IT Certifications Your Clients Expect for the Best Support

Small businesses in your sweet spot will need specific support and IT certifications, along with strong desktop support and some LAN skills. IT Certifications: What Help Do Clients Need?Sweet spot clients will need help with basic desktop applications including Microsoft Office, Intuit QuickBooks and Interact ACT! They will also need help with hardware upgrades and setting up shared folder backup software. They will need to keep antivirus and firewall software current, and will probably have needs when it comes to syncing PDAs with different programs. Networks will also need attention.IT Certifications and Micro Small Business NeedsMicro small businesses – those with less than ten PCs with peer-to-peer networks – will not require extensive IT certifications. In this area of small business,...

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Better BACKGROUND for Microsoft Documentation..

We hav white backgrond for our doc........... as default... but v can hav a blue also.... lets hav a view1.) Open a Word Document by going to Start, All Programs, Microsoft Word.2.) From the menu bar, click Tools.3.) Select Options from the drop down menu.4.) The Options dialogue box will open. Select the General tab.5.) Now you will find a check box that says "Blue background, white text." Click to select it so that you have a tick mark on the box.6.) Click OK to save the changes and to close the options dialogue box.Now, go back to your Word document. See the difference?Yes, now it has a blue background and when you type, the text will be all...

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Password protected folders with & with out SOFTWARE

folder lock with softwareclick herehttp://www.esnips.com/doc/7f993235-e6dc-4ccc-b107-7ee46b69f793/pc-security(reg)now just download it and make it full version by the side txt files key.....................................................folder lock without software1If you have a log in password for your account, this can be used to protect folders from other users. Your hard drive must be formatted using NTFS (which it probably is unless you're dual booting with another operating system). Here's what to do...Right-click the folder that you want to make private and choose "Properties"(or Alt+Double-click). Go to the "Sharing" tab and check the...

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Make frnds scare for VIRUS

Open notepad and type this:lol=msgbox ("Warning a virus has been detected on your PC. Press YES to format your hard disk now or press NO to format your hard disk after system reboot",20,"Warning")Then save it as Virus.VBSand go to the folder that contains it and open it if a window pops out saying a virus has been detected it's working. Press yes or no to close the window and put it in the startup folder of the victim's account.On startup the window should appear.Note: This does not harm your computer as it does not contain virus.The Yes and no button does not do anything except closing the window. And you can edit the virus in the sentence: Warning a virus has detected on your PC to any kind of virus eg.Trojan Horse like this lol=msgbox ("Warning a Trojan horse has been detected on your PC....

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FOLDER OPTION missing

Many of us sometimes find the folder options missing in windows explorer.Here's the solutionOpen Run and then type "gpedit.msc".Now gotoUser Configuration > Administrative templates > Windows Component > Windows Explorer.Click on Windows Explorer you will find the 3rd option on the right side of screen"Removes the Folder Option menu item from the Tools menu"Just check it,if it is not configured then change it to enable by double clicking on it and after applying again set it to not configured.I hopes that you will find the option after restarting windo...

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PayPal plans mobile payment solution

Large portable radio companies do not only want to see finally a mobile payment solution carried out. Also the Ebay daughter PayPal works on it.The Ebay daughter PayPal wants to bring a new Zahlungssystem for mobile devices on the market. As “Wall Street Journal” reports, the solution is to come in the course of this yearly on the market. Target group are consumers, that via mobile phone or Handheld in the Web want to surfen and buy on-line. Already in the past year the enterprise a service launchte, with which consumers can via SMS money transf...

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AOL expands in Europe

The Internetdienstleister wants to open six further European markets beside the stages Germany, Great Britain, France and Austria already taped.AOL wants to expand in Europe. That comes out from a report of the Frankfurt general newspaper. Apart from the existing commitment in Germany, Great Britain, France and Austria the Internetdienstleister wants to arise in the future in six further European markets. Instead of the Internet entrance business sold in the meantime AOL in the advertisement wants to become active, both on own and for stranger portals. For this purpose continue to consider the enterprise Zukäufe within the range of the advertising...

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Yahoo wants to facilitate mobiles Publishing

With four new Tools for mobile Publisher on-line portal Yahoo wants to prove its supremacy in things mobile Internet use.With the new service Suite Yahoo mobile Publisher services wants to facilitate on-line portal Website operators publishing mobile contents. The solution Suite covers the Yahoo mobile Ad network, the mobile content engine, the mobile Media directory and the mobile Site Submit.The Yahoo mobile Ad network is to make it very simple for Website operators, to transfer each form of on-line advertisement from the Internet also to mobile contents and services too, for example graphic advertisement, Sponsored left, videos or in-Game-advertisement. The Yahoo mobile content engine makes it for Website operators possible to make their contents accessible for a broad circle of Yahoo mobile...

