FLICKR, the place to put your photos for sharing

I had always seen our military Public Affair Specialist posting the pictures of any events using the Flickr site. I haven’t used it before until this week requirement and I’m pretty impress with it. Flickr it is the best of all worlds when it comes to online photo service of choice. It has everything, easy to share, easy to search, an excellent amount of storage, slideshow capabilities, tag with location option, API support, and forums are included. And the users and whomever they share the pictures with can order prints through associated services.  And it's also cheap. It is only $25 a year; any pro-level sites surely can't compete with that. Flickr does have it cons also and some of them I will describe it briefly.  Doesn’t have a keyboard navigation support, You cannot use the same name for multiple pictures, the slideshow thumbnails are kind of small, you will issue with Flickr Uploader when using a Mac Computer; it did happen to me. We cannot deny that Flickr is popular for numerous reasons. Blogging it is the main area that Flickr is nominating. If you are like me new to Flickr and blogging, F-spot is a magnificent tool. F-spot is easy to use, upfront, photo organization program. The pictures uploaded from your camera can be organized by date; folders and they can also be tagged for fast recovery. It also comes with normal photo editing actions like fix red-eye, adjustments of colors, editing the size of the picture and adjusting the angle for the picture as well. Very interesting tools to work with pictures we can find now and days. Enjoy all the ones that you will be able to work with. Enjoy the Web 2.0 pictures that I have uploaded to my Flickr account. I uploaded five examples of what Web 2.0 is and how it works. The tags I created for every single one of them was Core, RSS, Applications, and Sharing.  After naming every image, I went and search the site “Flickr related tag browser” to see how many of them had the same tag as mine. I did find out that for the core name there were 224 with the tag sharing. For the RSS one, it had 561,416 images with the same tag. For Application, I only was able to find 30. For the tag core, I did find 10. If I keep looking for more tags, I will never end typing how many I find. Once again it was fun to work on this site.

Click Here to view my Flickr Site 

References:

https://www.surfnetkids.com/tech/487/the-pros-and-cons-of-flickr/
https://www.cnet.com/news/newbies-guide-to-flickr/
https://youtu.be/gn0uLrsHyEI

                  

                                     MOZILLA FIREFOX VS. INTERNET EXPLORER

     Firefox started as an experimental branch by Dave Hyatt and Blake Ross. They assumed that the lucrative needs of Netscape had compromised the effectiveness of the Mozilla suite browser. To fight back in 2004 the Organization revealed that they designed Firefox and Thunderbird. Time Warner, IBM and Sun Microsystems sponsored it. Now, let's talk about Internet Explorer. IE was released in August 1995 by Netscape and it was bundle with Windows Operating system. IE has been constantly losing its market share to other browsers, including Safari, Chrome and Firefox. 

IE and Firefox differ in many ways and also offer many different features. Firefox is a free web browser. It permits individuals to modify and generate more characters. It has features such as incremental find, spell checking, and live bookmarking; download manager, bookmarks, private browsing, and location-aware browsing. It has compatibility with several third party add-ons and it can be use with any operating system. One of the main holdback of IE, is that it only works with Windows and cannot be install in other operating systems. IE has also been a continuous target for malicious coders and it has a lot of deficiencies with security, however it has been continuously trying to make its system faster and more safe. An advantage of using Firefox is the quantity of add-ons that are accessible, which makes it easier for users to modify their browser to what they wants. Selecting a browser generally varies on every individual needs and what they like. Although a lot people select the add-ons on Firefox, some others choose the qualities given by IE.

http://www.diffen.com/difference/Firefox_vs_Internet_Explorer

https://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,1815833,00.asp

                                     LIBRE OFFICE VS. MICROSOFT OFFICE

   Microsoft Office has been the ruling winner of office groups, but that doesn't mean the free substitute, Libre Office, isn't appealing. Let's look at how the two compete, and if it's ultimately feasible to trench the paid choice for the free one. We not think it's actually reasonable to compare the free version and the paid one, but the two has majority of it features very similar and we might do not know this. First of all, Libre Office is compatible with a few operating systems, such as Windows, OS X, and Linux. In the other hand Microsoft Office's latest version is limited to just Windows 7 or Windows 10. While I definitely can't go through every feature, I’ll attempt to get a good glance at how they associate after downloading the software and installing it into my MAC and Windows systems. Let’s start to compare both. Libre Office has evolved a lot in the last seven years. It has developed as very established and steady software, but Microsoft Office still controls the marketplace. The problem here it is not in the code, but in the difficulty of credentials themselves. But good news is that the cloud is fast interchanging the applications already installed and the debut of Libre Office online might inspire more organizations to run their own competence cloud, to control their own credentials. Time will let us know if the cloud can release us from the restraints of trademarked office suites.

