The Future of the Human Technology

Nowadays people demand ease, convenience, and something new in their life. Scientist are working in inventing newer technologies which can bring ease and convenience to their consumer. Here is some sneak peak of cool technologies

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1. Google Glasses

Google Glass is a device that you used as your eye-glasses but allows you to access social medias feeds and also accessing google maps and navigation which allows ease in you. You can also take photos with your google glass.

2. Glass Technology

This video will help you describe the wellness of this glass technology which is very interesting.

3. 3D Printer - Form 1

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3D printing is a technology that allows people to forge a digital design to a solid real life products. It is nothing new for a large industry to have this kind of technology, but, having this technology as your personal thing will be revolutionary idea. Everybody can make their own physical products based on their design.

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4. Eye Tribe

Basically it is a combination of eye-tracking technology with a front facing camera, some serious computer-vision algorithm. It allows you to control a computer screen with your own eyes without having to touch or using a mouse.

5. Leap Motion

Leap motion has allowed people to control a desktop with their own hands without touching them. Leap motion is different with the typical motion sensors as it allows you to scroll web pages, zoom in photos and maps, sign documents and even play a first person shooter games.

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Video 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZi7e8LYNuQ
Video 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d6KuiuteIA

Microsoft VS Google VS Apple

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The largest three corporation which focuses on media technology are Microsoft, Google and Apple. People choose which brand they are going to choose according to their preferences as these three brands offers different features. However, in a nutshell they offers basically the same thing which is convenience. We can see from the Venn diagram below how all of these three companies similar and differs.

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Some comparison based on Gartner's idea.

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The main issue that we can observe is where do Microsoft, Google and Apple stand today and how do they affect the market as result of their competition. In my opinion, as they are competing to each other, they will more likely to keep on improving their products in order to win the consumers' heart and win the competition. As a consumer, this will bring advantage to them as they keep having greater and greater technologies developed by other people by them.

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Picture 3: http://www.infoq.com/resource/news/2011/01/Apple-Google-Microsoft/en/resources/Gartner1.png

Internet and Journalism

Nowadays, the journalism activity has affected by the existence of the internet which allows them to do news reporting more effectively. However, journalists also lost their monopoly on international news due to the news distribution in the internet. The internet has encouraged shift in who creates, distributes and ultimately owns the news.

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Journalism is the profession of reporting or photographing or editing news stories for one of the media. It is basically everything related with news coverage.

The Elements of Journalism

by Bill Kovach and Tom Rosensteil

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1. Journalism Journalism s' first obligation is to the first obligation is to the truth. 
2. Its first loyalty is to the citizens. 
3. Its essence is discipline of verification. 
4. Its practitioners must maintain an independence from those they cover.
5. It must serve as an independent monitor of power.
6. It must provide a forum for public It must provide a forum for public criticism and compromise. 
7. It must strive to make the significant interesting, and relevant. 
8. It must keep the news comprehensive and proportional. 
9. Its practitioners must be allowed to exercise their personal conscience.

The Web News

Key factor to evaluate web news:

Accuracy: The author of the document : The author of the document should be identified and be able to be contacted. Political websites may contain news releases quoting party leaders. The author should be appropriate for the material offered.

Authority: Where was the website : Where was the website published? Are the URL and domain were checked?

Objectivity: The site should contain the organisation’s goals which should be organisation s goals which should be consistent with goals published elsewhere. It should be a detailed site containing material with appropriate style and content.

Currency: The material on the site should be up to date Links to appropriate similar up to date. Links to appropriate similar organizations should be live. The site should be checked to see when it was produced and last updated.

Coverage: Information contained on the site should be quoted correctly. There should be a balance of text and images which should complement each other. There should be links to similar organizations.

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The MultiMedia

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Multimedia is a computer-based interactive communications process that incorporates text, graphics, sounds, animations and video. The key feature of multimedia is its interactive communication. The users determine what content is delivered, when it delivered and how. Why multimedia? People use multimedia as it is engrossing, multi-sensory, creates knowledge connections, individualized and multi-dimensional.

MAJOR CATEGORIES OF MULTIMEDIA TITLES

1. Entertainment
• Games: action and graphic
• Action and storytelling
• Physical coordinating and mental outwitting
2. Education
• Accommodates different learning styles: association versus experimentation, or auditory versus visual.
• Provides feedback, level of difficulty, evaluates skills, and nonlinear presentation.
3. Corporate communication
• Attract attention to a message
• Product catalogs, published magazines, touch screens kiosks, online shopping
• Stockholders meeting, sales rep pitch, conference speaker, employee orientation and training
4. References and documentation 
• CD: encyclopedias, census data, directories and dictionaries.

