Lecture Post: Cloud Computing, Photoshop, Bits & Bytes

Entrepreneurial Idea Overview:
If you ever wondered what that delicious wafting smell is coming from, the Food FTW App can detect what food it is through the newest iTouch/iPhone generation's smell sensor. The app can also identify food by pictures. The app has a database of all kinds of cuisine with information about them making it a handy tool for food lovers who enjoy discovering and learning about the food they eat.

Food FTW App will incorporate the usage of cloud computing by using online storage. Cloud computing offers resources like storage and softwares through the internet without you having to download it onto your computer. Considering how much information and pictures that Food FTW needs to store, online storage is a practical and convenient way to store a lot of info without having to purchase a huge physical hard drive. A problem with cloud computing would be that if the service provider is down, it will affect the application and make that go down too.

Food FTW will also use Photoshop to create patterned backgrounds and enhance images to be put on its website. Since the database of food will have images of food to be used, Photoshop will help make those pictures look better and give the website a seamless and modern look with the varieties of picture editing options on its software. The patterned backgrounds will make the website and application look fun and colorful.

And lastly, bits and bytes can be related to Food FTW because a bit is a number when combined another bit creates a byte, eights numbers that is encoded with information. Bytes are how computers process information and to create and maintain the application, the computer's bytes are a way for data to be converted and sent. This allows communication between the human and computer in order to process what I need to do for the application.