Miyerkules, Agosto 20, 2014

August 20, 2014 ~ IT Solution

The problem that I chose was related to printers. Well now a days, not everyone owns a computer at home. Especially those who lack budget to buy one. And of course when you buy a printer, its not only the printer that you have to buy. You'll also need to purchase paper and ink.

So I came up with a solution that could be very helpful with students especially those who are in public schools.

My solution is combining an ordinary PC + printer + coin slot...

I had this idea since I saw the piso net :)

So with this device you won't have to fall in line in over priced computer shops, you won't have to consider buying a printer at home, etc.

For the pc it can only be an ordinary one and will only function as a viewer for documents and files. You won't be able to edit your files because if you did, the purpose of this device would be useless.

And by the time your printing the file, you won't get your paper once you drop the amount needed in the coin slot.

So, for the maintenance of this device, why won't we have someone from the school, have it checked from time to time or at least at the end of the day.

These are the only two slides I had during the presentation... :))

August 13,2014

When we were talking about cyber laws... Napster was suddenly mentioned. when Napster was mentioned, I remembered the movie I watched which was The Social Network. The movie was about Facebook but then also showed one of the founders of Napster, Sean Parker. Sean Parker was also the founding president of Facebook. While I was searching for the movie again, I saw an article saying that Sean Parker said "The Social Network is FICTION". I thought that Napster shut down years ago, well I was wrong. Napster can still be downloaded until now. And Sean Parker is now one of the board members of Spotify. For Sean Parker, he thinks that Spotify can take over iTunes within two years. Spotify and Napster also plans on merging into one with a Spotify like app but with videos.

August 11, 2014

Whenever I go to some torrent website, I always encounter pop-ups that would open into another tab on my browser. that sucks. seriously.

This is the pop up I always get. The MacKeeper. I know that this is not useful and I also don't trust this kind of apps. I would rather download or buy an app on the app store rather than download a 3rd party and an untrusted app.

Plus there are times that it tells that its under apple even though its not.

And also, I always see fake "download" buttons. When you click on those buttons, you'll end up downloading a different app instead of the file.

As you can see, there are multiple "download" buttons.

This is the real download button

And this is the fake download button that would lead you into downloading a different thing.

August 6, 2014

Back in my grade school days, our teacher said that you really can't permanently delete your files on your hard drive. He said that if you plan on selling your computers, you have to destroy your hard drive. He even showed us a video of a man destroying his hard drive (the man was throwing the hard drive on a cement floor).

I also usually receive those spam messages. Usually I get those messages as if I was "subscribed to a newsletter" or something. My junk folder is already starting to fill up.

I also receive different links to my twitter account. And I am very caution in opening this links because once I open it, random tweets would appear on my timeline and I would send different messages to my followers (messages that I have no idea what it is and that I have no idea I sent those kind of messages). The e-mails I usually get would trick you into getting a lot of followers. But then you won't get any.