PaperShow for Teachers is a Big Hit at MacWorld 2011

I'm back from spending a couple days in San Francisco at MacWorld 2011. MacWorld 2011 was very well attended and it was great having the opportunity to speak to so many educators at the Canson Booth, as we demoed PaperShow for Teachers. It was very energizing to watch so many people get really get excited about the product and the solution that we were offering. Many teachers liked the fact that they could walk around with the notebook and were not chained to the front of the classroom. We had other educators who really liked the idea that it could be used to annotate Keynote or PowerPoint presentations. Others were excited that they could use PaperShow for Teachers when they are doing webinars and online learning.While I was MacWorld 2011 Conference I was interviewed by Mike Schramm from...

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Where have all my desktop icons gone?

Windows offers the facility to hide all the icons on your desktop. The default option is to show all desktop icons, but this may be switched off either by accident or on purpose. To change this setting simply right-click on the desktop and a menu will appear.On Windows XP you need to open up the 'Arrange icons by' sub-menu and then either tick or untick 'Show Desktop Icons'.On Windows Vista and 7 the option is available in the 'View' me...

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NOVA | Making Stuff: Smaller This terrific episode is all about nanotechnology. Share with your science teachers. tags: nano science Venezuelan orchestra. [VIDEO] Who says symphony orchestras have to be boring? Share this with your favorite music teachertags: orchestra Google Apps Marketplace - EDU Check this out. The education technology space has seen an explosion of new offerings in the past few years. What has been missing is a centralized platform for schools and universities to easily evaluate and utilize web apps. Today we are excited to launch an education category in the Google Apps Marketplace designed specifically to help schools and universities easily discover and deploy new web applications that...

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A Fun Teachable Moment Today

I had the pleasure of visiting a school near here today to see the kinds of activities that the teachers and students were doing with technology. One of those classes was being taught by a third year teacher. He is the Special Education teacher there, and he's been using the various technology tools in some powerful ways with his students. They have a moodle class set up, and when they're in the lab they're totally focused on the tasks at hand. It was something to see.But that's not the story.They were studying water pollution and I sat down beside a senior boy and  asked him to show me what he was doing. He was fine with that, and he showed me the moodle class and "... all the stuff we can do in there." When I saw the title of the chapter they were in, I mentioned that I had seen a picture...

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Informix making the world smarter...

This article is written only in EnglishEste artigo apenas está disponível em InglêsAlthough I'm preparing some technical articles I'm happy to make a break to echo some good news...Informix is helping an IBM Partner, Centric Solutions, in making the world smarter. Bank of China is using it for a SWIFT application, that also helps to save trees.These are my words, but I think everyone agrees it must be robust, fast and trustworthy... and Informix is a perfect match for that!Read all about it here:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/bank-of-china-in-the-uk-works-with-ibm-to-become-a-smarter-greener-bank-114573679.h...

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Xpaper to the Rescue

In the last week, I have several different opportunities to use Xpaper which really helped me out in a pinch. In the first instance, I was completing a credit check application to a computer distributor so that I could resell Okidata printers as part of digital pen and paper solution. The company dutifully sent me a link to their Credit Application which I completed online. When the form was completed, I was able to save it as a PDF- now my challenge was that the Credit Application had to be signed by me in several places. With Xpaper that was an easy task! I simply printed the Credit Application Form using the Xpaper driver to my OkiData printer...

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10 Technology Enhanced Alternatives to Book Reports - TheApple.com A bookcast is a movie trailer-like audio review of a book Students can add photos, video, audio and text to their timeline to support telling the story sequentially. Wikis are an excellent place for students to share book reviews. After students read a book, they can create their own book talk using a web cam or video camera. Students can create...

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The "PaperShow Guy" is Off to MacWorld 2011

Yes- some folks have affectionately coined me the "PaperShow Guy" and I will be in all my glory next week when I arrive in San Francisco for MacWorld 2011. If you get to MacWorld 2011 Conference please stop by the Canson Booth 1001 and say hello and try out PaperShow for Teachers. PaperShow for Teachers won Best of Show at MacWorld 2010, and we are excited to show you the latest developments with the product which educators are really excited about. So stop by Booth 1001 and say hello and try out PaperShow for Teachers. PaperShow for Teachers has a rich set of features that your students will find very engaging. We will be offering special MacWorld...

