Even though we use Microsoft so regularly I never realized these capabilities. Mail merge is amazing. It was a little bit confusing in the beginning. I could get through the topic fast and felt it very easy. It is basically dealing with formatting techniques and how we could send a perfect formatted Professional mail to apply for a job to a company.
We could virtually do anything with word in regard to the text aspect. It was cool i felt this tute easy and not much to speak off.
Thursday, November 30, 2006
Lecture Session 8 - The internet and cyber-democracy
What is democracy?
We have the people who rule the place in a political sense and their opinion.
How is media affecting democracy?
We have learnt that it is through media we know what is going around in a country and who to vote for or against. We know when there is an election or when a rule has been implemented. The common people have depended so much over the media, that they are forgetting that the media again is being controlled by few people and not everything they represent may be true. The true democracy is based on mass opinion media has the power to manipulate this situation. To resolve this we have multiple sources of media or information. A scandal of a Hollywood star has reached and multiplied over 6, 00,000 time in a single day. That is where the internet comes in. a medium that has a world wide source of information. If we need to find out accurate information it could be done by comparing it from multiple sources.
We have had a topic on free speech and censorship
An argument which could not be resolved on perfect sense, there are both good and bad on both sides. Pornography on the internet cannot be controlled because of this and again we could not get accurate information that is not controlled by anyone.
Finally I would opine that internet is one medium that could achieve a perfect democracy. Not only regional but also globally.
We have the people who rule the place in a political sense and their opinion.
How is media affecting democracy?
We have learnt that it is through media we know what is going around in a country and who to vote for or against. We know when there is an election or when a rule has been implemented. The common people have depended so much over the media, that they are forgetting that the media again is being controlled by few people and not everything they represent may be true. The true democracy is based on mass opinion media has the power to manipulate this situation. To resolve this we have multiple sources of media or information. A scandal of a Hollywood star has reached and multiplied over 6, 00,000 time in a single day. That is where the internet comes in. a medium that has a world wide source of information. If we need to find out accurate information it could be done by comparing it from multiple sources.
We have had a topic on free speech and censorship
An argument which could not be resolved on perfect sense, there are both good and bad on both sides. Pornography on the internet cannot be controlled because of this and again we could not get accurate information that is not controlled by anyone.
Finally I would opine that internet is one medium that could achieve a perfect democracy. Not only regional but also globally.
Microsoft Excel - Tutorial Task 7
It was amazing, even though I only knew how to use the cells to calculate stuff. I never knew how to build graphs, it’s been a while and the software has developed a lot. It’s good to be back to recollect the information that has been updated.
It was easy dealing with the exercise in the beginning because I was familiar with it. But from the advance exercises I liked how we can use macros and create our own tool bars to develop functionality based on just recording the stuff.
I am familiar with macros again but I don’t like to use them because there are usually
A lot of errors appear or may be I have not done it right. Again it’s a nice experience to spend time to get into this stuff.
We could graphically present complex and simple stuff that has something to do with bulk calculations like daily budget personal or for the whole company.
It was easy dealing with the exercise in the beginning because I was familiar with it. But from the advance exercises I liked how we can use macros and create our own tool bars to develop functionality based on just recording the stuff.
I am familiar with macros again but I don’t like to use them because there are usually
A lot of errors appear or may be I have not done it right. Again it’s a nice experience to spend time to get into this stuff.
We could graphically present complex and simple stuff that has something to do with bulk calculations like daily budget personal or for the whole company.
Session 7 - Video Games
All kids like to play video games, the effects are crazy. I am taking me as an example I have played the play station for a two days straight without eating anything taking small breaks to the loo. If this is what a simple video game has an effect on minds of people why not educated them using this? The video games could be a new media for communication to represent the new ideas or real entities.
It’s often from a very physiological perspective.
We have discussed that there are two types of approaches that we have acknowledged so far in an academic approach of video games.
Narratology- just stories or the work of what it wants to say through the game
Ludology – something that is more concerned about the graphics or quality of the game
Video games form the basis to virtuality the movie Existence shows how people can log into the system to play games in an absolute virtual world, which cannot differentiate between real or virtual worlds.
It’s often from a very physiological perspective.
We have discussed that there are two types of approaches that we have acknowledged so far in an academic approach of video games.
Narratology- just stories or the work of what it wants to say through the game
Ludology – something that is more concerned about the graphics or quality of the game
Video games form the basis to virtuality the movie Existence shows how people can log into the system to play games in an absolute virtual world, which cannot differentiate between real or virtual worlds.
