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Brittany's story: a tale of heroism amid RIAA abuse

Brittany Kruger may be a scared young lady but she has also proven to be a brave advocate for victims, like herself, of RIAA Mafia shake-downs, arm-twisting and assorted rough stuff. According to Ray Beckerman Brittany and her father's willingness to expose the fact that MediaSentry violated Michigan law by...

Tags: RIAA, College Student, Michigan, Person, Brittany, P2Pnet, Litigation, Piracy, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-03-01

Ruckus Free Music Player 3.5.1 (Windows)

Ruckus is the free, ad-supported music & media download service built specifically for college students. Ruckus provides unlimited download access to a library of more than 3 million free & legal songs from both major and independent labels. New music is added every week, and all downloads are guaranteed 100%...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Music Player, College Student, Music, Ruckus Network, Ruckus

Software downloads 2008-02-08

College Alarm Clock 1.06 (Windows)

College Alarm Clock 1.06 is a personal Alarm Clock for your PC. Features a 7-Day Format so that you can wake up earlier/later on different days of the week. Save/Load your weekly schedule to your hard drive. It will play any media file stored on your PC or LAN. You...

Tags: PC, Media, Microsoft Windows, College Student, Vinod Tandon, Digital Music, Advertising & Promotion, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Marketing, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2007-10-27

Photos: College students the picture of inefficiency

Ferris State and Purdue University students celebrate their first- and second-place wins at annual Rube Goldberg competition for complex machinery.

Tags: Purdue University, inefficiency, college student, photograph

Image galleries 2007-04-02

Rhythms of Social Interaction: Messaging Within a Massive Online Network

This paper has analyzed the fully-anonymized headers of 362 million messages exchanged by 4.2 million users of Facebook, an online social network of college students, during a 26 month interval. The data reveal a number of strong daily and weekly regularities which provide insights into the time use of college...

Tags: Facebook, Hewlett-Packard Co., Network, Messaging, College Student, Instant Messaging, Groupware, Internet, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2006-11-14

Equipotential surfaces 3.22 (Windows)

Equipotential Surfaces and E Lines is a program that shows electric potential and field lines for many kind of charges. I wrote this software to help students visualize electrostatics . Its useful for both high school and college students .

Tags: College Student, Nima Bigdely Shamloo, Microsoft Windows, Tools & Techniques, Operating Systems, Software, Management

Software downloads 2002-06-18

Additional Resources

Wordpress picks up college newspapers with CoPress

Wrong URLThe Copress website is wrong, it points to copress.com but the correct is copress.org.Great post, anyway.No official "deal" with WordPressTo clarify, CoPress has no official "deal" or partnership with WordPress. We've adopted the platform because of its features, ease of use, and flexibility, and thinks it performs wonderfully for...

Tags: CoPress, Wordpress

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

More e-readers - more misconceptions

my thoughts . . ."Like any good Massachusetts liberal, I?m a big fan of NPR."Well, do keep in mind some of us are conservative.Please?As much as I like ZDNet for tech news, it can be a tad disheartening when there's the occasional trip down political lane, and ZDNet does tend...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, E-books, open mind, NPR, Car Talk, education, e-reader, tax, misconception, British Broadcasting Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

Universities in hot water over students' peer-to-peer sharing

The success of iTunes shows ....... that people will pay for a product if the cost is reasonable and they have CHOICES.Most music CDs now a day have a SINGLE song that is worth listening to. The reason people started stealing music was because the industry was forcing them to...

Tags: Personal finance, P2P, MPAA, RIAA, piracy

Discussion threads 2009-10-25

Looking beyond Windows 7 and Office; Pondering the alternatives

No reason to look beyond Microsoft Windows 7 and Microsoft Office, its a complete solution out of the box for every business need. Pondering the alternatives will take all of 5 seconds before realizing the alternatives won't live up to what Microsoft has to offer.Preceding message brought to you...

