Friday, February 12, 2010

Chapter 2 Assesment

Blog assesment 2:

1) Grab a copy of FlickrDown a utility that allows you to download hundreds of photos from Flikr.
2) When you trash a photo it doesn’t actually delete it; instead it tosses away the address of where to find it. The file space itself just sits there until new data is added which will eventually overwrite the previous files. You can use a recovery program and pull the files from the trash.
3) You can choose from thousands of copyright free sound effects at Freesound project. 3 examples would be a scary wind sound, a boing sound and a screeching car sound.
4) So far over 30,000 books have been converted to digital format. Top five Ebooks downloaded yesterday: • The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) by J. Arthur Thomson (615)
• Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob (573)
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (438)
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (428)
• Illustrated History of Furniture by Frederick Litchfield (364)
5) Three ways for getting better search results which I would use most often are: wildcards, searching within a site and searching for specific types of documents.
6) Several firefox extensions that I would be interested in are: Videodownloader, forecastfox and FoxyTunes.