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Pay With The Tip Of Your Finger

Pay With The Tip Of Your Finger

Finger Prints and their identification are extremely useful in a lot of fields these days. The most common use of this technology is to identify criminals and is widely used by the police and other investigation agencies.

The methodology or concept behind this is extremely simple. The fingerprints of the criminal or the person concerned are matched with the available sample and identified. Lately, this technology is being widely used in the field of securities.

The next revolution with respect to fingerprints is the card less payment system. This new technology has been announced by Hitachi and is known as the finger vein money. This technology will allow users to make their payments with just the tip of their finger.

 

The user or the customer has to register its vein data with the service providers. Whenever you present your finger tip to make a payment, it will be scanned via infrared LED’s and matched with the sample present. The sample if matched with the one present with provider will lead to the payable sum being deducted from your account.

Before releasing the technology to the market, the company has decided to test it for three months. Employees of Hitachi will test the system in their company’s own cafeteria.

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Use PrintWhatYouLike To Print Web Page As You Want

Use PrintWhatYouLike To Print Web Page As You Want

It is really annoying situation when you opt for web printing and you see that the actual contents are taking up only small part of the printout and the rest is just junked with images, advertisements and etc. Not only it is wastage of ink and paper, but it never remains environmental friendly. Here to help you out this hassle, a useful utility namely PrintWhatYouLike will surely be remarkable. PrintWhatYouLike is an online editor, which is absolutely free to use. With this tool, you could easily format the web page to print only what you want to see.

You’ll not be needed to download and install PrintWhatYouLike on your system as it simply runs on your computer’s web browser. What you have to do is:

Instead, for better accessibility at any web pages and at anytime, you may add the bookmarklet of PrintWhatYouLike on the web browser. So, you could anytime visit the PrintWhatYouLike editor web page in a single click only. After completing this, you would be able to see the PrintWhatYouLike button situated on the bookmarks toolbar in the top section of your browser.

 

For printing the web page, you could just click once on the PrintWhatYouLike button and PrintWhatYouLike editor would be displayed in the left portion. There are so many formatting options in the editor such as resize web page content, remove ads, change font type and size, remove background and images and etc. If you want to merge the data collected from various web pages, you will also be allowed to do so.

Before printing, you could combine various web pages having different URL under a single document. In addition to this, you could convert your formatted web pages to HTML or PDF documents. These converted documents can be included as softcopy to your email and sent over to your friends. PrintWhatYouLike can be efficiently used in browsers like IE7+, Safari, Firefox, Opera and Chrome.

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Print Pictures directly from your iPhone or iPod touch

Print Pictures directly from your iPhone or iPod touch

 

Your beloved iPod or iPhone from Apple can’t get dearer after the launch of this new application that enables you to print pictures directly from your device. The hassles of transferring the pictures onto the computer and then printing them have been removed by this application.

 

Celstream Technologies, a global PES (Product Engineering Services) company has set up this new revolutionary application (iPrintApp) that enables mobile printing. This new application allows iPod touch and iPhone users to print their pictures directly from any compatible printer using the Wi-Fi network.

It altogether enriches the experiences of using and sharing via the iPhone and iPod.

Priced at a meager rate of $1.99, this application is surely on road to become a craze among youngsters and college goers. Corporate too will find it useful with its print on the go feature. The application can be purchased through the Apple App Store.

 

 

The major benefits of the iPrintApp from Celstream Technologies are given below:

  • Eliminates the requirement of cables, USB, Bluetooth drivers and server applications
  • Enables multi photo printing on a single sheet
  • A maximum of 12 images can be selected per printing job
  • The automatic layout manager rotates images even while ensuring the aspect ratio of the image as best fit
  • Users can reselect or delete photos by using the print preview function. It also allows shrinking and resizing of images
  • The best part is that it allows making and receiving calls while the application is being used. It auto saves the last updated stage and represents it on initialization.
  • The Bonjour Technology from Apple is leveraged, as it allows automatic detection of networked printers supporting PostScript. USB printers which use the Mac SharedQueues can also be used provided they’re in the same network

 With the launch of this application, mobile picture printing is surely going to grow at an unpredictable rate.