Final Reflection

Billy Manzi

Professor Fluery-Lawson

Digital Apps

4/16/12

Final Relfection

During my semester in Digital Apps, I learned a lot in class, from learning how to type faster, to being able to create our own website. We worked on a variety of different things in class, group projects, and individual ones as well. I took a few things away from this course, such as, how to rightly create a website, and how to correctly make a business card. These things are necessary to have in the business world someday in my future.

In the future, I plan on owning a business of my own, and in that sense, I would definitely need a website of my own to promote my business. In the design a web project we worked with a computer application that would help us create a website, and while I was using it, I felt very confused, but when I learned all the tags and modifications with the application, it was a very simple thing to do. It reminded me of how a simple power point is created. All in all, a necessary part of every man’s business is the promotion of his business, and a website would be a great help to that cause.

One more thing that every business man will need is a business card, a business card is essential to every business man’s ensemble. It must be on that man or woman at all times. The business card has all the critical parts to know about you and your business; it includes your name, company logo, name, and/or colors, and also maybe a motto or other sayings. If I go anywhere in the near future it won’t be without my business card.

In conclusion, I really enjoyed my semester in the time I had in ITM 123-02, it had its hardships, and I struggled at parts, but anything I couldn’t get through I could learn how to do in class. I learned how to successfully create a website and a business card, important for every upcoming business man. I learned much in my class and enjoyed my time, even though it was at 8am.

Billy Manzi

4/9/12

Professor Fluery-Lawson

Digital App

Apple Manufacturing Corp.

Would you want your eighteen year old daughter to be working in a manufacturing company for minimal wage, and in rugged conditions? Well for little “Chen” working in in a factory in southwestern China, this is her reality! She has to work through harsh conditions, and brutal, and long days. The whole company is so independently based on building one part of the Apple I Pad, that Miss Chen did not even know what she was looking at, when the reporters presented an I Pad that she probably help build, in front of her face. “Miss Chen stares curiously at the I Pad. Even though she works overtime in a factory in southwestern China that manufactures them, she's never seen the finished product.”

There are an exponential amount of people that work at the same factory that Miss Chen works at. While living in the lower class part of a small Chinese town, she can afford little, and is used to working long hours that take up most of her day. An eighteen year old girl should not be working in a huge factory; she should be in school, becoming a knowledgeable person. “The 18-year-old student from a village outside of the southern megacity of Chongqing is one of more than one million factory workers at a Chinese company that helps manufacture products for Apple Inc.'s lucrative global empire, which raked in a record $46.3 billion in sales last quarter.” A big name company such as this one does not give a second thought to “small” issues such as the one that preoccupy Miss Chen.

All in all, the company that we all know and love, Apple, has beautiful and amazing products that we all use every day. However, at what expense do we use these products for? If a small girl must suffer for us to be entertained on a long car ride, then is it really worth it? I don’t believe so! Instead of playing Draw Something on your I Phone, read a book, or just play a game to pass the time.

Extra Credit Blog

When people loose their cell phones they do not realize the risks that can come of that. Especially people who do not use number locks on their phones. People who find your phones can hack into anything from your online banking to your facebook.  Symantec conducted a test where they "lost" phones in places such as Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington, New York, and Ottawa. They then tracked what the people who found the phones and what they did on the lost cell phone. In 72% of the lost phones the finders looked through the phones pictures.  60% of the finders attemped to access social media and 40% tried to access corporate e-mail and online banking.

To avoid these things happening to you when you lost your smart phone there are many things you can do to prevent or help the situation. First you should always have some type of lock on your phone. This way if lost it is difficult to access. Second if your phone is stolen or lost you should go on a computer and change your passwords. Then finally shut down your phone until you can get another phone

Blog #4 Facebook Password

There has been a knew interest for employers to ask people who are applying and interviewing for jobs for their facebook passwords. They are doing this to look throughout the person's facebook to see what is going on in their social lives. They are doing things such as going through their messages and looking through their photos and on their walls. For people who really need jobs they do not have any other choice but to give the employers their passwords. But many people, such as myself, believe that this is a huge invasion of privacy.

It is one thing for an employer to look at someones photos, which I still believe is an invasion of privacy, but to go through their personal facebook is even more invasion than that. The employers are going through the applicants personal conversations with their friends and families. One person says "Will the next step be to request a key to my house?" That is a little extreme but they are right. It is a huge invasion of privacy. Especially if the person does not have bad pictures or anything like that. I do not think that there is any reason to request their facebook password.

Bryer Crawford-Extra Credit Blog

I read "Most finders of lost phones try to access personal data, survey finds" by Amy Gahran, written on March 20, 2012. This article says that people who find lost smartphones try to find personal information. For example they will try to get email accounts, banking information, they look at photos, texts, social media etc. Most who found the phones there purposely lost tried to return them but after the fact that they tried gaining personal information. These phones that were lost did not have a passcode or any sort of protection and this was to see what people would do. This is a reason for everyone to have some sort of lock passcode on their phone so if it is lost no one can get through. I feel as most people with the option of having passcodes have them and that is a good thing. This is the reason the phone has the option for a lock passcode is for us to use it and secure our cellular devices. Those who find lost phones and return are very nice and considerate but how would you know they did not go through all your personal information before hand? You will probably never know unless they started accessing your account information on a daily basis. This article proves to show that people are not always nice and considerate and you should always have passwords/locks/passcodes whatever it may be to secure your phone as best you can.

Bryer Crawford- Blog # 4- Facebook Password

I chose to write about ACLU: Facebook password isn't your boss' business. This article is written by Doug Gross who works for CNN and this article was written on March 22, 2012. This article states that employers are starting to ask their future employees for their facebook log in account. They then will log into your account and go through everything. I knew employers were checking facebook profiles and photos but not going as far as asking for their passwords and logging in as the person. They will go through everything including your private/personal messages. They are called private messages for a reason. Most have objected and not gave out their password but some have given in because it was a decision of giving the password and keeping your job or not giving the password and hitting the road. This is just like asking someone for their personal email account and password and reading all of the emails. This is private and everyone has a right to have their own private life. I had no idea that this was going on and like most others I do not agree with it. This is not right, I do not even agree with the fact that they are basing some employment oppturnities on what their facebook looks like. What they have been doing is a lot better than what they are doing now and if this should change it should go back to the way it was. I feel that this is wrong and unfair in many ways.

Extra Credit

Most finders of lost phones try to access personal data, survey finds March 20, 2012 By: Amy Gahran Thinking about some stranger accessing your phone is an uneasy thought. Having them going through your photos, your messages, your passwords and everything else we store on our mobile devices is a scary thought. The recent rise in smart phone carriers has caused the amount of smart phone thieves to rise. These thieves are taking smart phones from owners and running to access personal information and even changing passwords to accounts to take over. A recent study was done in cities all over the country by Security software provider Symantec. The Company purposely lost 50 cell phones that had no locks set on them and found that in the vast majority of cases -- more than 95% -- the people who found these missing cell phones tried to access personal or sensitive information, or services such as online banking or e-mail. This is almost every person that found one of the 50 cell phones tried to access personal information. The Company stated that in order for smart phone carriers to keep their information safe they should set a password lock on their device. Along with setting a password a carrier should make sure they do not store passwords on the device or use one password for all accounts. The last tip they gave is to report a stolen phone as soon as possible to try to stop security breaches before they occur. After reading this article I decided to put my password back on my phone as well as delete my password application as well. I never thought about how much information is so easily accessible if someone were to take it from me. I think that we all need to be more careful as to what we put in writing because we never know what could happen in the future.