So by far the most interesting thing I've learned to do with Excel is the Special paste technique. It seriously blows my mind to Narnia and back when the data changes as soon as the original source is changed in someway. Once you've copied a graph or a chart, you look under the Home tab, click the arrow under Paste, and click 'Paste Special' and pick the option to paste it as a link in a Powerpoint presentation.
So, no matter where you place it, as long as you have the source there, you can alter it. This would come in handy if say you were giving a presentation that involved charts and someone asks you at the end how a change in the data would affect the numbers. If you have both the Excel file and the Powerpoint presentation on a pen drive, you could load the Excel with the PowerPoint still open, change the data the question is referring to, and talk about what differences there may be.
I have laid awake many a night wondering how the scientists of Microsoft dreamed of making such things or if they even dreamed it all. Or if they're just machines.
If you'd like to see more of my views and work, I've got another blog hurr :
http://erratikinertia.blogspot.com/
Enjoy. Thanks for reading.
- Adain
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Friday, March 13, 2009
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
CLT : ProTools
I had visited CLT before with a friend who showed me how to record music using the lab that we were shown in the 2nd part of our tour. I learned that they actually have a studio-quality USB microphone available for recording.
I'm not sure if I have any ideas using the recording for anything in this class aside from the podcasts which we might do. However, when we were there and our tour guide Rob Chapman was explaining how the technology we have is beyond anything that students will use it for, I got to thinking about how ProTools and microphones could be used to start a club or group that makes professional recordings of for example, the school symphonies or concerts to have on record. It's just an idea but if it went along well enough, perhaps there could even be a branch of Technology, A/V majors or minors that are taught by people to make professional videos, recordings and whatnot.
Nowadays, pretty much anyone can have a great recording with a MacBook and a good microphone, but with the resources to that and more, there should be some sort of club or class for people more interested in learning about technology along with the liberal arts education offered by Trinity.
I'm not sure if I have any ideas using the recording for anything in this class aside from the podcasts which we might do. However, when we were there and our tour guide Rob Chapman was explaining how the technology we have is beyond anything that students will use it for, I got to thinking about how ProTools and microphones could be used to start a club or group that makes professional recordings of for example, the school symphonies or concerts to have on record. It's just an idea but if it went along well enough, perhaps there could even be a branch of Technology, A/V majors or minors that are taught by people to make professional videos, recordings and whatnot.
Nowadays, pretty much anyone can have a great recording with a MacBook and a good microphone, but with the resources to that and more, there should be some sort of club or class for people more interested in learning about technology along with the liberal arts education offered by Trinity.
The Trotsky Image
My image of choice comes from Hany Farid of Dartmouth College who posted two pictures of Leon Trotsky where he appeared with other Russian officials and the very same picture where he was erased after having led a failed struggle against the rise of Joseph Stalin in the 1920s.
http://news.cnet.com/2300-1026_3-6033210-14.html?tag=mncol
The before and after photographs show how he was not only taken out of the photos but how a background was painted in his place as though no one was ever there. However, though they tried to edit him out and help themselves, they ended up helping him, and the effect of the editing was harmful to them. The erasing of Trotsky in this image is significant because though the Communist party tried to erase him from memory entirely, their efforts indicated that they truly feared the ideas he stood for. By taking him out of pictures with them, trying to eradicate any proof that he was in league with them at some point, the Communist Leaders proved their disregard for his ideas but more importantly how they considered his ideas a threat to their ideals of totalitarianism.
http://news.cnet.com/2300-1026_3-6033210-14.html?tag=mncol
The before and after photographs show how he was not only taken out of the photos but how a background was painted in his place as though no one was ever there. However, though they tried to edit him out and help themselves, they ended up helping him, and the effect of the editing was harmful to them. The erasing of Trotsky in this image is significant because though the Communist party tried to erase him from memory entirely, their efforts indicated that they truly feared the ideas he stood for. By taking him out of pictures with them, trying to eradicate any proof that he was in league with them at some point, the Communist Leaders proved their disregard for his ideas but more importantly how they considered his ideas a threat to their ideals of totalitarianism.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Christopher Nolan's Epic Guide to Search Engines
There are a lot of things that I learned how to do today and it's hard to tell where to start so I'll just list my favorite things...
My favorite thing among what he explained was that typing " :site" at the end of whatever you're searching will limit the search to websites whereas if you typed, " :org" or " :gov" it'd be limited to the organization or government webpages. This would actually make it pretty easy to find legitimate information. The other thing that goes hand in hand with this is Google Scholar.
Google Scholar's even easier to use because after typing what you're looking up in the Google searchbar, you go to more - Google Scholar. With some of the journals that come up, you may have to be registered with the website to see the journal or scholarly article but nonetheless it's a legimate way to search for scholarly articles on Google.
The two more interesting functions that I saw on the chart here:
http://trinity.edu/cnolan/advanced_google.pdf
are the weather and flight status searches. By just typing in, "southwest 654" you can actually check the status of a flight using google. By typing, "Weather: 78212" you can get the weather reports for the zip code you entered.
The guide was definitely my favorite part and I'm saving it among my favorite links because it's got a lot of useful information.
Au revoir.
My favorite thing among what he explained was that typing " :site" at the end of whatever you're searching will limit the search to websites whereas if you typed, " :org" or " :gov" it'd be limited to the organization or government webpages. This would actually make it pretty easy to find legitimate information. The other thing that goes hand in hand with this is Google Scholar.
Google Scholar's even easier to use because after typing what you're looking up in the Google searchbar, you go to more - Google Scholar. With some of the journals that come up, you may have to be registered with the website to see the journal or scholarly article but nonetheless it's a legimate way to search for scholarly articles on Google.
