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Earth Day 2013

This is the Earth Day 2013 poster that I've made. My topic is activities around the world during Earth Day 2013. If you can't see the text I will type it down below.

Planting

• In Costa Rica, they planted young trees for Earth Day.
• Women in Iraq helps planting trees to counteract environment.

Art

• In Russia, some children draw something about earth days.
• In Japan, they draw massive crowds and enjoy meat-free cuisine.
• Dressing up as trees and painting their bodies in green in India.

Parade

• In America some people dress up as flowers and plant for a parade.
• In Indonesia environmental group and fisherman celebrate earth day.

Cleaning

• In Phillipines people go the the beach and clean up trash.
• In Mexico, people volenteer to clean up beach in their local beach.

Internet Users Not knowing that downloading pirates is illegal?

Summary

People nowadays use illegal search engine such as torrent to get illegal unauthorized content.A lot of people don't know that it is illegal to download from a pirated site. 44% out of 2500 people says that they thought uploading commercially produced media uploaded to a file sharing website is legal. And others did not that if it's lawful or not. 35% of the people claimed that they thought that it is legal to get a copy of a film or TV shows from a friend. 68% of the people think that it is illegal and think that it should be protected that people cannot use illegal downloads. Over two-third of the people agree to use search engine such as Google to find unauthorized content. Over one in fourth people uses the search engine daily to find such contents. For it being illegal is bad because people who don't want to pay for films or TV shows can watch it at home just by a click of a button. It is good for the people who are lazy and likes to stay at home because it is much easier for them. It is bad for the producers and the artist that is the one working to make that film or any other contents. In my opinion it is ok for it to be illegal to download because people would still download it. Plus I think that the artist and movie stars are rich enough already they don't need that kind of money it doesn't matter to them. So I think that it should be legal and not illegal because these people are rich already this kind of money doesn't matter to them.

Major Concepts

• People are not aware of whether illegal downloading is illegal or not.
• 68% of the people believe that it is necessary to protect the content, which is an interesting fact because I think those people are hypocrites.
• 35% of the people including me didn't know that copying a film or TV show from a friend is illegal.

Potential Strength/Advantages.

• To people who didn't know that it was illegal now know that it is so they would be aware of it later on.
•  Let people understand the importance of whether this is illegal or legal.

Potential Strength /Disadvantage

• Some people will not care about this at all and still use illegal downloads. They have said it before that it is illegal so people still download illegally so there is no use in posting this.
• It might make those file sharing websites be banned again.

Discussion Questions

• Why does it matter if people download it illegally, everyone is doing it?
• How would this make the file sharing website feel and will they be forced to banned the website?

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Citation
Hill, Amelia. "Internet Users Unaware of Illegal Downloading." The Guardian. Guardian News and Media, 21 Apr. 2013. Web. 22 Apr. 2013.

Pebble: A New Smart Watch

Nowadays things are being make to be connect or used with your smartphones. Treadmills, massage chair, glasses, etc. Pebble is a new smart watch which it can be connected to your ios or android device. This device

New Function to the AssistiveTouch

Summary
 
AssistiveTouch as you know is a plug in that apple product have such as iPhone, iPad, iPod, etc. A lot of people find it useful but there is also a lot of people like me who find it really annoying. The reason that I find it annoying is because the placement is always in the way when you try to press something it is in the way. The reason that it may be useful is for people who is lazy to click the button and like to just use touchscreen or your home button is broken so you need it to go back to home. MyAssistive is a brand new application that allows you to change the color, change the position, and customize it to your liking. Some of the new features are now you can toggle LED light, screen shot, siri, etc. With all these new upgrade I might consider using it again if it isn't that annoying with the placement.

Major Concept

• New app called MyAssistive
• It allows you to customize it to your liking.
•  It makes your life easier with shortcuts.

Potential Strength/Advantages 

• More people might use it
• It might help people's daily usage of their smartphone more useful.

Potential Strength/Disadvantage

• It might still be position to be really annoying.
• What if it is stuck and you're home button can't use too.

