Have you ever tried to send or share a link from Google Images? You probably have and I am pretty sure that you have noticed the extraordinary looooooooooooong URL. This endless consequence of symbols and numbers can be a real eye-sore, especially in the social nets. Often, when posting an image as a comment on Facebook, its URL is bigger than the preview thumbnail of the image. This little inconvenience and a few more, described below, can be...

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Which are better – Native or Web applications? Two years ago the answer to this question was more than clear – natives were the veterans that had proved themselves and webs were still toddling in the fields of app development. January 2011 was the turning point where things changed with the introduction of the new web standard – HTML5. Since then web apps are gaining more and more popularity and their struggle with the native ones is...

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I bet there are things you do on a daily basis – going over the news in the morning, updating your Facebook status or checking-in at the cafe by Foursquare. The purpose of this article is to elaborate on the two different ways in which the above actions can be performed – through a web app or through a native app. Enjoy it! What is a native application and what is a web application? Native development, in the context of digital...

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When talking about colors, in the context of the contemporary computerized epoch we live in, it is inevitable not to mention RGB and CMYK. Probably those of you who are designers or work in the press industry know what it is all about, but I bet that there are guys who see these abbreviations for the first time. RGB To begin with RGB which stand for Red, Green and Blue. It is a scheme for representing colors through digital devices like TV...

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According to the latest news in 2014 Belgium will consider replacing the regular car numbering plates with medium-sized barcodes, placed of the roof. This tendency shows that barcodes are going out of their industrial and commercial fields of usage and start entering almost every sphere of  life. It seems like our contemporary high-tech society has succeeded really to evaluate the actual capabilities of the black and white, stripped or checked...

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SCC14 is a barcode symbology composed of 14 numerical characters. It is more widely known as Shipping Container Code and is used for designating packages with fixed content. SCC has two main representations – the first one adopts ITF14 encoding scheme and the other – GS1-128 encoding scheme. Main subject of this article will be the second one. Although there is one general name – GTIN-14, SCC14 is also popular as ITF14, EAN14 or...

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