Final Post/The Future of iChoose

iChoose

Indestructible smart phone case: waterproof, dirt-proof, shock-proof, in a slim, sleek design that everyone will envy. You not only have an option to choose the color, but you could also make it however you like - plain, designed, spotted, stripped, anything you could possibly imagine; even create your own personalized design, including any picture or grouping of pictures that you love! Personalize exactly how you like, no exceptions, with the added guarantee of ultimate protection. We administer cases for every type and brand of smart phone. We aim to please, satisfaction guaranteed. We are iChoose. Have you chosen today?

Final Post/Outline For Future:

            From having to sit through complaint after complaint, and even complaining myself about my broken phone screen (twice this year ALONE!), it was time to come up with a practical solution to the ever-present problem: the shattered, cracked, or simply broken phone screen. Thought after thought, many ideas began to revolve around my head, but one stood out to me. This became the slim design of my ‘indestructible’ phone case, designed with a personalization aspect, creating a option to individualize my product so each case can be unique.

            The one of the most useful things I learned in the past few weeks while contemplating the progression of my idea was the implementation of Photoshop to my website. Photoshop will be a key factor in the personalization aspect of iChoose. I did not realize that one graphics editing program could do so much. My website needs to allow customers to customize and upload their own photos, so Photoshop would be a suitable solution. With the ability to crop, slice, draw on, type on, retouch, overlap, and combine photos, this tool would be perfect for iChoose.

            Another very important aspect that occurred to me over the past weeks is the extreme impact of social media on our everyday activities. In this age of technology, it is very difficult to ignore its prevalence in society. Not only do we have access to these social media sites on our computers, but they are now available though our mobile devices, making their way to phones and tablets alike, creating even easier access to social networking. Advertising iChoose would be crucial on websites like Facebook and Twitter, networks that are accessed daily by millions of people, to get the idea of iChoose out there.

            In my eyes, the future of iChoose seems very bright. With the interest I have seen when brought up in conversation, many women and men alike would appreciate a product like iChoose. I believe the next steps would be to set up the website and gather all the tools needed to do so. This might include hiring employees who specialize in web design, looking at different options for set up and management, etc. This may also include gathering potential companies to provide advertisements on the site, or looking at sites like Facebook and Twitter to advertise on.

            Over the last few months, iChoose has developed from an idea to a reality. With the knowledge gained from my IST 195 course, I have learned so much from the different parts of the system unit to information about how to set up online payment security for customers. In the beginning, iChoose was just a simple idea, but now I realize that there is no product like it out there, and it can really transform into something big. I believe I gained a lot of valuable skills to make it a success.

iChoose: Cryptography

iChoose

Indestructible smart phone case: waterproof, dirt-proof, shock-proof, in a slim, sleek design that everyone will envy. You not only have an option to choose the color, but you could also make it however you like - plain, designed, spotted, stripped, anything you could possibly imagine; even create your own personalized design, including any picture or grouping of pictures that you love! Personalize exactly how you like, no exceptions, with the added guarantee of ultimate protection. We administer cases for every type and brand of smart phone. We aim to please, satisfaction guaranteed. We are iChoose. Have you chosen today?

Lecture Post – Cryptography

Have you ever purchased something online? Odds are, you, as well as millions of others exactly like you have purchased something online just recently, and will again in the near future. Having access to order endless types of products and merchandise online is really a great thing, and is undoubtedly the new ‘fad’ of the consumer market. Ordering things online is quick, easy, and most importantly, convenient. But how exactly can this process be done? How can any given consumer be sure that payment methods are safe and secure? With millions of people ordering things online, there must be a type of security procedure provided by companies who are expecting consumers to purchase products online, and feel safe doing so. This is where a security method called cryptography comes in.

In the most general form, cryptography uses encryption to protect information by transforming data to an unreadable format. Using tools such as SSL (Secure Sockets Layer), cryptography protects your credit card information as it is transported across the internet for transaction purposes. With millions of users accessing the internet at any given moment, this form of security protection is very important. It safeguards your personal information so others cannot gain access to it and withdrawal money from your account. Cryptography allows people to provide personal information like payment methods used on websites, with confidence that this information will be encrypted in such a way that cannot be recognized by anyone or anything but the computer belonging to the company receiving payment. Only a reader with the correct algorithm (or key) can decipher the encrypted message.

All people simply expect to be safeguarded by a company they are purchasing a product from. For my company, iChoose, this method of security is imperative. Allowing users to feel safe and secure about providing payment information is essential for making any sort of profit. If cryptography is not used, a hacker can easily steal payment information, and my company would be at fault for not using proper security protocol. For websites designed to sell consumer products, there is no other option than to encrypt personal and payment information to protect a customer’s privacy. Being a computer-based company with all transactions happening over the internet, cryptography is a security method that is very important for payment purposes.

           

iChoose: The Operating System

iChoose

Indestructible smart phone case: waterproof, dirt-proof, shock-proof, in a slim, sleek design that everyone will envy. You not only have an option to choose the color, but you could also make it however you like - plain, designed, spotted, stripped, anything you could possibly imagine; even create your own personalized design, including any picture or grouping of pictures that you love! Personalize exactly how you like, no exceptions, with the added guarantee of ultimate protection. We administer cases for every type and brand of smart phone. We aim to please, satisfaction guaranteed. We are iChoose. Have you chosen today?