Discussion Question

• Why did they decide to use the bad/annoying positioning on the first place?
• How would you make more people who hate using Assistive Touch and make them start to use it?

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Citation
Lee, Cody. "Add Functionality to the AssistiveTouch Feature with MyAssistive." IDownloadBlogcom Add Functionality to the AssistiveTouch Feature with MyAssistive Comments. N.p., 31 Mar. 2013. Web. 01 Apr. 2013. 

Evasi0n Jailbreak killled by iOS 6.1.3

Summary
Nowadays everyone is using a smartphone doesn't matter if it's an iOS system or an android system there is always a hack to hack your phone. For iOS systems it's called a jailbreak there is a lot of teams out there who develop a jailbreaking software for us users to use. There are a lot of teams doing the same thing but one of the most famous one is the evad3rs, which they create the software called Evasi0n. Now with Apple's newest update iOS 6.1.3 it updates a lot of things to avoid users from jailbreaking. One of the makers called MuscleNerd pointed out on his twitter that Apple have founded 4 of 6 of the security flaws credited for the evad3rs. Now that Apple have found the flaw they patched the new update so the jailbreakers should stay away from it. MuscleNerd have mentioned that his team is working on trying to jailbreak this software, and not for long iOS 6.1.3 will be jailbroken and be used by users again. There is a website that shows how to save and protect your iOS 6 jailbreak, by clicking here.

Major Concept

• Apple's new release of iOS 6.1.3
• Shows the constant battle between the Apple team and the jailbreakers team.
• The advance in technology and how good people are at hacking and finding new ways to hack a software.  

Potential Strength/Advantages 

•  Improve our ability to help people using technology.
• Shows how develop our technology have been.
• Shows the power of hacking.

Potential Strength/Disadvantage

• People might be inspired by this and hack even more things like government website, banks, etc.
•  It's like a constant technology battle between Apple and jailbreakers, if it keeps going on this way it could causes some problems.

Discussion Question

• How did the jailbreakers team manage to break through every time there is a new release? Is Apple letting them break through or is Apple's security really bad?

•  Why does Apple care so much that people are jailbreaking, I heard most of the Apple employees have their iPhone jailbroken because it will give the iPhone it's full potential. Why does Apple not letting the user use the phone's full potential?

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Citation

Lee, Cody. "IOS 6.1.3 Kills Evasi0n Jailbreak." IDownloadBlogcom IOS 613 Kills Evasi0n Jailbreak Comments. IDownloadBlog, 19 Mar. 2013. Web. 25 Mar. 2013. 

What Happens To The Internet Every Second, Minute, Hour and Day?

Summary
There are a total of 2.5 billion internet users world-wide and these people are using the internet a lot. By breaking down on how much internet we actually use per second, minute, hour and day the number is really shocking. For example in one second there are 1,633 tweets are published on twitter. 694,445 google searches happen every second, and also 780,000 apps are being download per second too. In one second 2.8 million e-mails are being sent, which is equivalent to the entire Chicago population sending e-mail all at once. In one hour 10.5 million photos are uploaded to Facebook and 4,200 domains are being registered. In one day there are 172 million people visited Facebook and 98 years of video uploading on Youtube. It all adds up to 133,133 years online.


Major Concept

• Show how much of the internet we use.
• Shows how people is so addicted to the internet.
• It also shows that we people rely on the internet way too much.

Potential Strength/Advantages 

• Help us understand how many people is addicted just like ourselves.
• Help us see how much we people are relying on the internet and find something else to rely on.

Potential Strength/Disadvantage

• Makes people want to make the numbers go up.
• Allow us to feel how addicted we are and feel bad about ourselves.

Discussion Question

• How did they manage to get all these numbers?
• Will this much amount destroy the internet?

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Citation

Bennett, Shea. "What Happens On The Internet Every Second, Minute, Hour And Day? [INFOGRAPHIC]." - AllTwitter. N.p., 28 Feb. 2013. Web. 19 Mar. 2013.

