Planning a trip

You can buy an inter rail global pass or an inter rial one country pass from the on line inter rail website.

If your under 25 then its cheaper.

For one months pass it will cost £422.

On most of the trains you don't have to make any reservations but on some particular trains such as the high speed trains , night trains and some international trains they can be in high demand and its better to reserve a seat just in case.

The rail pass is not valid in your country of residence, so if your from England then you cant use the trains in England.


The train will depart from St pancras station in London and then take approximately 2 hours and 22 minutes then arriving in Paris at the Paris Nord station , there are no change in trains for this journey.

The Aloha hostel is situated in the heart of paris right near the Eiffel tower, it costs £18 this includes a free city tour there is no curfew , internet access, lounge area and a tours and travels desk. Recieving good reviews.

Virtual Learning Enviroments

Disadvantages of virtual learning

• Not all students have computer access at home.
• Not all students can use computers very well.
• Some students may forget there passwords.
• If students are contsantly learning on computers, then things like spelling, grammar and handwritting may be effected.
• Some students dont learn to the best of thier ability in the style of online learning.

Some students may experience cyber bullying.

Bedford college Virtual learning enviroments in compariason to my previous schools are much better and if all schools vle were to the standard of bedfords college then it would be fine, but previously teachers had not kept up with updating them and using them.

Whats the difference between IMPA4 and POP3?

POP3 is a protocol to download and locally store your emails wen your client connects it will download all mail stored in your mailbox and save it to your hard disk. It will then delete the copy that is kept on servers. POP3 is good if you want to keep all your emails in your sent box.

IMAP4 is a protocol used to access the contence of your mail box on the server in real time you can open mails , delete messages , store/save messages from the server and use the system as normal the main difference between them is that all messages are saved ans stored on the server not on your local computer.
so IMAP4 is good if you have multiple computers of devices (iphone/blackberry).

Online marketing the future?

I remember not that long ago when you wanted to buy something you went into town and went shopping but nowadays its all at a click of a button why leave your warm comfortable house when you can just sit at home looking at the on line catalogues at just a click of a button its all so simple now, but for companies like Argos it leaves them in a sticky situation, because of competition from big on line traders like amazon, they just make it so easy why would you want to do anything else? even going through a catalogue at home is allot less appealing ,on line shopping has lots of features that catalogue shopping don't such as , discounts being able to tell if something is out of stock immediately, being able top sort your such by cheapest price , size and even showing you things that you might like , on line shopping is just more convenient and if companies don't adapt then they will undoubtedly loss allot of money.

Using your mobile in public places

Nowadays everywhere you look people are on there mobile phones either talking, texting, pinging , tweeting or using other varies different ways to communicate but is this right? in the case of one store they've baned talking on your phone whilst your being served and i think this is right people are too involved in whats going on in there phones so most of the time were all quite unaware of whats going on around us in the real world, but i think the reality of this situation is mobile phones are very very important to modern day life and too allot of people and i regrettably have to include myself in this they are a necessity and they are very useful so its not such a bad thing, all i think is people still should make time in there lives for good old fashion face to face talking.

4G what effects will it have?

4G is the latest thing too happen to mobile phones, it will effect now around 20 million people across 16 cities but in time will be all across the U.K, i thought that 3G was fast especially for a mobile phone but 4G will be 5 times faster than 3G! This means things like watching DH movies on line will be easy on your mobile phone , there will be no more buffering or freezing.

Right now the only network offering 4G is EE (everything everywhere) and at very high prices and the only people it will work for is people who live in one of the 16 cities, its still early days but the future for 4G is promising, and at the moment the pricing may be high but as more and more companies take 4G on the more competitive it will become and so it will naturally become allot cheaper.

internet safety

whats an image?

When we save images there are several different formats you can save it in, but what does this really mean?
JPEG stands for Joint photographic expert group, this is useful if you wont to save an image because it saves the image to the standard of a professional photographer.
GIF is associated with the internet as oppossed to photography , it stands for graphics interchange format.GIF also supports animations.
PNG stands for portable network graphics it was developed as an alternative to GIF, dispalying more elegance in photos than GIF.

Transfering images between phones

phones nowadays have almost replaced cameras especially now the quality of phone cameras is so good and its alot easier to share your photos with your friends and family on a mobile phone.
there are multiple ways to send images not just mms.

Bluetooth is a very common way to send images you just need both phones to have bluetooth which most do, its very simple and straight forward to do, you just turn your bluetooth on connect with theres then send the data.

If you have internet access on your phone you can very quickly send an email to the person your wishing to show the image too you just attach the image to the email , or you can upload it (facebook,myspace and twitter) and aslong as they have internet access they can look at it.
 
