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Fishing Calendar 1.1 (Mobile)

Fishing Calendar instantly displays best fishing times for your current location. Choose days and times with the greatest probability of successful fishing. Fishing Calendar stores your catches with photo, size, weight, and location for later analyze or just to tease your friends. Predicts probability of successful fishing, infinite prediction calendar,...

Tags: Mobile, Catch, Location, SiS, Tools & Techniques, Management

Software downloads 2009-06-04

Wind Speed 1.1 (Mobile)

Wind Speed is an anemometer wind meter that works by measuring inputs through iPhone's microphone. Various algorithms isolate wind from other sounds like noise and human voice. You can choose display units between Miles per hour mph, Knots Kn feet per second fps, kilometers per hour (km/h), and meters per...

Tags: Mobile, SiS, Tools & Techniques, Engineering, Management

Software downloads 2009-06-04

SISContents 1.2.5 build 43 (Windows)

SISContents is a tool that allows you to unpack and edit Symbian 9.x SIS packages (Nokia S60 3rd Edition and Sony Ericsson UIQ 3.x platforms are supported). It helps you to inspect the files contained in SIS package, to see certificates against which it was signed as well as to...

Tags: SiS, SISContents, Tools & Techniques, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Management, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-05-28

Day 2 of the X2 Aspen Community Conference

Here I am again at the X2 Aspen Community Conference. While X2 Aspen information is obviously of most interest to X2 Aspen users, users of the countless SIS products out there should feel free to chime in and let us know where their SIS is ahead, behind, or otherwise...

Tags: Asset, Aspen Technology Inc., SiS, X2, Pando, Asset Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-05-07

Live from the X2 Community Conference

I'm at the X2 Development Corporation Community Conference for the next two days. It's an annual event that our SIS vendor puts on to bring together end users (power, guru, new, and otherwise) and, not surprisingly, build community among their growing cadre of school districts. Obviously,...

Tags: District, Aspen Technology Inc., SiS, Help Desk, Call Centers, Process Improvement, Financial Accounting, It Operations, Quality, Business Operations, Finance, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-05-06

Appirio, shafting the global SIs

VCs placed another $10 million bet this week that global SIs will crumble in the face of the enormous change being wrought on the businesses by the advent of SaaS and cloud computing. by Phil Wainewright

Tags: Software-as-a-service, SiS, Appirio, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2009-02-28

New version of Centre open source SIS released

New version of Centre open source SIS releasedThe future of the Open Source SIS :Our project is dedicated to improving on Centre and Focus. Please come and join our community at http://www.opensis.com and our development team athttps://eduforge.org/projects/opensismysql/https://eduforge.org/projects/opensisopensis is a stable fork of Focus with over 200 enhancementsand our new project...

Tags: Databases, open source, SiS

Discussion threads 2009-02-26

The top 10 things you'd change about your SIS

I went to a meeting yesterday of the X2 Advisory Council. This is a group of users/tech director types that our student information system developer (X2 Development Corporation) set up to to help drive product development cycles for the Aspen SIS. We meet roughly once a quarter to...

Tags: Aspen Technology Inc., Information System, SiS, Product Development, Strategy, Research & Development, Business Operations, Management, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-02-12

Opera Mini rocks out loud

You know how most mobile web browsers will take you to the mobile version of a website if it exists and just make a mockery of a website if it lacks a mobile equivalent? And no, I'm not talking about the iPhone. I know its browser is uber-cool....

Tags: Opera Software, Mobile, RIM BlackBerry, Web Site, SiS, Advertising & Promotion, Web Site Development, Marketing, Internet, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-11-05

To ESped or not to ESped

Our SIS now includes a fairly mature special education module. It's not perfect, but it's well-integrated with the rest of the SIS and gives teachers immediate and easy access to the accommodations they need to provide for students. From a teacher's perspective, it really rocks. ...

Tags: Teacher, SiS, ESped, Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), Research & Development, Development Tools, Human Resources, Gender And Diversity, Business Operations, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-10-03

Will Wall Street Hurt SIs and Outsourcers?