The two more interesting functions that I saw on the chart here:
http://trinity.edu/cnolan/advanced_google.pdf
are the weather and flight status searches. By just typing in, "southwest 654" you can actually check the status of a flight using google. By typing, "Weather: 78212" you can get the weather reports for the zip code you entered.
The guide was definitely my favorite part and I'm saving it among my favorite links because it's got a lot of useful information.
Au revoir.
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Copyright Laws: Fair Use
In class on Tuesday, Jason Hardin presented the class with information about Copyright Laws and Infringement, a lot of which I had only vague ideas about. To begin with, I didn't know it dated all the way back to 1790 or that Fair Use was the only means of defense a citizen had against Copyright Laws. We learned that Fair Use consisted of four factors of a situation that are considered in cases of Copyright Infringment; these are the amount of work copied, the motive for copying, the effect the copying has on the Rights holder, and the nature of the work being copied.
While there was a great deal of interesting information, presented to us in the form questions we'd each answer with our own clicker so it was anonymous, I found that the more interesting portion of the presentation involved the following opinion question: Are the RIAA (Music), MPAA (Motion Pictures), and ESA (Entertainment Software) disproportionately interested in file-sharing?
The answer for the most part was that they were disproportionately interested in file-sharing and Hardin mentioned that though this was an opinion question, for the most part it was a correct assumption. What we didn't pry further into because he had much more to show us was why we thought there was a disproportionate interest among these three companies.
Though the entertainment industry is a bit different from the tattoo industry, the same copyright laws affect both of them. I found an article written by a lawyer from New York named Marisa Kakoulas titled, 'The Tattoo Copyright Controversy'.
http://www.bmezine.com/news/guest/20031208.html
The article describes Kakoulas as she ventures to answer the question, 'Should Tattoos be Copyrighted?' She asks different people about their opinions and what they feel should be done. Not surprisingly, artists such as Pat Fish believe that a lawyer's work shouldn't get involved in anyway with a tattoo artist's work. However, another artist by the name of Elayne Angel got a pair of angel wings she did for a lawyer copyrighted because he insisted and she liked the idea.
The way that this ties back to the laws that we learned about in class is that these laws are beginning to affect more industries than ever. Fair Use, in my opinion, shouldn't still be the only means of defense against copyright infringement, especially when there are industries such as the tattoo industry where everything is such a free-for-all when it comes to whose work is whose.
That's all I have for now but I'll be writing more later.
- Adan
While there was a great deal of interesting information, presented to us in the form questions we'd each answer with our own clicker so it was anonymous, I found that the more interesting portion of the presentation involved the following opinion question: Are the RIAA (Music), MPAA (Motion Pictures), and ESA (Entertainment Software) disproportionately interested in file-sharing?
The answer for the most part was that they were disproportionately interested in file-sharing and Hardin mentioned that though this was an opinion question, for the most part it was a correct assumption. What we didn't pry further into because he had much more to show us was why we thought there was a disproportionate interest among these three companies.
Though the entertainment industry is a bit different from the tattoo industry, the same copyright laws affect both of them. I found an article written by a lawyer from New York named Marisa Kakoulas titled, 'The Tattoo Copyright Controversy'.
http://www.bmezine.com/news/guest/20031208.html
The article describes Kakoulas as she ventures to answer the question, 'Should Tattoos be Copyrighted?' She asks different people about their opinions and what they feel should be done. Not surprisingly, artists such as Pat Fish believe that a lawyer's work shouldn't get involved in anyway with a tattoo artist's work. However, another artist by the name of Elayne Angel got a pair of angel wings she did for a lawyer copyrighted because he insisted and she liked the idea.
The way that this ties back to the laws that we learned about in class is that these laws are beginning to affect more industries than ever. Fair Use, in my opinion, shouldn't still be the only means of defense against copyright infringement, especially when there are industries such as the tattoo industry where everything is such a free-for-all when it comes to whose work is whose.
That's all I have for now but I'll be writing more later.
- Adan
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Facebook: The Campus Fad
The Facebook article addresses the phenomenom of a webpage that Facebook has become over the last few years.
Since Facebook has become so popular, practically every student on campus has it and it becomes another form of communication. Writing on people's walls, tagging people in notes, and sending messages back and forth like e-mail has made it even easier to stay in contact with people despite conflicting schedules and/or distances. Facebook can be used to help people study as well and since it can become a giant forum with the use of comments and notes, a note can be made of the notes taken in a class and people can post comments asking questions or answering other people's questions in the form of comments.
It's a fact that because Facebook is so widely used, it's a big part of daily life on college campuses with internet and it can provide the resource of constant, unique feedback like a forum while also providing the intimacy of e-mail with the inbox function.
If you'd like to read the article for yourself, click here:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1213/p13s01-legn.html
Till later.
- Adan
Since Facebook has become so popular, practically every student on campus has it and it becomes another form of communication. Writing on people's walls, tagging people in notes, and sending messages back and forth like e-mail has made it even easier to stay in contact with people despite conflicting schedules and/or distances. Facebook can be used to help people study as well and since it can become a giant forum with the use of comments and notes, a note can be made of the notes taken in a class and people can post comments asking questions or answering other people's questions in the form of comments.
It's a fact that because Facebook is so widely used, it's a big part of daily life on college campuses with internet and it can provide the resource of constant, unique feedback like a forum while also providing the intimacy of e-mail with the inbox function.
If you'd like to read the article for yourself, click here:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1213/p13s01-legn.html
Till later.
- Adan
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