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Well, we’ve finished, and with sore feet had a last meal with the guys from SmoothWall (fish and chips/sausage and mash being the order of the day) before we parted ways as they are flying down to Charlotte today to their US offices at early o’clock this morning. The show finished at 2:30pm and we were still sat on our stand at close to 7pm waiting on one last box to finish packing away. It turned out it had been damaged, repaired than not returned to ...

Here is a short time lapse of the walk to the EduGeek stand from the main entrance to the hall. It was recorded on iPhone thus there is a little bit of shake.

Enjoy

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We happened to catch these guys having a play with robo football so we thought we would show you the vid. This was recorded on iPhone 4, sorry.... it should be HD soon once youtube processes the file.

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The publishers of the Virtual Learning Environment called Fronter will be holding a series of "webinars" showing how to use the VLE successfully. Topics will range from embedding media in pages through to parental engagement, though ...

lzPingLaunch has been released by one of the site's members, localzuk. It is a small network administration tool capable of launching the tools Ping, NSLookup and TraceRoute plus the remote access tools VNC and RDP all within a few keystrokes. ...

Milestone has launched a new IP CCTV solution designed for small businesses and educational establishments called Xprotect Essential http://www.cctvcore.co.uk/22-06-2010...-for-smes.html ...

Today OpenDNS have introduced a new service called FamilyShield, a free simple to use way for parents to protect their children from inappropriate content while online.


By changing the DNS settings on either the ...

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EduGeek.net the hugely popular free website for IT support staff working in education is making its physical presence known in the USA. For the first time ...

At this year’s Sims.net Annual conference Capita in partnership with Verismic showed a new solution that has the potential to save a secondary school with their power bills. The way the software can save you money is by using the tools on the ...

Users of Microsoft's Live service now have the Redmond firm's answer to Google docs available to them. Visit http://office.live.com and you can access Skydrive, an online cloud-based service allowing you to store documents and access the web-based ...

Security firm Sophos has reported that malware detection has been added to OSX 10.6.4 (AKA Snow Leopard). The update detects the HellRTS trojan which disguises itself as iPhoto, an image editing application bundled with OSX.

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At the conference in Chorley we have announced a new piece of software for you all to use for free. It was developed by OP Software by request from us as we saw a need for a proper solution in schools. Its primary role is to log users that login to your network.
The EduGeek Logon Tracker allows you to:

• Limits concurrent logins to 1
• Uses MS SQL database for storage of tracking data
• Web based frontend for reporting and searching
• Web based login spy for real-time login tracking
• Web site securable with

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