Jan. 20, 2010

Hi it's your man C Green here ready to get this blog started.  Well today we learned that Apple has released a date for which it is going to unveil something on Jan. 27, 2010.  Most people think they are going to release the apple tablet or iSlate.  Now the apple tablet or the "ipod on steroids" as I like to call it has been rumored to be just like the iPhone or iPod Touch just a bit bigger and bulkier as it has to be able to do all the things a regular computer or labtop can do.  It will have a touchscreen interface and the first generations should cost around 1000 dollars.  Now this is a bit too pricey for me as I can barely afford books for school but I am sure the price will come down eventually as they update the software.  So if you see me around campus tapping on a big computer screen do not come up and ask me if it the apple tablet that you have been hearing about.
So today Nori and I are finishing up our powerpoint and we are going to go over it so we know what to say tomorrow.  We are trying not to make it long but we do have to go for 8 minutes so hang in there everybody.  But yeah so I watched the rest of Avatar movie yesterday and it turned out to be pretty good.  I would really like to go to Pandora in the future so I could become one of the Navi people.  How cool would that be to ride fly big monsters, shoot bows and arrows, and have sex with their women?  I think that would be the best fun lol.  So I guess I will return tomorrow for our last blog on this site.  So peace be with you everyone or as the Na'vi say "kiyevame."

Jan. 18, 2010

Hey everyone this is christian once again.  Today Bob told us about this veteran's website that lets veterans get their medications all up to date.  I was thinking about using this for my grandpa but as he only has dial-up and has never touched his own computer I don't think this would be helpful to him unless I helped him with it.  After Bob went Mr. Acland showed us Google Analytics which is a tool that lets you paste a piece of code to your own website then google will check to see who visits your site and how many pages per visit they make and stuff of that matter.  Using this information a person could really boost their websites popularity and in the long run make a lot of money if he/she desires.  As I do not wish to make money this way I kind of zoned out lol.  Sorry Mr. Acland but instead I started watching Avatar on my computer which is not that bad if I do say so myself.  My friend Kevin told me it was one of the worst movies he ever saw so naturally I had to see if he was right.  Turns out the graphics are pretty sick if you were watching it on an IMAX screen.  It was very long though as I usually do not watch very long movies but this got my attention but I don't know how.  But anyway since my partner Nori isn't here I probably won't be doing much work today since I don't want to change anything without his permission.  We will probably be doing the powerpoint tomorrow and also working on our presentation.

Peace out,
               C Green

Jan. 14, 2010

Hello everyone this is christian again.  Just wanted to say I'm glad to be here and would not want to be anywhere other than this excellent class called Google and Beyond with emphasis on the beyond part.  Today my parner Nori went up and showed us the site of Wired.com.  It is mostly for people who enjoy reading articles about technology and gadgets.  He also showed these nifty little underwater goggles that lets you take pictures and can record a video for up to 90 mins.  I was thinking about getting these in the future just to wear on my head in case anything pops up you know.  You never know when some action will break out.  Then another guy came up and showed us the site Tvblorge.com which is a site similar to Hulu.  He showed us that you can search for episodes of your favorite tv shows on here as well as other things. 

Well today Nori and I pretty much did about nothing concerning our site considering we are very lazy and he to work on his senior presentation.  By the way good luck Nori, I hope you do well on your presentation and at your new job at Google!!! That's right everyone Nori is going to be working at Google next year.  Lol just playing but hopefully he can really get a job a google that way I can say I know someone that works at google.  Hey maybe I can go and work at apple then we can start blogging about our new products.  We could still probably use this site to do it on too.  Well as you can see I am running pretty low on words so I will end this blog with a quote from the late Mitch Hedberg about Kit-Kats.  "The Kit-Kat candy bar has the name 'Kit-Kat' imprinted into the chocolate...that robs you of chocolate! That is a clever chocolate saving technique. I go down to the factory, "You owe me some letters!"

Jan 13, 2010

Well Greetings to all the readers, this is Nori now writing this post. The weather seems to start getting better and hopefully it gets even warmer. Today we had couple website presentations, where we had two cool websites, Grist.org which seems to have environmental news. The other website is StumbleUpon.com which was presented by me. I think it is really cool website if you want to discover new websites that you are interested in. I use StumbleUpon quite a lot in my spare time where I find a lot of cool stuff. Another website that the professor showed it to us was the Google Scholars, which is another tool from Google that allows searching Academic Related Articles, Books etc.

By writing this post in here I also want to invite anyone to my senior project presentation which is going to be this Thursday, January 14, 1PM at Heritage Chapel in Administration Building. For my senior project I have gave a new look to the Computer Science and Informational Technology website.

Jan. 11, 2010

Hey everyone this is Christian again.  I just got done fighting with Nori over the rights to blog on this site.  So needless to say I won and now Nori has a black eye and has now lost his publishing rights to blog on my website! Yes thats right I said it MY WEBSITE.  I am now in the process of taking his name off the site so it should be gone by tomorrow.  So today since everyone else went first and took all the good sites I went up and introduced the site Mylifeisaverage.com.  I was surpised to see that a few people knew it already.  Basically the site is just a montage of people posting funny stories that happened in their lives.  I usually spend about 5-10 minutes on this site a day so if you are having a rough day and need a lift this would not be a bad site to go to.  Mr. Acland also introduced the Alexa.com which is a pretty cool website that tracks the use of other websites.  I did a little search on the Top 5 sites used in the US and they are as such: 1) Google 2) Facebook 3) Yahoo 4) Youtube 5) Myspace.  I was suprised to see that all the porn sites were around the top 30-40 range.  This suprised me as I thought all people were sex crazed and unable to control themselves but as I now see this is only a little true.  But anyway Mr. Acland brought up some fairly interesting sites on google.  One of them was of a guy who worked at both Google and Microsoft and he explained that cloud computing was the reason why google is winning the battle of these two industry juggernauts.  So we are now finished with the website if anyone wants to see it remember that we will probably doing a little more tweaking though so this is kind of what the finished product is going to look like.

