Sunday, 18 December 2011

~ ♥ ~ History & the Underlyning Technologies ~ ♥ ~

SESSION 1

Internet
starts in the 1950s and 1960s with the development of computers.
 began with point-to-point communication between mainframe conputers and terminal.
expanded to point-to-point connections between computers.
and then early research into packet switching.
packet switched were developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s using a variety of protocols.
in 1982, the concept of a world-wide network of fully interconnected TCP/IP networks called INTERNET was produced and Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP) was standardized.

Uses of INTERNET.
~ send e-mail message.
~ upload or download files between computers.
~ Travel all over the world.
~ blogging is use as a communication platform to interact with people.
~ Can find anything to buy through Internet.
~ Social networking has created new ways to coomunicate and share information among us.
~ Can learn to do anything or sharp a skill a skill you already have.

7 Layers of OSI Model.

HTML ( HyperText Markup Language )
is the predominant matkup language for web pages.
basic building-blocks of webpages.
♥  consisting of tags, enclosed in angle bracket (like <html>), within the web page content.

World Wide Web (WWW)
= abbreviated as WWW or W3, and commonly known as the Web.
= view web pages that contain text, images, videos, and other multimedia and nivigate between them via hyperlinks.



Latest Development In Internet
File Sharing
   - Napster, Gnutella, Morphues
Dot Net
   - XML based Web Services
   - "Semantic Net"
Broadband
   - Media Delivery over the Web


SESSION 2

ISP, Configuring Internet Connection, Troubleshooting.

Way Internet Working.


Internet Connection

 IP Adressing
~ Internet Protocol address (IP address)
~ numerical label assigned to each device numerical label assigned to each device.
~  serves two principal function :
    - host or network interface identification
    - location addressing
~  designers of the Internet Protocol defined an IP address as a 32-bit number.


URL ( uniform resource locator or universal resource locator)
  specific character string that constitutes a reference to an Internet resource.

Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
application protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems.
foundation of data communication for the World Wide Web.
another protocol that can be used in Internet is File Transfer Protocol (FTP) & Telnet Protocol.

Troubleshooting Internet Connection
~ Make sure you have the correct IP scheme for your network.
   -IP Address
   -Subnet Mask
   -Default Gateway
   -DNS Servers
~ Basic PING Tests
~ Check Browser configuration

SESSION 3

Issue About Internet.
~ security of people and their information when using the Internet.
  e.g. : Username & Password - jot down your username & password
                                                 - keep the username & password safely absolutely NOT in our computer
                                                
Phishing 
~ way of attempting to acquire information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details.
~ by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication.
~ typically carried out by e-mail spoofing or instant messaging.
~ often directs users to enter details at a fake website whose look & feel are almost identical to the legitimate one.

Spoofing
~ situation in which one person or program successfully masquerades as another.
~ falsifying data and thereby gaining an illegitimate advantage.

Virus Protection Software               
McAfee
Norton Anti Virus

Firewall
device or set of devices designed to permit or deny network transmissions.
frequently used to protect networks from unauthorized access while permitting legitimate communications to pass.



~ ♥ ~ MICROSOFT POWER POINT ~ ♥ ~

SESSION 1

Basic of Microsoft Power Point
= full-featured desktop presentation program.
= part of the Office suite and can be purchased separately.
= presentation can be shown while topic was discussed or may be shown continiously.
= presentation also can be a collection of a slide related to a specific topic.
= handouts, speaker notes, or outlines can also be prepared through Power Point.
= have many graphic tools , also many kind of pictures , and graph to be imported.

 A Theme in Power Point.
3 theme element in Power Point
   - colors, fonts, shape style

Steps to Apply the Theme in Power Point
   ~ Design tab.
   ~ Locate theme group.
   ~ Click the drop-down arrow.
   ~ See live preview in presentation.
   ~ Click to apply the theme.

Insert the Images.
learn how to
~ insert and work with pictures
~ insert clip art
~ screenshots in slides.

Transition
transition effect is a special effect used to introduce a slide during a slide show
can apply different transition to different slides.
ways to apply transition
  = On the Slide Show menu, click Slide Transition.
  = In the Effect box , click the transition you want.
  = To apply the transition to the selected slide, click Apply.
  = To apply the transition to all the slides, click Apply All.

There is also another basic application in Microsoft Power Point:
Word art & shapes.
Formating image
Animating Image & objects
Add a video into slide
Edit & format the video

SESSION 2
~ ♥ ~ Advanced in Microsoft Power Point


Smart Art Illustration
~ allow us visually communicate information simply using text.
~ can really enhance the presentation
~ makes graphics using easily
~ can be modify the color, effect & change the orginazation of graphics.