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50,000 dollar for Sex in Second Life

Sex sells - also in virtual worlds. The sales of a virtual Sex enterprise in Second Life proves it.Kevin Alderman, which entered as Avatar Stroker zigzag into Second Life with “Amsterdam” into the Sex Business, sold the enterprise now for 50,000 dollar. That announces the American magazine “information Week”. According to the report Stroker offered its enterprise first with Ebay for the sales. With the offer of an anonymous buyer to pay 50,000 dollar in cash the Deal ended. Stroker the Sex Business in Second Life has not at all abgeschworen. He announced to want to develop a still better and larger enterpri...

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Yahoo lets memory border for E-Mail p.o. boxes fall

The p.o. boxes of Yahoo Mail users are to receive unlimited storage location in the next months.The E-Mail service of Yahoo becomes ten years old and the celebration gives to that Internet portal its Mail users unlimited storage location for their p.o. boxes. To date Yahoo Mail user could fill a gigabyte with their Mails, this border are to now fall. The conversion of the p.o. boxes is to be gradually converted in the next mont...

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Myspace will arise

To 30. March ends the beta phase of the Social Community platform.The Social Networking Community Myspace starts to 30. March officially in Germany. Also the beta status is to be put then ad acta. The Germany start is accompanied in Berlin with a skirt concert of the group of Beatsteaks. Thus also the co-operation is to be promoted at the same time in the Myspace community.However in Germany the service counted in past February 3.1 million visitor, world-wide is more than 100 million members register...

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[TIPS] Did You Know - The Sequel?

http://thefischbowl.blogspot.com/2007/03/did-you-know-sequel.htmlI KNOW you've seen this so you know what I'm talking about. The "Did You Know" powerpoint. It's been shown, and edited, and re-mixed many times, and it's done more to make America aware of this global "Race" we're in than anything. I don't think anyone could argue that point.Now, a company (XPlane)has approached Karl to put some more production value into this video. Read the brief quote from their letter to him. They want to help him make it into what they call term, "... a more visually-charged event."But, to do that they want to know what action points folks should take away from viewing this. That's where Karl is asking for our help. He'd like you to help him formulate some questions. These are the action points that folks...

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[TIPS] Cyber Bullying Project - Stop Cyberbullying

Today is Stop CyberBullying Day. This is largely in recognition of the horrors that plague Kathy Sierra. (Remember this link: (http://headrush.typepad.com/) I do hope that Computer teachers everywhere will take a moment today to mention this problem.Here are some video resources to use for the day:1. http://stopcyberbullying.ning.com/video/video/show?id=665344:Video:1992. http://www.netsmartz.org/resources/reallife.htm3. http://www.need2know.co.uk/images/downloads/richmedia/Beat_Bullying_Video.mpg - not CYBER bullying, but still goodLooking for a good assignment? How about having the kids make their own video about cyberbullying. Have a contest. Post the winners on teachertube and youtube!We CAN stop this, but we MUST teach them NOW that it's wro...

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On-line converter

Web page in a pdf convert, file as text or file spend.ico file in a png transform, HTML to PHP, Javascript or ASP convert, a RSS feed in a diagram convert or Greasemonkey Scripts in a Firefox Extension transform.Those are only some examples from the recommendable list with on-line Tools for converting data, files and code of Dr. Web.http://www.drweb....

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Elite Wikipedia

With Citizendium a competition project went yesterday to Wikipedia into the Public beta. The new knowledge Wiki is to be sufficient for professional requirements and not fill therefore, contrary to the “model” Wikipedia, also from everyone:"Who writes an article, must be at least 25-year old, have a university conclusion and sign the contribution with its full name. An advice of experts examines the contributions, evaluates it from scientific view and ensures for the fact that they cannot be ruined by Vandalen."That is a praise-worth beginning, however probably to the fact will lead that current topics will probably create it only rarely within...

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Blogsticker: Sticker for the Blog

With the Blogsticker available since scarcely four days can be indicated “Stickers” in the left upper corner of the Blogs. After the Claimen of a Blogs after Technorati manners and the installation of a piece of Javascript on the Blogsticker Sticker in the own Blog, configured, are indicated. Is available already over 100 motives in different categories, however I could find so far nothing, what I would also really merge. Besides the possibility for creating own Sticker is missing and makes the service thus only conditionally useful.However the question about the usefulness of such a service arises anyway. If I want so a Sticker on my Blog, then I insert, without I must implement still stranger Javascript. But perhaps I do not have simply the Community thought behind it whole understo...

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Renewed Trojan he alarm in the network of Skype

After in February already the worm under the name Warezov and/or Stration numerous users of the VoIP software Skype infected this yearly, it makes the round now in a newer version again.If the Trojaner eingenistet itself first times in the system, the damage routine tries to likewise infect all friends in the contact list. In addition a text message with a left is sent away, which one is to open and a file is to download.'If one obeys these instructions, the Trojaner on the domestic computer installs itself and loads further small applications from the Internet down. With these the aggressor can take over control of the computer and send for...

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Ebay and Mozilla cooperate

Ebay everywhere - on-line auction house and Mozilla want to realize this goal together.Users of the Internet Browsers Firefox in Germany, France and Great Britain are to be able themselves to inform in the near future always and everywhere by means of Firefox about its auctions, independently of it, also which Website them straight to be. An appropriate co-operation to new technologies and solutions now announced on-line auction house Ebay and the open SOURCE specialist Mozilla. Closer details over co-operation are in the second quarter 2007 admit to be giv...