Lecture Post – Operating Systems

iChoose is an entirely internet-based company. This means that computers will be used to maintain the site, and customers use the site created to create, order, and process the product they purchase. Being a company based solely off on online sources and programs, operating systems will be a very significant part of iChoose. To access and uphold the site, computers will have to be used on a daily basis, and computers could not function without and operating system. All computers come with this system software consisting of programs that control and maintain the operations of the computer, but why else is the operating system so important?

            The most important piece of software inside a computer is in fact the operating system. Why is this? The operating system has a few very important responsibilities. The operating system control’s the computer’s hardware, manages all software found on the computer, and organizes files that the user creates. Being already built into the computer, the operating system does not need to be bought separately, nor does one ever need to be bought a second time. Updates and improvements may need to be installed, but for the most part, the operating system handles that itself. It truly is the unsung hero of a computer: it is your computer’s head honcho - the number one program of the machine.

            Operating systems perform many functions that including starting and shutting down a computer, providing a user interface, managing all programs and memory, coordinating specific tasks, establishing an internet connection, monitoring performance, administering security, and automatically updating itself and certain utility programs. While that seems like a whole heck of a lot, the operating system does it all. Best of all, it does it all without being told what to do! Although many types of operating systems exist, most operating systems perform the same or similar functions. It is amazing that all of these things can be done with one piece of software. Having a company based off of computers and computer functionality, I would say knowing and understanding operating systems is one of the most important things to learn when starting an internet-based business, considering how valuable an operating system is to a computer.

iChoose: Using Photoshop

iChoose

Indestructible smart phone case: waterproof, dirt-proof, shock-proof, in a slim, sleek design that everyone will envy. You not only have an option to choose the color, but you could also make it however you like - plain, designed, spotted, stripped, anything you could possibly imagine; even create your own personalized design, including any picture or grouping of pictures that you love! Personalize exactly how you like, no exceptions, with the added guarantee of ultimate protection. We administer cases for every type and brand of smart phone. We aim to please, satisfaction guaranteed. We are iChoose. Have you chosen today?

Lecture Post - Photoshop:

            I have been contemplating how I could allow my clients to arrange and manage their photos and designs when creating custom phone cases. I will also need some type of program to create the sample and pre-created designs that will be available for people to choose if they do not want to create their own case.  There are probably tens of hundreds of programs out there that could allow me to have access to this program, but I think that Photoshop would be a great choice. With many different editing options, I don’t believe there are many better options at an affordable cost.

            For my clients, Photoshop would be integrated into iChoose’s website, allowing them to do everything from cropping and slicing, joining and grouping, drawing and typing on, measuring, and retouching the pictures they chose for their specific case. These aspects of Photoshop are very important because they can give my website exactly what it needs, and what I am promising my clients: unlimited options presented in a simple, manageable way. With so many options, iChoose could most definitely benefit from this program.

            For iChoose designers, Photoshop will make it easy to invent designs for the pre-created cases available on the website.  Using Photoshop’s extensive editing options, designers will be able to style each designs in a quick and easy manner. These designs will have to be constantly updated for the ever-changing idea of what is ‘popular’ at any point in time, so I can see Photoshop being used quite often. Video editing is included in the cost of the program, enabling my staff to make all sorts of videos to how-to-create-your-own-case videos to advertisements. Photoshop could be heavily utilized for these two types of videos, allowing easy navigation through the website as well as video advertising on other websites.

Professional Blogger Review: FabSugar

iChoose

Indestructible smart phone case: waterproof, dirt-proof, shock-proof, in a slim, sleek design that everyone will envy. You not only have an option to choose the color, but you could also make it however you like - plain, designed, spotted, stripped, anything you could possibly imagine; even create your own personalized design, including any picture or grouping of pictures that you love! Personalize exactly how you like, no exceptions, with the added guarantee of ultimate protection. We administer cases for every type and brand of smart phone. We aim to please, satisfaction guaranteed. We are iChoose. Have you chosen today?

My Blog Post URL on FabSugar: http://www.fabsugar.com/PopSugar-Shop-Fall-Color-Trend-25065203 (second comment posted)

Blogger URL: http://www.fabsugar.com

FabSugar is a fashion blog focusing primarily on new fashion trends of the week/season. Some of the designs displayed on the site are really unique, creative, and obviously really popular and trend-setting! Many different articles of clothing on the site gave me ideas for iChoose phone case designs. From leopard print pants, to bright red sweaters with tiny Eiffel Towers on them, so many designs are so adorable, and could totally work for a phone case as well. I chose to comment on a popular trend of the moment: the color burgundy. The color is often looked down upon, but the site shows it in a completely different light. I hope you feel differently about the color after watching, just as I did!

Pretty in Burgundy Post to FabSugar Content:

I was never really drawn to the color burgundy, but it really does look great in the pieces shown in the video. It is a great transition color from summer to fall, especially since I live in a very windy area (northern NY) and start to wear jeans earlier than most. I am not quite a fan of colored jeans, but burgundy is a color that can either blend or pop, depending on what you are wearing it with. I love that aspect, and I really do think it is a great transitional color that can work with many things, from jeans to pumps, as shown. I am not a leather skirt kind of girl...(whatever that means...) not to mention in burgundy...but to each his own! Brandi definitely rocked the burgundy jeans and blazer! You go girl!

This is the first time I have been on the site, and I really like it. The interactive aspect of the video was very informative and definitely kept my attention. It would not have been effective to me in just plain text, because I am primarily a visual learner and have attention trouble with long bodies of text. The videos and rotating slides of pictures on the main page of the site were very interesting...I saw a few things that caught my attention so I think I will go back and look at those things now! Your site is pretty awesome, I must say! Keep up the good work, I will definitely be back soon! 

-Lindsey