"Com-footer Science"

It was on this week that we studied about header, footer and index...
(of course, header is located at the top of the document while footer is at the bottom, duh??)

Anyway, we were shown the different methods of  inserting header-footer, 1. Double click the part outside the margins on top or bottom 2. Insert, then click insert header footer

We were also taught of inserting index in a matter of seconds instead of the usual way of "find the word, type and page stuff".

Life was really different......

..... Life was indeed different when apple and blackberries were just fruits, notebooks were just pads of paper bundled together. I just hope that the kind of changes that computers give are positive, not negative. The youth should still be as active as the generations before and we should NOT depend on the computers and technology. We should find ways to be active and not-just-sitting-around-all-day stuff......

Photos about Computers and modern Life

Source:pankajscribbles.com

Life without Computers

Memory was something you lost with age...

An application was for employment...

A program was a TV show...

A cursor used profanity...

 A keyboard was a piano...

A web was a spider's home...

A virus was a flu...

A CD was a bank account...

A hard drive was a long trip on the road...

A mouse pad is where the mouse lives...

and if you have a 3 1/2 inch floppy... you just hoped nobody found out.....!

Source:
sunshineandchaos.wordpress.com

Where internet terms came from.....

Spam

 In the legendary 1970 Spam sketch from the TV comedy series Monty Python’s Flying Circus, a café waiter recites a menu that only contains spam and dishes containing spam. As the waiter recites the menu, a chorus of Viking patrons drown out all conversations singing “Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam… lovely Spam! Wonderful Spam!”. They in effect ‘spam’ the dialogue. The excessive use of the word ‘spam’ in the sketch was mirrored online in early chatrooms where abusive users would repeat ‘spam’ many times until it scrolled other users’ text off the screen. Since then, the word spam has been used for excessive multiple posting and junk messages.

Blog

Blog is an odd word, which means an online diary that’s usually viewable by the public. The word actually comes from a blend of the two words ‘web’ and ‘log’. A web log was the first name for an online diary, and was coined in December 1997 by Jorn Barger. The shortened name ‘blog’ was first used by Peter Merholz who broke it up into the words we blog in 1999. After that, the word ‘blog’ has been used as a verb and a noun, and lead to the word ‘blogger’ and ‘blogging’.

Twitter

I don’t have to tell you I’m sure, that Twitter is a microblogging social networking website where you can post messages of no more than 140 characters to your followers. But did you know that the original name considered for Twitter was ‘twittr’, inspired by Flickr. The creators changed this to the full word we know now when it was launched in July 2006. Jack Dorsey, one of Twitter’s creators said this about the name they chose:

“[W]e came across the word ‘twitter’, and it was just perfect. The definition was ‘a short burst of inconsequential information,’ and ‘chirps from birds’. And that’s exactly what the product was.”
                                                                                                                       -Jack Dorsey

Silver surfers

Older people surfing the internet are sometimes referred to as ‘silver surfers’, a term that was coined after the internet became widely used and available in most people’s homes, and was adopted by older people as well as young people. The term actually comes from a Marvel comic book hero ‘The silver surfer‘, who surfs the galaxy at faster-than-light speeds, but it was (unflatteringly?) applied to elderly internet users because of their grey hair.

Google

Have you ever wondered where the popular search engine got its name from? It’s actually a deliberate misspelling of the word ‘googol’, a mathematical number meaning 1 followed by 100 zeros. The name of this number was coined by the young nephew of mathematician Edward Kasner in 1938. Edward asked his 9 year old nephew to think up a name for a very big number, and came up with ‘googol’. He then came up with the name of an even larger number which was a ‘googolplex’.

source: http://blog.silktide.com/2011/05/trivia-for-geeks-where-internet-related-words-come-from/

15 Fun Facts: Computer Trivia

1. It took the radio 38 years and the television only 13, but the internet reached 50 million users in only 4 years.

2. The computer mouse was invented by Doug Engelbart in 1963. It was made out of wood (weird, huh)
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3. In 2009 the average number of Internet transactions per second was 2,000. The total number of goods sold was worth $60 billion.

