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Showing posts with label Technology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Technology. Show all posts

Monday, October 3, 2011

APPLICATION TO HELP WOMEN TO RETAIN THEIR BEAUTY

It is correctly stated that “Some beautiful things are more impressive when left imperfect than when too highly finished”. Women are so naive and delicate that they want care for themselves. But today’s women are modernized in their own ways. Cell phones act as their main device to manage their tasks and manage calendars, find the appropriate conveyance, stay entertained and so on. Smartphone Applications help women to stay beautiful too by the following applications:-

Sephora: (Its free for iPhone) this application mainly helps women being updated about the new products in the market and gives detailed information about them. It helps them to create shopping lists and even place orders for the same. The application helps the user to link with the beauty insider account to provide detailed history about the concerned product.

OPI Virtual Polish: (It’s free for iPhone) It helps the user to apply various shades of different cosmetics and choose the one which suits the user best. The application allows women to opt for the best shade of polish with respect to their skin tone. One can also store the list for an immediate use.

Lookz: (It’s free for Blackberry and Android) this mainly helps women to learn the rules and information about the application of make-up on themselves. It helps the user learn various kinds of make up in accordance to the theme like Goth, Clubbing, and Celebrity etc.

Sunblock: ($1.99 for iPhone) It’s quite an interesting application that calculates the UV level at your location, using its GPS data. It recommends you the best sunblock further, based on the measured UV level. It also tells the user the exact SPF to apply that is required in the concerned climatic condition of the place.

Hair Cast: (It’s free for Android) It mainly helps the user to opt for the best styling for your hair with respect to the weather of the concerned location. This application also uses its GPS data to forecast about the effect of weather on your hair.

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

GIFTS FOR YOUR TECH-SAVVY MOM

5 APPROPRIATE GIFTS FOR YOUR TECH-SAVVY MOM

This women’s day, make your mom feel special in every possible manner. Forget the lame flowers for your tech-savvy mom, and gift her mom-friendly gadgets instead. Even if she’s not totally a tech-whiz, it will make her feel more stylish and updated in every possible manner.

You can get her one of the gifts mentioned here:
  1. iYogi subscription: If your mom is always glued to her laptop, then she surely needs this to safeguard her computer from the scams as well as virus etc. iYogi is the best remote technical support which can eradicate all the impurities from your mothers system.
  2. Baggy iPhone Case: Moms, who like to be stylish in each and every manner, would surely love this. The iPhone cases launched by several brands are absolutely apt for your mother’s personality.
  3. Bedside Charger: Your mom is surely going to appreciate this gift. Let your mother treat her iPhone as the wake up alarm with this bedside charger which works on its intense power retained within.
  4. Digital Photo Frame: This will surely keep you in front of your mother’s eyes always. She will enjoy reliving the family memories with the help of this digital photo frame. It won’t ever give her a chance to miss you.
  5. iPad Cover: If your mom uses the iPad as her cookbook, then this is surely the best gift that you can give your mom. This will save her iPad from all the unwanted stuff that she drops on her iPad while cooking.
Happy women day to everyone!

TECHNOLOGY FIELD – AN UPHILL BATTLE FOR WOMEN

It’s truly said that the facts lay down an exact and an appropriate picture. Women constitute 50% of the US workforce, but only 25% retain themselves into the technological industry. Despite logical growth in the entrepreneurship, women lead only 8% of the start-ups. Women are considered much more intelligent in college level, but very few women represent the senior management posts in various industries. It’s not that women are lagging behind but they surely need to buckle up their ratios in the technological sector.

There are various issues which women face in their career progress like Gender stereotypes, workplace flexibility, role models and education. These obstacles not only hamper the growth of the female executives but positively offer hope for the next generation of tech savvy women. As the women has to take care of work, house work as well as children, which results in embracing the duality of parenting and professionalism.

The mentioned problems not only obstruct the growth of women in their existing organizations, but also cause issues in their duration of work in an organization. Despite the mentioned influences, women have the tendency to hold on their guts and face the issues strongly.

With such unbeaten strengths, women have not only an important role to issue in the overall functioning of technological surroundings, but also possess a critical as well as valuable role to play in its execution.

IS TECHNOLOGY LEAVING BEHIND WOMEN??

With advancement of technology every day, it becomes essential for everyone to strike the rapid speed of their updating. With so many gadgets, cellular phones, iPods and ipads around, there is no stopping to the world going techno-savvy. But the main botheration is- Are women able to catch up?

Today’s women having so much to do in her routine .i.e. acting the backbone of her family, being a responsible working women , socializing and so on. There is so much to do for her in so less time. It has been generally noticed that despite of the considerable growth in the nature of jobs from manual to going high tech, the gender disparity has always exceeded majorly in the corporate world. With so many options among the labor pool, the world has grounded the manual actions of people. The people with engineering, math and science backgrounds are also opting for techno oriented jobs.

