Google Day 2

Goals for today
1: learn what is gifs
2: How can I create a gif
3: Find the history of how gifs were created and how they have impacted society.

Helpful links and information: 
Gif stands for: Graphics Interchange Form.
The format of a gif supports up to 8 bits per pixel allowing a single image to reference a palette of up to 256 distinct colors. The color limitation makes the gif format unsuitable for reproducing color photographs and other images with continuous color, but it is well-suited for simpler images such as graphics or logos with solid areas of color.
Gif images are compressed using the  Lempel-Ziv-Welch loss less data compression, a technique to reduce the file size without degrading the visual quality. This compression technique was patented in 1985. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_Interchange_Format

Another definition for gifs is: Animated gifs contain a series of images or frames that are displayed one after the other and give a semblance of animation, just as in traditional animation techniques. Also, in animated gifs you can control the time for which each frame is displayed.
http://www.webdevelopersnotes.com/graphics/gifs_animated.php3

How can I create a Gif?
Animated gifs can be created or modified using any of the freeware or shareware available. The program comes bundled with Paint Shop Pro. Most animation programs have many built in effects for images. http://www.webdevelopersnotes.com/graphics/gifs_animated.php3

It is not great but in the website: I created a  some gifs.
I need to improve more and make better ones in different ways but this is my gifs.
http://www.createagif.net/actual/92972_CreateAgif.gif
http://www.createagif.net/actual/3063259_CreateAgif.gif
http://www.createagif.net/actual/2798250_CreateAgif.gif

One thing I will do next time is that I will make more advance gifs and involved them more with y project.

Futureme.org

http://www.futureme.org/

 The purpose of this website is to write a letter to your future self and send to yourself to your email. When you go in the website the screen shows you a place where your email goes. You type your email and then put the subject of your letter. Then you type your letter to your future self, saying what ever you want to say to your future self. Then you choose a date you want your letter to arrive, It can be a year or more from now. Finally when your are done writing your letter you click send to future and wait for your letter to arrive. In this website you can also read  letters other people write(you can choose if your letter is private or public). If you sign up for this website it saves your letters and you can visit anytime you want to. 
I wrote a letter to myself explaining how I am right now and how I think I will be in the future. But once I send my letter it was gone to the future and I wont be able to see it until a year from now. 
I think some ways other students could use this website could be to compare and contrast each other how they are today and how they are in the future. Maybe comparing and contrasting their grades to see if they have improved or gotten worst. They can also do it with hobbies, or secrets.