July

When you enter an Event in Plone you have to think beyond your local county or department. Each event has only one 'home', but the event can appear in many different places. This page will give you some Best Practices information about Events for Extension and other AgSci Plone sites. Please review this page before you create a new Event on your Plone site.

This May 19, 2011 article from ReadWriteWeb looks at tools for visualizing data and information for the iPad. You can click the link to read their recommendations.

Global spam is at its lowest level since 2008 with spam from the United States accounting for 'just' 73.7% of all email. Spammers instead are sending directed emails (these attacks are called "spear phishing" and "whale phishing") where individual sets of users are targeted. We see these at Penn State in emails requesting our UserID's and passwords and if we don't send them, our accounts will be turned off. Click the link to read the full article on the monthly Symantec State of Spam and Phishing Report.

This June 19 article from Lancasteronline.com looks at how Amish teens are using Facebook to stay connected with friends. You can click the link to read the full article.

Appointment slots in Google Calendar allows you to manage your appointment availability with other people or businesses. You can click the link to read more about appointment slots from the Gmail blog.

Leafsnap is an electronic field guide developed by researchers from Columbia University, the University of Maryland, and the Smithsonian Institution. This free mobile app uses visual recognition software to help identify tree species from photographs of their leaves. Leafsnap currently includes the trees of the Northeast and will soon grow to include the trees of the entire continental United States.

The ancient symbol of Ouroboros depicts a serpent or dragon eating its own tail. It represents how certain processes are constantly re-creating themselves. With that in mind, if you are feeling overwhelmed (again) by the pace of technology, you can click the link to read how the author recommends that "just because you can connect with me multiple ways doesn’t mean you should. Respect the saturated state in which we all exist and do your part to remove the snake’s tail from its mouth."

The 2011 ACE/NETC conference was held in Denver CO this year. Many of their keynote presentations and breakout sessions were recorded and are now available through their website. ACE members and NETC attendees provide communications and information technology expertise to support the extension and outreach missions of land-grant universities and related organizations.

If your wife's Droid phone went missing, what would you do to find it? Would you go dumpster diving? You can click the link to read more about Paul and "Plan B."

Our Special Edition ITChatter session from Tuesday, July 12 was recorded. Albert Nakpil, Educational Technologist teased us with lots of the new things that we will see on our Enterprise Network (EN) computers including Windows 7 and Office 2010. Click the link to see all of our ITChatter session recordings.

Have an interest in learning a technology related topic that AgIT does not currently teach? Not sure where to find materials to learn on your own? Join us Tuesday, July 19 for our ITChatter session to learn how you can access over 1200 free tutorials from lynda.com--things like Microsoft Access, Adobe Photoshop, Social Networking and lots and lots more. We'll review searching for that topic you've always wanted to learn about and show you the interface on how these videos work. The chatter gets started at 12:15. Click the link for more info or to register (not required).

Our regular monthly ITChatter session from Tuesday, July 19 was recorded. Sherry Crum, Educational Technologist gave us a very thorough overview and demo of using lynda.com (over 1000 free video tutorials). Click the link to see all of our ITChatter session recordings.

If your Android phone has been running a little slowly, or you're wondering where all of your phone's storage went, it's possible that your apps have been saving tons of cache files without properly clearing them. That's where History Eraser Pro, a free utility for Android, comes in. Please click the link to read the full article by AppScout.

TigerText puts the control back in texting. You can text free with anyone’s smartphone and know when your message has been delivered, read, and oh-by-the-way, control when it gets deleted from their phone and yours. TigerText is available free for iPhones, Android and BlackBerry devices, among a variety of others, however, the sender and receiver both need to have the service.

VirusBarrier from Intego provides an on-demand scan of files received by email, on remote locations, or on your iOS device (Operating System on an iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad). It can also scan ZIP archives, repair infected files and much more. While there is no known malware for iOS files at the moment, having this installed on your iOS may allow you to sleep a little easier. You can click the link to read more about VirusBarrier.

Benjamin Edelman is assistant professor at the Harvard Business School. For a number of years Ben has looked at Internet issues such as privacy violations and pay-per-click advertising. In this article he examines how "some search engines promote their own services significantly more than others."

PeerIndex measures your social capital online. If you join the service, it can also provide you with a snapshot of what you talk about, how much other people find what you share valuable, and allows you to compare yourself to your friends and peers.

While I will still stay with TweetDeck as my primary Twitter client, Tweetings is a clean, simple, and easy to use. Like TweetDeck, Tweetings has clients for the iPhone, iPad, Mac, Chrome & Windows. So if you're looking to give another Twitter client a try, Tweetings may be the one for you.