Hellooooooooooooooooooo r u there!

Hello one and all *yawning*... Looks likes our blog has been dozing off in the midst of our busy work and schedule. So how are things up your side? Preparing for exams?

We have almost come to the end of the DOT Com Club for 2008. 30th September will be our last lesson. We look forward to seeing you guys for next year.

As you have are familar with the softwares, we will be sending you guys for competitions. So please don't forget what you have learnt this year. Practise the skills at home... as they say "Practise makes a man perfect"....

Until then, study hard for "THE FINAL EXAMS IN 2008" and good-luck to you guys!

Cheers

DOT COM - Term 3

Hi everybody,

Welcome to a brand new term. Hope you had a good break during the June holidays. This term we have intresting softwares lined up for you.

We will be learning to design some intresting stuffs using Adobe Illustrator. We have learnt to create a Mother's Day card for your mum's. I am sure your mum's should have been very happy to receive a card designed by you.

We will be creating 3D images & Desktop wallpaper using Illustrator. You can design your own wallpaper for your desktop or laptop at home. Here you go with some samples of the wallpaper .... Check this out!

Shall show you more samples on 1st July (Tuesday)

From Illustrator we will be moving on to learn Dreamweaver & Flash , which will help us to design websites and will also enable the P5 pupils to enter the competitions next year (if they continue to stay with DOT COM Club in 2009).

Have fun learning !

The new DOTCOM season

Following this new term, DOTCOM has started again! YAY! I just wonder what we are going to learn though... Maybe advanced photoshop? Anyway, let's celebrate that DOTCOM has started again!

Wetpaint

I found a website that allows you to create wikis like Wikipedia. It's called Wetpaint (Google it) and you can create wikis for your friends to edit. It can be used for projects by letting your friends add stuff in it. It also can be used to find people with the same interests with you.

www.wetpaint.com

Thank goodness for Windows users! We can now be comic writers!

Hi, this is Trumann. I, for one, is a windows user and I have longed for the 'Comic Life' program we see in the lab. Thank God! I just found that there's a Windows version of Comic Life' available. There's a 30-days trail made downloadable on the manufacturers','plasq' website. You can also order either the standard or the deluxe version from the same page. There's also a 'Comic Life' gallery linked from the very same page. To get there, click here.

Podomatic

It 's been some time, I have entered some posts online. You guys are coming along well, this term. The logos that you created for our group last week was fantastic. Most of you folllowed the rules of coyrights. Well done!

I happened to browse the net and found this website www.podomatic.com that has podcasts readily available for you. Moreover, you can record the podcasts online too. Check it out!

Remote Controlled Robot Fish:Airacuda

Festo, an international developer of automation technology, has designed & created Airacuda, a remote controlled pneumatically driven fish. Following its biological model in shape,movement, & in design, the Airacuda is propelled by a mechanical fin drive.

Giant Marine Life found in Ocean near Antartica

Scientists who conducted the most comprehensive survey to date of New Zealand's Antarctic waters were surprised by the size of some specimens found, including jellyfish with 12-foot tentacles and 2-foot-wide starfish. These are some of the animals found.

World's thinnest 8 megapixel cameraphone by Samsung

Believe it or not, Samsung made a 8 megapixel cameraphone 8.5mm thin. It's even thinner than most of our 8 megapixel camera's now! So, is it only a 8 megapixel with not functions? Think again. There is face detection, anti-shake and 1-cm macro! Most of our phones have only 8cm macro. So when is it going to be out? It is still unknown and may never be released in Singapore but in Korea only.

UPDATE: It is real. This is no joke. See if you can even fit in your hand. Will you even break it?

Build your own Tata Nano

India car maker, Tata, unveiled the world's cheapest car this January. Costing only $2,500. Tata has also bought Jaguar and Land Rover, planning also to buy Ferrari. Now, you can build your own Tata Nano on this website.

Scientists Unveil Prehistoric Crocodile

Pointy-nosed crocodiles may have joined sharks as the dominant predators in the world's oceans some 62 million years ago, according to Brazilian scientists who on Wednesday unveiled one of the most complete skeletons found.

Photoshop is free on the Internet!

The maker of the popular photo-editing software Photoshop on Thursday launched a basic version available for free online. Adobe systems Inc. says it hopes to boost its name recognition among a new generation of consumers who edit, store and share photos online. They have launched a beta version which is much easier to learn. Adobe says providing Photoshop for free is part marketing and part a strategy to create up-sell opportunities. Now you do not need to buy the software, you and use it on the Internet!

Our Podcasting Session

We have started our first session on Podcasting last week. It's been fun seeing you guys creating your podcasts. What a amazing creativity you guys have.

I have been seeing amazing creatins by some of you. Well done boys!. You can upload your Podcasts to your blog. But take note you will not be able to a upload a .m4a file. You will have to convert to .mp3 or .mp4 and upload to your blog.

I have uploaded the Podcasts video that we enjoyed during our lessons. You can download these podcasts from the website http://www.podcast.sg/.

Enjoy the attached Podcast videos that we enjoyed during the lesson.

Pretty Sweet

Have you ever imagined, a battery that runs on sugar ???? It's enough of ransaking your brains ;) Keep your eyes opened and get ready to read the intersting new :)

Sony's bio cell unveiled in mid 2007, that uses glucose digesting enzymes to extract electrons from any sugar solutions. Suprising right!



I believe you know what 'electrons' are :) Not sure!!!! Pls google it.

In a normal battery, electrons flow around the circuit to generate electricity. Now, Connect four of the 50-milliwatt cells, and you've got enough juice to keep your MP3 player humming. It's cool!

(Source : http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1677329_1678027,00.html)

Windows Vs Mac

This was created by the boys of the DOT COM Club. We had a Video Production course and the boys of P6 did a wonderful job. Well done Michael, Samuel, Tai An and James Aluwi.

Welcome DOT COMians

Hi Dot comians, we have a blog for us now. Hurray.... atlast my dream has come true. It takes a small intiative to get thing rolling :)

This is a blog exclusively created for our DOT COM members. Well what is the purpose of this blog? I know you guys are ransanking your brains to fnd the answer ....... Hang on..... guys.... This reminds me of you guys shouting out the answer and me reciprocating "One at a time boys" Argh ! school days... I've been through and know what it is like too.

Well I wanted you too share your ideas and suggestions in regard to IT related issues. You might have intersting ideas and updates realted to IT. This is the place to share and allow everyone of us to grown... Who knows, you might be the next "Bill Gates" in another 10yrs.

I believe that you are here with this club, since you have a passion for IT realated technologies or softwares or hardware.... I hope so ;) or I think you will have the passion soon or later ;). Hope this blog is an eye opener to everyone and it will keep us updated with the latest technologies.

Keep posting in guys ! Catch you soon...