My Progress Making my Page

For the past week i have been doing my research on the topics which i have been doing which are :

• Handheld Media Devices
• Software liscence types
• Secondary storage types
• Wireless Broadband

At the moment i am just finishing the research for handheld media devices which are on a seperate word document which i will posting after this post. My final designfor the website is final and i have chosn a easy and usefull navigation template which i have a changed a little bit to fit my likings.

Progress/ Notes on Work

Today we have received an extension in our assessment tasks now it is due on Tuesday evening which allow me to insert more details on the webpage and also more animations.
We were given instructions on what we have to have done by now and what we have to do for the assignments. I had taken notes and placed them into a word document saved in my USB. the information was as follows:
What to write about each topic
- What is it?
- What do we use it for?
- How is it a part of our multimedia world?
- Are there different types? What are the advantages and disadvantages of each type?
- A simple explanation of how it works
- Indication of the cost (If there is a cost or a device is being researched)
- Future directions, where is it going and what is the new technology in this area?

Overall Presentation
Information must be:

•  easy to read 
•  be easy to find
•  organised in a logical format

Suggestions for formating information inclue:
- Question answer format,
- Headings on each sub-topic
- Paragraphs
- Dot points

What I must be up to at this point
- Must be researching and nearly finishing research component
-Picked a website to use for my assessment
- Blogging about decisions  and work and research websites
- Must have evaluated at least two websites

Jimdo!

Jimdo is another online media presentation device which is quite useful and easy to use

.• Versatility –  This multimedia presentation device allows you to add in element on to the pages such as: html links, tables, videos from youtube, photo's etc.

• Ease of use – This website is easy to use as it is not complex to make the elements. The buttons are clearly shown making it easy for the designer to selct and find what they want to use. Adding components to the page is easy as i have mentioned because it provides the tools on the add element button which is shon on the bottom left of this image from jimdo.Visitors can easily find what they want to use on this becasue their  is a navigational option on the left hand side which can easily be adjasted to be put anywher in the page. The navigation allows the visitors to find the exact information they want by clicking onto the right link.

It is also at the same time not easy as all the available good tools are not available for the user unless they are on the jimdopro or jimdobusiness class and these have to be puchased to use the other available tools on jimdo as they are more useful and incorporate more tools.

• Collaboration – I don't have a parthner on this but i don't think that it easy to  use it to work on  with more than 2 people because the other  partner might rewrite work one person has done and if using it you have to use links to share the other page that the other person has done.

Handheld Computing

1. What are MID and UMPC devices? How do they differ. List atleast three examples of both types of devices & include images.

MID:  Mobile Interenet Device

Examples include:

Netbook Navigator Nav9

Sony Vaio

Archos 9

What is different to MID

• Is meant mainly for business users
• Heavy OS (operating system) e.g. windows 7
• Made for office use with applicatins like Microsoft Excel and Microsof Word

UMPC: Ultra Mobile Portable Computer
Examples include:

Dell Inspiron Mini 9

Acer Aspire One

                Neofonie WePad

What is different to MID

• Device for Lifestyle of Consumer Class
• Runs on lightweight operating system which have a quick start up. eg Linux
• Made for media playback and web surfing.

2. What are the differences between a Notebook handheld computing device and a Netbook handheld computing device?

• Screen size: Netbooks usually have screen sizes of 7" ,9" and 10" monitor screens. While Notebooks have sizes of 12.1" , 13.1" , 13.3", 14.1", 15.4" , 17" etc in monitor screens.
• Size: The netbooks are smaller than the Notebooks.
• Storage: Notebook more storage than netbook  80GB-320GB of storage. Netbook solid state hard drive has 4GB-80GB on its of storage.
• Processors: Notebook has a Dual Core Processor , windows XP and Windows Vista. It has a large hardrive. Netbooks have the  Intel Atom 1.6 GHz processor.
• Notebooks have DVD drives but not netbooks.

Bits and Bytes

1. What is a Digit?

Either a zero and a one

2. “normal” counting numbers used in everyday life a based on what sequence of numbers? 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9

3. Where does the word bit originate from?
The word bit originates from

4. Binary numbers don’t use base 10.
What base do they use?
 2
5.What digits are available in base 2?
 0 and 1

6.Write the following numbers in binary (base 2)

21= 10101

24=11000

30=11110

7. What is a byte?
A byte is made out of eight bits


8. How many bytes in a kilo, mega, giga and tera bytes.

100bytes=1 kilobyte

1000 kilobytes =1 megabyte

1000 mega bytes = 1 gigabyte

1000 gigabytes = 1 terabyte


9. Complete the following conversions;

1000 Mb = 1Gb

500 Gb =  500 000Mb

5000 Kb =5Mb

Multimedia Project

Today we received our multimedia research project and i have decided to work one my own for this project. At the momment i have decided to use http://www.wix.com/ for my webpage as i find it interesting and has many interesting graphic options and seems easy for now compared to the other online tools.

The CPU

1. What is the function of the CPU?

Also known as the Central Processing Unit or microprocessor ,is constructed on a single chip and is the heart of any normal computer and processes information of a computer program.



2. What was the name of the first CPU?
The Intel 4004, 

3. Referring to the graph on page 2 of the article, describe how the speed of CPU’s has changed.

  From the first year which the first CPU Intel 8080,was introduced the speed was 2 MHz which only carried a small amount of data of 8 bits. In the next 11 years a progress has been made in the technology. Intel 80386 was introduced and it contained a speed of 16 MHz which was 8 times faster than the Intel 8080. It carried 32 bits amount of data which is four times larger than intel 8080 CPU. As the years pass the clock speed increases which each new CPU. From the Intel 80386 CPU's speed of 16 MHz in the year 1985 to about 3.6 GHz in 2004 with the CPU called Pentium 4 "Prescott" . As we can see this is a great increase in the clock speed. After 1989 CPU's could carry as much data as 32 bits,64-bit bus.

4. What does MIPS measure?
This stands for "millions of instructions per second" and it measures an approximate performance of the CPU.


DUAL CORE PROCESSORS

1.   

     What is a dual core processor?

A Dual Core Processor is a CPU with two separate cores on the same die, each with its own cache. It's the equivalent of getting two microprocessors in one. and is nearly twice as powerful as a single core processor.

    What is multitasking and how do the two work together?

       With current multitasking, a processor can only handle a single thread at a time, so the system rapidly switches between the threads to process the data simultaneously. A tread is a single stream of data which travels through the processor in the system. The Dual core processor system can handle more than one thread allowing it to be able to multi task and each processor can handle a separate stream of data allowing it to perform faster.  

Intel Atom Processor 


Benefits

• Power Efficient 
• small and compact 
• powerful yet energy-efficient 
• faster (better response)
• memory graphic and video controller 
• thin, innovative form factors