March
Penn State's Adobe Connect service for desktop videoconferencing will be unavailable from 12:01 AM EST Saturday, May 7 to 11:59 PM EST Sunday, May 8 while the system is being upgraded to a new version.
With tax season underway, employees are reminded of the significant risk of identity theft with your personal tax information.
Be sure to join us Tues, March 15 at 12:15 pm. Your Plone questions will be answered by the Ag IT Ed Tech's and the College's web services team. This is a session designed for counties but all are always welcome to attend.
We have a set of Plone for Counties sessions recorded. They are available for your use at any time. We still have openings for our upcoming training sessions as well.
Robert Siciliano is an identity theft expert who is "committed to informing, educating, and empowering Americans so they can be protected from crime in the physical and virtual worlds."
Users are encouraged to schedule Identity Finder to run scans on a regular basis. These instructions will schedule a scan of your local computer every two weeks.
Microsoft Office Diagnostics in Microsoft Office 2007 is a series of diagnostic tests that can inform you about problems in Office and also fix them.
Facebook will be rolling out a change to its "Like" button. It will now act a lot more like "Share." In other words, when you "Like" a site or story, "a full story with a headline, blurb and thumbnail will be posted to your profile wall." How will this impact your use of the "Like" button? You can click the link to read more about the new changes planned by Facebook.
In 2009 Google introduced the Trike, a modified bicycle outfitted with Street View equipment, to visit locations, from towering castles to picturesque gardens. Google has added more unique places to Street View in Google Maps. You can click the link to read the full article.
The tyPad is a combination Bluetooth keyboard and protection case for the iPad. After inserting the iPad into the case, the keyboard folds out and lets you type on the iPad.
Purdue Extension - Health and Human Sciences has a site that "provides more information about using online social networking tools safely and effectively."
"Social media is one big relationship fueled by conversation. Conversation involves people. Real people. People that inspire, connect, talk and engage." This article looks at '8 Things You Must Know About Your Audience to Create Content that Inspires.' Please click the link to read the full article.
We live in the Global Location Age. Where am I? is being replaced by, Where am I in relation to everything else?
If someone had told me – oh, two years ago, let’s say – that social media would play a huge role in my professional career, I probably would have had a good chuckle. You see, I’m going to school to become a teacher. And not just any teacher, of course. You can click the link to read the full blog post.
JiWire is a one of a new breed of location-based media companies. Their fourth-quarter 2010 Mobile Audience Insights Report looks at Wi-Fi use, location-based services and their associated trends.
With today’s smartphone technology, it’s easier than ever to keep track of financial indicators. Here are 21 iPhone apps - all free - to help you stay informed and monitor your finances. You can click the link to read the full article.
This article reminds us that one of the prime reasons behind social networking is to engage and build relationships with the people you follow and who follow you (or your group/organization). When was the last time you connected or engaged with those in YOUR network? You can click the link to read their recommendations.
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.
You may have read in a previous eNews about the upgrade of Adobe Connect to version 8. This upgrade will take place May 7 and 8, 2011 (Saturday and Sunday).
Our ITChatter session from Tuesday, March 15 was recorded. This month's ITChatter session topic was "Plone Q & A for Counties." Chris More and Tim Simkins, from the College's Web Services team, answered your questions about county websites in Plone. Click the link for this and all of our ITChatter recordings.
On March 2, 2011 the National Association of Extension Program and Staff Development Professionals (NAEPSDP) hosted a webinar entitled 'Leading Others Through the Sea of Change.'
Apple released a new version of iOS for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch devices. Besides new features, Apple has patched 49 security vulnerabilities in iOS with this release.
Do you own a smartphone? This report by the European Network and information Security Agency (ENISA) will help you understand the security risks associated with their use. More importantly, the report gives recommendations for users on each of these risks.
Windows XP provides a rudimentary tool called Disk Check that checks the hard disk for defects and looks for lost clusters that are sometimes created when a program aborts. If the check discovers a few file errors, that's OK. But if it comes up with hundreds of errors, the drive may be failing.