Rehearse & Record Slide Shows
~ Record a Slide Show
~ Broadcast Slide to Remote Audiences
~ Hyperlink & Action Button

  

♥ ♥ ♥ Microsoft Excel basic ♥ ♥ ♥

SESSION 1

What is Microsoft Excel...???
= Microsoft Excel is an electronic spreadsheet program that can be used for storing, organizing and manipulating data.
= Excel screen just shown us  a rectangular table or grid of rows and columns.
horizontal rows are identified by numbers (1,2,3).
and the vertical columns with letters of the alphabet (A,B,C).

Uses of Microsoft Excel...!!! 
~ ♥ ~ wrapping text and merging cells 
~ ♥ ~ formating text 
~ ♥ ~ create a simple formula in Excel (with cell reference,using point and click method) 

SESSION 2 
~ ♥ ~ Advanced of Microsoft Excel.

Sparklines
~ is a type of information graphic characterized by its small size and high data density.
~ miniature charts that fit into a single cell.
~ can place a large of number into our cell.

Type of Sparkline
@ there are 3 type of Sparkline :
     1) Line

     2) Columns

     3) Win/loss

Pivot Table
~ manage a data in worksheet.
~ summarizing data and allowing user to manipulate it in different ways.

Reviewing & Sharing Workbook
1) Track changes
   =used to record a history of any changes made to the workbook
2) Adding and deleting comments
   =create a comment
   =viewing a comment
   =hide comment
   =modifying comment
   =deleting comment 

Finalizing and Protecting Workbook
Check Spelling
   - select cell you want to check spelling.
   - Click SPELLING command in review tab
   - SPELLING dialog will open
   - then, you can review and correct any misspelled.
Document Inspector
   - go to Backstage view
   - click Info,Check for Issue, then Inspect Document
   - check boxes beside the content you want to inspect.
   - To unselect a box, click it again, and the check mark will disappear.
   - Click Inspect.
   - after Inspector Document finished, a new dialog box will appear.   






















Saturday, 17 December 2011

WORD PROCESSING SKILLS

Advanced of Microsoft Word.

3 structured as a advanced of Microsoft Word :  
~ ♥ ~ Style and Templates 
~ ♥ ~ customizing Tables and Creating Charts 
~ ♥ ~ Creating Mail Merge Documents



1~ Styles and Templates.
    = help us to easily create professional looking documents.
    = combination of font style, color, and size of text.
    = can be applied to selected text.

2~ Customizing Tables and Creating Charts.
    = can customize table and create a chart into any design , shape, or type as we like.
   
3~ Mail Merge Documents.
   = easily to produce multiple letters, labels, envelopes, name tags and more using information stored in a list, database, or spreadsheet.

4~ Hyperlink.
  @ can navigate one web page to another page.
  @ two basic parts of hyperlink :
       ~ linked adress of web page, email adress or other location together.
       ~ display text ( image )

Tuesday, 13 December 2011

MICROSOFT WORD

Introduction
♥ easily change shape, size, colour, add table, shading,borders, pictures, charts and Web adress in documents.
♥ includes of document window, Ribbon, Mini toolbar, shortcut menus and Quick Access Toolbar
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Document Window

 Ribbon


Mini Toolbar

Quick Access Toolbar

Shortcut Menus
Key Tips

This kind of Microsoft Word can make us work with graphics and can make people become more creative.

♥ Folders : Special, System Tools and Accessories ♥

SPECIAL FOLDER
~ interface as an abstract concept, instead of an absolute folder path.
~ storing applications settings and files, storing internet files, saving temporary files, storing shotcuts and so on.

WINDOWS SPECIAL FOLDERS
~ application data
~ cookies
~ desktop directorry
~ favourites
~ fonts
~ history
~ internet caches
~ local application data
~ my documents
~ my music
~ my pictures
~ my video
~ programs
~ recent
~ send to
~ start menu
~ system
~ saved games
~ templates



VIRTUAL SPECIAL FOLDERS
= recycle bin
= control panel
= desktop
= drives
= internet
= my documents
= network
= search results
= printers

Disk Cleaner
=) finds and removes the temporary files
=) empties the Recycle Bin
=)  detects and removes the files that are not longer need.

Disk Defragmenter
♥ safely terminate the difrag process at any time wihout any effects
♥ also defrag multiple volumes at same time.

System Restore
@ alllow you roll back(restore) system keys, registry keys, installed programs to a previous state in case of any disaster.


















