Tuesday, January 21, 2014

ShipWorks Connector Plugin Helps Improve Order Management On WordPress E-Commerce Sites



ShipWorks for WordPress build a bridge between your E-Commerce sites on WordPress (such as WooCommerce) and ShipWorks. ShipWorks is your one-stop solution for generating shipping labels for your orders with any of the major carriers. It includes support for viewing rates and transit times and printing live shipping labels from within ShipWorks with direct integrations to Endicia, Express1, Fedex, Stamps.com, UPS, and USPS.

How Does ShipWorks Connect Plugin Works?

ShipWorks Connect is a good plugin to improve your order management on based WordPress E-Commerce sites. ShipWorks for WordPress build a bridge between your E-Commerce sites on WordPress and ShipWorks. It downloads your orders and makes it easy to create shipping labels, manage customers and emails, and update the online status of each order. When you activate the plugin on your site it immediately says if you are running or not a compatible E-Commerce template/plugin 

Compatible Wordpress E-Commmerce Plugin

ShipWorks Connector compatible with the following list:
  • Woocommerce ( 2.0++ )
  •  WP eCommerce ( 3.0++ )
  •  Shopp ( 1.2.2++ )
  • Shopperpress ( 7.1++ )
  • Cart66 Lite ( 1.5++ )
  • Cart66 Pro ( 1.5++ )
  • Jigoshop ( 1++ )
Minimum Requirements need to run ShipWorks Connector
WordPress 3.0
Shipworks 3.0 (or minimum version you have)
PHP 5.0
Download Latest Version ShipWorks Connector
http://wordpress.org/plugins/shipworks-e-commerce-bridge/

 


 

Monday, January 20, 2014

Technologies That Could Power Your Next Vehicle



Alternative energy options are also gaining a lot of traction for its environmental friendliness. Electric battery, hydrogen fuel cell or even solar power, your next vehicle may never need a sip of gasoline.

Battery electric vehicles (BEVs):

BEVs short of Battery electric vehicles are powered exclusively by on-board rechargeable battery packs. BEVs use electric motors and motor controllers instead of internal combustion engines (ICEs) for propulsion.

With no gas engine or fuel tank, these vehicles instead “fuel up” at electric recharge stations that can provide either a quick jolt of power to continue a trip or fully recharge the vehicle over the course of a few hours

Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles:

Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles are still deep in the research and development phase, but the technology has already shown great promise for the future. These vehicles are powered by an electric motor and high-voltage battery that is charged by a fuel cell system which produces only water as a byproduct. The result is a car that has a range in line with (or better than) a traditional gasoline engine, but releases no harmful pollutants and can be refueled in just minutes.

Solar energy vehicles:

The sun delivers an immense amount of power to our planet every day in the form of solar energy, but aside from specialized, lightweight racing vehicles, solar power hasn’t made much of an appearance in the modern automotive landscape. The Ford C-MAX Solar Energi Concept is a first for the industry, and its ability to completely break free from the energy grid makes it an exciting harbinger of things to come.

The C-MAX Solar Energi Concept utilizes custom solar panels spread across the vehicle roof in concert with a magnifying canopy that concentrates the sun’s rays to recharge the car’s electric battery. This means that areas without an advanced electrical infrastructure could still utilize the vehicle’s gas-saving features without issue

Source: Article was first published in Yahoo Tech
 



Friday, January 17, 2014

Run Android Apps On Windows and Mac With Bluestacks



BlueStacks App Player lets you run mobile apps fast and fullscreen on Windows and Mac like Angry Birds Star Wars, Flipboard, Zynga Poker and Instagram fullscreen.




What is BlueStacks?

Bluestacks is a Silicon Valley-based software company that produces BlueStacks App Player and BlueStacks Cloud Connect. Both products are designed to enable Android applications to run on Windows PCs, Macintosh (Mac) computers and Windows tablets

How Does BlueStacks App Player Work?

Its App Player software can run Android apps designed for a mobile phone on most computers, allowing players to experience the game on a larger display. Once installed on a PC or Mac, the software lets users operate games and other apps with their mouse, touchpad, or microphone. With BlueStacks' software, people can take apps from their Android devices and send them via a piece of software downloaded on to their device called Cloud Connect directly to the BlueStacks player on a Windows PC.

When a user goes through this simple procedure, Android apps just show up in the BlueStacks Player on Windows. Like magic, they run on Windows as is, in full screen, with no performance degradation. That means software written for Android, such as Pulse and Flipboard, can now run on your Windows PC and be tied to the data layer of your Android version, too.
Source: BlueStacks