This blog post was supposed to be me talking about the idea of exporting my snapchat story and using that as daily vlogs? Then Instagram comes out with their new update, which does copy the “My Story” off of snapchat. Now I guess I am going to be comparing both of them. I really want to upload something daily to release some good content. Defiantly would like your guys opinion on this. But any way right now I am debating with my self to export the story from Instagram or snapchat? I really want to look into this and see which platform that I would like to export it off and weather or not I want to uploaded them every day or once a week. I know that my snapchat really is not that interesting. That is why I was thinking of using Instagram instead and uploading it all in weekly videos. This way the I can make a decently long video and have a set date to upload my videos.

I really like Instagram and I think that it would be pretty cool to upload to that social network because I have a bigger following on there. I feel that I would reach a bigger audience using Instagram rather than my snapchat. This would also mean that I will be extremely active on Instagram. Very easy to export no editing needed. Quick and easy to update. The only down side I would have to say for both of the platforms is you have to hold down one of the buttons to record. I guess that I have already made my mind up. The fact of the matter is that I want to make it simple for my self to upload to YouTube simply. Instagram would make my life a bit more difficult because I would have to download the short videos and pictures from there one by one. Snapchat I am able to download my whole story in one go which would make it a lot, lot easier for me. That leaves snapchat as the platform that I am going for.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVf3TarUhHg 

Snapchat Exporting??

Work????

That is correct, I have talked about cycling in another blog post about three month ago. I just briefly mentioned why I prefer to ride a bike over any other transportation, such at trains or bikes. This last month I have travelled over 50 miles on my bike. I do use my bike a lot but it is only for short commutes. My average commute on my bike is 2.6 mile one way. Right now I am using a bike that is slowly falling apart. It is still a good bike but it is years old and a bit small for me. I had it off a family member and slowly started fixing it up from there. That is why I believe that I need new bike. I am now stuck with the task of choosing what type of bike that I would like. Right now I am leaning towards either a hybrid or a fixed gear bike. I want to go ahead and break down why I am leaning towards these category's.  

  


 

 

    FIXIE BIKES: These bikes only have one gear. This means it is easy to clean and check this bike.  II really like the bright colours that they come in. I also like that the shape of bike resembles a road bike. As you can see from the image below that it does reassemble a road bike.  I really admire fixed gear bikes because I have wanted one for about 3-4 years now. I know that they have got their downside, for example the tiers to go bold very quickly.  Now looking at this bike I still think that it would be extremely cool to have but it still comes with a lot more flaws compared to the hybrid bike. 

 


    HYBRID BIKES: A hybrid bike is like a mixture of a road bike and a mountain bike. They are also a all around good bike. This is good for me since I live in a place with a lot of rugged terrain. There is always construction going on around me. Having really thin wheels on the bike would make it a very bumpy ride.  

 


 

Cycling

I read a article the other day that clamed that google was working on their own operating system that is not based on Linux. I have this article opened in a new tab just for reference. The one I am looking at will be linked right HERE! It is a great article very well written. Basically what they say in this article is that google is in fact working on a new OS. This project is on github  named "Pink + Purple == Fuschia (a new Operating System).". I don't know what google plan to do with this OS, wether it is for Chromebooks or mobile devices. Personally I am a bit worried that the Linux community is going to have less support because of this little side project that google has.  It might not to amount to what I was think that is going to happen. I am thinking that Google will eventually going to replace this chromium with this new "Fuschia OS". This could be really bad for Linux because Chromebooks are selling extremely well and it is getting Linux into people's hands everywhere. Chromebooks are very low spec hardware that can run a glorified web browser. The Chromebooks are the most popular Linux consumer grade laptop. 
 
Getting off the topic of Linux I really want to go deep into the topic of Google making another OS. It uses Magenta & LK.  I obviously do not have a solid opinion of it yet since we haven't so much as a screenshot yet.  I just want to talk about what we know and that is that Google is working on a new operating system. We have no idea what for. We have no idea if they want the Linux community gone or not. I think that Google is just looking to put this OS on their newer devices. Maybe I am wrong and they just want to put out there a good competitor to Linux. Maybe they want to try and compete with Linux distros, if so then I am completely open minded about it.  


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Google working on a new os, thats not based on linux!!!


Why I do not feel the need to upgrade my phone anymore? 

