Most of the things in Learn and Play was things I already knew how to use. I’m the kind of person that when a new gadget or program comes out I have to try it. I’m in the Beta for playstation home. I’ve actually been in a whole bunch of betas this year. Some things I can talk about some things I can’t. So I really didn’t learn anything new I’ve already moved on the “next big thing”. It was fun to actually do this stuff at work and get paid for it tho.
playstation home picture from gamespot.com
I’ve tried to get Moldi to work many times and have fail just as much. I’m so glad most of the new devices have a store built into them now. The PSP can connect to the PSN store. The I-phone can connect to Itunes. The Kindle connects to Amazon. I don’t know but downloading from the internet PC and connecting a device to it seems kindle backwards now.
I’ve been listing to podcast for about a year and a half. Most of them are video game related ones.
Major Nelson – xbox podcast
Playstation Nation – look at name
I found most of my podcast by surfing around I tunes and hanging around forums.
I use youtube mostly to look up combos in fighting games.
Before Youtube came out something as simple as looking for combo vids was a long and tiring process. I would be searching forums after forums for a link to a video I can download. You can find just about anything on Youtube. I’ve trained my dog with the videos I found on there.
Wow I use everything single one of those. Firefox is my default web browser. Gmail is just about my everything. Email, word processor, etc. I use lively to keep in touch with some friends. And I have the library widget on my computer at home.
I love using these apps. I know that Office is a “better” for writing but I really did care. I just type I don’t use any of the fancy bells that Office has. OpenOffice is another program I’ve used before. Gimp is a free photo editor that i’ve used. Basically I’ve tried a lot of Freeware and love using them. Gimp will never replace photoshop but it was a great stepping up tool to learn photoshop. Expecially when you were a jobless student.
Open Office looks a lot like Microsoft Word except it's free
GIMP
here’s my post on the library wiki about my favorite blog sites.
booo you can't see anything
any ways here are my favorite blogs
Engadet – mostly about tech junk sometimes good sometimes HUH?
Playstation blog – the best corporate blog I read.
Kotaku – random gaming blog
mike rowe answers – my brother got me hooked on this blog.
My Two Cents – Editor of the Digital Bits Bill Hunt daily blogs about movies.
Davidjaffe.biz – Comics, Video games, books, and a developer who shares my interest.
wow looking at the short list for web 2.0 tools made me realize how many of them I’ve use already. Also seeing all of them in a list also made me realized that they have some really really dumb names. Rentomatic, Galaxiki, VuFind, and Technorati to name a few. I kinda fell out of most of the tools. Like Digg I only used once when a friend showed it to me and it was fun for the first few hours. But then I got really bored with it. The same thing happend with my myspace page. I can’t remember when I last even checked it.
How quickly you’ve grown wikipedia. I remember when wikipedia first launched I thought there idea was pure genius. I search and linked to my heart content. I use to this day again mostly for art related stuff. Nowhere else can you find a bio on Woverine.
But it reminds me of what the full moon show. It’s a video game developer podcast and in this podcast they asked a question about there company. Well they changed the answer in the wikipedia page and guess what? Yup the people guess the wrong answer from the wiki page. LOL
Wiki I love em I use em and I can get lost in em.
a map of wikipedia found at http://scimaps.org/maps/wikipedia/
I really don’t know what to say about library 2.0 all I know is that the purpose of the library has changed since I was using it when I was still in school. Web 2.0 that’s more interesting to me but again I see Myspace as Geocities 2.0. Same crappy eye sore pain inducing user design web pages with crappy music. But now instead of people who have to code it themselves in HTML it’s anyone who can upload a few images and mp3s. Now this page had something very interesting Web 3d. But then I’m reminded of an episode of Futurama where they go into the internet of the future. Whats the point I’m trying to get at I really don’t know. I just got over a really bad cold and this was all I got from reading the articles on Library 2.0 and web 2.0.