Tags: OpenOffice, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Loverock Davidson

Discussion threads 2009-10-20

Clients: fat vs. thin, net vs. note

Can I suggestNetbooks with Win 7. Just installed it on a useless Linux netbook and it works fine and only cost me A$399 (which now is almost the same as US ;-))For once try and rein in your hobby horse and let the students join the new millenium.On and...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Thin clients, PRODUCTIVITY, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, NeatX, oh-so, netbook, thin client, Linux, desktop, operating system, tool

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

Log Monitor and Export 5.1.1 build 1007 (Windows)

You may be an experienced hardware-software or system engineer, or a college student making his or her first steps towards a designer career or looking for a handy software for fine-tuning any software-hardware utility. Whatever the case may be, look no further than our Log Monitor Export, for it will...

Tags: Monitor, Administrator, Monitoring, Microsoft Windows, AGG Software

Software downloads 2009-10-07

Can Apple make a Tablet PC "cool"?

Re:Can Apple make a Tablet PC "cool"?My company is deeply involved in the production of visual materials for the scientific, technical and medical post-secondary education marketplace and they are just dying for a tool such as this for use in the classroom. With a solid customer base here, Apple can...

Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, Keyboards, PC, tablet, Apple Inc., keyboard, tablet PC

Discussion threads 2009-10-05

Those darned kids and their multitasking

Multitasking is good for some things...but not for others. I'm also a natural multitasker, in that I get bored if I'm not. I can watch TV, listen to the radio, write a paper, surf the web, respond to text messages, and cook. But none of those things...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Advertising & Promotion, that-I, TV

Discussion threads 2009-10-01

What if my kid went to Dawson's School of Online Learning?

As long as you are not teachingOtherwise they would be in a class called Google101.AcronymsYou gotta be careful about acronyms. SOL is a common acro for s**t-outta-luck. With the D in front, you get: da**-s**t-outta-luck. Not what you should use for a school, is it? And you can't use just...

Tags: E-learning, training and certification, Sol, education, Dawson, online learning, Harvard

Discussion threads 2009-09-28

Students vs. Google Apps vs. Office Web Apps

Buyer bewareBefore people get too excited about Office Web Apps, they need to remember that:- Google's strength comes from its ability to create quality, innovative products, based on open standards. Google has even established the "Data Liberation Front" (http://www.dataliberation.org/), to make it easy to migrate user data in & out...

Tags: cloud computing, Google Inc., Office Web Apps, Office Web, Web application, Microsoft Office, Google Apps, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-09-22

Microsoft's newest Windows 7 promotion: $30 price tag for students

It's thereClick on the option that says "Need to connect to a domain?".Not for ProfessionalMaryJo,I just tried it and it is only for Home Premium at least as far as I can see.RE: Microsoft's newest Windows 7 promotion: $30 price tag for studentsThanks for the heads up MJ, I just...

Tags: Network technology, Microsoft Windows, 64-bit, newest Windows 7 promotion, Windows 7 promotion, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, 32-bit, PC

Discussion threads 2009-09-17

Will online education kill the university?

More to Harvard than the ClassesWhile I'm a big proponent of online and hybrid courses, I don't think that the residential college will go away entirely. People go to places like Harvard and Yale not just because they might learn more (and they might, depending on a lot of...

Tags: Harvard, education

Discussion threads 2009-09-16

What do Google and Microsoft gain from student cloud services?

You are forgetting...The very important part of the equation, the student-users, leaving school and college will become business-users someday and they will be familiar with one or other of the offerings and as long as their experience was good, they will want to keep using these services when they get...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-09-10

Not your father's tech school

Tech schools are more important than universities now.The entire economic system has been changed so much that a university education is almost pointless. A person seeking a "job" would usually be far better off with an 18 month targeted investment in a particular skill. And we all know...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, BS Degree, CTE, job

Discussion threads 2009-09-09