Windows 7 is the brand new OS from the software powerhouse Microsoft. This ne version preceads the old OS Vista and more popular XP. The new version resolves the old problem with vista of security that was a major pain. Everything this has been redone and new features added (ie: word, excel etc). Not to [...]
Digg.com thing
Links are with the titles.
Very creative advertisement from WWF [Pic]: Wow that is really kinda disturbing in a realization-of-what-is-happening sort of way. But still, it makes a good point.
Someone at Microsoft is Taking LSD… [PIC]: WOW this is really funny. Mind you it just a background and its more of a joke but it is [...]
Uses for Google SketchUp
Google StechUp is a kind of CAD software that is free for download from Google. It is basically a toned down version of a drafting software but directed at the masses for more simple use. In theory, it cold be used to make real buildings but doesn’t have the persice measurment.
Google Latitude
Google Latitude is a program/app that one puts on their cell or blackberry and it track them where ever they go. Kinda like an RFID tag but more of a homing beacon to show friends where you are. It also lets you pu like a widget kinda thing on a public networking site such as [...]
Past and Future
In 2008, there were many things that had an impact on the “tech” world. There will be two I will be talking about. They are: LittleBigPlanet, and the DualShock 3 controller.
LittleBigPlanet was a little kind of “kids game” that didn’t have a lot of publicity before it was released. It was a fun based game that [...]
What happens when you type holycross.bc.ca in your borwser
First when you type in a address it goes to your router, then get sent to a DNS server or IP adress then to the World Wide Web(www) then to the sites server. then when the connection gets there, it sends a signal back the way it came (www- DNS/IP- Router-PC)
http:hypertext transfer protocol: a protocol to [...]
Binary Cont.
A word size is a certain amount of binary numbers that works on the base 16 using number 10=a 11=b 12=c 13=d 14=e 15=f. These get sent to a place that reads them. Example: a hard drive sends a set of word sizes to a CPU and then gets directed elsewhere. But the letters can be converted [...]
Binary Tutorial
To use binary u must know that it works on “base two” which is 1’s and 0’s. “Base Ten” is 0-9 which we use every day.
Base 2 = Binary = 01
Base 10 = arabic = 0123456789
Binary work on 2 and an exponant eg: 2^1, 2^4 etc. Also binary works from right to left instead of [...]
Obama’s Internet Devices
President-Elect Barack Obama used many technologies to win and advertize his campagin. One of these is Facebook. Unlike his opponants, he used Facebook to unlock the youth market for the first time in any election. His campagin sent out daily messages to get the message out and add motavation for people to vote for the [...]
