Social Bookmarking Questions

1. 1.What's another way you can organize and store information on your computers?
2. RSS Feeds 
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4. 2. What have you learned from researching the above topics? 
5. That the NBA playoffs are crazy right now
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7. 3.What do you know now about those current events that you didn’t know before?
8. That Draymond Green is actually a really nice player for the Warriors
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10. 4.What are other social bookmarking apps/websites?
11. StumpleUpon
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13. 5.Will you continue to use social bookmarking?
14. Most likely

Tech Article 5/20

Uber is testing new self-driving car!

• It's testing on Pittsburgh streets
• If you spot the car, you'll see a trained driver monitoring the vehicles capabilities
• Uber says it's still early for the company's new technology, but plan to make it as available as soon as possible 
• The news comes up 15 months after Uber opened up its Advanced Technologies Center in Pittsburgh
• Uber is competing with the likes of Google, Tesla, Apple and GM, in its plan to make self driving vehicles a reality

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RSS discussion questions

1. Why did you select the sites you subscribed to?
2. Because they display great info which I enjoy to know more about
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4. Was it easy to find feeds and to subscribe to them?
5. Yes
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7. Which sites were your favorites?
8. Chipotle, KFC, and Dwyane Wade
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10. What else can you use RSS feeds for?
11. Digital content, and storing info for easy access
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13. How likely are you to continue to use RSS feeds in the future?
14. Most likely in the future when dealing with research projects and other necessities

Tech Article 5/13

Google Tilt Brush: New way of painting!

• New app to revolutionize the way of art
• With the swipe of a digital brush users wearing a HTC Vive headset, 3D strokes of anything can be made
• This has the ability to drive change in the fashion industry, as people can paint with textured fabrics, like denim, silk, cotton, or even leather
• The app has become a plaything for a select group of artists in Paris earlier this year
• Designers can flesh out their own creations, to make it a reality
• You can share your work with others across the world. 

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Tech Article 5/6

Brazil overturns the block on WhatsApp!

• A judge has ordered WhatsApp to be reinstated across Brazil
• The app will be blocked for only 72 hours
• A regional judge on Monday ordered all telephone operators in Brazil to block WhatsApp
• It was blocked for failing to turn over data as an ongoing drug trafficking investigation 
• The app ceased to function that afternoon, frustrating Brazilians who use its Free-calling service regularly
• It will be reinstated once operators are notified by the judge's decision

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Gandhi 5/5

Mahatma Gandhi always spoke spoke about how much better the world can be without the act of violence throughout the face of the globe. The world would be brought into a light, the light of justice and harmony, where no horrific acts will be committed, but peaceful doings would better all generations throughout time. My desire is what Gandhi had desired his entire life, peace, and nothing but peace. Our world would be an astonishing place without the tremendous amounts of violence. The way of violence corrupts out life, and I hope one day that this corruption will ceased to exist in the not so distant future.

My life goals is end up in the big league, the dream to make it one of the largest stage in some people's careers, the NBA. If I manage to find myself in the NBA, I would do whatever it takes to better both my society, and all other communities throughout the world. I want to be able to produce an organization to help the issues in thew world, I want to end world hunger, I want to stop violence, I want to bring peace to all nations. This dream is a mile away, I know, but if I work hard day in and day out and take it one step at a time to make this dream a reality.

Tech Article 4/22

Comcast will let you replace your cable box with an app!

• Let you bypass the cable box and get Xfinity service directly on their television sets or streaming devices
• Will serve up live TV and on-demand video
• Just as Comcasts X1 cable boxes do
• Customers who use this app save up to $10 a month equipment fee they would otherwise have to pay to rent their set box
• This app is similar to the apps currently available on smartphones and tablets, which Comcast says have been downloaded 23 million times.
• The new app more closely mirrors the experience you get from your cable box 
• They're expanding the availability of its services to mobile gadgets and smart TVs as customers increasingly use those devices for media.  

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Tech article 4/15

Verizon workers go on strike

• 36,000 Verizon workers had walked out of verizon on Wednesday
• Largest strike in the US since 2011
• Verizon has outsourced 5,000 jobs to workers in Mexico, Philippines, and the Dominican Republic
• They're now hiring low-wage, non union contractors for Verizon
• Verizon continues to make record profit, but only from wireless business
• The company says it saved $300 million in employee costs in 2015
• Over time, there profits have increased up to 9% ever since from last year
• Verizon has thousands of non union workers that are trained to cover the spots of the workers on strike for emergency reasons. 

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W-R Wikipedia Page Findings 4/11

1. Principal is not Dr. Sue DeNobile, it is Mr. Petrucelli

2. Different amount of students currently enrolled in Wood-Ridge Highschool

3. Different amount of people from Moonachie attending Wood-Ridge Highschool today

4. Different amount of students eligible for free lunch

5. School has a different ranking since 2012, when ranked 176th in the state of 328

6. Ranked the school 101st in the state in 2008, which is different from today's current state wide ranking

7.The school was ranked 143rd in a magazine in 2006 out of only 316 schools in the state

8. Grades go from 7-12th grade

9. Different number of student to faculty ratio

10. No longer the lone secondary school, there is an intermediate school as well

Tech article 4/8

Amazon's Echo Dot packs the soul of the Echo in a smaller way!

