Good morning people. Due to my inability to sleep tonight I decided to write a post for you guys.
I was born in November 1995.
The Internet was created many years before that.
You see I dont know a world without the ablitity to access information when ever I want.
I don't even remember much when I had dial-up.
Ive spent thousands of hours in front of machines with flashing LEDs and CRT/LCD screens.
Ive seen the creation and uses of Web 2.0. Ive seen the start of YouTube, Flickr, and heck, even Blogger.
Ive always wanted to learn and share opinions with other people. Its accualy a big part of my life. I spend hours creating youtube videos (http://www.youtube.com/user/smellsliketech) and I love it when I talk to my veiwers.
Alot of people quote me when I say this:
I learn more from the Internet then I ever did in school.
And is that a bad thing?
Heck no.
People are normally scared of the things they dont know about. And alot of people dont even want to get started with the Internet because they are to scared to open the door or travel farther in than they have.
I think the sharing of information is one of the scariest.
Using sites like Twitter and Foursquare really tells people what you are doing and where you are. And people ask the question "Who cares?"
You would be suprised.
And for the people that say they don't want to join Twitter because its a "stalker site" you are wrong. Dont judge a book by its cover.
I find the media tends to make the Internet look like a scary place and make it say its unsafe. The internet is acualy one heck of a safe place if you use it wisely.
Know when your in trouble.
Know when your getting scammed.
Know when your getting phished.
The Internet connect people to others and creates the perfect canvas for transmitting Ideas.
Don't be scared. Its a great tool.
Be safe guys,
Paul Copeland
@Paul_Copeland
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Sunday, May 2, 2010
"Tech Guys"
I'd be the first to admit.
Fixing computers is hard. Very hard to be exact. Many things can go wrong and a common way to fix the computer is to buy a whole one entirely.
But you can basically classify the problem to a certain part.
If your brakes are not working in your car you look at the brake systems. Right?
Well thats not what happened to my mother.
She owns a HP Pavilion dv6000. Her network card seemed to had been malfunctioning.
She brought it into [Computer Store] and they looked at it.
There diagnosis?
More RAM and a virus checkup.
Totaling over $200.
Yeah.
Scam much?
Using the idea that viruses are out to eat your living soul and cause your name to be changed to Reggie they feed upon the novice minds of there customers and make them pay overpriced parts that they don't need.
That needs to change.
She complained to me the next day that it was still not working. I did an easy google search to find out that Pavilions with AMD possessors have an overheating problem that causes the motherboard to fail. Basically saying that with in the next months she needs a new computer.
How the heck is RAM supposed to fix that?
[+1 if you found the Weird Al reference]
Fixing computers is hard. Very hard to be exact. Many things can go wrong and a common way to fix the computer is to buy a whole one entirely.
But you can basically classify the problem to a certain part.
If your brakes are not working in your car you look at the brake systems. Right?
Well thats not what happened to my mother.
She owns a HP Pavilion dv6000. Her network card seemed to had been malfunctioning.
She brought it into [Computer Store] and they looked at it.
There diagnosis?
More RAM and a virus checkup.
Totaling over $200.
Yeah.
Scam much?
Using the idea that viruses are out to eat your living soul and cause your name to be changed to Reggie they feed upon the novice minds of there customers and make them pay overpriced parts that they don't need.
That needs to change.
She complained to me the next day that it was still not working. I did an easy google search to find out that Pavilions with AMD possessors have an overheating problem that causes the motherboard to fail. Basically saying that with in the next months she needs a new computer.
How the heck is RAM supposed to fix that?
[+1 if you found the Weird Al reference]
Thursday, April 8, 2010
iPhone 4.0 Opinions
Hello Internet.
Its late at night, I cannot sleep. But that’s nothing new.
We know about the iPad, you may know that I dislike it, but things are calming down.
Thank god.
Today was the announcement of iPhone 4.0, with 1,500 new APIs for Devs, 100 new user features, and the important “7 Tentpole Features”
They are:
Multitasking:
AMAZING. Most smart-phones have it already but they just drain the battery life and clog processor speed. Apple seems to find away around this. And it looks great with the beauty of the O.S. it self. This is exactly what iPhone needed to keep itself cutting edge. The streaming audio and VOIP look and sound great. Background location doesn’t make much sense because they were talking about triangulating your location with cell towers, but cell towers are not accurate. Push/local updates haven’t changed much. Apps swich rather fast so this looks great.
