Early July Rush

Test, projects and more Test- student of BCIT taking New Media Design and Web Development program July rush is about to end. The First Term is almost done. A week of challenging days and never ending nights are about to end on July 2, 2009, the last class of the term. Being time constraint everybody manages to finish and work out on this term. “It’s hard but its rewarding” being said by a student on the class. The term started on April 12, 2009. Everybody in the class has different purpose, prospect and goals that they want to achieve. On the first day of class everybody seems to be shy and aren’t comfortable to one another. As time past by shy faces shown up and the real personality has gone out on it shell as everybody getting used comfortable to one another. Sharing one goal- to finish, pass the course and get a job helps develop the spirit of teamwork and camaraderie on this group. As time as being the great challenge on this journey, proper time management, patient, determination and a sound body and mind would be the key in success. For the New Media Design and Web Development Batch 2010 and being as on of the student in this batch I wish you all the best and god be with us on our entire one year journey through out this program.

Back Up Your Data -A must

Backing up your data is a must for student, businessman, travelers or any people that do have a sensitive and important data stored in their desktop computer, net book and laptop. We all know that machines such us computer aren’t perfect and they do tend to break somehow or worst in the most time that you really need it. To safe guard all this information and to protect you for future lost of data in your laptop, net book and desktop computer you need to invest for an external hard drive portable wise or a stand alone external hard drive will do. The storage capacity of these hard drives varies from the cost of the unit. The cheapest one starts as low as $70 and will give you a storage capacity of approximately 80gb and it varies on where you buy and what manufacturer you choose. The Highest price would be $200 and up and that will give you a storage capacity of approximately 500gb and higher, again it depends on the store that sells it and the manufacturer that you choose. For those that have a tight budget you could also back-up your data using a DVD disc if you have a DVD burner. This will take time and effort since each disc could only carry a storage capacity of 4.2gb. Another Option is to use a USB flash drive or “Thumb Drive” which other people call this because of its size and look. This Storage device is cheap and works the same way as an external hard drive. It cost for about $10 and higher depending on the size that you like. The smallest size nowadays is 1gb and the highest so far in the market is 32gb. These two alternative ways is good for those people that have a small amount of data files to be back up.

Be prepared you never no this might happened to you:

Netiquettte Blog Assignment

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Response to Rule 4: Respect other people’s time and bandwidth

Internet language has gone through out the world. It’s limit it substantial to the different time zones your target audience is located. Respecting people’s time is very important.  Writing a short paragraph with whole idea in it like a 911 style will be more likely to read compare to a 4 paragraph writing piece. Most people has short attention span or if they don’t, they mostly likely don’t have a time to read because of tight schedule in work, in school and etc. In spite of time you must also consider the bandwidth of your audiences. Each country varies on the maximum output of their Internet speed. You need to maximize the speed of loading time of your page in order to counter act the short attention span of your readers. Note that your target audience has other things to do and priorities in life. All in all respecting peoples time and bandwidth will increase the readability of your work in cyberspace not just by giving them the information that they do need but also you do consider their lack of time availability.

Response to Rule 7: Help keep flame wars under control

Being polite and respectful in the cyber world would deal a great benefit on you. You’re not just gaining respect to your audiences but also keeping your figure clean and look professional. Criticism will be always there. Get use to it and live with it. Don’t be mad or be discouraged instead think it on a positive way. People just criticize you because they are concern with you and they do want you to improve and become better. Response to them in a nice way thus you will be out of flame wars and also they will be enlightened and feel reading your blog regularly. Take note the most readers wants their opinion to be honored as well as share ideas on the topic that they got interested and catches their attention. All in all being polite in the cyberspace will improve your personality and credibility in the World Wide Web community.

