M3, Task 6, Unit 14

Many campaigns have been put in place to tackle the social impacts of mobile devices. Like having viral ads to try and get people to interact with others in person more, to TV ads to help awareness about rape connected to social networks.

Recent laws have been introduced to help prevent incidents involving rape and hacking or getting hacked. Laws like this have only been introduced within the last ten years as there was no need of them before. 

Social networking is done a lot at work places, that can severely reduce how well people work and the amount of work that gets done. To resolve this dilemma, companies put their own policies into place, this can vary from certain times people can access social networking like in lunch breaks, to no social networking at all in the work place. Each company can have different policies.

This can be put into place in schools, with consequences for phones being out at times which the schools policy forbids, their phone can be confiscated. These policies are a good way to combat how much phones and social networking can affect a workplace or school.

The data protection act allows for legitimacy and safety of people's and businesses' data whether that be confidential or public with copyright restrictions. This helps to prevent fraud and theft of data which could then be used for blackmail, personal gain, exploitation or fraud.

D2, Task 4, Unit 14

P7: "To send contact information from your phone (Info like your mobile number) to another phone, first you go into your phone's settings and find something like my profile, my number or this phone. Or you could get the number from a person who has your number. 
Add the number and other contact info into a text, whether you type it in or copy and paste (an ability not many phones have) and finally send tat to the person's phone who you want it to be sent to. Or, if your phone has a direct "send to contact" feature for your data, you can select that."

I used this protocol as it allows for quick and easy access to your contact information from your phone. Texting the information on to the recipient is a quick and for the most part safe way of exchanging contact details over long distances. However most phones do not have integrated anti virus software. This means that undetected viruses can be transferred via text, this could then infect the recipients phone. A safer way to exchange contact details is via desktop or laptop, this is because they have build it firewalls and additional anti virus software such as Norton or Macafee can be used to scan emails for legitimacy or any possible viruses. If this were to e used to exchange contact info then you could still find the initial information via the phone's settings.

D1, Task 1, Unit 14

A feature of all the devices in P2 have battery charge lasting for different amounts of time.
hp pavillion g6: up to 4-5 hours
samsung galaxy nexus: up to 31 hours
MP3 player: up to 22 hours

Having a long battery charge is very good as it means that the device doesn't require charging as often making it more practical to use.
Another feature is memory capacity, which varies because of price and type of storage on the device. For example, the mp3 player has 2GB memory because it costs £31.95 and stores mp3 sound files which take up very little memory. The hp pavillion g6 has hard drive storage of 750GB because it has to store games with online capabilities, video, music, pictures, applications and more. Meaning it has to have a very large amount of memory. If a device is low on existing memory, it performs badly compared to if it had more memory left. The mp3 player has little memory so it cannot store a large amount even if what it does store uses minimal memory.

D1, Unit35

Computer:   The 23.6" Maestro II £1,520
mouse:   Anker® 8200 DPI High Precision Programmable Laser Gaming Mouse £26
OS:   Windows 8.1 premium £100
Adobe photoshop CS6 £330
microsoft office 2013 £90
Printer:   HP Designjet T120 Wireless Wi-Fi Large Format CAD Printer £680



The PC is an all in one and costs £1,520. Featuring a high speed dual core intel i7 processor, this would allow highly detailed graphics to be carried out at over 60fps and so that programs such as photoshop will open and perform to their maximum potential. This will also be possible with Windows 8 being the OS, windows 7 is too old to have many modern programs perform without frequent frame drops, Windows 8.1 as one of the newest and fastest OS on the market it will not suffer from any of these drawbacks. The monitor is 23.6" so highly detailed graphics can be viewed easily and at a very high res. Being a touchscreen it is also easy to edit graphics at will. The mouse is 8200 DPI so it is extremely precise in movement which will allow for precise customization of graphics also it is weight adjustable so it can be changed to suit the user perfectly. Microsoft office 2013 is the newest version of the reliable program and will be supported with updates after the previous versions become obsolete.Adobe photoshop CS6 is the newest version and performs better than any other graphics editors around at this time. 



The printer can produce rich colors and sharp lines. TIFF image files are very highly detailed and are accepted as a photograph file standard for the printing business. This printer is capable of producing printed pictures and retain the detail of TIFF format images.

D2, Unit 35

Compressing files:


Compressed files take up less storage space and can be transferred to other computers more quickly than uncompressed files.You can also combine several files into a single compressed folder. This makes it easier to share a group of files.Some types of files, like JPEG pictures, are already highly compressed. If you compress several JPEG pictures into a folder, the total size of the folder will be about the same as the original collection of pictures. The advantage of compressing an image is that if you are using these images on a website, then they will load faster since the file size will be dramatically reduced.


Graphic file compressors take away pixels. If you take away too many of them, then the quality of your image deteriorates. If one goes too far in the compression, then the picture becomes almost unrecognizable or is too pixelated to be of any use.

TIFF produces large files, but there is no loss in quality. TIFF also preserves layers, alpha transparency, and other special features when saved from Photoshop. BMPs are huge files, but there is no loss in quality, they contain pallettes of 4,294,967,296 possible colors. Use PNG when you need smaller file sizes with no loss in quality. PNG files are usually smaller than TIFFs. GIF files are always reduced to 256 unique colors or less and they make very small, fast loading graphics for the web.

P5, Unit 35

Van design

Band logo

Nursery flyer

M1, Unit 35

While there are many positive aspects to the items included in P1, there are however downsides to these items. 

The custom built zoomstorm mini PC is capable of most basic office work, however Adobe photoshop CS6, Adobe fireworks CS6 and Microsoft office 2012 are demanding software which may not be able to run at an optimum potential on the PC as the Intel celeron G1601 processor is not capable of running this software without occasional freezing and considerable drop in frame rate, this will slow down the work output. 