• Amazon has made a voice controlled Echo speaker, and decapitated it
• The Dot includes a small speaker for the usual communication, which isn't really meant for music
• If you have a Sonos speaker with an AUX connection, you can turn it into an Alexa speaker
• If the Echo and Echo Dot can hear both people, you'll be treated to cacophony of weather reports
• The soul of the Echo remains in the Echo Dot, but only comes in a small size
• Music is capable of being played like from Spotify, Pandora, etc.
• You can call an Uber or set an alarm with the Echo Dot, without even touching it. 

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Tech Article 4/8

Self-cleaning laundry may be on the way!

• Researchers in Australia say they found a way for material to alter fabric 
• This is to have the stain disappear in after a few minutes
• They dip the fabric in a unique solution that coats it with microscopic copper and silver particles.
• This is able to remove any types of stains
• The researchers discovered that the coating continued to eat away at stains, even after 15 washes
• Stain-resistant nano technology clothing has been found to stop working after one wash
• Bottling it up and selling it in the form of of one step detergent is one option

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Tech Article 3/18

Nike unveils HyperAdaptive auto-lacing sneakers!

• It's called the HyperAdapt 1.0, which has been announced in a Nike Innovation in New York in 2016
• When you step in, your heel feels a sensor, and the system will automatically tighten 
• There are two buttons where you can loosen the shoe on the side
• Will be available in 3 or more colors this holiday season
• Gives athletes the ability to quickly make adjustments to fix the shoes to the proper fit
• No prices have been officially made about the HyperAdapt 1.0

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Do Now 314

If I had an invisible cloak, the first good deed I would want to accomplish is entering every bodies home and doing all of their difficult choirs that must be completely by the end of the day. I feel that it is absolutely necessary to help others, not for publicity and fame, but for the feeling that someone else's life is somewhat better knowing that they don't have to ache themselves trying to complete their choirs. Choirs such as washing the dishes, mowing the lawn, or even folding the laundry. The ordinary tasks would be done thanks to me and my invisible cloak.

In addition, with my invisible cloak, I would wash many people's cars just so that they can be able to drive with a clean and clear view. When having these clean cars, the people will not have to worry about seeing the road because how dirty their vehicle is, now that I have aided them. I want to help them for the greater good. Without my invisible cloak, I would not be able to do any of these actions.

Tech article 3/11

Energy innovation to save you money!

• ARPA-E is a little arm from the U.S. Department of energy that invested $1.3 billion in new energy technology
• ARPA-E  has produced about $1.25 billion from private customers
• They are getting 20% funding boost this year
• President and 19 others have committed to increase the government on clean energy uses
• Some inventions to save energy is solar powered motorcycles, chairs with thermostats, and many others. 

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Tech Article 3/4

Microsoft's new system can alert you when being hacked!

• Despite efforts by security companies to prevent cyberattacks, hackers continue to find ways to get into unsuspecting people's personal info
• Microsoft adds new feature called Windows Defender
• Microsoft will help people identify the attacks and stop them before they begin to spread
• Microsoft states that it analyzes info from more than 1 billion Windows devices, 2.5 trillion websites and a million suspicious files 
• Windows Defender ATP can also alert other customers whose systems are getting the same attacks 
• The tool can detect any new IP addresses that are attempting to connect with a device, and will send an alert immediately.

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Educational Technology and Copyright law 2/29

After reading this article, I learned that someones work is capable of being protected by copyright, and if someone chooses to steal from this persons work, heavy consequences will be faced against the person who committed this action. I have also learned that any work is capable of being copyrighted, such as images online, songs, and pieces of literature like essays. I have come to realize that many of the teachers that I have had, had used other peoples work in the classroom and that's okay. Some work is allowed to be used for educational purposes at school, but the whole work must not be entirely used, only to be interpreted is fine for purposes such as lesson plans. Images are licensed like iStockPhoto and Flickr, these sources are not allowed for fair use. I have learned from this article that images are allowed in classroom projects to help teach technology media in a class. I know that if you are to use from someone else's information, be sure to give credit to that specific person for resource. I now know that it may be difficult at times to use information from another source without giving the respectful credibility.