Tutorial Task 6 - Photoshop 2
Since we have to use photoshop and i could not get hold of one cause i was lazy, i managed to edit the pictures in flash
The themes for today's task are:
Friends
My beautiful friends back home
got the pictures from my orkut account
I managed to make a web kind of appearance
Summer
The effects of summer could not be good because it is when we have a drought here.
same technique i showed multiple images on one picture
source of the images
serenitydawn.blogspot.com
michaelgodfrey.com
pecadodapreguica.blogspot.com
got the pictures from google image search.
Hi-Tec
Hitec city building in hyderabad from different angles
I tried to edit each part and include it here
NEWS
I have edited a seris of pictures to show how news travels from an event to the viewer over the television
Games
In this game they missed the Ball so i added it to show that it was a rugby game.
www.naa.org
Successful
we all know this person is filthy rich for selling user friendly products or atleast that we accept so...
I added two horns and added a text to show how he was successful
Celebrity
The themes for today's task are:
Friends
My beautiful friends back home
got the pictures from my orkut account
I managed to make a web kind of appearance
Summer
The effects of summer could not be good because it is when we have a drought here.
same technique i showed multiple images on one picture
source of the images
serenitydawn.blogspot.com
michaelgodfrey.com
pecadodapreguica.blogspot.com
got the pictures from google image search.
Hi-Tec
Hitec city building in hyderabad from different angles
I tried to edit each part and include it here
Source of images
NEWSI have edited a seris of pictures to show how news travels from an event to the viewer over the television
republican.sen.ca.gov
GamesIn this game they missed the Ball so i added it to show that it was a rugby game.
www.naa.org
Successfulwe all know this person is filthy rich for selling user friendly products or atleast that we accept so...
I added two horns and added a text to show how he was successful
Celebrity
My favorite star from the hollywood, non other than the great AlPachino. i got some of his pics from the god father nad other sites grouped them together
source:
i82.photobucket.com
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=12007752
masihaams.blogfa.com
Lecture Session 6 - Current applications...Open Source
After a rough week end from moving from my old beautiful place to an unfurnished place in Southport, I am pretty Tiered. As a refresh of the gap this lecture started off with a re-cap of what we have done so far…
1. Technology is used for communication it becomes a medium
2. History of computer and internet the moments that lead to everyday experiences with them
3. The kinds of approaches the inter-related nature or culture.
4. Philosophical – About reality very ancient approach of Steve Stockwell
5. How the things go down the streets of the internet and the capabilities by nelson
6. As of today…
Instant Messaging ICQ was popular. Msn was in the market much later. IRC internet relay chat was popular in the early ages of chatting. They made it huge. I still remember the first time I had the ICQ account and used to communicate with my friends. But I don’t believe that there were so many friends that we could get in touch because internet was just a teenager then growing its abilities and what it can offer. I believe it was not even a big subject to learn about then.
Portable Audio and Pod Casting – well who has the smallest Walkman, or which brad one had was one of the show offs that we friends had amongst ourselves to be cool. The apple made a come back and yes it made it huge from this little application that could carry MP3 songs and was getting so famous it’s called IPOD. The amazing part is that these became so popular every kid wants one. The sales for a recent 6,451,000 iPods during the quarter, representing 48 percent growth in Macs and 220 percent growth in iPods over the year-ago quarter. This is one big impact over the technology trends fashion market. (Debbie Kruger date visited 29 NOV 2006, http://www.apple.com/au/pr/library/2005/oct/11results.html)
There are other Piracy issues of multiplying Mp3 at an amazing rate which is not at all fair for the music developers and publishers. How to stop this is? What can we do about it is a total big mainstream under Piracy prevention ways.
It is not only music we can have even videos running downloads over these cute white pods.
P2P: Peer to peer Networks is main reason for this fuelling of the piracy of music and video. The technique of downloading or transferring files over the internet from another computer using FTP was been around for a while but applications like the then Napster and the now Kazza and Lime wire.
In this name of Piracy little people or kids who are not at all mature enough to understand the effects of Piracy have been fines or sued heavily. People are cry about Censorship to save everyone from these incidents.
It’s about Intellectual Property and copyright laws.
VOIP and voice Chat – old mediums to evolve into new mediums. If we could speak over the internet for as cheap as free than on the old medium like the telephone which is pretty expensive then what would happen to the companies like Telstra. Will it break the monopoly of them or because they have the power they may even restrict their servers that would obviously cut the VOIP conversations.
Free Open Source Software:
Microsoft and other monopolies should be strongly opposed, but how? Imposing special laws for such companies may not be fair but again giving so much power to one company for a service would be threat for the innovation advancements.
