Finding a route from my postcode to Alton towers

In this lesson we had to use multimap and anyother useful site to help plan a route from a knwon postcode to alton towers, for this we had to use a route finder whreby you enter in a specific place and then tell it where you need to go, then this application will show you the quickest and fastest route possible for the journey needed.

Using multi map I had to find a driving route from my postcode to Alton towers, for this I had to input the postcode of my house in England and the postcode or Alton towers, then multi map generated a fast and direct route by car.
Also using Multi map i was ale to calculate the time and distance for this trip.\
Distance: 151.73 miles
Time (Approx): 3 hours 6 minutes.
The cost of this trip will depend on what type of transport you are taking, e.g Motor bike, Car etc.

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After finding a route using a car, I had to make another route this time using the railway, both underground and national rail. For this I used the national rail website where it allows you to view a full map of the UK showing you where every national rail train stops. From my postcode the nearest station is Watford junction, from here you can take 1 train and this will take you directly to Manchester Piccadilly, from here you get a rail train which takes you directly to Alton towers station.

Here is a screenshot:

Overall i think that taking the road route would be the better option, this is because it would cause less hassle with changing trains and moving about in train stations, also you have the freedom of where you stop on the ride and where you go on the way. However this trip can be very costly due to petrol prices and also there is the possibility of a breakdown, all this tells us that both routes have there good and bad points, and i think that the better route to take would be the national rail.

Groups

For this lesson we were set the task to search for groups using differnt sites such as facebook and google groups, for mine i used facebook. Here we had to go through different points for the groups finding out the pirpose and if they were succesful.

For my group I choose a group named ' I bet I can find 5 million people who dislike the new facebook '.

Purpose of the group chosen?

The purpose of this group is to see if there are more than 5 million people who hate the new facebook. Facebook recently updated there website changing the features and layout, after this there were many complaints from the users saying that the old facebook was better looking and easier to use. This group is trying to fulfill the point that there are more than 5 million people who wish to see the old facebook back on or to have the option to use wither one of the facebook interfaces.

How well it fulfils it?

I think it fulfils it to a certain degree however it has not reached its 5 million people target and so therefore I think that it hasn’t fulfilled it very well, this maybe due to the fact that there are many other groups just like it however there population count maximum is only to 1 million


Limitation?

Only limitation with this is that if there are not as many people as needed then the group fails and becomes pointless. Although personal views can be posted on the wall for further explanations of joining.

Benefit?

Benefits are that is the target population is reached then the group will be successful and therefore the people who maintain and monitor facebook might take action.

URL - http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=920577&o=all&op=1&view=all&subj=17846950994&aid=-1&id=510738053&oid=17846950994#/group.php?gid=25495244052

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What is E-mail?

What is E-mail?

E-mail (electronic mail) is the exchange of computer-stored messages by telecommunication. E-mail messages are usually encoded in ASCII text. However, you can also send graphic images and sound files, as attachments. A large percentage of the total traffic over the Internet is e-mail. E-mail can also be exchanged between online service provider users and in networks other than the Internet, both public and private.

How E-mail works in 5 steps:

Message Sender: uses mail software, called a client, to compose a document, possibly including attachments such as tables, photographs or even a voice or video recording.

Internet mail address: attached to each message is in the form "mailbox@domainname"। The multipart domain name in the above example denotes a top-level domain ("।com") following the second-level domain ("seniorindian")

Mail submission server: converts the domain name of the recipient’s mail address into a numeric Internet Protocol (IP) address। It does this by querying domain name servers interspersed throughout the Internet.

Routers: dispersed throughout the Internet read the IP address on a packet and relay it toward its destination by the most efficient path

Destination mail server: place the packets in their original order, according to the instructions contained in each packet, and stores the message in the recipient’s mailbox.

Here is a basic diagram showing how email works:

Researching E-books

Last lesson we started to research e-books, loking at differnt sites and the e books themselves. I choose to do 2 different websites, first was www.e-boooks.com and the second was www.gutenberg.org. I used these two websites because they are so differnt, for the first one the site was very bold and colourful, with many links and differnt ways to narrow down the search for your book. The ebook itself from that site was also more detailed, this included the front cover of the book and pages with picutres and backgrounds.
In the gutenberg website everything was very different, there was not as much wirtitng and the colour was very bland. The gutenberg website was not appealing to the eye and for the e books themsleves, well they were extreamly dull, this was because of the amount of writing that was dumped all onto one page with no way of running through the book via links to certain sections, only means of navigation was a mini scroll bar down the side which was hard to use and made it hard to find certain sections. Although it had all these faults there were the two good points, which were it was faster to download than the ones at e-books.com beacuse of thier simplicity and they were also free.
Also durign our research we came across something new which could be used in our project. Its called ipaper and its a substitute to pdf, the differnce bieng is that there are features such as 'email to a friend' which doenst come with pdf and also that it down need to be downloaded or opened in a new tab or window as it is already loaded onto the main screen. Ipaper is embeded onto the website and allows the viewer to read the document without any downloads or waiting what so ever, and also no need to download nay new pluggins to your excisting browser.
From this lesson i learnt that too plain is not atracive to the readers eye and that some sort of navigation tool will be needed for easy access to certain areas of the book without having to scroll through everypage in the book ot reach the last one as seen in the gutenberg website.

Introduction

Welcome to my first Blog.
My name is Tarek and I am creating a blog to track my record and express my feelings on the ICT course I am doing at school for AS.
I chose ICT as one of my courses for the main reason is that I have a great internest in IT and I also see that in this preasent day a kowledge on software and computers is very vital and can help me throughout any carrer or job i wish to take on.
At the beggining of the ICT course I found that we were doing alot more listening to the teacher than actually doing any practical work on teh computers, I found this quite dull and did not feel at all enthusiastic to what we might be doing in the near future.
Despite all of this we eventually started to get some real work, reseaching e books and starting up our own blogs, this said I think that the course should be fun, intresting and I hope I achieve the grades I want.