The Samsung Simple LED 21.5” is very much Functional and with a stylish design. It is in a resolution of 1920x1080 meaning it offers a very high pixel count which will in turn allow for images created on photoshop to have as much detail as possible, however at £88 it is slightly above the average price for something of this quality meaning it isn't that cost effective.

The teckNet M002 wireless mouse is a very low cost at £9. However with this low cost also comes a very low DPI, making it less accurate than a mouse of a higher price. Also being a wireless mouse it requires external batteries which will need to be replaced around 5-8 times a year, this makes it less cost effective due to the cost of the batteries.

M2 Unit 35

The nursery flyer was created using Publisher so that I could display dynamically placed text along with images. Light blue was used because it is bright and potentially represents positive emotions which intern helps to give people a positive perception of the nursery when reading the flyer. Images were used for the reason of adding more information about what the nursery is like and Publisher allowed that to be done effectively and easily with its simplistic yet dynamic image importing and adaption.

For the van design I used adobe illustrator as shown below, my reason for doing this is that illustrator allowed me to adapt the existing template for the van by adding block colour, text and images. I uploaded the final image in a PNG format as to retain the high quality that the original adobe illustrator file had. I used this shade of orange because it is bold and draws the viewer’s attention but at the same time is not unappealing to look at and gives the image a bright, positive feeling. There is a big use of text as to give important information such as the company name, slogan and contact details. 

For the band logo I used adobe illustrator as shown below. This allowed me to adapt the existing template for the van by adding block colour, text and images. I uploaded the final image in a PNG format as to retain the high quality that the original adobe illustrator file had. I used this shade of orange because it is bold and draws the viewer’s attention but at the same time is not unappealing to look at and gives the image a bright, positive feeling. There is a big use of text as to give important information such as the company name, slogan and contact details. 

P6 Unit 35

Copyrighting images is a complex and often dangerous subject in the event of you or your business being sued for using copyrighted images. Infringement of copyrighted images laws can include a violation of the rights of the creator or rights holder. Examples of imagery infringement can include:
. Use of the image of sections of the image without permission
. Adapting (changing) the image without permission.

The photographer or the person that stole the image in the first place is responsible when infringement occurs. The publisher and anyone who authorized/ encouraged infringement are also responsible. Infringement of copyright may result in lawsuits, legal fees and under some rare circumstances, criminal charges. New technology now enables copyright owners to identify unlicensed imagery and act to protect their rights. Just because an image is on the internet, it doesn’t mean the image is free to use. You may still need the correct license to use it.  If a third- contractor designed and developed your company’s website, you are responsible for ensuring they have licensed the images for your use. Unless your use is specifically permitted by copyright law, all the images on your website must be properly licensed, regardless of the nature of your site.

P4 Unit 35

Builder's van design

Nursery flyer

Band photo

P3 Unit 35

Nursery flyer

This flyer was created using Publisher. Images were used to add more information and Publisher allowed that to be done effectively.

Builder’s van design:

For this I used adobe illustrator. I adapted the existing template for the van by adding block colour. I uploaded it as a PNG format.

Band logo/photo

For my band logo I created the image in Adobe illustrator. I uploaded the image as a PNG so that the bitmap would allow it to be inserted into the band image. 

P2, Unit 35

Customer graphics 

For the band logo task I will create the image in Adobe Illustrator this will allow me to create dynamic shapes to form an imaginative and appealing logo for the band, Illustrator’s ability to import images will allow me to import the band’s photo and incorporate the logo into the image to complete the set task. The logo will be uploaded as a PNG as it needs to be a bitmap to be incorporated well with the photo.

Detail can be added or removed from vector art. Vector illustrations can have their own colour. This allows for better quality images without considerable change to file size. They do not loose quality when resized because they are scalable. It is possible to edit each section separately, for example, change the shape, colour, size and position.

Bitmap graphics consist of pixels each of which can be individually changed and edited.

The builder’s van task will also be created using Adobe Illustrator as the template image uses Illustrator as its default location. The ability to import images will also be very useful for adding images that would prove too difficult to draw into the template without using devices such as drawing tablets.

The nursery flyer task will be created using Microsoft publisher as it will require much text so using publisher will be ideal as it offers dynamic customization to text based work such as varied font styles, colour effects and many customized layouts.

Unit 35, P1

M1 Unit 2

D1 Unit 2

P3 Unit 2

Unit 2 P2 posters

D1 Unit 1

There are many safety issues when using blogs. One of the issues when blogging is that your account can be hacked into and some one may put information or say something you wouldn't put on it. A good way to avoid this is by setting up a good strong password that only you would know and no one could guess or easily figure out. To do this you could add numbers and even capitals somewhere in the password. Another problem is that people can email you with a virus which can cause problems for your computer. The best way to avoid this is to download a virus checker, which should be updated regularly, and regularly scan for viruses. Do not open emails of people you don't know. Also beware of some links as this may also have viruses.  You can also limit the people who can view your blog by only adding people you know and not because someone else knows them. 

M1 Unit 1

Why a blogsite can be good for large audience communication 

On blogsites, information like text, pictures, video and other media can be posted on a page which will contain all posts by an individual or group like a business if many individuals have log in details required to access the account.

People can follow certain blogs and get notified possibly via a news feed of posts from those blogs, this can make for important posts to become very widespread very fast. Being able to add authors and to limit who can see blogs or posts can be of great advantage, for example if an article needs to be reviewed before becoming public, setting can make it so that only certain individuals can see it, afterwards the settings can be reverted to having posts be public.      

Unit 2 task 1 P1