What Schools Don't Teach.

Summary

This video teaches a lot of useful things, it doesn't really teach you anything technically. It just tells you how important coding really is. There are a lot of famous successful people talking about why coding is so important in life. The famous people who appear in this video are Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Chris Bosh, Will.I.Am, etc. They talk about how they become so successful by learning how to code in high school. 

Apps that makes your morning better?

Summary
Most people nowadays have a morning problem, by that I mean they can't wake up early and are not always organised. Mashable have put up 6 apps that will help makes your day better starting off with an app to wake you up in the morning. This app is called alarm clock extreme, what this app does is that it helps you wake up in the morning. Everyone hates the snoozing sound of the alarm clock in the morning, with this app it allows you to make the snoozing sound even louder every time it snooze. It can also gives you math problem for you to solve to unlock the snooze. So this app is designed to wake you up and there is a free version with ads and a paid version without ads for $1.99. The second app is called sunrise this apps makes people who love to check their e-mail every morning easier. Just by opening this app it is linked with Facebook, google calendar, LinkedIn, etc.So it will show you todays weather, event or even who is celebrating their birthdays. The third app is called Sworkit is an app that makes people who wake up in the morning and likes to exercise enjoy their morning. It is a training app that makes you workout for around 5-60 minute in the morning. Morning workouts are for your muscle to not get used up in certain routines. The fourth app is called Ted this app is just an app with science, technology and random things. There are short videos that are put together nicely and it helps you go through your day without being bored. The fifth app is called Guide, it is an app that allows you to get news from a robot, celebrity, anime, etc. The last but not least app is called spotify, this is an app for a person like me who like to play a song and get ready for my morning. You can subscribe to playlist like billboard top 100 or even compile your own playlist.

Major Concept

• Showing how lazy we people are nowadays.
• Mostly a lot of people use phones daily.
• Different ways to make our day better.

Potential Strength/Advantages 

• Help others wake up earlier.
• Create apps to make people's day better.

Potential Strength/Disadvantage

• People could become lazier by relaying on these apps.
• People could overdose on working out.

Discussion Question

• How does some of these apps help people's day better?
• Why do people have a hard time waking up early

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Citation

Drell, Lauren. "Mashable." Mashable. N.p., 14 Feb. 2013. Web. 19 Feb. 2013.

Next Generation Of Mobile Gaming: Sphero

Summary
Nowadays people are using smartphone even more than laptop, so there is a lot of new generation of mobile gaming. Sphero is a new generation of gaming using high-tech technology to create it. It's a shape of a sphere with accelerometer and gyroscope in it. It is also really easy to use and control it. Sphero allows you to play different games with phone apps that are free in the app store. It is a new innovation that will change mobile gaming forever. This is the first robotic ball that you can control it using a smartphone. There are different ways of using the Sphero and it is even better when you're playing it with your friends. Nonetheless this is a new and exciting ways to play with your smartphone.

Major Concept

• It shows that there are a lot of other ways for mobile gaming.
• It shows that people are creating more robotic device.
•  It also shows that people are really stuck onto smartphone even more than laptops.

Potential Strength/Advantages

• Makes everyone's life a lot more interesting
• Give people more motivation to create cooler technology.

Potential Strength/Disadvantage

• People will be more addicted to life and be lazy.
• One day robot might takeover the world can we can be the slaves of robots.

Discussion Question

• What could possibly happen in the future using this kind of technology?
• What other games can be played with this innovation?

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Citation: "The Next Generation of Mobile Game Controllers." Sphero. Sphero, 9 June 2013. Web. 21 Jan. 2013.

Google Android In Your Kitchen?

Summary
This article is about google android expanding their field into your kitchen appliances. For example now with google android connected to your rice cooker you can set it up just by using your smartphone. Also imagine you doing your laundry and your TV can show you that your laundry is done while you're watching TV. In Japan Panasonic make a cloud-based system to let your microwave and rice cooker have programmed recipe to look at and make it. It just makes and allow our technology to the next level.

