Thursday, July 23, 2009

COMPARISON BETWEEN MICROSOFT WINDOWS AND APPLE MACINTOSH OS

Apple Mac OSX and Microsoft Windows are two of the most widely used desktop operating systems. Apple's Mac OS X is more commonly known as just simply: "OSX" and is developed by Apple Computer for their own line of PCs, often referred to as "Macs." Windows is developed by Microsoft for any PC (including Apple's). Comparison between Apple Mac OSX and Microsoft Windows can be divided in term of software, hardware, security and operating system.

1) SOFTWARE
  • Bundled Sofware
Software Type Mac OSX Windows
Web Browser Safari Internet Explorer
Media Player iTunes / QuickTime Windows Media Player
Photo Management iPhoto Windows Photo Gallery
Movie Production iMovie Windows Movie Maker
Development Tools XCode None
PDF Viewer Preview None
Calendar iCal Windows Calendar
DVD Authoring iDVD Windows DVD Maker
WYSIWYG Website Authoring iWeb None
Chat iChat Windows Messenger

  • Available Software
Software


Mac OSX Windows
OpenOffice


yes yes
Adobe CS3


yes yes
Microsoft Office


yes yes
Firefox


yes yes
3ds Max


no yes
AutoCAD


no yes
Maya


yes yes
Houdini


yes yes
Logic


yes no
Final Cut


yes no
SoftImage XSI


no yes

2) HARDWARE
  • Replacement
Macs have limited official hardware support. While external accessories (ie. mice, keyboards) and display hardware (ie. monitors, projectors) have wide support, Macs can only accept a limited range of internal hardware. The Mac OSX cannot be installed on an computer other than those created by Apple. The advantage is that Mac computers tend to have a sleeker design because they do not need to have universal support for exchangeable components.

PCs on the other hand, are manufactured by different companies using different hardware. This has the advantage that any computer part can be replaced with cheap parts. Windows can be installed on most desktop and laptop computers.

A project called Hackintosh, or OSx86, provides support for running the Mac OSX operating system on PC hardware. Although Hackintoshes are not officially supported by Apple, there have been reports of stable Hackintosh systems on both desktops and laptops, but the mac partition must be formated to the FAT32 file system and not NTFS. OSX is also able to run on computers running AMD processors.
  • Pricing
It is widely believed that Macs are more expensive than PCs with similar specs, however several price comparisons show this is not the case. You can generally buy a Windows machine at a lower price, however the specifications are not comparable to the lowest priced machine from Apple.

When considering Windows and Mac laptops, there is another item to consider. While the upfront cost of the Mac is higher, the longer term ROI can be slightly higher for a Mac. For example, your typical Windows laptop will last 2-3 years before it becomes noticeably too old. A Mac laptop typically lasts 3-4 years, before it shows similar signs of wear and lack of performance.

When contrasting Apple desktop computers and Windows desktop computers, this does not necessarily apply. Also, current Apple desktop offerings do not compare well with PC desktop offerings, with fewer options, and only two main design styles. All-in-one/small form factor (Mac Mini, iMac) and full desktop workstations (almost server grade, like the Mac Pro).

3) OPERATING SYSTEM
The PC's most popular operating system for end users is Windows. The latest version is Windows Vista, which was preceded by Windows XP. The Mac's most popular operating system is OS X (officially pronounced "oh ess ten", though some people say "oh ess ex"). The latest version is 10.5 (code-named "Leopard"), which followed 10.4 (code-named "Tiger").

4) SECURITY
  • Malware
Apple touts this feature as an advantage over (pre-Vista) Windows: "On a Windows PC, software (both good and evil) can change the system without your even knowing about it."

Windows Vista recently started to focus more on security by implementing a stricter user-permission policy, but many users feel that the strict policy is more annoying than useful.

Hence, there is no architectural advantage in security between Mac OSX and Vista concerning this point.
  • Viruses
Developers often capitalize on Windows' large market share and significant vulnerabilities when creating viruses and other malicious software. Some counts place the number of Windows/MS-DOS viruses at over 50,000. In the past, Microsoft's solution to this problem was insufficient.

Infection of Macs running OS X is extremely rare, and there has never been a large-scale infection of computers running OS X. The latest version of Mac OS X added sandboxing to improve protection against malware and trojans, but it cannot protect against all possible applications users can install.
  • Patches
Both Macs and Windows have patches and/or updates provided online by Apple and Microsoft, respectively. Through one simple button-click change in the System Preferences this can be on or off, to differing degrees. Ever since the release of Mac OSX 10.1 on September 25, 2001 as a 'free update' to version 10.0, Macs can download these automatically or the [owner or administrator] user has the option of accepting these downloads or not: "New software is available for your computer. If you're not ready to install now, you can use the Software Update preference to check for updates later." In Windows XP and Vista, the user has the option of turning automatic updates on or off as well.

