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 * PhotoShop || We used photoshop in class to edit our photos. We did this to show how easy you can edit and alter a photo due to the amount of applications available. **You should always question your source..even if it is usually a reliable one...** ||

Interesting News Articles
 * ** Facebook rules out installing 'panic button' ** |||| [|http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8574727.stm] ||


 * **PS3 'hacked' by iPhone cracker** || [|http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8478764.stm] ||


 * **Robot boosts hip surgery success** || __[]__ ||


 * = Fake websites shut down by police = || [] ||


 * = Twitter calls lawyer over hacking = || [|http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8153122.stm] ||


 * = Hackers hit Twitter and Facebook = || [|http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8188201.stm] ||


 * **Smart clothes could take photos** || [|http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8143936.stm] ||


 * **Inside the 'house of the future'** || [|**http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/technology/newsid_8021000/8021229.stm**] ||

Interesting Videos
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**Interesting Facts**

__**Printer Spies on You !!**__

Printer manufacturers print invisible yellow dots on consumer's prints that check to see if a person is printing counterfeit money. If you call your printer manufacturer and ask them to "please stop spying on you", they will send secret services to your address to find out why you care about your privacy. Upset? You should be. The more people who call their printer's manufacturers and make this request, the more likely secret services will refuse to investigate.

__**Building Spins 360 Degrees ?**__

Company in Brazil (Suite Vollard) constructed a building in which each floor can rotate 360 degrees. Each building has 11 apartments and each apartment can spin individually in any direction. One rotation takes a full hour, but apartment owner can set rotation speed through apartment control panel. Facades are made of three different types of glass which give wonderful effects when building spins during the sunset. Cost of each apartment is $US 300,000.00.

__**Cars Fueled By Hydrogen**__ Cars today put out a lot of pollution, and use up fossil fuels. Predictions are that hydrogen cars with combination of solar and electricity source, are the future of transportation. Device that is the size of microwave oven may be all you need to fuel your car in the future. Using small device, hydrogen can be easily and cleanly extracted from water and power family car for up to 150 kilometers.

**Homework for 25/04/2010:**

[|Define technical Terms.doc]  We had to look at a news item about hackers and we had to define terms and answer questions about the news article. = Student convicted of hacking Sarah Palin e-mail account =
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[|http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8655569.stm]

**More than 400 million online in China** [|**http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/more-than-400-million-online-in-china-20100503-u217.html**]


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Software piracy is the unauthorized use of software. It includes the illegal duplication of copyrighted software or the installation of copyrighted software on more computers than authorized under terms of the software license agreement. (Encarta® World English Dictionary [North American Edition] © & (P) 2001 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Developed for Microsoft by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.) When an individual or institution purchases software, they only purchase the right to use the software. The copyright belongs to the developers of corporation who produces the software. || [|http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/wp/copyright-2002/softwarepiracyfaqs.html]
 * ====** What is the definition of software piracy? **====



**This is the Future Of technology...**









**Technology is advancing so fast...before we know it we wont be in control anymore !!**

=internet scam= || [] ||
 * =YouTube at five- 2 bn views a day= || [] ||
 * =Rugby player Gareth Raynor jailed for=
 * =iPad's international release delayed by Apple= || [] ||
 * =Internet child health advice 'wrong'= || [] ||



**As you all know exams are coming soon so here are some Exam revision tips..they might help...**


 * Plan It - Write out a revision plan so that you spend equal the right amount on each subject.
 * Organise It - Get all your books, pens, paper out ready when you sit down to revise, it just makes it easier!
 * Set yourself little targets - '20 minutes and then I'll have a break and watch TV/ have a snack/ go for a walk...for 10 minutes'. If you break up your work, its much easier to cope with and easier to concentrate when you are working.
 * Dont put it off - the longer you leave it, the worse the thought of it is, and the harder it will be as you will have to cram in the same amount of work in less time!
 * Give yourself time out - if you're on study leave, give yourself a day in the week or the weekend which is complete revision free time, go off and do something else and give your mind a rest for a while.
 * Put in your best effort - since your scheduling breaks and time off, **when you do sit down to work, really try and focus and give it your best**, you'll feel like you deserve your breaks then!
 * Make your revsion notes **BRIGHT** and **FUN** to look at - don't just write pages of words copied from your books - it will never go in! - make mind maps, draw pictures and diagrams, and use flip cards. When your in an exam, you will be able to picture these in your mind!!
 * Revise with a friend - when it gets closer to the exams, get together with a friend and test each other, it's surprising how much this helps. Make it a competition even, the loser has to go and buy the chocolate/ crisps/ drinks for your timeout a the end of your revsion.
 * DON'T PANIC!! If you try your best, and begin to revise a little each day in the weeks before your exams, you will learn more and retain more information than you realise, but panic and last minute revision never help anyone.
 * DON'T revise just before you go to bed the night before the exam - you won't be relaxed, so you won't sleep well, and a good night's sleep is exactly what you need the night before an exam!
 * Eat something healthy and filling for breakfast or lunch before the exam - protein helps you concentrate, your brain can't function as well when it isn't nourished properly. If you eat chocolate or something sugary before a 3 hour exam, half way through you will get the 'come down' when all the sugar has been cleared from your blood stream, and this will make you really tired - thats definitely what you don't need when your trying your hardest to concentrate!

GOOD LUCK :D

** VIDEO TIME !!! **

media type="custom" key="6262471" This is a video about how the future of reading will be and it has the advantages and disadvantages of Ebooks and some interesting facts.

media type="youtube" key="nq3EeZz-W3A" height="385" width="640" THIS IS SOO SOO SOO COOL :D ITS A VIDEO INTO THE FUTURE....

**__ News Items "7th June 2010" __**

**Invigilation technology allows exams be taken anywhere** []

**US intelligence analyst arrested over security leaks** **[]**

**Lasers could 'sense' vapours released by explosives** []

**__ITGS Presentation:__**

**Film: Digital actor simulation, characters and animation**

[|ITGS MEDIA]

(Website made with all the information on the use of ITGS with film making.)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-10888954 (news item about blackberry service being banned in saudi arabia due to security issues)