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Music FTW!

November 22, 2009 by edithchua

Interesting presentation about the future of music, I think it’s the topic most of us can relate best with being pirates ourselves. HEH. I guess piracy is really the biggest obstacle facing the music industry; it’s not that bad with the movie industry although undeniably it is being affected by increasing number of people watching movies off their computer screens instead of the big screen. But the thing with the movie industry is that there will always still be people willing to pay to watch movies in cinemas due to the clearer visuals, booming speakers and dimmed lights. It’s all about atmosphere and the company; popcorn and nachos play a relative important part in going to movies too IMO. 😀

However there just isn’t enough ‘incentives’ for us to go out and buy albums. The only album i would probably buy is that of my favourite boyband! And I buy those only because  I want the CD album with their faces on and the lyrics booklet inside with their faces! I don’t even take out the CD and play it because I already have all the songs in my iTunes and seriously who uses a CD player nowadays? My mom’s an exception.

Anna’s group brought up a really interesting point. Music might in the future become ‘free’ for all – which means that you can download it legally off the net and there might not be any physical CDs. Possible? I personally don’t think so as what will the people behind-the-scenes in the music industry survive on? Artistes could probably still be fairly well-off surviving on sponsorships, endorsements, concerts, merchandise, going on television shows etc but who is going to pay songwriters, producers, stylists… The list goes on and I’m pretty sure recording companies will not/will not be able to pay these people.

I think it all comes down to money and profits so music will unfortunately not be free afterall as the bottomline is that recording companies want to earn money; singers,songwriters,producers all want to earn money and the only way to do so is to sell music and earn OUR money. ):

But despite all the negativity, I still think we should support good music! LEGALLY, if I may add. (:

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The dangers of Facebook apps

November 19, 2009 by edithchua

How many of you think Facebook is a harmless, fabulous website? Well, fabulous maybe; but definitely not harmless.

I sign in to Facebook everyday to be confronted with countless ‘updates’ about my friends and their lives. It would be accurate to say that Facebook would all be about updates as it is a social networking site. However, my home page is filled with ‘updates’ about quiz results and game progresses; updates which I am not very interested in finding out.

I got v lazy scrolling down pages to read actual status updates and gave up. I now view Facebook status updates from tweetdeck! Tweetdeck is extremely convenient as you can link your twitter, facebook and myspace accounts and choose what you want to be displayed in proper neat columns. It helps filter unwanted info so that I save time filtering information manually. For Facebook you can choose to view Full News Feed, Status Updates, Wall Posts, Photos etc so it’s really all about choosing what you want to know. Thumbs up for Tweetdeck for making my life so much simplier! (Although it gets a little irritating at times when the updates are so frequent that there is a little pop-up at the top-hand corner of your screen every few seconds.) You can download Tweetdeck at http://www.tweetdeck.com/beta/download/.

And I recently found out that there isn’t as much privacy on Facebook as I thought there was despite the limited information one can choose to display to non-friends. However, you can required to allow Facebook applications access to all your information before you can use them; which means that every quiz or game that you play/do on FB have access to all your information and even that of your friends. And you’ll never know what they’ll do with your information ‘cos FB has a disclaimer – This application was notdeveloped by Facebook so really it’s a risk that you are taking.

There is also viruses spreading around now on Facebook and Twitter in the form of messages being sent to your inbox for Facebook and direct messages for Twitter. DO NOT click on the links as your computer will be infected. The solution s to change your password. I think the latest version of MSN (also known as Windows Live Messenger) was affected too by this virus, so always change your password regularly as online channels are easily infiltrated by such viruses! The terror of viruses!

/update: Facebook has just revised their privacy policy!

