Tech Article 1/6/12

Barnes and Noble - Nook e-reader

The CEO of Barnes and Noble William Lynch unveiled the Nook Tablet. The company will be able to now sell this product. Over the holidays the online sales jumped from 43% to 327 million. The large increase was driven by thr Nook. The regular products that were being sold at Barnes and Noble fell from the previous years due to everybody going out to by the Nook instead of going to by books. In December, cosumers were purchasing well over 1 million sales of acually Nook devices.

1/4/12 Do Now

I do not store photos on my lab top my dad stores it all on his computer. When I do work on the computer I save it to different folders to stay organized. I never have uploaded a video on my computer. I am neither hierarchical or non hierarchical system because I do not store photos,videos,etc on my computer. 

Tagging - is the process of assigning short, descriptive labels to digital information.

ex: Facebook, your able to tag friends in photos.

Social Bookmarking - is a method for internet users to organize, store, and manage and search for bookmarks of online resources.

ex: Diigo

Tech Article 12/16/11

The Future of War; Far-out battle-tech

The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Project Agency is funding for the worlds newest military technolgy. One of there projects is called the Disc-Roter Compound Helicopter. This helicopter is going to have fetures from both a plane and a helicopter. This helicopter is going to be able to hover like a helicopter and then will be able to switch from a helicopter to a plane in mid-air and fly at the same speed that a regular plane would. This aircraft will be able to land and takeoff as a plane but it will also be able to land and take off the same way a helicopter would. 

 

Tech Article 12/9/11

Grand Theft Auto Three

Grand Theft Auto Three will be coming out next week as an app for all tablets and smartphones. This app is going to be exactly how the game would be played on any other device such as an X-box, play station, etc. This app is only $4.99 on the app store. This will be ready to be purchased on December 15th which is next week. It is going to be the tenth anniversary of this game. This is going to be the first  game of this series to be released by a Google Android platform. This game can be played on all iPads the iPad touch and the iPhone 4 & 4s. 

tech article 12/1/11

Future airport security Thermal lie -Detectors

During the beginning of this year the Internationale Air Transport Association (IATA) demonstrated  a future series of a neon light tunnel which is equipped with array of eye-scanners, x-ray machines, and metal and liquid detectors. The EV's announcement said that they will band all x-ray body scanners. They will  replace it with a more advanced systems such as Bluetooth tracking to thermal lie detectors. They say that the security in airports need to at a more advanced security measure.  

tech article 11/18/11

Google opens online music store and free web storage locker

Google opened online music store and free web storage locker during this week. It is for listening to tracks from computers, tablets, and phones. Songs bought from a store are automatically downloaded to Google Music. Google Music is free for storing 20,000 songs. More than half of the smart phones sold in the world run on this Google's Android software. 

Reflections On First Marking Period

During the first marking period of Web 2.0 we learned a lot of technology systems. We were taught how to use all the different types of Google for example: Google docs, Google forms, etc. We were were taught on how to make a blog and we talked about how blogs are used in daily life. On an overall I got a A in this class and I thought it was an enjoyable class.