http://multimedia-info-systems.webs.com/
Heres the link to the project we have been working on...enjoy:)
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Actual Gantt Chart
Earlier I posted a Gantt Chart of the desired plan of the project, here is the new outline of how the project progressed over the alotted time.
Constraints of the Multimedia System
Financial Constraints - There were no financial constraints as we used programs that are free such as www.webs.com which is a free hosting website.
Skill constraints - Some skill constaints include members not being familiar with the website and how to operate it. This means they have to learn either by experimenting or reading the manual.
Ethical Constraints -Copyright, Integrity of Original Source Data there are more in the "Issues" Page of the Mulitimedia system.
Social Constraints - Personal Information about individuals are kept private if shared within the website. (E.g. If people place queries, join in on the forums, "contact us" page and provide there personal details, we must not share there personal details. )
Technological Constraints - Some technological constraints are the limited hardware we have at school and some of the programs that are used for this assignment. This includes the free webs program.
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Research
Before building this website, we had to plan on how we would present the information. We researched different websites and how they presented their work to get inspiration for our own website. In order to build our website we also used surveys and group interviews on what appealed most to a viewer when looking at a website.
Survey and Interview Q's included:
What appeals most to you in a website?
Common Answers: colour, images, videos
What is the best way for information to be presented?
Common Answers: Images, Diagrams, Information should be summarised so it is easier to memorise, find another way to present the information for e.g instead of putting blocks of information put it into a powerpoint, it just gives it more originality
Would you find it beneficial if there are review questions after the website, to test your knowledge and would you answer them?
Survey and Interview Q's included:
What appeals most to you in a website?
Common Answers: colour, images, videos
What is the best way for information to be presented?
Common Answers: Images, Diagrams, Information should be summarised so it is easier to memorise, find another way to present the information for e.g instead of putting blocks of information put it into a powerpoint, it just gives it more originality
Would you find it beneficial if there are review questions after the website, to test your knowledge and would you answer them?
Common Answers: Yes definitely, not really, Yes but I wouldn't really sit down and answer them I probably would just answer the questions in my head and compare them to the answers provided.
We found that the group interview combined with the survey provided the most results. The interview was very useful as it had that interaction between the group where the survey provided the anonymity of answers therefore most likely to be honest.
Gantt Chart
This is our anticipated progress in building this system. I will upload later the actual duration of the progress.
Presentation & Problem Definition
We have chosen to present the project as a website using www.webs.com
Webs is a site builder that helps to make a free website
Problem Definition:This site is a multimedia information system about multimedia. It will assist students in the IPT course studying the Multimedia topic. This site is basically an online textbook of the Information Processes and Technology- HSC course by Peter Ware.
NEW PROJECT
NEW PROJECT
Jessica & I have begun a new project of building a multimedia system about Multimedia. This blog will be designated to keep you updated on how the system is developing and focus on the required sections for documentation.
Problem definition
Research (what is required from the system) e.g.group interviews, questions. Write out the questions and expalin which mix of interview or survey you might use and why.
Constraints-time, financial, social, ethical, technological, skill. Explain how each would affect you
Gannt Chart- who is doing what, how long would it take, when it should be done etc
Ways of presenting the project-powerpoints, wiki, website
Jessica & I have begun a new project of building a multimedia system about Multimedia. This blog will be designated to keep you updated on how the system is developing and focus on the required sections for documentation.
Problem definition
Research (what is required from the system) e.g.group interviews, questions. Write out the questions and expalin which mix of interview or survey you might use and why.
Constraints-time, financial, social, ethical, technological, skill. Explain how each would affect you
Gannt Chart- who is doing what, how long would it take, when it should be done etc
Ways of presenting the project-powerpoints, wiki, website
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Databases cont...
Keeping them accurate
-Drop down lists
-Data validation (Any technique used to decrease the errors in data entered into the computer)
-Checking with people in the database
Security
-Logins with different levels of restrictions
-Security of data stream (we can encrypt the data)
-Drop down lists
-Data validation (Any technique used to decrease the errors in data entered into the computer)
-Checking with people in the database
Security
-Logins with different levels of restrictions
-Security of data stream (we can encrypt the data)
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Database
Microsoft Access-is not a database but a system for creating and managing a database. Microsoft Access is what you call DBMS(Data Base Management System).
