YouTube vs. Google Video
YouTube is, honesty, one of my favorite websites out there. I checked out Google Video and when you search for a video it gives you any and all websites, including YouTube, where you can that certain video.
Something that has made YouTube so successful is the fact that you can almost find any video that you want. I can find any CSI: NY video that I want (most of them I have seen). YouTube is really simple to use.
Movie Trailers
The difference between the standard quality and the high definition quality in the movie trailers is actually very interesting. With the standard quality, all you get is the actual movie trailer but with the High Definition trailer, you get behind the scenes stuff with the actors and directors from the movie.
There were not that many movies that I had not heard of (maybe I watch too much TV). But the few that I did watch, some I might go see and some I will not. All depends on how busy life is.
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Sunday, December 2, 2007
Podcasts and Audiobooks
Podcasts
The first podcast that I "listened" to was "Pinball Wizard" by The Who. The only thing was there were five sites that I could get the song from but only one of them was free. I was able to listen to a sample of the song but it was only about 20 seconds if not less.
http://audio.search.yahoo.com/search/audio?_&ei=UTF-8&fr=sfp&sngid=XXXXXXT003565137&p=Pinball+Wizard
The second podcast that I went to was "Sugar, We're Goin' Down" by Fall Out Boy. This one had six sites that I could get it from but none of them were free.
http://audio.search.yahoo.com/search/audio?_&ei=UTF-8&fr=sfp&x=wrt&sngid=XXXXXXT007685065&p=Sugar%2C+We%26%2339%3Bre+Goin+Down
The last one that I went to was one at podcastalley.com. This one was a little bit more confusing and difficult to get around. It takes you to a separate website for you to get to the podcast itself.
http://podcastalley.com/podcast_details.php?pod_id=7539.
My evaluation of the podcasting experience is kind of both positive and negative. The Yahoo! website was easy to use only if there were free ones to get, but at the same time, podcasting was not what I thought it was going to be. I do not really know what I thought that it was going to be but, in a confusing type of way, it really was not what I thought it was going to be.
Audiobook
For the Audiobook part of this assignment, I used audiobooks.org. I was able to find a book that I liked, which was "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The only problem was, was that it took me to the itunes website, where I had to download itunes in order to get the audiobook itself.
My evaluation of the audiobook idea is that it does not seem like the easiest and best thing to do. If I had to download itunes to get one simple book, I would much rather go onto amazon.ca and buy the book. It may not be cost efficient or time efficient but to me it is simplier then having to sit and wait for a program to download.
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The first podcast that I "listened" to was "Pinball Wizard" by The Who. The only thing was there were five sites that I could get the song from but only one of them was free. I was able to listen to a sample of the song but it was only about 20 seconds if not less.
http://audio.search.yahoo.com/search/audio?_&ei=UTF-8&fr=sfp&sngid=XXXXXXT003565137&p=Pinball+Wizard
The second podcast that I went to was "Sugar, We're Goin' Down" by Fall Out Boy. This one had six sites that I could get it from but none of them were free.
http://audio.search.yahoo.com/search/audio?_&ei=UTF-8&fr=sfp&x=wrt&sngid=XXXXXXT007685065&p=Sugar%2C+We%26%2339%3Bre+Goin+Down
The last one that I went to was one at podcastalley.com. This one was a little bit more confusing and difficult to get around. It takes you to a separate website for you to get to the podcast itself.
http://podcastalley.com/podcast_details.php?pod_id=7539.
My evaluation of the podcasting experience is kind of both positive and negative. The Yahoo! website was easy to use only if there were free ones to get, but at the same time, podcasting was not what I thought it was going to be. I do not really know what I thought that it was going to be but, in a confusing type of way, it really was not what I thought it was going to be.
Audiobook
For the Audiobook part of this assignment, I used audiobooks.org. I was able to find a book that I liked, which was "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The only problem was, was that it took me to the itunes website, where I had to download itunes in order to get the audiobook itself.
