online shopping...

A group did a presentation on online shopping today, and I was particularly interested because online shopping is something I have always been tempted to do. There are a lot of legitimate and trustworthy sites, but unfortunately I have been too afraid too. I know there are a lot of people trying to scam and rip people off, and the thought of that has always had me unwilling to purchase goods online. There are so many possibilities that things good go wrong, the product could get damaged in shipping, something with the transaction could go wrong, or if its not what i ended up wanting will I be able to get the money back. As the presenters said said though, take precautions, keep records, and it is much more straight forward and easier than you think. I think i may give it a try and see how it goes. Here is some online shopping information from the presentation.

online shopping

editing...

Today we started our group presentations and the first group discussed photo editing, which I think is a very interesting topic. They showed us how easy they could do it, and even photo of famous dictators that were editing, and celebrity photos that had been edited as well. It got me thinking though, and how much is real in today's age, and not altered in any way. My guess is very little, and it was even illustrated by that group. They showed a dove commercial which showed a woman, then fast forwarded through all the makeup and computer altering they had done to her. The dove commercial touched on other topics but it did show us how pictures are altered. In todays age where software has advanced so much, and companies want to present us with the best looking product, they will alter images to give us that. I would be willing to guess that almost everything that is shown in magazines, and on tv are edited to show us the best. I found this video on youtube, which demonstrates some "fake" advertising on some famous tv shows. I think thats the biggest thing to, were being fooled into believing this is real. See for yourself.

link here

ur courses

We recently discussed the layout of urcourses, and the old webct. Most of the class was not happy with ur courses and I would have agree with them. I do not remember webct really because it was a while ago, but i dont remember it being like ur courses. UR courses is pretty crowed layout, and it seems like there is plenty of useless stuff that jus crowds the interface. It works though so, really the complaints are not all that important. It would be nicer if it was different but o well. Thats the problem with open sourcing software, sometimes it not dependable. There can be many different opinions of how stuff should be done, and thats the problem.

Rick Rolled..

We discussed the rick rolled fad last week and our teacher came back monday with the knowledge of what it actually was. I remember when it first start happening, and i should have known better. I would be on some message board, and somebody would be like watch this crazy video, and of course its rick rolled. Im surprised that nobody has yet used it publicly. Somebody in class said that it would be a good idea for a commercial, and I totally agree. For example if a pepsi commercial starts then in the middle it jus rick rolled that would be hilarious. That would definitely help I bet. I think companies should really try to use really popular videos like this and fads that happen.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