Internet as a Tool for Communication

Sending mails? Gone easy with our friendly neighbor hood that ranks up its demand on the market, “Internet as a tool for communication”. On old days communicating takes a lot of time from days to months. The only way of communication back then was only by mail and word of mouth until the telephone industry settles in. Although those tools of communication are still used today a new innovation puts its self on the top and the demands of it continues to grow. The Internet evolves its way to be the worlds most used communication tool. Business firms, employees, students, teachers, workers, parents and other whom not to mention because there are tones of them and almost everyone use Internet to communicate to each other.

Internet covers a wide variety of communication tools such as:

•    Email- or also know as a Electronic Mail provided by the biggest search engines Google, Msn, Yahoo and other mail services allows people world wide to send and received messages as fast as a single click of a button.  It also  allows the user to attached files, pictures, videos and music along with their messages. It was widely accepted by the business community as the first broad electronic communication medium and was the first ‘e-revolution’ in business communication. It is very simple to understand and like postal mail, e-mail solves two basic problems of communication: Time and Logistics.

•    Instant Messaging or (IM) such as AIM, MSN, Yahoo, Facebook, Myspace and etc. is another form of communication which Internet provides. It creates the possibility of real time communication which allows users to communicate each other 24/7 any where around the world as long as theirs internet. Nowadays IM is not just text based communication tool. It evolves it self to a massive communication tool where users could see each other and talk live- known as a video conferencing and a 24/7 file sharing system which allows user to send and received files in a secured network. A lot of business firms use this new feature of web to talk to clients, business partner and job applicants all over the world.

These are just one out of a hundred uses of Internet. As our technology innovation evolves the use of Internet will grow and its demand will rack up the market resulting to a higher increase of users.  Soon it will populate the market and made some other communication medium obsolete.

Time Management

Cramming, rush hour, lack o preparation and tight deadlines all this are sign of poor time management. These complements on situations where time ticks really fast that leads to a stressful tensioned working place environment.

Managing your time will solve all of these problems it also helps you to work properly with plenty of time allotted to finish each task. By being not stress and working in a not time constricted environment, people that do manage their time shows better results and response to their works.

But how would a person manage its time effectively?

What is Art? “Its Meaning and Purpose”

Art is everywhere.  It lacks a satisfactory definition and is easier to describe as the way something is done. Anything that you could see, hear, smell and touch is art. It is deliberately an element that appeals our senses or emotions. It encompasses a diverse range of human activities creations, literature, music and expressions.

It was a defined as a collective term encompassing Painting, Sculpture and architecture as early as renaissance period. The earliest work of art was found 75,000 years ago: a series of tiny drilled snail shells found in South African cave.

It  has had a great number of different functions throughout its history, making its purpose difficult to abstract or quantify to any single concept. This does not imply that the purpose of Art is “vague”, but that it has had many unique, different, reasons for being created.

Art serves different purpose in our daily life. Below are some of a million purpose of art.

Colors- Its meaning and Beauty

Color is everywhere. The world around us is full of colors, yet all of it is in our mind. Do you ever wonder that if the color red is actually the color that it is used to be? Or just the way our eyes process the information?  Or as what the Scientist and color expert refer to a phenomenon called “Color Event”, where our eyes see an object as we expect to see no matter what colour of light it is or in any certain condition? Or just being a by product of human evolution where color seems to go with our evolution process.

We experience color through only one sense: vision. Us people could see colors in different way. Some people are unable to see colors and other people see colors differently from the majority. Even we do have different perception on colors there is one thing unique about it. It gives life to this world and means something in each any other way an individual will see.

Color can influence our emotions, our actions and how we respond to various people, things and ideas. Much has been studied and written about color and its impact on our daily lives. Here are some of the meanings of colors in ones personality:

How to Delete/Cancel Your Hotmail/Live, Yahoo and Gmail Account

Making an email account is totally free. A lot of us do make multiple email address not just two three or four but some of us do have tones of emails. Those emails are used for both personal and business needs.

