and what advantages the Android way can bring.

Hardware and Model Selection

With Apple, you have a limited choice of only several models. Or, rather, you can choose from just one current model in several versions that, honestly, differ very little. There are a few older models available from the used market, but that’s about it. “You can have any color as long as it’s black”.

Android devices, on the other hand, come in all sorts of shapes, models and colors. Various manufacturers use completely different hardware. Different screens, processors, memory. Vastly different reliability and usability. Buying an Android phone will require you to do a market research, whereas you can’t go wrong with any current iPhone. Are you a techno geek or a gadget guy? Look for an Android phone that flies with you. Others will be served by Apple.

Display

The latest generation of iPhones has a great Retina display. These super high pixel density displays will display your apps, icons and pictures so crisp it’s hard to believe. Kudos to Apple: they made one of the greatest screens ever.

Androids come with all sorts of displays. Some of the better ones can match iPhones in pixel density, but software integration is still something to work on. Many apps are still using low-resolution icons and graphics designed to be shown on lower-resolution screens. When selecting an Android phone, you will have to look really carefully to buy a model with a good display. If you’re not friends with numbers, icon resolutions, angles of view and technical specs, just get an iPhone for the best screen ever.

Built-in Software and UI

An iPhone is an iPhone. They’re all the same. A single operating system, same user interface, the same set of pre-installed apps, same icons. You can customize it by shifting stuff around and choosing a few icons on your own, but there’s only so much you’re allowed to do.

Androids are available in many flavors. Different firmware and dozens of OS versions, builds and codenames. Different sets of icons for same apps. Completely different shells and launchers. Extensively customizable: you can make Android phones look like whatever you want (and it’s not just about custom icons) – but you have to know what you’re doing. With such a broad variety, some devices are simply better as in easier to use, more stable and working faster than others. If making your very own tailored environment is fun for you, by all means get the Android. If you like it working out of the box, get an iPhone and begin using it right away.

Extensibility

iPhones don’t have a slot to use an external memory card. You’ll be stuck with the amount of memory you originally bought. If you outgrow your iPhone, you’ll have to get another iPhone, bringing more money to Apple.

Most but not all Android phones come with a microSD extension slot, allowing you to add more memory when you need it. With flash memory getting cheaper every year, you will be wealthier in the long run if you get an Android.

With iPhones, you can’t even swap a battery. If your battery dies in some years (they all do; lithium batteries die in 3-4 years), you’ll be mailing your iPhone back to Apple for a “major repair” (more money to Apple), or be on the market for a new iPhone (even more money to Apple).

While some Android devices use similarly user irreplaceable batteries, most devices are easy: just lift the back cover and throw a new battery in. A replacement battery will cost a few dollars, allowing you to buy a replacement phone when you want it.

Conclusion

Android phones are more affordable to buy and cheaper to upgrade and maintain. They’re more extensible and customizable. iPhones are perfect straight out of the box, and offer one of the best usage experience ever. Which one to pick? The choice is yours.

Source: Apple iPhone vs. Android: the Epic Battle

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Business applications made easier, top icons to the fore

February 16, 2012 – 1:40 pm

There is a lot that can go wrong when you are trying to write a business application, as most programmers are constantly struggling between keeping it sober while trying to keep it from being too dull. All of this when attempting to fit in the complex functionalities. Aero business icons are the key to the issue, read on to find out more.

In every application, all the user sees is the user interface, no matter how beautifully the logic works and whatever functionalities it may encompass if he has to look at an ungainly distracting screen he would only use the app until the time he gets a better option. What many programmers fail to understand is – the importance of simple and easy navigability, and appealing visual content, and many an application has failed to garner the popularity they otherwise could have because of this ignorance.

When programmers do understand the importance of a good user interface, they either do not have the skill or the extensive time required to painstakingly develop it. The problem is solved in part by aero business icons- as it presents you with all the images you may need when trying to develop a business based application.

