Super Wi-Fi

There was talk yesterday about faster Wi-Fi that may soon be available. Two years ago in the US the FCC voted to open up the airways between TV channels for numerous uses. Super Wi-Fi was one of the uses that were suggested because of the airways that are now available. Canada is unfortunately lagging behind in the digital switch over so unfortunately super Wi-Fi won't be available until Canada switches over to digital broadcasting Canada will switch over to digital broadcasting on August 31, 2010 this is a full two and a half years after the US switched to digital broadcasting. Super Wi-Fi is supposedly going to be able to travel for miles and have speeds of 15 to 20 megabits. The speed does depend on the Ethernet cable it is hooked up to and a lot of residential connections are not this fast. Broadway and other places that use wireless microphones such as churches, theaters and karaoke bars are concerned about interference that this new technology may cause. The FCC plans to put aside two channels for wireless microphone users to solve this problem. They also plan to include big wireless microphone users like Broadway and sports leagues in their database so devices will no to avoid these airways. There are also issues with TV broadcasting problems but the FCC is trying to solve this possible problem by mapping signals. By mapping signals the devices using super Wi-Fi could be GPS enabled so they know to switch to the right frequency. There are many opportunities that come with this super Wi-Fi technology such as sending video to television sets and computers simultaneously and providing Internet to places where landline or Internet by cable is not available. On September 23 the FCC is having another vote to resolve the issues with this super Wi-Fi technology. The technology industry can't wait for the vote so they can start making devices that are compatible with this new super Wi-Fi technology.

Farmville Game Centre Review

Last Wednesday Game Centre was released with the IPod touch 4.1 update. The only free game so far that is game centre compatible is Farmville.  On game centre you can add friends by email address or by the nickname. It would be better if game centre did have facebook integration. It would be interesting if facebook integration in game centre is in the works for the next IPod touch firmware update. You can view your Farmville achievement in game centre and you can play Farmville from game centre. Farmville on game centre isn't too impressive the racing games such as Real Racing that costs $4.99 on the Canadian store (unsure if price varies in different countries). It seems now though that there are some $0.99 games that do work with game centre. The games don't all seem to be $2.99-$4.99. It will be interesting to see the improvements as time goes by and soon hopefully there will be facebook integration so you don't have to add people by email or nickname. Game centre seems like it would cater more towards people playing racing games than people just playing Farmville.

Wireless Communications are the Future

Every year the number of cell phone users increases. At the end of 2008 there were approximately 4 billion mobile phones in use. Many developed countries more than 100% of their population have a cell phone this is because many people have more than one phone, often people have a work and a personal phone. Even in less developed countries cell phones use is increasing. For example in Africa the use of cell phones is increasing by 50% every year. In many places there was little or no communication now people have the ability to communicate with anyone, anytime and anywhere in the world. In a lot of developing countries the government is investing in wireless communications instead of wired communications. Countries are investing in wireless communications because it is a cheaper to build cell towers than to lay phone lines. A lot of the population of these countries is rural and would make it even more expensive to lay phone lines. Cell phones not to long use to be just a mobile phone without the ability to send text messages (SMS) or browse the internet. Now people can have access to the internet anywhere and anytime. The ability to access the internet anywhere and anytime has benefited business people so they can receive important emails anytime and anywhere. There is also now mobile internet sticks that work with laptops so you can use the internet almost anywhere.

Technology in the Classroom

Millions of children and teens went back to school this past Tuesday depending on where you live. Children packed up their bags with binders, paper, pencils and pens. Apart from taking notes children and teens are now using computers more than ever because of this technological age we live in. There are now interactive boards called activboards. These are great because they go a step further than projectors because they can be interacted with. They can be written on with special styluses and once written on can be easily erased without mess unlike chalk boards which leave residue on the board and on the users hands. Many more schools are focusing on how to give their students more much needed computer skills that are needed in today's work world. Children who have learning difficulties now have the option of having a laptop to help them with their everyday class work. Some children who have trouble writing are also often with provided with laptops. Younger and younger children are being encouraged to type out big projects because this is the way they will be handing in papers as they get into high school and just later elementary school. Technology is now be incorporated in the classroom more than it every has.

How To Download YouTube Videos

First you find the you tube video that you want to download. Once you find the you tube video you want to download you copy or cut the the url.

When I did this I think that keep vid was having a problem because I had to refresh the page and then it only gave me the flv format which doesn't work on iPods (only the mp4 format work on iPod) and you have to have a flv player on your computer to play the video and it is also lower quality. But also don't download the mp4 HD videos because they don't work on iPods either. Keep vid should be working normally soon. Otherwise just google download videos from you tube and there is more sites that do the exact same thing.

Then there will be a box that comes up saying if you want to find, cancel or save the video. Click save.

Then save it as whatever you want.

Then it will start downloading it does take a long time on dial-up but doesn't take long on high speed.

After it is done downloading you can go in Itunes and go to file and then choose add file to library.

Now the video should be in Itunes double check then you can sync your IPod and you'll have an you tube video saved on your ipod.

Videos At Bottom

Added videos at the bottom of my blog. It took a bit of time and ingenuity but I finally figured it out. Had to add the html gadget to my profile page and go from there. Anyone who wants to learn how to do this please write a comment so you can do something similar on your blog. Still need to tweak it so it looks more professional but it's a start. Might put up how to download youtube videos for something different.

IPod Touch 4.0

The IPod touch 4.0 was recently released. The IPod touch has many features that the previous IPod touch models didn't have. Above is an advertisement for the IPod touch 4.0. The IPod touch is definitly marketed for more of a camera and a internet device than a actually IPod. On the apple site it did say it could also shoot HD video and it can also take pictures. This is different from the newer IPod nano which was released about a year ago which was only able to shoot videos. The rear facing camera is only about a mega pixel. This is the same as most phones which don't take to good quality of photos. The photos look okay on the device but don't look good blown up on a computer screen because of their poor quality. The apple site just gives the information about the resolution of the cameras but this is probably a good thing (for them) 960 by 720 resolution sounds better than the amount of mega pixels. The IPod touch comes with many new features such as Face Time like the IPhone 4, cameras, multi tasking which came out a while ago and retina display which apparently is better than the previous IPod screens.