Spring Cleaning #30: Take a Load Off Our Drives

It's not the first time when I'm checking the P:, S: and Z: drive, but I never worked with them. For the first time placed a file on S: drive and after that I deleted. At work I don't have a personal computer so I can't work with P:, S: and Z: drive as much and I can'tdelete something what is not mine.


In September 1956 IBM launched the 305 RAMAC, the first computer with a hard disk drive (HDD). The HDD weighed over a ton and stored 5MB of data.

Spring Cleaning #29: Email

I have a personal Yahoo account for awhile. I like to be organized so i don't like to keep old emails. I regularly purge my "trash" and bulk email folder.

About HCPL account....to be honest I don't like to use this account for personal purpose. I have very few addresses in my address book. I read my emails every day and I'm looking back to the old one trying to delete them.

Spring Cleaning # 28 Don't Clutter up Expensive Cyberspace

I start reading about GTD few days ago, it is useful, specially for those people who doesn't like to be organized.GTD is the popular shorthand for "Getting Things Done", the groundbreaking work-life management system and book by David Allen that transforms personal overwhelm and overload into an integrated system of stress-free productivity.
The principles are:
- Collect
- Procces
- Organize
- Review
- Do
I open an account with Google calendar, in this one I can put notes, check schedules and friends birthdays.
I was curios to know about "Remember the milk" and I found it very interestng and this one can be added to Google Calendar, cool.

# 26 Making or ( listening) Music Together

I took a look at the websites,they all have something in common "Music". All of them are interesting,and you can create a lot of things with them.
This is my first time to hear about MOG. In my opinion,Mog is a social networking site for the music enthusiast. It connects music lovers with the similar musical tastes with new music and other users. With music as the focus, Mog users can customize a personal page similar to TagWorld or MySpace.
IMEEM - Now most people join this site just for music sharing and playlist capabilities, but just a few want to upload videos and photos.
QLOUD, provides the music experience consumers want: unlimited on-demand, free music from an endless library.

# 25 Am I a music pirate? It's hard to know...

Once I downloaded the music in the computer, I start burning a CD with the help of Roxio, the program I have on the computer. It was easy but I had to wait a while until the music was copied on the CD.I was curios to see if the music is there if the job was well done and ...yes "I became a music pirate".

I'm a music lover, I listen to a lot of music and I enjoy it.THE INTERNET AND DIGITAL technology have been both a blessing and a curse for the entertainment industry, opening new opportunities for selling music and video but also fueling rampant global piracy.

A recent study by the Piracy Association of America noted that 75% of software pirates were copied from as kids. "It's an epidemic. If we can't stop this vicious cycle then we'll end up with another generation of pirates."

The sound of the music # 24

Everyone downloads music...its a good way to get the song you want at the same time you want it. I personally don't have a problem with downloading music. If we can do it, why not. Today, music lovers are left but two options: pay list price for an album, or perform what a fan might call a free download and a record company would call theft. I took a look at Napster, ITunes, Radiohead and Amazon. I finally downloaded a song on my computer from music.download.com and after that I transferred it to a branch MP3. I finally checked to see if the song is there and it
was.

Ancient Sea Scorpion Was Bigger than Man

Scientists have uncovered the fossilized claw of a 390 million year old sea scorpion in a German quarry. They estimate that the cannibalistic creature, which has been named Jaekelopterus rhenaniae, was nearly 8 ft (2.5 m) long, making it at least 1.5 ft (46 cm) longer than any previously known eurypterid, or prehistoric sea scorpion. While fossil record has long shown that ancient arthropods were much bigger than they are now, this discovery suggests that prehistoric spiders, insects, and crabs were significantly larger than previously thought.

Week***10 # 23 Is this really the end?

That was awesome!!!
Overall I learned a lot about technology and not just. I had a lot of fun when I had to choose my Meez or when I created my first flikr badge. Easy to create but after that, hard to transfer to our blog. But now we have experience...and we are video producers :)... Without knowing we create a connection between us and it was so nice. Before I didn't now about Blogliness, Library Thing or Library Elf. The last two are very helpful and I think everybody should open an account. Anyway, special thanks for those people who create this, because for me personal it was a good lesson.

Week***9 # 22 Downladable Media

I took a look on Over Drive, the collection is not that big but is something. I like Wowio because it's free, bur I don't think I will download books very soon. About Librivox,I found this very interesting: "is a digital library of free public domain audio books, read by volunteers".

Week 9 # 21 Podcasts and Smodcasts

A podcast is basically an audio or video file that can be downloaded and listened to over the web on a computer or downloaded to a mp3 player. The Internet coupled with personal technology like iPods and MP3 players have empowered everyone with a new voice while redefining what "Radio" is in the 2000s from both a technical and distribution sense. Although I love traditional Radio, I'm also willing to embrace new paradigms.

Week*** 9 # 20 YouTube

If you can't view the embedded video above, the YouTube address is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3Z1Dp64Bd0

Happy Days

Week 8 # 19 Web - based App

Zoho Writer is by far the best browser based word processing software available.  It features auto-save, email support and the one no one else has: a spell checker.  

Week*** 8 # 18 Social Networking

Join the Catster community

Today Social Networking are fantastic, typically a social network is a service that allows you to keep track of your friends, family, and business relationship .I started a list of all the Social Networking Applications and I found Ning very interesting.I open an account and it was easy to sign up. Ning is in contrast to MySpace/Facebook where the primary orientation is around personal profiles — which are harder to advertise against than topics or locations.
And because I am a cat lover I couldn't resist to take look at catster.com. It is fantastic...

Week***7 # 17 About technology

I guess without knowing we all enjoy the new technology every day. Before we didn't have Blogs and I never thought I will have one, but the day came... and now I can say, it was very useful because we learned many new things and nothing could happened without a "computer".

Week***7 # 16 Wiki

According with wikipedia, wiki it's a type of website that allows users to add, remove,or otherwise edit and change most content very quickly and easily.
I create my own wiki with the help of Wetpaint it's free and easy to set up.

Week***6 # 15 Library 2.0

Library 2.0 simply make our library space (virtual and physical) more interactive, collaborative.

Week***6 # 14 Technorati

Today I opened my account at Technorati.com.Technorati is a Page Rank 8 website and is one of the most influential Web 2.0 sites. Once I open an account with them it was very important to claim my blog also. In order to do that, Technorati requires that you put the URL of this blog and also that you insert a small HTML code on the post itself that links to your Technorati.

week***6 # 13 del.icio.us

del.icio.us is a social bookmarking website, which means it is designed to allow me to store and share bookmarks on the web. This has several advantages.

First,I can get to my bookmarks from anywhere, no matter whether I am at home, at work, in a library, or on a friend's computer.

Second,I can share my bookmarks to publicly(but i'm still thinking about that), so my friends, coworkers, and other people can view them for reference, amusement, collaboration, or anything else.

Third,I can find other people on del.icio.us who have interesting bookmarks and add their links to my own collection. Everyone on del.icio.us chooses to save their bookmarks for a reason.I have access to the links that everyone wants to remember.I can see whether two people have chosen to remember a link, or whether it was useful enough for a thousand people to remember -- which may help me find things that are useful for me, too.

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