Sophos has triggered a warning on a virus from one of my classmate's blog. It could be a false positive alarm. The reason could be one of the scripts that he or she has installed recently and it triggered it. Symantec Endpoint Protection has not detected anything wrong with the blog, but Sophos has. The virus is labelled as Mal/FunDF-A.

The CES is a show that lasts for about a week and it is a chance to show off the latest product. This takes place in Las Vegas, Nevada every January. The event is sponsored by Consumer Electronics Association (CEA). The event is used to attracted high profiled people such as Bill Gates and is a opportunity to show off new products.

A product shown at the latest CES is Project Natal for the Xbox 360. It is code name for a controller-free gaming and entertainment experience. Natal means "relating to birth", meaning the new generation of home entertainment.

Using software, sensors and cameras, it will allow the users to use their body as the gaming controller. It will target the non hardcore gamers that was orignally meant for the xbox 360. Though they will still keep the controller for the gamers to play their games happily.

The range will likely being in the price of $99 compared to the $50 price for the normal controllers.



The HP/Microsoft Slate was also annouced at CES. It is a PC based platform in the size of a kindle reader. It is more powerful than a phone and alsmot as strong as a regular PC. They are calling it the slate to differ it from the pen to screen lag that usually occurs in products that has a touch screen.

It will be a natural interface for users that does not requrie the mouse and keyboard like most computers do.

Apple is also rumored to come out with their own i-version of the slate.



Some interesting tweets by Mr. Vogel
http://twitter.com/PeterVogel/status/7468749070

Twentieth Century Fox has budgeted $237 million for the production of "Avatar." Cameron was behind the lens using a "virtual camera" It is a handheld monitor that lets the director walk through the computer-enhanced 3-D scene and record it as if he were the cameraman. The effect on screen seems up close and sometimes focuses the audience's gaze at something in particular. Before when capturing human motion, they now capture the slightest detail down to the pore to create a better realism.

Though all this is new, not all the movei theatres have the screen to apply the 3teachnolog too the movie.

Twitter is a simple online tool that lets user interact with others. Some useful things are being able to follow other people so you get their latest tweet (post) and the other way around. People can follow you and get the latest post you made. Twitter can be used in a professional sense. My ICT teacher Mr. Vogel uses twitter and his followers are mostly educational users. His twitter link is located here, http://twitter.com/petervogel

There are some new web programs that uses flash and the user interacts with it.


inudge,
http://inudge.net/index.en.html#

inudge is a site where you can make your own music using many different beats, it's simple to use and has great results. There is a spot at the bottom for latest music created and also most listened too, so that you can view what other people have created


Sumo Paint 2.0
http://www.sumopaint.com/home/

It is an online program that has the look similiar to photoshop. You can choose to use is online from their site or download it it. The symmetry tool (the snowflake one) follows the mouse with a symmetrical pattern and it has a nice effect too it.


The site where you can find other useful tools like these is at ict 11-12 wikispaces
http://ict11-12.wikispaces.com/

The top 10 programming languages by eweek,
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/Top-10-Microsoft-Programming-Languages-704642/?kc=EWKNLEDP11302009A

The top 10 languages are,
C++
C#
Visual Basic
IronPython
IronRuby
JavaScript
F#
PHP
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