Wednesday, May 27, 2009

My Experenses Virus

For the past three days I noticed that my Firefox has been acting incredibly weird, I couldn’t look at pictures because apparently every picture on the face of the internets contained errors (more like my Firefox contained errors) and then yesterday as the friend and I were playing Empire Earth, my computer kept locking the game up and kicking me out of it; which of course was very irritating since I had built an impressive amount of towers and then of course the enemy was coming over to knock them all down and I had to defend the land I had originally started talking from them, dammit! After we gave up on the game, the friend noticed someone logging into PayPal from my computer, although I wasn’t checking it. After a six hour process of running virus scanners it turned out that I had not one virus, but thirteen! Thirteen viruses, six hours and now my computer is finally all clean and Firefox is acting normal again.

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Twitter.....

Twitter….. a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read other users' updates known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length which are displayed on the user's profile page and delivered to other users who have subscribed to them (known as followers). Senders can restrict delivery to those in their circle of friends or, by default, allow anybody to access them. Users can send and receive tweets via the Twitter website, Text or external applications. The service is free to use over the Internet. But yet twitter has its flaws, keep in mind that every time you do a status update, or publish something new but equally irrelevant on your Twitter feed, if you do it from your cell phone your carrier will charge you for every text message you send. And unless you have a plan that includes text messages, Twittering can be an expensive hobby, as Jason learned the hard way. As the masses get addicted to Twitter, people will start texting all sorts of things to the service, only to later realize that they shared some information that they shouldn't have. While you Twitter, just keep in mind that you are broadcasting whatever you're doing to the whole world (or at least your friends and colleagues). Please don't tell us about what diseases, which you got them from and who you've been doing what with. The only difference I see between the two is that Twitter makes your private conversation with another person, a conversation that is in all likeliness irrelevant to anyone else reading it, available for everyone to view. It is a generally recommended practice for bloggers to disclose some information about themselves. Some personal disclosure allows your audience to have a closer connection with you when reading your content. There is of course the problem of disclosing too much information, or all the wrong kind of information about you.

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Windows Lab

When we are in the windows lab I would like to know more about the inter-working of the system, learn about the shortcut keys like how Mac has theirs.
When it comes to the interworking of the windows system I noticed that it’s a little more complex then the Mac system, so because of that I would like to know how to work and understand it from a Mac users point of view so that when I transition from Mac to PC I know how to accomplish the more important task on both systems. Now when it comes to the shortcuts on PC I noticed that you have to press more keys then a Mac dose. So I would like to know how to change the default so that I do not have to press so many keys to accomplish one task. Another things that I would like to learn about windows when we are in the windows lab is how to use Microsoft office and help bride that gap so that I also know how to perform the proper procedures for both windows and Mac with it comes to that software, you can tell that there are some things on PC that there is not in Mac and the other way around so if I can learn those key points that would be very helpful. The last thing that I would like to learn when working on the windows system is how to create and plant viruses it seems like a fun and interesting things to do and to understand, when I had a PC I always used to get viruses but never really understood why people sent them or created them so if I can learn about them and achieve a better understanding for them that would also be great.