Obsolete Desktops

In a presentation in Dublin, Ireland in March 2010, Google sales chief Jim Haley stated that desktops would be irrelevant in three years (

SiliconRepublic.com). Smartphones, notebooks, and the amount of information available online will converge to create a different kind of future than what we’ve known, according to Haley. Do you agree? Why or why not? What impact would that have on the types of hardware and software that are the most in demand?

I agree somewhat with Harley, because the more technology advances the smaller it gets, but the more space it can hold. We keep finding new things to make with it. I think we will have something that doesn't even resemble a computer. I cannot say for sure if it will be in the next three years. I think it could have a bad impact on the hardware that is in most demand now, because with the way technology is going, we may not need any of that hardware later on. I believe it will have a good impact of the software, because software just continues to evolve more and more everyday. It will be able to meet the demands that will come with forming new things, even something that is not even a computer.

Using System Software

                                                         Objective Questions Page 206
System software includes the operating system and utility programs. The operating system is a group of programs that controls how your computer system functions. The utility programs are small programs that performs many of the general housekeeping tasks for the computer, such as system maintenance and file compression.

The different kind of operating systems are real-time operating system (RTOS), multiuser operating system, UNIX, Symbian by Nokia, BlackBerry by RIM, Windows Mobile by Microsoft, iPhone OS X by Apple, Android by Google, webOS by Palm, Windows 95, Windows XP, Windows 7 (Starter, Home Premium, Professional, Ultimate), Windows Vista, Mac OS, Mac OS X Snow Leopard, and Linux.

The most common operating systems are Mac OS X Snow Leopard, Windows 7, BlackBerry, Android, iPhone OS X.



                                                                               Jing
Jing is always ready at the touch of a mouse click to capture any picture on your desktop. Jing allows you to share your pictures across social networking sites and e - mail. You can mark up your screen with text box, arrow, highlight, or picture caption to help with trying to emphasize a point. It limits the amount of videos and recordings to five minutes.

Summary of My Description

This is my summary of my description to Mozilla Firefox

Describing application software

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Describing Application Software

1. The application software I use regularly is Mozilla Firefox. It's function is sort of like Internet Explorer. It is a browser for helping you find information over the internet.

2. The advantages to using Mozilla Firefox are that:
     A. It has a built in firewall to help protect you from viruses.
     B. It helps you find information over the internet.
     C. Just like Internet Explorer, it's free.

3. I think other students in the class should use Mozilla Firefox, because even though it may be like Internet Explorer it has it's own firewall built into it. If you go onto Internet Explorer you can end up on a website with an encrpyted virus. It happened once to me. Someone had put a virus inside an ad, and whenever you went onto the World of Warcraft website you would end up with the copy cat virus (A virus that whenever something that is infected with it is deleted, it will copy itself and give you more). Internet Explorer doesn't help protect you from this. Although you may be saying you have a Virus protecting software such as Norton, it is always good to have extra. It doesn't cost you anything for Mozilla, you just go to the website and download it. I use it regularly instead of Internet Explorer.

A Little About Me

Intro To Myself

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Question One On Page 135

Social Networking and Society
A1. The advantages that social networking brings to my life are:
     1. I can talk to friends and family that I haven't seen or are not able to see. I can keep in contact.
     2. I was able to find my father via Facebook.
     3. I can use it to get into contact with publishing companies without having to worry about whether the person will have time getting back to me. Leaving them an e - mail they will get faster.
     4. I can show my work to companies faster than sending it by mail.

A2. The disadvantages that social networking brings to my life are:
     1. I will spend time talking to people when I should be doing something else. (Spending time on Everquest talking to friends rather than looking up information for my speech.)
     2. People that I have had problems with in past can find me and cause more problems. (Or for instance, they can send messages to my boyfriend to cause problems for me.)

B1. Social networking has had a positive effect on society as a whole because:
     1. It can bring people together. (Finding family or making new friends.)
     2. It let's companies have a wider range of sales by getting their products out to more people.
     3. It let's people make money by being able to find people throughout the world interested in their product.
     4. It allows us to be able to "go paperless" on bills to waste less paper.

B2. Social networking has had a negative effect on society as a whole because:
     1. If one person doesn't like something, they can post about it to many people making people in turn afraid to try that product killing the company.
     2. It can take people away from the task at hand. (Going on Facebook instead of working on something that is due.)
     3. People can find other people's information by hacking into varies accounts of things.

C. Businesses are using social networking to get their products out to a wider range of people. Most companies now have Facebooks. They post sales, coupons, and new products that are coming out.

D. I see social networking evolving in the next two or three years to reach more people. There are still a lot of people around the world that are in dead zones and cannot access things like Facebook. Also as more schools incorporate computers into their classes or going to online classes, and in the future it may all be online.

My First Blog Post

I just created my first blog on this website. I already know how to use a blog.