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Technology: Good and Bad

The young people these days have things easy: answers to homework and mini-research papers are just a click of the mouse button away. They can put music in their music players and watch movies online without having to pay for these things. They can even do online shopping and look for new restaurants or specialty shops like which store has the best ipod cases even without stepping out of their homes.

The convenience technology has brought the young people can make them do great things or do otherwise.

Learning about new things is now a breeze, as long as the sources of information are legit and not suspect. Homework answers can be had with a click of a button. They can improve on what’s already existing and help others who do not have access to so much information and knowledge. Baking and cooking has been easy with the internet. People who mattered most to you but you somehow lost touched are now just a click away in Facebook or in Twitter (and now Google+).

Technology, on the other hand, make the young people lazy. They are too lazy to do any research from scratch because everything they need can be easily copied and pasted, even if the information they got were incorrect or unverified. They get photos from the web and say it’s theirs. Hah.

Sometimes I wonder what will become of these young people who spend more time doing things virtually than spending time in the “real world”.

My Elusive Netbook Find

I have written about my need to purchase a netbook here and here.

I have read countless netbook reviews.

Last Sunday I was at it again. Looking at an Acer (like hubby’s netbook), a pink Toshiba (netbook, not the full-sized one), a Vaio  and a Mac when we went to a mall’s cyber center to buy ink for the printer.

Mac? Yep, even the kids said it looks different, feels different and more cool than other brands.

I’m afraid though that if I don’t get one soon, the budget would go to another major financial obligation, payment for tuition fee. Sigh, such is the life. Oh, the lure of an Android too is a strong one for me,

I’d better look for online contests soon, who knows I might win something there 😀

Crocs, Foursquare and Farmville Among Time’s 50 Worst Inventions

I know a lot of Crocs, Foursquare and Farmville fans/users will not like the inclusion of these three products in Time.com The 50 Worst Inventions.

I don’t have a pair of Crocs. I don’t want to broadcast my location to the whole world through Foursquare. I don’t waste time tending to my virtual farm.

Ok I admit, I still have a virtual farm but I have been a negligent farmer for a long time already. I’d rather do something about my age spots than plow and plant in my virtual farm.

Which reminds me, the house needs a thorough cleaning and I will get to that as soon as I am done cooking in my virtual restaurant  😀

Excuses to Have a Netbook

I think I need to have a netbook. My laptop is uber heavy and uber big causing my aching arms/shoulders to further feel pain.

aspire

This is the husband’s Acer Aspire which I sometimes borrow whenever I need to go somewhere. I love the long battery life and lightness which is just perfect to carry around. Of course the small screen size might do further damage to my already blurred vision (I don’t need reading glasses yet, thank you very much, 😀 ) but I am not scared since the fonts can be made bigger when needed.

Excuses. They’re not 😉

iPad

I am not one who go goo-goo and gaga over tech gadgets and tech toys not because (mainly) I don’t have the budget for these things but because I know that whatever is news today would be old news after a few days.

Like this iPad which is NOT mine:

iPad

Looks pretty neat huh?

So I take back what I wrote about not going gaga over tech gadgets because shhh… I want one like this because of the features.

It would be great to be able to access a lot of things like my mail, my photos, YouTube, iTunes, maps, iBooks and so much more.

Now my mom wouldn’t get mad at me if I don’t find the joint health supplements page she needs to read pronto because  I know if I have one like this, I wouldn’t put it down 😀