Folders:
Organizing apps is important. If you saw my app screens you would realize that I never clean them. This automatically names the folder and keeps the screen nice and neat.
Mail:
Not much changed here. Unified inbox is nice. Fast inbox switching is nice, but most of the things he said doesn’t change much.
iBooks:
Interesting. But I don’t think I want to be reading a book on a really small screen.
Enterprise:
Data protection is ok, MDM is nice, Wireless App Distribution is good, nothing real special.
Game Center:
Basically a big Xbox Live, or if your me Steam. Just making the gaming social.
iAd:
Oh great. If apps needed advertising they could make it themselves. I don’t want my small iPhone screen taken up by HTML apps, poping up when I don’t want them too. This really bugs me, it might not to you, but this could really get out of hand. The big free apps will just say “Why not?” and put them on the apps. This will cause problems.
Overall:
Meh…
There is one good point and one bad point. I don’t know where this will go. But we will find out in June.
By the way:
Check out my newest video.
iPad From The Teenager View.
Its late at night, I cannot sleep. But that’s nothing new.
We know about the iPad, you may know that I dislike it, but things are calming down.
Thank god.
Today was the announcement of iPhone 4.0, with 1,500 new APIs for Devs, 100 new user features, and the important “7 Tentpole Features”
They are:
Multitasking:
AMAZING. Most smart-phones have it already but they just drain the battery life and clog processor speed. Apple seems to find away around this. And it looks great with the beauty of the O.S. it self. This is exactly what iPhone needed to keep itself cutting edge. The streaming audio and VOIP look and sound great. Background location doesn’t make much sense because they were talking about triangulating your location with cell towers, but cell towers are not accurate. Push/local updates haven’t changed much. Apps swich rather fast so this looks great.
Folders:
Organizing apps is important. If you saw my app screens you would realize that I never clean them. This automatically names the folder and keeps the screen nice and neat.
Mail:
Not much changed here. Unified inbox is nice. Fast inbox switching is nice, but most of the things he said doesn’t change much.
iBooks:
Interesting. But I don’t think I want to be reading a book on a really small screen.
Enterprise:
Data protection is ok, MDM is nice, Wireless App Distribution is good, nothing real special.
Game Center:
Basically a big Xbox Live, or if your me Steam. Just making the gaming social.
iAd:
Oh great. If apps needed advertising they could make it themselves. I don’t want my small iPhone screen taken up by HTML apps, poping up when I don’t want them too. This really bugs me, it might not to you, but this could really get out of hand. The big free apps will just say “Why not?” and put them on the apps. This will cause problems.
Overall:
Meh…
There is one good point and one bad point. I don’t know where this will go. But we will find out in June.
By the way:
Check out my newest video.
iPad From The Teenager View.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Teenagers will do what they do.
Anyone tried FormSpring.me?
Yes? No?
Basically its a website were you can put questions to ask people.
But this plan went horribley wrong when teenagers came in.
Lets break off for a sec.
High schoolers are rather dumb. They hate on other people to make themselfs feel higher. But it never really works...
When you can put this online and direct them towards someone anonymously it leads to failure.
I have friends whos formsprings a full of words I would never post on the internet let alone say it to someones face.
Mine is clean because I luckily don't have too many enemies. But some of these are harsh.
If you wouldnt say it to there face in person, don't say it on the internet.
P.S. I'm Not discouraging the use of Formspring.me, It has alot of potential when used correctly.
You can find my formspring here: http://www.formspring.me/websurfer
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Uhhh Apple? You missed some.
Sick today. Whooo!
So if you may not have known Apple removed all of the "sex related" apps from the App Store.
But apparently this are not sex related?
So of course Apple saw these and for some reason thought them to be suitable.
I don't realy see why Apple said these were fine. Some apps were worse than that and I completly understand why Apple removed them. There was way too many and it was out of control. Every other app on the top downloaded was one of them, only to continue to be bumped up by 10 year olds with iTouches.
The aproval prosses if stupid in the first place. But I did like of this new rule. Anyone else agree?