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Printing To the iPad with the HP 6500A

One of the really nice features of iOS 4.2 is the ability to print from the iPad to certain select printers. At this time there are several HP printers that support wireless printing using Apple's AirPrint technology. I had the opportunity today to set up the HP 6500A printer which supports the AirPrint capabilities for one of my clients who needs this capability at school, so that she can print out the written work she does in Pages from her iPad. HP provides very clear directions on how to set up the printer and configuring the wireless component was very easy and straightforward using the built-in touch screen. However, when I attempted to...

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Computer 101: The ABC of File attachment and Transfer via your email or using Web Based Free Services.

Today I'm going blog about using the internet to send all types of files from you to your friend or simply just uploading them to your favourite social network or free on-line file storage website. Let's face it the internet has become an integral part of our daily work routine. Flash drive and external drive are simply not enough for some of us. We always want to access our file or at least a copy of it using the internet or move it from one location to another. Sometimes we are confused on what to use to accomplish all our desired goal of moving or more commonly called file transfer or file upload and download. Now how do we accomplish this task? Well there are several ways on how to go about it. First there your standard free email account from different email provider. Yup every kind of...

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Computer 101: Un-hiding All Hidden Files after a Virus Infection

Is your USB Flash disk ever been infected by a virus and the result is all you files and folder are gone? But wait when went to the technical support personnel in you workplace they says that it is not gone all your files and folder are still there. Feeling confused, you may say but when i check my USB flash drive i cannot see all my files and folder? But if did a deeper probe, by checking the properties of your USB flash drive, you can see that it indicates that your USB flash drive is half full or almost full depending on how many files it contains before the virus infection. Still confuse, well do not be. Here is what happens, when your flash...

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Computer 101: Keeping your Computer Safe from Viruses and Other Threats P-2.

On my previous post, I emphasised on the self practice of safe browsing. Meaning do not just surf anywhere but be objected, think first of what you really need to do to get before surfing the internet that way you'll be able to get the information the you want at much faster time and less hazardous to your computer. Another thing about practicing self safe browsing technique is do not just click on the link or any link, there are a lot of link out there that once click will open the box of bad news for your computer. Also email, your email is one another source of those potentially harmful threats. The safe practice for avoiding virus from email is that avoid opening email that you do not know. Meaning if an email has been sent to you and the sender is a total stranger to you. DO NOT Open...

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YouTube - No Digital Facelifts: Thinking the Unthinkable About Open Educational Experiences Shared by Will Richardson on twitter the other day. He described it as 'brilliant.'tags: video YouTube - The Gauss Christmath Special Y GOTTA watch this' The Environmental Impact of Cell Phones | Techi.com Another great article about the impact on the environment of something we take for granted - cell phones. (Thanks to Justine Kobeski for sharing this with me)tags: environmental Google Earth - Google Tools for Schools All things Google Toolstags: google YouTube - 7 Billion, National Geographic Magazine Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite...

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Computer 101: Keeping your Computer Safe from Viruses and Other Threats.

People get sick, the most common sickness is the common cold and it’s relative running noise, flu and head-ache. We get sick because we caught the virus that causes this sickness from other people in our home, work and other places where there are sick people. But this sickness is not life threatening except maybe for a few who has complication from this sickness. But this common sickness can be treated by much home based medicine or at least get our body to use its natural ability to fight off this viruses. Some just need to rest and drink a lot of water to let the body heal itself. Still others buy medicine for this type of sickness especially if the young one or children is sick. These viruses spread themselves thru air or sharing of things with the sick person.  Well there is another...

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Computer 101: The Danger of Static Electricity to your computer.

Have you heard of the words Static Electricity? Okay, maybe yes or maybe no, not clear? static electricity is not dangerous to humans or people like us but it is dangerous to the internal component of your computer, especially does inside your system unit, the motherboard, hard drive, memory and all those electronic component that you see inside when you open your computer casing. Now where do we get this static electricity? You'll probably surprise that it's fairly simple to acquire or build -up your bodies static electricity. Our body has always static electricity in very small amount of charge. Building them up also is very simple, by just walking in or on object like carpet or electrical charge object we can build up our static charge. The discharge process is also...