Tech article 2/26

Samsung debuts Galaxy S7, S7 Edge

• The company went halfway with creating a similar device in 2015 on the S6
• The S7 and S7 Edge look like refined versions of the previous creations from a year ago
• They're flatter because the the rear camera no longer comes out
• The S7 has a 5.1 inch, like S6
• The S7 is actually smaller than the iPhone 6S Plus
• It holds up to 32GB of storage
• They are both water and duck resistant
• Batteries in both devices are far more efficient than the previous device
• Anyone who preorders the S7 now will receive a free Gear VR
• The S7 will come in "Black Onyx" and "Gold Platinum", the S7 Edge will feature a "Silver Platinum" tone

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Do Now 2/22

After reading this crucial letter created by the workers at Apple, I am absolutely fine with the fact that they must break through the security of a terrorist in order to find information that this phone might contain, in order to prevent another incident like the San Bernardino case. I understand that it violates the Constitution for Apple to see through ones personal items, but this is for the greater good. We would be saving countless amount of lives by preventing horrific acts of terror occurring on our own soil. I find it horrifying that someone would want to strike fear into the lives of many for their own cause, it's an act of evil, and Apple must do what they do best, and go break through this terrorist's phone for not just America, but for the people as well. If we want to live in a land of peace and prosperity, we must be able to protect the ones we love, and by doing so we must stop another act like this to happen in our nation again.

Tech Article 2/19

Plugging in this certain date will permanently crash your iPhone! 

• When setting you phone to January 1, 1970, your iPhone will refuse to turn back on
• There is no clear reason as why this is happening
• Apple has been warning customers of attempting complete this action to prevent their iPhone from crashing
• Though Unix time can be negative, there's a chance that the phone will crash immediately
• The bug first appeared on Reddit forum, and Apple has been working to stop this bug to make customers phones go haywire.
• Try not to do this action if you want your iPhone from crashing. 

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Tech Article 2/16

Twitter is losing customers and their stock drops rapidly!

• Twitter had approximately 305 billion customers who use their app.

• Has not been able to increase product at a quicker rate.

• The growth has begun to slow down, and is close to not being able to make any profit off of the app.

• Announced on Wednesday that they're testing a new algorithm that will alter the feed

• The company recently stated that its product, engineering, media, and directors leaving for greener ways. 

Sales

End of 2014: $479 million

End of 2015: $710 million, increase of about 48%

• Twitter lost 2 million followers in the last three months 

If twitter doesn't do something quick about this major issue in the world of social media, we could possibly lose Twitter forever. 

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Multimedia posting 2/10/16

             One class in particular that truly stands out would have to be US History. In this class, we learn about all events of history that had occurred when America had climbed the mountain of obstacles to the day how it is now. This class portrays how life went for many people throughout time, and informs what these people had done to get their name well known in our society currently. Without having US History, we would not be able to know a single thing about the past of our nation, and that would be absolutely disappointing if we chose to not know how the past was in America.

The one who teaches us about US History is Ms. Garvin. Ms Garvin has been in Wood-Ridge High school for awhile, teaching all her students about not just US History, but other histories such as World History, European History, and other subjects of countries history. The first thing I had expected when I entered the class was how will she manage a class full of savage sophomores, but very intellectual sophomores I might add. Our class is packed with diverse and phenomenal students that work extremely hard to get where they are in life, and that's exactly how Ms. Garvin is. A sweet and kind teacher, that only wants the best of her students, she treats her students as if it's her own children. I have learned about the corruption of our nation, governments being demolished, and revolutions occurring from US History.
     Ms. Garvin's grading policy is practically similar to the   other teachers in the school, 40% for quizzes, 40% for tests, and 10% for classwork and homework. I am glad that I will be able to attend a field trip with the other US History classes to the tenement museum in New York, sadly, this trip has been rescheduled due to the fact that the blizzard crushed our hopes of going. In her class, she uses Google Slides everyday to help both herself and the class on the lesson she is informing us for the day in class. Occasionally, we use the chromebooks for project or research assignments, most of the time we are working on completing WebQuests on the devices. Ms. Garvin has been by far one of my favorite teachers I have ever had in school.

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Garvin's page

Welcome to my Blog !

Welcome to the one and only, Steven Kaldas blog! I, Steven Kaldas, am a very unique character who enjoys many things but despises even more things. I'm am a huge Denver Broncos fan #UnitedInOrange. The Heat is where the heart is at, in Miami. My favorite meal fried chicken and waffles, with some cherry Kool-aid on the side. I enjoy spending my time by going out dark at night, playing basketball all night long. My favorite football player is Randy Moss of the Minnesota Vikings, and my favorite basketball player is Dwayne Wade of the Miami Heat. I don't enjoy my fellow African Americans being treated like trash because of where they come from. Racism is the one thing that really ticks me off. I hope to attend the University of Syracuse for college and have a masters in sports medicine. I've dreamed for such a long time to go to Syracuse ever since I was 10 years old. My family consists of Jamal my dad, my mom, Sandra my sister, and Tina my other sister. My friends are the only thing that I cherish besides my family and basketball. This summer I plan to go to Aruba just like last year. I hope to get a job in Holy Name Hospital some time in the future because I want a job relating to sports medicine. That's all you need to know about me, Steven Kaldas, and I hope you enjoy the rest of my blog!