Monday, July 20, 2009

THE REVOLUTION OF COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY

The history os communication technology divided into 4:
1. Writing Communication Era
2. Printing Communication Era
3. Telecommunication Era
4. Communication Interactive

WRITING COMMUNICATION ERA
During this era, people communicate and interact with each other through voice, sybol and alphabet. The communication through voice happened 200,000 years ago and the weaknesses is, communication through voices are limited for certain distance only. Meaning that, other peoples from other places cannot understand well among each other.
Communication through symbol happened around 30,000 before century and its consist information such as culture, fugitive, and war. Mostly found on the cave wall and there is 3 type of symbol known as Petrographic, Pictogram, and Ideograms. The alphabet being structure to crate a sound of word and used medium such as papyrus and rock to write it.

PRINTING COMMUNICATION ERA
Printing communication era upgraded the way of copying the manuscript. Johannes Guttenberg is the first person who create the printing machine. In this era, people start to produce a text, books, and a copies similar to the original in alarge quantity without any error.

TELECOMMUNICATION ERA
Before telephone and others communication technogy are introduce, people long time ago use smoke and drum sound to delivered their message. Different sound indicate different meaning and smoke are more suitable to use for a long distance communication. This type of communication is used to get help in emergency cases or other meaning.
During telecommunication era, many new communication technology are introduce and invented. The first communication technolgoy is telegraph technology which introduce by Samuel Morse Telegrahp technology using certain codes (dots and lines) known as code morse to sending a news in a long distance.
Next is a telephone which introduce by Alexander Graham Bell helped by Thomas A. Wattson in prepared a tools. While at the same time, Elisha Grey also try to creating a telephone by not using an operator as a middleman to make a phone call.
In 1888, Frederich Hertz found the electromagnetic wave and Guglielmo Marconi make an experiment on wireless telegraphy (radio). After that, in 1895 this experiment was announced successfull after sucessfully sent a message between France and England in 1899.
After wireless telegraphy, the first phonograph was invented in 1877 by Thomas Alva edison it is known as 'tin foil phonograph'.

COMMUNICATION INTERACTIVE ERA
The word photography taken from the Greek word means draw eith light. In 1827, Joseph Neipce took 8 hour to snap a static picture and in 1839 it is first used by Sir John Herschel who is a scientist.
Paul Nipkow from Jerman invented a disc technology to broadcast a picture through wire known as 'Nipkow Disk'. He is the first person who electromechanically searching television system and then John Logie Baird produce a color tube picture after world war II.
The first moving picture being displayed in American cinema on April 23, 1896 at New York. Before that, in 1888 Thomas edison inventor a moving pictures camera known as ; Kinetoscope' and in 1893, Eastman Kodak produce a film for picture production. After that C. Francis Jenkins and Thomas armat inventor a projector film known as a 'vitascope' and again, Edison company produce a projector known as 'projectoscope'
Computer surely been used all around the world in nowadays. In 1617, John Napier inventor a logarithms machine and in 1623, Wilhelm Schickard then invented a calculating clock while Blaise pascal in 1642 invented a pascaline and lastly in 1801, Joseph Marie Jacquard invented a power loom that used the card hole system.

After discussing about the history of communication technology above, now we come to the role of communication technology in 6 important field. In education field, communication technology such as internet, usernet and desktop video conferencing is very important. This is because, students, teachers or researcher are easier to browse information and sharing information. In the economic field, business can be done or start by online marketing with a low cost and effective communication tools to deal with other people. Other than that, it is also easy to expand the business network by online marketing.

As social interaction, people can use email, newsgroup, and internet messenger to interact each other. So they may share any lattest news conveniently and effectively. In the military field, wireless system and satelite system is very important tools. The broadcasting field, audio and visual digital is important because it is part of the entertaiment for people nowadays not anly for childrens,teenagers and youngersts but also for adults. Finally is online and interactive website such as online news, online books, online television and mores...

The development of ICT in worldwide contribute to the economy growth, provide unlimited information access, and mores....

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

frenzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz 1class, 1 mission...

Here is the brief description about my SCCT1023 class mates...

first is Chan_he is from Johor, he likes yellow colour, his hobby is listen to music and he likes to go to waterfall during his free time.

second is Yaw also known as mr.sleep coz, his hobby is sleep. He is from KL, he likes white and he likes hang out in YAB.

third is Kong. This guy loves black colour, come from KL, his hobby is playing football and his favourite place to hang out is at the YAB cafe.

next is Roselin from Johor. She likes black colour and love to chatting and love to hang out in her friend room.

Ummi is from Kedah, she likes red colour and chatting too and her favourite place to hang out is in Jitra.

Lina is from Sabah same as me. She likes green colour and her hobby is listen to music. She just stay in her room during her free time.

kalai likes black and white. She comes from Sungai Petani Kedah, and she very likes chatting and hang around in Langkawi during her free time.

Ridwuan is a guy from Nigeria very far from malaysia. He likes talking, he likes blue colour and his favourite place to hang out is in KL.

Yana is a very white girl and chubby in the class comes from Sabah. Her hobby is surfing internet, she likes to hang around in Sungai wang and also times square and she likes all kind of colours.

