Things that are GOOGLE

2007-04-10T07:35:00.000-07:00

Google Class notes for the ‘Things that Are Google’ class at the Chatham COA

Introductions

This class is about finding out things. We’ll start with Google itself. I don’t want to tell you the stuff, that would defeat the purpose of the class. Let’s let Google get the info.
The info in red is information that you type into the Google Search Box

Google Mission

Read statement
Look to bottom see ‘What is a Google
Notice Our Philosophy & 10 Things

This is a Google Class – Let’s start by finding out about the Google company.
How can we find out about Google????
Who are the
Founders of Google
Take BBC News
Clean cut, very rich, met getting Doctorates at Stanford, ‘Do No Evil’
NPR: the founders of google
Listen to a minute of audio
How old is Larry Page

Education of Larry Page
Take wiki pedia

Also note the Montessori entry. This is in interesting

Let’s see what they look like?
Google Images & Larry Page
Note: there are 39,000 images of Larry
Let’s hear and see him
Google video Larry Page Select CES and fast forward to the middle.

Google stock
GOOG
Hit GOOG Play with stock slider hit max (in the ZOOM line just above the graph
Look at market cap
Goog employees

Google Home page exercise

How much is 333 * 555?

How much is $1 in euros?

What is 72 degrees Fahrenheit in Celsius? 72 F in C

The Bible Mathew 7:7 ‘Ask and you shall receive’ A theme form Google

How many bushels in a peck?

What if I type a phone Number 508.432.3775

Movies or Movies 02646
Define:

Phone Book mark mcgrath ma

Special search words: birthplace birthday die president population Population Chatham weather Weather Chicago airport

Let’s Look at the other items on the Google Home page

Take another look at images and video

Images clouds then red clouds 800,000 then 12,000

Vidoes

Google news

Google Desktop

GOOGLE MORE to see all the stuff

Google Gmail & Account ID
Is Google free. YES but you have to get an account

Google Maps

YouTube

Docs & Spreadsheets

Google Earth. Google maps. Local google. Google on phones

Picasa

References

Google More than just a search by Warren Holland of Dennis COA
Google ~ more than just a search

Google Earth
Download it free at or take a tour at:
http://earth.google.com/

Google Demo

YouTube
$1.6 B purchase by Google
100,000,000 views per day.

Washington Post article – YouTube is Art
http://tinyurl.com/2s95ko

Some sample YouTube videos.
To see them hit CTL plus left clic.

Historic, Done by a fan, what emotion, will happen again in 2007
YouTube - David Ortiz single beats Yankees Game 5 ALCS 2004

Just fun stuff
YouTube - treadmill dance
YouTube - Quick Change Artists on America's Got Talent
YouTube - Evolution of Dance
YouTube - Where the Hell is Matt
YouTube - Where The Hell is Matt -- Interview with Matt Harding

An inspirational story of an autistic boy
YouTube - Hope from J-Mac
YouTube - J Mac - A Hoop Dream

History – search you favorite name
YouTube - Martin Luther King

Mark making a great bread, Grandkids making better bread
YouTube - Bread Made in Bed
You Tube ~ Bread Made in Bed ~ The grandkids sequel

Photography

Preserve memories, create fine art
How many have drawers of old photos or slides.
They are dead in their present form. Preserve them

Picasa photo editing system. Free from Google at:
Good for editing pics, emailing pics and posters
http://picasa.google.com/

HDR One view of the future in photography.
See Mark’s blog on HDR at:
http://markmcgrathhdrclass.blogspot.com/

Cameras
$400 cameras can do very good stills, audio and very good vidoe
Show Olivia skipping

Output devices HD TV’s
Most newer HD TVs will show images and movies from you PC
Some will show directly from a camera card
This eliminates slide projectors.

Ipods
Henry Ford story
Quote from a friend “The IPOD will change your life.”

Get Itunes for free at:
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/

Miscellaneous

Computer Classes at Chathom COA
http://www.coacomputerclasses.com/

Access to FEE articles and archives for free
in NY Times, Wall Street Journal and Cape Cod Times
The NY Times articles are in the NYT archives. It costs money to see them UNLESS you have a library card and you library supports home access to on-line data bases. Tryhttp://www.semls.org/home/index.html then enter you 13 digit library card number. You could also ask your librarian for help. For the NYTimes you might also have to have a free ID and password.

Weekly semi-tech articles in NYT. Subscribe to;
David Pogue in NYT

Mark's HDR Class Notes.

2007-03-07T12:14:00.000-08:00

These are the notes and reference material associated with the talk that I gave on HDR photography on Cape Cod in March, 2007.

Note: I have used tiny URL from tinyurl.com to abreviate long strings of URLs.
Note: The NY Times articles are in the NYT archives. It costs money to see them UNLESS you have a library card and you library supports home access to on-line data bases. Try
http://www.semls.org/home/index.html then enter you 13 digit library card number. You could also ask your librarian for help. For the NYTimes you might also have to have a free ID and password.

REFERENCES

A recent NY Times article discussing a new Fujifilm FinePix S5 Pro $2,000 HDR camera
Ian Austen. New York Times. (Late Edition (East Coast)). New York, N.Y.: Jan 18, 2007. pg. C.8
http://tinyurl.com/2eove3 This might get you some where. I don't know about your systems.

The first NY Times article that got me interested in HDR.
Was It Done With a Lens, or a Brush? Ian Austen. New York Times (Late Edition (East Coast)). New York, N.Y.: Aug 3, 2006. p. C.7
http://tinyurl.com/2c6rkl Try this.

Photomatix home page http://www.hdrsoft.com/ Dowload trial software, take a tutoriol and view examples.

A good long article on HDR. Easy to read Intro and Summary. The rest for serious HDRers.http://www.naturescapes.net/072006/rh0706_10.htm

The Future of Digital Imaging - High Dynamic Range Photography
Jon Meyer, Feb 2004. A classic article. Many of the pictures that I used in the class were from this article.
http://www.cybergrain.com/tech/hdr/

A good article with strong ties to Photoshop CS2
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/hdr.shtml

A very pro CS2 article, great example
http://tinyurl.com/yzwn2k

HDR PICTURES

http://www.flickr.com/groups/qualityhdr/pool/ HDR pictures from Flickr.com

http://tinyurl.com/2lt4p7 HDR Challange results.

You can try Google Images. 600,000 HDR images. I didn't fine a lot here.

MY PICTURES

Chatham Bars Inn f2.7 1/200 sec Chatham Bars Inn f4.0 1/2,000 sec

Chatham Bars Inn HDR final

Mark's Google & HDR Class Notes

Things that are GOOGLE

Mark's HDR Class Notes.