Black Friday

Online-
Amazon- HP Mini 10.1-Inch White Netbook for $199.99 and a MartinLogan DYNBLD Dynamo 10-Inch Subwoofer for $379. The new doorbuster is a HP 15.6" Laptop with Intel Celeron Processor, 2GB Memory, 160GB Hard Drive, and Windows 7 for $197.

Stores-
Wallmart- HP 15.6" Notebook w/Intel Processor, 3GB Memory, 250GB Hard Drive (Model # G60-519WM) $298.00 *
-HP 17" Notebook w/4GB Memory, 320GB Hard Drive (Model # G71-329WM) $398.00
-HP Pavilion All-In-One 19" Desktop w/4GB Memory, 500GB Hard Drive, MS213 AMD $598.00
-HP Pavilion Desktop w/AMD Processor, 3GB Memory, 320GB Hard Drive, w/20" Monitor (Model # P6243w-b) $398.00 *
-Kodak EasyShare C140 8 MP Digital Camera Bundle + Optional 4GB SDHC Memory Card
-Movies from $2
-Emerson 32" LC320EMFX LCD 720P HDTV $248.00 *

There were some great deals this year. I believe that the best deals could be found in the stores. They offer better sales because they required you to go out in the middle of the night, or in some cases, the night before to get the sales. I went shopping at 7, not for anything spacific, and found a couple good deals on random stuff I needed.

1) social bookmarking is taking your favorites and putting them in a website for your friends to share.

2) Anyone can use this. Teachers are using it a lot. for example, teachers are looking at students bookmarks. Teachers can put up their favorite sites organized by signs.

3) You take your favorite sites and put it on the social bookmarking site. Then you can organize the topics by tags. Anyone can look at these bookmarks. Hints "social" bookmarking.

4) It is significant because it is not strictly limited to one computer. Anyone can go on the site and share bookmarks.

5) Social bookmarking is becoming more popular. It is gaining popularity.

6) Teachers can put websites on the social bookmarking site in order to keep all their sites together. Students can then look at all the sites in one spot.

7) A downside is you may not want people to look at your favorite websites.

8) The benefits are: looking at your sites from any computer, you can share so others can see your favorites, and you can organize using tabs.

9) Diigo, delicious, and twitter. Diigo is my favorite because I know the most about it.

Halloween Costume

For halloween I was a Chip and Dale with my friend.

Screencasting to do's

I am going to record my audio right in my room. If I run into the issue of my voice sounding distorted I will go and get a headset. I am going to use the Jing software. It sounds like the best for me because I want to do a voiceover. If I decide I want to do more than a voiceover I will have to download a different software to do so.

Screencasting

1) www.peepcode.com
PeepCode Screencasts are a high-intensity way to learn professional development topics like Ruby on Rails, Javascript, Git, Objective-C and Clojure.
2)http://civicactions.com/blog/2009/jun/16/drush_screencast_tutorial_2_using_drush_dl_command
This screencast dives deep into the Drush "dl" and "info" commands, which can be used to look-up, download and extract the recommended version (or specific versions) of modules, themes, install profiles and translations.
3)http://econtent.typepad.com/econtent/2006/12/camstudio_a_scr.html
Quite often in one's travels around the web, you may wish to record or demonstrate something. CamStudio is a simple, free, recording tool. This posting provides a screencast tutorial, access to the software, and some examples:
CamStudio
Web Site
Download Software (Source Forge.Net).
Tutorial (created with Wink)

Office Replacements

1) I Work. (for Mac). Composed of Pages, Numbers, and Keynote. This software is comparable to Microsoft Office however you can do much more with your projects.
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MB942/iWork-09?afid=p219|GOUS&cid=OAS-US-KWG-AppleSoftware-US

2) Open Office. Open Office is a free software that opens the door for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases.
OpenOffice.org

3) KingSoft Office. Kingsoft Office 2009 includes three alternative Microsoft Office compatible applications: a word processor (Microsoft Word), spreadsheet editor (Microsoft Excel) and presentation creation utility (Microsoft PowerPoint). Kingsoft Office includes native PDF export support and does not require any third-party add-ons to create PDF output from any of the three applications.
http://www.binarynow.com/office-suite/kingsoft-office-2009-an-alternative-to-microsoft-office-with-native-pdf-export/

4) Zoho. Zoho is another free software that lets you have an alternative to Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. This software also includes many more free applications for you to use.
www.zoho.com

5) Staroffice Software. This software is also compareable to Office, however although it is not free it sells for a price much cheaper than Microsoft Office. For 34.95 you will get software with everything office has and much more. Staroffice is also much easier to use.
http://www.sun.com/software/staroffice/index.jsp