Here's all the projects I've worked on for Faronics.
Gone are the excuses of my generation. ‘I forgot my notebook at home’, ‘someone already checked out the library book I needed’ or the fan favorite ‘my dog ate my homework’ don’t work anymore. That doesn’t mean that students today don’t have excuses. Technology may give us many benefits, but it can also give us a lot of grief.
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Like they say in fashion, ‘one day you’re in, and the next day you’re out’. If you’re not careful when searching for Heidi Klum online, you’ll be out too—infected with computer viruses!
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Cell phones are great for more than just tuning out the world. They’re also great for blocking it out too! Who needs friends when I have my phone?
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Microsoft’s BUILD conference is underway today, and news is flooding the web about Windows 8. We already heard that the ribbon is coming, but with today’s news all the rumors about a touch-friendly interface were made a reality. Goodbye Start menu. Hello app tiles! Windows 8 apps will also run borderless, making them, well Windowless.
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When you work in IT, you’re always doing IT. You work all day troubleshooting computer problems and tackling IT support tickets. Then what happens when you come home? You’re IT guy for hire to all of your friends and family.
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The internet is supposed to be fast, but wasn’t always fast. Technology has come a long way in recent years and we tend to take it for granted when it doesn’t come through for us.
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There are many great reasons to stick with XP, but are they enough to stay off the Windows 7 bandwagon?
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This afternoon about 12:40pm (PST) a 6.7 earthquake hit off the coast of Vancouver Island. At the time you couldn’t find any official reports of the earthquake. What you could find were posts on Twitter and Facebook. Lots of them.
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My earliest experience with computers in the classroom was Grade 2 with an Apple IIe. Now devices like the iPad are popping up in classrooms everywhere. If the two were to go head to head, here’s how they’d match up.
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It looks like one of your friends didn’t just go home and pass out last night. Photos have been posted to your Facebook wall. You’ve been tagged and friends have seen. They’ve ‘liked’ it and they’ve commented. It’s too late….. or is it?
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That is the question now isn’t it? As a teacher, where do you draw the line in terms of making yourself available to your students?
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Late last week Dutch certificate authority DigiNotar was attacked by a hacker. Over 500 fake Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificates were issued affecting Facebook, Twitter, Skype, Microsoft and Google. Even the United States’ CIA and Britain’s MI6 was hit.
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