Importance of Financial Services to the Consulting & Outsourcing Industry While consultants and systems integrators have some enviable margins, these firms don’t always make huge profits as they employ expensive resources who aren’t always chargeable. In fact, these firms can be quite vulnerable to minor economic swings...

Tags: Revenue, Consultant, Systems Integrator, Information Technology, Outsourcing Company, Firm, SiS, Outsourcing, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Financial Planning, Strategy, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Finance, Management, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2008-09-22

Where are my class lists?

Where are my class lists?Madness i tell ya. People dont get it.. old people especiallyALOT of people here still print out EMAILS! THEY PRINT OUT EMAILS! i about fell over the first time i saw it happen. I then questioned the user who said she could...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, class list, SiS

Discussion threads 2008-09-02

Mobile access to your SIS

Mobile access to your SISI would be wary of,Ths is putting confidential info on a web page which increases your risk. Also coverage is never 100%. How do you access the webpage if coverage fails?I prefer a reliable static vs a risky dynamic.RE: Mobile access to your SISIf...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Mobile Access, SiS, mobile

Discussion threads 2008-09-02

Empower your people

It's the beginning of the year and I'm going out of my mind. Even though we've added my position of "Technology Director" and I don't have to teach anymore, we're still not exactly overstaffed on tech here in the district. I'm supposed to be handling curriculum and designing...

Tags: SiS, E-mail, Workforce Management, Online Communications, Human Resources, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-08-29

Mobile access to your SIS

Several student information system SIS vendors offer to sync data with a Palm Pilot or Windows Mobile PDA. This is a handy feature for teachers on field trips, assistant principals stalking the halls, etc. It's fairly limited in it's utility, though since it generally only provides a static...

Tags: Mobile, SiS, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-08-29

New version of Centre open source SIS released

Although I'm happy as a clam with my current student information system, the idea of an open source solution remains attractive. The Miller Group has updated the open source Centre SIS also available in the OpenSUSE server education product. According to the Miller Group website, version...

Tags: Food, SiS, Miller Group, Food & Beverage, Open Source, Manufacturing, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-08-01

uvga3_385.zip 2008-06-27 (Windows)

Click on the following links for the driver package readme info:.../3.85logo/Readme.txt .../AGPPack/Readme.txt This package supports the following driver models:SiS Accelerated Graphics Port SiS Mirage Graphics SiS Mirage 3 Graphics SiS 760 SiS 661FX SiS M661MX SiS M760GX SiS 651C SiS 741 SiS 651 SiS M661FX/M661MX SiS 651_661FX_741_760_760GX_M661FX_M661MX_M741_M760_M760GX SiS 661 series...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, SiS, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law

Software downloads 2008-06-27

My best year scheduling yet

I'm putting the finishing touches on our school's master schedule for next year, tweaking class loads, optimizing student schedules, and otherwise getting ready to distribute schedules to students. This will be the first time that I've been able to get students their tentative schedules before the end of the...

Tags: Schedule, SiS, Corporate Governance, Groupware, Productivity, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Enterprise Software, Software, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-06-03

Everyone loves the Eee

I spent the day at a conference sponsored by our SIS developer. The food was excellent, which is always a solid barometer for conference success and I learned that I've forgotten too much java (X2's Aspen SIS largely uses java to interact with the relational database that sits on...

Tags: Conference, SiS, Keyboards, Linux, E-mail, Hardware, Peripherals, Operating Systems, Software, Online Communications, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-05-06

uvga3_384.zip 2008-04-03 (Windows)

Click on the following links for the driver package readme info:.../3.84logo/Readme.txt .../AGPPack/Readme.txt This package supports the following driver models:SiS Accelerated Graphics Port SiS Mirage Graphics SiS Mirage 3 Graphics SiS 760 SiS 661FX SiS M661MX SiS M760GX SiS 651C SiS 741 SiS 651 SiS M661FX/M661MX SiS 651_661FX_741_760_760GX_M661FX_M661MX_M741_M760_M760GX SiS 661 series...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, SiS, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law

Software downloads 2008-04-03