Entertainment and Multimedia on the Internet

A million and one things to do and information for you to find out; does anyone even use the physical library anymore? Or to even watch the television for the most update news? 
Certainly businesses are thinking along the similar strand of argument of the technology savvy - the Internet with its enticing world of entertainment - music, video, animation, gaming, and podcasting - is claiming the coveted title of being the top form of media. 
Multimedia devices (or mainly just the mobile phone) is now an ubiquitous presence in the twenty first century, where everyone has a pocket friendly device to satiate their appetite for information on the go. Two dominating forms of mobile platforms , the Android and Apple operating systems, have been constantly innovating to provide different forms of entertainment for the masses. 
A most recent invention on Google's part is the Google Glass, an invention centering on the idea of wearable technology, to provide constant easy access to multimedia for the people. Google Glass is similar to the standard glasses short sighted people are made to wear, to aid in your "sight" is one of the aims of the Google Glass. A wearable computer which displays information in a smartphone like manner, without the hassle of handling a handheld device. 

Having a multimedia device that is able to do things your smartphone is able to, without the hassle? I'm sold. 

Although there are probable problems coming up..... where boys will probably catch their football matches while on a date..

And loopholes that allow assholes to exist...

There is a Project Glass coming right up, led by Babak Parviz, where there are plans (and possibly in the making) to put displays on contact lenses. I surely hope their contact lenses are of a certain wearable condition, personally though, how are they going to dispose of the lenses? 

Practice of Security even on the Internet

We bother to bolt the doors at night before we head to bed, double checking whether we had locked the car before we walked off to do the things we deem as important, yet the importance of protecting ourselves against the multitude of dangerous possibilities on the Internet never seems to cross our minds they way they should be. 

Internet security is not just installing that one malware/virus protector that came bundled along with our laptops or desktops, like these  fellows over here:

Yes, they do a pretty good job of maintaining the security for you when you surf the Internet, with pages that are deemed as dangerous being served to you as:

But what happens when there are issues where malware and virus protection programs are not able to protect you? Issues such as:

• Losing of Files

Never ever just have a singular copy of something that is important to you. Have a backup just in case a situation crops up and the data that you hold dear to your heart gets erased... and never to be seen again. Having a external memory (thumb drive or hard disks) is a great back up for all important data. 

• Attack of really strong Trojans( or similar viruses)

When you purchase your computer and the virus protection programme that came bundled along with it did a smashing job of protecting your computer for the first year... 

THIS (points upwards) happens. And as people all practice cognitive dissonance in one way or another, there are low chances of us actually renewing the subscription, but we continue doing the same thing before the programme had expired. This is where the trojans are likely to make an appearance due to our negligence. Always remember to not scrimp, and to invest in a malware and virus programme that will protect your computer's security from getting invaded. 

• VPN/IP addresses getting stolen

Easily understood if you understand what does VPN and IP addresses are, you wouldn't want the police to come knocking on your doors one day claiming you had downloaded child pronography or dealt drugs online do you? (exaggeration is needed).

• Invasion of privacy through social media

REMEMBER that everyone can see your actions on social media, your mom, dad, aunt, boss, boss wife, enemy one, enemy two.... etc. You can never NOT be posting too little things on the Internet. If there is not a strong reason that you have to put something up on these sites, then DO NOT post anything. Nothing good can possibly come out of you slamming a girl you dislike on Instagram, except showing how petty and ill mannered you possibly are; hidden under that facade of calm and niceness. 

Phishing is a major problem because there really is no patch for human stupidity - Mike Danseglio, program manager in the Secuirty Solutions Group at Microsoft, April 4, 2006

Video day!

Okay, so for the video post. I have really ran out of ideas of what to video since I have no talents or whatsoever in videoing myself in my own personal blog . I have this thing for being awkward in the face of a video camera, or camera. And to add on, I have no skills in video editing as well. Maybe next time, I can do a best friend tag eh. 

But for now, this was a "video" that I did of my singing, where are no actual moving images, but it is really difficult to even get a link of this up. Seeing as this used to be  at this link.>>>http://herook.kuro.cn/player/android_html5.jsp?id=t6Yt9qB5tBT 

And I had to use this audio thing that took me super long to cut this song's audio out and then record over at Youtube. Not an easy feat for an internet/video idiot like me. 

And here is just a very nice video of my old bunny playing with her new playmate!

The Secret Life of Google

Everyone knows Google, and utilise it and its tools in someway or another. A Google tool is something that allows usage of its services online that could help you in your daily life. And here are a list of 5 Google Tools that you may or may not know! I personally found the tools really entertaining (yes, I know they are supposed to be useful and not for my own fun, but it was!), and took up most of time trying each of them!

• Google Translate (the tool that I love!!!) 

This has to be my favorite tool that I found out recently! Other than Google Drive, Gmail, and Google Trends! There are absolutely nothing you can not translate using Google Translate, and during my trip to Bangkok, I really utilised Google Translate till the maximum (as they have a smartphone version as well!) and was trigger happy with the app. I translated almost everything, from "washroom" to "fried chicken wings". The best part about having Google Translate is not just translating the words in to read-only format, they even have a voice-over! That will read out the words to you, and you will be able to speak to the local Thai people! How cool is that?

Here is a video that will teach you how to work Google Translate if you are too lazy to Google it!

• Google Ngram Viewer

Credits to treehugger.com

If you want to search for trends over time, for users who are more advanced, the Ngram vieewer allows you to search for keywords in books over the time span of half a millennium. They have better options as well, as such searching for particular keywords as specific parts of speech or combining keywords. 
I taught this to my parents, since they are really interested in finding out about the trends of the Internet because they are looking for viable trends before their decision of settin up a website.

• Google Correlate

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Similar to Google Trends (which is just below), Google Correlates allows you to look at search trends on the internet over time. For example, you can input the word "blogshops" and you will see the increase in blogshops search in the recent few years as compared to 6 years back. You can do something fun as well! Which is search by its Drawing Functuon, and Google Correlate will give you the keywords results based on your graph creation. 
I found this to be more entertaining than the rest, mainly because there is the drawing function! I found that however ridiculous are the graphs I drew, they are still able to come up with a keyword result!

• Google Trends

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With Google Trends you are able to look at popular searches, and you are able to browse by date, and look at top searches that are in different categories in its Top Charts functions. There is Explore function as well, where you can input a search terms and see the specific time and location where the search occured. You can even view it in full colored format. This is very similar to the second and third tool, and my parents were super excited with it *eyeroll* and got to using it for the whole day straight!

• Google Fonts

Google Fonts offers open source web fonts for all to use privately or commercially. As of now, there are 629 font families available. Filter fonts by thickness, slant, width and script.
Google Fonts has to be my second new favorite tool! It offers open source web fonts for everyone to use either privately of commercially, and as of now, there are 629 fonts available for use. You can have different thickness, slant, width, and script. However, I really haven't mastered this well enough since I couldn't change the font of this post to what I intended to get from this tool. Oh well.