Right Clicka...or iBook Flippa

Wow, yet another post on that intense battle. Mac or PC...though the PC has been the "popular kid in school" until now recent studies on trends in the electronics world have shown that Macs are picking up speed in the market and becoming the norm more so. Now with the introduction of some software to use with iPhones and iPod Touches (as well as the introduction of those devices themselves) brought Apple way up in the market alone.

But let’s get into personal opinion...am I a right clicka or an iBook flippa? Well I’ve been a Windows user but not a Microsoft fan since I was 7. I have had a chance to use both the Mac OS X Leopard and Windows XP and Vista. XP seemed to be the most stable and the coming out of the flash new Vista didn't change that. I won't even start with Vista but I can say it is pretty: P none the less that doesn’t demolish the fact that basically...it sucks. For the time being I'll stick to my Windows XP for some high graphic gaming and reasonable OS speed and leave Apple with the fund it got from my 16GB iPod Touch.

Facebook and The Education System

An epic battle...those who want freedom of internet...those who say internet content should be a controlled environment. Well when you look around now a day’s you'll see that the content on the internet isn't being stopped from invading our screens and inboxes...young kids learning how to hack banks in seconds, cyber terrorism becoming more of a threat than physical terrorism. Those examples are a bit harsh but the point is the internet (in my opinion) is to be a free area of exploration, though this is accompanied with risks most of the world now has an internet uplink providing their country members with vital connections to another and important information.

Now with the issues of a first year Ryerson University student making a Facebook group on the popular social networking website (www.facebook.com) to assist in homework (basically a virtual study group) has been threatened with expulsion from the school when in reality no solutions or answer were ever shared on the webpage. Luckily this is old news as the story in my opinion is ridiculous and had no proof behind it of any sort of cheating or academic misconduct.

Ryerson claimed that the first year student was violating terms laid out by the board, when the threats and legal issues were first raised the student union and student body rallied around Chris (Avenir, the student in question).

In the end the student wasn't expelled and the group was closed, in the end I believe the only reason Chris was given a 0 for a grade that otherwise would have been 10% of the course final was because the council/board against Chris didn't want to admit they had made a mistake and overreacted.

When An Artist Gets Bored

While all the images in this video were astounding, I'd say the banana which turns in the head of a snake striking was very interesting. For example, if someone had an allergy to bananas or something flavoured like banana making a banana see as dangerous as a snake.

Typically using Photoshop you would begin with two images, in the case of the "banana-snake" the two images would be a snake and a partially peeled banana. Parts of the snake that won't be used would then be cut off in preparation for the merging with the banana.

Next the colors would be matched accordingly usually fading from light to dark (meaning the banana to the snake. If everything was properly blended and contoured, it should look as convincing as the image in the video clip in the Mary Ward Communication Blog (sans the blur where the 2 parts meet of course).