Friday, November 30, 2012

NFL Targeting Kids via Cartoons

What?  Dose NFL really need to target more kids?  They got ALOT of fans already. Little kids want to see the cartoons not football and you know this is true. Little kids only care about cartoons, they wont watch anything else.
NFL is using Nicktoons to show their cartoons
in my opinion this is not a good idea. NFL is not gonna lose fans so what are they worrying about?
Football is cool (Im just not one of those people who freak out everytime its on

Thursday, November 1, 2012

Playstation 4

The PlayStation 4 will be the new eighth generation console that should be released early 2013 http://www.ps4playstation4.com

The PS4 Should have better HD,  Faster graphics and it will be able to run 480p, 576p, 720p, 1080i, 1080p
The PS4 will have free online PS network+ Gaikai cloud service
With Xbox you have to pay for online ($5 a month)
PS3/PS4 Free online

Primary Media
Xbox 360 - DVD, Compact Disc, Download
PS3 -  Blu-ray 2x, DVD, Compact Disc, Download
PS4 -  Blu-ray 8x, DVD, Compact Disc, Download, HVD, download

Primary Game Media:
Xbox 360 -  Dual-Layer DVD-ROM (up to 17GB of data) at 4.36-15.85MB/s
PS3 -  2x Blu-ray BD-ROM (up to 54GB of data) at 9MB/s
PS4 -  8x Blu-ray BD-ROM (54-128GB of data) at 36MB/s or HVD (up to 6 TB) at 1GB/s

Graphics (GPU)
Xbox 360 -  500 MHz ATI Xenos
PS3 -  550 MHz NVIDIA/SCEI RSX 'Reality Synthesizer'
PS4 -  1 GHz AMD HD 7670 with 1GB GDDR5 at 1GHz VRAM or 1.6 GHz NVIDIA/SCEI RSX 'Reality Synthesizer' RSX 2 with 4GB of VRAM

CPU or APU (nanometer)
Xbox 360 - CPU - 3.2 GHz PowerPC Tri-Core Xenon (90-45nm)
PS3 -  CPU - 3.2 GHz Cell BE w/ 1 PPE & 6 SPEs (90-45nm)
PS4 - APU - AMD A8-3850 Quad Core 2.9GHz/per core or
CPU - 9.66 GHz POWER7 Cell Broadband Engine (4, 6, or 8 cores) or
CBE 2 with 10 PPE & 12 SPEs {all APUs/CPUs at 45, 32, or 22nm} 

The PS4 will have a lot more storage then the Xbox and PS3

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Biggest Mistakes In Web Design

Some of the worst mistakes for a website are...
1. Thinking people care about you and your site. People want to go to a website to fix their own needs. Nobody wants to go to a website for your needs they want to fix their needs.

2. Make a Good Title for your website. If you made a title for your website, but it dose not have anything to do with your site, most people wont be able to realize what your site is about.

3. Contrast. You need to make your site and the pictures on your site easy to see and read, if you make your site with bad contrast, nobody will want to stay on your site.

4. Your website isn't the best in the world. If you think your website is the best in the world and its better than everything in the world you are wrong, nobody is perfect and that's never gonna change.

5. Navigation. Make your website easy to navigate, if its hard to navigate nobody will want to stay and try to navigate a stupid unnavigable website.

6.  Make text easy to read. If your text is out of contrast and not easy to read nobody wants to stay and read it.

7. Too Much On One Page. If you put too much stuff on one page, it becomes cluttered and nobody likes a cluttered website.

8. Confusing your website with a magic trick. If you make your website for example look like a video game website people expect it to be a video game website not a Care Bears fan site.

9. Misusing Flash.  Nobody wants to watch a 2 minute intro to your website that they cant skip, that will take your web page visits down.

10. Misusing Graphics. Using outdated graphics that makes your website look like it just came out of the trash, then your just asking for people to stay away from your site.

11. Site lacks new content.. If you make a site that people come to and you update it on a regular basis, you'll be fine. but if you never update your site, people will just get bored of it.

12. Mystery Meat Navigation. This is probably the number 1 thing that can ruin a website. Mystery meat navigation or MMN means you must mouse over unmarked navigational buttons that are usually blank or don't describe their function.

13. Boring Websites. When your website is as boring as math homework nobody wants to come back because nobody likes math homework.

14. Seizure Websites. Websites that have a bunch of unnecessary flashing lights can keep people from reading your website because it would be impossible to read with a seizure.

15. Annoying Music. You put music on your website, good for you but if I go to a website and I'm constantly hearing Justin Beiber's Baby in the background i'm leaving as soon as possible.



Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Facial Recognition

I find this very weird that they could find out someones identity just by taking a picture of them.          Here is another article about it... How Stuff Works - Facial Recognition I'm not saying I hate it, don't get me wrong I find this incredible and amazing, but weird as well. If you just look at some random persons identity, is that an invasion of privacy???? I don't know but it is still incredible.  Technology is getting more advanced each day so almost anything is possible. We just got to believe!!!

Monday, October 22, 2012

Media Ownership

What's disturbing to me is the internet is a place of freedom (almost) and nobody should be restricted to it.

Panoramic Globe

From This
To This
                                                                            SO AWESOME!!!!!

Thursday, October 18, 2012

Dance Dance Revolution Makes a Difference in Kids' Physical Activity Levels

                                       EXTRA EXTRA READ ALL ABOUT IT!!!!!!!!!!
               Dance Dance Revolution helps kids lose weight and could help stop child obesity!
Games such as Wii Sports and Dance Dance Revolution and the Playstation Move can bring people closer to recommended physical activity levels.
 Teenage exergamers are people who play video games that require physical activity -- are most likely females who are stressed about their weight. On average, they play two 50 minute sessions per week.

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Monday, October 15, 2012

Advertising Teqniques

                     There is a lot of advertising out in our world here is some good examples
Deversion
Bribery
Simple Solutions
Patriotism

Magic Ingredients

Logo


Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Media Technology

A video game is an electronic game that involves human interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device. There are thousands of video game companies out there.

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Steriotopic Media

Media has a great effect on people mostly kids and teens, I think the "mook"(a stereotypically crude male) is a real thing but it dose not apply to all guys, and the "midriff"(a girl seen as a sex symbol) Maybe, but it dose not apply to all girls. I don't know any "mooks" or "midriffs" and I think some people are getting influenced by MTV and other stuff like that. In my opinion on how to be cool is just be yourself. You don't need to copy media just to act cool.

Friday, September 21, 2012

Merchants of Cool Reaction

My reaction to the video was "Why?" I think some teenagers are getting too much into that and not thinking about their own life. In my opinion this dose not surprise me because its been the same for years and its not changing.

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Teen Take Over

                                                                  Teen Take Over

I agree with this quote because it seems like companies are advertising their products in a "cool" way just so they can take our money.
I think its kinda over exaggerating to compare it with the British vs. Africa but that's just me.

Monday, September 17, 2012

Media Literacy

                                                  Why is Media So Important?

Media is important because if you didn't have a phone how would you keep in touch with everyone?
Some people cant live without media or technology. And if you need instructions on something, isn't instructional videos easier than instructional booklets? If you don't like technology its impossible to end it, the whole world is using technology, you cant do anything about it.

Technology gives everyone more freedom, an example is video games, video games give us entertainment and fun, and for the young kids who cant even leave the front of their house a cell phone can give you the ability to keep in touch with your parents no matter where you are!