If you ask my girlfriend then she will tell you that I am the type of person that constantly wants the newest gadgets. When it comes to the mobile phone market I want the best of the best. Over the years my opinion has changed on smartphones. Now I geuss I just think that most of it is just unessisery. Most people just want a phone to go on to facebook and to send a text or two. So why the hell do we need a £600 flag ship when a £30 phone does what we need just a second or two slower? It just proves that a lot of people have a need to waist money on things we don’t need. My sister (she is 11) recently broken her Iphone 5s and my mother kindly offerd to buy her a new android phone but she refused to have any other smartphone unless it was a Iphone. I know, she just wants what her friends have. I think we all need a good shock of reality and look at what we use and what we don’t. It is stupid that most 7-11 year olds have the top of the range fucking smartphones these days. Am I the only person who cares about it? It has kind of become normality. We walk past 6 year olds with Iphones and don’t give a second glance now. I think that this might just be me realizing how much it is to live. I know that I will not be keeping up with the top of the range smartphones anyway. I mean take the Samsung j5 for example, what do you need out of a phone that it can not do? Nothing. Thats right you are waisting money each month for no reason. We waist money on smartphones instead of helping out the homeless or the needy? 

I might be going a bit off topic here when I say that we all have chance to make a website to give us a voice on the internet, but no one ever does. I know for a fact that none of the people I know have a  website but yet they have this huge computer setup with the top of the range stuff. This blog post that you are looking at is my way of getting my opinion out there and starting disscutions with people over the internet. I do not see many people on my facebook trying to voice their opinion using the internet. I thinks in terms of technolagy we have more than we need.



So here is what is going ro happen in this part of this blog post, I am going to split the audio and the youtube version in half and  this will be the second half here. In this section of this blog post I  will be telling you what is exactly on my p daily drivers right now. I am currently using a Samsung S6 Edge as my smartphone right now. I am happy with this phone and right now as I said above. I do not want to upgrade my phone. A lot of these applications are going to be messaging and social media apps.

Samsung S6 Edge:

Facebook
twitter
google plus
tumblr
strava
snapchat
instagram
youtube
watsapp
Pokemon Go 
Minecraft
Twitch
souncloud
Arrow launcher
Next Lock screen 
Nike plus running app
Miiomo
Android wear apps



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Why I no longer want the latest flagships...

Google Plus Break Down.....
(Web developers Perspective)

Over this past few weeks I have been breaking down the social network made by at team working at Google. Yes, Google Plus. I have dove deep into the code and decided to type up a blog post giving my full opinion of Google attempt at a social network. 

After taking a good look at the code for main page. I can see that Google wants to make the filing more compact because they included  the CSS in with the HTML code. Also as expected they have used a lot of scripts to get a custom experience for each user. As you can see from one of the scripts below that they use jscript for their code and reference each of the category of the people you follow and add the posts up later on.

AF_initDataCallback({key: 'ds:8', isError:  false , hash: '7', data:function(){return [[["463dc8b0bf5c9f1","Friends","00000000",8,true,false]
,["4f14e4ac0ddc8796","Family","00000001",5,true,false]
,["619bf760ab39169","Acquaintances","00000002",0,true,false]
,["a1df4c48e1ac72a","Following","00000003",36,false,true]
,["525148490e4d77cc","College","00000006",1,true,false]
,["3f8a4012092883ab","Web","00000007",1,true,false]
]
]
}});

Now I would like to get into the design of the news feed page. This is where I really go into detail of Google’s web design. If you take a look at the image below I have looked at the main elements of their web page and took it upon my self to further break it down.  I talk about the bad points, the news feed and the menu. Anything I did not mention I thought was just okay and that it was extremely similar to other social networks. The experience that Google provides with this social network is very sleek, modern and flat. I really like the main color they have chosen to use since it is a off tone red. I think it is a great accent to the plain white cards. I like how the web designers at Google has used a lighter color of Grey just to make the white pop more. This easily draws your attention to the cards.


The logo takes up too much room on the top of the page.
The menu does not need to take up so much room.
There are two post buttons.

Google did a great job with the design on this website. I am struggling trying to pick out things that can be improved on. My problem is the way Google attempted to force people into using their social network. They promoted this new social tool in the wrong way, but they have put a lot of time and money in to the development of this site. I can understand that they wanted to go all out on promotion but the way they attempted to implementing it into YouTube was all wrong. This got YouTube’s and anyone else who use that platform quite annoyed at this site, which eventually give Google Plus a bad name. 

<iframe width="100%" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/LTq8TrA3hb4" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>




The question is can Google come back from this? In my opinion I would say yes, but only if they put a bit of money into re-branding Google Plus. They would be able to use the same code and database, but they would need to change the logo and improve the site. I think this because adding new features would not do much in the publics eyes, what they need right now is to wipe the slate clean and to make Google Plus new again. I think Google should not have merged Google plus with YouTube I think they should have put parts of YouTube onto Google Plus. This way they offer people a social network that they are also able to watch all of their YouTube videos on. If you offer people an alternative you will have more chance of winning them over instead of forcing it down their throat. This is the marketing and advertising departments fault in my opinion. It would have been their choice to merge Google plus with YouTube and they should have thought the decisions through more extensively. 

