The Tech Badger: 2013

Friday, May 17, 2013

Social Bookmarking Project Questions

1. We can also organize our computers using RSS Feeds, Wikis, and the Cloud.
2. E-mail can also be used if you want to send a message to a group of people rather than sharing a website where they would have to skim through the entire thing to find the desired information.
3. My favorite websites had to be the ones under the NBA Playoffs because basketball interests me the most.
4. My favorite blog posts were the ones where we had to describe our weekend and the technology postings.
5. My favorite RSS Feeds were the Rolling Stone website and the Technology website.

Monday, May 13, 2013

RSS Feeds

1. I selected those mostly because they all interested me. Even the ones under news and government interested me in some sort of way.
2. It was very easy to find the feeds. I just searched up key words on google reader and found many different feeds to choose from.
3. My favorite sites were probably the technology blog and the rolling stones website. I love music and technology so those interested me the most.
4. you can use RSS to find recent updates on work that your teachers have been posting.
5. It is likely that I will be using RSS in the future, in fact, i'm using it often right now. It helps me just have to visit one place to find information from many different places.

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Voki

Friday, April 19, 2013

Tech Article 4/19

Android Powers Google Glass

Google is going to use its Android operating system for its Glass devices, Chief Executive Larry Page confirmed yesterday. "Obviously Glass runs on Android," Page said toward the end of the conference call reporting Google's strong first-quarter financial results. Fragmentophobes might freak out that Android is being stretched to yet another device: it's hard enough for programmers to keep up with the diversity in screen size, processor power, and operating system version. But Google has a separate Glass application programming interface (API) called Mirror, meaning that programmers won't simply be writing Android apps to tap into its abilities.

Original link here.

Monday, April 15, 2013

Homework

5 Main Points

1. Wiki's are websites that allow many people to collaborate and share ideas and are very easy to create.

2. When creating your wiki, it is important to set it to protected so that others can view it while only members of the wiki can edit it.

3. Wiki links bring you to a certain point within the wiki, while external links send you to a website outside of your wiki.

4. The discussion tab allows people to discuss content within the wiki without changing it.

5. The history tab allows people to know when the page was last edited and by whom it was last edited by.

Monday, April 8, 2013

Spring Break

During spring break, all I did was either hang out with my friends or stay home and relax. There was seriously nothing else to it. So, this is a really short post. Here is a funny picture.

Thursday, March 21, 2013

Tech Article 3/22

YouTube: Eight Years in and 1 Billion People Strong

YouTube's 1 billion monthly users now post 72 hours of video each minute and watch four billion hours of video each month.

YouTube has reached one billion monthly users, crossing the threshold a mere five months after Facebook.

Thursday, March 7, 2013

Tech Article 3/8

Chromebook Pixel is too expensive (and too good) for Chrome OS

Google is releasing a high-end touchscreen laptop that boasts a better pixel quality than either of the MacBook Pro's. It starts at $1,299 which is actually quite reasonable for the type of state of the art hardware we're talking about. The problem is that the Chrome OS that it runs on requires constant internet connectivity , which is described as," ... just a web browser running on top of a lightweight Linux distribution." The question is, does this combination really work for the professionals and power users willing to spend that kind of money and live with the limitations of Chrome OS?

This is a comparison of the MacBook Air (top) and the Chromebook Pixel (bottom).

Original link here.

Friday, March 1, 2013

Time Travel

If I was to travel back in time, when and where would I travel back to? I have too many ideas to say just one thing, so here's a list I cam up with

1. I would travel back in time 1 day ago to Bill Gates' bank with a pillow case and just stuff it with money, then come back.

2. I would travel back in time 201 million yrs. ago and squash a bug and then see if I cease to exist or something like that.

3. I would travel back to the first "The Most Interesting Man in The World" commercial set and tell him that I can speak French in Italian.

4. I would travel back to New York City in 1776 and make some random guy listen to dubstep because I want him to think I'm crazy.

5. I would travel back to the day Stephenie Meyer wrote Twilight and burn the book.

6. I would travel to the day the iPhone was invented, steal the blueprints, then create my own company with those blueprints.

So... yeah. A.D.D. for you right there. I'm probably gonna see if I can think of more stuff and then post it.

