Midterm Project

Tech Article 1/13/12

The Nintendo Wii U

Nintendo Wii U is the second generation of the Wii. It comes with a new controller that is 6.2 inches long and its also a touch screen. Now when you play the Wii U, you don't even have to look at the T.V but now you could look at your controller. Your dad can be watching his sports and you can be playing the Wii U at the same time There inst a price or release date yet but will come out late this year.    

Tech Article 1/5/2012

Google Chrome can Beat IE !?!?!

Google Chrome has already taken second place in the most used web browsers by beating Firefox. Now Google Chrome has caught the attention of tech observers. They are wondering whether Chrome could do the unthinkable and topple the leader of the browsings, Internet Explorer. From December 2010 to December 2011 Google Chrome is rising and IE is plummeting. Google chrome could be on top.

Do Now

Organizing Folders in my computer looks similar to the picture above. We have one main folder on the top that could be called "Photos" or "Documents". The next section in the main folder would be folders that would be called for example, vacations, parties, school photos and for Documents it would be, PowerPoint, Word, Excel etc. Then the next sections would be the photos themselves and the documents themselves. I use a hierarchical method. 

Tagging is to attach a label to something. For example in Facebook you tag a name on a picture.

Social Bookmarking is a method for Internet users to organize, store, manage and search for bookmarks of resources online.

These two things are very important because with this people from the internet can share stuff with each other.

Tech Article 12/15/11

Motors In Wheels

The SIM-LEI

In Tokyo there has been a car show. There has been many electric cars in the show but nothing like this one. The SIM-LEI can travel about 200 miles in a single charge and can go from 0 to 60 in 4.8 seconds. Believe it or not the performance comes from the wheels and not under the hood. So it has 4 motors, 1 in each wheel. That is a total of 260 kilowatts to use. If this car ever gets mass produced, the car cost will be around 32,000. 

Tech article 12/8/2011

Microsoft has come out with a new app. This app allows you to access your Xbox live account from your iPhone and iPod touch and iPad. But you can't access this app in the Microsoft store for your iPad.. You can edit your Xbox avatar. You can check on the latest games and apps from Xbox. It also gives you gaming tips and breaking news on Xbox. It is very compatible with the Windows phone. It has that same tablet like feel to this app. Iphone ipod apps just get the original feature and the simple features.

Tech Article 12/1/2011

Solar Impulse Aircraft

The Solar Impulse aircraft ways about a mid -size car and has a wingspan of 200 ft. The inventor of this aircraft is Bertrand Piccard, he invented this with energy conservation in mind. In fact, this aircraft roughly uses the same amount of energy that the Wright brothers'plane required to power in 1903. This aircraft has four motors containing polymer lithium batteries and a heat management system designed to conserve heat at high altitudes. People asked if it can carry 200 people eventually, Piccard responded that it would be crazy to say yes but it will be stupid to say no. 

Tech Article 11/18/11

Google Music!

Google released an online music store and a free Web storage locker were you can keep your favorite songs in. Google music has similar prices to iTunes and Amazon but Google's variety of songs is smaller because its new. The songs that are purchased from the store are automatically uploaded to Google Music. Which can be accessed from Android phones, tablets, and from Google music. This allows you to see and hear your music. You can upload up to 20,000 songs. Google music came out to everyone in the U.S on Wednesday. But in the music download market, Apple is king, selling more than half of all U.S. downloads through its iTunes Store.

My Weekend

My weekend was full of soccer, basketball and Modern Warfare 3. First Modern warfare 3 was on my doorstep when I went to my house. I was so exited to play it. I played the hole entire day until about 1:00 am.

Then the next day i woke up and i started to play it again till about 2:00 pm. Then i went to play soccer with my friends until 7:00 pm. Then the rest of my weekend was chilling, Call of Duty, Going out to BK, Basketball, my weekend was okay. Most of it was pretty much MW3 though and Im on level 64.  

The first marking period in Web 2.0 was a bad start. I thought it was going to be easy but it comes with weekly responsibility. I was the person who starts off bad but works for better finish  

Internet Explorer now owns less customers!

