Digital Footprint

we have tried out three different digital footprint websites and they were WebMii witch i found to be the most usefull than WHOOZY witch I did not have any luck on but seems to be second best, and lastly pipl witch seemed to be the least usefull of the three.

Apple Tablet

At Apples's event on wednesday, accordindg to a series of leaks it looks like they will present there new tablet computer. it will be a 10-inch screen and hopefully under $1000. It will be able to surf the web, play movies and even use Itouch/Iphone applications.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/is-this-the-apple-tablet/

http://news.cnet.com/2300-31021_3-10002287.html?tag=newsLeadStoriesArea.1

Haiti earthquake

An earthquake of a magnitude of 7.0 hit the city of Port-au-Prince in the country of Haiti. Haiti located in the caribbian near Cuba. The death toll is estimated to be the thousands and among them are the Roman Catholic archbishop of Port-au-Prince also the head of the UN peacekeeping mission was missing. The United States and other nations said that they would start sending aid workers and rescue teams. Canada is sending some teams and 5 million dollars.












http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/death-toll-mounts-as-haitians-come-to-grips-with-quake-aftermath/article1429534/

Possible Virus Found in Student Blog

One student triggered our Symantec Endpoint Protection anti-virus system. the Threat is named Mal/FunDF-A. This is a false positive, and may be a false alarm.

CES (Consumer Electronics Show)

Project Natal:

Is a controller free add on for the Xbox 360. no game controller is needed it is the use of gestures, spoken commands and presented objects

HP/Microsoft Slate:

Is a touch screen portable device more powerfull than a phone but not as powerfull as a PC. will be able to surff the web and talk over the internet.

Dell 27-inch Sharp LCD monitor:

27-inch monitor that is very compatible, it has many ports HDMI 1.3, DisplayPort,DVI-D(x2),VGA,composite,component,USB(x4) and 8-in-1 multicard reader.

http://twitter.com/petervogel

Three tech relateted topics:

Zoomsafer is a car safe app for blackberries that locks when in a car and it is in motion,

also tweeted about project natal and the Monitor

ICT teacher on Twitter

My teacher twitter.com/petervogel he uses it for more profesional uses than other people might. he posts on thing for the classroom their are various posts on ICT, Physics, and other general technology information and topics.

New web 2.0 programs

We tried to new 2.0 programs, one is sumo Paint which is a paint like program crossed with photoshop like tools. the second one is iNudge an online music making programs using a grid and different sounds. both these can also be found on the ict 11-12 wikipage along with other 2.0 ptograms.