According to statistics published by Labor Dept. Report, The ratio of women engineers is diminishing extensively. With women representing 3 out of every 10 system analysts, female scientists are also diminished to 30% of the field. The actual reason is not clear, that weather the interest of women is lowered down or weather the opportunities are less! As technology has been stereotyped for geeks, in the same manner there has been no area which is totally taken over or ruled by women. There are very few female top executives who are still running major technological corporations.

The concerned industry has quite few women in number than the broader corporate world. Lesser the number of women issuing the leadership roles more is the unfavorable effect in the world of technology. In order to break down the barriers of developing talents, Mentoring them further, socializing and creating opportunities that relate to women’s work, life sensibilities are essential to reverse the trend.

Monday, September 19, 2011

THE TOP 10 THINGS INVENTED BY WOMEN

For all the inventions in the 20th century, there were lots of inventions from women concerning different aspects of our society. But not all were recognized and awarded further. In 20th century, one may address the term ‘HISTORY’ as ‘HERSTORY’ for each and every female inventor. There were several ladies who actively contributed brilliance to the world as we know it.

Things Invented By Women


1. KEVLAR:
Stephanie Kwolek commenced with her temporary job at DuPont in 1946, to earn enough funds to take admission in a reputed medical school. Later in 1964, she continued her research about the process of evolving polymers into strong synthetic fibers.  She initially converted the polymers into hard rod-like molecules and further passes it through a Spinneret to produce fibers. The post effect of the experiment was an ounce-for -ounce strong fiber as steel which was further dubbed to Kevlar.

2. NYSTATIN: Elizabeth Lee Hazen and Rachel Fuller Brown used to work for New York State Department of Health in the 1940’s. Hazen was located in New York City and Brown in Albany. Hazen carried out several tests to examine that weather the organisms would have any reaction to fungi or not. They would work coordinative, despite of the distances. Hazen would further mail the jar of soil to Brown, who would further extract the agent in the soil that was responsible for such activity. Most of the samples were experienced to be much toxic in nature for human use. But after several experiments they both zeroed on an effective fungus killing drug named NYSTATIN in the year 1950.

3. WINDSHIELD WIPER: It was the first trip of Mary Anderson to the New York City. While travelling she noticed the driver of the tram was facing problem in driving it. He had to stop the tram every few minutes to wipe the accumulation of snow in front of his glass. After she reached home, she formed a squeegee on a spindle to be attached to the handle inside of the vehicle. Whenever the driver needed to clean the glass, he just needed to pull the squeegee that wiped the glass entirely. After 10 years, she was awarded for her invention in 1903 when the wiper became a household thing in their cars.

4. DISHWASHER: The invention of Dishwashers was an outcome of the frustration of Josephine Cochrane for her servants ho unintentionally broke her heirloom china crockery. As she invented this magical device, it was an immediate household device. It was exclusively loved by other women.

5. PAPER BAG WITH SQUARE BOTTOM:  In 1870, Margaret Knight realized that the weight carried in paper bags shall be equally distributed, so that it can carry more items at one time, than its usual capacity. Therefore, she created a wooden device that would cut, fold and glue the bottoms of the paper bags in square shape.

6. COLORED FLARE SYSTEM: At 21, Martha Coston started acting upon the plans of flare system used by ships, laid out by his late husband. She spent her next ten years in revision and perfect execution of her husband’s plans using the pyrotechnic technology to her system. It finally worked and was extensively used in the civil wars.

7. THE COMPILER: Admiral Grace Murray Hopper was stationed at the Harvard University, were she used to work for IBM’s Harvard Mark I computer. She faced quite a lot of problems in directing the concerned system according to her wish. That is the time when she invented the Compiler, which used to translate the English Commands of hers into the computer codes.

8. LIQUID PAPER: While BETTE NESMITH GRAHAM watched the workers of her workplace painting a display on the window, she noticed the way they rectified their errors by painting them with another layer to cover the concerned errors. There was the idea which struck her mind and she mixed up a water based tempera paint  with dye using her blender. She carried the substance to her workplace next day and omitted her errors on page by application of the concerned substance through brush. She received a patent for this in the year 1958.

9. CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES:  While making a batch of butter drop do cookies, Ruth Wakefield felt short of melted chocolate. So she crumbled the Chocó bar in the batter and baked it further, expecting the chocolate to melt within. But the chocolate retained its shape, giving birth to chocolate cookies as a result.

10. CIRCULAR SAW:  Tabitha Babbitt created a prototype of a saw that moved in circular motion. It was mainly formed to concentrate the number of men working to cut a particular block from two to one. She attached a circular blade to the saw to get the required motion.