Wednesday, June 27, 2007

week three; thing 7: technology


Pogue iPhone TWiT
Originally uploaded by insidetwit
I have been reading about the iphone... about to debut on Friday. (check out this link for acu-info: http://www.cnn.com/TECH/) Anyway, as I was saying, the iphone has captured my attention partly because it is new and partly because it can do so many things!
Apparently, people have been waiting for this new technology like others once waited for Alexander Graham Bell to invent the telephone. And, who knows how our world will now change? The iphone can do it all. You can talk on the phone, play music and/or videos, and browse the web! Neat-o!

week three; thing 6: flickr fun, mashups & 3rd party sites

This was totally new for me. Flickr itself was new...I didn't even know what a mashup was before, much less play with it a bit, and the third-party-site thing is still unclear to me. What is it? Is it the same as a mashup, or different and in what way? I like the mashup concept and get it by thinking of the resee peanut-butter cup metaphor (your chocolate on my peanut butter!)

By way of discovery, I tried to create a calendar using photos saved on my computer. (the key word being "tried.") When I had trouble uploading the images, I scrapped the calendar idea in favor of creating a mosaic. I signed in, attempted an upload, and then the screen changed...there it was...my new mosaic with a thin black line for a frame. It was totally white! I scrolled down hoping to find an image...NONE. At that point a small caption appeared at the bottom of my "white canvas." It read, "and you thought you were not creative." That created a few good laughs around here!