Useful Internet Based Tools

http://www.cafemom.com/

Cafe mom is a social internet tool where I can stay connected to other mom, new moms, and group moms. I get to chat, create groups, and join other moms group. As a mom, this site is very useful. It gives me the opportunity to relate and share my experience. It’s Free! This site is more suitable for women. If a man happens to have an account, his is fishing.

http://www.wiki.com/

According to the site http://www.wiki.com/whatiswiki.htm “wiki is a database of pages which visitors can edit live”. It’s Free! Wiki is where you create a page and the visitors can leave a comment. With wiki, you can download the “engine software” or give consent to a “service host”. Your rights are public view, letting visitors edit or comment on your page or “moderated wiki” for protection and privacy. This network is for generating thoughts, ideas, and being creative on a user page. In other words, you can give your opinion to a user page/topic.
http://www.wiki.com/startyourown.htm


http://www.meebo.com/

Meebo is a “group chatting” and “instant messaging” network. You can refrain from downloading and installing. It’s Free! Meebo keep friends connected with instant messaging. You can chat with all of your friends and invited them on the majority of the network such as “AIM”, “Yahoo”, “MSN”, and “MySpace”. http://www.meebo.com/about/


http://www.bebo.com/

Bebo is a “social site” that helps friends stays connected. You can stay in contact with your friends; invite colleagues and groups to the network, and checkout the latest music, news, celebrities, and fashion. You can share your videos, photos and the latest interest with your friends over the network. If you have an account with AOL/AIM, you are ready for connection. It’s Free!

http://www.facebook.com/

Face book is a social network where friends chat. This tool is useful to me as a student because it is a class relate tool. I get to meet new friends. Invite friends to my network and groups. Keep in contact with my old friends that I went to school with. I can chat without using mobile to mobile connections and I am updated on my friend’s status. This tool is free and useful to me because it helps me stay connected.

Caching

According to the article, HashCache, Vivek Pai, a computer scientist at Princeton University has a new method for storing Web content because in some countries, users can only afford low-bandwidth connection or an equivalent fraction of dial-up connection. This method is called HashCache, a better way to cut the cost (less expensive). According to the article, “hashcache is a high efficient method of caching-storing frequently accessed Web content on a logical hard drive instead of using precious bandwidth to retrieve the same information repeatedly”. This caching technology requires a large hard disk and a lot of RAM (random access memory) to store all data content. Other caching systems uses hash function. According to Pai’s technology, “he uses novel hash function: the number that the function produces defines the spot on the disk where the corresponding Web object can be found”. HashCache is still being tested because it is an early stage of development.

http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?ch=specialsections&sc=tr10&id=22119

Silicon Filter

According to the article A Cheaper Route to Speeding Up the Web, “researchers at Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs of New Jersey, have designed a crucial optical component; a filter that cleans up signals as they travel through a network that is made completely of silicon”. According to Sanjay Patel, “silicon filter has the potential to finally bring the speed of photonic data transfer, which is much faster than copper wiring, to computer circuit boards and microprocessors.” Patel says, “Chips that contain both photonic devices, such as filters and electronics, could be key components in all optical and cellular communication systems, as well as inside computers”. According to Alan Willner, “the device is one in a set of tool that could increase performance of optical systems over longer distances and allow them to carry more data”.

www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?ch=specialsections&sc=web3&id=18437

Movie Points

According Chris Armstrong, Porto Media is setting up kiosks so that consumers can download movies to a flash card or portable hard drive. Porto Media has a high speed flash card that DVD movies can be downloaded from Movie Point kiosk less than 15 seconds. Kiosks are independent stand from which merchandise is sold. You may see them in the common area of shopping centers. Kiosks have a hard drive that holds over 5,000 titles. Kiosk software is used to manage a touch screen which allows users to touch the monitor screen and make their own selections. Using kiosks, you would be able to rent or buy standard-definition movies. Armstrong quotes, “Movies from Porto Media can be watched on TV or PCs. I transferred Spiderman from a portable hard drive to an iPod Touch and it took six seconds.”

http://www.portomedia.com
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-190446.html

New Memory Chip

According to the article Racetrack Memory, IBM fellow Stuart Parkin is using nanowires to create a memory chip that stores more memory. Since IBM has sold their hard drive business, Parkin has developed a new way to store information. This memory chip has a huge storage capacity, the durability of an electronic flash memory, and the speed of both. Combining the two, Parkin has come up with the new technology “racetrack memory”. Parkin says that their ideas are totally different from other memory because it’s three dimensional. It is a U-shaped magnetic nanowire, arranged vertically like trees (in a forest). The nanowires have regions with different magnetic polarities. The boundaries between the regions represent 1s and 0s. The base of the U encounters a pair of devices that reads and writes the data. Parkin hopes to reach 10 bits along the wire because racetrack memory would be competitive with flash storage. If Parkin’s team can manage 100 bits, racetrack memory could replace hard drives. If this design is successful, racetrack could replace all forms of memory.

http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?ch=specialsections&sc=tr10&id=22115

OpenFlow

According to this article “Software-Defined Networking”, computer scientist Nick McKeown, along with the other Stanford colleagues, has come up with a way to improve networks speed, security, and more.
This standard is called OpenFlow. It opens up the Internet and allow researcher to define data flow using, “software-defined networking”. Installing a piece of OpenFlow allow engineers to access flow tables and rules that tell switches and routers how to direct network traffic. With OpenFlow installed, researchers can use software from their computer and tap into flow tables and control a networks layout and traffic flow with a simple mouse click. This software based access is an inexpensive way of testing a new switch and router protocols.
OpenFlow is also use to improve cellular networks. Mobile service providers expanded their network using commodity hardware built for the Internet. If you are having mobility problem, OpenFlow offers service providers a new way to fix the solutions.
http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?ch=specialsections&sc=tr10&id=22120
http://www.openflowswitch.org/wp/learnmore/

