Monday, January 30, 2012

Smart Touchscreen Pc -HP Touch Smart

HP touch smart is a touchscreen pc all-in-one desktop. This is very cool, it has a lot of function you could play with. It makes life more fun. It works with windows 7 or vista. It was introducing by Bill Gates and it was the first touch screen desktop. But later it also come in a tablet. It shows 1080p HD pictures and graphics which is very high quality.







"Overview :: HP TouchSmart." HP - United States | Laptop Computers, Desktops, Printers, Servers and More. Web. 30 Jan. 2012. <http://www.hp.com/united-states/campaigns/touchsmart/index.html>.

Lucien Elements Luxurious Cases For iPhone and Blackberry

 Lucien Elements is a high quality cases for iPhone and Blackberry. It was made from Swarovski crystal. This are available in iStudio, the cost for First Edition is around THB3,490. First Edition comes up with 12 different colors. Choose that best fit your style! It is the world's first finest cases that use authentic gems (gold too for limited edition). This is how it looks like:
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This is a video of unboxing Lucien and how to apply it on iPhone.
 
Lucien Elements. Web. 26 Jan. 2012. <http://www.lucienelements.com/english.html>.

Flipboard App For Your Android!

This is a very great application for people who loves using social network, reading magazines, reading news, reading books, etc. This is the first world's social magazine on android. It works with iPad, iPod, iPhone, and Android.You don't have to click to many links, you can just read it in one page for the whole story including comments pictures and other features. This is a very great app and you can try download it at iTunes.com

This is a video of introducing and reviewing FlipBoard app. Check it out! :
 
Flipboard — Now Available on IPhone. Web. 30 Jan. 2012. <http://flipboard.com/>.

9 Important Steps to Student Blogging

Most of students are blogging every week but most of them were still not doing the correct way and knowing the proper steps of creating a blog post. This are some steps that I think it is important to you. I chose 9 of it out of 14.

1. Pick one simple platform- example like Blogger or WordPress.
2. Know how to blog first - study and read instruction, try to get used with the website. One of the best way is to blog on paper first, when you feel that you did in in appropriate way then get started.
3. Safety- Internet is worldwide using so you should be careful.
4. Proper comment- Ask question back, say thanks, answering question, but the most important part is to be polite.
5. Start with small blog- You can start blogging with an easy topic like introducing yourself.
6. Parents- It will be perfect if your parents knew what you are doing and they can check and see you work.
7. Connect with your friends- It will be good if you can connect with your classmate or schoolmate.
8. Visit other blogs- You can go and visit other blog especially your friend's and you can use it as an inspiration.
9. Additional decoration- Decoration is not very important to some of you but the fact is it is! People wants to read your blog if you have a good decoration. Try to play with fonts, background, images, and videos to make it looks better.





 "14 Steps to Meaningful Student Blogging." Blogging through the Fourth Dimension. Web. 30 Jan. 2012. <http://mrspripp.blogspot.com/2011/05/14-steps-to-meaningful-student-blogging.html>.

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Ask Siri To Get Things Done- iPhone 4s

According to iPhone 4s, apple decided to upgrade some of the feature from iPhone 4. One if  it is Siri, a application which act like an intelligent personal assistant. This is not in iPhone 4. All you need to do is say or ask Siri for what you want. Siri understand what are you saying. Example: Remind me to call Beth. It makes your life easier and you will have fun with it, trust me. You can watch video below for more understanding siri.

This is a video of introducing Siri:




"IPhone 4S - Ask Siri to Help You Get Things Done." Apple. Web. 24 Jan. 2012. .

Thursday, January 19, 2012

Let's Get To Know Neopets.com !

Neopets.com is a website which contains games and stuffs. You can join for free. It's a virtual pet website. When you join, you can have your own pets and you can collect your money by playing games and doing activities in the website. And of course you can choose how your pets look like, you have to create them by your won. There are many places you can go including shops. You have to feed you pets too, which you need money or else your pets are going to die! These are some of the characters in website. There is a zone called battle, it is where you can let your pet join into a competition and have a fight with other pets. If you can win, you'll get a reward. This is a very interesting online virtual pet community. You should try, it's free!
 