Angled borders in Excel can make long labels easier to read (and give your worksheet a cool look).
TIME reporter Joel Stein looks at the many issues of data mining. He says, "You know how everything has seemed free for the past few years? It wasn't. It's just that no one told you that instead of using money, you were paying with your personal information." You can click the link to read the full article.
Quick answer is YES, but let us explain why we think the iPad can be a very productive tool for you.
The Social Media & Web 2.0 for Learning blog has compiled a list of almost 200 "free learning tools (or sites) for every learning problem, need or issue!"
Former Washington Post staffer Brian Krebs writes on cyber crime and other Internet security topics.
Alabama elementary school students use a recently developed iPad application to learn proper nutrition and other healthy habits. You can click the link to read the full article.
Across the nation, millions of young people are lying about their ages so they can create accounts on popular sites like Facebook and Myspace. These sites require users to be 13 or older, to avoid federal regulations that apply to sites with younger members. But to children, that rule is a minor obstacle that stands between them and what everybody else is doing. You can click the link to read the full article.
Forbes presents an interactive county map of the United States that shows where people are moving. Just click on a county to view where new arrivals came from or people are going to. You can also select from nine major metropolitan areas.
Kansas farmer Roger Brining was on top of the Empire State Building in New York City when he got a call from an employee trying to find a leak in a drip irrigation pivot. Brining pulled out his iPad and used the LogMeIn application to take over the computer in his shop that controls his irrigation pivots. When his employee got near the suspected spot of the breakdown, Brining turned on the pivot and his employee found the leak. You can click the link to read the full article.
This post looks at "three unique effects that Google applies to the text of its city labels, and that these three effects seem to greatly enhance their readability." You can click the link to read the full article.
The American Red Cross blog acknowledges making a mistake. Donors take the opportunity to step up and pledge donations to the Red Cross! You can click the link to read more about the mix-up.
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.
Because we have so many important things to tell you this month, we are offering TWO ITChatter sessions in April.
Apple has released MacOS X 10.6.7 with several bugfixes and security-patches. This patch bundle also includes a silent update to Apple‘s built-in Xprotect anti-virus functionality. You can click the link to read more about "Apple's silent updates" from Kaspersky Labs.
On March 21, 2011 Adobe released critical security updates to its Adobe products. Products affected are Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat as well as Adobe Flash Player.
The Pennsylvania State University Libraries are home to over 400,000 maps.
"Running good meetings for remote teams is like eating our vegetables: we know we should do it, we know how to do it, it’s critical to our health in the long run and we rationalize our way out of it every chance we get."
The 2011 AP Stylebook carries some prominent changes to its entries, including: "e-mail" to "email," "smart phone" to "smartphone" and "cell phone" to "cellphone," to name just a few. You can click the link to read more about the changes.
Griffin Technology makes cases, sleeves, and various accessories for all kinds of mobile devices.
TypeWith.me is a free, no frills, online document collaboration tool.
Poll Everywhere is a simple text message voting application that works well for live audiences. People vote by sending text messages (or using Twitter) to options displayed on-screen.
Traditionally, people who hit their 40s often need extra optical help as farsightedness sets in. They may buy bifocals or no-line progressive lenses. The new electronic spectacles, called emPower, are intended to handle that problem with an unusual insert in the bottom part of the lenses: liquid crystals, cousins to the familiar ones in television displays. The crystals change how the lenses refract or bend light, just as varying levels of thickness do in traditional glasses. You can click the link to read the full article.
The frustration that the country’s magazine and newspaper publishers feel toward Apple can sound a lot like a variation on the old relationship gripe, "can’t live with ’em, may get left behind without ’em." You can click the link to read the full article.
The simple yet sophisticated nervous system cells in the bodies of fruit flies are being used as a model that could make wireless sensor networks and other distributed computing systems work better. You can click the link to read the full article.
This post provides 10 "Rules of the Road for Social Media."
There are a bunch of symbols and numbers on the backs of iPhones. I know what 16GB means; what about the rest?
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.
