To stop those, you'll want to employ a pop-up blocker, such as Pop-Up
Stopper (www.panicware.com) and the new Google Toolbar's pop-up
blocker (www.google.com). ...
My Software Library Launches Online Resource Center And Software Store
My Software Library Launches Online Resource Center And Software Store12/29/2004 03:27 AM Global software retailer and information source, My Software Library,
launched its new online resource center and software store this month.
The site, located at www.mysoftwarelibrary.com caters to a growing
population of adults and parents who aren't as technically savvy as
the generation that follows them. [PRWEB Dec 29, 2004]
gomembers’ e-classroom software to provide new revenue opportunities for university educational programs
gomembers’ e-classroom software to provide new revenue opportunities for university educational programs09/23/2004 03:24 AM gomembers, Inc. (http://www.gomembers.com) is pleased to announce the
development of a new integrated module for its industry-leading
meetingtrak/ce and etrak software, called e-classroom. Created in
conjunction with the Oklahoma University Health Services Continuing
Medical Education Department (http://www.ouhsc.edu), e-classroom will
add a revenue generating component to online registration and meeting
management [PRWEB Sep 23, 2004]
Rebound seen for resource management software
Rebound seen for resource management software05/17/2004 04:31 PM Expected growth in sales of ERP applications--7 percent this
year--will leave the leading vendors with a bigger piece of the
market, analysts at IDC report.
New Software Developers Resource Available at TheDevelopersCatalogue.com
New Software Developers Resource Available at TheDevelopersCatalogue.com06/22/2005 03:01 AM TheDevelopersCatalogue.Com is a dynamic new online resource from
Acardia Limited, providing leading tools to help developers target
project issues such as improving quality of code, managing the cost of
software and commercialising their applications. [PRWEB Jun 22, 2005]
Microsoft Software Developer Resource Center
Microsoft Software Developer Resource Center01/05/2005 03:28 AM The software developer resource center offers a single portal where
you can find the latest resources that can add value to your business.
You'll discover Web sites from Microsoft® and independent communities
to support all stages of your business life cycle.
IDC: Storage resource management software sales soar09/15/2004 05:26 PM EMC led the overall storage software market in the second quarter,
with a 32.5% revenue share, up 3.4 percentage points over the same
quarter of 2003, according to IDC. Veritas held on to its second-place
position in the market.
EU Commission sets up web site resource on Open Source Software
Diogenes Publishes Thorough Review of Veritas CommandCentral™Research Provides IT Buyer’s with an Objective Evaluation of Storage Resource Management software
We all like to know about what software is good, and what
software is new. But what about what software is bad, and possibly
newly bad? PerversionTracker locates the
very worst of Mac software, so you don't have to.
""I'd just like to get together with a guy from time to time just to -- just to play. I'd like him to be, uh, in very good shape, flat stomach, good chest, good arms, well-hung, cut, uh, just get naked, play, see what happens, nothing real heavy ..."
Must All Educational Games Be Boring?08/16/2004 05:00 AM Some researchers are trying to encourage those on food stamps to eat
in a healthier way, while making the food stamps go further. They
decided that, since so many young adults like to play video games,
they might as well create some video games on the
subject called The Fantastic Food Challenge. While it's a nice
idea, the games sound ridiculously boring ("place baked beans,
tortillas, frozen chicken and other virtual groceries into a
cartoon-drawn freezer, cupboard or refrigerator"), and unlikely to
attract much attention. While the designers suggest these games are
more exciting than typical "eat smart" brochures, they forget that
they're not competing against those brochures, but other video games.
This brings up the question, then, why must all educational games be
so painfully boring?
"If you look through the new MT Licenses, you may end up on the
bottom of the Education Pricing, where you will find:
'Are you a librarian seeking to run Movable Type at your branch? We
can work with you to create a custom proposal for your local or
regional library system based on your needs and budget. Simply contact
us to let us know how you wish to use Movable Type within your
library.'
I wrote up a description of what we are doing with the software to
see what sort of pricing information is available. I have yet to go
through all the open-source alternatives, but I haven’t found one
yet that leaped out as me as exactly what I want to move to. MT offers
some flexibility that I just haven’t found anywhere else. And if
the offer is reasonable, I won’t hesitate to go to our Director
and make a case.
But if it isn’t, I won’t hesitate to settle on an
alternative. I will write later about what is ultimately
decided." [LibraryPlanet.com]
When the dust settles around here (we're concentrating all our
energies on our merger with the Chicago Multitype Library System on
July 1), I think I'll write up SLS' current setup for member MT blogs
just to see what Six Apart comes back with. However, I'm not hopeful
since money is very tight at Illinois Library Systems these days, so
even a fairly small fee most likely won't help us. I'll be interested
to see what alternatives other libraries use.
ERA is a comprehensive database
comprising specially selected high-quality abstracts which cover the
current international research in education. A versatile research
tool, ERA is supported by a fully-flexible search engine, and
comprises links to the full-text online versions of articles where
possible. Searches can be conducted by a choice of criteria and full
search histories are stored. The product is backed by an online
document request feature, which supports PDF and RealPage® delivery
formats.
ERA is primarily aimed at researchers, academics,
and students studying all fields of education but is also valuable to
practitioners in the discipline. Coverage is broad ranging and
includes subjects such as educational technology, multicultural
education, higher education, organisation and management, sociology of
education, special needs and technical education and training.
Principal bans bl0gging: "not educational"03/31/2005 02:31 AM Cory Doctorow:
A Junior/Senior High School principal in Vermont has banned in-school
blogging because "blogging isn't educational."