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MULTIMEDIA DISADVANTAGES

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• "Lost in cyberspace"
• Lack of structure
• Non-interactive
• Text Intensive content
• Complex to create
• Time Consuming
• Cognitive overload
• Linear content

As now multimedia has helped us a lot in making our life easier, there is still some disadvantages of using the multimedia. We need to use them wisely get its usefulness and prevent the advantages.

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Internet Security

INTERNET INSECURITY

Internet, one of the most convenient way of information transfer, can be beneficial by everybody even a big company also use the internet as their basis. However, internet is no longer safe as people developed viruses and worms to hack through the internet database which belongs to other parties.

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VIRUSES, WORMS AND TROJAN

Virus is used as a genetic term for malicious programs which spread from one computer to another which ordered to corrupt or destroy data. More specifically a virus spread by attaching itself to a normal program file, and will only be executed or propagated when the users take some action.

Worm is a program or algorithm that replicates itself over a computer network and usually performs malicious actions, such as using up the computer's resources and possibly shutting the system down. The most significant difference between a virus and worm is that worms does not need a host as viruses need a host to multiply.

Trojan is a destructive program that masquerades as a benign application. Unlike viruses and worms, Trojan horse do not replicate themselves but they can be just as destructive. One of the most insidious type of Trojan horse is a program that claims to rid your computer of viruses but instead introduces viruses onto your computer.

DON'T LET THE INTERNET PHISH YOU!

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Phishing is a form of internet fraud that aims to steal valuable information such as credit cards, social security numbers, user's IDs and passwords.

PROTECT YOURSELF!

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What can we do to protect ourselves?

1. Avoid programs or files on disks if not from trusted sources.
2. Do not open email attachments or downloading files if they are not from a trusted sources.
3. Avoid using pirated software on CDs
4. Keep up-to-date backups of essentials data.
5. Have available a "clean" startup disk.
6. Activate macro virus protection in your word processor and check security setting in your web browser.
7. Install anti-virus software and keep it updated

It is very convenient to use the internet security in or daily life. By having sufficient knowledge about the danger of the internet insecurity, hope we will be more cautious in doing activities on the internet.

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Seventh Week

The Internet Tools!!!

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One of the best website that I always use is www.google.com. Yes it is the most popular search engine website that is part of the google company. Its richness in internet tools and its ease of use made it the best search engine.



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If you type in www.google.com in your web browser, you will come out with this very simple page. Its look can be deceiving because it is actually a very powerful tool. One think you want to know is the google symbol. Usually it will appear like in the image above but occationally it will appear differently as it celebrates people or an event, and when you click on it, it will link to a page where the explanation of the people or event are there.

Commonly, people will go to this website to browse datas. And it is too popular to search for information from google and the word "google" can be a verb. For example, "I am going to google that information." Okay, now everybody knows that the easiest way to look for informations is via google. You just need to type the keywords and you get what you want.

This interesting video is about tricks that usually people don't know about google search engine.

After wathing this video, you will reealize that google search engine is beyond what you know. I hope by knowing some google tricks, we can be a better google users and use it more eficiently.

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Video source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ro4fZO0Botc&list=HL1381457353

Week #6

VIRTUAL WORLD !!!

Virtual world is an online community that are mediated by computer which takes form of computer-based simulated environment where users can have interactive interaction with each other to do a certain goal. Usually each user will appear in a form of an avatar, a graphical representative of the user or the users' alter ego. These avatars usually appears textual, two-dimensional, three-dimensional or other form. This virtual environment has promoted anonymous participation in a three dimensional environment. In general. virtual worlds allow for multiple users.

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There are two types of virtual world concepts:

1. Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs), also called virtual game worlds, where the users use a specific character is a main feature in the game.
2. Massively Multiplayer Online Real-Life Games (MMORLGs), also called virtual social worlds, where the users can edit and alter their avatar at will, allowing them to play a more dynamic role, or multiple role.

In the class, the lecturer introduces the students something called virtual classroom. Basically, it refers to a computer mediated education system where the students and the teacher meet online to have a discussion about an educational material. 

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From the video above we can know that virtual classroom is not that bad. It has a lot of feature that promotes interactivity which allow the users to communicate interactively. It is so good that you can join a class room when you are sitting on a table in your room, or you can be in the class room while enjoying your lunch. 

However, without physically present in the classroom also brings a lot of limitation of this virtual classroom. Yes it is true that this virtual classroom has allowed a lot of interactivity features, but you will not be as freely interactive as you communicate face-to-face.

For my preference, I still prefer to go to a physically exist classroom. Although the virtual classroom has allowed flexibility, my initial motivation to go to classroom is to study and earn knowledge, and I think physically exist classroom is better.

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Video 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxY22IhbaH4