E-commerce Credibility

There are many ways in which a consumer can decibe whether an e-commerce website is credible or not such as, looking for a digital certificate and a secure website which is represented by a lock image at the top of you screen or by the letter S in https:/. Secondly if the website has facebook and twitter links then you would know it is publicised and is credible and safe to make a purchase within.

Elimine la carpetallamada "eliminar" en el escritorio

This means "Delete the folder on the desktop called delete. To be able to translate the sentence into english i used www.googletranslate.com and then set the first language option to 'detect language' and the second block to english and this is what i came up with.

RSS Aggregator

Rich Site Summary (RSS) uses a format that delivers web content that is changed on a regular basis. It solves problems for people that use the web all the time. It allows you to recieve updates on content from the site you are most interested in. An RSS Aggregator is a software that allows you to catch and keep the RSS feeds from varioussitesand display them for your use. Some popular RSS feeds include Amphetadesk, FeedReader, and NewsGator. A few web-based feed readers include My Yahoo, Bloglines and Google Reader.
(www.WhatIsRSS.com)

My Internet Infrastructure

To be able to survive in this fast paced, modern life one needs a very fast and good quality internet connection that is why my internet connection is created via the Vodacom network. It is a guarenteed high speed connectivity with their two high speed access solutions, the first being the 'Dedicated Internet Access' product which is best if you need more connectvity within your city and bandwidth usage rather than a lot of international use in which case you could chose their second option being the 'Internet Premium'. Vodacom helps you gain more with fast, reliable internet connectivity and being able to transfer high data capacities. They have many access medium options such as microwave, satellite, diginet and fibre. Their connectivity costs are fairly good and we get a connectivity service through an all-fibre network infrastructure from vodacom and we benefit from very good quality service and a better customer experience as well as reduced packet loss.
(http:/www.vodacombusiness.co.za/corporate/networkandinternrtservices/internet_home (visited 10-06-2013))

Question 5 & 6 - UTF- 8 Encoding

UTF stands for uniform transformation format and the 8 means that it uses 8 bit blocks, which is 1 byte, and this symbolises each character. The number of blocks that is needed to symbolise each character ranges between 1 - 4. UTF is a compromise character encoding. The nice thing about UTF is that no character will have zero bytes when it is encoded. UTF will always be a compatible encoding system as long as there are no characters longer than 127 presented directly.
(http:/www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/utf8.htm (visited 07-06-2013))

Social Networking - Technology that influences internet users relationships with others.

So as we all know, social networking has taken the world by storm. It is the modern way of making friends and interacting with them on a daily basis wherever they may be in the world.
Here are some examples of social networking sites:

1. Twitter: this is a site that allows us to follow the everyday actions of the rich and famous as well as your lovable family and friends. You can add pictures or look for advice or create an account that can give advice or anything of your choice.

2. Facebook: this is probably the most popular social site ever created. It allows you to upload photos and tag your friends in them, it allows you to post on other peoples timelines and more importantly you can decide who is allowed to be your friend or not.

3. LinkedIn: this is a business social site that allows you to find and catch up with past and present colleagues. It also allows you to seek advice from people in the career field you wish to join and also have inside connections to new business opportunities.

Robot Easter Egg

When you type "about:robots" into the URL bar of a firefox 3 - beta 5 browser and click search you will be able to view this image...

Internet Easter Eggs

So a few weeks ago we were introduced to a new concept called an internet easter egg, i had no idea what this was. As part of this assignment we were asked to research the meaning of an internet easter egg and find 10 of them.

What is an internet easter egg?
An internet easter egg is an intentional hidden message or joke that is built in to a website, computer programme or anything online.

Here are 10 examples of internet easter eggs:

1. FIND CHUCK NORRIS: when you type in "find chuck norris" into a google search and click on the first search result that reads 'chuck norris-google search' this is what comes up

here is the link to this easter egg www.nochucknorris.com/

2. CHICKEN DANCE: this is a funny one. If you enter 2204355 into your google search and click 'I'm feeling lucky' the screen will go black and a video comes up of a colourful background with a guy dancing while holding two chicken drummets

here is the link for this easter egg http//:2204355.com/

3. LAST PAGE OF THE INTERNET: have you ever wondered whether the internet ever came to an end? well someone out there had the thought when they created this cool easter egg

here is the link to access this cool easter egg www.wwwdotcom.com

4. ZERG RUSH: if you type in the words 'zerg rush' into your google search bar and click enter when the search results come up you will see a bunch of google o's eating up your page and when its done it will all go to the centre of the page and form a 'GG'

here is the link to this easter egg: http://tinyurl.com/mhsze3q

5. 404 BROKEN LINKS: The 404 or Page Not Found error message is a standard response code that tells users that they've reached a dead or broken link such as the south park 404 error

heres the link to the south park 404 easter egg http://www.southparkstudios.com/asdas

6. WIKIPEDIA: if you type in 'easter egg (media)' into the search bar of the wikipedia website this is what you will see this...

...if you look at the picture of the rabbit on the right hand side of the page and hover your curser over the hedgehog it will tell you that it is sitting on a basket of easter eggs that look like this...

 

here is the link to this easter egg: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_egg_(media)

 

7. KONAMI CODE: is a cheat code that appears in many Konami video games and looks like this....

 

 

 

 

8. GOOGLE BEATBOX: go to google translate and type in  "pv zk bschk pv zk pv bschk zk pv zk bschk pv zk pv bschk zk bschk pv bschk bschk pv kkkkkkkkkkkk bschk" and then set the language to translate from German to Filipino and then click the little speaker at the bottom called the beatbox. Make sure your volume is on loud

 

 

 

here is the link to this easter egg: http://tinyurl.com/mffabxn

9. EPIC GOOGLE: if you type in epic google into the google search bar and click I'm feeling lucky, this picture would come up and begin zooming in.

 

 

here is the link to this easter egg: http://www.toobigtouse.com/

 

 

10. HARLEM SHAKE: if you type in "do the harlem shake" into the You tube search bar and click search, the harlem shake song will play and the screen will 'dance'.

 

 

 

 

here is the link to this easter egg: http://tinyurl.com/kankc56

All About Me!!*

Hey There! :)
My name is Orielle Kallie & I'm 19 years old, I'm a first year Psychology student at Varsity College.
My interets include spending time with my amazing family and my extended family (my crazy & fun friends), listening to music but more especially i really enjoy givng people advice and ways to solve everyday problems, be it with relationships or with life in general, hence my career choice...As part of our digital citizenship module we're required to start up a blog to enhace our technological mindset, which I think is AwEsOmE!! So you can look foward to a cool blog filled with really great information, images, video clips and a some fun additives...EnJoY!!!*

This is me...:)

 

This is my digital footprint, so you cn catch up with me on facebook and twitter under the names below. Hope to hear from you guys soon...:)