Geeky Minds

Since I'm in an educational institution, I've always asked myself what technology could do to help make education better and innovative (that is the very purpose of the CIECT Unit). I am also quite young and I am quite active on social media. I am also a commerce student. I recently read up on the statistics with regards to Mark Zuckerberg and his creation of thousands of jobs that includes employment of app developers for games found on Facebook. Most university students, if not all university students spend hours on end playing games on Facebook's App Center. This App Center host hundred of thousands of games that could and would blow your mind. These games range from Arts to Business to Educational categories that keep the students or player glued to the screen, one of those games being  Pet Rescue Saga (Facebook App Center) . This particular is one of the most played games on Facebook with over +10 million monthly users. Why not develop such a game that would save a s

Well, this week has been quite a beautiful week for me hey. I got to play around with a lot of amazing software that I went on to review. I also had the superb chance to look at Photoshop CS6. Adobe has been making absolutely good progress when it comes to developing their software (and basically taking over the world while they are at it!). The latest version of Photoshop I used in isolation without the assistance of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. I must say: I AM IMPRESSED. Apart from the fact that one has to pay close to R9000 for the softwar and an additional R1200 for Photoshop Lightroom, one did get everything they paid for. It took me about a few hours finding my way around this new baby. Another 30 minutes trying to figure out how to use the baby was worth it. The User Interface on the software is so user friendly I have even considered dropping Instagram as a Photo editor and just sticking with CS6. I am not quite an expert when it comes to photoshopping but I am quite sure th

I recently underwent a crash course in Concept Mapping. I've always been accustomed to CMap anyway, I started using it in my first year of my undergraduate Accounting degree. We were tasked by our Information Systems lecturer (Mrs. Lydia Kimani) to explore CMap by developing a concept map for some topic (I can barely even remember). My supervisor (Mr. Daniels) went over CMap with us again, and I decided once more to actually use the tool. CMap Tools (Home Page CMAP) The fact that CMap was not created for the purposes of brainstorming and mind mapping but rather for an in depth explanatory session of certain concepts that only an expert or a knowledgeable person may be able to explain. Even though its main focus is to provide a platform for easy conceptualization of ideas or concepts, it has a vast range of tools within the the platform. One would expect the platform to only be useful when it comes to text, and not in essence take over the work of PowerPoint or Keyword-but

This week I decided to play around with iWisoft Video Converter, and I played around with it! iWiSoft (Free Video Converter) Well, I would like to commend teh fact that this software is freely downloadable on the link in the caption below the picture. It allows for various features for editing videos like converting video formats (including HD), audio ripping from videos, merging videos, trimming videos, adding watermarks/logs on to the videos, texts and cropping the video along with so many other features. Well it worked out quite well when I converted a playlist I found on  YouTube  that was uploaded by a fellow colleague. I decided to merge all of the videos, trim the videos at the beginning to create one synchronized video without it feeling like it's a series of 4 different videos. Well, it kinda worked out. There were a few a glitches and a few things that did disappoint me because I did not read the fine print. YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR. If you paid nothing, you might