Lecture Post- Photoshop and Cloud Computing
The Metro Card Finder is an app designed to help find lost or stolen Metro Cards. With today's current technology, I am looking for different alternatives to finding your stolen/lost metrocard. One method of finding it is to scan/enter the code on the back of your metrocard into the computer or phone via the MTA website. Another method is to have an RFID (Radio Frequency Identification), a tracking device) chip on the back of the card. Once you realize that it is stolen, call and report it to the authorities immediately. They will deactivate the card temporarily and locate the card by detecting the radio wave signals.
The concept of photoshop can be incorporated into my entrepreneurship idea in an important way. Photoshop enables you to create images or improvise already existing images. Through the various techniques on Adobe Photoshop, such as color balance adjustments and "the lasso", you can alter an image or even create one that was never there. You can make a man look like a woman and vice versa because photoshop allows you to add, take away, and create. For example, for the lab for this week we altered an image of a football game that took place at the Carrier Dome here in SU. We were assigned to fill up the section of the audience that looked empty, to make it look like the event was full house. We also had to put our name on the football field so it looks like we own it. This was done through photoshopping (using the lasso, copying and pasting sections of the crowd to a less filled section, adjusting the color balance so that nothing looks out of place).
My entrepreneurship idea has not been set forth into action, it is not real yet. What photoshop will allow me to do is make my dream a reality. When people hear about an idea, they have to see it to believe it. Otherwise it is just a gimmick. They want an image that will allow them to see where the idea will go, and whether or not it might just work. I can get an image of a MetroCard and add an RFID chip to a place where it would fit best. This way consumers/customers will have an idea of how the invention looks and they can spread the word that this might just work because it looks believable. In no way would I be tricking anyone, I would just give them an image of what the prototype would look like.
The "Cloud" is the world wide web, otherwise known as the internet. Cloud computing is basically software applications on the web that can be accessed anywhere and any time. Most of the time it is free, unlike the actual software that you have to purchase for high prices. One downside of cloud computing is that it requires an internet connection; so if your internet is down you can not access the necessary software. Whereas the purchased version of the software doesn't require internet and is more stable. Examples of Cloud Computing are Google Docs, Google's version of excel, ZOHO, and Dropbox. Now cloud computing also enables cloud storage which is "an internet service that provides storage to computer users" (From the Textbook for IST195: "Discovering Computers: Shelly Cashman Series) ie, individuals, home businesses, and enterprises. When there is not enough space to store information, cloud storage services are made available. Examples of Cloud Storage Services are Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3; these websites provide enterprise level storage, web services, and data center services. In other words, these websites enable you to manage and store your data at a cost of course. For my entrepreneurship idea, since there will be many customers I'm hoping, all of their information pertaining to them needs to be managed (personal info, metrocard info, images, services, accessing tutorial videos, etc).
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