Textbook tech tip....

Our tech-tip is a big help for students who need help with the unit/lesson they're learing in their textbook. If you open up your school textbook to the front page, you will find a website. Which has study guides and games that will help you prepare for a test or quiz. You must do the following steps to get to the lesson you are searching for.

1. Click the subject that you want help with.

2. Click on the country it's from. ( in the front page of the text book )

3. Click on the activity you want to study with.

Feeling the Groove of Grooveshark

Grooveshark, is like, the coolest music website since sliced bread. It's not like pansy pandora, or baby jango, who think they need to give you random songs that you "Might" like. No, Grooveshark treats you like a MAN, it lets you pick your own songs that you want to listen to. Feeling like a playlist? MAKE ONE! With the power of the mouse, and the careful guidance of the website, you will soon learn all of this website's tricks! It's not like Itunes when you listen to thirty seconds of the song and then you are required to buy it, no, Grooveshark knows sometimes you're broke and you just want to listen to some music a friend was all like up in your face going "DUDE, THE MUSIC GODS HAVE BLESSED THIS BAND."

Google Chrome

Google Chrome is a faster way to browse the net! Google Chrome will save your six most used websites automatically. Also your google chrome can have a variety of themes of your choice. But their is one catch, it has to be downlowded. I have created a link below so that you may downloaded Google Chrome for free! I like Chrome for its speed, simplicity and organization. I hope you like it too!

http://www.google.com/chrome?hl=en

External Hard Drives

External hard drives are like really big flash drives with a lot of space in them. They are used for storing very large files, programs, or software. They can also be used to back up all your files and programs in the case of a computer crash. External hard drives can greatly vary in size: they can be 100 gigabytes up to 6 terrabytes, which is a huge amount of space. The actual size of the device can be small about the size of a soda can and this can help because you would be able to take it anywhere. They are plugged into your computer by usb port.

Here are a few links to places where you can get external hard drives:

i/o magic.com

everythingusb.com

Awesomesauciest artist tool ever

Tablets are computer input devices which are made to redesign how people use their computers.
They're digital canvases that connect to your computer and when you write/draw on it with it's pen, it shows up on the screen. You could also use the pen to navigate around the Internet as if it's a mouse, only in pen form. The Wacom Intuos3 Tablet is one of the best on the market, and is used by professional artists. It's really useful if you're a digital artist (like me), because it feels really natural to work with an actual pen. It's pen/stylus has over 2000 levels of pressure, so when you draw, it seems as if you're actually using a real pencil or pen! :D

There's alot of other tablet brands out there, but Wacom makes one of the best! Here's their products: http://www.wacom.com/productinfo/index.php

Shiny Search

Now whenever you open your browser such as google it can be opened to your own customized, themed, and named homepage! Just go to http://www.shinysearch.com/ and choose the theme you want, choose your own name, and then press enter. There you go, you will have your own costomized google homepage.

Spark Notes Tech Tips

Spark notes is a free online study website. Spark notes is good for preparation for quizzes, tests, and book reports. For example, let's say you're reading the novel "Hoot" and you don't understand the first chapter. So you go to Spark Notes and look up the summary, you can use these summaries to look up words in the book and find the most important information. To learn more information to try out the site go to sparknotes.com

Introducing Picnik.com

Picnik.com is an online photo editing service. It is an insanely fun free program. It allows you to upload photos from your computer or from a website that you have an account with. You can upload from Facebook, Flickr, MySpace, Picasa web albums, websites, screen shots, and from your own computer. You can then edit and add a lot of special effects to the photos. You can make scrapbooks, collages, cards or just add some effects to a normal picture. We like this site because it is really fun and easy, with just one click your picture could go from normal to really fun!

Click here to try out picnik.com

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This blog features "tech tips" shared by students in ASK MS technology classes.