Not only that! We still have those fairies in the web, they act like a game manager.

Welcome to Neopets! Web. 18 Jan. 2012.

Monday, January 16, 2012

Does Cell Phones Harms Children?

Mobile phones users are increased each year. Some of scientists are concern that mobile phones effects children because the nerves in the brain. Some of the scientists already proved that it is safe for children. However some parents doesn't buy their child a mobile phone when they are still young because it can effect their grades and work too. It depends on how parents think and how important does the kids need to have a phone.
"Can Mobile Phones Harm Children? - Safe Kids." Child Safety Advice and How to Choose Child Care at Safe Kids (UK). Web. 16 Jan. 2012. .

Whatsapp Messenger

Whatsapp messenger is a messenger which available in Blackberry, Iphone, and other android phone or tablets. It is similar to Blackberry messenger but whatsapp is more helpful because you can chat from iphone to blackberry or andrid to iphone. You can send pictures and file too. But whatsapp messenger doesn't need a pin or email but it use contacts. It is automatically friend on whatsapp if your contact is using whatsapp. You can download it from iTunes or android market. First time you installed it, you need to type your number then the app will send you code via sms and you have to confirm it. Once you confirm, you can have fun!


 

Chung, Jackson. "WhatsApp – The Perfect IPhone Messenger App." Cool Websites, Software and Internet Tips. Web. 16 Jan. 2012. <http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/whatsapp-the-perfect-iphone-messenger-app/>.

Michelle Phan

Michelle Phan is a Vietnamese-American make-up artist. She is one of the most popular user for posting beauty tutorial on youtube. Michelle join youtube on July 18, and posted up to 200 videos. However, she's well known for make-up lovers because of her style. She's success on youtube help her in her job. She appeared on Seventeen magazine and more. She has her own blog and her own fans. After that, Lancome hired her and some of her videos is included Lancome products. At first, she is planning to grow up and work as a doctor because her mother wants her too. But later, she found out that she loves designing and make up. She was born in Massachusetts then after that she travels to Florida.



This is one of her best video, I love it and want to share it to you. Enjoy!

"Michelle Phan." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Web. 16 Jan. 2012. .

How Parents Are Connected With Their Child On Facebook


Most kids doesn't know that their parents are checking their facebook. But most parents have their child's facebook account password! We already proved it by the poll. according to the poll, 72% of parents have their child's password. However, for kids who knew that their parents have facebook, they also check and post in their parents wall or photos.

92% of parents have their child facebook as friend. But still, most of the friend request sent is from parents. Parents send 55% while kids send 45%. The most reason parents check their chid facebook is because they are worried about safety. As we know that today social network is one way of communicating which you can communicate with your friends or your strangers.

Parents are concerning about few things:
1. It is distracting from homework or activities
2. Kids spend most time on facebook instead of family
3. Kids communicate with strangers
4. Kids are bullying others
5. Kids are victim of bullying on facebook

The good news for parents is most of them up to 63% knows what their kids are doing and they has nothing to worry anymore from facebook. But kids please be aware of things you post on facebook because mostly parents are checking it daily! 
 



13, January. "Most Parents Monitor Kids on Facebook -- And Have Their Passwords [INFOGRAPHIC]." Social Media News and Web Tips – Mashable – The Social Media Guide. Web. 16 Jan. 2012. <http://mashable.com/2012/01/13/parents-monitoring-facebook/?utm_source=TweetMeme>

Monday, January 9, 2012

How World Changes Each Year

From the video Did You Know 4.0, I know that people are interested and using technologies in everyday of life. It makes life easier. This is proved by many polls. Newspaper and magazines circulation is down every year while online readers are growing up to 30 millions last 5 years. Traditional advertising including television, radio, magazine, newspaper is going down. For myspace, youtube, and facebook, they get up to 250 million unique visitors visiting their sites which none of this sites existed 6 years ago. This means it grows very fast. Today, 93% of U.S adults own a cell phone. As time passed by, we are more connected to technologies.