Week 4: Clear

Where would we be without application software?

I never realized everything I essentially used on the computer was application software. I think the personal use of the computer would not as wide spread as it is today without the development of applications. Think about it. Every time I turn on my computer, one of the first things I do is open up outlook. At one point I managed without outlook, but now I cannot imagine how I would do without.

Application software has had a huge impact on the business I run with my father. We are a small roofing contractor in Jacksonville and we use Quickbooks to supplement not having a full time accountant. We still use one once a month to estimate taxes but other than that, Quickbooks does everything else. Being able to use that application has saved our company countless dollars.

This link provides one persons opinion to the top 10 advances in software development. I do not think we can argue with his number one.

Week 3: Clear

This weeks lectures were pretty straight forward. The majority of the the imformation given I was familiar with others I knew about but did not know the official title of it. I new that cell phones could only surf on certain sites but I did not know that those were called microbrowsers.

I think that anybody who uses the internet on a daily basis would gain the majority of this information, may not know all the technical terms for them but a good general understanding. I hope that as the weeks go on the class becomes more challenging and covers more in depth information than a section on sending e-mails in the book.

Next time you are on the web and you are bored check out this website.

Week 2: Muddy

Can anyone say hexa... what?

I enjoyed the first three parts of this weeks lecture. Learning about the history of the computer and its lot longer history than I was aware of. When Coding Schemes and Numbering Systems came up I was lost in the sauce. I have never had a strong interest in understanding the inward workings of my computer. I understand how to take care of my computer and how to use it properly but never came across a situation where I needed to understand binary, that is not to say I will not. I find it facinating that there are people out there that can read and understand binary.

I have seen the blue screen of death before, next time it happens I still will not be able to understand why.

Here is a website that converst binary for you, check it out.

Week 1: Clear

Week one of the semester was clear for me to understand. I find it to be very important to have netiquette when dealing with digital business communications. Written communications can be easily misunderstood if you put a ! where one would not normally go or WRITE IN ALL CAPS.

I 100% agree with the statement "Don't send out unnecessary emails". There is already enough viagra emails, and promises to award you millions if you help some Princess in Nairobi. We all do not need to filter through e-mails from people we know and trust for what is junk and what is not.

Here is a link to a website with some funny work e-mails that were not supposed to be sent out.