More on Digital Cameras...

In class, we were asked to look for a camera from the Greater Vancouver list. What really grabbed my attention was the Sony DSC-T70. It has a nice, slim and stylish design that allows you to comfortably keep it in your pocket. What's also great about this 8.1 megapixel camera is that is has an 3 inch LCD touch screen. It removes the inconvenience of buttons to allow the huge LCD screen to fully capture your pictures. This camera also has the Super SteadyShot image destabilization and very high sensitivity to prevent and picture blur. It also has a powerful 3.0x optical zoom, and face and smile detection.

You can get it at Best Buy or Future Shop for around $350 (not including taxes)

Want to learn more about this camera take a look here.

Digital Cameras in the Lower Mainland

There is a site that manages a list of digital cameras and the prices they sell for here in Vancouver:

http://www.ndrs.org/iol/cameras.htm

This gets updated every year and each camera is detailed by the following:

• Company (Sony, Canon, etc.)
• Model
• Megapixels (5.0, 8.0, etc.)
• Prices (not including taxes)
• Authorized Vendors
• Maximum Optical Zoom
• Other Details

If you're living in the Lower Mainland and interested in getting yourself a camera, maybe you should check this site out. Also, if you have came across a camera here in the Vancouver that is not on this list, contact the person who manages this site. Peter Vogel can be reached through the following:

vogelp@gmail.com

List the details as shown above and include any comments you have about your camera. If you agree to it, he might "interview" you for his newspaper column.

Visual Basic: Digital Clocks

Recently in class, we used Visual Basic to create our own Digital Clocks. They operated on one second intervals as according to our system/computer clocks. With this program, we added new features that we learned about. First of all, we added menu controls, such as the "File" and "View" menus that you are all familiar with. We also added an "About Digital Clock" form accessible through our "Help" menu. The about form showed a version number, company name, registration information, and a copyright warning. This is the usual stuff that is found in almost all "About" forms of any program. Check your browser and click Help>About [Program]. That's what the "About" form looks like. We also learned to remove the minimize and maximize command buttons. These are the line and square buttons found on the top right corner of the window beside the "X" (close).

Google Analytics

I have signed up to Google Analytics. What this means is that I have installed a tracking device onto my blog so I can keep track of those visiting it! I have faced troubles with proper installation so as of now, I only have 8 hits. To make up for the lack of numbers though, I got a visitor from Italy, where I have no relatives. The rest of the hits are from here in Canada. I can also track what Internet Browser was used and if they came to this blog through search engines or direct links.

Does Google Analytics sound interesting to you? Maybe you should check it out.

Visit the website at http://google.com/analytics and sign up!

"One Laptop Per Child"

"One Laptop Per Child" or "OLPC" is a non-profit organization with the goal of developing low-cost laptops for children who can't afford to have the education that could never have if this opportunity were to pass them. This idea was unveiled by Nicholas Negroponte. All this can become a reality but the organization asks for your help. OLPC needs your donations to make this real for all the unfortunate children in the world.

Here's a picture of the OLPC-XO model:

















If you're interested in learning more, visit the OLPC website at:
http://www.laptop.org/

Also, you can check out http://bcc.rcav.org/07-01-29/columns.htm for a news article that promotes the OLPC organization.

***UPDATE***
Here is a review from a man who got his hands on an OLPC-XO laptop:
http://www.tabletpcreview.com/default.asp?newsID=1014
Come and check out what he's got to say!

Here is another article on the OLPC from the Wall Street Journal:
http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Investing/Extra/Wny$100LaptopProjectIsUnderSiege.aspx
It seems to focus on OLPC being a threat to other companies...

ICT 12 Student Blogs

This is a list of the blogs of my ICT 12 classmates:

Cecilia Abreu
Amanda Alberti
Maria Arcadi
Laura Bordignon
Jason Cadacio
Jon Catapia
Jaime Dy Tioco
Joey Ficetola
Kathryn Jarin
Eliza Labrador
Ysabel Lago
Natalie Luongo
Micaela Monk
Sarah Navarro
Ryan Parmiter
Julian Sales
Julienne Serrano
Emily Shim
Tomasz Sowa
Robert Straw
Precious Toca
Stephanie Tan
Adrianna Wong
Greg Ziarek

Beginning of ICT 12

Well, what we're beginning now in ICT 12, or Information & Communications Technology 12, is computer programming. We will be working with programs like Turbo Pascal, C++, and even Visual Basic. Currently, we're working with the Turbo Pascal language, programming operations like multiplying three number together, averaging a mark from 5 classes, and displaying "Hello" messages to the "World."

Eventually, there will be times when we will create our own programs. All the updates will be posted...

Lester Aquilario
ICT 12 Block D

NDRS: Know~Love~Serve