Abandon Evaluation - Technology

Blogger - "Blogger is a blog-publishing service that allows private or multi-user blogs with time-stamped entries. It was created by Pyra Labs, which was bought by Google in 2003. Generally, the blogs are hosted by Google at a subdomain of blogspot.com." - Source: www.wikipedia.org
This was my first time ever blogging. I know what you're thinking, "a teenager that doesn't know how to blog!?" but yes, sadly it's true. It was entirely new to me. It was strange watching my class mates excel instantly at something I knew absolutely nothing about. After a while I caught up but it did and has slowed me down at points, however now I feel fairly comfortable with the process and feel I have achieved a new attribute through blogging for Abandon, a skill which will definitely come in handy in this ever evolving online world.


Samsung Pixon 12- I purchased this Samsung beauty nearly 2 years ago and it is honestly one of the best purchases I have ever made. I basically bought this phone for it's practical media application. It's impressive 12 mega pixel camera allowed me to shoot all my photos for abandon on the move and in stunning quality. The fact that the photos then instantly came out as A4 size also aided me in formatting and editing my pages. Every photo in my magazine came from this phone along with the voice recordings for my interviews.


Photoshop CS4- Adobe Photoshop is a graphics editing program developed and published by Adobe Systems Incorporated. As I am an avid fan of photography and photo editing I was fortunately fairly familiar with photoshop before starting the production process. However as my photography flame has dwindled so has my skills with the editing program. During the editing process I constantly found myself forgetting simple editing tasks that would have previously come as second nature such as creating borders for my scrapbook style photos. I used photoshop for every inch of my magazine and I am really grateful to own this product at this time.


Acer Aspire 5735- This is the computer/laptop that I created everything on. The computer is advertised as a media laptop therefore certain features such as the impressive display really came in handy when producing my media text.

After reviewing the Technology involved I can say I am extremely grateful for all the professional equipment I have been able to use during the creation of Abandon.