Desktop
Default
Examples of default programs
Media Players: Most computers (PC) use Windows Media Player to play media files. Other media players are quicktime & real Player (which is the best by far) Real Player 9 plays all media files including difficult ones. I use this program.
Internet Explorer:
Most computers start off with Internet Explorer as a default browser, but there are also other browsers such as Fire Fox, Safari, Opera and Camino.
Windows Live Gallery
New Vista computers open Image files with this program to view them. Other programs are Quick time Picture Viewer. also if it is animated gifs sometimes they open with the internet. Or picture editors such as photoshop.
In your computer’s “Control Panel” you can always change your default programs in “Default Programs”. But make sure you choose an appropriate program otherwise you could have many problems opening files etc.
DVD
CMYK!
COMPUTER
OPERATING
SYSTEMS
Example: Vista
CALIBRATION-MONITOR/ PRINTER!!
Setting up your monitor
- Your monitor should be operated in subdued light; strong direct light should not reach the screen. Dark areas of the screen should appear dark to the eye. I work in a semi-darkened room with a lamp to the left of my screen (positoned so no direct light reaches the screen). Total darkness is unnecessary. CreativePro.com has nice articles about ambient light and viewing lights.
- Set your monitor’s color temperature (white point) to 6500K, D65, or sRGB, which is equivalent to 6500K. This is preferable to setting it on video card or monitor calibration software. My monitor selections are 5000K (D50), 6500K (D65), and 9300K. Older monitors with no color temperature setting default to around 9000-9300K, which is far too blue to comfortably match prints viewed under incandescent light, which has color temperatures between 2600 and 4200K. The 5000K setting appears too dull and yellow on most CRT monitors.
- Your display adaptor software should be set to 24 or 32 bit color (True Color). To see the setting, right-click on the Windows wallpaper (the background outside any open windows), then click on Properties, Settings.
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Note the confusing terminology: Artists call higher color temperatures (bluer) “cooler” and lower color temperatures (yellower) “warmer.” The huge variety of available hardware can make setting color temperature confusing. You may have the option of setting color temperature on the monitor (preferred) or with video card or monitor calibration software. Do not set it in both; this may result in an overcorrection– your monitor will appear dim and yellow. Software settings work correctly if the monitor is uncorrected, i.e., about 9000-9300K. Unless you have a calibrator you’ll have to trust your eyes: White and gray images (where R = G = B) should appear tonally neutral, i.e., they should have no visible tint. The Gamma and monitor test patterns are excellent for this purpose.
- I use a SoLux Desk Task Lamp with a 4700K 36 degree 50W bulb for viewing prints. (Thanks, Luca Salgarelli.) The SoLux has a CRI (color rendering index) of 0.98. CRI is a measure of how accurately a light source can render color. 100 is maximum; 90 is OK. I purchased it from www.lightbulbsdirect.com (click here for the Desk Lamp). At the 6500K monitor setting, a white sheet of paper viewed under the SoLux lamp looks a tiny bit yellower (warmer) than white areas on the monitor screen. This is not a problem since the eye adapts quickly when moving from the monitor to the print. The SoLux color temperature is actually quite close to the monitor; much closer than a halogen lamp. It has an orange cast on the periphery, which some users may find annoying.
- Alternative lamps: Two promising choices are Ott-Lite’s 18W VisionSaverTM series, which has a color temperature of about 5300K and CRI = 0.95, and Sunwave 5500K fluorescent bulbs, which come in both tubes and compact screw-in models, have good brightness and CRI = 0.93. The Philips 287813 15 watt screw-in daylight compact fluorescent bulb: 5000K, CRI = 0.82, is available at Home Depot, SKU #652746, about $15. It’s quite bright. Other compact fluorescents: SunPro, Panasonic, and Verilux.
- I keep a halogen desk lamp nearby to see what the print will look like in typical indoor lighting.
- Set the Contrast to maximum unless the image is too bright or harsh.