 

(¯`♥´¯) SYSTEM SOFTWARE (¯`♥´¯)

Anatomy of MS Windows OS.

Windows Os History.
~ from 1985 till now.
~ latest is Windows 7, released in 2009.

Microsoft Windows.
= created : 1980's
= designed for home user.
= depth of networking, security & multimedia support.
= proprietary software: has placed restrictions on how people can use or copy.
= preloaded, can be purchased separately.

Windows 7.
> latest version of Operating Systems.
> follow-up to Windows Vista which has released in 2006.
> Graphical User Interfere (GUI)
> Aero Snap ( slide by slide)

Aims of Windows 7.
< Start Up & Shutdown 20 seconds.
< Sleep & Resume faster.
< Memory.
< Search faster.
< Reconnect Wireless Network quickly.
< Recognize USB devices faster.

Anatomy of Windows 7. 
`♥´ AERO 
~ Aero Peek ~


~Aero Snap~

~ Aero Flip ~

~ Aero Shake ~

(¯`♥´¯) TASKBAR


(¯`♥´¯) LIBRARIES

(¯`♥´¯)  GATGETS

Additional tools in Windows7
♥ Devices stage : open a devices with menu of popular tasks, status information and options for            devices.
♥ Windows Live Essentials : free software, replace Windows Mail, sent email, instant message, edit photo.
♥ HomeGroup : help 2 or more PC's connect at home network.
♥ Windows Touch : touch-screen PC
♥ Remote Media Streaming : access musics, pictures, videos at home PC remotely using internet.


 

Tuesday, 6 December 2011

NETWORKING COMMUNICATION MEDIUMS

Medium of Network
~ carries signal from one computer to another
~ may be physical cable
~may also be wireless
~ physical interfere : network interfere card (NIC) network adapter

Physical Media 
♥ Twisted-pair cable
~two independently insulated wires twisted around each other 

 
♥ Coaxial cable


~ insulated center wire grounded by a shield of braided wire
 
♥ Fiber-optic cable
~hundreds of clear fiberglass or plastic fibers

♥ ISDN line
~ special digital telephone line that transmits and receives information at very high speeds.


Wireless Media
~ Microwave system 
~ Satellite system
~ Cellular technology
~ Infrared technology

~♥~ BASIC NETWORKING CONCEPTS ~♥~

COMPUTER NETWORK

= Make two or more computer to able communicate each other by using this network.
= Computer network give some advantages by using it :
   ~ resources sharing : hardware, software.
   ~ information sharing : search capability (WWW)
   ~ promote communication & collaboration : email

3 Basic Concepts of Networking
♪♫ Topology - physical layout of networking 
♪♫ Protocol - rules in data communication
♪♫ Architecture - integrated hardware & software to form a working

3 Element in Data Communication
 

3 Characteristics in Data Transmission 
♥ Bandwidth

~amount of information that can be carried in a given time period (usually a second) over a wired or wireless communication link.
  
♥ Analog or Digital (type of signal)


♥ Serial & Parallel Transmission

Tuesday, 18 October 2011

SOFTWARE

=) Software is a collection of computer programs and related data that provide the instructions for telling a computerwhat to do and how to do it.

=) Software  also is a conceptual entity which is a set of computer programs, procedures, and associated documentation concerned with the operation of a data processing system.

=) Software also is a collection of computer programs together with the related data.

=) In other words software is a set of programs, procedures, algorithms and its documentation.

=) Computer Software can be organized into categories based on common function, type, or field of use.

CATEGORIES OF SOFTWARE

=) This sofware is divided into THREE:
  ~System Software
  ~Application Software
  ~Programming Software

SYSTEM SOFTWARE~a generic term referring to the computer programs used to start and run computer systems and networks.

APPLICATION SOFTWARE~ general designation of computer programs for performing user tasks.

PROGRAMMING SOFTWARE~translate and combine computer program source code and libraries into executable rams (programs that will belong to one of the three said categories).

Monday, 17 October 2011

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE

=) Computer architecture is a practical art of selecting and interconnecting hardware components to create computers that meet functional, performance and cost goals and the formal modelling of those systems.

Saturday, 15 October 2011

(✿◠‿◠) FIFTH GENERATION COMPUTER (now and future) (✿◠‿◠)

=) Fifth generations computers are only in the minds of advance research scientiets and being tested out in the laboratories. These computers will be under Artifical Intelligence(AI), They will be able to take commands in a audio visual way and carry out instructions. Many of the operations which requires low human intelligence will be perfomed by these computers.

