WoW! I had no idea that you should be renewing and updating your security software so much! I probably had not done an update in forever! I just spent the whole day almost cleaning up my computer. Luckily, I did not run into any viruses along the way. I also went and checked out my personnal firewall, I have Vista, thankfully, which automatically enables itself. I though that this was all done on its own, that the computer would take care of its own self, haha.
I thought it was interesting that for Mac's it is not reccommended to defragment your computer but for pc's it is. I have both types of computers at home. So I will defrag my Dell but not my apple :). Since fragmentation slows down your whole computer, hopefully by defragmenting my Dell it will improve its performance. It will allow files to be saved then as, contigous sectors, instead of fragmented pieces.
Who knew computers were this invovled.
I always try and rememer to back-up important information already on my computers. I have a couple different USB from over the years. I find saving my work to a USB is the best option for me. Not only does it save space, it saves work from possibly being destroyed.
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Web 2.0 Project
Wow! This project definitely give me trouble in the beginning. I had no idea what was going on, and no clue on to what to make a story about. After an afternoon of trail riding down our limestone rock rode, and having my mind to myself, it came to me, "i'll do my project on the business!". At the beginning I had a major brain block, so I spent a couple days on working different story boards out to decide which direction I wanted to take it. I thought about doing a sales video, lesson video, location video, and none really sat right with me. I decided I would take the opportunity to go over a few little details that dressage riders (or any riders for that matter) learn. I went with the idea "From hard hat, to top hat" because not a lot of people are aware of the difference. A hard hat is for riders first starting out riding in lower levels of dressage, and a top hat is used by riders who have mastered the elements, shown, and have proven scores in all levels. The pictures in the montage are all of my family, and friends. My mother the owner of SRF Sport horses, Inc, is pictured numerous times along with me, my niece and nephew, and one of my best friends Jillian, we all are what makes up SRF, and we all share the same passion.
I really enjoyed making the project overall, and plan on using Onetruemedia.com again to create more advertisements for horses that we currently have for sale at SRF. It is a great marketing tool to catch the attention and interest of viewers.
Please view and comment on my project and how I can improve. I have added the project to my facebook page for people to comment, below is the URL!! Also participate in the poll I have credited located on the side of my blog! Thanks!
http://www.onetruemedia.com/shared?p=a5323e22e81b3cd312a43e&skin_id=1603
http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.onetruemedia.com%2Fshared_facebook%2Fa5323e22e81b3cd312a43e%2F1603&t=My%20Montage%202%2F7%2F10
I have already gotten some feedback from viewers! I am glad to hear that people enjoyed viewing it as much as i enjoyed making it! I love my life and surrounding myself with these amazing animals makes it that much better. I will make the change to the slides though, I will consider slowing them down a bit. I had them at the speed they were because it was supposed to resemble a commercial but now i know that it may have been fast! Thanks a lot for the advice!! :-)
I really enjoyed making the project overall, and plan on using Onetruemedia.com again to create more advertisements for horses that we currently have for sale at SRF. It is a great marketing tool to catch the attention and interest of viewers.
Please view and comment on my project and how I can improve. I have added the project to my facebook page for people to comment, below is the URL!! Also participate in the poll I have credited located on the side of my blog! Thanks!
http://www.onetruemedia.com/shared?p=a5323e22e81b3cd312a43e&skin_id=1603
http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.onetruemedia.com%2Fshared_facebook%2Fa5323e22e81b3cd312a43e%2F1603&t=My%20Montage%202%2F7%2F10
I have already gotten some feedback from viewers! I am glad to hear that people enjoyed viewing it as much as i enjoyed making it! I love my life and surrounding myself with these amazing animals makes it that much better. I will make the change to the slides though, I will consider slowing them down a bit. I had them at the speed they were because it was supposed to resemble a commercial but now i know that it may have been fast! Thanks a lot for the advice!! :-)
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Week 6: Clear
Wireless input devices are huge now! I see many different types of mice, keyboards and web cams being used on a daily basis. It is funny to see how people get attached to their new found love of a wireless mice or a wireless keyboards. Wireless mice typically use infrared technology to manage your pointer will on the computer. It is a fabulous thing to have wireless devices because it does dramatically reduce the appearance of cords around your desk and office area. As long as you know how to sync and change batteries properly it really is more appealing to the eye to have.
