BLOG

So what is a Blog anyway?

Its really quite simple,a blog is a type of website that is usually arranged in chronological order from the most recent ‘post’ (or entry) at the top of the main page to the older entries towards the bottom.

Blogs are usually (but not always) written by one person and are updated pretty regularly. Blogs are often (but not always) written on a particular topic - there are blogs on virtually any topic you can think of. From photography, to spirituality, to recipes, to personal diaries to hobbies - blogging has as many applications and varieties as you can imagine. Whole blog communities have sprung up around some of these topics putting people into contact with each other in relationships where they can learn, share ideas, make friends with and even do business with people with similar interests from around the world.

Blogs usually have a few features that are useful to know about if you want to get the most out of them as a reader. A couple of blog features are:

Entry types

• Post anything from articles to photos using a browser, email or mobile phone
• Built-in review templates (music, movies, books)

Easy management

• List by most recent articles, comments and track backs posted
• List articles and photos within a category
• Option to delete one or more articles, comments or track backs
• Archive by months and years

Convenient tools

• Rich-text editor: (How it appears to you on screen is how it will appear in your blog)
• Photo editor:
  • Capture date and time
  • Include caption and description
  • Upload individual or zip archives of photos
  • Resize photos
  • Generate photo thumbnails on upload
  • Keep original/raw copy of photo even after editing
  User-customizable default posting settings
• Favourite lists – create a list of your favourite links on your blog (e.g. Favourite websites, musicians, stores, bloggers, etc.)

Privacy / Security

• Restrict content category access to specific users or groups
• Control comments by allowing or disallowing anonymous comments

Layout and colours

• Quick layout designer - single, two or three column options
• Drag and drop layout editor
• Create custom components or edit built-in components

DIFFERENCES BETWEEN APPLICATION SOFTWARE & SYSTEM SOFTWARE

Application software consists of programs designed to make users more productive. Some of its uses are to make business activities more efficient, facilitate communications as well as to support home, personal and educational tasks. Application software is available in various forms such as packaged, custom and public domain.

Meanwhile, system software consists of the programs that control or maintain the operations of the computer and its devices. It serves as the interface between the users, the application software, and computer's hardware. Two types of system software are operating system (OS) and utility programs.

INPUT AND OUTPUT

Input is data or instruction entered into the memory of computer. There are many ways that we can choose in order to enter input into the computer. A hardware component usually known as input device is to allow users to enter data and instruction (input) into a computer.

The most popular input devices are keyboard and mouse. Keyboard contains key users press to enter data (input) into a computer. Meanwhile, mouse is a pointing device that allow users to control a pointer on the screen. A pointing device can select text, graphics, click button, icons and so on. Other types of input include voice input, input for PDA, smart phones, video input, scanner, biometric input and others.

Output is processed data which already can be used. Any hardware component that conveys information to one or many people is known as output are display devices, printers, speakers, monitor and portable media player. For example, a display devices are fax machines, fax modems, multifunction peripherals and data projectors.

In general, computers process or convert unprocess data (input) into processed data that commonly known as information (output).

SOURCES OF ENTERTAINMENT IN THE INTERNET

Most of the people nowadays place significance on attending concerts, reading magazines, buying CDs & DVDs and other entertainment stuff. They never realize that they can get all those thing just in a simpler way. By surfing Internet, we can access sources of entertainment as well as leisure such as music, videos, magazines and online games. Moreover, we also can download music and share information through chatting.

The most popular services on the Internet is the Web (World Wide Web) which allow users to download music or videos, then transfer it to portable media player and listen the music through headphones or speakers and also can display the video on the computer screen. In fact, entertainment Web site offers an interactive and engaging environment such as videos, music, online games, sweepstakes, chats and more.

We also can get entertainment through e-mail program. We can create, send, receive, forward, an email message to anybody all over the world. We can also attach a graphic or even a video clip on the e-mail message beside the simple text. Moreover, Internet also provide popular social networking Web sites include Friendster and Myspace which enables their members to share photos, music, videos and information as well. Google Video and Youtube are both popular video sharing communities.

Besides entertainment, there are many more types of Web sites such as business, educational, blog, Wiki and so on. Therefore, what you only have to do now is just surfing the Internet in order to get what you want just in a moment!

COMPUTER PERSPECTIVE

What do you feel about computer?

Everyone have their own feelings about it. Nowadays, we realize that computer can give a really big impact to all the users around the world. Everyone know how to use computer but they never know what computer really is and how do they work. For me, computer is a device which contain many programmes in it that can be used to complete any kind of tasks in our daily life. It is very useful to everyone especially among students. As we all know, it also has many advantages as well as disadvantages.

"Time is gold". Computer can help us to complete our tasks on time. By using a computer, anything can be done just in a second. That's means our life will become much easier. Moreover, from my perspective, computer is a interactive and sophisticated machine which allows different people to have access to same information and to communicate each other using e-mail. In order to communicate with someone using e-mail, we must send our message to their e-mail address.

Furthermore, by having a computer we can have our own space on the Internet. Internet can help us in order to know all the news or tragedies that already happened all around the world.
Because of that, we must use computer wisely and properly. Never misuse this sophisticated machine and the users must always be aware because computer also can lead us to the negative effects. Therefore, have fun using it in a proper way in order get a great impact to yourself and other people.