In statistics: February 2009

Microsoft webmail properties: 256.2 million users
Yahoo: 254.6 million users
Google: 91.6 million users
AOL webmail properties: 48.9 million users

Being free and the best ideal tool in communication email is tempting to make one once if it is full of spam or being just to be “Boring” in someone’s eyes or ears, just  a simple clicks away and you will have a new and fresh email address again. But as I go through to forums, Q&A websites I was surprise that a lot of people are asking how to delete their old or unused accounts. In deleting and Email account its just basically the same as easy as making a new one but it’s a little bit trickier depending on the email provider.

Before doing this please read the following:

1.    If you close your account, someone can potentially open a new account with the same name, thus actually taking over your email identity.
2.    You will lose access on your contacts. Make sure you back-up your contact before doing this.
3.    Make sure that this email doesn’t have anything to do to you as your primary contact to your work, bank, clients and other aspects. Make sure that you tell or send them an email before doing this process. Also don’t forget to back-up your saved messages.

Below are the steps to follow on how to delete your Hotmail/Live, Yahoo and Gmail Email Account. Please Click the READ MORE link

6 Ways to Speed Up Your Macboook

1. Remove files from the desktop

Each time that OS X loads it has to index the contents of the desktop, create thumbnail icons for each file and catalog the contents of each folder there.

Do yourself a favor and move those files to the relevant folders they belong in. This will increase the speed at which your desktop loads and therefore make your Macbook faster.

2. Remove unwanted start up applications

Go into System Preferences and User Accounts. View the list of applications that have been set to start against your user name and remove (untick) any that you don’t need any longer.

It’s great to have iChat start automatically – but not essential.

You can view a list of applications running in the background by using the top command from the Terminal window or by using the Activity Monitor application.

3. Disable the Dashboard

This is my favorite “speed up” fix for the Macbook and it works wonders each time. The OS X dashboard is great if you use it all the time, but each one of those swish little widgets and web clips is taking up memory – and you can’t even see them unless you ask for them!

To disable the dashboard, open Terminal and enter the following command:

defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean YES

You can then either reboot the Macbook or enter the following command into the Terminal window:

killall Dock

If you miss your weather widgets and stocks information, you can reverse the command by entering:

defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean NO

And again either reboot or enter:

killall Dock

4. Clear the PRAM (intel Macbooks only) Reboot your computer while holding down the command + option + p + r keys together. Don’t stop until you have heard the start up chime three or four times.

This is not a real way of speeding up your Macbook, but it will kill any gremlins that have worked their way into the non-volatile RAM settings. I found that it seemed to allow my Macbook to boot faster.

5. Clear the PMU (Macbook, Pro and Air)

You can use this method to clear non-volatile RAM and settings on the Macbook products. Whilst it will not cause your Macbook to suddenly leap into speed mode, it will get rid of any mis-configurations and setting issues.

Macbook, Macbook Pro

1. Ensure that the Macbook is turned off.

2. Remove the power adapter and remove the battery.

3. Press and hold down the power button for 5 seconds and then release.

4. Reconnect the battery and power adapter.

5. Press the power button to restart the Macbook.

Macbook Air

1. Ensure that the Macbook Air is turned off.

2. Connect the power adaptor to a working power source.

3. On the Macbook Air keyboard, press (left) Shift-Control-Option along with the power button once.

Note: You must use the keys on the left side of the Macbook Air keyboard.

4. Wait 5 seconds and press the power button to start the Macbook Air.

6. Disable unneeded system options.

If you are not using Wireless, Bluetooth, Speech Recognition or Internet Sharing – then turn them off! Not only will you see a speed increase but you will save battery life too!

The rest of speedng up process will depends to the specification of your Macbook. The higher the RAM of your Macbook the faster it will process the data also the space avalabilty on your hard drive affect the speed of your macbook since the nature of MAC OSX operating system uses the part of your hard drive if the allocate memory of your RAM in opening application is used up already.

Note: Trying these steps are at your own risks. I tried it by my self and see a little bit of change in my speed in booting up process. The changes that you could see varies on the unit that you do have, its specification,the programs built in with it, the version of operating system you have whether it is updated or not and how you set it up to begin with.

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