Infrared is very like bluetooth you can wirelessly send data to other moblies or computers, it has a shorted range than bluetooth, but is still usefull quick and easy.

USB connection is a usb wire which you put into your phone and you can put into your computer to send the data.
 
Memory cards are small cards that go into your mobile phones and store the data if you save your data on to there and then put the memory card in another phone they can view your image.

Designing mobile phones

When companies design mobile phones generally its either a business phone or a fashion phone they have very different uses and can look very different. A business phone will look sleek,large screen and normally in black , some of its features can be internet access, GPS,PDA, the ability to connect with laptops and notebooks , camera,3G/4G and voice activation.


And then theres fashion phones these phones are typically very customised , come in various colours, have the ability to store large amounts of data and play music loud

Buying an iphone 5

I have gone online looked at all the different network providers for the iphone 5 and i can now see that the cheapest one works out as O2 46 a month the phones free and unlimited minutes 2GB of internet and unlimited texts.

Mobile phone networks

Nowadays there are plenty of different companies that provide mobile phone networks, you've got plenty of choice.

• Tesco mobile
• Vodafone
• O2
• Orange
• Three
• Virgin Mobile
• Giff Gaff
• Talk mobile
• Lebara mobile

List of all service providers,

• O2
• sky broadband
• Virgin Media
• Bt group
• Updata
• Plus net
• Talk Talk
• AOL
• Orange
• Be unlimited
• Three

List of all phone manafcatures in the uk,

• Blackberry
• Acer
• LG
• Nokia
• O2
• Samsung
• Toshiba
• Google
• Vodafone
• Sonim
• Zte
• Dell, Htc
• Apple
• hp
• Palm
• Orange
• Ino
• I-mate
• huawei
• actel.lucent
• Sony Erricson
• Sony

Which computer?

Theres many different types of computers that suit different people depending on your lifestyle of job.

If you were a traffic warden then I would say a PDA is appropriate for you cause your job is mostly outside so a computer or a laptop pr netbook just wouldnt work.
 
If you are a teacher i would advise a laptop because then any work youve done at school you can take home or just around the school (from classroom to staff room).

If you are a gp and are staying in the same building through out your day than a desktop would suit you.

If your a news reporter a netbook or PDA , PDA you can take on your person everywhere but a netbook if you are writting up a news report and you can email it , nowadays there are plently of places with free wifi.

If you are a website designer then i would say a notebook there small so easy to take to a clients house or office and they do exactly the same as a laptop does just comapct.

How a mobile phone works?

How a mobile phone works

when you ring someone it sends out a signal to the nearest phone mast and then to a base switching centre and then to a mobile switching centre and then to the phone mast nearest the person there calling and then to there phone.

I learnt how to create a blog in my ict lesson.

I also learnt that bluetooth is a wireless technology used to exchange over short distances.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/webwise/guides/about-bluetooth

I learnt that 3G actually stand for the third generation , 3G is a major improvement on the previous technology (2G,EDGE) , it allows you to access the Internet much quicker , you should be able to download a song in roughly a minute.
http://blogs.which.co.uk/technology/phones-broadband/mobile-phones/what-is-3g/
I learnt that SMS means short messaging system,more commonly known as texting.
http://cellphones.about.com/od/phoneglossary/g/smstextmessage.htm

I learnt that GPS stands for Global Positioning System, which means a satellite based navigation system made up of 24 satellite's around the planet.
http://www8.garmin.com/aboutGPS/

An mp3 is a digital music format for creating high quality sound files for people to use.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/webwise/guides/about-mp3s

A mms stands for mulitmedia message service, MMS can be used to send pictures audio and videos.
http://cellphones.about.com/od/phoneglossary/g/mmspicturemessaging.htm

A memory card , is a card that can hold lots of data depending on what size memory card you have (2g,8g,32g).
http://www.wisegeek.org/what-is-a-memory-card.htm

Internal memory is the memory or space built in the phone.

Touch screen is a type of display screen, that has a touch sensetive panel covering the screen so instead of using a keyboard or key pad , you use your finger to select what you want.
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/T/touch_screen.html

A calculator is used for doing basic maths questions.

wifi is short for wireless fidelity , wifi means wireless netowrking which is often known as wifi and is a way of getting broadband internet without wires.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/webwise/guides/about-wifi

Internal memory is the free space within in a phone that comes with the phone that you can store data in.

Predictive text also known as t9 allows you to enter text by pressing one key per letter on a keypad where multiple letters share keys. As you enter a word the phone automatically compares it to its built in dictionary of words.
http://www.phonescoop.com/glossary/term.php?gid=399

Camera is used to take pictures and you can store them on yourt phone.

Camcorder is used to make videos which can be stored on the phone.

An alarm is an electronic reminder that you can set up for anytime you like and it goes off you can also put in on snooze.