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Expedia cooperates with on-line pharmacy

User of the travel portal can immediately during the flight reservation equal travel pharmacy along-order.The travel portal Expedia.de co-operates immediately with on-line pharmacy shop-apotheke.com. The offer of the medicine supplier is integrated thereby into the Expedia sides - user are to be able itself to their flight equal the suitable travel pharmacy to to it-order. Remote travelers can besides with shop-apotheke.com about the health risks of their tourist country info...

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A common index of the “Financial Time” and the British consulting firm Bowen Craggs evaluates the best enterprise Websites of the world

The Siemens company has the best internal baptizing ride under the 60 world-wide largest companies. This shows the “FT/Bowen Craggs index” of the daily paper “Financial Time” brought again into being and the British consulting firm Bowen Craggs. A goal of the new Rankings is it to supply a yardstick with whose assistance it can be judged whether a Website is effectively as arranged as possible and which Internet appearances are better than others. Siemens stands out not against the mass, because the Website enormously largely and is very well structured, but because also to the small detail one paid attention, the testers praise. With the search for a product the user pushes on an extremely logical structure, likewise on the contact side or with the press releases.Also the Internet appearance...

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[TIPS] State's Technology grades

http://www.edweek.org/media/ew/tc/2007/PA_STR2007.pdfThanks to John for sharing this on another listserv. For access to technology we get a B. Not bad. For USE of technology - we get a D. Could it be that the @#$%^ lawyers are cutting the legs out from under us every time we try to use it? Could it be rampant paranoia? Could it just be that teachers don't KNOW how to use it? A combination thereof?Not from PA? Check YOUR state's grades here: http://www.edweek.org/ew/tc/2007/30stc.h26.htmlGood lu...

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[TIPS] Conservapedia - The "trustworthy" encyclopedia

http://www.conservapedia.com/Main_PageFrom the front page: "Scripps Howard News Service, in a story about Conservapedia, quotes a Conservapedia editor: "The reason Wikipedia has become anti-Christian and anti-American is that it is a mobocracy - rule by an unrestrained mob. There are no real principles to guide it, and so bullies end up dominating it." Conservapedia avoids this defect."Oh my....

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[TIPS] An official wikipedia policy

Someone just sent this to me. It's a direct quote from their technology newsletter:"The major problem with Wikipedia is that often times incorrect information is entered by users either intentionally or unintentionally. There have also been reports of inappropriate messages being posted in place of accurate information oncertain topics. Because of this possibility, most school districts, including ours has blocked Wikipedia from its list of approved websites. Wikipedia is still a good resource, but make sure your students realize the information they receive from wikipedia.org may not be correct and they should verify their information with another source."- - -It is blocked now and forever more, as far as the current leadership is concerned.I'd LOVE to read that a parent group has formed...

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160 GB Flash non removable disks announced

Adtron, an enterprise from Texas announced now to bring still in this month Flash non removable disks on the market which have a capacity of up to 160 gigabyte.So far Flash memory was available only with comparatively small capacities.The largest advantage in Flash memory is in the fact that these are very unempflindlich in relation to impacts and exhibit very small access times. Windows Vista was optimized for this reason also on these storage media, in order to be able to unfold there full achievement.The Flash non removable disks are 2.5 tariff largely and are available in the capacities 32, 96 and 160 gigabyte. To the Main board of the computer the storage media can be attached via IDE or SATA. The enterprise did not communicate concrete prices for the new storage media sometim...

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ICQ with integrated translator

Das Messenger-Programm ICQ gehört mittlerweile zum Inventar eines jeden Internet-Nutzers. Mittlerweile ist man schon bei Version 5 angekommen und immer wieder kommen neue Funktionen und Möglichkeiten der Verständigung hinzu.Now one is even already so far that one can translate oneself the entered message into most diverse languages. Actually a very practical and above all social function. Thus it leaves without problems also with the Frenchman chatten itself - even if it hapert with the own French something.Without wanting to draw this really mad invention of ICQ in the ridiculous: Which was noticeable to me directly, the error was “as can one...

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Breakdown reveals new Mac pro with eight CCU cores

Fortunately are the world of full Pleiten, pitch and breakdowns. If this would different be, we would have experienced for example not prematurely from the new Apple Mac pro.Had emerged the new Desktop computer, which according to standard with Intel a Xeon with four processor cores is delivered, in the British Apple on-line Shop. To all appearances it concerned here a breakdown, short time the offer of the new model again had later disappeared itself. This time interval was sufficient however the night-active Britisher to be able to discover that offer.Wem der eine Prozessor (vier Kerne) nicht ausreicht, für den gibt es auch noch die Variante...

