My experiances with viruses

My experiences with viruses have been tremendous, I recently had an attack on my computer and I had no idea it had happened, I was on my computer one day and I saw a pop up for a virus that had been detected and it had to be stopped with a product called Virus Melt. I had no idea that it was even a fake program designed to get me to put up information about myself and my credit card information. Thinking that this software was a good thing to have I put in all of my credit card info and I noticed it did not work but that my computer was slowing down to the max. I had no idea what to do but I think I got lucky and I decided to look for information about how to get rid of virus melt completely. I had to take out some of all the files that it had self downloaded on my computer. I also downloaded the Norton Anti-virus software to take care of the virus. It did a great job of getting all of the junk off of my computer but I notice that my computer is still slow and has a hard time running because of the damage it caused.

Picassa

How do i feel about picassa? Well I think that picassa is an interesting tool for uploading and managing all photographs, It gives you most of the basic techniques to upload and put up some interesting pictures on your gmail profile. I think its wonderful to have this program for free so that people who dont have photo shop or any other program they can still get it done. I like how this program allows it self a perfect time to download.There is so much to cover with photos that you want photoshoped that this program can do for free. I like how you can do pretty much anything on this picassa, I havent reviewed everything yet but I do know there are tons of features that allow you much freedom to fool around with your photographs. I took some photos today in computer applications class and I have some terrible pictures of myself but the point was to post them to a blog as a slideshow for practice.

Twitter

I have no idea what twitter is because I don't use twitter to talk with people when I'm online, I am sure that twitter works just like Myspace if not better. These free social sites, makes things so much more interesting when you know who you wanna talk to and what you want to do with it. But I do like the fact that twitter, facebook, myspace, etc has so many interesting tools the other does not. For example, skype lets you find people all around the world and talk with them for free on the internet, if you have a microphone. Now Myspace is nice because not only can you instant message someone but you can also look at who your talking to and learn more about them. Im not sure what twitter does, or what features it has but I do know it is just another social site with some unique twists that myspace or skype do not have. Im sure it allows you to go online for free, post blogs, post a picture, and let people know your wanting to date, by putting showing your relationship status. Anyway, i will have to seriously check it out and see what twitter has to offer and who i could talk to on there.

What I would like to do!!

Over the course of time my class and I have covered some really interesting topics. From spreadsheets, to garage band, and even how to hyperlink photos to the internet! I have enjoyed learning and understanding how this is all done but we have been using MAC computers which isn't always that simple to figure out. So I thought I'd give my opinion on what we should focus on when we hit the windows labs. Since the majority of us have Windows PCs, I would have to say that I'd like to learn more about the tools for the internet and how to hyperlink more images. I would like to learn more about the excel spreadsheets as much as possible. And if there are any programs for Windows, that are different that maybe we could understand a little better. I would like to do some more fun projects that have us using musical tools or maybe even produce a simple powerpoint of our favorite music or movies and explain why we enjoy doing these things. I think that powerpoint is the hardest thing for me to understand as well as the excel spreadsheets. Sometimes I don't know what to put in for information. I would also like to learn how to auto sum on the Windows PC. Since we know how to do it on the MAC it would be beneficial to us that we learn it on a Windows. I would like to explore more projects that involve the class getting to know someone better using these features, I think the idea of putting together slide shows of what we like to do when not in school is the best idea. If possible i'd like to learn how to make a website or maybe we could touch on how to make designs on a myspace page or any social network page. I'd also like to see if there are any garage band programs on Windows for people who want to make music on a windows OC instead! Maybe we could work with adobe, that is another program i am sketchy about. Well I hope to use all of these tools, I'd like to learn the ins and outs of each program before i leave this class, that way there is a basic understanding of everything!!