Samsung galaxy 5s vs. iPhone 5s

Until Apple releases the iPhone 6, the Samsung Galaxy s5 and the iPhone 5s are the biggest rivalries in smartphones. 

The Samsung is 142 in length and 73mm in width. It weighs 145 grams and is built of plastic and dimpled leather. It has a 5.1" screen, giving it 432 pixels per inch. The rear camera has 16 megapixels and the front has 2 megapixels

The iPhone is 124mm in length and 54mm in width. It weighs 112 grams and is built of aluminum. It had a 4" screen, giving it 326 pixels per inch. The rear camera has 8 megapixels and the front has 1.2.

Both the iPhone and Samsung have a finger print scanner and he slow motion video. The software in the iPhone is the iOS 7.0.6 and the Samsung is the Android 4.4.2. 

Educational Technology and Copyright Law

What is copyright?

• The exclusive legal right, given to an originator or an assignee to print, publish, perform, film, or record literary, artistic, or musical material, and to authorize others to do the same.
• All content that is copyrighted does not require filing paperwork.

As soon as you write a story, draw something, or even take a picture it is immediately copyrighted. 

As soon as you copyright something you have 4 rights:

1. Reproduce the copyright work
2. Display the copyright publicly
3. Prepare derivative works based on the copyright
4. Distribute copies of the copyrighted work to the public by sale, rental or lending, and/or to display the image.

WhatsApp Bought by Facebook

• WhatsApp was bought by Facebook for 19 billion dollars.
• WhatsApp is five years old and has over 450 million users, which is twice as many as Twitter's.
• The app lets you send messages, photos, and videos to other Whatsapp users.
• The app is most heavily used in Spain, India, and Brazil.

For more information check out The Wall Street Journal's tech articles.

Class Assignment

I am in Mr. Porfido's seventh period Web 2.0 class. This year in Web 2.0 I expected to learn more about to technology and how to use computers properly. This year so far I have learned how to make posts to my blog, and that the ctrl button actually means control, not central. I also learned may things I didn't know about the internet before.
Web 2.0

Mr. Porfido has a very simple grading policy. It's 40% for formal assessments, 40% for weekly projects, 10% for homework, and 10% for informal/class participation/observations(To find out more click here ). In the class we use technology to do some research and to work on articles. Every week on Friday a new tech article is due.( We have to do research on some of the latest technology and do a summary on it. The Tech articles are easy to do and it also teaches you new things you never knew before.

Since we have recently started the class, there isn't much we know about field trips and any special projects. If there are any to come up in the future, I really hope we get to work in groups. Working in groups would be really fun and it would be easier and faster to get things done. 

3D Printing (tech article 02/07/2014)

3D Printing

• 3D printers spit out materials instead of ink on a piece of paper
• Multiple layers are stacked on each other to create a 3D object
• Can create moving objects
• 3D printing has been used for pharmaceutical drugs like ibuprofen
• In the future organ donors won't be needed. Instead they can print an organ specially customized for each person.