Wednesday 14 September 2011

Seagull

Aktiviti Kumpulan Seagull pada 14 September 2011 & 15 September 2011
Aktiviti dalam kumpulan bagi menyiapkan poster presentation KM
bergambar bersama tenaga pengajar En. Zakaria Deraman

Aktiviti Bergambar Kumpulan

Gambarajah Knowledge Framework yang merangkumi Isu-isu berkaitan KM dan idea-idea yang dapat digunakan untuk menggerakan KM dalam organisasi dimana untuk mencapai KM yang berkesan terdapat barrier atau halangan yang perlu ditempuhi untuk mencapai kejayaan (achievement) perlaksanaan KM yang memerlukan kekuatan (strentgh) melalui pendekatan dengan mengenali masalah dan isu-isu berkaitan KM
Ahli kumpulan Seagull (Pn. Lily, Kimie, Hajidah, Khairil(tiada dalam gambar) bergambar depan hasil kerja kami
Mencapai kesinambungan KM melalui pendekatan Methods dan Techniques dalam menghasilkan KM melalui Pembelajaran.
Faktor Penggalakan kepada perkongsian KM
 


* Kumpulan kami bersyukur kerana dianugerahkan ahli kumpulan yang berbakat semulajadi dalam bidang Seni Lukisan. Terima kasih diucapkan kepada En Azizul yang berbakat besar menghasilkan hasil seni yang mengagumkan. P/S: Walaubagaimanapun pengisian maklumat-maklumat tersebut adalah hasil contribution setiap ahli kumpulan ye. :)

Seagull KM Interview Session

Monday 12 September 2011

Document Publishing Comparison



DTP comparison is done based on operating system compatibility and shows that LyX and Scribus both suits the requirements as both supports almost all major operating systems.

Based on the lists of DTP applications reviewed, a few have been chosen as best DTP based on the criteria on supports and features where the chosen DTP are mostly either Opensource on GPL or Freeware. To name a few are:-
1. Fatpaint (Cloud-based)  : is a free, online (web-based Cloud application) graphic design and desktop publishing software and image editor, with integrated tools for creating page layout, painting, coloring and editing pictures and photos, drawing vector images, using dingbat vector clipart, writing rich text and displaying graphics on products from Zazzle that can be purchased or sold. Fatpaint integrates desktop publishing features with brush painting, vector drawing and custom printed products in a single Flash application. It supports the use of a pressure sensitive pen tablet and allows the user to add images to the project by searching on Wikimedia, Picasa, Flickr, Google, Yahoo, Bing and Fatpaint's own collection of public domain images. The completed project can be saved on Fatpaint's server or your own computer.
Fatpaint has vector shape creation tools for drawing circles, rectangles, stars, triangles, crosses, spirals, splines, straight lines and lines that you can manipulate with bezier nodes. It also comes with thousands of vector images that you can put into your designs. Fatpaint runs on all major browsers on Windows, Mac OS and Linux.

Top Features:
  • Image objects: Paint on multiple layers, import or create your own brushes, clone painting and painting with effects.
  • Vector drawing objects: Create vector images using multiple paths.
  • Text objects: Write rich text. Choose among 981 fonts.
  • Effect objects: Blur, Drop Shadow, Glow, Gradient Glow, Bevel, Gradient Bevel, Color manipulations.
  • Page layout: Create multipe pages, each up to 64 megapixels in size. Arrange graphical objects on them, each up to 7.8 megapixels in size.
  • It is possible to place graphical objects inside one another and transform them in 2d and 3d. You can also skew, bend and distort images and text.
  • Design, purchase and sell custom printed products. Fatpaint takes care of sending your graphics to the printing company.
  • Supports pressure sensitive Pen Tablets.
  • Contains thousands of fonts, public domain images, cliparts and brushes.
2. Inkscape is a free software vector graphics editor, licensed under the GNU General Public License. Its goal is to implement full support for the Scalable Vector Graphics 1.1 standard. It is cross-platform and runs on Mac OS X (typically under X11, although the underlying GTK+ toolkit can be compiled to run natively under Quartz),Unix-like operating systems, and Microsoft Windows. Inkscape's implementation of SVG and CSS standards is incomplete. Most notably, it does not yet support animation. Inkscape has multi-lingual support, particularly for complex scripts, something currently lacking in most commercial vector graphics applications.