Different types of keyboards and motion sensitive devices help reducing RSI- repetitive strain injury. RSI is the repetitive use of the same motion. For example, if you rest your wrist on the desk while waving your mouse around all day you are more likely to develop an uncomfortable condition. Some of the conditions include tendinitis, and Carpal Tunnel syndrome. Both of these conditions and lead to major problems that can affect your health and work load. New technology helps reduce these problems by allowing you to use the keyboard and mouse in a different way and/or allowing you to change how you use them on a daily basis. Also, there is new technology that lets you actually speak to your computer and your computer will actually take the commends and follow through. The computer can pick up on phonemes that we all have and can detect what words we are saying. Of course this program needs training but depending on the training it could answer simple questions or have expensive and intensive training to comprehend a huge vocabulary. The use of speech recognition in computers can be costly for the training and will need extra components such as USB headsets and microphones.
Different types of keyboards and motion sensitive devices help reducing RSI- repetitive strain injury. RSI is the repetitive use of the same motion. For example, if you rest your wrist on the desk while waving your mouse around all day you are more likely to develop an uncomfortable condition. Some of the conditions include tendinitis, and Carpal Tunnel syndrome. Both of these conditions and lead to major problems that can affect your health and work load. New technology helps reduce these problems by allowing you to use the keyboard and mouse in a different way and/or allowing you to change how you use them on a daily basis. Also, there is new technology that lets you actually speak to your computer and your computer will actually take the commends and follow through. The computer can pick up on phonemes that we all have and can detect what words we are saying. Of course this program needs training but depending on the training it could answer simple questions or have expensive and intensive training to comprehend a huge vocabulary. The use of speech recognition in computers can be costly for the training and will need extra components such as USB headsets and microphones.
All of these information help me further my knowledge into the ever expanding use of technology. It is a pretty amazing industry. I have a feeling that, soon, with extensive training in computers we will start to see more robots around helping out in the work force.
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Week 5: Clear
Flash drives, floppies, CD's, all are common terms to me. Of course the revolutionary flash drive is a life saver and a little magical wonder when it comes to documents. I can be at one computer, store my documents on my flash and go to the next to have them upload on to different computer! CD-R is a wonderful invention as well. You can buy your music on i-tunes and customize your very own soundtrack. This chapter was very interesting but clear to me. It made me more clear on things I pretty much use everyday.
Computers are becoming faster then ever. Staying cool and mass storage are making our little wizards (computers) necessary need in our lives. We can back up all our work on so many different types of devices, making it more safe to store things away from damage or computer failure. There are many different types of storage that the consumer can pick out depending on there preference.
For example, take a traditional role of film from a camera. You only were able to get about 20-25 pictures per role at 5-15 dollars a piece. Now with the new and improved digital camera, you buy a SD-card and you can shoot anywhere from 20-2000 pictures with out having to delete or remove any photos from the card. Digital cameras have improved marketing and advertising aspects of business because now you can take power shots and not worrying about over shooting or replacing the film every 20-25 pictures. Also with the CD-R it is possible to upload your pictures from your SD card to your computer and transfer them to a writable CD where they can be stored without fear of computer failure or damage to the negatives. You must store your CD properly, of course, but a CD can hold many photos, videos, and music of your liking. You can choose any type on storing device you prefer, you just have to choose the one thats best for you.
Computers are becoming faster then ever. Staying cool and mass storage are making our little wizards (computers) necessary need in our lives. We can back up all our work on so many different types of devices, making it more safe to store things away from damage or computer failure. There are many different types of storage that the consumer can pick out depending on there preference.
For example, take a traditional role of film from a camera. You only were able to get about 20-25 pictures per role at 5-15 dollars a piece. Now with the new and improved digital camera, you buy a SD-card and you can shoot anywhere from 20-2000 pictures with out having to delete or remove any photos from the card. Digital cameras have improved marketing and advertising aspects of business because now you can take power shots and not worrying about over shooting or replacing the film every 20-25 pictures. Also with the CD-R it is possible to upload your pictures from your SD card to your computer and transfer them to a writable CD where they can be stored without fear of computer failure or damage to the negatives. You must store your CD properly, of course, but a CD can hold many photos, videos, and music of your liking. You can choose any type on storing device you prefer, you just have to choose the one thats best for you.
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Week 4: Muddy
So this week there was so much information that the reading became a little muddy for me to understand at some points! I could barely keep track of what i was reading let alone in the lectures. Shareware, Freeware, software, ugh, it was so tuff to undertsand them all with their names being so similar.