Peace Out,
                  C Green

Jan. 7, 2010

Hello everyone this is Christian back again for the next installment of Chris and Nori's Blog.  Today we had both the cody's go up and introduce a couple of their favorite sites to us.  Cody #1 used the website Amazon.com which is a shopping site that alot of people use.  He explained to us that we can get our school books on there a lot cheaper than actually buying them from the school store and we can get games and a lot of other things ten to fifteen dollars cheaper by going on this website.  Cody #2 went up and showed us the infamous website Ebay.com which all of you know is another shopping site.  Cody explained the ups and downs of the site and told us to watch the feedback on most items because if the buyer has a negative feedback on the item you probably will too.  We also went and checked out our classmates blogs and websites today.  I failed to comment on them as some people have barely set up there sites so I will save my constructive criticism for later.  But from what I could see some people have really set up their websites and I hope everyone does well.

So today Nori has added some extra pages like Malware, Email, Network, Website, and Hackers if anyone wants to check that out.  We will go into further detail about these on the site.  We have also added a very interesting video on what computer security actually is.  We will be working on this website everyday to make sure our great start keeps going and the site remains well organized (Thanks anonymus commentor).  But im running short on words right considering my stomach is howling at Paul right next to me because the swarm decided not to open today so I will update you guys later on the status of our project.

Peace out
               C Green

Class on Wednesday, January 06, 2010

In Today's class nobody really showed up in the class except five students, including me but not my group partner Chris, who is probably enjoying his time outside of the class with lots of activities instead of actually coming to class and learn something haha! Its okay though as long as your enjoying your time LOL. The weather today is supposed to be with lots of snow and more snow again.

Today I had also my presentation where I present my favorite websites. I have lots of website that I like and visit them regurarly. One of my favorite one is Google Search Engine, which I think is the most popular website and search engine out there. It is really simple to use, but at the same time it has a lot of features that can help you customize your search. I also use a lot of other Google applications that they are offering. IGoogle is one of them where I have some nice gadgets installed like to do list, world webcams, word of the day, how to of the day, my gmail, the chat, news headlines etc. Another website which I think is cool is HowStuffWorks. com which has lots of interesting articles on how everything works.

During my class today I also updated the webpage, where I realized from my professor that we are suppose to put information about our chosen topic which is Computer Security. Therefore I have put some basic introduction of the Computer Security.

AdSense is another tool or application from Google which allows website owners or blog owner to add this application on their website. By adding this it allows google to feed it with Ads where most of their income comes from. However at the same time, you will earn money too just for adding this application, but it depends how many users click them, so basically each click on the ad generates money.

This is all for Today, stay tuned to our blog until next time!!
Nori

Internet Security

Hey everybody this is christian here today. Im going to be doing the blogging today because my partner Nori decided that staying in and sleeping was better than actually coming to class haha. No but Nori if you are sick or have another engagement I hope you get better soon because I would hate to leave our grade in the palm of my hands. So today we started off in class going to reader.google.com as we tried to find different articles and posts about the topics we are studying. I subscribed to a couple of internet security articles so that we could have more than enough information for this project. We also made igoogle accounts which was pretty cool because we got to customize it anyway we wanted. It astounded me that I could choose a half naked lady as my background but nonetheless I chose wrigley field. The layout of my igoogle page contains some gadgets like facebook, youtube, hulu, espn, some flickster movies, and also a couple of games of my choice. We also used google blogs today so we could find additional information we could subscribe to help us on our research. I found this a little less helpful than google reader but it still may come in handy later. As for our topic of internet security, I really thought I knew a little about some topics such as internet security systems, viruses, spam, and antivirus software but now as I look and actually read some of the blogs and articles the information I knew previously was only scratching the surface of what I know now. Such as, did you know if you send a specially-crafted HTTP request, a remote attacker could exploit a vulnerability in the HP OpenView Network Node Manager to execute arbitrary code on the system? Well I hope you didn't because if you did you need to be off doing something better with your time like doing this project for me. So today was pretty helpful and I hope when my patner gets back we can tell you a lot more about what goes on in the world of internet security.

Sincerely,
C Green

Google and Beyond

Hi everyone! Considering the cold weather outside, we managed to wake up and come to class. This is our first blog post at google blogger. Today was the first class of the Winter Term. Me and Christian decided to be in a group together for this class projects. In Today's class we have learned how to open a blogger account within Google. Our blogger address is chrisnori.blogger.com. However Chris had to sign up for a Google Account where they sent him a text message so that he can activate his account.


Professor Acland also made us sent an email to him so that he can get our Gmail Accounts. After that he sent us and email back with the syllabus provided in the Google Docs. We also chose the topic that we are going to be working on which will be Computer Security. We will find sources on how to prevent different computer vulnerabilities, protect information from intruders, protect the computer from viruses, network protection, encryption of information etc. At the end of the class we are required to make a presentation which is going to be 8 to 10 minutes long. For this we are going to use a google application for making slides. We are also supposed to post daily blogs in 300 words of length describing our class acitivities.


In todays class, we were also required to create an actual site from the sites.google.com which is another service that google offers to create simple web sites. After signing up for this one too, we had to customise the layout of the web page and choose the Professional Template so that it looks more professional. Our address for this page is http://sites.google.com/site/chrisandnori/. Feel free to check it out!

Google Books is another service that google offers for researching books. This service allows you to read books too, however not all of them let you read the whole book, they usually just have partial pages provided.

Greetings, from Chris and Nori!
Happy New Year and Merry Christmas!