When I started introduction computer class, I was very poor at computer. I did not know how to use power point. However, I could learn many convenient skills and techniques in the class. However, computer is much more complex!!! Therefore, I am interested in computer more; especially I am interested in graphic design because it looks very fun! My brother-in-law’s job is to make posters and magazines using graphic design. He showed his masterpiece to me, and it was so cute! Also, he made New Year’s cards by himself, and his picture was really funny and original. Because I want to make some cards or poster by myself using computer graphic, I would like to learn graphic design. Moreover, if I have enough time to make a short movie, I would try it.

Viral Video is video clips that are popular in all over the world through the Internet. It became popular thanks to Youtube, and it has spread by word of mouth. We can mainly watch short message videos. We don’t have to spend a lot of time to download them, and also, the cost of production is not so expensive. In addition, viral commercial is the commercial that we can see only on the Internet. It is said that viral commercial was begun from UK. Because we have less limitation on the Internet than television, we can watch more excessive commercials that cannot be broadcasted on television. There are a lot of web sites that introduce more than thousands of viral videos.

COMPUTER GIFTS I WOULD BUY FOR MY SISTER

I would like to buy a laptop for my sister because her laptop has broken. Her laptop is very strange because if I try to go down a page using scroll bar, the scroll bar returns to the top of the page automatically. It is a little funny, but it makes my sister irritate. However, my sister is an economist and a saver, so she will not buy a new laptop or will not repair her laptop. But her computer is not always strange. When her laptop is wrong, she uses her laptop violently, and the laptop becomes well. In addition to a laptop, I also want to give a DVD player to my sister since she often says that she wants to watch DVDs at home. If I have amount of money, I would give a laptop and a DVD player to my sister as birthday presents.

WHAT IS "NET NEUTRALITY"

Net Neutrality means that network should be neutrality for every network users and applications. This topic is argued in many countries today. This problem has emerged in 2005, America because some people suspected the possibility that Internet provider makes differences whether people pay for additional fees or not. Elements that threat Net Neutrality are exclusive dealing, double dipping, and quality of service. Some companies such as Google and Yahoo, which offer a lot of Internet services to us, tried to make a rule to save Net Neutrality. They think Internet is based on the idea of the equality of utilization and Internet providers should not prevent it. Then, Google and Microsoft have attempted to defend the freedom of Internet.

In Japan, the general affairs ministry established the workshop of Net Neutrality, and they are discussing about it.

RECENT COMPUTER NEWS

Sony Entertainment Europe will release Playstation3 to areas of Europe, Australia, Africa, and Middle East on March 23th, 2007. The company published that they offer a Blu-ray disc movie of Casino Royale to people who inscribe on the PLAYSTATION Network. Playstation3 has some nice specialties that are the Cell Broadband Engine, 60 GB hard disc drive, Blu-ray, Wi-Fi, and SIXAXIS wireless controller. The quality of screen and sound is really high so that we can enjoy more than Playstation2.

Recently, many people download music and songs through the Internet, and the sale of music by computers and cell phone exceeded the sale by single CDs in Japan. To get music through the Internet is easy and cheap so that it is getting in popular. Moreover, i-Pod helps expanding of Internet music service dramatically.

MY FAVORITE WEB SITES

Today, I introduce my favorite wed sites.

My favorite musicians are Green Day and SUGARCULT who are American rock bands. Members of Green Day are Billie Joe, Mike, and Tre Cool, and members of SUGARCULT are Tim, Marko, Airin, and Kenny. In 2005, I went to their lives successively three days! Their live performance was really cool and amazing! With Green Day, SUGARCULT performed, and I became their great fan because they were so attractive!!!

My favorite song of Green Day is “Good Riddance.” This song is really comfortable song, and you may fall in live with Billie’s voice, and also, Billie is cool! And my favorite SUGARCULT’s song is “Pretty Girl” that has the attractive lyrics. To get familiar with them, check their wed sites!

By the way, I like cooking very much; especially I am interested in Italian food because I prefer olive oil, cheese, and tomatoes. Therefore, I sometimes search for great recipes. This wed site tells nice recipes of Italian food, so if you like them, please check it!
>>>>> Let's eat Italian food!!!

WHAT IS "SOCIAL ENGINEERING"?

Social engineering is also called social hacking and social cracking, and it used to be called con game. Social engineering is the deed aiming at illegal access to computers. Social engineering means that to steal important information such as password from managers and users of network by talking, eavesdropping, and flickering. For instance, hackers flick the password that you are inputting from your behind, search dustbins for notes on which individual information or password are written, or set themselves up as users or customers of network to ask managers for changing password and get new password. Also, they send e-mails with attractive and contrived attachments that have computer virus.

To prevent social engineering, teaching about it to managers and users of network system is effective, and we have to pay attention to social engineering more.

WHAT I KNOW ABOUT Mac(APPLE COMPUTERS)

Actually, I do not know about Apple computers well so that I researched a little.

Apple Inc. was established in 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne. They created AppleⅠ, and it was $666.66. However, sales of AppleⅠwas not so good. In 1977, they released AppleⅡwhich was $1298!In 1983, Lisa was created, and it was made for enterprises and useful for publishing and copying. After that, Macintosh was released. On January 9th, 2007, the company’s name was changed from “Apple computer, Inc.” to “Apple Inc.”, but I do not the reason.

In early time, the company’s logo mark was Newton leaning on an apple tree. However, Steve Jobs thought the logo mark was too complex and not so good, so it was changed to an apple being bitten. First, the logo mark was structured by six colours such as rainbow, and now, the one colour apple mark is common. I have not seen the six colour apple logo mark, so I want to see it.

I researched about Apple computers, but its information is too difficult for me to understand because many technical words are used; especially about the function of computers. But I think its design is very fashionable, simple, and sometimes cute!

WHAT I WANT TO LEARN ABOUT COMPUTER

I want to learn how to make graphs or how to use Excel because I m very poor to make any graphs. When I tried to make graphs for my presentation, I could not make them well, and I spent a lot of time. My presentation would be better if I can use Excel completely.

I also want to learn how to make my Blog. I sometimes watch someone’s blog, and I always admire their Blogs because they are really fun! I send a message to the Blog maker, and he or she sometimes replies to me. I am very happy when I receive their replies, so I want to make a nice Blog and contact to many people.

Moreover, I would like to make my original albums and memorial DVDs with computer. My grandfather likes computer very much, and he makes his original albums and DVDs and shows them to me. I think it is useful to record my memory because I do not need big photo books.

Although I am a poor computer user, I would like to try these things and use computer perfectly someday!!!