Monday 3rd March 2014

Today it was the first day back from our study week. Just before we got into work, John announced to everyone that there would be new prizes for the winners of the tech Tuesday quizzes; the prizes included:

• First place: dual monitors
• Second place: a mouse mat & choice of chocolate bar
• Third place: a chocolate bar

So the prize that everyone was most interested in was obviously the dual monitors, as we all only had one, to be quite honest with you I’m not bothered whether I get a the dual monitor or not, simply because I am fine working with one monitor. Today I was working on the current unit which was installing and upgrading software. Myself and Shane had to install new software on to ‘Jeffery’s’ computer and upgrade some current software. This was very easy as we are always doing this ourselves at home. We each had our own computer, ones I had everything booted up I installed Google chrome and installed Avast internet security as well as updating the software and virus definitions. Once I had done this I installed Google Earth which was up until loading the program as DirectX wasn't supported, so I tried it in OpenGL mode and got it to work but the graphics were appalling. Whilst I was doing all of that, I was taking pictures at each important stage. Once everything was done I put the images into a document and annotated them. When I finished that piece of work I sent it off to john to be marked

So overall I had a good day; I managed to complete that whole task in a quick amount of time whilst Shane hadn’t even started it. Now that I have done that, I can move onto the next task and hopefully I should be able to complete this unit by Monday at the latest.