Let the Post Mortem Begin...

Hello Fellow Bloggers, Now the real torture begins... Just quickly- here is my link, I didn't want to post it until I knew the server had it. I was just dropping off my nephew home, it's his webspace I hijacked it....hence the interesting URL.... http://www.jessecharlton.com/auntie_pauline_needs_to_get_her_own_webspace_and_stop_using_mine/ and he helped me upload it...I wouldn't let him leave until it was almost done- poor kid up until last week -I'd never done that before...I think I want my own webspaces now- I'm quite addicted :) Well this assignment has been a number of firsts for me....I know how to do spry tabs and personalised URL icon...that one was a bit tricky though. But I've found some brilliant sites and have shown the webpage to my bosses already and will use it (the shell- different content) as a local education intranet....linking all the files and presentations.... Next thing is to teach myself flash....how exciting... But along with the excitement comes the sick realisation I have again broken the cardinal rule- I've been sucked into to the technology...but I love it!!! I know I will be reminded of it over and over when I check out all your cool presentations. Take care :)PP

Perplexed?

Don't be.... I discovered my AuthorStream video (AKA slideshow assignment 1) wasn't working and in an attempt to restore it I inadvertantly found another button and deleted the whole thing. So if you haven't seen it or commented before- feel free. Although I noticed there are very few bloggers. Iam resisting this trend and despite the whole assignment pressure thing...I'm doing a salmon.... swimming against the current (blogging and posting my way upstream). Fellow Bloggers... I challenge you to do likewise!

Conceptual slide creation by PP

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Accelerometer (Just catching up...better late then never)...

Just when you thought you had heard everything about accelerometers... here's a movie buff's take on the subject and something else to chew on...


iPhone responds to motion using a built-in accelerometer. When you rotate iPhone from portrait to landscape, the accelerometer detects the movement and changes the display accordingly.
http://www.apple.com/iphone/iphone-3gs/high-technology.html

The technology that allows this function is called an accelerometer...sometimes referred to as a Mercury switch, however an accelerometer is different, since it can have many other applications.

If you haven't heard the term Mercury switch before, you have clearly not watched enough movies. Generally from the war or spy genre when the bomber [generally an unsympathetic character] blows himself up as he accidentally trips the mercury switch... –detecting movement (preventing the hero [sympathetic character] picking up the device [orientation] and throwing it [acceleration] in the lake or fountain - which is almost always conveniently placed nearby. At it’s basic... the forerunner for this technology is a bit like a spirit level which is used to indicate if your hooks are in the right position before you hang your picture frames on the wall, however instead of only indicating level- the mercury hits the end of the device and completes the circuit thereby tripping the switch... BOOM!
An accelerator device also indicates orientation and acceleration but is more sensitive and safer (because it doesn’t contain mercury or explode....but if it is contained within an incendiary device I guess that would be the least of your worries)...

Now we have determined the difference between the mercury switch and an accelerometer it should be noted that Apple wasn’t the first to come up with this technology in fact it was reported that iPhone screen could infringe Sony Ericsson patent...
at least according to a report filed by Patrick Altoft on February 7, 2007 in which he claims a patent filed in 2004 and issued to Sony Ericsson on 1st August 2006 appears to discuss, in some detail, how a mobile phone could alter the screen from portrait to landscape depending on the handset orientation.

Still don't know what an accelerator is? (TEXAS Instruments Guide gives a clear definition)
http://www2.usfirst.org/2005comp/Manuals/Acceler1.pdf

Other more noble applications include Medical applications...
according to Perring S, Summers A, Jones EL, Bowen FJ, Hart K. they have developed A novel accelerometer tilt switch device for switch actuation in the patient with profound disability. 2003:84:921-3. [article] 1

References
http://www.mad4mobilephones.com/iphone-screen-could-infringe-sony-ericsson-patent/452/
http://videos.howstuffworks.com/labratstv/3543-how-the-apple-iphone-works-video.htm
http://www.labwithleo.com/