3. LyX is a document processor following the self-coined "what you see is what you mean" paradigm (WYSIWYM), as opposed to the WYSIWYG ("what you see is what you get") ideas used by word processors. This means that the user only has to care about the structure of and information within the text, while the formatting is done by LaTeX, an advanced typesetting system. LyX is designed for authors who want professional output with a minimum of effort and without becoming specialists in typesetting. The job of typesetting is done mostly by the computer, following a predefined set of rules called a style, not by the author. Specific knowledge of the LaTeX document processing system is not necessary but may improve editing with LyX significantly for specialist purposes.

Since LyX largely functions as a front-end to the LaTeX typesetting system, it can handle documents ranging from books, notes, and theses, to articles in refereed journals, letters, and anything else LaTeX can handle. LyX also supports right-to-left languages like Arabic,Persian and Hebrew, and it has substantial support for bidirectional writing. LyX also supports Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages. As of LyX 2.0 there is also basic support of XeTeX and LuaTeX that aims at supporting a broad range of scripts via direct Unicode support.. Although LyX is popular among technical authors and scientists for its advanced mathematical modes, it is increasingly used by social scientists and humanists for its bibliographic database integration and ability to manage multiple files. LyX has also become popular among self-publishers. The LyX document processor is available for various operating systems, including Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, UNIX, OS/2 and Haiku. LyX can be redistributed and modified under the terms of the GNU General Public License and is thus Free Software.

4. OpenOffice.org is an open-source application suite whose main components are for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, and databases.OpenOffice is available for a number of different computer operating systems, is distributed as free software and is written using its own GUI toolkit. It supports the ISO/IEC standard OpenDocument Format (ODF) for data interchange as its default file format, as well as Microsoft Office formats among others. As of June 2011, OpenOffice.org supports over 120 languages.As free software, users are free to download, modify, use and distribute OpenOffice.org. LibreOffice is a fork of OpenOffice.org which was formed by many of the original developers of OpenOffice.
OpenOffice.org originated as StarOffice, an office suite developed by StarDivision and acquired by Sun Microsystems in August 1999. The source code of the suite was released in July 2000 with the aim of reducing the dominant market share of Microsoft Office by providing a free and open alternative. OpenOffice.org was an open-source version of the StarOffice suite, with development sponsored primarily by Sun Microsystems. After acquiring Sun in 2010, Oracle Corporation stopped supporting commercial development and contributed the suite to the Apache Incubator to become a project of the Apache Software Foundation

5. Scribus is a desktop publishing (DTP) application, released under the GNU General Public License as free software. It is based on the free Qt toolkit, therefore native versions are available for Linux, Unix-like operating systems, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, and OS/2. It is known for its broad set of page layout features, comparable to leading non-free applications such as Adobe PageMaker, PagePlus, QuarkXPress or Adobe InDesign.
Scribus is designed for flexible layout and typesetting and the ability to prepare files for professional quality image setting equipment. It can also create animated and interactive PDF presentations and forms. Example uses include writing small newspapers, brochures, newsletters, posters and books.


Based on the lists of selected DTPs, OpenOffice is widely used and commonly distributed as it has a very close similarity in terms of usage with Microsoft Office applications.

Document Publishing Tools Features

In modern usage, DTP is not generally said to include tools such as TeX or troff, though both can easily be used on a modern desktop system and are standard with many Unix-like operating systems and readily available for other systems.

TeX is a typesetting system designed and mostly written by Donald Knuth.Within the typesetting system, its name is formatted as TeX. Together with the METAFONT language for font description and the Computer Modern family of typefaces, TeX was designed with two main goals in mind: to allow anybody to produce high-quality books using a reasonable amount of effort, and to provide a system that would give exactly the same results on all computers, now and in the future

troff is a document processing system developed by AT&T for the Unix operating system.

The key difference between electronic typesetting software and DTP software is that DTP software is generally interactive and WYSIWYG in design, while other electronic typesetting software, such as TeX, LaTeX and other variants, tends to operate in batch mode, requiring the user to enter the processing program's markup language without immediate visualization of the finished product. This kind of workflow is less user-friendly than WYSIWYG, but more suitable for conference proceedings and scholarly articles as well as corporate newsletters or other applications where consistent, automated layout is important.

One of the early and comprehensive reference books on the art of Desktop Publishing is Desktop Publishing For Everyone by K.S.V. Menon. This publication deals with virtually every facet of publishing and nearly all tools available as at the time of the publishing of this book in the year 2000. It is currently out of print.

