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Kenneth Nash Period 3 1/26/09  __ Every Day Technology __ The technology recourses that I use every day differ from many categories. For example I use my phone, I play Xbox 360, television or (IO, Optimum), my IPod and computers. All of these devices I tend to use everyday or very often. Not only do I use them often but the ways I use each one vary. First, I use my cell phone every single day, most likely more then 70 times a day. Not only is there calling on my phone, that I don’t use very often, but there’s texting. My phone can hold 300 messages in the inbox and I usually fill it up every day, so that’s how I use it so much. I also have a camera and video on my phone, so I like to take lots of pictures and make lots of videos, and either just save and keep them or also send them to my friends. I also have a landline or house phone, on this phone I use to call people that I don’t have on my cell phone like aunts or uncles and even some cousins. I also use the house phone for long distance calling, and for when I don’t have free minutes. For video games, I have one three systems but I just use my Xbox 360. I try not to play it often, so I get exercise and go outside. When I do go on I can use the online feature which lets me talk to friends through a headset, play games online with my friends, party chat and send each other messages. Not only is my Xbox 360 good for all this but I also use it to watch DVD’s, I hook my IPod up to it so I can play music while playing a game, and I can also hook it up to my server so I can browse the internet. Something else I use every day would be my IPod. I use my iPod to watch movies, TV shows, music videos and to also store my pictures on. What I mostly use it for is obviously to listen to all my music. Computers are very useful in my everyday life. I use a computer at home everyday and computers in school fairly often. At home, I use my computer for browsing the internet, such as Face book, MySpace, my mail, YouTube to watch and post videos and to play some games occasionally. I also use my home computer to store music on iTunes, to get music with Frost wire, and also to store pictures. On the computers at school, I use them to do work, research, school projects, and occasionally play some games. I also use television everyday; we have optimum or IO on demand. I use this to surf through the many channels and to use on demand to get movies, watch recorded shows, and music videos. In conclusion all of these devices or technology comes in very useful in my every day life. All of these recourses also have many different uses. Out of all my devices I use and like my cell phone the most because I use it the most.

I think that web 2.0 is just a marketing phrase for the internet after the dot-com crash. Its just a term to name the new internet that has all new websites that you can use for many different things such as posting your own thoughts, commenting on other peoples work or ideas, sites for fun, there are just many different varieties of things you can do on the internet. I use it for information or for things like wiki's where i can make my own opinions on subjects. That leads in to democratization on the web. Now anyone can go onto websites like wikepedia and go on as a user and state their own opinions on topics. So anyone can publish their own thoughts so it could either be accurate or completley wrong, so you can't rely on everyones entries to be right on sites like that.

The Timex Sinclair 1000 first started off as the ZX80. This machine was made by a British inventor Sir Clive Marles Sinclair. He first introduced the ZX80 in 1980 as an inexpensive computer that would bring computing to the masses. In July of 1982 the watch company Timex made an exact duplicate named the Timex Sinclair 1000 to sell to the people at just under 100 dollars.The TS1000 had an NTSC RF modulator instead of a UK PAL device and the onboard RAM doubled to two KBs. The TS1000's casing had slightly more internal shielding but remained the same as Sinclair's, including the membrane keyboard. It had black & white graphics, and no sound. DOS was short for “Disk Operating System.” It was closely related to the operating systems that dominated the IBM PC compatible market between 1981 and 1995, or until about 2000 if one includes the partially DOS-based Microsoft Windows versions Windows 95, 98, and Me.

The Commodore 64 was released in 1982 by Commodore International. The machine was an 8-bit home computer. The machine sold for a price of 595 dollars. Preceded by the Commodore VIC-20 and Commodore MAX Machine, the C64 features 64 kilobytes of RAM with sound and graphics performance that were superior to IBM-compatible computers of that time. It is commonly referred to as the C64 or C=64 and occasionally known as CBM 64 (Commodore Business Machines Model number 64), or VIC-64. It has also been affectionately nicknamed the "breadbox" and "bullnose" due to the shape and colour of the first version of its casing. (Commodore Business Machines Model number 64), or VIC-6**.** It has also been affectionately nicknamed the "breadbox" and "bullnose" due to the shape and colour of the first version of its casing. Pong is a first generation video game that was first released as a coin operated arcade game. This first generation game was released and made by the company Atari. //Pong// is based on the sport of table tennis (or "ping pong"), and named after the sound generated by the circuitry when the ball is hit. The word //Pong// is a registered trademark of Atari Interactive, while the term "pong" is used to describe the genre of "bat and ball" video games. Prodigy was an online service which offered its subscribers to a wide range of networked services. These services included weather, news, shopping, games, expert columns, banking stocks, travel and a bunch of other features. Initially subscribers using personal computers accessed the Prodigy service by means of POTS dialup or X.25 dialup. In the 1990 - 1991 timeframe, LAN and cable modem access were enabled. The company claimed it was the first consumer online service, differentiating itself from CompuServe, which started in 1979, because of its graphical user interface rather than command line interface, as well as in its basic architecture. CompuServe was the first major commercial online server in the United States. It was very big in its field and stayed this way from the 1980’s all the way through the mid 1990’s, when it was sidelined by the rise of information services such as AOL that charged monthly subscriptions rather than hourly rates. Today the CompuServe Information Service operates as an online service provider and an Internet service provider, owned by AOL. In 1996 Sony and Philips introduced the first Web TV set-top boxes from Web TV Networks Inc. They became known as Web TV classic or sometimes called the Web TV Internet Terminal.

I think the most effective superbowl add was the E*Trade Talking Babies commercial. The reason why its the most effective commercial is because it really funny with two babies talking and one singing. It talks about how the economy is not doing well in a humorous manner so that everyone will listen. It also tells you that you can help you replan your investments so you can be in control. Thats why i believe this was the most effective add because they were very clever in making it so that everyone would pay attention.