Box Offers Android Users 50Gb Free Storage

In a way of celebrating its new additions and updating of its Android application, Cloud storage service Box is offering 50 Gb of free storage to all Android users who log in before 23^rd of March. In order to avail this offer, an Android user needs to log in to the Box app for Android and he or she will be upgraded instantly.

It may be recalled that iCloud gave away 5Gb of free storage last year and at the same time Box offered iOS users 50Gb free storage. And now, they are offering the same to Android users. This is one offer which no user would expect from any Android application development company.

Box's new updated Android app includes a revamped user interface, certain new features and it compatible with latest Android version Ice Cream Sandwich. Box will be in future adding support for four languages Italian, German, French and Spanish to this app. In addition to all these, users will have the ability of commenting on files, grant access to other people to files individually and upload multible files at once.

Past few months have been a modus operandi in the field of cloud-storage and Box has moved forward in their effort of capturing mobile cloud storage market. It is worth mentioning here that Apple recently announced its plan of integrating iCloud with its upcoming Mountain Lion Mac OS. Microsoft on the other hand is making SkyDrive available worldwide and is integrating it with Windows 8. Dropbox, SugarSync and Amazon Cloud Drive is following the trend. It is also believed that Google will be bringing out its own soon.

Here are however some cons that is however compensated by the free 50Gb storage. Unlike Dropbox or SkyDrive, Box fails to offer a free desktop sync tool; the desktop application is available only to users having a professional accounts which cost $15 a month and unpaid users are limited using file size limit of 25 Mb.

Addition to the positive note to this wonderful offer is that it works with third-party applications and services. Users can send files to Gmail and Google Docs and also put them up in Microsoft Office. These features are things that other cloud-storage space provide.

You can get this application by the reputed software development company, Box from Android Market.

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HP to Release Server Management Apps for iOS, Android

HP to release Server Management Apps for iOS and Android. This application will allow system admins to administer servers through hand-held devices.

The renowned company Hewlett-Packard said on Monday that they will be releasing new smartphone and tablet applications for Apple iOS and Google Android. These applications will allow system administrators to control and configure servers remotely.

During and interview at the HP Global Partner Conference held in Las Vegas, Direction of modular systems product marketing of the company John Gromala said that this application will not only provide servers' health information but also allow system administrators to shut down and remotely manage servers.

The director further stated that the ability to manage servers through a hand-held device is a powerful too. With this app, system administrators can also login to management subsystems and swiftly identify and address server problems instead of logging on to management consoles in data centers.

This is one breakthrough in android application development and iPad/iPhone application development. These applications are designed in such a way that they take advantages of HP's new Gen8 servers which were announced the same day. These servers feature tight integration of hardware and software that allows delivery of better performance-per-watt at the same time reducing maintenance and electricity costs in data centers.

 

Features also include analyzing, monitoring and diagnosing server issues across 1,600 system parameters and an HP seravice app will be able to access that data in order to get information about the server health. The monitoring information is gathered by a secondary processor and controlled by a management application called Integrated Lights-Out (iLO) management engine.

An HP representative who declines to give his name said, “A separate mobile application will allow system admins to run scripts that help in configuring applications on servers” “This scripts can be simply cut and pasted which the app will thereby help configuring the servers”. In short, database servers can be configured by scripting in the application.

This application will be a hit in all software development companies for the system admins will also be able to check the location of a server in a data center through it. This will thereby help isolate specific server problem in the software development company.

The service will be provided directly by HP or its partners to customers who choose to receive the data. However, the company did not share information regarding the time when the application will be available for download.

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CSS Basics - Advanced CSS Selectors

In my previous articles, I introduced you to basic CSS selectors, class, element and id selectors. You can execute a lot of CSS works with those but they are not the only selectors. There are other selectors that allow you to select elements and style based on more specific rules:

Universal Selectors: These selectors can be used in selecting every element on the page.

Child Selectors: These selectors can be used when you want to select specific elements that are descendants of any specific elements.

Descendant Selectors: These selectors can be used if you want to select particular elements that are descendants of other specific elements. Elements is not just limited to direct children but those which are further down the tree as well.

Adjacent Sibling Selectors: To select those elements that follow other specific elements, these selectors are used.

Pseudo-Classes: These comes in handy when you want to style elements not just based on what the elements are but on more esoteric factors such as the stats of links. i.e. you can style the elements depending on more deeper factors like being hovered over or link already visited.

Pseudo-Elements: These elements allow styling of specific parts of elements. As for instance, the initial letter of that element. These elements also allow inserting of content before or after specific elements.

As you progress, you will be guided through more complicated selectors. Even though you don't know anything by now, you don't have to worry because you will get to know them as you gain more experience in designing and styling web pages. Start off with the three basic selectors and then move on as you gain experience and confidence.

Universal Selectors

These selectors as mentioned above, select every element on a page and apply the styling properties. As for instance, the following rule says that every element on the page will be given a solid 1 pixel black border

* {

  border: 1px solid #000000;

}

Attribute Selectors

These selectors allow selecting elements based on attributes they contain. For example, the following selector shows that you can select every img element with an alt attribute.

img[alt] {

  border: 1px solid #000000;

}

By using the above selector, you will be putting a black border around any image that has an alt attribute.

Selecting attributes becomes more useful if you can select them by attribute value instead of just attribute names as given in the example below:

img[src="alert.gif"] {

  border: 1px solid #000000;

}

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