Social Networking

The world has boiled down to social networking. Web 2.0 myspace and facebook have become the main stream for keeping up with friends. Facebook is a huge part of social networking. Linkedin has become the main source for professionals and networking within the business world. Youtube has also been a huge way for people to express themselves through video.

Wikipedia has also been a way of social media where people can change the history. This has made wikipedia a huge source for many people but has lost credibility because anybody can change it. My friend Alex when looking at college of charleston athletics says he coached the national champion track team. If anyone knows College of Charleston they know that is not the case.

Calendar Web Service

As I continue to get incredibly busy, I have learned that using a google calendar has definitely kept me organized and on task. It has been a great help to me and I love that I can connect everything from my computer, to my phone, to my email. I can get reminders about everything. I use my google one on my phone and get emails and alarms that make it possible to keep myself on a strict schedule. I don't use this for school work yet, I only use it for work purposes so I can plan ahead my work schedule and I keep my school work in my planner.

Storage storage storage

When your in college and you get in a bind secondary storage is crucial. You must always have a back up and sometimes we learn that the hard way when it is the last second and we lose an entire project we have been working on for days. Secondary Storage is used to store data more permanently without the need for electricity. There are different types of storage, there is magnetic, optical and solid state storage. System storage is storage that is used by a computer system for standard operations like RAM, Cache, etc. Magnetic storage is hard disk drives, magnetic tape, floppy disks. Solid state storage which is a flash memory card

The world of computers.

It's amazing how much computers have advanced since I have been in school. I remember going to computer class and saving things on a floppy disk. You don't even see floppy disks anymore and you almost always see flash drives and even now saving things on the internet. The only games I could play were educational games like Freddi the fish.

Today we have Iphones that sync everything on our computer to our phone, so it makes getting music and videos easily. Also if you don't want a print out for flights, boarding passes are made easy with apps that you can get on your iphone so you don't have to use any paper.

My favorite things on flights are the kiosks at the airport. Although it doesn't give you more customer and human contact it is definitely much more efficient and have become great for airports.

Backing up your system and being aware of hackers!

Hackers are a dangerous thing and I must say I have been a victim of hacking and have also hacked someone's email myself. I was angry at an old boyfriend and he had the simplest password in the world for his email account. In class the teacher discussed using complicated passwords and how one email can link to many different passwords for other things. Well I decided I would change all of his passwords for all of his things that were linked to his account.

I taught him a lesson in email protection and basically saved his life from getting his identity stolen so easily. Also when your putting in security questions you need to make sure its not something that the whole world knows.or could find out easily

A useful product I use to make sure I back up the files necessary is DropBox. You never know when your computer is going to crash and you definitely don't want it to be when you need a file the mos
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System Maintnence

In a world where technology is constantly changing system maintenance is something I always have to keep doing. Apple has recently annoyed me because when I bought my laptop it was a MAC OS X 10.5 leopard. Now apple has come out with Snow leopard and Mountain lion so my Iphone no longer can sync to my itunes because I don't have this new software that at times cost a pretty penny to upgrade and being a poor college student is not something I can afford to update my whole system to a 10.6

Installing the new updates on the computer also take quite a while and require your computer to be plugged in at all times. I understand it is helping my laptop but at the same time it is taking up a lot of space to constantly upload the newest adobe flash player and java script every two months

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Decision Making and Problem Solving

Something that interested me about this chapter was the table shown on the power point explaining what components went into decision making and which components equal problem solving. The table starts with Intelligence then design then choice then implementation and last monitoring. The decision making process only contains the intelligence design and choice part of the table. This makes me wonder how a computer is so quick to respond and make decisions for us.

It makes me wonder if a computer generates decisions the same way we do as humans.

Another thing we talked about was reports. Getting into the working world we will be using lots of systems that involve retaining information and we will have to do an array of reports. My neighbor when I was younger invented a company called Cerner which logs health care records for hospitals. Lots of my friends work for Cerner and do reports all day long.

Good Ol' Ebay and Amazon

In class we discussed e-commerce which "refers to the system that support electronically executed business transactions." This affects my generation immensely because of the rise of amazon and ebay. As a college student buying books on these sites is clutch when your professors have you buy enormous amounts of books for their class.

Ebay is also a great place to go if you break an Iphone, you can find lots of goods on ebay and not have to pay an arm and a leg for them.

Another company that has grown is amazon. They have invented the kindle that lets you upload books straight onto a device in order to read them. This was a smart move by amazon and has extremely helped in prosper and grow in the e-commerce world.

chapter 7

A big topic on chapter 7 is Database. I was interested to learn that I was actually using a database right now. 

My work just recently got together with a database company for redesigning their website 

 For our deliverable we are going to use one of our favorite characters and trace them on ink scape. I am going to do tweety bird. Tweety was definitely my favorite character growing up. 

I have done this before so it lookes like it wll be a lot of fun I think to craft it. 

Chapter 6

Chapter six talks about digital media which there is a lot of now in our world. Some of the most popular ones trending are instagram and snapchat.
With the Iphone you combine all sorts of digitial media with music, photos, social media and more.

A big thing on itunes are the podcasts where you can have different shows and people can listen to them,. College of Charleston has a podcast with head basketball Coach Wojick.
Most people in our generation use Itunes where they collect their songs. It costs quite a bit for a song these days but people can get around buying songs by visiting some websites.

Test Day/Variable 5

First off everyone visit my google site
https://sites.google.com/a/g.cofc.edu/kolich-version-1-0/home

You will get to see a slideshow with some of my favorite pictures from my trip to England in May.

During Chapter 5 we learned a lot about networks and modems. I have had troubles with my linksy modem

It looks exactly like this one above. I had a guest service on it but found out how to get rid of it and I decided to put FBI Van as the name so people would shy away. We also learned about cellular networks and I have had a friend who I do not get any service in her house but everyone else does. It is definitely a pain. Bluetooth is another thing we learned in class on Thursday.

Presentation Day

Today in class we gave presentations about different software that we don't know much about or don't use that often. I did mine on Final Cut Pro because as a college student I knew nothing about it until I got introduced to it in my classes and they things it can do for editing is incredible. It really makes an amazing flowing project and we use it daily in the athletic department any time we are editing film.

The presentations I found most interesting was the Opentable and the CofC mobile app. I immediately downloaded the cofc mobile app and will look into the open table app. I don't eat out much but I think I will find it to be very useful.

The First Day

Welcome to the first day of Computer Fluency!

Today we went through the basics of computers. The whole entire time during this lesson I kept thinking that if my father were in this class today he would not know a single word of what our teacher was talking about. My dad just recently discovered youtube about a year ago but more importantly over Christmas break he recently discovered that it is possible to still obtain youtube and high sound quality as he took the laptop outside to smoke his cigar.

We also watched a link about an incredibly smart computer on Jeopardy. I can't wait to show my grandma this video because she will be amazed. We once tricked my grandma because Jeopardy airs 30 minutes in the south before it does in the midwest, so my uncle knew all the answers because my aunt texted them to him. My Grandma was convinced he was so smart and he told her if was because of omega-3 pills he was taking so she went to sam's club the next day and bought a big tub of them.

I wonder today how many older generation people know how to operate a computer? It would be an interesting statistic to discover.

Here's the link to the jeopardy computer!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpKoIfTukrA