[Infographic] Michael Kim top 3 apps 2020

 My first time using cellphone apps was back in 2006. I started using apps to communicate and socialize with people like Icq, Orkut and a few others. A few years later, I started using Facebook. The apps I used to use lost market value and Facebook took over.Nowadays I still use Facebook, which is very useful for many things. The company has improved a lot in a few years and now you can do more things like sync accounts, marketing, research and many other things compared to years before that you could just share photos.

Also, we have many more options for cell phone apps compared to years before. Nowadays my 3 favorite apps are Instagram, Kakao and Spotify. The first app, Instagram was bought by Facebook and it is a social media app to share content with people. The second app, Kakao is a Korean app for communication, sending text messages, making voice and video calls, sending photos and videos and even sharing on your profile. I like Kakao because it has a really good quality for everything it does. And the last app, Spotify, is an app for listening to music, where you can stream music for free. It is a good platform where they suggest new music according to what you have been playing. 

Read this following infographic to see the details and more information about these three apps.

    

                                                    

Why Saving Matters

 Nowadays saving money is so important that it could change your life in different ways. You can retire early if you save enough fast, you can help others, and you can have many other positive benefits with your savings. In this blog, I will tell you about three reasons why saving matters. To begin with, saving money is part of a lifestyle. Creating habits to save money and calculate is essential. Also, you never know the future, you could get hurt, or lose your job, so this is another factor why saving is so important. People someday are is a good moment of life financially and sometimes are not. Everybody are vulnerable for up and downs. If you have savings, you probably will find new opportunities to invest or to work on, so save money because you never know when new opportunities will come and better be ready for them

First, habits to save money, what to say about them? That is why it is important to develop a habit when it comes to saving money. The most effective saving habit is known as "pay yourself first".

 

Once you have a lot of savings new possibilities will come to you. For example, buying a house with your savings will allow you to have your own place and not need to pay for rent anymore. You will be able to become financially independent to do whatever you want to do once you save enough and you can enjoy a good life. Possibilities to make more money could appear if you have enough money saved to invest. According to the lifestyle you want, you can pick the best investment to work on and have your own business too. Talking about investment and business we have many possibilities and it will change according on how much you saved too, so it is very variable.

Considering all the factors that I mentioned you can see why it is so important to save money for different reasons. The reasons that I mentioned are only a few, but there are many more reasons to save that I even did not mention. It is about your lifestyle and your choices that will help you to save money or not. Putting on your mind that you will spend only with necessary, essential things, is a way to start saving money without doing math. A good mindset and good habits will make the difference on the numbers at the end and of course it is also important to keep tracking the numbers too. If you spend on everything you want it will be hard to save money even if you have a high income.  The point is to think about what you really need and set goals to have a balance for a living and savings.

Describing A Graphic: Americans Are Streaming Billions of Songs and Videos

“Americans Are Streaming Billions of Songs and Videos”

The graph shows a huge increase in audio and video streaming demonstrating that; the system is changing on how people watch videos and listen to music compared to years before. Since the 1990,, we have change all the time on how we watch videos and listen to music. At that time we used to have discman, cd players, walkman, mp3 and other devices and format to play video and music.

Music industry changes in many ways and streaming is increasing, disc, cds, mp3, smartphone, different softwares and platforms in less than 30 years and we don't to stop to change that because of technology.

Technology is improving and changing industries. The graph reveals information about the changes in streaming since 2013. There has been an increase in streaming of  10 times more in 2019 compared to 2013. Music and video streaming are increasing non stop and the reason could be the softwares and the devices people are using nowadays. We are living times where that we can learn from YouTube by streaming a tutorial video or movies. 

As the graph shows, audio streaming has also been increasing over the years. 

In fact, thanks to apps like Spotify we can play music from any artist in the world anytime we want. The last five years a lot of apps started to appear on the market. Software and applications for video like Youtube, Vimeo, Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat are software and platforms that are streaming video.

In 2013 there were 106b streams and in 2019 there were 1,147b streams, increasing approximately 10 times more. 

With fast internet, smartphones, and a lot of options to stream video and audio I think we will just continue to increase the numbers of streaming songs and videos. I agree about the data on the graph and we can predict that we will continue to enjoy the convenience on how to watch videos or play music.  Compared to years before, it is more and more easy to watch videos and listen to songs online by streaming from anywhere. Indeed, music streaming increased sharply between 2010 and 2020. I think it was a significant increase in the 2020 due to the pandemic and this industry will continue to see a rapid increase.

