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!