Tuesday, November 18, 2008






This is an effect of an interactive whirl. This effect is used to make the character whirl in any direction you wish. To make the character look funny and interesting instead of a boring plain shape.

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Scratch




The difference between a 'new costume' and a 'next costume' is that,
a new costume needs to be put into the script everytime there's a new character.
But a next costume only needs to be put into the script once
and the next costume will appear automatically.











Thursday, October 16, 2008

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

17/9/08

Today Mr. Lennon showed Louise and I's blog URL to the whole class to give an idea of what our layouts and context are like. He said they were great. I do secondary storage, primary storage and CPU. My page Secondary storage is filled with lots of information and pictures. I used these websites to find information bout USB memry storage:

Monday, August 18, 2008

CPU

1. What is the function of the CPU?
central processing unit -- is a complete computation engine that is fabricated on a single chip.


2. What was the name of the first CPU?
A microprocessor

3. Referring to the graph on page 2 of the article, describe how the speed of CPU’s has changed.
The speed of the CPU has changed and increasingly faster. The Pentium 4 can execute any piece of code that ran on the original 8088, but it does it about 5,000 times faster! The first produced microprocessor was the intel 8080 which has an MIPS of 0.64and data widths of 8 bits. the latest one is the Pentium 4 "Prescott" which has now 32 bits64-bit bus and ~7,000.
4. What does MIPS measure?

MIPS stands for "millions of instructions per second" and is a rough measure of the performance of a CPU.

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

6/8/08

Today Mr. Lennon asked us to pick which site do we want to use for our assignment. either piczo or sprout. we can work alone or work in groups. i'm going to work with louise, only.
we will use the site piczo this site allows us to make our own website just for free it lets you
put many applications for instance you can put photos, comment boards and also about your page. piczo has more applications than sprouts. it has more flashy and sparkly things interpret with.

Thursday, July 24, 2008

FLAKE FLAKE FLAKE!

1. What is a “Flake”? What types of flakes can you add?
it is similar to a blogger but instead you can add more applications to it, such as music , games and youtube videos.

2. What is a pagecast? View some pagecasts created by others.
it has toys and manufacturing, and mostly TV shows.

3. How could we use a pagecast in the context of our project this term?


1. What is a “Widget”? How do they compare to “Flakes”
widgets are things like sticky notes, calanders to remind you of things, or comment box. :)