Things you can have in a database:
-tables
Column is called a field
Data Type: text, memo, date/time, number( e.g integer), yes/no (aka: boolean), currency, autonumber, hyperlink, OLE object (object, linking and embedding), Lookup Wizard
Primary Key:to uniquely define a relationship between a table and other tables in the database
-queries
-forms
-reports
-pages
-macros
-modules
Things you can have in a database:
-tables
Column is called a field
Data Type: text, memo, date/time, number( e.g integer), yes/no (aka: boolean), currency, autonumber, hyperlink, OLE object (object, linking and embedding), Lookup Wizard
Primary Key:to uniquely define a relationship between a table and other tables in the database
-queries
-forms
-reports
-pages
-macros
-modules
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Google Voice
What is the System?
For those who still don't know, Google Voice (GV) is a free service for receiving all calls and SMS text messages. Users of the new service must keep their existing phone carriers; Google Voice functions as a forwarding number. GV's cool features include: free long-distance domestic calls and SMS text messages; calls that can be answered on any of your phones (home, cell, work); voice-mail transcribed and e-mailed to you; personalized voice-mail greeting by caller; free conference calls; and the ability to record calls and store them online and to switch phones during a call. The precursor to Google Voice is VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol), which allows you to make phone calls over a broadband Internet connectionMore information at this link below....
http://www.google.com/googlevoice/about.html
The affects Google Voice has upon its competitors!
"Google Voice just killed Skype" in terms that it is marginally cheaper than Skype, while Google Voice calls to international mobile phones are as much as a third cheaper than Skype’s.
Other concerns on Google Voice!
New York Times Article-Google Voice may raise more hackles with privacy advocates, and perhaps regulators, than it does with competitors. The service would allow Google, which already collects vast amounts of data about the behavior of Internet users, to gather information on their calling habits.
"It raises two distinct problems,” said Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center. “In the privacy world, it is increased profiling and tracking of users without safeguards. But the other problem is the growing consolidation of Internet-based services around one dominant company.”
More information at: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/12/technology/internet/12google.html
Other's argue that this service will give Google enormous amounts of information about the intimate details of your everyday life, including recordings of your voice mail and possibly your phone calls. Combined with what Google already knows about you, it could mean your privacy is at an end. What's next: Google Bedroom??????
Why Apple decided to block Google Voice?
Google Voice gives people an additional phone number that's not tied to any one phone line. People can program the service to direct incoming calls first to a cell phone, then a work number and finally a home number, for example. Users can set up voicemail and have Google Voice e-mail transcripts of their messages. It can also be used to send text messages and place calls - even international ones - at low rates paid to Google, not the carriers. Those calls do burn regular cell phone plan minutes, but the idea has still prompted widespread speculation that Apple and AT&T saw a Google Voice app for the iPhone as a potential competitor to their monthly mobile plans. Apple also said it also was concerned that the app would send the contents of people's iPhone contact lists to Google's servers.
This is how it works!!!!
For those who still don't know, Google Voice (GV) is a free service for receiving all calls and SMS text messages. Users of the new service must keep their existing phone carriers; Google Voice functions as a forwarding number. GV's cool features include: free long-distance domestic calls and SMS text messages; calls that can be answered on any of your phones (home, cell, work); voice-mail transcribed and e-mailed to you; personalized voice-mail greeting by caller; free conference calls; and the ability to record calls and store them online and to switch phones during a call. The precursor to Google Voice is VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol), which allows you to make phone calls over a broadband Internet connectionMore information at this link below....
http://www.google.com/googlevoice/about.html
The affects Google Voice has upon its competitors!
"Google Voice just killed Skype" in terms that it is marginally cheaper than Skype, while Google Voice calls to international mobile phones are as much as a third cheaper than Skype’s.
Other concerns on Google Voice!
New York Times Article-Google Voice may raise more hackles with privacy advocates, and perhaps regulators, than it does with competitors. The service would allow Google, which already collects vast amounts of data about the behavior of Internet users, to gather information on their calling habits.
"It raises two distinct problems,” said Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center. “In the privacy world, it is increased profiling and tracking of users without safeguards. But the other problem is the growing consolidation of Internet-based services around one dominant company.”
More information at: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/12/technology/internet/12google.html
Other's argue that this service will give Google enormous amounts of information about the intimate details of your everyday life, including recordings of your voice mail and possibly your phone calls. Combined with what Google already knows about you, it could mean your privacy is at an end. What's next: Google Bedroom??????
Why Apple decided to block Google Voice?
Google Voice gives people an additional phone number that's not tied to any one phone line. People can program the service to direct incoming calls first to a cell phone, then a work number and finally a home number, for example. Users can set up voicemail and have Google Voice e-mail transcripts of their messages. It can also be used to send text messages and place calls - even international ones - at low rates paid to Google, not the carriers. Those calls do burn regular cell phone plan minutes, but the idea has still prompted widespread speculation that Apple and AT&T saw a Google Voice app for the iPhone as a potential competitor to their monthly mobile plans. Apple also said it also was concerned that the app would send the contents of people's iPhone contact lists to Google's servers.
