The Development of iPod

At present, there are so many ways that technology affected our lifestyle. In the past there are a few ways to listen to the music by radio, cassettes and CDs. It was really uncomfortable to take many CDs and cassettes with you all day. Nowadays, we can put more music in the little modern digital music player called “iPod”. We can put up to 80 GB worth of music in, moreover, iPod can also play video, games and TV shows. I think that these are really interesting, so I will show you about the development of the digital music player from Apple Computer with impressive industrial design called “iPod”.
There are six models of iPod, for the first generation, which are iPod, iPod Mini, iPod Photo, iPod Shuffle, iPod Nano and iPod Video. It represented the perfect compromise between size and storage capacity.
The First generation of iPod, Announced in October 2001. Whose capacity was 5 GB available on the iPod and added the 10GB and 20GB later. It uses the scroll wheel in the first models and change to the touch system in the second models. Then, there were 10GB, 15GB, 20GB and 40GB in the third models. This third models, the button was changed and it changed to click wheel with the 20GB and 40GB in the forth models and 30GB and 80GB in the fifth models.
iPod Mini, which is smaller than the first one was released in January 2004 with blue, green pink, silver and gold. It was storing media on a Micro drive and available in 4GB. The second model of the Mini was available in 4GB and 6GB and the battery life was up to 18 hours
iPod Photo, it was launched in October 2004 with screen that can display color photos. It was storing media on a hard drive and originally available in 40 GB and 60 GB models.
iPod Shuffle, the smallest iPod models which smaller than a pack of gum. It uses the flash memory and can hold up to 240 songs. This model does not have the screen and click wheel, so it can only play the songs randomly (shuffle).
iPod Nano, it was Announced in September 2005. It uses the flash memory like the shuffle, but it was available in 8GB with the 7mm thin. It can show the photo from the 65,536 color screen. The first models of Nano was has just black and white, but the second one has silver, pink, green, blue, and black.
iPod Video, which was introduced in October 2005. This model allowed users to view photos, store and play the video files. It was available in 30GB and 60GB. After that, the 60GB models were also replaced by the 80GB models, which include the brighter screen, a search feature, gapless playback, and longer battery life.
This is shown that the developments of iPod never stop!!!!!!!!!
From the information mentioned above, we can see that iPod is always developing.

Smile

In physiology, a smile is a facial expression formed by flexing muscles most notably near both ends of the mouth, but also around the eyes. The study by Dacher Keltner, a psychology professor at the University of California in Berkeley, near San Francisco, analyzed the 43 facial muscles used by humans to charm, smirk and appease.
The most people think we smile because we are happy. In fact, there are many causes of smile. For example, we smile for response to the speaker, polite smile when we receive s present, saying hello. Sometimes, we smile to police when you were arrested by reason of your embarrassment.
According to the studies of physiology, the smile can say where you are from. British smile by pulling our lips back and upwards and exposing our lower teeth, but Americans are more likely simply to part their lips and stretch the corners of their mouths. For Thais, I think we are smile like Americans, but more sincere than them.
However, Smiling not only changes a facial expression or says where you are from, but can also make the brain produce endorphins which reduce physical and emotional pain, and give a greater sense of well-being, so when we are tense, just smile, It will be better.

P.S Keep a smile every day na I think is that good for you and your friends.

Comic books are they destroying our youth’s mind, you decide.

Comic books have been around for sometime here in Thailand. Most comes from Japan, Korea or from Europe etc. When it was first brought in a lot of children got hooked to it and still is. Comic books seems to be harmless, but it can actually ruin our youth’s mind. “How?” you ask. Comic books also known as ‘Mangas’, has corrupted the believes of young readers to over spend their money on these books and created cultures of ‘J-teen’, kids who are into the ways of Japanese teens which are extreme in many ways such as sex and violence. In addition comic books is also wasting the time for children to study. It is not hard for comic books to change the ways of our lives.
Firstly, the subject of over spending. Comic books can go on for about 50 issues and each issue cost about 40 baht, so to have a collection cost about 2000 baht, there are lots of new titles coming out everyday and all of them seems to go on forever. The people who has to pay for all of these comic books are the parents and they have to suffer for the price because the children who are hook spend about 5000 baht per month on comic books.
Furthermore, comic books can have huge effects on children’s behavior. Comic books have explicit sexual scenes and the story is always about destruction and death. The level of gore and violence in these comic books is very high and there are no controls or regulations for children, so a kid about 8 years old can freely pick up a completely sadistic comic book where people get their head chopped off and blood spills at the turn of every page. Comic books also have sex scenes that exposes breasts and vaginas. So these scenes have cause early sexual for young children.
Even though, with all of these violence and pornographic can wreak havoc, comic books does also have a good side to it too. It could help small children practice reading and it can increase reading speeds for slow readers. It can also be enjoyable too. Some story such as the one for children can have good morals.
Although comic books have good qualities they can present problems in our cultures such as early exposure to sex or the high level of violence seen in these comic books. Comic books can be good and bad depending how you use it. As a result parents should be with the children when they choose comics, so as to see which one is suitable for their child.