Phone Review

The LG Chocolate VX8550: purchase it for ninety-nine dollars with a two year contract. The phone comes in Blue Ice, Navy Blue, and Dark Red. It has a 1.3 mega-pixel camera on the back, but only when slid up can the camera be used, and the camera has no flash. The phone is very sleek, a much improved version of the first chocolate. The send and end keys are now on the inside of the slide and the touch pad locks so you don’t accidentally select something by touching it with your cheek in the middle of a phone call. The navigation wheel spins in both directions, with a trace light, that can be turned on or off in the settings, to follow your movements, but you can also click the wheel if you don’t like to spin it to move around. It has a vibrations feed back on the touch pad so you know when you are touching it which can also be turned on and off. The main menu consists of contacts, recent calls, settings & tools, get it now & media center, and lastly messages. Within the contact list you may have groups, as many as you please, speed dials, up to 99, and ICE, incase of emergency, contacts. In the recent calls you can see missed calls, dialed calls, and received calls. In the settings & tools menu there is display, phone, call, network, Bluetooth menu, touch keypad, navigation wheel, USB auto detection, memory, and phone info; under the tools menu there is voice commands, calculator, calendar, alarm clock, stopwatch, world clock, notepad, and Ez tip calculator. Under the get it now & media center are: music & tones, picture & video, games, news & info, tools on the go, and extras. Lastly, under the messages menu there is: new message, where you can send one message to up to ten people, inbox, can hold anywhere from 90 – 110 messages, sent, holds up to 50 messages, drafts, if you shut your phone and don’t save the started message the phone will save it into the drafts, which is nice when someone shuts your phone on you, voicemail, for people that call and you don’t answer, mobile IM, which is where you can get on msn, yahoo, or aim messenger, email, if you have the web service it allows you to check emails, and last but not least, chat, where you can get on myspace or facebook. Overall this phone is very sleek, and nice to have.

January 22 Ledes

New Marine Life Discovered Off Tasmania
Off the coast of Tasmania where one of the deepest, and most remote places on the planet are showing signs of stress and may be killed by climate change, but miraculously new life has formed. Ancient coral, 10,000-years-old will be studied for clues to climates several million years old. After looking 200 feet deep in the ocean, mainly three new life forms where found; a sea squirt (which is like a Venus Fly Trap), Gooseneck Barnacles and round Purple-Spotted Sea Anemones. Some were found newly dead, the scientist will study to see if they died by ocean warming, disease, or ocean acidity. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28711152
Penguins Species Nears Extinction
Nearly 90% of the Rockhopper Penguin’s population has been deceased within 50 years. Factors like the climate changes and over fishing could be a couple of the main causes. Since last year five species have been added to the threatened list and one has been added to the Endangered Species Act. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28696101
Stem Cell Discovery Could Mean Faster Healing
In London, England at the Imperial College, researchers found using mice, that extra mesenchymal stem cells, can locate an injury and then boost tissue recovery time. They can also help heart attack patients recover faster, speed up the repair of broken bones, and possibly treat patients suffering from autoimmune disease, like rheumatoid arthritis. Clinical trials on humans are hoped to be conducted within ten years. http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/01/09/imperial.stem.cells/
New Nano Coating Boosts Solar Efficiency
Coming from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York have made a discovery to aid solar technology. The new .7-1 micro-millimeter thick, fragile, Nano-technological coating can absorb sun energy from any angle. Instead of having to track the sun, or put panels in intense sunlight, just coat the older panels in this new coating and more energy can be produced. http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/11/06/solar.coating/

Website Review

Don’t have enough room for all of those pictures on your computer, are hey making it slow? Photobucket.com does, also with room for hours and hours of videos. Photobucket has a massive online library, as of two o’clock on January 13, 2009 there was 6,735,415,000 images and growing. There are twenty-five million unique visitors in the United States with forty-six million worldwide. The number one photo site in the United States. Taking the number three spot in entertainment/multimedia website in the United States, and number eight in the world. Located on the top 50 sites in the United States at number thirty-one, and on the global list it is sitting at number 41. Upload, share, link, edit, and find pictures within this site. Upload pictures from your computer. When the site links the photos for you that is one way to share them just paste a link into an email, or click the email tab next to the photo, how convenient. The site is a search engine for pictures, anything you want. When creating an online album first you have to register, but after that many users can contribute to the album, so you can use it as basically, a family or friend photo album. The site also offers an editing service, a scrapbook maker, and a photo gift maker. With the editing service you can basically Photoshop a picture for free, even add stickers, words, or special effects, but you need an add-on. The scrapbook maker has an easy drag and drop action to add photos to the pre-made scrapbook designs; you can share the book online or print it out. The photo-gift maker allows you to make cards, shirts, hoodies, mugs, calendars, stickers, posters, luggage tags, puzzles, and much more. If you have anything you would like to do with a picture go to Photobucket.com they’ll surely have it

Question 5

Favorite color: lime green
Favoite Class: English 2
Favorite Ice Cream: Coffee

Websites I Use 2

Mobile 17- This is where you can find many different accesories to send to your phone, pictures, ringtones, and backgrounds.

Yahoo Mail - This is just like hotmail where you can send people private emails where others can't view them except for people who are sending them, to communicate.

AZLyrics - This is used to look up lyrics to songs, if you don't know them and want to sing along with them and not sound stupid when you're with friends.

Websites I Use

Myspace: Myspace is a social networking site where you can stay in touch with your friends, old and new. You can edit your own profile, post bulletins about how you day was or anything you want, and upload photos.

My Yearbook: My Yearbook is also a site to connect to others. My yearbook provides quizzes, games, and profiles that you can personalize. Make new friends and you can even get “lunch money” to play around on the site with.

Facebook: Facebook is the same as Myspace, used to stay in touch with friends and make your own profile all about you to let the world to see, and play games.

Photobucket: Upload pictures and look at all the pictures other people have uploaded, Photobucket give active links and allows you to copy the codes and then you can apply them to your myspace or Facebook profile or any website that will allow you to use html codes.

Youtube: Youtube is the same as Photobucket, except for Youtube uses videos. People upload videos that others can view and provide an embedded code if you would like to post it anywhere that allow these codes.

Addicting Games: When you’re bored this is the game website to go to. It provides thousands of free online games, that anyone can play.

Hotmail: Hotmail is an email service that people use to communicate with other. Send annoying forwards and personal things. It has plenty of space and is very simple to use anyone can do it.