Internet Explorer now owns less than 50% of its customers. 49.63% to be exact. Then Firefox is the runner up which has 21.20% of the webs traffic. Then comes Google chrome and Safari with 16.60% and 8.72%. These percentages are for desktop users only. If we are talking about devices like the ipod, ipad, iphone, macs etc, the most used browser would be safari because its the default browser and for some the only browser they have to use so they take up 62.17% of the webs traffic. The video shows how Firefox and IE are the top browsers and shows their speeds as well.

My Voki!

Tech Article 10/21

Why Google shouldn't care about tablets yet

Tablets are supposed to be the devices that bridge phones and PCs. They're all anyone can talk about. Everybody loves tablets now. Apple millions of ipads last quarter;

Manufacturers tripped over themselves to pump out tablets before a tablet-optimized version of Android was even ready and continue to do so, even though google thought about making Honeycomb's source code available. Amazon is coming out with kindle fire 

HP incited tablet fever when it slashed prices to clear Touchpad stock; So Google will not have a lot of sells since its compition has already taken the customer

Tech Article 10/14/11

Google's Revenue Soars!

Google +

10 million to 40 million Users

 

Google's Google plus has increased to 40 million users increasing its revenue. That's a big increase from the 10 million users Google+ had in its last quarter. The network opened to the public in late September. Google said it earned $9.72 per share. Analysts estimated earnings of $8.74 per share. Google plus alone comes out to 388,800,000 dollars. Right now Google's revenue is 7.5 billion dollars. I personally thought Google plus was not going to do well but clearly I was wrong.

Tech Article 10/6

Hot Air for fuel in the future

For centuries, architects have taken advantage of rising heat to help cool some structures. Solar chimneys allow the rising air to go out of the building, taking the heat with it. Today, Australian entrepreneur Roger Davey wants to take advantage of that phenomenon. He wants to create, capture and control hot air to help power cities. He plans to build a huge solar updraft tower, 2,600 feet tall, in the Arizona desert. As the hot air moves into the tower, it would turn 32 turbines, spinning them fast enough to create mechanical energy, which generators convert to electricity.His company, EnviroMission, says such a tower can create up to 200 megawatts of power, enough to power 100,000 homes. He says they don't intend to put coal or nuclear or alternative power out of business, but want to be a strong, no-carbon source.

Tech Article Online harrasment

MTV's Online Harassment poll

More than half of all teens and young adults say they have been bullied or harassed online, according to the results of a new poll on Internet behavior. Some of the most common forms of harassment include posting something online that's not true, writing things online that are "mean" and sharing texts or other messages that were meant to stay private. MTV's "a thin line" program says that it takes a harmless joke to become a big deal that can permanently harm someone. This years survey is 6 % more people that have been harassed than the one in last year. 2011 is 56% and 2009 was 50%.

My Weekend

Played soccer with friends

During my weekend I played soccer. I played for 3 hours on Saturday and Sunday on the hasbrouck heights high school with some friends. It was really fun playing soccer with friends for the first time in a while.

Netflix adding video games!!

Netflix will be rebranding its name to Qwikster. The new service will offer console games for Microsoft's Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii and PlayStation 3 for an extra monthly fee.The change will put pressure and compete with GameFly. People asked for video games on Netflix for many years and now they will have it on Qwikster. This will be an incredible feature for Netflix users and especially for people who are video game lovers. The only problem is that Netflix subscribers might have to create two subscriptions if you want the new feature.

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Halloween

Grave yard Shift from spongebob squarepants

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My First Blog Post!

My name is Franny Garcia. I love to play soccer. I also like to watch the Jets and Giants play and the New Jersey Devils win the Stanley Cup. What I don't like is waking up early and doing to much homework. I play for the JV Hasbrouck Heights/Wood-Ridge soccer team and we are currently 2-1. I played soccer since I was 8 and i am looking forward to play for many more years of soccer. I have two brothers that play soccer as well. They are also in the team of wood-ridge. My favorite food is breaded chicken with mash potatoes and rice.