Week 7 BOC: GarageBand

Nowadays there are so many ways to create and edit music using technology. Something new I discovered recently is GarageBand. It is a program that comes free in Apple computers. It allows you to play different instruments, create new music, edit, and sing. It's very fun and easy to use. Game designers can use it to create sound effects and even web designer can use it to build a site as well. Many different people can benefit from this program, so it's nice to learn how to use it.

Week 6 BOC: Video Challenge

Week 6 BOC: Parking Panda

Parking Panda is an app that helps you to find parking at a lower cost (than a parking garage) and makes finding a space more easier and less time consuming.

"Parking Panda allows parking space owners to capitalize on their underutilized parking spaces by renting them out to a community of drivers who need spots."

 Parking Panda can be used on your phone or on your laptop.It’s so easy to use. To host your driveway or garage, just take a picture and upload it to Parking Panda. Users can easily find it and it is a super fast way you to make money.

"Parking Panda users can find available parking spots using the Parking Panda website, either from a web browser or a mobile phone web browser. If searching from a mobile phone, the site will use the user's location to automatically find nearby available parking, or users can enter a location to search. Users can see photos of spaces, and even pay for the spaces directly from their mobile phones."

Parking Panda is different because it is one of the first mobile apps to quickly help users to find a parking space, sometimes at a great price or really pricey, depending on what is going on the day of. It allows users to quickly make money by just posting a picture of their driveway.

"Parking Panda works in two ways. The app allows ordinary people to rent out their driveway or spare parking space to motorists in need.Its second, and more recent, line of business creates online and mobile reservations for parking facilities."

I think Parking Panda is really important to me. When it expands more and is used greatly where I live, I would be willing to take part of Parking Panda’s community to make easy money. It is so simple anyone can do it. It may be a lifesaver to those who aren’t working currently; they can rent out their driveways to commuters and make money easily.  

"Garage owners can dictate the price of parking and number of spaces available for reservations based on demand. When there is an influx of drivers, perhaps during a sporting event, the price to reserve a space goes up. Similarly, when demand wanes, such as late at night or on a Friday afternoon,the price comes down."

 I would definitely use this app. It has helped greatly to busy commuters and tourists who don’t enjoy paying so much to park in a giant parking garage. 

Week 2 BOC: Instagram

 

As we all know, Facebook is already a high-valued company, created to connect and share with everyone around the globe very easily and fast. Now the popular social networking site has acquired a fast-growing application called Instagram, an app that allows you take photos from your mobile phones and edit them to share instantly.

Instagram is a very new company that was created less than two years ago. It has grown rapidly over the past several months due to it’s popularity and user friendly interface.  More ‘artistic’ users will enjoy it’s easy editing and adding effects to their photos and sharing their work with friends and family for all to enjoy.

"Facebook announcedtheywould purchase popular photo-sharing app Instagram Monday for amind-blowing $1billion. Once the acquisition is complete, people are wonderingwhat will happento the two-year old app that took smartphones by storm."

Although purchasing the app for one billion dollars seems like a lot of money, the real is in the users who have downloaded Instagram. Many users have started a ruckus over the purchase of the company and its app.

“Naysayers have legitimatereasons for concern. Instagram is the most popular product that Facebook haspurchased.”

Instagram users are concerned whether if Facebook will make any changes to the app, and worry it might become something they use less if any major changes are made. Some users have even quit using Instagram in protest to Facebook purchasing the company.

“Instagram, the popularmobile photo-sharing app, has only been available on Android smartphones forone day, but the apphas already garnered over 1 million downloads.”

Whether or not Facebook makes any changes to the userface of Instagram, many people will continue to download and use the app due to it’s easy way to take photos and posting them online for speedy sharing. The purchase of Instagram hopefully will not drive users away as it is continuing to grow.