- Adjust gamma, the parameter that describes the nonlinear relationship between image pixels and monitor brightness, and Brightness (black level) using the Gamma and black level chart, below. Several procedures are abailable. There is some interaction between brightness and gamma adjustments, so you may have to go back and forth between them.
- Digital Dog’s test image should look good, though I find the skin tones to be somewhat cool (very slightly blue) on my monitor. The image of the dog (center; the digital descendant of Victor’s “Nipper”) should appear neutral gray except for the few specks of color. You may want to look at other calibration images, such as the Robyn Color calibration scan.
CATV Lines!
“Cable TV” redirects here. For the Hong Kong-based cable television network, see Cable TV Hong Kong.
“Premium TV” redirects here. For other uses, see Premium TV (disambiguation).
Cable television is a system of providing television to consumers via radio frequency signals transmitted to televisions through fixed optical fibers or coaxial cables as opposed to the over-the-air method used in traditional television broadcasting (via radio waves) in which a television antenna is required. FM radio programming, high-speed Internet, telephony and similar non television services may also be provided.
The abbreviation CATV is often used to mean “Cable TV”. It originally stood for Community Antenna Television, from cable television’s origins in 1948: in areas where over-the-air reception was limited by mountainous terrain, large “community antennas” were constructed, and cable was run from them to individual homes.
It is most commonplace in North America, Europe, Australia and East Asia, though it is present in many other countries, mainly in South America and the Middle East. Cable TV has had little success in Africa, as it is not cost-effective to lay cables in sparsely populated areas, and although so-called “wireless cable” or microwave-based systems are used, “direct-to-home” satellite television is far more popular, especially in South Africa.
For more information go to here.
CCS
In web development, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a stylesheet language used to describe the presentation of a document written in a markup language. Its most common application is to style web pages written in HTML and XHTML, but the language can be applied to any kind of XML document, including SVG and XUL.
CSS is used to help readers of web pages to define colors, fonts, layout, and other aspects of document presentation. It is designed primarily to enable the separation of document content (written in HTML or a similar markup language) from document presentation (written in CSS). This separation can improve content accessibility, provide more flexibility and control in the specification of presentation characteristics, and reduce complexity and repetition in the structural content. CSS can also allow the same markup page to be presented in different styles for different rendering methods, such as on-screen, in print, by voice (when read out by a speech-based browser or screen reader) and on Braille-based, tactile devices. CSS specifies a priority scheme to determine which style rules apply if more than one rule matches against a particular element. In this so-called cascade, priorities or weights are calculated and assigned to rules, so that the results are predictable.
The CSS specifications are maintained by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Internet media type (MIME type) text/css is registered for use with CSS by RFC 2318 (March 1998).
Content writer/ editor
On myspace there is a place where you can edit content with HTML. For a better Myspace web page there are easier ways to make you page look good. Such as websites with Layouts, Backgrounds etc you can copy & paste into the editor. Now they have made it evn easier with the Myspace Profile Editor. You can use your own pictures from upload sited such as Photobucket and create the page you want. Now it easy to make your own webpage just using Myspace. Many famous bands use this rather than an official website because it is easier to use and keep in touch wth fans and keep them updated with events.
Here is an example of a Myspace page of Enrique Iglesias and how it is used to promote his music and keep fans updated:
http://www.myspace.com/enriqueiglesias
Convergence
Connectivity
History
Like any other system, our understanding of telecommunications has evolved and changed. In engineering the phone system, there were a myriad of technical problems to be solved in order to be able to carry voice conversations over long distances or even around the world. The signal had to be delivered with precise timing with every component of the network adjusted just right. Because the equipment was so expensive there was great emphasis on precise planning for capacity.
Similarly, television was an amazing feat of engineering in the 1930’s. It took very precise engineering to synchronize the video beam in the kinescope (the camera) with the image shown in the receiver. Many technical tricks were used including interlacing so that successive scans filled alternating lines to produce a smoother image. People then took advantage of the accidental properties, such as adding closed captioning by using the “vertical blanking interval” (the time it took to move the beam from the bottom back to the top of the screen).