Apple New Public Beta

iWork is a new public beta, web-based service from Apple. It lets you share your iWork 09’ spreadsheets, documents, and presentations in a way that easier for you. iWork 09’ is a new way to share your projects online to anyone using a current web browser. With this web browser, you don’t need to know what your friends or colleagues use (Mac or a PC). Mac OS X Mail sends each invited reviewer a unique URL to view publish work. iWork makes it possible for reviewers to view documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and other online projects just as you designed it, with the complete layout, color, photos, fonts, and graphics. If you like sharing your pages documents, keynote presentation, or your number spreadsheets, iWork is truly for you because during the publish process, iWork uploads web versions, and versions in iWork, MS Office and PDF formats. If your reviewers need to look at your work offline, they can do that with a simple download. Any documents, presentations, and spreadsheet that you no longer need to share can easily be removed. Access and manage your download trial version of iWork 09’ or buy it today at your local Apple retail store.
http://tinyurl.com/7bxocq
http://www.apple.com/iwork/
http://www.apple.com/iwork/iwork-dot-com/

Apple LED Cinema

Introducing the 24 inch LED Cinema LED Display for MacBook, MacBook Pro, or MacBook Air. The LED Cinema Display connects to your MacBook with the ultra compact Mini Display Port connector. It comes with three self-powered USB ports that you can connect a camera, printer, iPod, or iPhone. It includes a Magsafe connector that powers and chargers your MacBook. LED is a solid light source that light up very quickly so you want had to wait for your display. With the smooth motion of the LED, you can take pictures anywhere from any negative to positive degree. The LED Cinema Display also has a built-in iSight camera, microphone, and speakers so that you can engage in music and videos on your desktop. The 24 inch glossy widescreen display a resolution of 1290x1200 and gives you full screen brightness instantly.

http://tinyurl.com/4udq75
http://tinyurl.com/b2tlnc

Google Chrome

I am doing my emerging technology based on the satellite imaging and mapping assignment. As a class we had to download Google Earth (Chrome) and MS Virtual Earth. Exploring each pieces of software, I enjoyed learning about Google Chrome. Google Chrome is a web browser that makes the web faster, safer, and easier to use. What makes Google Chrome different from other web browser is the one box for everything, the new tab page, and the application shortcut. These three tools make Google Chrome easy to use because the “one box for everything,” gives you suggestions from both search and web page. The “new tab page” accesses you most visited favorite page instantly. The “application shortcut” let you launch you web applications as a shortcut to your desktop. Google has made Google Chrome a tool that is faster and easier to run pages, sites, and application on the web.

http://tinyurl.com/6xj4s5
http://tinyurl.com/9op3b8

Graphene Transistors

Graphene is a sheet of bonded carbon atoms with a thickness of one atom. It has been made into faster, low power transistors, and can take the heat in future ultra fast microprocessors. Semiconductor industries hope to make computers faster by devloping microprocessors that uses graphene transistors because graphene conducts electrons better than silicon. Measured in gigahertz, silicon processors perform a certain number of operations per second without over heating. Graphene, measured in terahertz (a factor of thousand over gigahertz) has no resistance allowing heat to dissipate quickly. Graphene has been tested and confirmed the strongest material ever. Besides graphene making faster computers, it can be useful in communciation and imaging technology with ultra fast transistors.
http://tinyurl.com/beoy3n

Prepare Now for DTV

Digital Television (DTV) is an advanced broadcasting technology that transmits visual images, music, and speech. DTV offers program choices called multicasting. Multicasting allows each digital broadcast station to split its bit stream into 2 or more individual channels of programs and data services. The digital transition is not fully prepared. Starting February 17th, some broadcast television stations in the U.S will stop broadcasting on analog and start broadcasting DTV. Analogy television has been in use for 50 years to transmit signals to customers. The customer that has analogy TV has a problem with color and brightness. So Prepare Now!!! Cables and Satellite subscribers may need new DTV equipment for DTV to receive high definition. If you are interested, check with your cable or satellite company for more details. June 12th is the final termination for analog broadcast and is expected to be signed by President Obama.
http://www.dtv.gov/whatisdtv.html

FCC DTV Websites (what’s on DTV)
http://www.tvguide.comhttp://www.titantv.com/

Microsoft Shows Off Windows 7 Device Stage

Windows 7 introduces a new way to interact with your media player, phones, printers and cameras. This new visual interface is called Device Stage. Device Stage does not only work with devices connected to a Window 7 PC via USB, but Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. Device Stage is customized by the device manufacturer and specific devices you own. Device Stage has a new way of extending the feature capabilities of Windows 7 such as the support of Jump List (a new Windows Taskbar). Microsoft will be adding Touch, Windows 7 Networking, and Media Enhancements to Windows 7.
http://tinyurl.com/cvng24

Microsoft shows off new device called “Device Stage” at PDC.
http://tinyurl.com/af7xgk

Google Release Chrome 2.0 Alpha

Google uses a new version of Webkit engine. The Chrome 2.0 Alpha. Chrome 2.0 features full page zoom and enables CSS features. The browser has its own HTTP network protocol which uses a network code. The browser features auto scroll, spell check, a reliable safe browser, and browser profiles, docking dragged tabs, and more. However, Google wouldn’t advice you to download the new browser just yet because it’s still under fixing and debugging.
http://tinyurl.com/dyg3f8

Introduction

My name is Taneshia. I work at the Tarboro Edgecombe Chamber of Commerce. I'm an Office Manager Assistant. I attend ECC. My study is Computer Information Technology. I enjoy math because it is my greatest challenge. Thinking about being a math teacher.
*Class of 2009!!!