the Cloud

Actually, right now (before I do the research) I don't know anything about this "the Cloud". It sounds alot like iCloud of mac, but I'm not sure if its true or not. I guess and hope that this is what I think and not something else.

Some questions I would like to know are:
-What is "the Cloud"?
-What is it for?
-What can I do to learn how to manage the Cloud (tutorials from youtube, google, etc)

Useful links:

1. .http://www.novell.com/communities/node/13328/cloud-computing-what-is-the-cloud 
2. http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/cloud-computing-work-technology-explained/ 

So, mainly the things I learned in this amount of time are:

• It is a program that lets you see information in any computer or device.
• Important webpages like Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, Google Docs and Gmail use the Cloud.
• The Cloud runs with something called "collective virtual computer" that is the thing that lets you access everything from other computers. 
• The Cloud allows you to download apps for all the computer softwares, not just windows or mac.
• The Cloud is used with, what the website calls it, "layers". There is the front end and back end. 
• The front end layer is the layer that you interact with.
• The back end layer is the layer that runs the website.
• This software changed our lives, even without us knowing about it. 

i havent quite understood this Cloud, but another thing I understood is that the cloud runs important websites like Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, Google Docs and Gmail. The cloud allows you to see your information from different computers or devices, and lets you use them like if you where in the same computer. Unlike other webpages that dont run with the Cloud, this one has collective virtual computer, which lets you access it on any computer, not just on cetain computers. Like the website says "it is a Cloud of information". There is some applications that can only be run in windows or only in mac, but the cloud allows you to run it everywhere. The Cloud has two layers. The front end and the back end. The front end is the layer that you interact with, for example when you access your account to Facebook or Google, you are using the front end of the layer. The back end is the layer that allows the website to run, like the electricity cables. I also saw that most of the people use the cloud without them noticing, which I find quite normal because probably we don't know what software we are using, even if it is so important. One of the questions I made, actually the last one, I was wrong, because its not a game with tutorials, its something that everyone of us uses everyday, like for example, right now, me, by using blogger (Google) I'm using the front end layer of the Cloud, and the tsoftware that runs the website, is in the other layer (back end layer). 

Google Day 1

Today's Three Goals:

1. Learn how to make GIFs using different applications
2. Youtube video downloader links.
3. How does applications works?

Info I learned:
- There is an app named gimp, which you can use easily to make GIFs from youtube videos. GIMP is an application that does pretty much the same thing as photoshop, but is much easier to use and its completely free to download. I've used this app before because photoshop costs alot of money. Here is a link I found that will help me. Click here to see the video.

-Photoshop CS3 is another great way to make gifs from youtube videos, but unlike GIMP, I've never used this app before, so it will be a little harder for me to get a hang of the application. Here is a link I found that wll help me to make gifs. Click here to see the video

-I entered youtube and searched for a video tutorial about the same topics that I'm using with the 2 apps I found that will be easier. Here are the Videos: GIMP and Photoshop CS3

- I saw that to make gifs from youtube videos, you first need to find a trustworthy youtube downloader that downloads AND converts youtube videos to mp4, because thats the format I would use. RealPlayer dowloads videos but the app only downloads youtube videos from mp4, so here is the video converter I found and will hopefully use to download my gifs. Click here to see the link

Next class I will try to make new gifs using photoshop and make a blog about my videos.

Google 20%

I would like to be able to master Creating gifs. I find it very interesting to make moving pictures from videos or from movies. I would like to make gifs of landscapes, clips, movies, etc. I would like to learn how to do this things using photoshop or any other available source that will help me do this.

I would present my project doing a website, or a video of how i created my project. I would film my screen and then show how i did it step by step. I would do a blog, mainly on tumblr or on here to show all the gifs I could make with captions or without captions. I would make a brief explanation on why I did this gif and how I did it using the programs I used. 

Link

C/C website