By buying these, you get a set of 285 top notch business images in two color schemes including 256 colors and 32 bit. These images are compatible with almost all operating systems and can be used with windows, mac OS, iOS and android based applications. Moreover, these images come in 5 different sizes that range from as small as 16×16 pixels to the largest being 256 x 256 pixels. Each and every one of these icons has been painstakingly developed by professionals who have ensured that perfect colors are there to complement the amazing descriptive pictography. The images are very descriptive in nature almost to the point of being funny and are sure to catch the user’s imagination. More than that, when used wisely and placed strategically around your application they can help to keep the most complex business logic uncluttered on the user interface.

Some of the extremely innovative icons include that of a boss, a client, an icon for client list, one for motor mechanic, even ecology, spy icons and birthdays have found a place amongst the set. All of these are available in addition to the more common icons such as that of money, purchase, cart and bank, and the fact that they have spent time in figuring out every detail is so very apparent, a boss is a stub in black suit while the spy is found with a hat on, my favorite of all of these would have to be that of a business competitor who has a bull’s eye trained upon him. In the world today when we have many similar applications flooding the market, it is what is different amongst them that matters. Be different, be simple and be cool.

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Business Software Icons – Memorized for Its Outstanding Interface ad Layout

February 9, 2012 – 4:07 pm

The advance operating system like Microsoft Vista is rapidly memorized due its outstanding interface and extreme convenient layout. Today, business software icons are the best options to design your application and website because it can enhance the real appearance that you don’t imagine. These sorts of icons are coming in all types of popular sizes and formats, so you can get most exotic size and design that you require to fulfill your desires. You can avail these icons in assortment sizes like 16×16, 20×20, 24×24 to 64×64, 128×128, and 256×256. Also, these business software icons are coming with two color formats like 256 colors with semi-transparency.  If you want to use these sorts of icons, then you need to specify which file format can suitable for your task like BMP, GIF, PNG, and ICO.  It is the best option for you to download these sorts of icons from your relevant website.

Business software icons are required for increasing the customer demand and profit. These attractive business icons are one of the best method for attracting the fresh visitor! In case, you search for some best icons collection for the business development, then this website is suitable for you. Also, there are some expert’s software maker putting all their efforts in designing a bunch of some perfect icons according to various requirement and purpose, so user may get the desire icons with a royalty free icons. The business software icons are design by a software developer, very beautifully that any user may fulfill their business need at cheap rate. Bunch of this royalty free icons set set are including with a variety of image like many occupations or user roles. Also business icons makers can focus on the color combination, thus user will get 32 bit and 256 colors of attractive color.

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Copyright – Offering More Security to Unique Invention

January 17, 2012 – 10:53 am

Copyright is a bunch of specific rights that can be using to offer granted to creator or author on their original work, adapt and distribute work as well as right to copy. In most of the cases, jurisdictions copyright is occur on the fixation that never required for registered. Copyright owners have own specific legal rights to use to control over their entire work to protect them from copying as well as from unauthorized interference. They can use to fulfill entire legal process exceptions and limitations to copyright for the fair use.  However, the copyright owners can be transfer permanently as well as offer exclusive right to other as per their requirement. Originally copyright law is functional to only the replication of books. Previously, this process was used in other works like the derivative and translations, which were completed subject to copyright. However, copyright is now using in various works such as: sheet music, dramatic works, architectural drawings, and motion pictures for better security.

When statutory copyright term given by Statute of Anne started to expire at 1731 London booksellers considered to defend the dominant position just by seeking the injunctions from Court of the Chancery for the works by authors who fell outside statute’s protection. Simultaneously London booksellers also lobbied the parliament to extend copyright term given by Statute of Anne. In case known as the Midwinter v. Hamilton, London booksellers also turned to the common law as well as starting thirty year period well known as battle of booksellers. London booksellers argued Statute of Anne supplemented and supported the pre-existing common copyright
law. Dispute was then argued out in many notable cases, which includes Millar and Kincaid, Tonson v Collins, and Donaldson and Beckett.  Donaldson v Beckett established that the copyright was the “creature of statute”, that rights and responsibilities in the copyright were decided by the legislation.