Facebook- Instant Messaging Tools

Type Private
Founded Cambridge, Massachusetts[1] (2004 (2004))
Founder
Headquarters Palo Alto, California, U.S., currently being moved to Menlo Park, California, U.S.
Area served Worldwide
Key people
Revenue increase US$2 billion (2010 est.)[2]
Net income N/A
Employees 2000+ (2010)[3]
Website facebook.com
IPv6 support www.v6.facebook.com
Alexa rank steady 2 (September 2011)[4]
Type of site Social networking service
Advertising Banner ads, referral marketing, casual games
Registration Required
Users 750 million [5] (active in July 2011)
Available in Multilingual
Launched February 4, 2004


WHY FACEBOOK?

Facebook can be thought of as your home on the Internet. It's a place people can go to leave you a message, browse through your photo collections, or even chat with you while you are online. It can be a great way to keep in contact with friends and family, and even find long lost friends that you haven't spoken to in years.

The Facebook "wall" is where it all happens. This is where you write comments on what you are up to or share photos and articles with your friends. You'll also see what your friends and family are posting on their wall, and anyone on your friends list can come by and write a comment on your wall. So not only is the Facebook wall a great place to let everyone know you are back from vacation and post trip photos, it is also a place where conversations are started.

Yahoo- Instant Messaging Tools

Yahoo! Messenger Icon

Developer(s) Yahoo!
Initial release March 9, 1998; 13 years ago (1998-March-09)[1]
Stable release Windows: 11.0.0.2014 / August 26, 2011; 18 days ago (2011-08-26)
Mac: 3.0.1 / July 20, 2011; 55 days ago (2011-07-20)
Linux: 1.0.6 / September 2003; 8 years ago (2003-09)
Preview release Mac: 3.0.1 Beta build 35554 / July 20, 2011; 55 days ago (2011-07-20)
Operating system Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Android, Symbian, iOS and UNIX (no longer supported)
Type Instant messaging client and Internet phone
License Proprietary adware

messenger.yahoo.com

Why Yahoo Messenger?

Yahoo Messenger has a lot of the features which is easy to use. As far as IM clients go, Yahoo Messenger is the easiest for new IM users, and the best looking.

What is this IM Client's Most Useful or Cool Feature?

Yahoo Messenger's plugins allow users to expand the features and flexibility of the IM client. User can have a weather plugin that gives me the local forecast, a games plugin to play against friends, and a Twitter plugin to update from the IM client.

Document Publishing Terminology

Desktop@Document publishing (also known as DTP) is the creation of documents using page layout software on a personal computer. The term has been used for publishing at all levels, from small-circulation documents such as local newsletters to books, magazines and newspapers. However the term implies a more professional-looking end result, with a more complex layout, than word processing, and so when introduced in the 1980s was often used in connection with homes and small organisations who could not previously produce publication-quality documents themselves.

There are two types of pages in desktop publishing;-

1. Electronic pages is to be printed on physical paper pages. All computerized documents are technically electronic, which are limited in size only by computer memory or computer data storage space.
E.g. : A web page is an example of an electronic page that is not constrained by virtual paper parameters. Most electronic pages may be dynamically re-sized, causing either the content to scale in size with the page or causing the content to re-flow.


2. Virtual paper pages will ultimately be printed, and therefore require paper parameters that coincide with international standard physical paper sizes such as "A4," "letter," etc., if not custom sizes for trimming. Some desktop publishing programs allow custom sizes designated for large format printing used in posters, billboards and trade show displays. A virtual page for printing has a predesignated size of virtual printing material and can be viewed on a monitor in WYSIWYG format. Each page for printing has trim sizes (edge of paper) and a printable area if bleed printing is not possible as is the case with most desktop printers.

Master pages are templates used to automatically copy or link elements and graphic design styles to some or all the pages of a multipage document. Linked elements can be modified without having to change each instance of an element on pages that use the same element. Master pages can also be used to apply graphic design styles to automatic page numbering.

Page layout is the process by which the elements are laid on the page orderly, aesthetically, and precisely. Main types of components to be laid out on a page include text, linked images that can only be modified as an external source, and embedded images that may be modified with the layout application software. Some embedded images are rendered in the application software, while others can be placed from an external source image file. Text may be keyed into the layout, placed, or (with database publishing applications) linked to an external source of text which allows multiple editors to develop a document at the same time.

Graphic design styles such as color, transparency, and filters, may also be applied to layout elements. Typography styles may be applied to text automatically with style sheets. Some layout programs include style sheets for images in addition to text. Graphic styles for images may be border shapes, colors, transparency, filters, and a parameter designating the way text flows around the object called "wraparound" or "runaround."