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People have been slowing been moving away from the technological applications that apple has been creating becuase of their mediocraty and awkwardness. Will people come back though now that apple is cleaning their stuff up or have they moved away and now become entrenched in nice alternatives like grooveshark. According the statistical data i gathered i can confirm that the move away should be perminant as apple made their processes too closed and not open so that limited the options for developers (applications forcing others to pay royalties making free sale inpossible) (buidling becuase no open source)

They were first in but last out. they tried to stick with the same formula and did not innovate enough. They tried to use the same formula every time in form 661 which means that they rehash what works which is safe but they never innovated with things like open source and making things free. Now a days the market is moving towards everything being free. For example in gaming there has been alot of free games that come out with some sort of free pay for convience or visuals astetics, which is nice becuase you can play a game or commit to buying a game later after you know if you like it. I think that apple users will not come back becuase they fell behind and peopel moved away from apple to the new companies that are more creative and move quickly with the times. Like google and their adroid prodcts. Googles process is very innovative and they are not afraid to try crazy things and even completely rework things and take a risk and that is why they came ahead of apple in the tech race.

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Sandy

I was not effected or use social media. I can see that there is use for it. I experienced the storm, but wanted to forget about the existence of this storm so never looked at social media and its reporting of the storm but this is what i can gather about it, and its uses

Pros

you can see how family and friends are faring

police use it for people when phone lines are backed up

you can hear person accounts

cons

it is limited

it can be misinterpreted

it might  not be seen

ice cream

tech article 11/15/12

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Lytro is on a roll. The company has recently been launching new and innovative products. The camera shown captures entire light fields. It allows for the change of focuses easily. Know their cameras can also since 3 dimensions by moving slightly and you can view it by moving around the photos which is nicest on the iPad. This effect is ridiculously cool when coupled with living filters.

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Hybrid hard disk drives, such as Seagate’s Momentus XT, offer the performance advantages of a solid state drive (SSD) combined with the capacity and cost advantages of platter-based hard disks. Now the Data Storage Institute (DSI) from Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) has unveiled its own hybrid hard drive called the “A-Drive” that comes in a 2.5-inch form factor and measures a svelte 5 mm thick.

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tech article 10/25/12

Yahoo is currently experiencing large amounts of competition. So it decided to test out new logo ideas. They are currently surveying different logos ect. To see what people like. They are also trying things like intoNow. They are trying to keep up with Google by releasing new products too.

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wiki

         A wiki can be used in any class. For social studies you could have students research locations so they could understand places they are learning about. For Spanish they could create study guides for anything from verbs to word meanings. For English they could share notes and tricks for memorizing how to use punctuation. For science you could create portfolios of all the projects you have done. For math you could have peer editing on math homework. The benefits of wikis are that they allow you to quickly find and spread information for anyone to view, which is unlike every other distribution method. We could go to a website and create a wiki such as wikispace and use it in class for anything from peer editing too just creating guides.  I currently am a member of the Wikipedia editing community and help with fact checking and getting credible sources.

Google had just announced that it added 25 million new building footprints to google maps. The update had to do with 3d maps and buildings in google earth and pdates street view pictures. They did this using aerial images and computer image techniques. It allows google maps to determine heights and shapes of the buildings.
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THANKS

for the free surprise not sure how it happened but of course you who read this know what i am referring too and are prolly laughing to your self right now thanks for the surprise it was very pleasant.

tech article 10/12

Red bull is scaling up their advertisement campaign by going to space. They have started by building the biggest and doing what has not been done before so that they can start conversations. With their latest try they were making the biggest ballon ever and attempting to make a supersonic space jump. The plane was aborted because of atmospheric conditions.

PHOTOSYNTHESIS =CAR FUEL?

As gas becomes rarer automakers are looking for alternate fuel choices. The process is similar to photosynthesis. You take the sun's energy to convert water and co2 into liquid fuel. Instead of using electricity and mechanical processes to turn water and co2 into fuel, they use micro organisms to convert co2 and water into electricity. The organisms will use the electricity to turn the water and co2 into fuel. Instead of growing the organisms are forced into endlessly creating fuel for vehicular transport.
 

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tech article 9/28/12

 I picked this topic because i thought it was really sad. You may notice that face book fans are shedding likes. It is because Facebook has begun to delete fake accounts and likes. So popular fan pages will seem to have a reduced number of followers but they actually only have a reduced amount of apparent followers the actual people who follow the page is the same. This is a part of Facebook's efforts to improve systems that detect illegitimate likes.


























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tech article 9/21

         Named the  BattleHawk Squad Level Loitering Munition it is a plane that can fly over a location looking for targets and taking them out with its 40 mm charge.New technologies allow allow for guided bombs that fit inside of a backpack to be fired from a motor. It allows guided accurate strikes against targets now instead of allowing them to hide in mountains. It was developed by  Textron Defense Systems.  This device gives us the ability to add human knowledge to the before  unintelligent bombing system. Currently the system  is being tested by the United States Rapid Equiping force.

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I EAT ICE-CREAM

I eat  ice-cream. I had a early birthday cake over the summer. I stayed in Vancouver B.C. I stayed hunkered inside of a large house. I stayed in one corner of it. Only leaving to go to the library. Which I did periodically. The vancouver public library system is pretty good compared to N.J.'s which I always take for granted. I read around 146 books over the summer. I also ate ice cream. I also played Dota 2, Starcraft 2, and played on a highlander team for the game Team Fortress 2.


Click here to view website of vancouver's public library. 

here is a video of the library

I like ice cream

My name is Andy Lo. I like ice cream.  Kittens are annoying. My family is dumb. My friends are nice. I do not like cannolis on top of cakes. I like cakes with layers. My favorite cakes are fruit layered and have a cheese cake base. Ice cream cake is not funny. I play a multitude of strategy games apparently including dota  2. I am taking ss1 honors web 2.0 gym/health lunch spanish 2 english 1 honors biology and geometry. I am in every non sport, band or choir club.

9/13 tech? Joke, fraud, or reality? or future

            Spestle has created a new way to make money.It innovates from convention opening up a whole new aspect of making money by using technology. You can now make a mix of spices and sell them but without any risk. You make money only when it sells. The company makes money by slightly overpricing it. There is no risk on their side because of the fact that they make the spices to order and if your mix does not sell they don't make it so there is no risk for either side but big reward for them. They take all the risk away from being a small time seller and pay you money for inventing the mix or spices that they sell for you