MD. MAHMUDUL HASAN

The big talking point of iOS 7 is its all-new user interface, led by Apple's head of industrial design, Sir Jony Ive. The iPhone and iPad operating system has ditched the real-world metaphors like torn yellow paper in the Notes app, in favour of a much simpler style

Home Screen
Some of the biggest changes are found on the home screen, where every

iSO7 Home Screen

Although flat in terms of colour and texture, iOS 7 is a user interface of many layers. At the back you have the wallpaper, then the home screen icons, followed by the Notification Center and Control Center, before finally pop-up notifications and alerts sitting at the top. Covering the home screen, Notification and Control centres are semi-transparent. Folders have also been simplified by removing the grey fabric background in favour of the same blurred, semi-transparent effect similar to that of a bathroom window, allowing the general colour of your wallpaper to shine through, but no detail. 

Here’s a quick comparison.

Back Story: Twitter was created as a side project in 2006 as a way to share short, succinct messages with a small group of friends. Facebook, as has been told many times, got its start in a Harvard dorm room in 2004. It initially aimed to let people create personal profiles to share photos and messages with a wide network of friends.

Purpose: Twitter functions as a real-time news, entertainment and information network, tapping into the ideas and preoccupations of people who live online and the events that affect them. Facebook, on the other hand, primarily functions as the yellow pages for the Internet.

Network: Twitter has more than 200 million monthly active users, according to memos shared with staff members. Facebook has more than a billion.

Finances: By its own estimates, Twitter was profitable in December of last year and generated more than $100 million in revenue in the final quarter of 2012, according to numbers in an e-mail shared among members of its staff. These numbers could not be independently verified. Twitter is expected to post around $600 million in revenue this year and close to $1 billion next year, according to internal projections and estimates by the research firm eMarketer. Facebook reported that it generated $5 billion in revenue in 2012.

Revenue Sources: Both Twitter and Facebook rely heavily on a variety of advertising strategies, and mobile advertising in particular. Facebook, however, also makes money from games and other apps built on top of its platform, and it is  expected to introduce ads soon on Instagram, the company’s photo app.

Secret Weapon: This year, Twitter bought Vine, a video-sharing app, and quickly integrated it into the company. The service, which lets people craft and share six-second videos, was an immediate hit and has attracted 40 million users, according to Twitter. Last year, Facebook bought Instagram, a popular photo-sharing application, and it says the service has 150 million users. Instagram recently introduced a feature that lets its users upload videos, in addition to photos. The company said that five million videos were uploaded in the first 24 hours the feature was available.

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source:nytimes.com

Florida coach Will Muschamp doesn't think Alabama will have any problems Saturday playing in Texas A&M's Kyle Field."They'll be fine," said Muschamp, who was an assistant at Texas when A&M was in the Big 12. Muschamp led Florida to a 20-17 win there in A&M's 2012 opener. "They'll do like we do. They've probably been (pumping) crowd noise (in practice) and all that kind of stuff. They'll be prepared. I know College Station, they've have a great environment, but (Alabama has) been in those situations before."

Travel is the movement of people between relatively distant geographical locations, and can involve travel by foot, bicycle, automobile, train, boat, airplane, or other means, with or without luggage, and can be one way or round trip.[1][2] Travel can also include relatively short stays between successive movements..The origin of the word "travel" is most likely lost to history. The term "travel" may originate from the Old French word travail.[3] According to the Merriam Webster dictionary, the first known use of the word travel was in the 14th century. It also states that the word comes from Middle English travailen, travelen (which means to torment, labor, strive, journey) and earlier from Old French travailler (which means to work strenuously, toil). In English we still occasionally use the words travail and travails, which mean struggle. According to Simon Winchester in his book The Best Travelers' Tales (2004), the words travel and travail both share an even more ancient root: a Roman instrument of torture called the tripalium (in Latin it means "three stakes", as in to impale). This link is fascinating given the extreme difficulty of travel in ancient times. Also note the torturous connotation of the word "travailler."