Monday, July 7, 2008

Wall-E

Post Number 3 for today.

I went and seen Disney-Pixars Wall-E. It was better then I expected, and I expected a lot, it being a Pixar movie and all. In case you don’t know, Pixar uses a program called Render Man to make there movies. Render Man is a Software Program Created by Pixar specifically for 3d animation. Anyway, back to Wall-E. As many of you know, I tend to watch movies to look at the effects and all of the tricks that are in the movie. I was extremely impressed on this movie, Pixar took some time made Wall-E the robot a very complex character. The most impressive part of Wall-E the robot, was how his solar panel unfolds. It was amazing. I do not want to spoil the movie to much for you, so I will not say much more about it, but I would recommend seeing it.

Google Reader

Post Number 2 for today
Some of you know that I use Google Reader to read blogs so that I do not have to visit the websites of the blogs all the time.
I am currently subscribed to 55 different blogs. But let me tell you the story behind why I use google reader, and why I am subscribed to so many blogs.
Most of you know that I am very interested and keen to technology, and media. I originally started using google reader and reading blogs so that I could keep up with all of the current things that Google and other companies are doing in media and technology. Since I started using Google Reader, I have increased what I read and what I am interested in. Although 14 of those 55 blogs are from Google, or Google related, I also find that I am reading many blogs related to space and NASA. In fact 5 of my subscriptions are to NASA sites. Anyway, let me get to the point here, I know that most of you do not like to use a Blog reader, but I have another good reason for you to use one. On the LDS.org site there are many blogs you can subscribe to. Many of them are great, but If you are going to read them I would recommend using a reader such as Google Reader. That way you can subscribe to multiple sites, and can view them all in one site.
In order go use a Reader you must get a account. Like all other services, Google reader is free, and 99.9% of all Blogs are free to subscribe to.
Once you create an account, all you have to do is look for the little orange RSS Feed button on a page, like the one listed below. There are many different views of these feed buttons, but they are almost always orange, and always have the white shape on them.


You just click on that button, it is that simple, and then you can read anything that any of these blogs post without even visiting the sites.

Re: Simtek Fence

It looks like I am going to be posting three times today. Here is the first one. If you don’t know, I work for SimTek Fence. I manage there website along with other things. On my original post, and the reason I started posting is so I could increase the standings of the SimTek Fence Website. By putting blog posts and likes all over the internet, a search engine thinks that the site is more popular then it really is, therefore it increases the standing of the website in the search engine. It is called Website Optimization. It is complicated stuff. Anyway, I started posting in order to use my blog as a location to help boost the stats of that site. I realized just recently that my blog is set to where Google does not see it, which makes my attempt to at increasing the site states almost useless. The only way it helps is to have other people click on the links provided in the text. That way it references it as a bounce, and not a link. Anyway, I don’t want to go into to much detail. If I do, I will probably confuse every one.