Monday, July 6, 2015

Thursday, July 2, 2015

Groupon - shopping is easy!



Groupon is a global e-commerce mobile apps which can let people purchase discount coupon online. Users will be easier to do online purchase and also purchase different types of things. 



However, online purchase have to take the risk and the product that customers purchase might be bad quality.

Author: Liew Chin Ching (B1401966)

Nike+



Nike+ is an activity tracker application and help user to figure out the related details such as mileage and time after work out. It can show the previous figure and compare the results. 



User need to install the application in their mobile or ipod then bring it when work out. It might cause some inconvenient

Author: Liew Chin Ching (B1401966)

Things you may need to know about BLOGGING

Source: Webtexttool.com
Today, there are over 150 million blogs on the Internet, which makes for pretty big growth. Without a doubt, Google has made the Blogger and WordPress as a platform for users to create their own blog site easily and without costs. Blogger is highly attractive for its completely free model – there are no restrictions, if Blogger can do it, so can you.



Hereby, I would like to share some benefits of blogging for the everyday person. Do you aware of Blog can actually be an online profile?

 With companies linked to the technology niche, it is common practice to research the online profiles of prospective job candidates for position vacancies, allowing companies to execute a more targeted search for talent and recruit experienced applicants. Because of this, blogging can be an asset to job applicants and employees who want to showcase their portfolio, work experience, and knowledge.

According to this article, the only way to become a better writer is to write – pages and pages, day after day. It’s no doubt that writing a blog could help to improve one’s writing skills. There are only two ways to become a better writer – either by reading voraciously or by writing regularly. We know that an active blogger will regularly produce thousands of works of content each week. The more you write, the more organized and on-point your thinking and analysis will be.


Last but not shell, there is one good thing I like about Blogger platform is that it might allow you to make some pocket money. One gains a good exposure of their blog content besides being able to enjoy a profit from monetising the site with Google ads. Google ads are one of the most profitable website ads out there that you are able to maximise your profits by creating good contents on your blog site with better exposure and traffic for monetisation.




Author: KOH YEE CHIANG (B1400838)

Mobile Banking and Commerce

Source: albumcustom.blog.com


The rapid technological advances in mobile-based technologies have created opportunities for new and innovative mobile services. Some of the most promising, while still marginally adopted, is mobile banking. Many commercial banks in Malaysia have tried to introduce mobile banking systems to improve their operations and reduce costs because bank branches alone are no longer adequate to provide banking services to cater the needs of demanding customers. Therefore, the provision of banking services through mobile banking has provided an alternative means to acquire banking services very convenience and timely to bank customers.

In May 2009, Maybank became the first financial institution in Malaysia to introduce a free banking application, M2UMap on the newly launch iPhone. Later, CIMB Clicks was introduced by CIMB Bank Berhad which went on to be the most popular and widely used banking app in Malaysia. Ostensibly, almost all the bank in Malaysia offers mobile banking services.



Source: allianceonline.com.my


While mobile banking apps let us pay our bills, check account balances and deposit checks right from our smartphones – all of which can save trips to the bank and make life a bit easier. However, security concerns about using these apps abound and shouldn’t be taken lightly.
For your information, mobile banking is still a relatively new practice that carries numerous risks, from the presence of malware on apps, fake banking apps created by fraudsters, data hacking on public Wi-Fi networks, and all the issues that can arise if you lose your smartphone.

Please click on the links on articles and here for the reference: 


Author: KOH YEE CHIANG (B1400838)

Waze - no need to worry on the journey!



An apps that can bring you anywhere you want. Before your journey starts, enter the destination's name and choose the routes.



The best thing of this apps is that it will bring you to the shortest and fastest routes when you are in a heavy traffic jam. From time to time, you can earn points and get some cute character.

It helps a lot for those who cannot remember the way when driving. However, it's dangerous when we're using it in our journey. It is because there are so many alerts keep showing up when you're using the apps. Also, many of us will pick up the phone when there is some incoming message or calls.  According to the law, we should not use/holding our phone when driving.

So, please concentrate on the road and not the phone.


Author: Liew Chin Ching (B1401966)

Snapchat




Snapchat is a video messaging application which users can take photo or record video and send to the recipients. This application makes people easier to contact with others instead of messaging or calling. Sender can set the time limit to view the photo and believe the pictures are destroyed within few seconds of viewing. Although it is able to set the limit of photo viewing, people still can screenshot to save the photos.

Author: Liew Chin Ching (B1401966)

Photo editing apps - don't post photos too often



Nowadays, there are many photo editing apps, for example B612, Camera 360, Beauty Cam and etc.. It allow us to edit (touch up) our photos.



For example, if you feel that your acne or pimples are making you ugly, you can remove it from your face easily with just one click. If you want bigger eyes or brighter smile, just click some button then you can be as beautiful as you want.

Photo editing has become a trend. Most of us will edit our photos before posting it to any social apps like Facebook, Twitter or Instagram.