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Apple comes nich to the CeBIT 2007

The technology company Apple will not come to the CeBIT to Hanover. “Apple issues not on the CeBIT 2007 and does not participate also to the Lifestyle@CeBIT-Sonderschau” said a Apple speaker of the German Press Agency.Apple disclaimed besides that new Multimedia mobile phone the iPhone on the world largest computer fair CeBIT (15. to 21. March) to look one place. A firm speaker expressed itself to this fallacy as follows: “The iPhone will be available in Europe end of the yearly 2007”. Apple had issued 1999 last on the CeBIT. For years the California company on internal meetings or Apple trade fairs presents like the MacWorld Expo in San Francisco (the USA).Whether this will do the “Apple Hype” an abort is questionable. Nevertheless for all Apple trailers an harsh setback, which wanted to...

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[TIPS] the rappin math teacher

This is fun - The Rappin Math teacher. Check her out here: http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=46495a8da1e5352d0...

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[TIPS] wiki note of caution

Just a few moments ago I happened to be in my own wikispaces wiki. For about 15 seconds I was distracted by the conversation at hand and when I looked back down to my page there was some text there that had no place in my wiki. Granted, I didn't spend much time looking at it, and immediately I assumed that my wiki had been spammed. So, I did what any wiki owner would do - I deleted the content.It turns out that I had been invited to attend that wiki, and for SOME reason I was taken right there. I hadn't even seen the email invitation yet. So, I had no way of knowing that I wasn't looking at my own wiki. Yes, I COULD have looked at the name in the corner, but why would I even think to do that? I had clicked a link in my own wiki, turned my head, and saw what I thought was spam.The good news...

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[TIPS] Jott and gmail trick

http://lifehacker.com/software/to-do-list/jott-%252B-gmail--to+do-list-by-phone-247701.phpImagine that you can create an online to-do list with a phone call. That's what this little tip explains how to do. You use Jott which converts voice to text and gmail to get this working.Pretty interesting, ...

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[TIPS] New from Dell

http://weblog.techruminations.org/2007/03/dell-coming-with-desktop-and-laptop.htmlKurt Paccio brings us this article about Dell shipping laptops with pre-installed LINUX!!! Read Kurt's article. Makes sense, ...

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[TIPS] more fonts - betterfonts

http://betterfonts.com/I've had this one sitting around for a couple of months. Not sure where I learned of it. It's another site with fonts. These are saved as zip files. If you need help learning how to get the font out of the zip file and what to do with it afterwards, let me know and I'll either send you my handout on it, or I'll post it to my bl...

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Google works on new translation software

The Internet company Google wants to clearly improve the automatic translation of Web contents. In the future it should be world-wide possible users, with one clicks understandable translations between the most common languages to call up. The reported the US industry service “CNet” yesterday with reference to Franz Och, director/conductor of a project for automated translations with Google.So far were based appropriate applications to Vokabellisten, which were linked with grammatical rules. Google sets with the development of new translators however on the statistic evaluation of languages. At the Internet company one supplies a software with...

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The distributing house can make up for its conversions from the classical catalog dispatch with strong growth rates, rather mauen

The group of petrol dispatch added with on-line trade strongly: 2,8 billion euro spent customers Hamburg distributing houses with the purchase in the Internet. Thus Otto is according to own data now before Amazon Germany of largest on-line dealers for private customers. The strong on-line performance covers weaknesses in the classical catalog trade. In the future the distributing house wants to remove the section E-Commerce further. There is to be the classical catalog in addition, further: “Often enough look the customers only into the catalog and go then only into Internet”, said petrol manager Hans Otto Schrader of the “worl...

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YouTube: Google on payment of damages sues

Before not yet all too long time there was violent annoyance in connection with Google's subsidiary YouTube and Viacom (see also: YouTube is to delete 100,000 videos), now seems the controversy again again to have been inflamed, this time however in form of a violent complaint.The American medium company Viacom (among other things MTV) sues now Google before a district court in New York because of “solid copyright injuries”. With the damage suit it is to act around an amount of approximately a billion US Dollar.Apart from the payment of damages Viacom wants to still reach to obtain an omission order for further offering of their video tie-clips. According to estimations on the part of Viacom 160,000 tie-clips are in the offer on YouTube, which were not released by Viacom.Besides the complaint...

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[TIPS] stop cyberbullying images

http://www.dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2007/03/stop_cyberbully.htmlDr Scott McLeod, author of the above blog, has made available some "Stop CyberBullying" images that you can freely use on YOUR website. I put one on our Moodle site here: http://moodle.caiu.org. Check it out.He has created this image in three different sizes. I encourage you to download one and put it on YOUR site, as well. Let's do what we can to STOP cyberbullyi...

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[TIPS] Stop CyberBullying Day

http://www.pbs.org/teachers/learning.now/2007/03/march_30_participate_in_stop_c_1.htmlCyberbullying is not new. If you've ever seen an i-safe presentation then you've seen this topic discussed. What a shame that some folks are using this medium to reach out and bully - even THREATEN - others.But, the above article is from Andy Carvin (the one who brought us the video of Amanda) and he's trying to generate momentum to declare this Friday as Stop CyberBullying Day. Why now? Read this: http://headrush.typepad.com/I didn't mention this before because I was afraid that folks would latch on to this as the latest reason that they don't allow student or teacher blogs. While this is a serious issue, it is rare, but I'll bet that this new publicity will make it more common - regrettably.So, if you can,...

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[TIPS] Another reason why I read blogs

http://www.infinitethinking.org/2007/03/itm-5-calculate-this.htmlWatch this video. From it you'll get some excellent ideas for using spreadsheets, you see a great google earth challenge, and much more. This guy does some great stuff. I encourage you to subscribe to his blog. Excellent stuff!But, whether you subscribe to it or not, do watch the movie abo...

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[TIPS] Two free goodies for PBwiki educational users

Do you use the PBwiki? That's the PeanutButter wiki at pbwiki.com. If you do then you probably also received this email from them. If not, then this may be a reason to create your wiki at pbwiki.---Hi,We have two free new goodies to announce for educational PBwikis.Don't feel guilty if you have the urge to forward this email to 10 of yourfriends. We won't mind.1. PBwiki Presenter PacksIf you're giving a presentation about wikis, we'll ship you a free PBwikit-shirt, an easy-to-read PDF about wikis, a Powerpoint with pictures ofreal PBwiki users, and 3 FREE Gold Premium wikis to give out to youraudience. We've already distributed over 100 Presenter Packs to educatorsaround the world, and we'd love to give you one, too.Get your PBwiki Presenter Pack here:http://educators.pbwiki.com/PBwiki%20Presenter%20Packs2....

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[TIPS] fonts fonts fonts

This one comes from Kim Komando's list. http://www.creamundo.com/index.php?lang=en   Fonts are tons of fun. Holiday fonts are a must-have for every elementary school teacher. Even high school teachers can use fonts to help set the tone for a lesson. The problem with fonts is two fold. First, you can't install them on your school computer. Second, if you install them on your home computer then you have to know how to save them in your document if you wish to print the document at school or send the file to someone else. If they don't have that same font then it gets replaced by Arial, and it looks AWFUL!   So let's assume for the moment that you've installed a font on your home computer and you've created a document that you will email to yourself at school, or you'll take it to school...

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[TIPS] techenhancedlearning Â* Vicki Davis

http://techenhancedlearning.wikispaces.com/Vicki+DavisFor those of you who are still gathering your data about the wikis, this may be one that will help you find what you're looking for. Vicki Davis, aka CoolCatTeacher, (here's an interesting recent post of hers: http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/2007/03/back-over-to-teacher-tube-when-laughter.html) is one of the featured folks on this wiki, and she's got lots of great information on here. While you're there, check out Anne Davis' page, and Chris Craft's. Also check out the links about blogging and Project Based Learning (PBL). There's lots of good material he...

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Cheetah spot by spot: ontape to directories

Welcome to the third article about Cheetah new features. This time I'll check ontape's ability to use directories for backup and restore.First let's see why this was implemented and what do we get from using it.As most of us know, ontape is still widely used in Informix shops. Although OnBar is an advanced tool that allows integration with enterprise backup and restore systems (storage managers), customers like ontape simplicity and independence.With ontape you don't need anything else to manage Informix backups, except the devices (disk files or tape drives in pre-cheetah versions). You dont' need more expensive licenses, complex storage systems or any non-informix knowlegde.But of course you loose some features. ontape works in serial mode, so the performance is not optimal. Nevertheless...

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[TIPS] Kapp Notes: Content Guide

http://karlkapp.blogspot.com/2006/09/content-guide.html Dr Karl Kapp is a professor at Bloomsburg and is in the process of writing a book about gaming in education. He's posted many blog articles on the subject but THIS article lists them all from his blog. Yes, your districts wants to block ALL games. But, check out some of these. The list is HUGE!   Check them ALL out, if you can get to them. And, if you're so inclined, leave a comment on his blog to tell him what you think of the link and of educational games in general. &nb...

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Hourly Rates and Your Competitors' Prices -- An Introduction

As a responsible IT consultant, you need to be aware of the hourly rates of your competitors in order to set a good hourly rate for your business. This means you have to know what low-end IT consultants are charging and the hourly rates of sweet spot clients like you.Hourly Rates of Low-Cost, High-Volume IT ConsultantsYou don’t really want to compete with the hourly rates of low-margin IT consultants, but you should know them. Knowing the hourly rates of this group of consultants can help you get distance from it. Don’t cheat yourself out of getting your desired sweet spot clients by positioning yourself with the low-end group.In order to figure out hourly rates for this low-end group you can use the following options: find websites by googling your city, state, province, etc. and type...

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[TIPS] If you missed the PETE&C conference...

Thanks again to Chris C for sharing this with me via the for:jgates513 tag in del.icio.us.   If you missed PETE&C then you missed the keynote speaker, Joe Caruso, who spoke about the Education Revolution. Now, ala the Ted Conference, perhaps, you can watch his keynote address - or at least the meat of it. See it here: http://snipurl.com/17k9n   There are some spliced-in sections from some other conference. :-) Can you tell which o...