Principal Chris Sousa said the decision to block the site from school
was made because blogging is not an educational use of school
computers.
But he's also urging parents to keep tabs on their children's
blogging, with a particularly close eye to what personal information
the student may be posting on sites like Myspace.com.
In 1988, I was the writer-in-electronic-residence for a class of grade
2/3 students in Toronto, reading and helping them with their writing
via 14.4K modems using ZModem transfers. Getting them to use to
computer to write, revise, and critique one another was an amazingly
powerful tool for unleashing their creativity and improving their
communications skills. If this prinicpal thinks blogging isn't
educational, he needs his head examined: he should be seeking out
every student blogger in the school and giving them special time to
blog more -- and giving them extra credit besides.
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Review: Freeduc, an educational live CD
Review: Freeduc, an educational live CD06/24/2005 09:35 PM One of the least expected -- and most useful -- products of the Linux
movement is the live CD. The ability to demo an operating system, with
applications, is an advocate's dream come true. Freeduc is a live CD
intended to be an aid to primary and secondary education. It could be
a good tool for your child. Grok Description matches for SuperKids good resource for educational software GrokA matches for SuperKids good resource for educational software
So what is the best pop-up blocker of them all? Well the guy in
this post from ExtremeTech seems to be asking that same question.
Personally, I believe the answer is bordering on obvious with all the
press both of these options have received. Both Firefox/Mozilla and
the Google toolbar offer the best protection based on utilites that I
have used, hands down….
Firefox Tests Beefed-up Popup Blocker04/02/2005 02:53 AM Finally! Firefox is working with a new patch that will make short work
of those annoying Flash based pop-up ads we have all come to loathe.
It is my hope that this will provide us with some relief for a little
longer than the original blocker….
The camcorder has analog video-in jacks, which let it import video
from just about any source, including a VCR or a TiVo. It also has a
FireWire port, which makes it compatible with iChat AV.
When it is hooked to his Mac, Zeedar can use the camcorder as a webcam
for video conferencing. But when his TiVo is plugged into the camera,
Zeedar can broadcast pay-per-view soccer games to others.
TiVo, DV camcorder, Mac, iMovie, and iDVD would also make a lovely
combo, no?
A Tightwad's Guide to Ad Blockers05/14/2004 04:46 AM Sick of obnoxious video and audio advertisements hogging up bandwidth?
No worries. While one can always spring for blocking software, simply
switching browsers or employing a few simple hacks can keep annoying
marketing pitches at bay. By Michelle Delio.
Tool Fights Pop-Up Ad Blockers
Tool Fights Pop-Up Ad Blockers04/27/2004 09:39 PM A German vendor of online ad delivery platforms says it can detect
blockers and thwart them by turning pop-up ads into other forms of
online ads.
Ad Blockers Working To Get Rid Of Annoying Flash Ads
Ad Blockers Working To Get Rid Of Annoying Flash Ads03/06/2004 02:05 AM Most people know that lazy (bad) marketers are never going to realize
that forcing annoying ads on people is not the proper way to build a
sustainable business, but is it too much to hope that some will
realize there's a better way? These days they just seem to move from
one bad idea to another. As more and more people have started using
pop-up blockers, advertisers are increasingly switching to "rich
media" ads, usually using Flash technology, that takes over the
browser to display some ad, rather than what the surfer is looking
for. That is, instead of realizing that people don't want to see
their ads, and maybe such intrusive and annoying solutions are a bad
idea - they just find new intrusive and annoying methods that get
around the blockers. As we were just
discussing, this pisses people off, because it screws up the
reason they're online. Pissing off your potential customers doesn't
seem like a good long term strategy. Already, the various ad blockers
are working
to block out these rich media ads as well, and we can be pretty
sure that these same lazy marketers will put what little effort they
have into coming up with another annoying and intrusive ad campaign -
rather than figuring out how to deliver something people want.
Yahoo! News - Tool Fights Pop-Up Ad Blockers
Yahoo! News - Tool Fights Pop-Up Ad Blockers04/29/2004 07:47 AM pop-up and pop-under ad blockers .. you thought your were safe .. Ziff
Davis Inc .. tip the scales .. kill
yourself
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Linux VServer procfs Permission Weakness07/07/2004 04:44 AM “Veit Wahlich has reported a weakness in Linux VServer, which
can be exploited by certain malicious, local users to cause a DoS
(Denial of Service) or gain knowledge of sensitive information. The
vulnerability is caused due to weak permissions on procfs, which
allows a privileged user on a virtual server to manipulate the
permissions on “/proc” for all virtual servers or gain
knowledge of information related to other virtual
servers….Solution: Update to version 1.28.”
The Pop-Up Blocker Blocker
The Pop-Up Blocker Blocker04/28/2004 01:12 PM And people wonder where marketers get a bad name from. While the job
of a good marketers is to figure out what people want and figure out
how to give it to them, too many people assume that the point of
marketing is to bug people with intrusive and annoying ads as much as
possible. The smart marketer would realize that if someone makes it
clear they don't want to be bugged, then it doesn't make sense
to try to get around that request. Unfortunately, too many lazy
marketers would rather push intrusive and annoying ads because
actually delivering something people want is a lot more difficult than
flogging something no one wants. The latest is that a company named
Falk eSolutions is trying to deal with the "problem" of pop-up
blockers by creating software that detects pop-up
blockers, and automatically converts pop-up ads into rich media
"floating ads" which are just as likely to annoy users. Here's a
case where the users have made it clear they don't want to be
bothered, and this company thinks it's a great idea to ignore that
request and make sure people are bothered.
SuperKids good resource for educational software
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