HERE Maps (app)

HERE is a mapping mobile application originally developed by Nokia for Android, iOS and Windows Phone platforms. After being native to Windows Phone for a few years, the app was released to the Google Play and iOS stores through late 2014 and early 2015. Maps are updated on a bi or tri-monthly basis.

HERE was released to the Google Play store on 10 December 2014 and to the iOS store on 11 March 2015.

Availability and compatibility

As of June 2015, the HERE app is available as a free app in 118 countries and territories across the world for the Android, iOS and Windows Phone platforms.

On 29 August 2014, HERE was also launched for the Samsung Gear S, which utilises the HERE for Gear app specifically made available for Samsung devices.

On 3 September 2015, HERE announced that its app would be available for the Samsung Gear S2 when the smartwatch is released later this fall.

HERE for Android requires Android Jelly Bean version 4.1 or higher

HERE for iOS devices requires iPhone 4S with iOS 7 or higher

Map

A map is a symbolic depiction highlighting relationships between elements of some space, such as objects, regions, and themes.

Many maps are static two-dimensional, geometrically accurate (or approximately accurate) representations of three-dimensional space, while others are dynamic or interactive, even three-dimensional. Although most commonly used to depict geography, maps may represent any space, real or imagined, without regard to context or scale; e.g. brain mapping, DNA mapping and extraterrestrial mapping.

Although the earliest maps known are of the heavens, geographic maps of territory have a very long tradition and exist from ancient times. The word "map" comes from the medieval Latin Mappa mundi, wherein mappa meant napkin or cloth and mundi the world. Thus, "map" became the shortened term referring to a two-dimensional representation of the surface of the world.

Geographic maps

Cartography or map-making is the study and practice of crafting representations of the Earth upon a flat surface (see History of cartography), and one who makes maps is called a cartographer.

Maps (Maroon 5 song)

"Maps" is a song by American band Maroon 5. The song was released on June 16, 2014, as the lead single from their fifth studio album V.

Composition

The song was written by Adam Levine, Ammar Malik, Ryan Tedder, Benny Blanco and Noel Zancanella, and produced by the latter three. Blanco and Malik have previously teamed with Maroon 5 on the songs "Moves like Jagger" and "Payphone", while Tedder and Zancanella have worked with the group on the songs "Love Somebody" and "Lucky Strike". "Maps" is an up-tempo pop track, composed in the key of C# minor (with the main chord progression of A–B–C#m - both in the verses and the chorus - and F#m–G#m-G#7 in the pre-chorus), that contains a "breezy guitar lick". It marks Maroon 5's further departure from the funkier sound for which the band was originally known. The official remix features a new verse from Big Sean and new production beats.

Lyrically, the song is about "the search for love, particularly a love that has been lost and needs to be found". In the chorus, Adam Levine sings "All the roads you took came back to me / So I'm following the map that leads to you."

Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly

Sam Duckworth is an English musician formerly known as Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly. He is sometimes referred to as Get Cape, Cape, GCWCF and Slam Dunkworth (the latter title apparently first coined by Emmy The Great). According to Duckworth, his stage name comes from Retro Gamer magazine, from an article about superhero games such as Batman containing the heading "Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly".

Music career

Sam grew up in Southend-on-Sea, Essex. Get Cape was signed to Atlantic Records in March 2006, after playing many gigs, both with punk rock band Silverskin and as Get Cape. As Get Cape, Duckworth has collaborated with Billy Bragg, Nitin Sawhney, Shlomo, Killa Kela, Baba Maal, Flea, Kate Nash, and many others with his participation in many events for Africa Express.

Sam co-organised The Demolition Ball - the last night at the London Astoria venue before it was knocked down in January 2009. Get Cape also headlined the Astoria for his 21st birthday party.

After 10 years, Sam Duckworth decided to end Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly, to continue to make music under his own name. The last ever show under the 'Get Cape' moniker was held at The Forum, Kentish Town on 12 September 2014.

JPEG

JPEG (/ˈdʒeɪpɛɡ/ JAY-peg) is a commonly used method of lossy compression for digital images, particularly for those images produced by digital photography. The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and image quality. JPEG typically achieves 10:1 compression with little perceptible loss in image quality.

JPEG compression is used in a number of image file formats. JPEG/Exif is the most common image format used by digital cameras and other photographic image capture devices; along with JPEG/JFIF, it is the most common format for storing and transmitting photographic images on the World Wide Web. These format variations are often not distinguished, and are simply called JPEG.

The term "JPEG" is an abbreviation for the Joint Photographic Experts Group, which created the standard. The MIME media type for JPEG is image/jpeg, except in older Internet Explorer versions, which provides a MIME type of image/pjpeg when uploading JPEG images. JPEG files usually have a filename extension of .jpg or .jpeg.

Graphical Environment Manager

The Graphical Environment Manager (GEM) was an operating environment created by Digital Research, Inc. (DRI) for use with the DOS operating system on the Intel 8088 and Motorola 68000 microprocessors.

GEM is known primarily as the graphical user interface (GUI) for the Atari ST series of computers, and was also supplied with a series of IBM PC-compatible computers from Amstrad. It also was available for standard IBM PC, at the time when the 6 MHz IBM PC AT (and the very concept of a GUI) was brand new. It was the core for a small number of DOS programs, the most notable being Ventura Publisher. It was ported to a number of other computers that previously lacked graphical interfaces, but never gained popularity on those platforms. DRI also produced FlexGem for their FlexOS real-time operating system.

History

GSX

GEM started life at DRI as a more general purpose graphics library known as GSX (Graphics System eXtension), written by a team led by Don Heiskell. Lee Lorenzen (at Graphic Software Systems, Inc.) who had recently left Xerox PARC (birthplace of the GUI) wrote much of the code. GSX was essentially a DRI-specific implementation of the GKS graphics standard proposed in the late 1970s. GSX was intended to allow DRI to write graphics programs (charting, etc.) for any of the platforms CP/M-80, CP/M-86 and MS-DOS (NEC APC-III) would run on, a task that would otherwise require considerable effort to port due to the large differences in graphics hardware (and concepts) between the various systems of that era.

17 (app)

17 is a free mobile app similar to Periscope and Instagram designed by a Taiwan pop singer Jeffery Huang. It includes live video streaming, instant photo and video sharing functions. It is used in both iOS and Android smartphone systems.

The aim of 17 app is to create an "easy to use, instant to share, customer equality and interest sharing" content sharing platform. It was first launched in Apple App Store on 5 June 2015, and sooner in Play Store on 10 June 2015. Due to nudity coupled with sex issues, it has been temporarily removed from both platforms on 23 September 2015(Play Store) and 28 September 2015 (Apple App Store) respectively. Recently, the app has been re-released in Apple App Store on 28 October 2015

Since the app featured many Asian celebrities and profit sharing incentives it then quickly became the most popular app in Taiwan, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Singapore and Indonesia with approximately 700 thousand daily active users.

Background of the founder

Jeffrey Huang (黃立成), a Taiwanese American, was a former member of a well-known Taiwan hip-hop group, the “L.A. Boyz”. He is the Leader of the Taiwan hip-hop group currently, Machi.Jeffrey was born to a family in Huwei Township, Yunlin County, Taiwan on 7 November 1972. When he was two, his family migrated to California, USA. Finding no interest in studying, he did not go for advanced education in college, but went back to his place of birth – Taiwan, to start his music career with his younger brother, Stanley Huang (黃立行) and his cousin, Steven Lam (林智文).