Ready...Set...Ride Uses Computer Security

Ready...Set...Ride is a mobile application that uses GPS tracking to provide students with accurate, real time arrival times of Centro buses and shuttles. In addition to bus arrival times, Ready...Set...Ride will also provide directions to nearest bus stops, transit directions from one location go another, bus route maps, and alerts for each time the every bus is running its final route.

Computer Security involves the methods that are used to protect a company's information. In the case of Ready...Set...Ride, these methods will be implicated to protect both the company and the user's information. Ready...Set...Ride will need  a "Computer security plan," which is a written summary of several methods of protection that  a company adopts to protect their information (Shelly and Vermaat, 645).

One of the features that makes Ready...Set...Ride unique is the location based service that allows users to input their current location in order to find the closest and easiest bus route for them. Ensuring that a user's information is safe will be paramount to the company. Using a strong method of computer security, The managers of Ready...Set...Ride will ensure their users never have to worry about the risks that come with revealing such sensitive information.

In addition to protecting the users' personal information, the company will also need to protect it's own information. All computers used in the main office will need to be secured against loss of data, viruses, and hacking. Only certified users will be allowed on the computers, and they will all be required to use passwords. All forms of data will be backed up to external hard drives and perhaps other computers. And finally the best kind of anti-virus system will be used to protect the systems form all sorts of malware.

Ready...Set...Ride uses the Operating System

Ready...Set...Ride is a mobile application that uses GPS tracking to provide students with accurate, real time arrival times of Centro buses and shuttles. In addition to bus arrival times, Ready...Set...Ride will also provide directions to nearest bus stops, transit directions from one location go another, bus route maps, and alerts for each time the every bus is running its final route.


Operating systems are the most important components of a functioning computer. An operating system is defined as a set of programs containing instructions that work together to coordinate all the activities among computer hardware resources. An operating system controls basic functions of a computer, functions that will be very much needed to run operate Ready...Set...Ride. Ready...Set...Ride will need an operating system when starting and shutting down all computers in the main office, including the main system where all the data and monitoring configuration required to run the mobile application stems from.

In addition to starting and shutting down all computers in the main office, Ready...Set...Ride will use a custom crated operating system to create a graphical user interface (GUI) with which the users will interact with menus, and issue commands through the application. The GUI will also determine how information is displayed on the screen. In addition, the operating system will help with updating the software automatically, so users don't have to worry about installing new feature by themselves. 


Due to the fact that Ready...Set..Ride is an application built for mobile use, in order to access the great features offered by it, one would a phone. However, in order for a phone to be of any good use, the device would need an operating system to handle it's configuration, monitor performance, memory, and applications (including Ready...Set...Ride). Mobile devices have a different kind of operating system called an Embedded operating system which is essentially a scaled down version of operating systems used on computers.

Blogger Review

Method ~ of ~ Failed

http://timheuer.com/blog/

"Method ~ of ~ Failed" is a blog run by Tim Heuer. He first began in blogging in 2003 and has been running the blog for 9 years. Heuer is a program manager for Microsoft and currently working on the client developer platforms on XAML in Windows and previously Silverlight. Tim Heuer has worked with Microsoft developer tools and technologies since the early 1990s. Before joining Microsoft, he worked as a consultant for 12 years helping to implement technology solutions to enable success in businesses across various industries such as health care, construction, real estate, and electronic commerce

His blog covers "Ramblings about .NET, Windows Live, web development, customer service, and all things random." His blog also features several "how to..." guides, product reviews, tips on creating and maintaining a blog or website, application development and management, reviewing new programs/software and random tidbits from his personal life.

For a blog that covers a wide array of topic under technology, Tim Heuer is doing a pretty stellar job of holding it all together without appearing too random. However, the interface of his blog could use some work. Some of his posts tend to be lengthy, so instead of letting readers scroll through an entire post that they don't care about, shortening it and adding a "read more." link will be a better idea and will also help keep his blog posts a bit more uniform in length. Additionally, the color of his headings and subheadings are too similar (heading is light blue and subheading are dark blue", this confused me, and made me think that the subheading was simply the beginning of a different blog post. To correct this issue, he could reduce the size of the subheading and change the color. Finally, while he had two different sets of archives, one based on the month and year and the other based on the tag/topic, the tag/topic based list is random and not in alphabetic order; So anyone who visits his blog to look for posts on a specific topic has to go through a long list to search for one topic.

Besides the three above mentioned issues, Method ~ of ~ Failed is an excellent blog that sticks to the subject and provides users with credible information.

Ready...Set...Ride uses Cloud Computing, Photoshop and Bits & Bytes

Ready...Set...Ride is a mobile application that uses GPS tracking to provide students with accurate, real time arrival times of Centro buses and shuttles. In addition to bus arrival times, Ready...Set...Ride will also provide directions to nearest bus stops, transit directions from one location go another, bus route maps, and alerts for each time the every bus is running its final route.

As a service that replaces paper schedules and reduces waste, Ready...Set...Ride will operate on the premise of clean, green computing and will utilize cloud computing in several ways. Cloud computing is the delivering of computing resources and services over a network. Ready...Set...Ride will store user's log in information on the cloud. Additionally, whenever a user lists a bus route as one of their favorites, it is stored under that person's profile as well. Ready...Set...Ride will also need a storage medium for increased amounts of traffic and cloud computing will be the most convenient medium. Ready…Set...Ride application developers will develop and run the software on a cloud platform using Platform as a Service cloud computing.

Ready...Set...Ride will also use Photoshop in the development and promotion of the application. The application's logo will be created using Photoshop. Photoshop will also be very important for printing flyers for our social media pages, and the designing of the app's interface. During promotion of the app, pictures will be placed in several media outlets on campus such as the Daily Orange and JERK magazine, and also on Centro buses. Photoshop will be very much useful during the publicity process.

As with any other computers, the computers used to operate Read...Set...Ride and the computer based devices that the application will be downloaded to will process data in bits and bytes. And communicate using ASCII coding. The system unit will convert letters that are typed into the application to their different ASCII binary codes, and then store them in memory for processing.  After processing, the binary code for each letter is converted to an image and displayed through the screen.