And here's a picture of what went though my mind when i posted this.

Thursday, February 28, 2013

Tech Article 2/29

China Claims its Military and Defense Sites were Hacked by U.S. Attackers

To counter the recent reports claiming that a special unit in the Chinese Army was behind the repeated cyber attacks on the U.S. institution, the nation claims that its defense and ministries websites are routinely hacked from IP's originating in the U.S. It's reported that more than 144,000 hacks are targeted at the China Military Online and Defense Ministry websites. Defense ministry spokesmen said that close to two-thirds of those attacks (62.9 percent) originate in the U.S.

For the original link, click here.

Thursday, February 21, 2013

Tech Article 2/22

PlayStation Vita not Getting Price Drop in the US

Sony announced it would be dropping the price of the PlayStation Vita from 24,980 yen to 19,980 yen in Japan starting Feb. 28 , which hints a price drop might come in the US. But the Sony Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida says that a price drop in the US isn't coming. Yoshida says this is due to economics, and the current exchange rate is the reason the price drop was in Japan exclusively. It's been an issue with Sony and also hurt Nintendo in the past. But it's still likely that there will be a price drop after it's on the market for a while.

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Do Now 2/19

A new class that I would like to add to our school curriculum would be a class that goes in depth into computers, and I would like it to be more of an intermediate class that's not too easy or hard. I would teach about not only processes you can do on the computer, but how the computer works and its internal structure. The class would be provided with high-tech laptops that can do many quick and advanced processes that most can't do. I'd have it set up quite like this class, with the classmates sitting around the center of the room where my laptops and projector would be, with the do now typed up on the projector. The only difference is that we'd be learning a lot harder topics. I would have the students work in both groups and alone, depending on whether or not the topic requires many minds to work together or if the topic is opinionated and needs many points of view. I would have the students produce work usually typed up and emailed to me or have it be shared in a folder on Google Drive. I would have it consist of pictures, graphs, spreadsheets, and basically anything that they want or need to explain their work. I would give them work that would ask maybe about a specific part of the computers internal structure or how to complete a certain process on the computer.

Thursday, February 14, 2013

Tech Article 2/15

Android Dominated Smartphone Sales in 2012

Android continues to prevail over Apple in the highest selling smartphone system in the world, mostly thanks to Samsung. Android sold 68.8% of smartphones while Apple's iOS operating system sold 18.8% putting them in second. Together, they sold 87.6% putting Blackberry and Windows far behind.

The high Android sales is mainly because of the thousands of different types of smartphones that come in different shapes, sizes, and with different advantages. Apple only has six versions, only allowing them to sell 130 million smartphones last year. But customers who bought their smartphone from Apple, are most likely to stay with Apple.

Click here for the original link.

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

The Weekend

Over the weekend, I did like nothing so I was like," I'm gonna waste my time on YouTube!" So I found this hilarious video of a man who claims to be a banana. Pretty funny. I also shoveled and played a lot of video games like ARMA2. So.... yeah. The video of banana man is at the bottom.

Thursday, February 7, 2013

Tech Article

Father Gives Daughter $200 to Quit Facebook for Five Months

A 14 year old girl was given $200 for quitting Facebook, not forever, but just 5 months. Many Facebook users have taken “vacations” from the site. Rachel Baier, a high school freshman in Massachusetts, told her dad she’d stop using Facebook until the end of the year in exchange for $200.

Here’s a quote from the father…

"She approached me. She has been frustrated she hasn't been able to find a babysitting job and she has been looking for ways to get cash, so she asked, 'If I didn't use Facebook for so long would you pay me?'"

The father thought she was joking at first. He later realized her daughter was serious, so he drew up paperwork. "I went back and thought about it, and said if you are going to do it, we are going to sign a contract. And she said okay." The contract states that from Feb. 4, 2013 through June 26, 2013, Rachel will have her Facebook account deactivated. She will receive $50 halfway and $150 on the last day of ninth grade.

Original link: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/father-daughter-200-quit-facebook-rest-school-year/story?id=18431318

PHOTO: The agreement created by Paul Baier, which states that his daughter will will stay off Facebook for five months in exchange for $200.

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