My evaluation of the audiobook idea is that it does not seem like the easiest and best thing to do. If I had to download itunes to get one simple book, I would much rather go onto amazon.ca and buy the book. It may not be cost efficient or time efficient but to me it is simplier then having to sit and wait for a program to download.
CSI:NY Nut Signing Off
Sunday, November 18, 2007
Experiences with Onling Generators
These types of things are cool to look at and to find interesting pictures but I don't think that I would use it on a normal basis. I did like flickr.com the best only because you could search for the most interesting pictures or you could look up your favorite show that had been tagged. They were easy to use, once you knew what you were doing. For a few of the mashups there wasn't much in the way of instructions, so you were on your own with figuring out what to do.
Part of me does think that some of these things are a waste of time because unless you know what you are doing and know what you are looking for then you don't really have any use for them.
CSI: NY Nut Signing Off.
Part of me does think that some of these things are a waste of time because unless you know what you are doing and know what you are looking for then you don't really have any use for them.
CSI: NY Nut Signing Off.
Evaluating Flickr Mashups
The first mashup that I looked at was www.krazydad.com/colrpickr. It was confusing at first, but then once I played around with it, it was easier to understand what it did. I think that if there were some sort of instruction to what you are suppose to do then it would make the process a lot easier.
The second one I looked at was labs.systemone.at/retrievr. This one was cool because you can just sit there and color all you want. You can draw whatever you want too. Even though the screen is a little same it's still fun to do.
The last one I looked at was flickrvision.com. This one was cool too because it kept refreshing it self to what had been uploaded in the last few minutes. The only thing that I didn't like about it was that it didn't stay on the picture for very long. You only had a few seconds to look at it and then it moved onto something else.
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The second one I looked at was labs.systemone.at/retrievr. This one was cool because you can just sit there and color all you want. You can draw whatever you want too. Even though the screen is a little same it's still fun to do.
The last one I looked at was flickrvision.com. This one was cool too because it kept refreshing it self to what had been uploaded in the last few minutes. The only thing that I didn't like about it was that it didn't stay on the picture for very long. You only had a few seconds to look at it and then it moved onto something else.
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'Masterpieces" Using Online Generators
Interesting Photos on Flickr
Here are some interesting photos that I found while looking around Flickr.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/njphotographer/348088482/in/set-72157594465573905/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/njphotographer/353266242/in/set-72157594465573905/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/andrewmorrell/203795169/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sanoi/203718677/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wvs/205482483/ (this one is really cool)
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/njphotographer/348088482/in/set-72157594465573905/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/njphotographer/353266242/in/set-72157594465573905/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/andrewmorrell/203795169/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sanoi/203718677/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wvs/205482483/ (this one is really cool)
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Monday, October 29, 2007
del.icio.us Experience
Social Bookmarking seems like an interesting piece of social experiences with friends once you get use to using it. It takes some time to be able to know what you are doing but at the same time once you know what you are doing it is easy. You can search for your favorites shows, actors, characters or anything else that you are interested in.
I don't think that it could replace bookmarking in your browser because it takes to much effort to do the searching and to be able to find what you are exactly wanting to bookmark. It is easier, when you are using Internet Explorer to just add it to your favorites because then you know that it will be there, it does not seem that this type of social bookmarking will always be reliable because you have to keep going back to website in order to get to your bookmarks. With Internet Explorer all you have to do is open up the browser and your bookmarks are right there.
CSI: NY Nut Signing off.
I don't think that it could replace bookmarking in your browser because it takes to much effort to do the searching and to be able to find what you are exactly wanting to bookmark. It is easier, when you are using Internet Explorer to just add it to your favorites because then you know that it will be there, it does not seem that this type of social bookmarking will always be reliable because you have to keep going back to website in order to get to your bookmarks. With Internet Explorer all you have to do is open up the browser and your bookmarks are right there.
CSI: NY Nut Signing off.
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