This is how it works!!!!
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Processing
TOOLS FOR PROCESSING
HARDWARE: CPU eg: core 2 duo (intel)
quad core (intel)
core i7 Processor (intel)
Terminology:
Core=
GHz= The hertz (symbol: Hz) is a unit of frequency. It is defined as the number of cycles per second
Clock Cycle=the number of clock cycles that happen when an instruction is being executed
64 bit and 24 bit= the maximum size an instruction can be.
GRAPHICS PROCESSING
GPU-Graphics Processing Unit
Needed for sophisticated drawing, virtual, high powered games
Refresh rate- how many times a monitor redraws its screen image.
SOFTWARE:
-Spreadsheets and Databases
-Photoshop
-Adobe Premiere or Windows Movie Maker-processing video- manipulate, cut out sections, include soundtracks.
-Sound files are something you can process
HARDWARE: CPU eg: core 2 duo (intel)
quad core (intel)
core i7 Processor (intel)
Terminology:
Core=
GHz= The hertz (symbol: Hz) is a unit of frequency. It is defined as the number of cycles per second
Clock Cycle=the number of clock cycles that happen when an instruction is being executed
64 bit and 24 bit= the maximum size an instruction can be.
GRAPHICS PROCESSING
GPU-Graphics Processing Unit
Needed for sophisticated drawing, virtual, high powered games
Refresh rate- how many times a monitor redraws its screen image.
SOFTWARE:
-Spreadsheets and Databases
-Photoshop
-Adobe Premiere or Windows Movie Maker-processing video- manipulate, cut out sections, include soundtracks.
-Sound files are something you can process
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Microsoft Live Labs Thumbtack
Thumbtack is a single place to save or share the stuff you want from all around the web.
Thumbtack focuses on being a repository and crossroads for user collected content from across the web. It emphasizes the activities that follow the act of gathering – archival, research, sharing and publishing. Thumbtack stands apart in its ability to introspect on incoming data in order to automatically classify it and extract structure from it using machine learning. Thumbtack users also have great flexibility in their ability to view, edit and annotate content in a variety of views
Its Awesome! For More Information Check Out
http://thumbtack.livelabs.com/
Thumbtack focuses on being a repository and crossroads for user collected content from across the web. It emphasizes the activities that follow the act of gathering – archival, research, sharing and publishing. Thumbtack stands apart in its ability to introspect on incoming data in order to automatically classify it and extract structure from it using machine learning. Thumbtack users also have great flexibility in their ability to view, edit and annotate content in a variety of views
Its Awesome! For More Information Check Out
http://thumbtack.livelabs.com/
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
IPO
INPUT is the data flowing into the system from outside.
E.G: A person types data into a database system by means of a keyboard
PROCESSING is the action of manipulating the input into a more useful form.
E.G:The keystrokes being entered by the typist is converted into ASCII format that the computer can understand.
OUTPUT is the information flowing out of the system
E.G:The keystrokes being entered are immediately shown on the typist’s monitor so she can see what is being entered
E.G: A person types data into a database system by means of a keyboard
PROCESSING is the action of manipulating the input into a more useful form.
E.G:The keystrokes being entered by the typist is converted into ASCII format that the computer can understand.
OUTPUT is the information flowing out of the system
E.G:The keystrokes being entered are immediately shown on the typist’s monitor so she can see what is being entered
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Realisation!
I realised that before i started this assignment we had to do like an overview or flow chart of our project to show what links to what and i just wanted to upload mine!
Its funny how my initial idea really change from my final product! Like my project now doesn't have a video, It has an added page for contacts and allows you to email. Ok so its only a slight difference, but if i could think back on how i wanted the website to look like when i first started, it wasn't how it looks like now!
So Far....
I'm now finishing the final touches on my project! It was quite nerve wracking, because you don't realise how fast time passes you by when due date is near! Last weekend i worked on my blog uploading the requirements report, the 2 Gantt Charts etc. This week I worked on alot of the main sections of the website like the map, where you hover the mouse over a word and an image will enlarge/ pop up! Which was really cool and i got the hang of it plus adding photos and making sure all the links work properly! This week was kind of stressful because my partner was away sick, but everything fell into place! Tomorrow the project is due and its done all i have to do is burn it to a CD and upload the Diagrams here!
Saturday, August 1, 2009
Gantt Chart
This is the Gantt Chart of the actual time we took on each process of making the website which is quite far from the Gantt Chart that I created earlier!
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