Tuesday, April 29, 2008

courswork ideas


Lovin' the new look

This is a website i use on a regular basis as it takes me bak to my yorkshire roots from time to time. ive used it for years for many reasons really i used to listern to the radio sation alot and with internet becoming more and more developed they were always saing go the website to find oit more or whatever. then having moved i found i couldnt listern to it so i would then use the website to listern to it. then when i didnt have time to listen to the radio i used it for the future releases feature to i could keep upto date with the new music.




so as i frequent user of this website i really have noticed and benefited from the new design and features that the improved websited has to offer, including
-the showbiz news bar that shows all of the current celebirty news fashing frequently on the screen so you can keep up to date.
- the bigger listern live button helps you access this feature more easily
- i also love that the last 5 songs played are displayed clearly

Friday, April 25, 2008

I Need Another One

Right i no this probably aint doin my street cred any good wen it comes to take that i just cant help myself

so i was sat in the fab virtually relity lecture on monday thinkin wow look at all the screens and stuff that can be used to make u believe you're somewhere your not or make you feel at the time. so then i thought about this video and ive tracked it down on youtube (shh i also have it on dvd) i thought id add it on here 1 to talk about it from a multimeda point of view and to make my blog a little more interesting



this wasnt the tour i went to i think was the o2 area but it was a massive effect that shocked and wowed the audience it was just amazing. As you can see its just a huge semi circle screen with a picture of the luvly take thst boys on it at first. they are huge and ment to be walkin towards us this effect is also done by making them smaller untill the real life take that come though a gap in the screen then they walk onto like running machines that keeps up the walking theme (all the time singing i might add very talented boys) this is a fab visual effect but not only that the effect on the screen changes to differnt themes as they keep walkin and then characters fro the screen are all the time comein in and out of the screen for example the space man. i think this is just one of the amazin effects during this tour

Thursday, April 24, 2008

I think I may have found the answer

this may seem really sily to people reading this but i found the answer to the question ive need to know for a while

What is XML?
For our purposes XML (which stands for eXtensible Markup Language) is a way of structuring, arranging and representing data. One of the benefits of XML is that it allows for customizable and neat representation of data which can be easily parsed (interpreted by a computer) while at the same time being clearly readable to a human.

XML uses 'tags' (similar to HTML tags) which may or may not include refining elements called 'attributes'. (Since most people know some HTML this is a good example to use but don't get carried away with the similarities: HTML is primarily a markup language, while XML – in relation to Flash at least – is primarily a data structure.) Consider the HTML bold tag – to create some bold HTML text we use

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Theres a new thing on Facebook

theres something new on facebook and im not sure about it think it may drive me a little bit crazy and im allowed to complain about it on here because this is a multimedia blog and i have a huge thing about "social networking at the moment.

so this new thing is wen u login and go to the home page there is now a new toolbar at the bottom of the screen that enables to instantly see who is online which is fab but it also enbles u to instantly chat to your friends online to me this bit is a lil bit too close for comfort and im sooo not sure bout it. i think this is because i have the people on msn who i can chat to all the time then i have the people on facebook who i dont want to chat to that often and who i can email or contact whenever i want but i have a little bit of distance there i dunno really may be im just ranting again ill probs like it in a few weeks i wonder if theres any1 that agrees with me.......

I need to get a wiggle on.....

so after looking at some of the 3rd year work online it has kinda motivated me to get myself into gear and start actually making things rather than thinking im crap at everything then talkin myself outta doin things i think the more i do things whether its just playing around with flash or having another go at php the more it will build my skills confidence and my portfolio