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- Are IT grads learning the right skills?
- Not university level informationThe type of information they are referring to is not something that applies to a university level of education. What they are asking for is the specific skills on the implementation of technologies. For example, I can talk all day about certificates and the use of them...
- Tags: Businesses, IT Grad, information technology, developer
- Discussion threads 2009-09-14
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- Clean install with Windows 7 upgrade media? Get the facts!
- Unbelievable"Last week I complained about Microsoft?s shoddy documentation of how its upgrade procedures are supposed to work. I?m delighted to report that I got a tremendous and immediate response from within Microsoft, offering assistance in my testing and also promising to clean up and expand their documentation."So what exactly did...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, product key, acccount, clean install, Microsoft Windows 7
- Discussion threads 2009-11-02
- Bee Docs Timeline 3D 2.9.3 (Mac)
- Apple Design Award 2008: Runner-Up Best Mac OS X Leopard ApplicationCreate timeline charts that inspire with Bee Docs' Timeline for Mac OS X!Bee Docs' Timeline 3D Edition presents full screen, interactive, three dimensional timeline charts. Full motion 3D Timelines can be sent to Apple's iPod, iPhone, AppleTV, or Keynote presentation...
- Tags: 3D, Apple Macintosh, Timeline, Bee Docs, Apple Mac OS, Apple Mac OS X, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware
- Software downloads 2009-10-22
- 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
- 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
- IT support: Cut the jargon or find another job
- Zack i agree with you to a pointWhat i find missing from your article is the fact that staff customers etc. Can be very rude. I work for a small business about 50 employees total. All but myself and the ceo are female. When the come to me for something...
- Tags: Construction, job, IT_Guy, jargon, information technology
- Discussion threads 2009-09-15
- Generation Y and conscientious consumerism
- Not having money and careful shoppingThis is not so much a GEN Y thing as a modern consumer thing. We all had items we coveted in our younger days that we thought would make our lives complete. As a GEN X'er, and having run straight through a BA,...
- Tags: Generation Y
- Discussion threads 2009-09-11
- Hands-on with the Sony Reader Touch Edition PRS-600
- BooksDid you get the Cory Doctorow books from Project Gutenberg? If so, what format did you download them in?Connectivity?The Sony sounds like it's worth a look, but I didn't see much about connectivity. Does the PRS-600 include lifetime free wireless like the Kindle, or must it be tethered...
- Tags: Sony Corp., Sony Reader, Adobe PDF, Sony Reader Touch Edition PRS-600, Sony Reader Touch Edition, Hands-On
- Discussion threads 2009-09-03
- Aussies give open source golden crumbs from Microsoft table
- Swine Flu...And now this!Swine flu, Windows 7...What other diseases are kids picking up in school?Maybe home schooling with low cost FLOSS systems ain't so bad after all!Dana, just to set the record straight,[b]FreeMind[/b], just like [b]Audacity[/b] is also available for [b]Linux[/b] ; I have it installed on my 64-bit [b]Ubuntu...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, learning curve, MuseScore, job, Microsoft Corp., computer skill, Linux, open source
- Discussion threads 2009-08-28
- EasyBib goes freemium!
- autociteThanks for writing about EasyBib! I just wanted to add that the AutoCite feature is available to all users. :) I've always wondered which writing style drives your blog...I'd guess MLA. Though, my feeling on writing styles is they accomplish little more than teaching children highly patterned methods of writing...
- Tags: Microsoft Word, Word processors, Microsoft Office, EasyBib
- Discussion threads 2009-08-26
- ERP sales are falling: here's one reason
- ERP sales are falling: here's one reasonRE: ERP sales are falling: here's one reasonI recently had to find several CRM case studies for a grad school project. I did not have any issues easily locating case studies on sap.com for specific industries. Is it a matter of poor site design...
- Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Sales strategy, Enterprise software, ERP sale, ERP
- Discussion threads 2009-08-04
- Why don't you like glossy screens?
- Why don't you like glossy screens?Glare is the problem with glossy screensHow more specific do you want us to get?It dependsIt depends on where and how and even when you're using the computer. If you're in a room shielded from sunlight and there isn't any artificial light bouncing off...
- Tags: Notebooks, glossy screen, glare, laptop computer
- Discussion threads 2009-07-20
- Bee Docs Timeline - Standard Edition 2.7.1 (Mac)
- Create timeline charts that inspire with Bee Docs Timeline for Mac OS XStunningly Beautiful Timelines -- Film makers, museum curators, professors, novelists, grad students, and business leaders use our software to create elegant timelines. Join them and create your masterpiece today!Create a Timeline in 1, 2, 3 -- Your audience...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Timeline, Bee Docs, Apple Mac OS, Apple Mac OS X, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware
- Software downloads 2009-06-29
- Hands on with Outlook Live: universities choose Microsoft over Google
- Hands on with Outlook Live: universities choose Microsoft over Googlenothing is free i dont think anything is given out for free. in this case, the gains are recouped later on. once you hook a large institution and student body to a certain technology -- they are greater chances to stick...
- Tags: Groupware, Microsoft Office, Outlook Live, Google Inc., Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-06-26
- ABC's "Impact": Oh No, Not Again!
- How much more of the "Apocalyptic meteoroid-comet-asteroid-moon gonna hit the Earth/need to save us with a daring suicide mission involving nuclear weapons or a secret government project" genre can we possibly take? Ah yes, Father's Day. Going over to see the relatives for...
- Tags: Earth, ABC Inc., Brown Dwarf, Moon, Government, Team Management, Vertical Industries, Management, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-06-22
- Open letter to Microsoft: It's time for a single version of Windows
- Open letter to Microsoft: It's time for a single version of WindowsOne Windows to rule them all........Jason, your suggestion is, in my opinion, an excellent and eminently sensible idea. It won't happen because of three things: profit, greed and Microsoft's concentration on what suits it best rather than the...
- Tags: Operating systems, Tablets, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, single version, Microsoft Corp., Open Letter
- Discussion threads 2009-06-12
- Cut. Scan. Read.
- Google books has nothing on me: for months now I've been cutting the pages out of old books, scanning them into PDFs, storing them on a hard drive and recycling the paper. OCR makes the text searchable and selectable. Most important: I'll never schlep them up...
- Tags: Adobe PDF, Minute, Scanners, Hardware, Peripherals, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2009-06-08
- Can Moblin wean universities from Microsoft?
- I read a very interesting email today that came through the Moblin developers list serve. It resonated with another comment I received from yesterday's post on university IT. Both related to a "forced diet" of Microsoft products in many universities and the role that open source software can play...
- Tags: Ireland, University, Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp., Moblin, E-mail, Linux, Tools & Techniques, Advertising & Promotion, Open Source, Online Communications, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Marketing, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-06-04
- Automation 2.0
- Yesterday the AMR team met with Rockwell Automation's senior leadership group including CEO Keith Nosbusch to spend an entire day digging into the trends and challenges in today's manufacturing automation market. Nosbusch is a graduate of University of Wisconsin's electrical and computer engineering program, and a 35 year veteran of...
- Tags: Automation, Nosbusch, Manufacturing, Kevin O'Marah
- Blog posts 2009-05-16
- Class action lawsuit says Google's sales of keywords illegal
- Class action lawsuit says Google's sales of keywords illegalproof reader anyone?Richard , what does the following mean?"since anyone searching on the word will the sponsored links of her competitors at the top of Google results page, The New York Times reports."Any chance of me working as your proof reader?RE: Class...
- Tags: Sales strategy, sales, Google Inc., class action
- Discussion threads 2009-05-15
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