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Religious Symbolism – Representing To Various Acts and Events

January 10, 2012 – 11:17 am

Religious symbolism is utilized as the symbols that merge with the acts, events, archetypes, and events by any region. It is also stand for the religious texts, works of any art symbol and ritual. However, these symbol and meaning of the regional image will vary from different ideas of the regions. These symbols are also help to creating a booming mythos expressing the ethical values of human society as well as offer various ideas about the religion. However, learn about the religious symbolism is Universalist that a part of the mythology and comparative religion. However, the Religious symbolism and the iconography are also known as the basic and critical artistic forms. It is also using as the sign that used as a main transmit of the religion ideas. Religious symbolism is also best way for every religion in the world to representing their religious or events as well as creating awareness among people regarding to their religion.

The Eastern tradition says universe started like an egg and shell cracked spewed forth in directions. Out of chaos of 5 elements and light and dark, first man made the universe; and it took 18000 years. And 4 animals assisted in the task: dragon, tortoise, phoenix, and unicorn. On completion of task, first man died as well as his body became Earth, and his blood waters, his breath a wind. His voice also became thunder and eyes became moon and sun. His bones were the stones and metals whereas his hair was the vegetation, his sweat became rain. Every animal chose the territory and dragon went to waters, tortoise crawled in a swamp, and phoenix flew on dry land. Unicorn, well known as K’i-lin in China, then ran in forests. These special hardly ever reveal themselves to the humans.

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Small Network Icons – A Collection of Distinctive Icons!

December 13, 2011 – 8:19 am

In this 21st century, technologies have been used in every field. So, there is no exception in the field of computer. In this regard, several icons are used by the users to make their work even easier. Small network is a collection of distinctive icons that represents all operation related to network. You can represent several attractive network related images through these icons such as traffic, data transfer, internet, network connection, local area connection, network key, network support, network tools and many more. The other collections of such icons are network card, network hub, network engineer, network security and many others. Now you can get these attractive icons for only $ 49.95. You can also get all standard sizes, styles, file formats and color depths of these icons. Each icon are coming in ICO, BMP, GIF and PNG formats. Customer can also get these icons in normal, disabled and highlighted states. Small Network Icons are used in:

  • Security applications.
  • Internet and Network utilities;

You may purchase the whole Small Network Icons range and individual icons for just $5 each. The icons that are included in the Small Network Icons are of best quality as well as are crafted by the professional designers. Also, they are the excellent option for the individual software developers as well as small businesses keen to make use of Modern quality of icons in the applications without any need to hire the designer for drawing them. The Icon Impire plans releasing their next icon packages as well: Standard Flag Icons, Standard Desktop Icons, Standard Office Icons, Standard Aero Icons, Standard Computer Icons, Standard Weather Icons, Standard Software Icons and Standard Folder Icons. You may download free Small Network Icons now. The Small Network Icons is pre made best quality of icons that are representing different network associated items: cable, network hub, network card, network engineer, wireless connection, administrator, network security, and many more.

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Perfect Time Icons – Much Essential For Time Managements!

November 29, 2011 – 10:55 am

You can add more color and attractive look in your website or any application as well as easily scheduling your performance with the help of perfect time icons collection. You can get these royalty free icons collection in several symbol, objects and action like the clock, time machine, calendar, appointment, alarm, and schedule for both your personal and commercial use. You can get more than 89 unique icons that related to various time related concepts. All the icons are available in unique image, format and sizes that fulfill your different requirement of application. These icons are available in various sizes like 16×16, 20×20, 24×24, 32×32, and 48×48 and formats like the ICO, BMP, PNG and GIF in various color formats. Perfect Time Icons are the right option for the websites and software developers to get best graphical users interface design in quick time and less effort for their different application assessments.


The Perfect time Icons is collection of some attractive time associated stock icons for the developers of the software applications as well as web sites. These set also includes around 56 icons representing the clocks, calendars as well as other objects or concepts, and related to the time, schedules, appointments, performance, and many more etc. Every icon is been supplied in five sizes (20×20, 24×24, 16×16, 32×32 as well as 48×48 Pixels), two color depths (around 256 colors or 16.7 million colors with the transparency) and four file formats: the Windows icon (.ico), the Bitmap (.bmp), GIF or PNG, allowing simple integration of the images in any of the project or system. Every icon image as well has the three variations: hot (selected), normal, as well as disabled and you may download free Perfect Time Icons now.

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