Shareware and Freeware are different because shareware is not free, but freeware is. Shareware can be used for free during a trial period, then purchased after the time expired if you want to use it after the expired time. Freeware is free, hence the name, but can not be incorporated in any applications you intend to sell. For example, many games on the internet you can use for free,but there are also some shareware games, which have to be purchased in order to play. Here is an example of a freeware game called "Cave Story" ...a lot of fun!
I learned a wide variety of software from business programs use to single user programs. I have used many different software programs, from tax prep, to Adobe Reader. I use most software in everyday use and have never thought about license agreements and how much work must have gone into building and creating these fabulous programs. It makes life a lot easier, and your work more efficient having them, especially since most everything you do these days is on the computer. Even now, by me typing on this blog I am using a communictaion software! Crazy I know!
We rely heavily on our computers and software programs make them that much more effective in our daily lives, and thanks to application software and the people that create it, we can have a more simple way to do our daily business.
Shareware and Freeware are different because shareware is not free, but freeware is. Shareware can be used for free during a trial period, then purchased after the time expired if you want to use it after the expired time. Freeware is free, hence the name, but can not be incorporated in any applications you intend to sell. For example, many games on the internet you can use for free,but there are also some shareware games, which have to be purchased in order to play. Here is an example of a freeware game called "Cave Story" ...a lot of fun!
I learned a wide variety of software from business programs use to single user programs. I have used many different software programs, from tax prep, to Adobe Reader. I use most software in everyday use and have never thought about license agreements and how much work must have gone into building and creating these fabulous programs. It makes life a lot easier, and your work more efficient having them, especially since most everything you do these days is on the computer. Even now, by me typing on this blog I am using a communictaion software! Crazy I know!
We rely heavily on our computers and software programs make them that much more effective in our daily lives, and thanks to application software and the people that create it, we can have a more simple way to do our daily business.
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Week 3: Clear
So week three in the readings were a bit more interesting for me at least. I knew that there was a difference between the internet and the World Wide Web but the text really put it into perspective! The web is just a service of the internet, weird but true, so e-mailing and web pages are not the "internet", they are web pages on the internet,confusing then check out, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet. So now when I am going to go on my computer I will say i am going to surf the web, because I am not just going on the internet. Haha.
I learned that the internet was started in a cool secret kind of way, ARPANET, was started by the U.S. Pentagon as a research project. It allowed scientist that were not near each other to communicate while working on military and scientific projects, through the internet. It started with just four computers, in 1969, located in four different places so that the researchers could collaborate, through e-mail. Today there are more then half a billion computer and all are doing much more then just sending e-mails. Fascinating to me! Its like a James Bond secret that has changed our lives!
Anywho...with the internet growing at such a fast pace, it is awesome yet a little disturbing that you can use e-commerce to buy anything for sale on the web. I do own a I-phone but I would never have thought that I would actually use it to do any sort of shopping. M-commerce the phase now coined to mean, mobile shopping, is where people on their blackberrys, I-phone, etc., and shop! I have bought a few things off of the web, but it sort of scares me to think how many people are on the internet and how, it is most likely, very easy to have your identity stolen.
There was a lot of information in the chapter but most information was a solid review or a more detailed look on things I have already known. The internet is a fascinately place, filled with so many options! It enhances the use of the computer 10-fold.
I learned that the internet was started in a cool secret kind of way, ARPANET, was started by the U.S. Pentagon as a research project. It allowed scientist that were not near each other to communicate while working on military and scientific projects, through the internet. It started with just four computers, in 1969, located in four different places so that the researchers could collaborate, through e-mail. Today there are more then half a billion computer and all are doing much more then just sending e-mails. Fascinating to me! Its like a James Bond secret that has changed our lives!
Anywho...with the internet growing at such a fast pace, it is awesome yet a little disturbing that you can use e-commerce to buy anything for sale on the web. I do own a I-phone but I would never have thought that I would actually use it to do any sort of shopping. M-commerce the phase now coined to mean, mobile shopping, is where people on their blackberrys, I-phone, etc., and shop! I have bought a few things off of the web, but it sort of scares me to think how many people are on the internet and how, it is most likely, very easy to have your identity stolen.
There was a lot of information in the chapter but most information was a solid review or a more detailed look on things I have already known. The internet is a fascinately place, filled with so many options! It enhances the use of the computer 10-fold.
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