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The first webcam of the story was called ‘the chamber of coffee’ . Twenty years ago, two computer programmers scholars at the University of Cambridge, Quientin Stafford-Fraser and Paul Jardetzsky, proposed setting up a video camera to transmit live via the university network, in order to monitor a coffee maker. The problem was that I was only allowed to make coffee in a very secluded and many served without refilling the pot of water.

Today, taking advantage of the technological revolution of this device, PhotoEspaña and Channel Foundation organized a competition ‘online’ on the artistic possibilities of the picture with webcam. As of May 27 participants will have the chance to go to the page www.phe.es / concursowebcam his portrait. The coordinator of the event, Ines Ruiz, establishes three requirements for participants: “The photographs can only be made ??through the webcam, you can not touch and must be previously unpublished photographs.”

‘Pictures with webcam’ is an initiative that explores a new field and experimental technology “especially in the many artistic possibilities of photography.”

The expressive richness of the portrait is revered by many amateur and professional photographers. A creative genre of photography that engages both experts and all those who, without technique, are in this contest a great artistic content. “At this event everyone can participate due to technical limitations it offers a webcam, as lighting, composition, angle, or the bottom, “he explains.

Sometimes, the idea that you can have on the portrait, is limited to a photo with a close up or medium shot of the person photographed usually with a sitting. But this event aims to go far beyond the classic concept of the portrait. “You have to call public attention, are also portraits hands, eyes, lips, where objects can take a significant value creation for participants,” he says.

A jury of photographer Pierre Gonnord, the cultural manager Rafael Doctor and the blogger Yoani Sanchez, awarded a first prize of 1,500 euros and two of 500 euros. In addition, they will choose about 50 portraits on display at an exhibition ‘online’. “We value the artistic intent and the concept photographic and originality of it,” he says.

The awards ceremony will take place on June 11 in the gardens of the Fundación Canal coinciding with the release of PHotoMarathon, a photo competition that invites photography enthusiasts to visit Madrid in search of the best images of the city.

As of June 3 will be open an exhibition ‘online’ with the best pictures of the contest, which will be held entirely online.

Experts had predicted that the scams and attacks on mobile systems, especially for Android, would continue in 2012 and the trend is apparent. The researcher at Symantec Peter Coogan has posted on his blog a notice of two new malware threats for mobile devices Android.

The first is identified as an application called Android Steek. Those responsible for this application have disguised malware like a app games for Android.

When installed, users are allowed access to the Internet application. After that, supposedly to complete the installation, a window opens to confirm the process. If users click the button that appears in the web browser on your handset gets redirected several times without the consent of users to a page with advertising online security solutions, through which cyber criminals get their benefits.

The second application is related malware software Carrier IQ. Cybercriminals take advantage of the news about installing the software on mobile devices, which accounts for all types of information to deceive users.

The application in question, distributed mainly in France, one imitates the image of domestic operators to trick users and promise them off Carrier IQ . Users running the application must confirm an installation process, for which they click a button. However, the application actually performs sending up to four SMS messages to premium rate services.

Cybercriminals are distributing this second application through secondary channels and have not found evidence of its presence in the Android Market, making it more difficult to control. They are also using a system that allows them to bypass the permissions message that usually appears whenever users install an application.

Users should exercise caution and be wary of any application that is not in a store as a security officer.

We have seen pictures loaded from Flickr application for Android in all parts of the world, so we are happy to announce that starting today, application of Flickr for Android includes 9 new languages. To be more precise, the languages ??are German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, Vietnamese and Indonesian.

If you already use one of these languages ??as the default language in the settings of your Android phone, with this new version (1.3), the use of Flickr for Android will be updated automatically magic to match the settings of your phone. If you ever want to change the language of your Flickr application for Android, you can do by changing the language setting on your mobile phone.

Do not have the Flickr application installed on your Android phone? Download it in Android Market.

Best Android Apps 2012

This month, we have changed a bit the way in which we rely to show the best android applications, so this time will surely find some difference with the previous months, as it is the is based on most downloaded applications of the month, would definitely enjoy the most important applications.top of the applications android.

10. Free music download android is one of the applications for Android, Which are free, the aim principal isdownload music immediately in a series of directories that the application we provide. Similarly, offers atop 10 most downloaded songs of the moment is that this application has a large repertoire of songs for free.

9. Talking Tom Cat is a very friendly cat funny and talkative, which can bring in your android phone and it will repeat everything you say, with a friendly voice of a cat.

