The Same Old Problem

The Same Old Problem - Podcast

Article

Word is 25!

Word is 25 Podcast

Microsoft Word Turns 25 - PC World Article

HTML Class Assignment

My IMS Website

Audacity Project

The Ocean Poem

This podcast includes an ocean waves background from Internet Archive and has the effect of amplify used to make the waves sound more clear behind my voice.

Hockey Night

There are five layers including text, three images along the bottom, and the background image.

I used filters and effects including brightness, contrast, interpolation, embossing, sharpening, and opacity

The topic of the image is of course hockey, but the way it was originally; outside and having fun.

Hype City

http://www.pcworld.com/article/151402/the_10_most_overrated_products.html

New technologies spring up all the time, some good some bad, but how do some of the bad ones become the standard that we accept? As you read the article, you will see numerous gadgets, software, and hardware that are used on a daily basis. Of the ten overrated technologies I agree with eight and one of the two is only a technical disagreement because I haven't used one of the items in the comparison. Many things come down to good advertisement or a solid footing already established in the industry...Apple is a great example of this. Other times a company comes up with something new and exciting that consumers just get hooked on for a time...Nintendo Wii. Facebook continues to live on because hey, everyone is doing it so you better get on the band wagon and lets face it, none of your friends have even heard of Multiply. The fact the Google Docs has been perpetrated as a good replacement for Microsoft Office is incredible to me. It has half the capabilities, if that, and has to be used online. Open Office is the only true alternative, and a good one at that; Microsoft still owns the world however. Easier said than done, but when it comes to technology, don't always believe the hype. You may be missing the next great thing that just can't fight through the norm.

The Little Guy Guns For Google

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/Expert-System-Guns-For-Google-with-Semantic-Search-Advertising/

Web 2.0 is still the hot new sexy term for the internet and yet Web 3.0 is poking its head out in the form of companies like Expert Systems. A smaller internet advertisement company and knowledge management guru, ES has taken aim at the modern day Goliath of the internet. Google has dominated the web search landscape and has entered many other different realms in their attempt to dethrone Microsoft for good. So who is the little guy coming after Google? ES, has entered the internet ad services battle with a whole new approach: semantic web searches. Their new intelligent software ignores simple keywords and analyzes entire sentences or even documents to gain as much knowledge about the topic at hand. Users can type anything they want to describe their search criteria and get a whole slew or responses that will be better suited to the search and more appropriate for each situation. Semantic searching is on the horizon and with more and more advances in the way web pages are built, Web 3.0 will bring us into a world of intuitive searches and more intelligent use of the internet. Cheers to the little guy...Google will soon buy you for millions of dollars and use your software for their own dominance!!