=) Parallel Processing is coming and showing the possibiliy that the power of many CPU's can be used side by side, and computers will be more powerful than thoes under central processing. Advances in Super Conductor technology will greatly improve the speed of information traffic. Future looks bright for the computer.

 


 

♥●•٠•..Fourth Generation Computer (1974-Present) ::VLSI / ULSI ♥ ♥ ♥

VLSI - (Very Large-Scale Integrated)
ULSI - (Ultra Large-Scale Integrated)

@ This fourth computer generation is a combination of millions transistors
@ By the 1980's, very large scale integration (VLSI) squeezed hundreds of thousands of components onto a chip.
@  The ability to fit so much onto an area about half the size of a U.S. dime helped diminish the size and price of computers.
@ Then, the single-chip processor and the single-board computer emerged.

PERSONAL COMPUTER (PC)
=) This kind of computer was introduced in 1981.
=) It used in the home, office, and schools.
=) The number of this PC in used more than doubled from 2 million in 1981 to 5.5 million in 1982.

As computers became more widespread in the workplace, new ways to harness their potential developed.  As smaller computers became more powerful, they could be linked together, or networked, to share memory space, software, information and communicate with each other.

Monday, 3 October 2011

✿ ƸӜƷ✿ ~THIRD GERATION COMPUTER (1964-1974)~ ✿ ƸӜƷ✿

Despite the fact that transistors were clearly an improvement over the vacuum tube, they still generated a great deal of heat, which damaged the computer's sensitive internal parts.  The quartz rock eliminated this problem.  Jack Kilby, an engineer with Texas Instruments, developed the integrated circuit (IC) in 1958.  The IC combined three electronic components onto a small silicon disc, which was made from quartz.  Scientists later managed to fit even more components on a single chip, called a semiconductor.  As a result, computers became ever smaller as more components were squeezed onto the chip.  Another third-generation development included the use of an operating system that allowed machines to run many different programs at once with a central program that monitored and coordinated the computer's memory (Gersting 35 - 39).

    Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corp. built the first standard metal oxide semiconductor product for data processing applications, an eight-bit arithmetic unit and accumulator.  The fundamental components of this semiconductor laid the groundwork for the future discovery of the microprocessor in 1971.  Another company that took advantage of the third generation advancements was IBM with the unveiling of the IBM System/360.  The company was making a transition from discrete transistors to integrated circuits, and its major source of revenue moved from punched-card equipment to electronic computer systems.

    In 1969 AT&T Bell Laboratories programmers Kenneth Thompson and Dennis Ritchie developed the UNIX operating system on a spare DEC minicomputer.  UNIX was the first modern operating system that provided a sound intermediary between software and hardware.  UNIX provided the user with the means to allocate resources on the fly, rather than requiring the resources be allocated in the design stages.  The UNIX operating system quickly secured a wide following, particularly among engineers and scientists at universities and other computer science organizations.

*Microprocessor chips combines thousand of transistor,entire circuit on one compuer chip.
*Semiconductor memory
*Multiple computer models with different performance charactheristics
*The size of computer has been reduces drastically.
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SECOND GENERATION COMPUTER (1950-1964)

By 1948, the invention of the transistor greatly changed the computer's development.  The transistor replaced the large, cumbersome vacuum tube in televisions, radios and computers.  As a result, the size of electronic machinery has been shrinking ever since.  The transistor was at work in the computer by 1956.  Coupled with early advances in magnetic-core memory, transistors led to second generation computers that were smaller, faster, more reliable and more energy-efficient than their predecessors.  The first large-scale machines to take advantage of this transistor technology were early supercomputers, Stretch by IBM and LARC by Sperry-Rand.  These computers, both developed for atomic energy laboratories, could handle an enormous amount of data, a capability much in demand by atomic scientists.  The machines were costly, however, and tended to be too powerful for the business sector's computing needs, thereby limiting their attractiveness.

Throughout the early 1960's, there were a number of commercially successful second generation computers used in businesses, universities, and government from companies such as Burroughs, Control Data, Honeywell, IBM, Sperry-Rand, and others.  These second generation computers were also of solid state design, and contained transistors in place of vacuum tubes.  They also contained all the components we associate with the modern day computer: printers, tape storage, disk storage, memory, and stored programs.