Virtually Talking Tom Cat is as if you trajeras a real cat but in your Android, you can pet, feed and play with, but try not to make too hard, if not smite and you left unconscious for a few seconds.

8. PES 2012 Android is one of the android , which we find is that this game is one of the most played this year and it has a high quality graphics, and which is sponsored by the best team in the world Indeed, we are talking about FC Barcelona. This is one of the best applications in Android games you find.

7. Facebook for Android is the official facebook application to access from any device Android and although it took some time coming, guarantees a lot of speed, stability and comfort when navigating your favorite social network from your mobile wherever you are.

Facebook for Android will include all the basic options necessary to navigate safely through facebook, and you can update your wall, read the profile of your friends, and everything like you’re at your computer.

6. Angry Birds Android has reached its second anniversary, which is why this time has been updated to a new version, which you can now enjoy all the levels unlocked Android Angry Birds, 15 new levels and surprises excellent.

Angry Birds has very good graphics, with which you can spend hours in front of your android phone , with over 270 levels and surprises included in its anniversary undoubtedly Angry Birds promises to create you addicted to the fun.

5. Flash Player Android, is one of those android applications that are essential to bring with you into your phone, because with Flash Player you can enjoy all the multimedia content you find on the net.

Once you download Flash Player, you just have to install it on your android, and so you can surf the Internet and enjoy all the animations in Flash, as well as youtube videos and all the animations you’ll find online.

4. 4Shared Android is one of the android free, where his main option is that from our mobile to download your favorite songs. We found that not all the songs but its board is increasing and that these are shared with users. On this site, you have up to 10 GB shared with all users who use it.

3. Google android play contains a number of applications found in the Android market, but unlike its competitor, is that this program tends to automatically update the applications that you downloaded from that application. It should be noted that on some machines Android, may have flaws but this is being resolved quickly.

2. TubeMate YouTube Downloader is an android mobile application, with which you can download youtube videos directly from your phone.

TubeMate YouTube Downloader allows you to not only find a youtube video to download, lets you perform multiple simultaneous searches and downloads, so you save a lot of time.

1. WhatsApp Messenger Android is an application for Android phones, with which you have the possibility to send free messages to cell phone, just using the 3G network or via Wi-Fi.

But WhatsApp Messenger not only lets you send free messages, you’ll have the ability to send photos, audio, video and any links you want to send.

Remarkably, to make use of WhatsApp Messenger, both you and the person to whom you are sending the message, must have the application installed, something simple as WhatsApp Messenger is an android application completely free, easy to install.

With this we finish counting the best android applications, you’ll notice a big difference to the previous months, if next month we expect even more surprises, as the applications market and the best games android is very active.

It sounds a bit risky to say that Vimeo is shaking knees of YouTube, but the site of streaming online video brought many innovations at the conference CES 2012. In the last hours, the company announced new applications for the mobile market, and that will give added value to what is interesting are doing. Vimeo launched applications for iPhone, Windows Phone and Android a year after having entered the smartphone market with its iPhone app.

This notice of an application for the iPhone comes at the right time, because at CES 2012 have not stopped announcing new tablets, especially with Android. But why is this decision to move to market mobile? According to Vimeo, 15 percent of all traffic on your site right now is coming from mobile devices. In fact, even the creators of Vimeo are using their phones to upload videos. Is that users with such phones can film it and upload it directly to your Vimeo account quickly and without intermediaries.

With applications from Android and Windows Phone, then up material “raw” or edited in high definition or simple, play (and pause) videos, videos that already exist replace our account, edit tags, titles, descriptions and information privacy, sharing via Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, WordPress, email or SMS, download videos to your video gallery of phones, and create a list of Later Watch the videos to watch afternoon. We also offer display statistics.

The Android version is now available in the Market and the App Store on Amazon, and can run on systems running a version of the android from the 2.3. Ideal for new users of the tablet Kindle Fire. Meanwhile, the version for Windows Phone Marketplace can be downloaded and works from version 7.5 Windows Phone Mango. Finally, for the iPad, the application will be optimized for better performance, allowing us to see and discover videos in a more convenient way. In addition, you can enjoy the comforts of video editing that allows the screen.

Within the process of technological transformation of El Pais, the March 14 launch of the new application for phones running the Android operating system created by Google. In the first 48 hours more than 10,000 installed mobile application, surpassing the 100,000 page views according to Omniture.