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Adobe Delivers Technical Communication Suite 3

Streamlined, Simplified Workflows Powered by New Versions of FrameMaker and RoboHelpSAN JOSE, Calif. — Jan. 11, 2011 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced Technical Communication Suite 3, the latest version of its complete single-source authoring and multi-device publishing toolkit for the creation and publication of rich, standards-compliant technical information and training material. The new improved version of Adobe’s industry-leading suite enables technical writers, help authors and instructional designers to efficiently author, enrich, manage, and seamlessly publish content to multiple channels and devices. Adobe also...

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Configure windows 7 and Windows XP Firewall to Allow Port

So what are you trying to get through the Windows firewall? So many thing need to be configured such as networking activity like remote administrator and network tools and programming.First Assume your using the Windows7 firewall.Make sure you do all this as adminFirst you need to get into the firewall in control panel. On the side there is "advanced settings" click it.Now you want to select "inbound rules" and then click "new rule..." on the right hand side.Select port and add the port details. You probably want to repeat the process for "outbound rules" also making sure you select "allow the connection".Second Assume your using the Windows XP firewall.1.Open the 'Control Panel' and select 'Windows Firewall' 2.Click on the 'Exceptions' tab 3.Click on the 'Add Port...' button 4.Enter a...

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Dropbox: Internet File Storage

There are a number of sites that offer you storage space to back up or share your files over the Internet. Many of them have a limit on the size of file that can be stored, but this is not the case with Dropbox. Dropbox offers 2gb of storage space for free. This capacity can be increased if you upgrade to one of the payment options.Dropbox provide software that enables you to access your storage space as if it were a drive on your computer. This software is available for Windows, OSX, Linux and a variety of mobile devices. Alternatively you can use the Dropbox web site to upload and download files.Files can be placed in a 'Public' folder so that...

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Insert SQL Command Query in Sybase

Sybase has differences SQL command if we compare with another database. But we just use our logic and find the right SQL Command on the Internet. I Guarantee that it would be works.insert tb_test (no,nama) values (1,"Picas")Where value 1 has type Intand "Picas" has type nVarc...

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Install Sybase on Windows 7 and Run Your Sybase Query On Command Prompt

Install Sybase on Windows 7 just like install another Software. But prefer to choose Developer Edition Because it was free (limited function).It Must Be Successfull on Installation!!and Run Your Sybase Query On Command Prompt just l...

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Olympic Limited Releases OPTi-Docs for MindManager

As a long time MindManger User it is really exciting to see how 3rd party companies can expand the functionality of the program with add-ins. I have come to know Nigel Goult from Olympic Limited and over the years he and his company have developed some very innovative and unique add-ins for MindManager. I had a chance to catch up with Nigel last week and he shared with me some of his new development work that he just completed on Opti-Docs for MindManger.Brian: Tell us about your company Olympic Limited?Nigel: Olympic is a supplier of information management tools and a developer of value added solutions/content. We primarily focus on MindManager...

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Stored procedure PDQ / PDQ dos procedimentos

This article is written in English and PortugueseEste artigo está escrito em Inglês e PortuguêsEnglish version:A few years ago I needed to check if I had some stored procedures created with PDQ. Maybe some readers don't know, but if you have SET PDQPRIORITY n in your session before creating a procedure it will run with that PDQ. And that can cause abnormal resource consumption. In most cases you'll want your procedures created without PDQ.The PDQ associated with a procedure will also change if you run UPDATE STATISTICS FOR PROCEDURE [...], in a session with PDQ active. This is also a frequent issue when people forgot to turn it off or when the statistics are gathered for tables (where PDQ can be helpful) and procedures on the same command or script.So, how to check the PDQ of your procedures?...

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Google Maps Mania: 10 Great Car Journeys in Street View Talk about virtual field trips. Here are 10 great Car trips that you can play right in your browser. Show your students! tags: GoogleEarth More Schools Embrace the iPad as a Learning Tool - NYTimes.com less costly options, like smartphones paying for their iPads through federal and other grants, “You can do everything that the iPad can with existing off-the-shelf...

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