Email and IM

Emailing is a way of communicating by exchanging messages across the internet.  Emailing is a quick way of sending information to whoever you want. An advantage of emailing is that you can communicate with people quickly no matter where they are.

Although there are many advantages of using email services, there are some disadvantages too.  Emailing allows you too attach files and images which can be seen as a plus side to using email but that feature allows people to add viruses /malicious malware to the email.

Instant messaging is usually seen as a fun way of keeping up with friends and sending files to each other. Most instant messaging services only allow you to send a short message. IM has a few advantages over email. For example, you don’t get junk mail. Like Email, it is possible for other contacts to send you malicious files which can harm your pc.

Personally, I use email more than IM because I find it more convenient as it doesn’t require you both to be online at the same time.

MMS - Multimedia Messaging Service

MMS is similar to SMS in the way it allows people to communicate by sending messages. However, SMS is just a simple way to send a short message to a contact, whereas MMS allows you to send images, sound, text pages and videos.

MMS was first used in Japan when camera phones first come out. At first there were a few technical difficulties in opening the picture message that you had received because it was in a different format to what the phone would usually be compatible with. 

****I found it quite difficult to get information MMS that I could understand. If anyone can give me some help in understanding this, please write some info

MY WONDERFUL WORK...With a bit of help from Julian, of course.

This is what I created today in Julian's lesson. To create this I used Photoshop CS4 and followed a tutorial on Youtube. I found it very interesting and learnt some new techniques. The technique that I think will be most useful is the gradient tool to create a 3D effect.

..Making our lovely college website!

Today we spent an hour and a half on our college website assignment. We didn't want all 4 of us trying to do the same thing so we split what we had to do up, making it easier to get our work done. Sophie was in charge of the story boarding. She also made a flow chart which showed the buttons we would have on our website. Louis was working on Flash to get more of an idea on how our website would work. Josh was using Adobe Premier to edit the video's we got from students around college. I started to make a photoshop mock-up which would show the home page of our interactive wesbite. I used Google earth to get a birds eye view of the college. At the moment I am still at college and because only the minority of the computers in college have Adobe Software on them I cannot complete the mock-up until I get home. I will definitely be finishing this tonight as tommorow our group will be showing Julian what we have done so far and I don't think a simple mock-up will be too impressive! I think today went really well in general, although I wasn't too happy with the quality of the image I was using from Google Earth. I'm really pleased how our group is working together and I'm sure the end result will show how much effort everyone has put in to it.

Revolting ART + DESIGN

Be daring, be different,
Be all you can be but have integrity, imagination and purpose.
Believe in what you do.
Don’t be a slave to mediocrity or convention but contribute something new and exciting and different.
Everything else is just about being the same.
- 

Ross Cleaver, Creative Director of Revolting Art +Design

LEARNING - What we should be doing at college, right?!

I read Sophie's post and learnt that GPRS was developed to try and help 2G with the speed it can send and receieve data. GPRS allows you to be receiving information as well as being on the phone at the same time.
In 2000, GPRS was released, it was known under something called phase one, phase one only allowed you to send information to one device at a time. GPRS is hoping to bring out phase 2 which will allow you to send information to more than one device at a time.

Thank you Sophie for helping me understand what GPRS is about.

If i have made any mistakes, don't hesitate to correct me :)

>> 3G << This took me ages.. so READ!!!

3G technology  first started in 2000, since then it has become more and more popular. In 2000, 3G was a completely new technology out, it was not linked to 2G technology. As it was something new on offer it started off with a few problems. 3G’s biggest problem was that it was extemely expensive.  In order for 3G to work, new networks had to be built which added to the cost. After a year of getting 3G together, Japan launched 3G in 2001.

3G allows network providers to offer their  customers more. For instance, people with 3G on their mobile phones can video call. Other advantages include having the internet wirelessly whenever you need it. 3G systems provide quick internet access to all kinds of data like map and positioning services. 3G can be used for whatever you choose whether it’s multi-player gaming or even shopping whilst you are sitting at home.  (obviously being able to shop 24/7 is my favorite feature of 3G!!)

Although 3G is now being put onto even the most basic phones, it wasn’t like that the entire time. 3G was only a feature which was added to smart phones such as the iPhone, Blackberry and other brands which sell more advanced mobile phones.