April
Penn State's master plan recommendations related to land use and open space offer glimpses into the future plans of the College of Agricultural Sciences.
Counting open ended survey answers can be difficult. You might have a column with a range of numbers (which are codes for survey question answers). Also, you might have cells with multiple numbers separated by commas (multiple opinions for a survey question). Excel's COUNTIF and COUNTBLANK functions are just what you need for help in counting your answers.
This article shows a recent example of social engineering where malware purveyors attempt to get you to infect your own computer. A careful review of the text in these attempts will usually turn up a mistake. You can see how "Pretrail Conference" was used here.
"Yanko Design is a web magazine dedicated to introducing the best modern international design, covering from industrial design, concepts, technology, interior design, architecture, exhibition and fashion. It’s about the cutting edge and the classic, the new and the rediscovered. It’s all about the best."
This article from The Facebook Insider describes a recent rogue Facebook application. If you noticed that your friends' photos have been posted to your wall without your actions, you should check out the steps in the following link. And as always, be careful out there.
This marketing video lets Cooperative Extension faculty, staff, and educators know the importance of working with today's technology to reach new and current audiences where they are in online communities.
Skype has published a free mobile application for Symbian in the Nokia Ovi Store. By the way, Ovi is the Finnish word for 'door.'
Dell recently rolled out a redesign of their "Dell on Twitter" page. Dell now groups their official Twitter accounts into four main categories: Offers and Sales, Communities, Blogs, and News. If you want to follow or interact with Dell, this is the place to start.
On March 30, 2010, the Sun Java client was updated to Java(TM) 6 Update 18. Also on March 30, 2010, Apple released an updated version of QuickTime (7.6.6).
Lighter Side items are links to interesting, funny, even weird items from the web. These may not be tech-oriented. We hope you enjoy them.
These steps will help you troubleshoot the two most common audio issues (you can't hear or others can't hear you) in an Adobe Connect (Breeze) meeting.
The snow shovels have been put away, studded tires removed and the daffodils are up…so what’s next? For many of you it must be time to hire your summer assistants and interns and get them on board for your busy summer programming season!
The U.S. Census Bureau, with help from Google, has an online mapping system that tracks national Census participation rates.
Find the sleeping schedule of your Twitter friends!
Skype mobile for Verizon will initially work on nine handsets, including the BlackBerry Storm, the BlackBerry Storm2, the BlackBerry Curve, the BlackBerry Curve 8530, the BlackBerry 8830 World Edition, the BlackBerry Tour, the Motorola Droid, the Droid Eris, and the Motorola Devour.
Workers at the store said that the photographs looked too good to print. They were attempting to "protect" a professional photographer's copyright.
Like other 3rd party software (Adobe Flash, Apple QuickTime, Sun Java), Adobe Reader should be kept up-to-date with security updates as they are released. However, Adobe Reader can be configured to BLOCK attacks delivered by malicious PDF files.
The bad folks who attempt to deliver malware to your computers use search engines like Google and Bing as unwilling co-conspirators.
Faculty and graduate students are invited to sign up for free technology training offered during the break in the academic schedule, May 10-14.
Too often we all fail to realize how important individual actions are to the security of computing systems. What each person does (or doesn't do) makes a significant difference with regards to both their individual privacy and the greater security of the institution.
Software updates from Microsoft Windows and Sun Java have been delivered to your computer via an automatic updater for years. Now, Adobe will join them. Adobe updates will now be automatically downloaded to your computer. This should make it much easier to stay up-to-date and avoid malware that uses Adobe security vulnerabilities to infect your computer.
Full-time students at accredited, degree-issuing institutions of higher education in the continental United States are eligible for the "2010 AT&T Big Mobile on Campus Challenge℠."
Adobe shipped a critical security update for two of its Adobe products: Reader and Acrobat on April 13, 2010. In addition, on April 15 Sun's Java client was updated to Java(TM) 6 Update 20.
Xobni, the Microsoft Outlook add-in developer, has released Xobni for BlackBerry, a contact enhancement and synchronization tool for BlackBerry smartphones.
Stickybits allows you to program your own message to a vinyl barcode sticker. The message could be text, video, voice or a photo. To read more, check out this TechCrunch article.
Phishers are starting to use Web 2.0 applications like Facebook to "ask" for your personal data. The scam then uses malware to infect your computer and your information is left vulnerable. This CNET article describes how Facebook users are drawn in via a bogus Whole Foods offer.
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) blog was asked if electronic items smaller than the standard sized laptop (products like E-readers, Net Books, iPads, Kindles™, Neos, Nooks™, Sony® Readers™) need to be removed from your bag or their case. You can find the answer in the link.
Have you engaged your customers via social media marketing with Facebook? Have you thought about starting a Facebook fan page for a group or a club?
Ning is or should I say was a free social network for groups of people to collaborate, share information and interests along with events and documents within their group. It allowed others to join in to see the information as well.
Do you have a public tweet stream? If you do, you'll be in the Library of Congress shortly.
On May 13, 2010 ITS will be performing an upgrade to the Adobe Acrobat Connect Professional service that will impact all Adobe Connect Pro services.
Lighter Side items are links to interesting, funny, even weird items from the web. These may not be tech-oriented. We hope you enjoy them.
Penn State faculty, staff and students are encourage to participate in the Electronics Recycling Day hosted by Keystone State Auctioneers and Lion Surplus. The event will collect old electronic equipment and dispose of it in an environmentally safe way for free.
If you missed our ITChatter session on Twitter Lingo, you missed a good one! Our panel of tweeps from NC Extension, Alabama and PSU were incredible.