https://www.cio.com/article/3165292/open-source-tools/libreoffice-vs-microsoft-office-its-a-format-war.html

https://lifehacker.com/battle-of-the-office-suites-microsoft-office-and-libre-1147940828

                                            GIMP VS. PHOTOSHOP

    The main question here is how we are going to introduce GIMP to a user who has relied completely on Photoshop for his or her image editing needs? That is how I went to my friend since she is an excellent worker with Linux to introduce me to GIMP. I will attempt to compare Photoshop and GIMP to the best of my capabilities. The main difference between GIMP and Photoshop is the price. GIMP is obviously a free and open source software. You are welcome to contribute any quantity to the GIMP development if you so want to. This is really beneficial for an ambitious designer who desires to improve our design abilities, but presently does not have the abilities of paying for Photoshop. Photoshop cost in Amazon is $642.58. In Adobe you can get it for $19.99/month. Not everyone can afford this when need it.

    If we talk about hardware requirements, such as RAM and disk space used, GIMP requires less hardware properties than Photoshop. Another characteristic is that GIMP can also cross-platform. It can be use on Mac, Windows, as well as Linux. Photoshop is not available for Linux users so far. When it comes to features, Photoshop obviously has much more than GIMP. And if all we need to edit photos is a small subcategory of Photoshop qualities, we should contemplate moving to GIMP, basically because we will end up paying for Photoshop features that we will hardly use. As a disadvantage, GIMP is infamous for having a unexpected familiarity twist. Using the software for this assignment, I have to confess that I find its user interface is quite confusing. If you are thinking to move from Photoshop to GIMP, you can start by trying GIMPshop (Linux not available yet). It has same qualities as GIMP, but presents a Photoshop-like interface in its place of the default GIMP one.

https://www.webpagefx.com/blog/web-design/photoshop-alternative-gimp/

Websites development

Jumpchart offers a very manageable way to develop a site for our clients. It will allow the customers browse to an easy interactive site with different categories and sub categories. This way it will be easier to show their basics in just one location. It is pretty interesting how it will give us feedback on how can better our product. Making just one big team with the developers, designers, copywriters and the client it is amazing tool for success.

I’m fascinating with the idea that you will be able to preview the final product before it gets out to the market. I love the idea of been able to download the entire site in HTML and CSS. I also love the idea of been able to leave comments on pages, and even change the other of the navigation panel, if permitted.  RSS feed is another good thing that is use on Jumpchart.  The only downsize for someone might be, not been able to change the design that Jumpchart develops.

What I enjoy most about Jumpchart is the cleanness in the product. It helps develop a better plan for collecting and formatting the content. It also gives customers like me, a visualize idea before making our final decision.  It might not be the best solution for a larger site. It is excellent for small to medium size sites. It will be a good start for small business.

http://www.solutionwatch.com/

7 tips to bounce back from a bad performance review

Every person will go thru this process. Everyday we work our best to perform in accordance with our protocols and we also strive to do better in a ethical and morally correct environment.  Our superiors always are evaluating our performance and how quick we complete our tasks. We will always have that fear, anger, or disappointment towards ourselves, if we don’t get the evaluation we expected it.

That’s part of our process or leaning and developing as professionals. Like the article on “Mashable.com”, allow yourself to follow those steps to bounce back of that experience and become better on what you work with.  We got to learn form the negative to become better and not to making the same mistake again. After we do this we step back and analyze every aspect to deliver a positive impact. Once areas that need to be work on has been identified, let’s make the changes on what we want to achieve and how we going to conquer our boss with it. 

We can't forget that a good plan of action will always be need it as the pilot to guide our efforts. We can use excel, graphics, etc. to present this plan to others working along with you.  Their feedback will give you a better standpoint on how you’re doing.  Building that teamwork can be the key for success.  In conclusion, we need to be more reliable with our behavior at work. If we continuously change our ideas or ways of perform, we will sabotage our own work. Always be ethically, morally correct and recognize your mistakes to become a better person.  Win your boss trust by recognizing your mistakes and showing them that you can bounce back to the top.

http://mashable.com/2017/10/10/bad-performance-review-bounce-back/?utm_cid=hp-r-1#4x7YEBMJBmqU