Data Security Policy

Data Security Policy: 

Here is a link to some tips google gives to us: http://www.google.com/safetycenter/everyone/start/ 

Online work or work just done on the computer can be easily lost, especially if you do not own a Mac ( these at least do save your work for a period of time even if you run out of battery), that is why you shoul always have a back up just in case. Here are some examples of them.
1.UseGoogle Drive,  it allows  acces anywhere to the files and in case of electricity lost everything is safe while working.

2. Keep an external hardware memory devices, with a copy of the most important data.

3. Save your documents every once in a while. It might sound silly but it is a just a second and you can save lots of tears afterwards.

Sharing programs

SHARING PROGRAMS: 

Google Drive's logo

Nowadays it is important for us to have acces to any information we might need 24/7 this is way they have come with several sharing programs that allows us to store documents, files etc... on the internet granting us access to them any time we might need them. 

Below there is a table showing different sharing programs and its characteristics.  Click on the links for more information 

                                    Google Drive             Dropbox                   Box

Storage capacity	15GB	2GB	10GB - 50Gb
Security	Acceptable,	Limited	Great,
Editing	Similar to Microsoft office but lacking some features	Editing must be done through personal programs	Its own program must be learned to be used
Cost	Always free	10$ - 50$ monthly depending service	4e - 30e monthly depending service
Access	Through google account, which makes it very accessible	Through dropbox account which can be remembered in your computer	Through box account, entered always through internet, not very convenient

IT devices assignment

IT devices for my education

Nowadays you can find many useful electronic devices. The most important or most used are probably a laptop a tablet or a smart phone.Here is a comparison between devices that may be useful in university.

   Laptop  Tablet Smart Phone

Storage capacity	120Gb	24 - 48Gb	24Gb
Screen Size	20”	10”	7”
RAM	2Gb	1Gb	Up to 1Gb
Internet connection	WIFI fast connection	WIFI medium connection, some 3G connection	WIFI slow connection
Battery (Duration using it)	15Hr	10Hr	7HR
Portability	Depends on the Laptop, but certainly worse than for tablets	Notebook size makes it easy to carry, also not difficult to break	Complete, can be carried in your own pocket, but easily broken

Cost

400E

200E

150E

After having compared all this devices I believe that the most useful electronic device for me is an ipad. Because of its portability its access to internet everywhere and the screen it has. In my opinion it was my favorite.

Essential Concepts

Learning some definitions!

In order for us to fully understand the podacasting world we have to know its terms.

So lets start!!

XML
The language they use tto create online sites. The definition of  webopidia is:
Short for Extensible Markup Language, a specification developed by the W3C. XML is a pared-down version of SGML, designed especially for Web documents. It allows designers to create their own customized tags, enabling the definition, transmission, validation, and interpretation of data between applications and between organizations.


RSS
Is a file format that allows websites to share information for othe websites to publish, for example news, webopedias definition:

RSS stands for the facto standard for thesyndication of Web content. RSS is an XML-based format  used  in distributing news headlines on the Web.
A Web site that wants to allow other sites to publish some of its content creates an RSS document and registers the document with an RSS publisher.

Jingle

A short audio which is used to create especial effects or backgrounds, such as those tunes preceding the news.

"to sound in a light, repetitious manner suggestive of this, asverse, a sequence of words, or piece of music."




Stinger

A stinger is a brief sound or musical phrase that may be used as "audio punctuation."



MP4

MP4 is a file format created by the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) as a multimedia container format designed to store audiovisual data. The MP4 is largely replacing earlier multimedia file formats, and creating some changes in the way that vendors sell audiovisual files to the public.



MPX


MPX Microsoft Project File Exchange Format is a file format developed by Microsoft for sharing project data with other project management applications.

Audio Comparison!

 

What will become of pur world without music? I don't even want to think about that. Music is all around us like in the movies, in the cars, even at elevators! And maybe because of it popularity people have found many many ways to record music. That is why there are so many types of files for it. And the best thing is that you can find the all in Webopedia.

Mp3

This one is the most popular. It is used by eliminating background noises.
It is named Mp3 because it works with three layers. It compresses audio into the third.


WMA

This one is only used in Windows therefore it is not as popular obviously. It has smaller size and lower quality than WAV.

WAV

It is short for WAVE form. Audio file format is a digital audio format without data compression normally developed and owned by Microsoft and IBM that is used to store sounds on the PC, supports both mono and stereo files to various resolutions and sampling

AIFF

It is short for Audio Interchange File Format, which is a common format for storing and transmitting sampled sound. It was developed by Apple therefore is mostly used in macintosh. It does not compress data for it you can have AIFF- compressed another format.


RA


The de facto standard for streaming audio data over the World Wide Web. RealAudio was developed by RealNetworks and supports FM-stereo-quality sound. To hear a Web page that includes a RealAudio sound file, you need a RealAudio player orplug-in, a program that is freely available from a number of places. It's included in current versions of both Netscape Navigator andMicrosoft Internet Explorer.

Tips for podcasts Fan Summary

Discovering Podcasts 

This is  screen shot of my own iTunes search

Here you have a link to a begginers guide I found useful:

 http://wpcurve.com/the-beginners-guide-to-podcasting/

For our tecnology assignment of this week we had to read and do a summary on this webpage: http://www.apple.com/itunes/podcasts/

Find a free podcast. 

iTunes has lots of free podcasts, you only have to find them. Firts of all you have to go to the iTunes Store on the search bar at the right insert podcast an automatically iTunes store will take you to thos that are free. 

Both of this screenschot are from my own computer.
 Hope the might help you!
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Search podcasts by popularity.

If you want to see those podcasts recomended by the iTunes people you can go to the podcast page and see which ones are the most popular or search for the  topic  you want directly. 

See what tops the podcast charts.

To see which are the top podcast charts you go to the podcast page on the iTunes Store. And on the rights side of the page you can see a label where it says "Top Episodes". You can also choose whether you you want to see video podcast, sound podcasts or all of them in an upper bar in your screen. Here is a screen-shot to help you see what I am talking about: 

http://www.apple.com/itunes/podcasts/

Podcasts II: U iTunes and Juanma Ortega

How do I download a podcast? 

First of all, you should know that podcasts as for their great demand are very easy to access them. If you use RSS , podcasts can be downloaded directly into you computer, ipod touch, ipad or any other electronic device you use. And the great thing about RSS (Really Simple Syndication, a  format XML to share a content in the web.It is used to pass actualized information frequently to users who are subscribed to such contents) is that once you've been submitted you'll get the podcast immediatly into your computer once it is released.

The most common and popular program to download podcasts is iTunes as it is the easiest, safetest on to use. As for its prize, podcasts are quite cheap because they are like magazines articles therefore they do not have a great cost. 

Juanma Ortega: 

Born in Barcelona in 1966, he is one of the most popular podcaster of Spain. He receives hundreds of visiits daily and due to his popularity he now works for Cadena Ser  one of the most imporatan radio stations of Spain.  

Here is the link to his own blog: 

http://www.juanma.com/ 

And you can download some podcasts here: 

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/podcast-de-juanma-ortega/id164423316 

 U iTunes: 

Before podcasts, students and researchers all over the world only had books and websites as a source to get information. But thanks to this revolutianry tecnology nowadays we do not have to attend so many lectures because whe have them at our reach everywhere and can listen to them several times! 

And this is only thanks to iTunes who has created iTunes-U an app where you can download all of these podcasts for free! 

My Subscription

As part of this week assignment we had to subscribe to a podcast. I decided to susbscribe to Oceanos de Cienca, as I am thinking in studying Marine Biology in Spain next year