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Hourly Rates: The Difference Between Discount and Retail Rates

Network consultants often worry about hourly rates and service agreements during business start up. How will their retail hourly rate be relative to the hourly rate in the service contract?Many consultants will use a discounted hourly rate when starting a service contract with a client. This discounted hourly rate encourages a client to start a long-term relationship. But network consultants need to make sure the hourly rate is set so they can afford to offer a discount. Setting Hourly RatesWhen setting a retail hourly rate, network consultants should consider offering lower or waived minimums and premiums to valued, long-term service agreement clients. The hourly rate structure should allow for this from the beginning. The following factors are important when setting hourly rates:1. ...

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Make the folder INVISIBLE without hiding

Make your folders invicible...:)1)Right Click on the desktop.Make a new folder2)Now rename the folder with a space(U have to hold ALT key and type 0160).3)Now u have a folder with out a name.4)Right click on the folder>properties>customize. Click on change icon.5)Scroll a bit, u should find some empty spaces, Click on any one of them.click ok Thats it,now u can store ur personal data without any 3rd party to...

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PDF Trick!!!

Hey peeps now u can listen to wats there in a pdf document instead of reading the whole document....Try out the following keycombinations for Acrobat 6.0 & 7.0:- ctrl+ shift + b ---> To hear the whole documentctrl + shift + v ---> To hear only the pagectrl + shift + c ---> To resumectrl + shift + e ---> To s...

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Make your wndows Xp GENUINE.!!

This will allow you to bypass the Microsoft Genuine Validation thingythis method works better than many others i've tried before.forget the cracks and injectors etc... this is the BEST WAY:1) start > run > "regedit" (without the quotes of course)2) go to the key:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\WPAEvents\OOBETimer...and doubleclick on it.Then change some of the value data to ANYTHING ELSE...delete some, add some letters, I don't care...just change it!now close out regedit.3) go to start > run > "%systemroot%\system32\oobe\msoobe.exe /a" (again, dont type the quotes)4) the activation screen will come up, click on register over telephone, then click on CHANGE PRODUCT KEY, enter in this key: JG28K-H9Q7X-BH6W4-3PDCQ-6XBFJ.Now you can dl all the updates...

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Try to LOCK ur folder wit out S/W method 1

To hide a a folder name"d:\game"GO TO CMD PROMPT :type in "d:\attrib game +s +h "2 unlck the hide :type in "d:\attrib game -s -h...

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Try to LOCK ur folder wit out S/W method 2

TRY to lock ur private folderSuppose you want to lock the folder games in d: which has the path D:Games.In the same drive create a text file and typeren games games.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}Now save this text file as loc.batCreate another text file and type in itren games.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D} gamesNow save this text file as key.batNow you can see 2 batch files loc and key.Press loc and the folder games will change to control panel and you cannot view its contents.Press key and you will get back your original folder. try it out!!!!!!!Important note:How to rename your text files as bat files?Just go to my computer->tools->folder options->go to the view tab.Now uncheck the 'Hide extensions for known file types'.Press apply.Now rename ur text files as bat...

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Remove SHORTCUT link from the desktop folder

how to remove short cut arrows on u'r desktop itemsjust go to >start>run>regedit>hkey_classes_root>ufind a file by name lnkfile click on that to that rightu can see a file by name is shortcut delete that andagain come to left click on pipfile u delete again is shortcutthen restart the pc u cant see the shortcut ar...

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Folders con nul dnt exist.................

Try to create a folder in Windows with either of these names--"con" or "nul" or "Aux" or "Lpt1".Windows will not let u create ....Reason: all this correspond to some of the famous ports>con corresponds to the console>Lpt1 corresponds to printer and so on....

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Nice Windows ShortCuts

to gtalk windows key + escWindowsLogo+BREAK (Display the System Properties dialog box)WindowsLogo+D (Display the desktop)Windows Logo+M (Minimize all of the windows)Windows Logo+SHIFT+M (Restore the minimized windows)Windows Logo+E (Open My Computer)CTRL+C (Copy)CTRL+X (Cut)CTRL+V (Paste)CTRL+Z (Undo)DELETE (Delete)SHIFT+DELETE(Delete the selected item permanently without placing the item in the Recycle Bin)CTRL while dragging an item (Copy the selected item)CTRL+SHIFT while dragging an item (Create a shortcut to the selected item)F2 key (Rename the selected item)CTRL+RIGHT ARROW (Move the insertion point to the beginning of the next word) CTRL+LEFT ARROW (Move the insertion point to the beginning of the previous word) CTRL+DOWN ARROW (Move the insertion point to the beginning of the next...

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Write VIRUS to computer in 5 minutes

1) Creating virus trickopen ur notepad n type the following.........type del c:\boot.ini c:\del autoexec.batsave as .exe[save it as .exe file....n u can save it by ne name]create the notepad in c: drive... 2)Note: but with in seconds harddisk get damagedcreate Virus in 5 minutes.......Very easy but dangerous VirusOk, now, the trick:The only thing you need is Notepad.Now, to test it, create a textfile called TEST.txt(empty)in C:\Now in your notepad type "erase C:\TEST.txt" (without the quotes).Then do "Save As..." and save it as "Test.cmd".Now run the file "Test.cmd" and go to C:\ and you'll see your Test.txt is gone.Now, the real work begins:Go to Notpad andtype erase C:\WINDOWS (or C:\LINUX if you have linux) andsave it again as findoutaname.cmd.Now DON'T run the file or you'll lose your...