So if you may not have known Apple removed all of the "sex related" apps from the App Store.
But apparently this are not sex related?
So of course Apple saw these and for some reason thought them to be suitable.
I don't realy see why Apple said these were fine. Some apps were worse than that and I completly understand why Apple removed them. There was way too many and it was out of control. Every other app on the top downloaded was one of them, only to continue to be bumped up by 10 year olds with iTouches.
The aproval prosses if stupid in the first place. But I did like of this new rule. Anyone else agree?
Thursday, February 25, 2010
And Stuff?
This ad annoys me:
And yes it is a normal ad. But that one line KILLS ME.
"And maybe do a sideshow on a TV and stuff."
And stuff?!?!
Ughh *headesk*
It surprises me that they expect everyone to ignore that fact.
It shows a high level off the i-dont-know-what-im-talking-about syndrome.
I mean I don't expect Best Buy employes to be programming in Python and Ruby on Rails.
But really?????
And yes it is a normal ad. But that one line KILLS ME.
"And maybe do a sideshow on a TV and stuff."
And stuff?!?!
Ughh *headesk*
It surprises me that they expect everyone to ignore that fact.
It shows a high level off the i-dont-know-what-im-talking-about syndrome.
I mean I don't expect Best Buy employes to be programming in Python and Ruby on Rails.
But really?????
Saturday, February 13, 2010
How To Survive A Long Car Ride The Paul Copeland Way
So here I am again.
Sitting in a car for 5 hours into Toronto.
So as I pass through London, Ontario I have found my self rather bored.
In fact, Very bored.
But I have overcame this with my own geekyness.
So here we go.
How To Survive A Long Car Ride The Paul Copeland Way:
1) Use your iPod! Music is the best way to pass time. You could listen to anything, but to express your true geekyness blast techno music. To be more precise, listen to Daft Punk. Now have a miniature rave party in your head. Also, if you have a iPhone/iTouch you can watch movies, TV, and even your favorite podcasts (TWiT *cough*). Oh and a iPhone/iTouch with a bunch of game apps is a good idea too.
2) Always have a fully charged netbook on you. Its been 3 hours in the car and my battery hasn’t even dipped below 75%. Now I don’t recommend watching movies on this because it will both kill your battery and screw with your processor, video play back will be choppy and low quality. But you also need a netbook for this next reason.
3) Set up Google Reader and switch to the built in offline mode. This will pull data from the news sources (*cough*TechCrunch, CrunchGear, Engadget, Gizmodo, etc.*cough*) and bring 2000+ blog posts to read. This will take up way more than 5 hours. Trust me. Now there is a downside, no photos. So, when they refer to a graph or something you cannot tell what there saying, but oh well. I updated Reader when we got to a Tim Horton’s so I was reading for awhile.
Using these tips will not only make you not bored, but also make you more geekier in the process.
Enjoy!
Sitting in a car for 5 hours into Toronto.
So as I pass through London, Ontario I have found my self rather bored.
In fact, Very bored.
But I have overcame this with my own geekyness.
So here we go.
How To Survive A Long Car Ride The Paul Copeland Way:
1) Use your iPod! Music is the best way to pass time. You could listen to anything, but to express your true geekyness blast techno music. To be more precise, listen to Daft Punk. Now have a miniature rave party in your head. Also, if you have a iPhone/iTouch you can watch movies, TV, and even your favorite podcasts (TWiT *cough*). Oh and a iPhone/iTouch with a bunch of game apps is a good idea too.
2) Always have a fully charged netbook on you. Its been 3 hours in the car and my battery hasn’t even dipped below 75%. Now I don’t recommend watching movies on this because it will both kill your battery and screw with your processor, video play back will be choppy and low quality. But you also need a netbook for this next reason.
3) Set up Google Reader and switch to the built in offline mode. This will pull data from the news sources (*cough*TechCrunch, CrunchGear, Engadget, Gizmodo, etc.*cough*) and bring 2000+ blog posts to read. This will take up way more than 5 hours. Trust me. Now there is a downside, no photos. So, when they refer to a graph or something you cannot tell what there saying, but oh well. I updated Reader when we got to a Tim Horton’s so I was reading for awhile.
Using these tips will not only make you not bored, but also make you more geekier in the process.
Enjoy!
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