WOW its been a long time

WOW its been a long time since I did a blog. Um everything is fine. Check out my website http://trexorstudios.com

Go Go Cell phone Power

On Monday February 6th David Yang came in to talk to us about using Flash in cell phones. The flash is not the one you would buy in a store or the one we use in this course but something called Flash Light. David showed us that there are now two versions of Flash Light (1.1 and 2.0) 1.1 is the most commonly used in cell phones in North America. However Flash Lite 2.0. Is starting to come in due to new cell phone models available to people



When he first started he asked us all who had a computer, Everyone pritty much put up their hand (we are in a computer course and now with computer so low I would not be surprised if there was a computer for every fourth person in Canada). However he asked who had a cell phone next and the class put their hands up. He went on to say that the computer world has slowed down, but the cell phone market has sped up. With Flash Light 2.0 you make clear visually aids because everything that is drawn in flash uses vectors (and vectors are cool).

The only snag in this rapidly growing cell phone market is that most phones people own do not have flash installed, newer ones have flash preinstalled but the older versions have to download it from the internet, some do not even connect to he internet. This makes the cell phone market very quirky. Unlike computers that are obsolete in six months, cell phone are obsolete in three months. Now I do not know about you but I have a cell phone that is about a good eight to nine months old, I use it for talking (I mean that’s what they are designed to do) and if I want to play games I would rather play them on screen bigger then the thumb.


David talked about using cell phones to use them so that you can locate yourself on the map using the cell towers and makers. This is a very scary thing to me because I would not want my cell phone to be sending out periodic streams of data to a tower so that some nut could potentially track me down easier. Cell phones already have this technology though build in. Bell actually has a feature call 911 which essentially just allows police to instantly track where you are as soon as you call 911. This I think is a good idea because its not like the police are going to locate just for the hell of it.


I do not want this person knowning where I walk

All in all it was a interesting presentation and possibly we will all have cell phones that have flash interfaces the rival the best website. Possibly in the future the cell phones will return to the big bulky ones but have a larger screen and dose not weigh as much as dumbbell, but still smaller then a laptop.

Podcasting and Web 2 point OH

On Monday January 16th Wayne MacPhail came in and opened (some of) our eyes to “podcasting”. Now I have always heard about podcasting before just like I have heard of blogs but I was not really interested in it until now, I must say I am very interested in the concept of podcasting and blogging (poding? blogsting?). You see I got it into my cave man like head that podcasting was Apple and Apple and eye never got along. However, when Wayne showed us the facts I was simply blown away. The amount of MP3 related devices sold in the last 3 months is surprising to say the least. I think the figure was fourteen plus million MP3 devices around X-mass. That is a HUGE amount (Roughly 4.2 Billion dollars). I have a tiny (fits in the palm of my hand) MP3 player, I never use at all but I did use it a lot at Trent because I would have to walk, take the bus to various classes everyday, I would usually walk close to 3km a day just to get from class to class. It also is a recorder which is good for getting notes.











The one cooled thing I liked about Pod-casting is that it is more like a DVD then something totally new.


Podcasting and DVD and why they are similar

Both are replayble
Both have chapters
Both can skip chapters
Both have interactive stuff
Although DVD's do not need the internet most of the time the internet is needed when you want to see additional things that can only be seen online.



Wayne also touched upon something dubbed "Web 2.0” Its not the second internet like ww2.something.com (this is an example not a real link.. I think so anyways) but it’s the way the internet is maturing or morphing, people and programmers are finding better methods of doing things. For example one of the sites that was shown, Backpackit simply rocks socks. I use this every day now so that I do not have the nagging feeling in my brain of “I had to do something but I don’t know what … ah it nothing if it’s important I will remember it.”

Sites to check out for Podcasting

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