korifugi Posted February 9, 2010 Posted February 9, 2010 Digi Blue. has to use the same USB port every time otherwise it has to be reinstalled (manually) then you have to go round each pc with the camera because the software doesn't hold the drivers... Plus - theres more than one version of the cameras, which need different copies of the software to run! Then again - I've never come across an education digital camera thats actually any good
Bezwick Posted February 9, 2010 Posted February 9, 2010 I think i actually hear my hairs greying whenever someone from the Music department calls, but to be fair thats as much hardware as software. Is all music software written by monkeys, and all hardware created from recycled Biro's?
somabc Posted February 9, 2010 Posted February 9, 2010 Windows in general and Entourage for Macs Also anything by Adobe
mattx Posted February 9, 2010 Posted February 9, 2010 Does anyone remember Granada Software... Oh god yeah, [ still on our pre prep PCs ] - had one thing which would only work if you used it as an Admin to start with, then logged on as a normal user and it would finally work...... Never worked out what file or reg entry was the cause - even had filemon and regmon running and went through a heap of data to locate what the hell was going on..... Granada Colours, Database, Spreadsheet, Writer and Toolkit - bleeding terrible.
ljlbray Posted February 9, 2010 Posted February 9, 2010 eclipse.net and I agree with the ALAN testing!!
TronXP Posted February 9, 2010 Posted February 9, 2010 Oh god yeah, [ still on our pre prep PCs ] - had one thing which would only work if you used it as an Admin to start with, then logged on as a normal user and it would finally work...... Never worked out what file or reg entry was the cause - even had filemon and regmon running and went through a heap of data to locate what the hell was going on..... Granada Colours, Database, Spreadsheet, Writer and Toolkit - bleeding terrible. We still have that in our It suite and junior laptops. It was awful, but with all the patches its not too bad.
Edu-IT Posted February 9, 2010 Posted February 9, 2010 Sparkeh, because of you, I didn't have that headache.
mattx Posted February 9, 2010 Posted February 9, 2010 We still have that in our It suite and junior laptops. It was awful, but with all the patches its not too bad. So do we - not sure if it's even used - it's been sitting on our servers for years....May take away the short cuts one week and then will wait for phone calls........
Mr.Ben Posted February 9, 2010 Posted February 9, 2010 SymWriter Crashes when it feels like it, removes options when it feels like it, has to go off to the internet to register itself - oh and if I have to re-image a machine I have to tell them (as they count the registrations, not the active registrations). And when the first version was delivered it didn't know about proxy settings and installed a lovely piece of Malware to control the licensing. Oh, and it borks there previous version of the software as well
Mr.Ben Posted February 9, 2010 Posted February 9, 2010 Plus - theres more than one version of the cameras, which need different copies of the software to run! Then again - I've never come across an education digital camera thats actually any good Version 3 of the software isn't too bad, signed drivers and the ability to redirect the save folders.
mac_shinobi Posted February 9, 2010 Posted February 9, 2010 not sure if its been posted already but adobe reader
Spitfire Posted February 9, 2010 Posted February 9, 2010 Unit-e from Capita, if you use it you'll know what I mean 1
seanmh Posted February 9, 2010 Posted February 9, 2010 Primary Target Tracker and EYFS Tracker. Thank God that we are moving away from these soon, we are phasing in Classroom Monitor which is 100% better that this rubbish with its clueless support as well.
sparkeh Posted February 9, 2010 Posted February 9, 2010 Sparkeh, because of you, I didn't have that headache. Glad my torment meant that I could spare someone else. I have a new one to add: Log-It box from TTS. Basically its a data logger with some software to install on a machine. The advert says "Share your data across the network!" Great I think as I begin to install it. Oh..to access the network settings you need a password and I am instructed to call my reseller. Odd but ok I'll get in contact. Oh..the person I am speaking to has no idea about that so she will pass it on to the developers...oh they have no idea about that either. :mad: What an earth is the logic behind making you phone up for a password just to save data on the network anyway!
sparkeh Posted February 9, 2010 Posted February 9, 2010 Primary Target Tracker and EYFS Tracker. Heh ditched those this year, I almost held a party.
DrCheese Posted February 9, 2010 Posted February 9, 2010 The whole Adobe CS4 suite in general, but mostly Premiere Pro. So many stupid quirks >.<
sparkeh Posted February 9, 2010 Posted February 9, 2010 Does anyone remember Granada Software... or Anglia Multimedia. Hmm those shiny Frisbee we use have those words written on them
Edu-IT Posted February 9, 2010 Posted February 9, 2010 Have you got a link to that target tracker stuff? Curious about something.
sparkeh Posted February 9, 2010 Posted February 9, 2010 Have you got a link to that target tracker stuff? Curious about something. Target Tracker
Edu-IT Posted February 9, 2010 Posted February 9, 2010 I'm pretty sure I was on a training course recently with somebody from that company.
SimpleSi Posted February 9, 2010 Posted February 9, 2010 Its a tough one as the competition is so intense but I'd have to name my all time top 3 as Crazytalk (And I haven't even got round to rolling it out yet- I reckon in another couple of weeks I'll have managed to get the first copy registered!) Report Assist (Bad bad software from both technical/users/parents point of view ) BlackCat SuperTools (The worst of education software bundles - a triumph of marketing over ability ) regards Simon 1
Edu-IT Posted February 9, 2010 Posted February 9, 2010 I'm intrigued to know what's up with target tracker. On said course they managed to get it working pretty easy using the MSI.
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