Nadia is from Taiping, Perak. she likes Surfing the internet and purple colour. she likes to hang out in shopping centre.

ZA is from Terengganu. This girl like to chatting, her favourite place to hang out is in shopping centre and her favourite colour is blue.

Next is a girl from kedah who like to read novels. her favourite colour is blue and she just like to stay in her room during her free time.

Nurul like brown colour, she like to hang out at the mall, she is from Indonesia and she loves to chatting.

Loges is a pinky girl coz, she likes pink colour. she is from kelantan, she likes to hang out in Tumpat and her hobby is listen to music.

Yusuf comes from Sungai Buloh, selanggor. this guy like to hang out in KL. his hobby is surfing the internet and he likes red and white colour.

Izahar from Sungai Petani, Kedah. he likes green and yellow colour, he likes to hang out in sea side and his hobby is surfing thr internet too.

Seha is a girl comes from Terengganu. She likes black and white colour, her hobby is chatting and her favourite place to go is in putrajaya.

Next this girl has a unique name Say-are. She likes pink colour same as Loges, her hobby is surfing the internet and she like to hang out at putrajaya. she is from Sepang, selanggor.

Miey is from Perlis. She likes red, white and black colour. her hobby is wall climbing and she likes to hang out in all cafe in Malaysia.

Mit is from Perlis. Mit loves green colour, chatting, and mit also like to hang out in shopping centre.

Lea likes to reading and she is a girl from kuala kangsar. her favourite colour is white and her favourite place to hang out is in food court.

Mimi like to sing and she comes from Ipoh, perak. She likes black colour and she just like hang around in her own hometown.

Hanis is from Penang. she likes reading very much, her favourite place to hang out is at the shopping centre and her favourite colour is purple.

Naqia from Johor. this girl likes reading too same as Hanis and her favourite place to hang out also at the shopping centre. her favourite colour is blue.

Ah Yan comes from Sarawak. she likes purple colour and her hobby is reading novel so, no wonder her favourite place to hang out is at the book shops.

Pei Ching is from Pahang. this girl like to hang out in KL, her favourite colour is blue and her hobby is joging.

Chuah is another pinky girl too coz her favourite colour is pink. She is from Ipoh, Perak. her hobby is swimming and her favourite place to hang out is at the shopping centre.

Sook Peng comes from Kuantan, Pahang. she likes blue colour, she love to hang out at the shopping centre just like Chuah and her hobby is watching television.

next is Mun who is from Selangor. She likes reading, she like to hang out at the shopping centre and her favourite colour is blue.

Fung is from Sarawak same as Ah Yan. Fung hobby is watching television, her favourite colour is purple and she like to hang out at the seaside.

Yen Ping likes pink colour and she is from Pahang. she like to hang out at the shopping centre suitable with her hobby which is shopping.

Ying is from Kedah. This girl favourite colour is purple, her hobby is singging and she likes to hang out at the shopping mall.

next is a guy name Aaron who is from Penang. He likes black colour, love to play football and his favourite place to hang out is at the pub.

Waikee is from Melaka. He like to play badminton, his favourite colour is green and he likes to hang out at cafe.

Angugie comes from Indonesia. He likes blue colour. his hobby is play tennis and his favourte place to hang out is at the cinema.

Simon is a guy who come from Penang. he like to hang out at redbox, his favourite colour is purple and his hobby is playing piano and baking cheese cake.

kathrine from Klang. she likes purple colour, her hobby is playing badminton and she likes to go to shopping mall.

next is Sam who is from Perak. Sam like silver colour, her hobby is listen to music and she like to hang out at cafe.

Fishi comes from Pahang. She likes red colour, her hobby is playing badminton and her favourite place to hang out is at the cafe.

lastly is C-Plus.. his name is like a Dumex product. he is from Pahang, he likes purple, his hobby is play with the computer and his favourite place to hang out is at the shopping centre.

15 JULY 2009 DKG3/9

11am: our SCCT1023 class is start and as usual conducted by our very nice
miss Azura..

Straight to the point...
Topic which has discussed today is Introduction To communication and technology.
What we have been discuss in this topic is the definition of technology and communication.
There are various definition given by he scholars about what is communication?
In my own understanding, communication is an ongoing process which involve sender (input), message, channel, noise and receiver (output).

Now what is the definition of technology?
Technology is a tools, devices,or a machines that can be use for technical performance.
Technology is very important medium in nowadays as transmitter data or connecting people from all around the world.
technology such as computer, internet, and mobile phone enable people to connect and link each other although both of them are different location and time.

The advantages of using technology is:
1. Unlimited information access.
2. Able to connect people from others places.
3. The organization able to expand their business easily with low cost of promotion and
advertising.
4. Symbol of development to the country.
5. work or task can be done in a short time period.

The disadvantages of using technology:
1. High risk of pornography access.
2. Virus causes destroy the important data.
3. Misuse of technology for personal purposes and benefits which causes a bad effect for others
people.
4. Expensive and unaffordable for low income people.
5. Culture dominating to the weaker one (eg: US and Malaysia)