What More Would I Like To Learn

About a few months before, I had less and less knowledge about computers than what I am now.
I knew little about the usage of Power Point properly.
I hardly knew how to make my blog on the Internet.
I did not know how to make a website at all.
However, I know every these things now, and this is amazing for me who is very poor at dealing with computers.

Now, what more would I like to learn about computers? There are three things.
The first thing is how to secure my computer more. Although Mac with no computer viruses would be safer than Windows, I want to think of using Windows in safer way because a lot of people in the world are using it. As a matter of fact, I have a software called Macafee that prevents my computer from viruses, and it sometimes tells me that my computer is in danger! I do not know what I should do.

The second thing is how to use the keyboard better. although I know basically how to type and use function keys. However, there are some keys that I do not know. I sometimes hit them by mistake and the work I am doing goes wrong!! If I can master the use of the keyboard, I might be able to do my work more smoothly.

The third thing I would like to learn is how to take in various kinds of images and pictures and secure them in my picture folder.

More I learn about computers, more computers becomes familiar for me!! I would like to have fun with my computer, being careful of being computer addiction!

Computer Terms: Viral Video

Viral videos are video clips presented by e-mails, individual blogs, or websites on the Internet.
There are many kinds of content, and these are different from the purpose to make them.
Their characteristics range from funny video clips made up of a lot of jokes to make viewers laugh to serious ones that is to let viewers think about a certain issue.
However, most viral videos are to advertise the company's product or other information.
The very different point of these viral videos from normal TV commercial is that viewers can choose whether they watch them or not, by clicking the button to start showing them.
In addition, viewers usually can vote each clips as favorite ones, and the website shows the ranking which viral video is more popular than others.
Moreover, many viral videos show how many people had watched them below the video screen.
As the Internet becomes more and more important as a commercial strategies, more companies begin to rely on viral videos to inform their company.

What Will Computers Be Like in the Future??

In 2070, in the history class, in a elementary school in Japan, there are twenty students and a teacher in the class. The students are listening to the teacher eagerly. However, some points are different from what the former class room had used to be. There are no black board. There are no notebooks and textbooks on the student's desks. In addition, the students are not looking at the teacher. They are looking at the screens that are in front of them each. The screens have no hardware; in other words, they are skeleton and floating above their desks. Even in the elementary school, computers are essential for education. Most assignments are handed in by computer typing. In addition, computer system will be connected as one and more and more children are able to see other world's news in real timing. Nothing could be done without computer in the future.

Recent Computer News: Vox!

On October 27, Six Apart KK, which is an online company for blog, produced a new feature of blog service called "Vex". This service currently is for three countries: America, France, and Japan.
It allows people to create their blog for free. In addition, what the most significant point of this is that we can control the viewer to see inside of our blog in detail. So it is very useful in this kind of situation.

You put two pictures in one post. One is the picture of your brother and another is that of beautiful scenery. You want to show both pictures, but you want to show your brother's picture for only your friends and family members.

You can do it! Of course, you can show the scenery picture for everyone who saw your blog, although these are in the same page.

Also, it has new service on blog called "Question of the Day", which requires the blogger to answer an interesting question everyday.
In addition, we can easily put photo, music or movable pictures from Flicker, Photobucket, iStockPhoto, YouTube, iFilm and so force because Vex has connection with these services. Therefore, it allowed us to make a blog more fascinating much easier than ever.

If you have interested in making a new blog, please try it!

What Is "Net Neutrality"?

The term "Net neutrality" means a kind of rule on the Internet so that Internet users are always in control of what content they view and what applications they use on the Internet. Actually, many companies such as Google and Yahoo has launched, grown and innovated with this neutrality. One example is this: when someone pay to connect to the net, the person can get the same amount of information as others even if there were people who payed more or less money for the same purpose. In this kind of case, money to pay depend on the quality of provider service when they buy the computer, so it does not decide the amount of information he or she will get. It also prevents companies related to the Internet from discriminating against other competing companies or having power to control the market. However, this neutrality does not mean the Internet for free, nor someone should pay more money for higher quality of service. This is just for the equality for every people to get information.

I recommend you to try these three websites!