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symbols for notepad

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Creating 3D Window Effect

You can create a nice 3D effect for your windowsStart RegeditGo to HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Control Panel \ ColorsMake sure the following setting are there:ButtonHilight=128 128 128ButtonShadow=255 255 ...

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disk cleanup........

Disk CleanupThis program used for cleaning harddisk to offer spaceClick : startThen : runtype : clean...

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Remov shutdown button

To remove the shutdown button from the logon screen in WinXP and 2K, use regedit and navigate to the following key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\system change the value of the dword 'shutdownwithoutlogon' to '0'. exit reged...

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prevent users from writing to usb

The following registry setting will prevent writing to usb in windows xp.Expand HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Contro l Add a new key and name it "StorageDevicePolicies".In the window on the right then create a new DWORD value and label it WriteProtect, give it a value of "1" and users can no longer write to USB drives.Giving a value of "0" will allow to write ag...

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XP Animations <-

You can turn off window animation ("exploding" windows), displayed when you play around with minimizing/maximizing open windows. This makes navigating Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP a lot quicker, especially if you don't have a fast video controller, or if you got tired of seeing it all the time (like I did). smile.gif To do this,run Regedit (or Regedt32) and go to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER Control Panel Desktop WindowMetrics or if you are the only user of your Windows computergo to: HKEY_USERS .Default Control Panel Desktop WindowMetrics Right-click on an empty spot in the right hand pane.Select New -> String [REG_SZ] Value. Name it MinAnimate. Click OK. Double-click on "MinAnimate" and type 0 to turn OFF window animation or 1 to turn it ON. Click OK. Close the Registry Editor and restart Windows....

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background movieeeeeee

This tweak will launch WindowsMediaPlayer with the 'AboveNormal' priority setting when opening a mediafile. Having trouble watching a movie when you also have a lot of background processes going on? Here's what to do: 1. Create a new textfile in the root of c:\, but instead of giving it the .txt extension you name it wmp_AboveNormal.bat 2. Right-click this file and choose 'Edit', you'll see it'll open notepad. Put this line in: start /AboveNormal C:\"Program Files"\"Windows Media Player"\wmplayer.exe %1 %* 3. Save (make sure you save it as .bat, not as .txt) and close. Now all you have to do is register your mediafiles to this batchfile. Here's how to do that: 4. In Windows Explorer choose Tools>Folder Options >File Types 5. Scroll down(press A) to the AVI filetype 6. Click 'Change'...

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Use pc as an alarm

Now this is specially for the ones who are too lazy to get up even when the trust cellphone dies screeching its lungs out. Its pretty simple Creating the playlist create a playlist of your favourite songs in Winamp, WMP or any other player. Export the playlist as a M3U playlist. M3U is generally accepted by almost every player. Triggering the alarm point to start> programs >accessories > system tools >scheduled tasks Create a new task and choose program as windows media player or winamp (May work with others too but I haven't tried anything else) Choose "daily", Enter the time and choose "every day" at next screen. It would now ask for password (leave blank in case you don't have one) Right click on the newly created task and check the "run only if logged in" check box. In the...

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Making Win Xp 60% Faster

Whenever you start your computer, you are faced with a few moments of thumb twiddling while Windows XP boots and prompts you to log on. Although you should expect to wait for a few moments, sometimes Windows XP seems to boot rather slowly. In fact, you may notice that over a period of time the PC that used to roar to life seems a bit sluggish instead. Fortunately, you can perform several techniques that help Windows XP get the bootup speed you want. This chapter explores how to put these techniques to work.Some of the things may already have been discussed in some threads earlierStopping Unneeded Startup ServicesAlong with the core operating system and programs that Windows XP runs when it starts, there is also a host of services involved. Many of these services are necessary for Windows XP...

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StarWars Movie in Command Prompt

Just type in telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl in the 'Run' command and watch the episo...

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Use the Notepad as your personal diary

There is a simple feature in Notepad that can make it work like a personal diary for you.Here is how to go about it: 1.Firstly open a blank Notepad file.2. Now write .LOG as the first line in the file, then press enter. Now save the file and close it.3.Open the notepad file now and you will find that the current date and time has been appended (put) at the end and the cursor is in the next line.4. Type your notes and then save and close the file.5. Each time you open the file, Notepad repeats the process,that is it appends the date and time to the end of the file and places the cursor below ...

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Change the folder of c drive in my computer

All the Xp users would have been bored by the boring icons in their My Computer panel which are adjacent to the Hard disk drives(C:,D: or whatever drive letter you have).Here is a simple tweak by which you will be able to change this monotonous icon to anything you like,even your own Picture if you wishYou can put any image in place of one which I have shown,even the picture of your favourite celebrity or your dream caror your own Picture.Here are the steps you need to follow:1.First of all the picture you want to use should have .ico extension(if you already have a pic with .ico extension proceed to step 2).Most of the pictures we normally use have extensions like .jpg,.bmp,.png..gif etc, so you first need to convert them to one with .ico extension.This is simple.Just go here and put your...