The rise of the Internet in the 1990’s (though the process actually started decades earlier) has demonstrated that we can now treat both telephony and television as streams of bits over a packet network. In the network itself all packets are treated the same with no special handling for audio or video streams. The network doesn’t even have the notion of a circuit since successive packets needn’t go to the same destination.
Connectivity
The pragmatic definition: Connectivity is the unbiased transport of packets between two end points. This is also the essential definition of “IP” (Internet Protocol).
There is a strong boundary between the IP layer and the applications built upon it. TCP, for example, is an application protocol. In the term “TCP/IP” the slash emphasizes the separation of the two.
The virtuous cycle
Since no application’s packets get special treatment, the IP layer created a new commodity, connectivity, and set in motion the virtuous cycle of low prices generating new applications. These applications generated new demand. The new capacity created to meet this demand drove down the unit price but generated higher aggregate revenue to the connectivity providers.
It is still difficult for many people to grasp the power of the virtuous cycle set in motion by an effective marketplace structure. In the 1970’s the military paid millions of dollars for computers that were far less powerful than the machines we use for children’s video games.
It also means that now telephony and television can be treated as streams of packets built upon the connectivity layer. There is a caveat in that we need sufficient capacity in our networks to carry this traffic. Early efforts to send audio and video over the Internet were limited by the capacity of the network but it is now becoming common and accepted to listen to live events over the Internet and, unlike radio, there is no predefined limit on the quality.
We now have home networks running at 100 megabits per second bought along with pencils at the local stationery store. And soon, a billion bits per second will be common. We already have Internet backbones that support a trillion bits per second per strand of fiber.
Applying this to telephony and television
What does this mean?
We can now treat telephony and television as applications built upon any available connectivity. We are already used to the idea that we access any Internet service from any provider.
We have seen a harbinger of this in the 1970’s when the Federal Court mandated that telephone service be defined as the jack on the wall and not include the telephone itself (this was the Carterphone decision). Until then, we couldn’t plug in our own answering machines or modems. The phone companies saw themselves as providing phone calls rather than connectivity.
This is merely a shift in point of view. But then, all that Copernicus did was shift the reference point for computing the orbit of planets from the Earth to the Sun which simplified calculations even though it was initially less accurate than Ptolemy’s epicycles.
If we go back to first principles, we would treat connectivity as just another utility like water and electricity. Hauling bits would be no more mysterious than hauling garbage. In fact, some cities are already providing their own connectivity by laying municipal fiber. (Canada is leading the United States at this point.)
With connectivity as just another utility we would expect to have all television content available at any time just like we expect to have the web available. Instead of a dozen broadcast slots (which we call channels) we could view not just any of the myriad of television productions available, we would just as easily view our children’s soccer even if we are traveling on another continent and would be free to choose our viewing surface, be it a large low-resolution “TV” or a small very high-resolution reading surface. And, as we’ve learned with the lack of interest in video phones, we also appreciate the option of talking without the burden of also looking good (and attentive).
If this sounds familiar, it is because it is the stuff of science fiction. But it is also reality and is already happening. It is remarkable that there is no longer anything remarkable about the “kindergarten-cam” which allows parents to watch their kids from the office.
The problem with assuming today’s framework
If we turn from the exciting reality of the Internet back to the other reality of Telecommunications we experience culture shock.
But for those who live within the complex world of telecom regulation day in and day out, the idea of going back to first principles isn’t shocking, it’s simply inconceivable. It represents a degree of reengineering that is dismissed as naïve and politically unrealistic. Once you accept the premises of the regulatory framework, all of its intricacies seem reasonable and necessary.
Yet, even many within these heavily regulated industries acknowledge that we will eventually have gigabits of connectivity everywhere and thus the revenue for voice telephony is already dropping to zero. By maintaining two very different kinds of businesses within a single corporation the shareholders are denied the ability to maximize the value of the shares by making an informed choice. Instead the profits are used for cross-subsidies and, as we have seen, for the operators own naive investments in dotComs.
We feel the pain in the tale of John Henry as he has to come to terms with the technologies that leave him behind. In a different example, ulcers had their own mystique associated with the moral judgment associated with stress. This made it difficult to accept the fact that they were just another easily treatable bacterial infection.
