Joe Showker, ITRT Rockingham County Schools, has passed along these references for kids, students and parents. The online social world isn’t going away, and the perils continue to grow. As we enter the holiday season, provide these to your connected kids at home!
Ben Hindmarch on blogspot, posted this article over a year ago, but I just came across it. This list contains some of the better Web sites on the net to make you think. And I feel we should all be doing more of that.
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The saga continues … and there’s a new Facebook attack that started last night, so be very careful not to click links in Facebook mail! This week : *StarCraft 2 Phishing Scams Deploying Via Email * Why you shouldn’t store and process medical records online * Phishing gang given court date * Phishers nab 10,000 bank accounts * Zeus botnet plundering the masses and snatching certificates * Web attacks can find where you live * Antivirus Software: Do You Really Need It? * Hackers Birth Automated Phishing Kit that Never Dies … and more
iGameGuides, maker of comprehensive game guides for mobile devices, today released an unofficial Guide for StarCraft II Units and Buildings for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. The Guide for StarCraft II Units and Buildings includes a 12,000 word guide written by Chris Jensen, author of over 30 books for Prima, Sybex and Brady.
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HowToGeek writes: “The Apple iPad is the latest new toy, and we’ve put together a comprehensive list of every tip, trick, and tutorial that we could find to help you get the most out of it.”
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Leopard, MacOSX 10.5 introduced us to Spaces which gave us the ability to have “sets” of applications in a virtual desktop. But frequently I need to have two window open side by side. This is what Divvy does. It is an entirely new way of managing your workspace. You can give each window the space you want by hitting a command key when that window is active.
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I have been impressed the the Calculator in the iPhone OS. Simply by turning the iPhone on its side you get a scientific calculator. But did you know that you not only have a scientific calculator on the Mac, but also one that will do Binary, ASCII and Unicode included calculations.
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This article starts out with “Although Mail sounds like a no frills program for email, it doesn’t mean that OS X users are missing out on anything.” I don’t know where he gets the idea that Mail is “no frills.” He does make up for it later.
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How long has it been since you have thought about Stickies? I came across this article today and thought more people should see it.
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Some of these maybe a little dated, since this was posted in 2008. However as far as I can tell they look like they are still accurate. (I really don’t know much about some of them.)
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This is a UK website, so it is interesting that the requirements for a tech geek aren’t different.
It starts off with a geek knowing the Meaning of Technical Acronyms such as:
USB, GPU, CPU, SATA and more.
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OS X Hidden Gems was written on January 29, 2010 by Bryan Schuetz. I am writing this at 10:45 PM on the 30th and already 50 people have commented on the article and added tips.
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Recently on the UGAB mailing list we were asked about support for iWork. The first response that I saw was actually one of the last. Nicholas Pyers, Founder & Publisher of AppleUsers.org said: “I don’t know how active they are now, but there is still the iWork Users Group (iWUG) that was started by the AppleWorks Users Group. Its URL is: http://www.awug.org/.”
The full title of this article is “100+ Google Tricks That Will Save You Time in School.”
Of course, that means it is aimed at students. But I bet we could all benefit from these tips.
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