Conclusion: I think that this is a over all great website that is well designed just marketed poorly.

 



Google Plus break down...

Apple’s new products?

Apple has recently had a live conference announcing some of their new products that will be on sale soon. The one everyone was anticipating was the new IPhone 7. Apple has announce a lot of new things in this event and this blog post will just be me going though what they have announce and telling exactly why I don’t give a fuck. I will be going through three major product lines this year that Apple has released. There has been a lot of speculation around music and the head phone jack. So I will be covering that also IPhone and Apple watch. 

IPhone 7

The IPhone has been around for years. Each year Apple releases a new model in a attempt to improve and refine the IPhone. This year it has been quite a let down on Apples side. Usually every whole number there is a new design. This is a pattern that has been going on since the IPhone 3-4. Yes you can argue that they have remove part of the antenabands and improved the camera but other than that this year for the IPhone line is mainly based on IOS 10. This year for Apple all together has been based around IOS and macOS. I am a huge Apple snob. I love all of their design choices but I hate most of their company choices. For example them moving a headphone jack? Everyone is trying to say they did it to get rid of old technology, but thats not the case the reason I believe they did it was because to save space or even to make space for that new fancy home button. So they didn’t do this to get rid of the headphone jack they did this to make room for their own technology. 
Apple Watch 2
The apple watch was a really great watch when it was first released. This years Apple Watch is SH!T because they have not added much to it. The only thing that might be worth upgrading for is the waterproofing. Other than that this is not the year for the Apple watch. Don’t get me wrong the new bands and colors are cool but thats it. I am sure you will be able to buy them  off of apples website.

WTF AirPods?!
Right let me get a few things straight. I like the headphone jack and putting a Shitty adapter in the box is not going to make up for getting rid of it apple. It might be easier to put an adapter in the box instead of manufacturing lightning headphones.  These AirPods are great but the only gripe I have with these new ear pods from Apple is that I hate the design of them.  I would much prefer a more rounder design.

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Apple...

Netflix is a great platform that I have recently got back into the full subscription of the monthly service. I am only paying for the bare minimum. I have found loads of things to watch. I am really enjoy “The big bang theory” right now. The reason I am paying for Netflix is because of the Netflix exclusive content that the service offers. This blog post will be my small break down of the service and the pros/cons. Netflix offer a large range of content for their subscribers. I am slowly now watching most of the murder and forensic TV shows in Netflix’s library. Since I am currently in college working on getting my diploma in ICT, I do enjoy putting on Netflix watching my favourite show and finishing my assignments. Since college is a lot of independent work It gives me a lot of freedom with how I complete the work that is handed to me. Do I think that Netflix is worth the monthly subscription? Short answer, YES. Long answer still yes but only if you are using this instead of paying a TV provider like sky or TalkTalk. Currently use this every day and do not use Sky or any other TV provider.

Netflix

Typing up this update...
By Morgan Dark

So this is a really small update blog post because right now I am quite busy right now that is why I am un-able to do any audio blog posts or youtube videos right now. I am typing this blog post up at night. I currently have two jobs and am attending a full time course in college. I have a lot going on each day and it is starting to get harder and harder to manage what I am going to do about it.  I am now still trying to work on my blog posts but now they don't have a set upload date. 

Personal Website: If you haven't noticed I have also been working on a new personal website. I have been working on it for about a week now. I think the new site looks a lot more professtional. I also wanted it to draw a lot more attention to my work, so I can present my self in a professional way.  I also added some new pages to the website which is awesome. I have used a pre-made template to make this website. I think this website has both functionality and ascetics. I am also trying to use a new format to type up some of my papers. I am currently working one for my website. Its called "Psychological effects of computer games on teenagers.". I will be documenting exactly what pieces of work that I use as research. I have linked this blog to my website using the same URL. I unfortunately have not documented how I built/edited the html files.

Quick Update!

I have started to do more design work once again not for this website but for my college work. Most if not all my assignments usually are based on typing up documents, but this year is different. I have a few assignments that consist of me designing and evaluating my work. I enjoy assignments like this a lot more, due to the fact that I can kind of show off my talents a lot more. For example, Multimedia Assignment 2 we were assigned the task of making seven different storyboards of a website that is  made around a topic of our interest.  I have chosen to make the website around the company “Space X”.  I have had a few idea’s of the layout and all the other components of the website so far, and I will be sharing all of this assignment through google photos and my website. I like to share things like this so I am able to look back on my work and see how much I have improved.