QR Codes

New year's coming soon so Happy New Year(: Today I'm telling you about QR codes;

# What's a QR (quick response) code?

This is a square module with bars and points on its area and a framed square in each corner but in the right bottom corner. It encodes stored information you can access rapidly.

# How is it used?

When you catch a code with an app in technological gadgets with its camera, it searches the information on it and shows you (as a link, message...), in a quickly way.

# What's its storage capacity?

They can storage as maximum 1,817 characters from the Japanese Alphabet Kanji/Kana; 4,298 alphanumeric characters; 7,089 numeric characters or 2,953 MByte as bynary or data. They have between 7% and 30% of error correction.

# What's its origin?

Denso Wave (Toyota) created these codes on 1994 to register and manage their spare parts for vehicles in a high speed. Later, with mobile phones they got common, specially in Japan.


I hope it was useful and I wish you a happy new year's eve and a better year than 2013, because 2014 has to be great. Kisses and hugs to everyone <3 See you.

Phubbing

Now, another curious actual fact that's happening nowadays. I'm sure you've suffered, done or seen it but you don't know;

# What's "phubbing"?

This is the fact of underestimating people, not heeding them and being rude, because of using smartphones and any kind of technological gadgets all the time; for example, using your mobile phone while someone is talking to you or in a meeting or lunch. It's usual in young people, because children aren't educated by society in that aspect and it's more and more usual.

# What's its origin?

This word, appeared in 2007, it's the combination of phone and snubbing, and it started to be used with the use of smartphones, to describe that kind of behabiour. It was popularized by the Stop Phubbing campaign created by McCann, which was part of a promotion of the Macquarie Dictionary of Australia.

Now, you know a bit more about technological vocabulary :P Happy holydays and have a nice day!

Selfie

Hello again at Christmast time (: Today I explain you a curiosity about an actual thing we're used to see but we don't know. Here it goes, enjoy it and your holydays.

# What's a "selfie"?

A selfie is a self-portrait photo, usually taken in a slightly tilted manner with a hand-held digital camera or camera phone, which is usually used to be shown in our profiles on the internet. In 1839 an American pioneer in photography called Robert Cornelius took a photo of himself, taking the first selfie.

# Why did this word originate?

In 2002 an Australian internet forum (ABC online) published this word for the first time, relating a situation colloquially. 

On MySpace, at the beginning, were often used flash-blinded self-portraits, usually taken in front of a bathroom mirror, but then with Facebook they started to be well-focused and more formal, taken by others from distance. Then in 2009 they were also very used on Flickr. 

They appeared the front-facing cameras and apps like Instagram which facilitate this kind of photos, and this word became more used. 

By 2013, the word "selfie" was incluided in the online version of the Oxford English Dictionary and announced as the "word of the year", whith an Australian origin.

DJ Tenorio Theatre Brochure

Hi everyone, and HAPPY CHRISTMAS!!! I wish you're having a very enjoyable and relaxing holiday and Christmas day.

Today I'm showing you the last thing we did before holidays, that last days of hard working at high school. I's a brochure for the play that is to be performed in our high school soon. If you're interested you can read it and you can attend it.

Have a nice Christmas Day :)

Computing Memories

Hi! I greet you for the fourth time to show you the third project we've made at computing. This time it's a presentation about Memories in computing (RAM & ROM), in which my partner Paula and me have explained a bit them and some types of them. We hope you like it.

I leave here the presentation and the link to my partner's blog, to visit her too.

Have a nice day, and a nice week!

Paula's blog: www.paula4bc.blogspot.com.es

Computing Memories from Carmen Bueno Iglesias

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You can also watch it here.