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebook_adopts_new_privacy_policy.php

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SKYPEEEE

November 2, 2009 by edithchua

YAY! Skype presentation for NCT is finally over and done with! (: Was researching all about Skype for the past 3 days which equals information overload! Stuff like legal issues and all those tech VoIP terms kept popping out and I was regretting choosing Skype as my topic! I thought it was simply call and video call and chat. I was damn wrong. But at least now i know all the amazing extras Skype has and how to use the screen-sharing function. I think it’s super amazing lor. Was trying to figure out how come I cant use screen-sharing the whole night then finally after hours realized that it’s because my lappy doesnt have a webcam. -.-

Did not intend to actually use screen-sharing for my presentation but as luck turns out i had to la. Linked Bernard’s comp which I was using for presentation to Natalie’s comp which had my ppt slides and videos and I was really hoping that murphy’s law would not strike. Luckily managed to get it to work after the chaos and the echos and the what-nots. 😛

I would switch over from MSN to Skype if it wasnt for the fact that 99% of my friends only have MSN accounts and not Skype. And i hate logging in to both cos it lags my laptop so much and I absolutely cannot stand people talking to me from all over the place. Oh and my favourite thing about Skype, you talk to everyone in one window, no more numerous irritating pop-up windows with the orange light flashing non-stop when I’m talking to many ppl at once. I wish more ppl would jump over to skype. msn is over-rated! HAHA.

And Skype’s idiot-proof lah! For those of you who niao me and say Skype is chim – if you know how to use MSN, you’ll know how to use Skype!

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julia & julie

October 24, 2009 by edithchua

first week of school is over! 1 down, 5 more weeks to go before internship. sighs. i hope i dont get a sucky co with a sucky pay. not like i have a choice anw. thanks for the vote of confidence. 🙂

went to watch julia and julie yesterday and oh i discovered how much i like GV. LOL, that’s besides the point. really liked the establishing scene of the mini winding up the road with autumn trees by the side. liked how the film jumped from country to city w/o being jarring. liked how it is based on two true stories and how it all comes tgt. and i like this particular long scene at the train station. their locations were all really nice man.

but the film didnt really jump at me, the feel was nice and everything but there just wasnt a peak to the story that made me really excited about it. and i have a love-hate thing with the dialogue cos some parts are fab while the others are like urgh-what-kind-of-dialogue-is-this! i wonder if we should have watched cloudy and the meatball cartoon afterall.

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Hello world!

October 19, 2009 by edithchua

Okay, change of blog address due to NCT! NCT=New Communication Technologies. Hope i didnt get that wrong! LOL. It feels really weird to be learning and be graded on Facebook, twitter and blog. And i actually signed up for FB during the holidays cos I knew we needed it this sem and decided to explore a little. And to date, i dont think i even reached 100 friends yet. D: How sad right! Was supposed to sign up and try twitter out too but procrastination kicked in and so I think I currently have 5 tweets! 😛

When I first got onto Facebook, I realized how ‘shiok’ it was to be able to add your long-lost childhood friends. Cos you know then we didnt have msn and handphone numbers and such. And it’s good that you get to know what your friends are doing and occasionally catch up with them via FB aka stalk them. LOL. However realized that many ppl are only on fb to keep themselves updated on their friends’ status w/o actually updating their own. I didnt want to have a fb account initially cos I didnt want ppl to keep track of my life esp since I have juniors, colleagues, and probably ‘enemies’ on FB and it wasnt a smart idea to tell the whole world what you are doing. So privacy is an issue and I now occasionally update my status, keeping it as vague as possible to the point that ppl ask if I’m okay with my life. HAHA. I think I’m getting paranoid a little too early!

And what’s up with the ‘kaypoh-ness’ we all have? It’s like we have our msn nick, then msn personal message, Facebook & twitter with the ‘what are you doing now?’ thingy, so it seems that we have a strong need to have first-hand information on who’s doing what, who loves who and who hates who. We are all so kaypoh!!! I was boycotting X’s blog cos I was pissed but after like 1 week I couldnt resist the temptation and went to read it. Sighs.

Oh and still trying to get the hang of twitter and WordPress. I am such a technology-idiot! All my friends will agree man.

/update: I am now Facebook and Twitter proficient! HAHA. Thanks to nct!

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