Web Browsers and Search Engines

Web Browsers are software applications which allow to present and retrieve data from the World Wide Web (WWW). Using Web Browsers you can access both web servers in private networks or files in file systems.

Some of the most common Web Brwosers are:

Mozilla Firefox: www.firefox.com

Windows Internet Explorer: www.microsoft.com

Apple Safari: www.apple.com/safari

Google Chrome: www.google.com/chrome

Opera: www.opera.com

Search Engines are webservers which search for information in the WWW. They look for pictures, information and many other types of folders.

Some search engines are:

Google: www.google.com

Yahoo: www.yahoo.com

Bing: www.bing.com

Audio

Coldplay song: The Scientst

GIMP

GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulator Program. GIMP is a freely distributed piece of software for photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.

It has many capabilities: simple paint program, expert quality, photo retouching program, online batch processing system, image format converter... GIMP is both expandable and extendable. It is designed to be able to do almost anything, simple tasks and complex ones.

GIMP was developed for UNIX platforms but it also serves for Windows and Mac OSX.

Features:

Painting: Great variety if painting tools, samplings

System: image size limited by the available disk space, an unlimited number of virtual images

Advanced Manipulation: layers and channels, tools...

Extensible: advances scripting capabilities, a procedural database, plug-ins...

Animation: load and save animations, MNG support, Frame Navigator, Onion Skin, Bluebox

File Handling: load, display, convert and save files in many different formats

www.gimp.org link to gimp

My ideal computer

The computer I would choose is a computer that is fast, has a lot of ram memory,long lasting battery, USB connection, no virus, light and is long lasting. There are several brands which offer similar things.

I now have an Acer. I have had it for 3 or 4 years. It still works well however, it is not as fast as before but it has never caused any problems. It has USB connections. It has a wireless connection, webcam and a lot of memory.

Mac is the only operating system I know that has no virus. The new computers are fast and Mac's even allow to part the disc into two. Ableing you to have the Mac operating systen and a windows operating system. New Mac laptops are very light. The battery lasts up to 10 hours. It also has USB connections. It hasa lot of memory and you can later enlarge it.

I think that for the carrer I am going to study I do not need a computer with many things. I just need it tio basically be fast, have wireless conection and nothing else in particular. I want to study medicine so I think I would only need the computer to take notes and look up information. I mean i would not have to do any big project on econommmics with which I would need to have special programs or applications.

In conclusion, I am happy with the computer I have and it is ideal for what I need it. People say Macs are better but as I am accstumbed toWindows I dislike Macs. My comuter is an Acer TravelMate 3270 series.

Itunes

Itunes is an application developed by Apple Inc.. It serves to play and organize music and video files. Furthermore, it allows people to administer the contents of the iPods, iPads and iPhones. Through Itunes you can connect to the Apple Store where you will be able to buy and download: music, videos, movies and applications you might like. These things you will have to pay for but Apple also offers free podcasts.

When Itunes was launched, 10 years ago, it was seen as something really useful because simply with a program you could organize all your files and you could even create playlists and other playlists in the playlists. Itunes was a tool that helped people and even allowed to buy things at reasonable prices.

Itunes is considered the main podcast client because soon after Itunes4.9 was released the number of podcastsdownload tripled itself. To access a podcast in Itunes you firstly have to suscribe to a podcast and then the podcast will download automatically or manually onto the computer and from there you have the chance to pass the podcast to any MP3 Player.

Podcasting

Using only the voice, people have become actors, voice actors. Just changing the tone of the voice they can change the situation. This is what podcasting can be able todo. Podcasting can be a job most of us have not thougth of.

VoiceOver is a production technique with a voice which is used in radio, presentation, television film and theater. Not only is voiceused in Podcast but also music and sound effects. Then there are 3 tracks: one for voice, another for music and a third one for sound effects. Joe Cipriano is a famous exmple of podcaster, he presents the series ‘Two and a Half men’. His website: http://www.joecipriano.com/ Another exmple is Juanma Ortega, he now works in ‘El Carusel Deportivo’

A good thing about podcast is the in its pure form podcasts are free, you don’t buy htem or sell them eventhough people like Joe Cipriano have made of it their buisness. You can download podcasts from Itunes, player and subscripter.

RSS (ReallySimple Syndication) it is when you suscribe; each time the thing you suscribed to launches a new thing (podcast) you get informed and you can download it if you want.

There are two main audio editors we are going to use:
Audacity: You can download it free and usually Window computers use it.
Garageband: Comes with the Macs (It is in iLife)

Aitana’s and Olatz’s Video

At first we had decided to do a video about Plantzia, a town near the sea. However, seeing that we did not know how to develop this idea, we decided to change it.
We finally opted for the idea of making a recopilation of the 50 most wonderful and beautiful places of the world. We decided to chose 10 places from each of the 5 continents.

Equipment used:

For some of the photographs we used our own cameras because we had been to some of the places such as , New York ( Times Square and Brookyln Bridge)
For other photographs we used a scanner and the remaining photographs we collected from Internet.
To make the video we first put the photos in PowerPoint with the information and then we took a picture of the screen and opened it in Paint. Once opened we saved it as a jpg file so we could insert this file in Movie Maker.
Once all the pictures and audio were inserted in Movie Maker we edit it with Movie Maker’s main features ( such as Transitions and Effects)

Delivery Format:

When having to deliver it we had several difficulties: Firstly, we tried to send it via Gmail but the file was to large. After, we tried to compress the video (ZIP Folder) but it was still too large. Then we had the magnificent idea of using Dropbox , however; when it was 94% uploaded, the computer froze. Finally we decided to create a Youtube account and upload the video there.

Our Video: http://www.youtube.com/wat

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