There are many many many websites on the Internet.　Some are big, some are rather private, some are popular, or some are even difficult to find. Among thousands of websites, I strongly recommend these tree websites!!
The first one I like very much is "LICA"'s official website. JICA means Japan International Cooperation Agency. It promotes a lot of kinds of non-financial activities for developing countries and reports them in this site. In addition to be able to see personal contribution of volunteer people, we can look at the world's situation with online video system. So if we want to see the present situation of Thailand, we can go to this site and see it. What a wonderful thing!!
The second one I use almost every day is "Mixi"</EM> website. Thanks for this site, we can make our own blog very easily. Because only people who received an invitation from a friend, it is kind of private, and we can make a community with only friends in this site. If you do not know about it, you should ask your friend for sending you the invitation!!
The third one I really want you to try is "Free Touch Typing Program". As many NIC students know, it is a practical website of typing. On the screen, a sample keyboard and two hands indicate which fingers to which button. By doing the exercise constantly, I am sure you can fasten the speed to type!
These are just a little examples of my favorites. We can know the newest world, communicate with friends easily, and type letters faster and faster! If you are interested, please try them!

Computer Gifts I Would Buy for Friends & Family

Everyone wants a present from someone. If the present was from someone who the person liked very much or one the person wanted for a long time, the present would be more precious than any others. As today's technology has growing better and better, a present related to computer is not unusual. I have some software if I were to choose it for someone who bought a new computer.
The first idea is Power Point software. That is because this is so convenient for any representative occasions such as office, school or even just for having fun with his or her family. One of my friends said before, "I have to prepare my presentation at school, not home because my computer does not have Power Point...:-( ". Actually, I also had trouble when I started to prepare for a presentation. Therefore, I would strongly recommend my friend to have Power Point software in the computer at home!!
The second idea is "Uchimomo" software. I guess many people know this software, but this is remarkably enjoyable to fasten the speed of keyboard typing. It has several modes; the practice mode and the test mode. In both modes, we have to type letters on the screen as fast as we can. How fast did we typed these letters will decide how well "Momocyan" makes a lunch box or does athletic activities. As a result, we can easily improve the typing skill with cute characters!
These softwares will surely help our computer life. However, advanced research for friends is so important because if the friend had it, it would be a waste of money. After all, all presents should be chosen carefully. This is because friends are precious and our consideration will change his or her feeling!!

Social Engineering

The term "Social Engineering" means that a person secretly get the private information to come in the secured zone on the computer using some illegal techniques. For example, workers in a company need to be careful the phone call asking for an ID number or password because the illegal people try to get it secretly by pretending someone in the company. Also, these people try to find these private information from the trash box. In the house field, they might trick children or elderly people on the phone. These are all called "Social engineering" and they are completely to be guilty.
To deal with these problems, we can try several ways; making a certification that is difficult to be forged, using a shredder for used information paper, avoiding a phone call from a telephone booth, a call from an unnoticed number, or any other suspicious numbers.

What I Want to Learn About Computers

Computer is mystery. Once I push a bottom, my message goes to other's computer. Once I push a bottom, a countless amount of information appears on the screen. Furthermore, a harmful virus or something comes to my computer and do something wrong. In my computer, these things happen without my attention. Without my special knowledge about these things, I can easily do these things.
What helps computers to be well secured?This is my first question. Because the Internet or other browsers are so common today, it is natural that every computer around the world is harmed by viruses. Actually, my computer had influenced by such viruses before. Therefore, I want to learn how to secure my computer and keep checking the safety.
How to make a Power Point with high quality is also a thing I want to learn about. When I had prepared a presentation, I noticed that I had a little time to make Power Point. However, I spent a lot of time to complete every slides with some techniques, witch was a kind of wasting time. If I had known how to use Power Point well, I could have made it up faster and had a better script as well!!
I am sorry to tell you my past regret:<..but if I can learn about these things more, I will be able to have more enjoyable time with my computer!

My history with Compuer

No computer would make our lives impossible. We buy things, communicate with others, search anything we want, or even apply to new jobs or universities. Because computer will improve our quality of life, we all need to get used to them. Of course, I have get used to use computers in some extent although I had a hard time to get along with them.
Many many years ago...I guess I was ten or younger at that time, I saw a key board, which was black and had a lot of small buttoms, that was attatched with a computer. I thought it was like a monster because it could control the computer; in other words, I could destroy the computer system if I pushed a wrong buttom. I was scared. I hated to try to push the new buttoms I had never tried to. I had hoped that I could do without it.
When I was about fourteen or so, my mind toward computer began to change. I found it interesting, for I noticed that I could search everything on the Internet!! That was amazing fact for me! "I can search my favorite artiste's official site and know about them!" I was about to jump up from excitement!!
Since about three years ago, I began to use the computer for the class such as Word, Power Point, and Excel. And now, I am using it for assingment of computer class at NIC. As everyone can see, my progress of using computers is amazing! However, the way to master computer is far away from here. Even now, my skill to use it is improving, and on and on.....