Major Concept

• It shows how much our technology have improved
• Remember when people wanted the whole house to be controlled by remotely now that could be possible.
• It shows the people that technology is a really powerful thing.

Potential Strength/ Advantages

• Makes our life a lot easier.
• Makes our life more interesting and fun.

Potential Strength/ Disadvantages

• People will become more lazy.
• There might be some problem with the controls and you can't control it.

Discussion Question

• Is it safe if the electricity goes out?
• What else could be controlled?

Citation

Bautista, Camille. "Mashable." Mashable. N.p., 10 Jan. 2013. Web. 14 Jan. 2013.

History of Computer Software

The Big Picture Homework

What is machine language and how is it difference from human language? 
 In my opinion the very most important and obvious difference is that our human language is what we humans speak and communicate with each other. Our machine language are 1 and 0 or anything like that. Things that we human will not understand unless you memorize the machine language. So we need to understand human language first to actually understand machine languages.

Who was the first computer programmer? 
Ada Lovelace


What did he/she created? Explain that in detail. 
She created the first programmable computer which she use Charles Babbage's idea to actually make one programmable computer. Charles actually made an analytical engine which is actually the first step of a programmer. The thing is he couldn't be able to finish his project, because there are a lot of issues/error with it. And so Ada took Charles idea and develop the system just by adding more method to actually complete the program. After she did complete to make the program she is known as the first programmer.

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iPhone senses you typing on table

Summary
This article is pretty much talking about how a Swiss designer called Florian Kräutli created a vibration keyboard. This keyboard uses Vibrative Virtual Keyboard it uses accelerometer on the iPhone 4 to sense the tremors of the finger tapping the table. He says that it could be use on any solid surface. But as they see the demo it seems like a lot of pressure is needed to press the key to allow the phone to detect it. Even thought this is only the prototype, he say he is still working on it and will publish it as soon as his done.

Major Concept

• It shows that our technology have been developing a lot.
• He is trying to show a wireless non solid keyboard that is projected on a solid surface to be able to type.
• To show more ways for people to use smartphone more consistently.

Potential Strengths/Advantages  

• More convenient for people who travel a lot. 
• Easier for people to type while using a smartphone.

Potential Strengths/Disadvantages  

• It's not that easy to press the buttons.

• The sensory of the object isn't as good as it suppose to be.   

Discussion Questions 

• How does this actually work, even reading the article I am still confused.
• Why is it hard to put a projector on a smartphone to create the same effect but easier.

Citation
Ray, Bill. "IPhone Senses You Typing on Table, Bit of Wood Etc, Turns Vibes to Text • The Register." IPhone Senses You Typing on Table, Bit of Wood Etc, Turns Vibes to Text • The Register. The Register, 9 Nov. 2012. Web. 13 Nov. 2012. <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/09/vibrating_keyboard/>.

10 Site for Educational Document

Summary:
There are a few site right now that is great for documentaries for people who are interested in watching all these document. People would like to learn a lot on how things work and also interested in some documents. Right now there are just some historical record for example Wikipedia. Wikipedia is just like a research website, where people can use it can do something about it. In this article he shared with us 10 trusable and reliable sites that people can use for documentary. If you are interested in history document, conspiracy and pretty much any kind of documentary. You can find it out on all these sites and just help with your education, so I think this article is really useful.

Major Concepts

• A lot of people are using documentaries to learn.
• There are a lot of websites out there that will help you understand education better.
• A lot of the education now occur with ICT and the technology of our world.

Potential Strengths/Advantages  

• Students are more interested in learning now that it is on the internet.
• It's a video not a bunch of words so that will also allow student to pay more attention to it.

Potential Strengths/Disadvantages  

• Student could be lazy and not learning anything because since there are no teacher there they will be lazy.
• There might be some inappropriate content that are not suitable for the kid at that age

Discussion Questions

•  Is there any other website for school stuff?
• How can you tell if a website is trusable.