4. Early hard disks in personal computers held only 20 MB of data and cost around $800. In 2010 you could get a 2 GB flash drive for around $8. This implies that there is a 100-fold reduction in the price and a 100-fold increase in storage capacity.

5. Rear Admiral Grace Hopper, the first female admiral in the US Navy is also known in the computer world for creating the popular programming language COBOL. She also came up with the term ‘debugging’ after removing a moth from a computer.

6. The computing power in today’s cell phones is much higher than the processing power of all the computers in the Apollo 11 Lunar Lander that put 2 men on the moon.

7. The two main components in IT (Information Technology) are hardware and software. But there is also a lesser known ‘grey’ component. This is the software that is stored in hardware and cannot be modified easily. It is known as ‘firmware’.

8. There are over 20 billion web pages on the internet, and that number is rapidly growing every day. Also, there are over 2 billion internet users worldwide at present.

9. RIM (the BlackBerry operating system company) co-CEO and cofounder Mike Lazaridis dropped out of college to start his own company. He did so after reading Microsoft’s founder, Bill Gates’, book.
10. The first hard disk drive was created in 1979 by Seagate. Its capacity was a whopping (not) 5 MB.

11. HP, Google, Microsoft, and Apple have one thing in common – apart from the obvious that they are IT companies. They were all started in garages.

12. The 12 engineers at IBM that developed the IBM PC had a code name – “The Dirty Dozen”.

13. The first and still the oldest domain name to be registered is Symbolics.com, it was created on March 15th, 1985.

14. Most Central Processing Units (CPU’s) are sold as a bit slower than they actually run. By over-clocking them you can get them to run faster – for free.

15. The first micro-processor was the 4004, Intel had originally designed it for a calculator and no one had any idea to what it would lead.

source: www.sandiegopchelp.com

Finally....

Yes! We're at HTML or Hyper Text Markup Language. This is where we create our own websites! It's easy. First you have to create a text document from Wordpad and entitle it as File.html (.html is really important), switch the other tabs to All Files and ANSI. Apply basic tags like <html>,<title>, <head>,<body> and don't forget to close it. Apply formatting tags if you want and Voila! you have your own website... =)

Google Search: What are search engines?

An good example of a search engine is Google. So I assume that most of you already know what search engines are.
Opening your account to a search engine allows web crawlers to "crawl" on your account.
Sometimes, search engines display different results for your query. So, if you didn't find the answer to your problem, try rephrasing your query.
Web and internet are different. Web is the set of protocols and tools while internet connects thousands of computers.



*you use google almost everyday but you do not know the order of its colors... right?*

Netiquette for Netizens

If the bible has 10 commandments which tells Christians God's commands, the internet also has its 10 core rules for its users to follow:
1:Remember the human:
 This includes the golden rule:"Do not do unto others what you don't want others to do unto you".
2:Behave online as you behave in real life
Always think that people are behind computers... This rule is a back-up for number 1... almost
3:Know where you are in cyberspace
Look for FAQ's or Frequently Asked Questions....
"Lurk before you leap"- monitor the site for a few days and see if the topics are appropriate and if you can fit in.
4:Respect other people's time and bandwidth
Always remember that you are not the center of cyberspace... Always remember that some people pay at least P15 per hour at computer shops. Consider making your message short and to the point. Some people posts a lllloooooonnnnggg message and writing Joke lang! at the end.... They're rude and annoying, aren't they?
5:Make yourself good online
6:Share expert knowledge
7:Help keep flame wars under control
8:Respect other people's privacy
9:Don't abuse your power
10:Be forgiving of other people's mistakes

101 Things to learn on networks

On this topic, we discussed about network cables and devices, we studied through cables which allow computers to connect to a network.

It is on this lesson on which I learned "The Story of the Hub" and "The Story of the Switch". Now I know that even networks are interfered by a so-called Electro- Magnetic Interference or E.M.I.(for short). It is also in this lesson on which bridges are not only used for land connections but also to connect two LAN segments together.

This is how it starts...

During this week, we studied about Network, its definition, types, network systems, network services and network protocols. With this topic, entitled "Fundamentals of Computer Network", I learned about different network services and network protocols and got a perfect score on the quiz(humahangin ata!... joke!). Basta yun... anyway start pa lang naman 'to