The solution
But it is simple.
Once we see that connectivity is the basic resource and that telephony and television are simply applications built on connectivity we can seize the opportunity to replace complex regulation with the power of the marketplace. We can heed the examples of the IBM Consent decree that allows for the hardware/software industry. We also have a precedent in the remedy wherein the FCC required that television networks divest themselves of their studios.
We need to start by recognizing that there must be a distinct connectivity business in order to avoid the inherent conflict between the commodity business of providing connectivity and the business of delivering services and content. Even with the best of intentions the incumbent application providers are advantaged by benign neglect. The only remedy is a strong separation.
This means we must require that existing companies separate their “wire” operations from their content/service businesses. The hard part is making the transition from a business model that assumes the compelling advantage of owning the “wires”. The lack of effective alternative paths allows the providers to charge for bit streams according to their value and not their cost because neither competitors nor customers have effective alternatives. To the extent that regulators fashioned competitors, they were created in the image of the existing players and thus CLECs (the competitors) were all too often miniature replicas of the ILECs (incumbents).
Information Thanks To:
http://www.satn.org/about/separateconnectivity.htm
CD (Compact Disc)
How to download free CD’s Full:
The best way to download free cd’s is using things called ‘Torrents’ you can search ‘ Torrents’ on torrent search engines such as Media Pirate & Bit Torrent.
There is a program called U Torrent that downloads torrents you can also download them on programs such as Limewire & Ares. But U torrent i think is the best. When you download U Torrent there is a search box up in the top right hand corner. You type in your search and then it takes you to a torrent search website. Then it comes up with your search resaults. Then when you find your torrent you click on download and then choose it to download with U Torrent after that a box comes up with a list of tracks then you can tick which ones you want to download U Torrent then it will begin. This may take a couple of hours to download. but in the end its worth it. 
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Bitmap Picture^
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Browser
Opera Browser
At home I use Opera. I like it the best because it keeps you more organized. I advise you get it other than firefox etc.
Mozilla FireFox
This is also a good browser.
BLOG!!
What this is
Blogging Sites that are good.
Good blogging site. Can add videos, pictures and heaps more. Can also custom design blog site with your own design.
Very popular blogging website.
There is also Vlogs which are video Blogs. Mostly done on websites such as YouTube.
Broadband
Bandwidth
Download Music
Bluray
Video about stuff
Blackberry
How to use Yahoo on you Blackberry
Bluetooth
Bluetooth Keyboard
**Analogue**
Active Server Pages
Alt Tag
Example:
<img src=“Hello.jpg” alt=“Hello!” />
Anime
My Wiki Space on Anime
The 1st generation of Japanese Animators
The Second Generation of Japanese Animators
Murato Yosuji, Kimura Hakuzan, Yamamoto Sanae and Ofuji Noboro were students of Kitayama Seitaro and worked at his film studio. Masaoka Kenzo, another important animator, worked at a smaller animation studio. In 1923, the Great Kantō earthquake destroyed most of Kitayama studio and the residing animators spread out and founded studios of their own, knowing that one could make money with the production of animations.
During this time, the first youth protection laws were adopted, which also lead to censorship of some early animations for children under the age of 15. On the other hand, films that offered educational value were supported and encouraged by the Monbusho (the Ministry of Education). Hundreds of thousands of yen were spent for this purpose. Animation had found a persistent place in scholastic, political and industrial use, which lead to high demand of new content.
Information Thanks To
http://www.japaneselifestyle.com.au/culture/anime_history.html
How To Draw An Anime Girl
Short Anime Video
~*ADOBE*~
A video Adobe Photoshop Tutorial. by Martial.Arts
Abobe Wikipedia
~*Apple!*~
Apple Wikipedia
Hahaahahaha ha Just kidding
Apple Wikipedia
Im serious this time
Apple.com
Good site. Its the online store.
Funny ^^^ hahhahaaa
IPhone Video.
~*Animation!*~
Some animated GIF pictures=
