Sunday, October 21, 2012

Lecture Post 5


My application that I created takes all the stress away about picking out an outfit! This application uses photographs that you take of every article of clothing you have in your closet, and creates an original outfit that you have never worn before. You as a user are able to put in your location so this application can make you an outfit that is weather appropriate, as well as you can tell it what kind of outfit you are looking for, whether it be preppy, punk, or professional.
This week in lecture we talked about cryptography and how it is basically another word for domain name. Having a domain name is a string of numbers that is the name of your website. When an individual goes to type in a website, no one would remember a string of numbers, so there are words that make up the string of numbers so it is easier for viewers to visit the site.
For my clothing application if I were to create a website to go along with the application, the site would have a list of numbers, I wouldn’t expect any of the people who use my application to remember these numbers so I would make a website name that has to do with magic outfit creator.  You have to make sure that no domain names have already been used though, because I don’t want other people using a competitive site rather than my own.
Another big issue today with websites is security. Especially websites that could potentially contain personal information. Malware is when a computer gets a type of virus, and most of the time it is to gain access to some type of financial information. If someone created an outfit and some wanted to buy something off of the site to buy an article of clothing that someone liked, they would have to input their credit card information. This information needs to be secure. We learned that to guarantee the security of your credit information you need to see https instead of http in the search box. Security can also come from downloading anti virus software as well. Any type of protection is good to have and to avoid having any information stolen from you.

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