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Designing for the Internet of Things—Are You Ready?

May 28, 2014May 8, 2015 enews

Emerging devices are making the Internet more useful and exciting, but at the same time, these devices are also making the internet more complicated. Image: nkonekt From live-feed traffic cams to fitness trackers to smart watches, the family of Internet-based devices is growing more diverse every day, and integrating obscure gadgets that go far beyond the computers and servers that the Internet was initially built for. Refining the design and integration of these devices will prove to be one of the primary technical challenges of the next 10 to 15…

321 Free Tools for Teachers – Free Educational Technology (4)

May 28, 2014May 29, 2014 enews

17 Free Screen Capturing Tools For Teachers Aviary Compatible with all modern browsers, including mobile devices which support Javascript and HTML5 or Flash. Customize with our code generator and integrate within minutes! Media creation tools: image editor, audio editor, screen capture. Clip2Net This free service allows you to upload desktop area image or files on the web really fast such as Desktop area capture and upload, Video capture and upload, Upload image from Clipboard, Upload text documents and much more. Faststone Capture A powerful, lightweight, yet full-featured screen capture tool…

Hidden Costs Of ERP

May 27, 2014May 27, 2014 enews

Not every expenditure for an ERP system is included in the contract. There are other expenses which can be hard to quantify up front in implementing ERP and some of them, such a training, are obvious (although the amounts may not be) others can be unexpected. The key to keeping ERP implementation expenses under control is forethought, careful planning and a tight rein on the budget. If you don’t do this you will find unexpected expenses popping up everywhere. Even with these methods, there is still a tendency for ERP…

Windows 8.1 problems: How to fix them

May 27, 2014May 27, 2014 enews

Tips to fix 13 common problems with Windows 8.1 It’s not just the revamped interface in Windows 8.x which has caused confusion amongst users. There are a number of niggles in the operating system which can stifle productivity and even render machines unusable. We take a look at 13 common problems and help you fix them: 1 – Blue screen of death It wouldn’t be Windows without the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) would it? Thankfully, you won’t see this as regularly as you may have done in the past…

321 Free Tools for Teachers – Free Educational Technology (3)

May 27, 2014May 27, 2014 enews

15 Free Podcast Tools For Teachers Ardour – Ardour is a free, fully-featured digital audio workstation, similar to other software like ProTools, Nuendo, Sonar and Logic, and capable of replacing analog or digital tape systems. Available for Mac OS X, Linux. Audacity – Audacity is free, open source, cross-platform software for recording and editing sounds. Audacity is available for Windows, Mac, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. BlogAmp – Blogamp is a web-based audiocasting solution that combines a rich media on-demand experience with podcasting. Blogamp’s robust administration utility and content manager…

Intel unveils ‘Web 2.0’ software suite

May 27, 2014May 27, 2014 enews

Is Intel ready to be a software company? San Francisco – The chip giant on Tuesday announced it has put together a collaboration software suite that it will offer to small and medium-size businesses via its resellers. Intel held a press conference at the Web 2.0 Summit here to give details of the move, alongside open-source support provider SpikeSource and other companies. Called SuiteTwo, the package will include software from Six Apart, Socialtext, NewsGator and SimpleFeed. These are small software companies that provide applications for blogs, RSS feeds, wikis and social networking. All…

Print anything from anywhere with Google Cloud Print

May 26, 2014May 27, 2014 enews

Printing at home is dead simple, and most of us don’t think twice about it. But it sure is a heck of a lot easier when you can send a print job from any device, anywhere in the world to your printer at home. A slew of cloud-connected printers let you do this, but even if you’re stuck with a printer that doesn’t talk to the web you can get in on the print-anywhere fun with the help ofGoogle Cloud Print. This free service from Google has been around since 2011, when it…

Real-time Stats: Bringing the Cyberworld into Focus

May 26, 2014May 27, 2014 enews

Moscow, 21 May 2014. – Kaspersky Lab has made a host of unique statistical data available that shows the real-time picture of the cyberworld and its inhabitants. The company’s new portal gathers together statistical information from all over the world on what people are doing on the web, what devices they use and what threats they face. The kaspersky-cyberstat.com site pays particular attention to cyber threats: what malware is currently most active and what harm it can cause to users and their devices. The portal presents ratings of the most widespread…

Internet Explorer 8 vulnerability unpatched after seven months

May 26, 2014May 27, 2014 enews

Internet Explorer 8 remains the most used browser version in the world, so it should come as a surprise that a vulnerability discovered back in October 2013 has remained unpatched. The vulnerability was made public earlier this week by Hewlett-Packard’s bug bounty program when Microsoft failed to address the problem. Hewlett-Packard’s Tipping Point Zero-Day Initiative (ZDI) is a bounty program that rewards researchers who discover and report vulnerabilities so that they can be fixed by Microsoft. The ZDI gives Microsoft 180 days to address a vulnerability before they make the…

321 Free Tools for Teachers – Free Educational Technology (2)

May 26, 2014May 27, 2014 enews

19 Free Text To Speech Tools For Teachers AnnouncifyListen to your web. After Announcify conquered Android™ phones, it’s now here to announcify your life at Google Chrome. Announcify reads out loud every website you want. For example, if you’re too tired but still need to study one more Wikipedia entry, Announcify can help your tired eyes relax. BalabolkaBalabolka is a Text-To-Speech (TTS) program. All computer voices installed on your system are available to Balabolka. The on-screen text can be saved as a WAV, MP3, MP4, OGG or WMA file. The…