Weekly Tech Article 1/10/14

A completely Silent Room

• Satellites frequencies must be fine tuned so that their radio waves don't overlap with other satellites causing communication problems
• To get these radio waves in a perfect frequency, this soundproof room was created.
• This room is a steel faraday cage, which is a metal box that is air tight preventing other electrical waves from entering it.
• The spikes are pyramids that dissipate sound making the room soundproof.

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Blog Tour Post

Blog Tour

2013 Reflection

2013 Reflection

  
  2013 was one of the most diverse years for me. Within this year, I made and broke friendships, relationships, and certain family members that we thought wouldn't make it through the year, celebrated 2014 with us. Within this year friends came and go and I realized what a true friend is and isn't. One relationship was ended and another was started with an amazing person. In 2013 I got my first real job and I still have it. The 2013 school year was honestly my worst one yet and certain aspects of my life can now be seen as a result of the 2013 year. The 2013 summer was a pretty crazy and interesting one and the 2013 Holiday break from school was the best Holiday break I've ever had. Most of the break was spent with my girlfriend and friends which made the break amazing.
     I started 2014 off right by spending it with friends and my girlfriend which is the absolute best way I could have started 2014. In 2014, I want to have the most amount of fun as possible because this is my last year of high school and Senior year so far has been the greatest year of high school yet. In 2014, I want to keep most of the friendships I already have and make more to try and have the most fun possible.

Social Bookmarking Project

What's another way we can organize your computers? What about email? Your Favorite Websites? Your Blog Posts? RSS Feeds?

There are many various ways we can organize computers. The next big revalation that I think will come to the ogranization of computers will be more advanced screen sharing and multi-way editing through that screen sharing. There are already programs out there like Teamviewer that allow people to share their screens but the editng both ways feature is something that needs to be touched up on. I have a feeling that emails will evenatually go away and be replaced by fasted instant messaging. My favorite websites will eventually updated completely to run smoother on mobile devices because that is the future. RSS feeds and Blog posts will organize the way people think but I have this feeling that those services will slowly drift away.

12/13/13 Weekly Tech Article

Military Soundproof Rooms May Not Be All Soundproof

• When members of the military or Obama need to talk in total privacy while on the go, they use these soundproof rooms.
• These soundproof rooms are portable and can be taken anywhere.
• These rooms are said to be soundproof but a new study shows that the doors cannot be sealed properly and they let sound escape. 
• This escape of sound could leak out potential classified information. 
• The engineer that conducted the initial tests to see if the theory was true, will conduct 13 more to further enhance his results. 

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Twitter/Instagram and the Future

 Twitter/Instagram and the Future

    Twitter is the next great educational tool. Twitter is a great program that can dither the education experience. With twitter, teachers can tweet out homework and assignments to ensure that students get the information that they need. This can also be used to remind students about assignments to make sure they get them in on time. With hashtags, teachers can organize all posts and feeds, and it can make it so that the teacher can check certain posts without having to go on a students twitter. With Instagram, teachers can once again, post assignments and possibly even pictures, that will help the students with the project. With a picture on the internet, the student can always have the assignment at all times as long as they have their device with them. Like twitter, a teacher can access a hashtag so try can see a certain post, but not the students personal profile.

     Certain problems can arise from this concept however. With the ability to view students profiles, it puts the teachers, and students at risk, for having their privacy invaded. Furthermore, other people can become aware of the hashtag and spam it, or fill it with material that is either inappropriate, or has nothing to do with the project, since anyone on the internet has access to that hashtag.

RSS Feed Discussion Questions

1) Why did you select the sites you subscribed to? The sites that I've selected were based on meeting the criteria of the project while picking from my own interests for the third folder. Most of the third folder consisted of computer and technology related topics and companies that I find interest in.

2) Was it easy to find the feeds and subscribe to them? Most of the feeds were easy to find because when I googled for the sites, i added, "RSS," to the search so it brought me directly to the url. Adding them was very easy due to the ease of use provided with digg.

3) Which sites were your favorite? My favorite sites would have to be The Walking Dead feed and the CDC feed because the CDC played a big part in The Walking Dead.

4) What else can you use RSS feeds for? RSS feeds can be used to show people who are not that technologically advanced to keep up with things they are interested in since all the sites they could be interested in are all in one place.

5) How likely are you to use RSS feeds in the future? I will probably not use RSS feeds in the future because I am already accustomed to going to the different websites and see no need to have all of them in one place.