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Remote Work

    

        Nowadays workers and companies are facing huge changes in the business world and remote work is one thing that is changing for many companies and employees around the world.. Remote work (also called telework) describes any type of work that doesn't have to be performed in a traditional company office. Remote workers can do their jobs anywhere in the world—including their home, a co-working space, traveling, etc. —where they have access to high-speed internet.

Letter to the editor

Video Games to help avoid Covid-19 spread

        "Video Games as an effective way to avoid Covid-19 spread"

I am writing to express my support for the article "Video Games as an effective way to avoid Covid-19 spread". I believe  video games can indeed help and support the population against the Covid-19 spread while they have fun and stay connected socially. I strongly agree that video games will help us deal with the problems we are passing through the Covid-19 because we can play with friends and other people that we might not even know to stay positive and satisfied at home during this lockdown.

        Firstly, people staying at home for a long period  doing nothing could be very harmful for mental health due to overthinking and focusing on negative news and problems we are facing on this lockdown. Personally, playing video games in these times will help me to stay positive and satisfied when I don't have many options to socialize and do outdoor activities.

Also, video games can be a good activity to build a good mindset for overcoming problems and be optimistic, especially during the hard times we are facing right now.

        I hope people will notice that video games are not a waste of time especially when we don't have many options to live a social life because of the lockdown. They should see the benefits video games could bring to society and to their personal lives. Personally I think playing video games could be a game changer for our society right now; people will stay home playing video games to save the world from the spread of Covid-19.

        I hope my ideas can help all the people avoid the spread of Covid-19 and while staying at home spend a quality time playing video games to improve some of the benefits of this activity.

Sincerely, Michael Kim.

Tetris for fun

Tetris for fun

If you never heard about this game or never tried it, today is the day to learn about it! Tetris is called a falling block puzzle game. In this game, we have seven different shapes called tetrominoes: S-shape, Z-shape, T-shape, L-shape, Line-shape, Mirrored L-shape, and a Square-shape. Each of these shapes is formed with four squares and by rotating the pieces  and combining them you need to form a full horizontal line in order to clean your screen, every time you complete a full horizontal line the line will disappear.

Using simple commands this game will help you develop useful skills, such as how to think fast and give fast commands
 at the same time. It will make you act and think fast and also synchronize your brain to your body. I played this game for many years and I had a lot of fun during that time. The most fun thing was to play against different kind of people because this game is for everyone, it doesn't have a specific kind and involve everyone like children, adults, men and women.

Tetris is a well known game because it is very famous all over the world. The game is played by people of all ages and it has different modes. You can play against players, or play by yourself. Going online you can even play against many players at once. The rule to survive is to clean the map by completing a horizontal line with the pieces and not accumulate many lines, and once you accumulate many lines and the lines hit the top of your screen you lose the game.

Playing against others the objective is to survive for the last and playing by yourself is to accumulate many points and while the time pass the game will get faster so you will need to think fast to rotate the pieces and be able to combine them to a perfect horizontal line.

The elements I will review for this game are: the gameplay, the game history, and the difficulty to learn and play.

-Gameplay

I like it because it is very simple and it is very fun at the same time. Basically you will use one skill but you need to use it very well. The skill is to be creative by rotating the pieces to make the horizontal line and you need to be fast, so you need to have a good synchronization between your body and your mind.

-History

It all began with a puzzle-loving software engineer named Alexey Pajitnov, who created "Tetris" in 1984 while working for the Dorodnitsyn Computing Centre of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, a research and development center in Moscow created by the government.

 -Difficulty

It can get really hard to play at fast speed, because you need to give the commands faster each time.

I think everyone from everywhere can learn and play Tetris. I would recommend you to try it because it is very fun and very simple. It won't take that much time to play and also learn. You can play whenever you want it.

It helps release stress, connecting socially and staying mentally sharp are some of the advantages to play Tetris and have fun at the same time.

My personal experience with this game involved three main points. The first one, is that I evolved an ability to be mentally sharp because the game made me be creative to combine the pieces and think fast making me use my mind having fun at the same time. The second point, is that I brought people to have fun with me and we had a good time playing the game and spending some time together even far from each other because we were able to play it online, so it was good for my social life also. And finally, I understood better how to play other games because of Tetris, the game gave me a solid start on how to play games and compete to others having fun. For many reasons, I think it was positive to play in many different ways and I would recommend to others try it.