February
Do you create a lot of PowerPoint presentations? Have you ever wished for an easy to use, professional looking template that includes the PSU College of Ag Sciences or Cooperative Extension logo as part of the design? Well, wait no longer!
We have completed our 1st class in the Plone for Counties training series! I think it was a huge success!! You can find the link for the Working with Events session at this page. The other sessions will be added here as well.
Join us February 15 at noon to learn how you can take your Extension program online. We do more than just chatter. ITChatter is the third Tuesday of every month!
Most of what you can do within an Adobe Connect meeting is controlled by your role. There are three roles for meeting attendees: host, presenter, and participant.
Participants in an Adobe Connect meeting can broadcast live audio if they are granted microphone rights by a meeting host.
When participating in an Adobe Connect session, you may find a need to increase or decrease your microphone volume. Within Adobe Connect, there is a button you can use to adjust microphone volume.
Adobe Connect meetings can be recorded for later viewing. Meeting hosts and presenters can activate the meeting recording feature.
An Adobe Connect Meeting room can contain many different pods. At times, you may have multiple pods of the same type within the room; for instance, multiple Notes pods. To keep the room more organized, it can be useful to change the default pod names.
By default Adobe Connect sessions that are recorded ARE NOT set to allow public viewing.
Have you ever been a participant in an Adobe Connect session and experienced an echo in your audio? Or, have you been a host and had a participant complain of an echo?
GFI Labs blog recently shared data from AV-Test that shows why malware continues to be a huge problem.
DIOSA Communications specializes in social media and mobile technology webinars and trainings for nonprofit organizations. You can click the link to see 32 tips for configuring up your Facebook page for greater participation and promoting its presence online.
This article explains how the Internet shut-off may have been accomplished in Egypt (and if it could happen here).
Ancestry.com has released an iPad app called, naturally, Ancestry. The app takes advantage of the iPad's large screen to present multi-generational family trees complete with images of original family records and photos. The app is free to download. You can click the link to read more.
Postpost has a unique way to make a Facebook "newspaper" for you to read. This is the first look at it. You can click the link to watch the video.
To join the Medscape BlackBerry app and iPhone app, that was named the most downloaded free medical app of the year by the iTunes Rewind 2010 featured list of apps, Medscape app for IPad and Android mobile devices from WebMD offers free medical reference, news and education app for healthcare professionals. You need a [free] Medscape account in order to use all of the app's capabilities. You can click the link to read more.
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.
Our ITChatter session from Tuesday, February 15 was recorded. This month's ITChatter session topic was "Taking your Extension Program Online." Karen Vines, the College's Extension eLearning Coordinator, discussed where we are and where we're going. Click the link for this and all of our ITChatter recordings.
Jeffrey Hyde, Associate Professor of Agricultural Economics, posted an article on his Agricultural Entrepreneurship blog about business owners/managers who are using social media. He's looking for feedback. Please check out the article at the link and let him know.
Join us … The Media Commons and the College of Agricultural Sciences are hosting a Brown Bag luncheon on Wednesday March 16th at 11:30am in 118 ASI.
Just as the Emergency Broadcast System periodically runs tests on radio and television stations, Penn State plans to test the PSUTXT text-messaging system to help ensure its functionality in a true emergency. At 1 p.m. on Feb. 23, PSUTXT administrators from each campus will log into the system and send a message that will be marked clearly as a test.
This is a two part series on the Value of eXtension.
On a positive security note, Google has a new option that allows you to lock down your Google account with more than just a password. If you enable the "two-factor authentication" feature, you will be required to type in a special, short-lived second password in addition to your normal password to get into your account.
This article is a telling look at how the human element remains the weakest link in information security. These new mobile device apps are great, but they leave you exposed to theft on a potentially grand scale.
On February 8, 2011 Adobe released critical security updates to its Adobe products. Products affected are Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat as well as Adobe Flash Player.
As of February 15, 2010, the current version of the Oracle Java client is Version 6 Update 24.
Have you noticed that your Latitude computer takes a long time to start when you are out of the office? Does your battery life suffer as well? This How To gives you the secret to turn off your Wi-Fi when not in use to help you out with both issues.
This service is only available to users with a valid Penn State Access Account. This installation requires the user to connect to the network called pennstate in order to download the certificate installation.
Facebook is introducing major improvements to Pages. If you are an Admin for a Facebook Page you should review the new changes before they go live on March 10.
FedEx package-delivery personnel were reduced to inputting information by hand and getting handwritten signatures instead electronically on Monday, Feb. 7. The issue was "caused by an inadvertently bad software download to the PowerPad devices on Sunday." You can click the link to read more about the issue.
'Safer Internet Day' promotes more responsible use of online technologies and services. You can click the link to access PDF files for Consumers and Policymakers on online safety, including how to play it safe while gaming online.
As cell phones have spread, so have large cell towers — those unsightly stalks of steel topped by transmitters and other electronics that sprouted across the country over the last decade. Now the wireless industry is planning a future without them, or at least without many more of them. Instead, it's looking at much smaller antennas, some tiny enough to hold in a hand. These could be placed on lampposts, utility poles and buildings — virtually anywhere with electrical and network connections. You can click the link to read the full article.
Media attention to crimes involving ATM skimmers may make consumers more likely to identify compromised cash machines, which involve cleverly disguised theft devices that sometimes appear off-color or out-of-place. Yet, many of today’s skimmer scams can swipe your card details and personal identification number while leaving the ATM itself completely untouched, making them far more difficult to spot. You can click the link to read the full article.
Purchases from iPad, iPhone, and iPod kids' games add up quickly ... in real money. You can click the link to read the full article.
Turns out people are tired of registering for your site. A recent study from Blue Research found that 75% of consumers resent being asked to register for websites and will change their behavior as a result. So how will their behavior change? You can click the link to read the full article.
Social media channels have proven to be great marketing tools for companies, but measuring success can be difficult. You may be working significant hours each week to enhance your company’s social media efforts, but how can you be sure that you are tracking everything as optimally as possible? You can click the link to read the full article.
A recent article describes how an attack against Android based phones might be able to capture your credit card information even when you speak it into the phone. The interesting thing about this proof of concept is not that the application can capture voice details, but rather that it uses a second application to transmit the captured information. You can click the link to read the full article.
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.