The amazing part of the reverse Engineering technique is look at the function or an ability of looking at the way it works and develop your own programs to achieve it. It’s fair according to Australia Copy right Laws.
The other things to cut down monopolies are the free software that is provided by open source developers where you could build on and modify it and use it. The best way is to encourage these for public and private uses, a true form of democracy in the software industry.
1. Technology is used for communication it becomes a medium
2. History of computer and internet the moments that lead to everyday experiences with them
3. The kinds of approaches the inter-related nature or culture.
4. Philosophical – About reality very ancient approach of Steve Stockwell
5. How the things go down the streets of the internet and the capabilities by nelson
6. As of today…
Instant Messaging ICQ was popular. Msn was in the market much later. IRC internet relay chat was popular in the early ages of chatting. They made it huge. I still remember the first time I had the ICQ account and used to communicate with my friends. But I don’t believe that there were so many friends that we could get in touch because internet was just a teenager then growing its abilities and what it can offer. I believe it was not even a big subject to learn about then.
Portable Audio and Pod Casting – well who has the smallest Walkman, or which brad one had was one of the show offs that we friends had amongst ourselves to be cool. The apple made a come back and yes it made it huge from this little application that could carry MP3 songs and was getting so famous it’s called IPOD. The amazing part is that these became so popular every kid wants one. The sales for a recent 6,451,000 iPods during the quarter, representing 48 percent growth in Macs and 220 percent growth in iPods over the year-ago quarter. This is one big impact over the technology trends fashion market. (Debbie Kruger date visited 29 NOV 2006, http://www.apple.com/au/pr/library/2005/oct/11results.html)
There are other Piracy issues of multiplying Mp3 at an amazing rate which is not at all fair for the music developers and publishers. How to stop this is? What can we do about it is a total big mainstream under Piracy prevention ways.
It is not only music we can have even videos running downloads over these cute white pods.
P2P: Peer to peer Networks is main reason for this fuelling of the piracy of music and video. The technique of downloading or transferring files over the internet from another computer using FTP was been around for a while but applications like the then Napster and the now Kazza and Lime wire.
In this name of Piracy little people or kids who are not at all mature enough to understand the effects of Piracy have been fines or sued heavily. People are cry about Censorship to save everyone from these incidents.
It’s about Intellectual Property and copyright laws.
VOIP and voice Chat – old mediums to evolve into new mediums. If we could speak over the internet for as cheap as free than on the old medium like the telephone which is pretty expensive then what would happen to the companies like Telstra. Will it break the monopoly of them or because they have the power they may even restrict their servers that would obviously cut the VOIP conversations.
Free Open Source Software:
Microsoft and other monopolies should be strongly opposed, but how? Imposing special laws for such companies may not be fair but again giving so much power to one company for a service would be threat for the innovation advancements.
The amazing part of the reverse Engineering technique is look at the function or an ability of looking at the way it works and develop your own programs to achieve it. It’s fair according to Australia Copy right Laws.
The other things to cut down monopolies are the free software that is provided by open source developers where you could build on and modify it and use it. The best way is to encourage these for public and private uses, a true form of democracy in the software industry.
Friday, November 24, 2006
photoshop part 1 Tutorial - Task 5
1. Friends – A concept that every one lives for and depends on, a person or a living being that you know and trust. It’s a beautiful feeling. The above picture shows a dog and a cat who by nature are enemies but here they are together reflecting the power of friendship could deify nature itself.
Source of the picture is form http://www.dognet.biz/
Source of the picture is form http://www.dognet.biz/
2. High tech – Amazing architecture and a purpose of its construction based on technology. This is a building from the city I come from Hyderabad. It’s called the Hi Tec city building and hosts the infrastructure for IT companies.
Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/680000/images/_681315_hitech300.jpg
3. News – an information about a recent event or achievement that is spread out to the masses through a medium. The above picture reflects news as it is a medium that helps most of the world’s fastest news to appear on television.
Source : http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40179000/jpg/_40179302_dish1.jpg
4. Summer – A season that is hot. The picture shows dryness, heat and the effects of the sun in summer of a place in Africa.
Source: http://www.phototravels.net/namibia/ndv1/namib-desert-v-49.3.jpg
5. Unconventional – something that is unusual that does not happen in real life like an existence of a super hero, or the dressing up of a super hero he wears his underwear over his pants unlike normal beings
Source: www.cybercat21.com/nay/
6. University Life – a successful achievement of academics a step that would decide what your learning interests and career would be. The above picture is an old lady to who is happy that she got graduated. she has achieved a degree and it reflects a university outcome.
Source: http://www.larmayartstudio.com/images/Graduation%20Day%20in%20color%204.jpg
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