Android operating system is the fastest growing in the market for smart mobile phones or smartphones. A study by comScore and introduced last September on the use in Spain, France, Germany, Italy and United Kingdom of smartphones showed Spain as the second of these countries with a higher percentage of mobile users high-end only behind the United Kingdom. In the middle of last year, Google’s operating system and advanced to Apple. Both technology companies have a very different strategy: while Android works and is installed on phones of different brands, IOS is exclusive to the iPhone.

Less than a month, on March 24, the country also released application for the iPhone from Apple, coinciding with the launch of the new website. In these three weeks has become the first application downloads in the news category, with an assessment by the users of four and a half stars out of five. A total of 360,000 updates, 30,000 new downloads and nearly 40,000 unique users a day attest to the good reception he has received the change.

It is probably the Internet access and query information through mobile devices the great phenomenon that exists today in the world of communication. Wireless networks and connectivity via 3G are providing more and more people access to news from anywhere, anytime. And if we add the other major phenomenon that is social networking and sharing information widely, the speed at which new web mobility is unbeatable.

The label itself is half of a powerful sales and marketing, the consumer front, and that’s something we can not ignore, rather it is something that we should focus our efforts and take advantage. Several factors have contributed to the increasing use of labels as a marketing tool during their evolution have gone from being just a media to be a central factor in the increasingly aggressive competition for clients, which, combined with other elements of marketing strategy becomes critical to the success of a product.

Consumers make the choice and that choice mostly is taken in a few seconds, hence the importance of having an effective label that operates as a commercial for a few seconds, it will attract, communicate and motivate, creating greater visual impact, reliability, that protrudes from the others and seduces in a nutshell what to purchase.

Print quality
The label industry globally invested millions of dollars annually in the development of technological advances in the search for new materials and finishes, improvements in equipment efficiency, develop new printing technologies, and applying these advances should be translated automatically into tags that may capture consumer attention, but this is not that simple, there are several factors to be considered for our influence in our favor label to the consumer.

For years it is recognized that the design of a label is very important in industrial goods and the consumer. Today he pays more attention, according to a Harvard professor in 1991, the importance of design loomed as follows: “Fifteen years ago companies competed on price, as they do today and tomorrow will do so in design”. A successful design firm can give a huge return on investment.

There are several characteristics of marketing stimuli that affect the way consumers perceive the products, to name one, the color of the product is usually a decisive factor for the acceptance or rejection, and surveys show that there is a close link between preferences for color and brand choice.

The label has the advantage over other printing systems to capture the image for our product almost without limitation, that combined with a suitable material for presentation as much for its functionality make the tag in a unique design to differentiate at the point of sale.

Today there is no reason why a label does not have excellent print quality, must be printed in a spotless, with very good resolution, both in text and images, and without causing us to be an expert a favorable impression at the time only to see it.

The design is closely linked to the surface where it will be hard, considering that there are endless possibilities of materials, it should consider optimizing the design meetings between the end user, the brand owner and manufacturer of labels, and in some cases up conceptualizing the design of the label image taking as a starting point the material used.

The important thing is that our product has a material that is suitable both to enhance the properties of the design to meet its functional requirements as part of the success of an application is that should last the life of the product without presenting consumer problem in its use or threatening a future purchase.

Thus, if our product is a shampoo that is in direct contact with moisture in container depressible, we use a material with a special resistance to water or moisture and is suitable for adhering to the container without presenting any problems to completion and whether it is a cooling food with a material having some kind of health approval and to stay attached to the package or container by subjecting it to conditions of low temperature and instead demeritaría directly damaging the brand reliability food and therefore its possible purchase or repurchase.

That is why an appropriate choice of material on our label can be a good way to influence the consumer at the time of purchase. Research and development by manufacturers of raw materials is very high always seeking new options that provide alternatives to the market opening up a wide range of possibilities.

Innovation
Work together combining technology with innovation, yields very good results and is operated successfully in several countries, that is when we see labels on the shelf that become more than a decorative label active tags, which invites consumers and become a weapon of immediate sale and promotion in view of anyone who sees it, labels with an invitation to its opening, peelable with unique promotional codes, labels with the aroma of the product, and so on. In general they are labels that have a mission and is to capture consumer attention and help the sale on the shelf, irresistible to many.

Expanding possibilities
The current versatile label printing is particularly popular, easy to print fixed or completely variable information on a label, opens endless possibilities to influence the consumer, in previous years there was no way to have the ability to print small runs without pay a fortune to do it or have to wait long to get today’s technology offers the possibility of having labels with high definition and excellent quality with great flexibility and responsiveness ideal for promotions, behavior rehearsal, changes image, new presentations, launches and relaunches. Change, take risks and create opportunities is now open to succeed.