This has made us exposure to the public. When our photos post to social apps from time to time, it has caused us in dangerous. Strangers are able to look through our photos. When you check-in in any social apps, they are able to find us from the information that we accidentally share with them.


So, be extra careful when you post any photo. If you want to know more about the pro and cons of the photo editing apps, kindly refer to this article.


Author: Chan Yoon Wei (B1402005)


Educational apps for children




There are many educational mobile apps for children to learn and play. You can check out this article to see what's the best educational apps for your child.

Children can listen to stories, play music games and etc.. This can boost children creativity and gain some basic knowledge.






However, many parents usually download all those apps in their phone, Ipad or tablets and let their children to play with mobile devices. It has caused children more rely on mobile devices and facilitate the antisocial phenomena when they grow up. Parents should always accompany their children to learn and not the mobile devices. It is ok to let them learn from these apps but please make sure that set a limit for example 15 minutes per day.

Lastly, please think before when you buy your child a smartphone or mobile devices. Don't hesitate to refer to this website for a guide whether to buy your child a mobile phone.


Author: Chan Yoon Wei (B1402005)


It's All About Instagramming



Instagram is a popular photo-sharing app for smartphones. It is a fun and quirky way to share your life with friends through a series of pictures.
Today, you can post photos and videos up to 15 seconds in length through the app or upload from your device. Besides, you have a whole bunch of extra filter options up to 24 filters you can choose to apply to photos, while 13 for videos. Not to mentioned, you can adjust the brightness, contrast, warmth, saturation, highlights, sharpness and cover frame if it’s a video and editing features.
There are some people thinking that posting just pictures on Instagram will end up encouraging the “selfie” trend amongst the society as they spend too much time on capturing photos of themselves and editing. This phenomenon will lead an individual to be obsessed over looks and body figure especially when they frequently compare themselves with those instagrammers that have good looks and good body.





Furthermore, Instagram could be a great platform for the food hunter to seek about good food. As we noticed that, instagrammers love sharing a variety images of their favourite dishes from lots of different locations on Instagram With this, their fellow followers would then know where they are enjoying the meal by tagging their location and later recommend it to their friends and family.






Reference kindly refer to this article.


Author: KOH YEE CHIANG (B1400838)

Wednesday, July 1, 2015

shopping with instagram and pinterest app!


Stiles Clothing
source:iridescently.com/stilesclothing/

Recently, instagram has become a platform where online shops post their pictures on instagram to showcase their items for sale to their customers instead of a blog. Customers are able to make their order by dropping these online shops a personal messages on instagram, as simple as that! Also, the sellers are also able to know their customers liking's or most popular item etc by looking at the number of "likes" on a particular picture featuring the item they are selling. 

According to this article , Pinterest has also began to evolve with new shopping features with their new tools on their website. 

Pinterest & Instagram 2015
source: blog.trendshop.com

Pinterest has made this tool user friendly by allowing users to search for a product by price to tailor items to a given user and their budget with easy payment methods such as credit card. 

Pinterest and instagram have certainly made shopping online a whole lot interesting and easier!

Author: Joohijit Kaur (B1203073)




Extra! Extra! Read All About It!




source: appadvice.com

Facebook and Apple have developed their apps to become places to get the daily news. The Pew Research Center found that almost a third of adults in the United States used Facebook to read or watch the news.  This allows users to spend more time on the app. Facebook has made the news more reader-friendly by allowing the news to be read on the app in a mini-tab on the browser. 

source: fordhamram.com

The rise in such news apps brings a threat to more traditional news sources and one might even question the authenticity of the news read on social media apps like Facebook.   Even if tech companies like Apple are merely providing a news platform for already established news sources, the companies are making judgement calls about story selection and placement which encroaches journalism territory and that could have consequences on the future of journalism.

The article this post is based on can be found here.


Author: Shasha Fernandez (B1401973)

A Very Pinteresting Wedding

The world of Pinterest is one of fresh ideas and abundant creativity. It is a dreamers haven. Users come to Pinterest to post and organize new ideas and to browse through other people’s ideas on anything from home decor to food.

source: shewearsmanyhats.com

This article explores both sides of the coin with the app. While the app does offer insightful ideas for that upcoming wedding or keeping up with new fashion trends, it can also become a distraction for users as they waste time endlessly browsing. Getting addicted to Pinterest is definitely a big concern with using the app. One could spend hours and hours just browsing through things that just look pretty. It is like window shopping but you can curl up in bed and browse away. 

The term ‘Pinterest wedding’ has become a common phrase used as many people, --
engaged or otherwise—plan their weddings with similar styles. If someone is not even in a relationship but is obsessed with the wedding boards on Pinterest, it might be a bit of an unnecessary waste of time. However, it does indeed offer up countless creative ideas and could be useful when one finally does have to plan that wedding.


source: huffingtonpost.com
Links referenced in this post can be found here and here.


Author: Shasha Fernandez (B1401973)