 

Citation
Dkpula. "Technology Tidbits: Thoughts of a Cyber Hero." : 10 Sites for Educational Documentaries. Blogger, 17 Oct. 2012. Web. 07 Nov. 2012. <http://cyber-kap.blogspot.com/2012/10/10-sites-for-documentaries.html>.

Google search with new features. (Enhanced Sounds)

Summary:
 The main summary of this article is that Google is trying to compete with Siri which is an strong match up. They are both different in a lot of ways for example Siri cannot be too specific about some things that they are talking about or the user is asking. For the example gave in the article is say that in Google search can ask questions like how does the Yankee stadium look like? Does things are some question that Siri cannot answer properly. But the other difference is that Siri can do things that Google search cannot which is making appointment, reminders, etc. So there is a difference between using Siri and Google search. For the IOS things it cannot participate with another third part application, which in this case is Google search. So there are advantages and disadvantages between the two features. So it only comes down to whether you should use Siri or Google search I think it's all up to the user and see if he/she is use to which application.

Major Concept

• Showing how technology is changing overtime.
• Showing the difference between Google search and Siri and let the user decide which one to use.
• Showing how people are trying to catch up to each others technology.

Potential Strengths/Advantages

• Help people with disability to use smartphones.
• To put that feature on other smartphone too not just iPhone.

Potential Strengths/Disadvantages

• People will be very lazy in the future.
• They need to make it more accurate so people who have accent can't really talk to it.

Discussion Question

• How are all voice recognition made?
• What other questions that are hard to answer, could it be asked and answered?

Citation:
Cheng, Jacqui. "Google's "enhanced" Voice Search Lands in IOS App Store." ArsTechnica. N.p., 31 Oct. 2012. Web. 7 Nov. 2012. <http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/10/googles-enhanced-voice-search-lands-in-ios-app-store/>.

A history of smartphones

         Since right now pretty much everyone uses a smartphone it doesn't matter if it's an iPhone, blackberry, Samsung, etc. It's all smartphones and since right now world smartphone usage total has passed the billion mark in 20 years. A lot of company have been earning a lot of money from all these kind of smartphones. Right now I think 9/10 people on street would be using a smartphone. This website show the most important 20 type of smartphone which start from Bell south IBM Simon to iPhones. So these are all the types of smartphones in the world that are really important to start all the other smartphones.
         I think this article is really cool because now like I said before 9/10 people on street probably have/use an smartphone. So looking at all these phone to see what they evolve from is really cool, because this is really what surrounds our whole world. So reading this article really teach me that everything new products are all evolve from  an old device and all these device are what is really motivate these company to make the smartphones.

Major Concept:

• The usage of smartphone have been use for over a billion usages.
• The different type of important types of smartphones. 
• How all these smartphone develop into the one we are using.
• Tell us how long smartphone have been around.

Potential Strength/Advantages

• There are some strength and advantages for example he said that the usage of smartphone have gone over billions. I think this is a very strong argument because it just show that how many people have been using smartphones.
• It just make me realize how long smartphone have been around for 20 years and these are the 20 most important smartphones. I say that because I think that smartphone have only been around since 2005 or so.

Potential Problems/Limitations/Disadvantages

• I think he could possibly overlook some of the 20 years like I see some smartphones in this article that I believe isn't really that important. Maybe some things inside of the phone that make it important but it's not that I know of.
• Other than that there is nothing really that is a main weakness of this article.

Discussion Questions

• I would want to know what are the types of smartphone that makes it important and how it contribute with the other smartphones?
• Are there some smartphones that will help us understand how it develop?

Citation: Reg, Hard. "Slideshow: A History of the Smartphone in 20 Handsets • Reg Hardware." Slideshow: A History of the Smartphone in 20 Handsets • Reg Hardware. Hardware, 17 Oct. 2012. Web. 31 Oct. 2012. <http://www.reghardware.com/2012/10/17/slideshow_history_of_the_smartphone_in_20_handsets/>.

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