~THE FIRST GENERATION COMPUTER~

The first generation of computers is said by some to have started in 1946 with ENIAC, the first 'computer' to use electronic valves (ie. vacuum tubes). Others would say it started in May 1949 with the introduction of EDSAC, the first stored program computer. Whichever, the distinguishing feature of the first generation computers was the use of electronic valves.My personal take on this is that ENIAC was the World's first electronic calculator and that the era of the first generation computers began in 1946 because that was the year when people consciously set out to build stored program computer.Two key events took place in the summer of 1946 at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. One was the completion of the ENIAC. The other was the delivery of a course of lectures on "The Theory and Techniques of Electronic Digital Computers". In particular, they described the need to store the instructions to manipulate data in the computer along with the data. The design features worked out by John von Neumann and his colleagues and described in these lectures laid the foundation for the development of the first generation of computers. That just left the technical problems.

In 1946 there was no 'best' way of storing instructions and data in a computer memory. There were four competing technologies for providing computer memory: electrostatic storage tubes, acoustic delay lines (mercury or nickel), magnetic drums (and disks?), and magnetic core storage.A high-speed electrostatic store was the heart of several early computers, including the computer at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton. Professor F. C. Williams and Dr. T. Kilburn, who invented this type of store, described it in Proc.I.E.E. 96, Pt.III, 40 (March, 1949).

~COMPUTER HISTORY~

EARLY COMPUTER contains the computer systems made in the early era (i.e., the era in modern computer history defined as the period from the late 1930s to the early 1960s) utilizing mechanical, vacuum tube, discrete transistor, or other pre-integrated circuit technology.Other categories that may be of interest are:History of computing,History of Computing Hardware,Computer pioneers,One-of-a-kind-computer, Preserved Computer and Computer Museum.

Computer Hardware Basics..:-) Computer History,,Computer Architecture,Size,,Processing Power,,& Type of Computer

COMPUTER HISTORY...
=)There are about 6 generation of computer ~(before 1940-2011)
=)Pre-computer & Early Computer (before 1940s)
=)First Generation (1940-1950) *vacuum tube*
=)Second Generation (1950-1964) *transistor*
=)Third Generation (1964-1974) *integrated*
=)Fourth Generation (1974-present) *vlsi/ulsi)
=)Fifth Generation (now & future)


Thursday, 29 September 2011

~_~ CONVERSION OF NUMBER SYSTEM ~_~

1. DECIMAL TO BINARY CONVERSION
-This conversion need the decimal (Base-10) repeatedly divide by 2 till the quotient is Zero.
-The binary bits will be read from below to top.

2. BINARY TO DECIMAL CONVERSION
-Whereas this conversion need to find the value of bit 0, bit 1, bit 2, bit 3 ....and so on. 
-So,we must draw a table and fill in the value of the bit and multiply the digits with the position values.

3. DECIMAL TO OCTAL CONVERSION
-Whereas this conversion quite same with decimal to binary conversion.
-because this conversion also need to divide repeatedly by 8 until the reminder less than 8.
-The octal digit needed to read from below to top also same like the conversion of decimal to binary.

4. OCTAL TO DECIMAL CONVERSION
-This conversion need to use the table to find the value of digit 1, digit 2, digit 3...and so on.
-So, we can multiply the digits with the position values that fill in the tables to find the answer.

5. DECIMAL TO HEX CONVERSION
-This conversion also use the same method as decimal to binary and decimal to octal conversion.
-We just need to divide the values with 16 until remainder less than 15.

Tuesday, 27 September 2011

Number System.....=) ~Decimal,,,Binary,,,Octal,,,& Hexadecimal.........

Decimal Number System consists 10 numerals...:
=The values are 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,& 9....
=It's also known as Base-10....


Binary Number System only consists 2 numerals/digits...
=it's just 0 & 1....
=This number system also known as BITS @ Base-2....
=This number system constantly used by computer....

=0 & 1 also have their own meaning & easy to represent  the values that usually used in       electrical e.g voltages..currents
...0~no  signal
...1~signal


Octal Number System
=This number system represents 8 of numeral....=
=it's 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7....
=This number system popular with named Based-8....


Hexadecimal Number System
=This number system uses 16 symbol....
=it's combined number & letter....
=They are 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9  &  A,B,C,D,E,F....
=This number known as Base-16

Sunday, 25 September 2011

Introduction 2 Computer & Internet

ICT
-Information & Communication Technology...

Computer
-A programable machine that carries out what ih has been instructed to do...

Computer Operation is divided to...:
>Input
>Processing
>Output
>Storage
>Communication


Computer Components...?

=) Computer Hardware
*Input devices
*Output Devices (speaker,,headphones,,screen,,printer,,)
*System Unit
*Storage Devices
*Communication Devices

=) Computer Software
*Program - series of related instruction , organized , for a common purpose.
*System Software
*Application Software

Some Computer Characteristics
~Speed
~Reliability
~Consistency
~Storage
~Communication