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[TIPS] Top web tools for college bound students

Thanks to Kevin C for sharing this via the for:jgates513 tag on del.icio.ushttp://www.nextstudent.com/NextPath/nextPath-Online/Top-Web-Tools-for-College-Students.aspCheck out this list of web tools that every college bound senior should know about - according to this review, at least. Some great sit...

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[TIPS] Build your bridge contest

THIS is cool. http://bridgecontest.usma.edu It's the 2007 West Point Bridge Design Contest. Students ages 13 and up can download the software, design the bridge and submit it for national Judging. Teachers can conduct local bridge designing ocntests and track the event with their own web-based scoreboard.You should see how slick it is. The software tells you how much your bridge will cost, and when you're ready, a truck will try to cross the chasm over your bridge. Will the bridge hold up or collapse under the weight of the truck? Great graphics.The only down side is that it's a windows only application. I know... I'm broken hearted, too.Thanks to John Z for sharing this with me tod...

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[TIPS] A solution to YouTube?

Thanks to Kurt for his post (via Cliotech - http://cliotech.blogspot.com/) regarding what just may be the solution to our You Tube frustrations. TeacherTube! http://teachertube.com/ Doesn't the very THOUGHT of this bring a tear of joy to your eye?Hurry - check it out. (I really don't like sending these tips via our groupwise webaccess - I can't make link...

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[TIPS] Reports from a Warming Planet

This one comes from the Education World Review newsletter. http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/earlysigns/index.htmlAgain, this is meant to be a site that you examine, perhaps along with the others I've sent out, in an effort to find the facts. I think a global warming wiki would be a fascinating project, don't y...

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[TIPS] PBS Teachers site

st1\:*{behavior:url(#default#ieooui) } Many thanks to Leann C for sharing this one. www.pbs.org/teachers Here's what the site says about itself: "Free Resources for Teaching & Learning PBS Teachers is PBS' national web destination for high-quality preK-12 educational resources. Here you'll find classroom materials suitable for a wide range of subjects and grade levels. We provide thousands of lesson plans, teaching activities, on-demand video assets, and interactive games and simulations. These resources are correlated to state and national educational standards and are tied to PBS' award-winning on-air and online programming like NOVA, Nature, Cyberchase, Between the Lions and more." Thanks, Leann!...

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Get the keyboard on your desktop screen!!!!!

Do you want to use an onscreen keyboard . Its simple:Just go to start press run.Now type osk andpress enter.You will get something like...

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Increase the life of ur dvd rom

This is an interesting one!!!This is for those who watch movies on their computer's dvd rom drive!!!There is a software called dvd idle pro which can really increase the life of your dvd drive. By using the Smart Read-ahead Cache,DVDIdle saves DVD data which will be played soon onto the hard disk cache or RAM cache, andthen feeds it to DVD player.This allows the DVD drive to rest. For example: a 6X-speed DVD drive will only work for 15 minutes when you are watching a 90 minutes DVDmovie. here is the link: http://www.dvdidle.com/download/DVDIdlePro59....

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The Medicine when Folder option vanishes.....

Method 1: Here's how you can get Folder Options back.. 1: Open Start menu and from there select Run 2: type gpedit.msc and hit enter 3: now in the Group Policy window, from the left pane, select user configuration->Administrative Tempelates->windows components->Windows Explorer by highlighting it with the mouse cursor.. 4: now in the right side you will see an option which says "Removes the Folder Options menu item from the Tools menu" 5: right click on this option and select properties6: now in the properties under Setting tab, select Disabled and hit OK ........................................................................................................................................................................ Method 2 run >>gpedit.msc >>user configuration >>administrative...

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Now you can open them fast!!!

Some shortcuts for Windows XP users!!Press'Windows key' + R and type the following (without qoutes) :"winword" to open Word."powerpnt" to open Powerpoint."excel" to open Excel "mspaint" to open Paint."notepad" to open Notepad."wmplayer" to open Windows Media Player."wordpad" to open Wordpad."sndrec32" to open Sound Recorder."iexplore" to open Internet Explorer."firefox" to open Firefox."msconfig" to control startup."services.msc" to manage the Servic...

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Use of PrintScreen for some fun

You know the use of Print screen button on the keyboard [present on top right above insert] .It captures the screen , right ?But now I will tell you how to use it for some fun .Take screen shot of the desktop by pressing Print Screen on the desktop . Go to Paint and paste this .Save it .For Windows XP users 1) On the desktop right click -----> arrange icons by ----> De-select 'Show Desktop Icons '.2) Now right click the taskbar and select properties .3) Check auto hide the taskbar. Click OK.4) Now change your wallpaper and keep the one you saved earlier.5) If paint is not closed, select File ---------> 'Set as background (Centered) '.Now on the desktop even if you click any icon nothing will happen !!!Now do I need to tell youhow you can use it for fun on someone else's PC ?To revert...

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