Tech Tool Evaluation

Storyboardthat.com

What I like:

Drag and drop interface

Many choices to pick from in characters, setting and bubbles

Easy and fast use use without much effort

What I don't like:

People have to pay for a good version

Not creative. Just like bitstrips, pixton, etc...

You cannot move the characters how you want, like in bitstrips

I could use it to make comics

I could use it to brain storm ideas for anything I need in a fun and organized way

ujam.com

What I like:

You can create or change songs you like easily

You can change stuff from one instrument to another

Many ways to make or change the song

Creative, never seen one like it

Background music

What I don't like:

They want to insert a premium feature for which you would have to pay for.

Not completed

has some problems because of the bugs that need to be fixed

I could use it to create songs for fun

I could use it to learn how to become a DJ

Augmented Reality

What I know about the topic: I know that AR is  a way to see the world electronically and can be used in a variety of ways and in a variety of stuff like smartphones and Head mounts.

Questions:
How does it work?
About when will it be released to the general public?
What are some prototypes?
Which companies are developing it?

Links:
http://www.howstuffworks.com/augmented-reality.htm
http://www.pcworld.com/article/250453/google_augmented_reality_glasses_expected_by_years_end.html
http://www.metro.co.uk/tech/895276-project-glass-augmented-reality-google-goggles-to-replace-phones

Things I learned:
Google sent out a prototype for 1500 dollars to developers
Most of them are head ware(the future ones) like the google glasses
It will be released in early 2014 or late 2013 with a price of 200 to 600 dollars.\
Uses motion sensors, lasers and infrared
Will have 3g and 4g technology
You are able to see the world but with everything you need like the terminator glasses.

It connects to my life in many ways because I am from a generation in which technology is very important. I never thought the glasses would be in such a near future, it was something only seen in movies like terminator. To live I need technology and this will be a great advancement because it will finally unite with the real world in a really useful interactive way that will make things much easier for everyone. We live from luxuries and this will be an affordable one that will beat many and leave many people addicted like me to my blackberry or computer.

University	Bently	NYU	U.Penn	Vanderbilt
Location	Waltham, MA	New York, NY	Philadelphia, PA	Nashville,  TN
Percentage Admitted	43%	32%	14%	14%
Avg. GPA	3.63	3.7	3.91	3.49
Student Body	5,526	43,797	25,007	12,836
Finnancial Cost	$38,328	$41,606	$42,230	$41,332
Public or Private	Private	Private	Private	Private
Fraternities	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

U.Penn is a university in Philadelphia, which has Wharton in it. It is the business part of it and it is really good because it is an Ivy League and it has many things I like.

NYU is a really good university in New York that offers 183 majors and has many students that have achieveed great things.

I have a 3.6 GPA average.

What I have learned today has affected me very much, because now I know that it is better to enter a normal university first and then a great one to be the star

Google Part 4

For this I only had about 35 minutes because of a mass so I finally installed eclipse and looked at the tutorials. It is a lot more complicated than I thought. Now I am looking at this video to start making the blocks and code academy is finally paying of: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sI_TnFUBzrc&feature=related. And I need another program, which I already downloaded: http://www.editrocket.com/download_mac.html. I already started doing the blocks and will finish at home and I will try to get them into the game to make the presentation.

Now its November 13th and it is another google day because last class about 60% of the class time was taken by a mass.

Goals:

Check what I am missing and get it.
Create the block in java form.
Create the block visually.
Insert it into minecraft.
Use it.

I was wondering what I was missing and of course it was something important. It was the MCP or minecraft codder pack to modify and create mods (short for modifications) like creating a block.
Here is the link for download: http://www.mediafire.com/?rz8dnqj1bxrz85q

I am about to die. First I had to modify the mod loader text file in Edit Rocket then I had to configure the MCP file and make it adjustable for Mod Maker basic. Then, download many files and check how to see the Java JPK version in my mac because it is different than on other different operating systems. Checked thousands of videos and then had to search how to find the environmental variables on a mac because of course it is different from a PC. And until now I am starting to create the mod, but by luck the hard part has passed and this takes a lot less time. So I am going to finish it at home and make the presentation

Google 20% Part 3

Today we could not do anything because the program we needed to start coding could not be downloaded on the school computers and we did not know that we were going to do the google 20% proyect today so we did not bring the program in our computers

Google 20% PART 2

After looking at a failed attempt to create an online multiplayer game, Andres and I have decide to change to a similar but less massive thing to do which is creating a minecraft plugin using java language.

3 goals:
Find a platform to begin doing the plugin
Start learning how to use that platform
Decide what the plugin will do and learn the essentials to do it

http://www.mpgh.net/forum/32-java/417858-how-make-minecraft-plugin.html
http://eclipsetutorial.sourceforge.net/totalbeginner.html
http://eclipse.c3sl.ufpr.br/technology/epp/downloads/release/juno/SR1/eclipse-jee-juno-SR1-win32.zip

The first site was searched on google, which sent me to the next where I started downloading a program called eclipse. The program is 221 mb but it is taking too long to download.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/eclipsetutorial/files/1.%20Total%20Beginners/Version%201.0/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqZI5wEmhLQ
www.eclipse.org

The first link is a great explanation of how to use eclipse part by part but i think when I get home I am going to use the youtube tutorial and do it on my mac because this is taking too long to download and make my own plugin.

After checking several kinds of plugins like making a vending machine, a teleporter or a cell phone we decided to start with something simpler, which is a flashlight. Even though it will be a very simple plugin it will require a lot of time to of because of the coding. The idea is to create different kind of blocks that do not exist to make the game funner. But for that to happen we need to know how to change things like the block brightness to its strength and to what it can create.

Desmos

https://www.desmos.com/calculator

This is an amazing site which helps you create awesome graphs in an easy way.

First create an account so that you can save your graph.

Next, better link it to facebook if you want to share your graphs with your friends.

Now, press launch calculator so that you can make your graph.

There yo can see others great creations and it helps you to get an idea.

At first it is very hard because you have to know cool ecuations which you can find on google (if you don't know any)

But then you can change the colors and make figures like batman and stuff like that.

It is like a Ti-84.

After click safe and finally post it on facebook.


Other students may use to get help on their math things or create fun art to spend time.

This is my creation: