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iPhone 4 NOT Recalled
The iPhone 4 will NOT be recalled following a blunder by Daily Mail journalists. The British paper ran an article on their website about Steve Jobs posting the statement "We may have to recall the new iPhone. This, I did not expect" on the Internet. The claim was sourced from the Twitter account ceoSteveJobs, a parody of the famous Apple CEO. The tongue-in-cheek account offers advice such as "People who live in houses shouldn't throw glass phones" and "To prevent signal problems with the n
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Webinars
Fronter Webinars
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 content about the new online reporting tools in Fronter won't come until mid-September. Fronter customers can register here for access to the Fronter room which will contain the webinars.
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EduGeek
3...2...1...lzPingLaunch!
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. It is located on his blog or available as a download from his site.
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EduGeek
Milestone launches new IP solution
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-milestone-launches-xprotect-essential-for-smes.html
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EduGeek
FamilyShield From Open DNS - Free Parental Controls
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. http://www-files.opendns.com/img/familyshield_logo_small.png By changing the DNS settings on either the router or connected devices to point to FamilyShields servers users will benefit from protection similar to that found in schools. Filter lists are constantly updated so users are always protected. Detailed instructi
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Events
EduGeek arrives in USA for ISTE 2010
Lancashire - Saturday, 26 June 2010. Lancashire - Saturday, 26 June 2010. 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 EduGeek will exhibit at the ISTE 2010 (formerly known as NECC), the USA’s premier education conference. ISTE is being held in Denver between 27th and 30th June where you will find EduGeek.net teaming up with web-filter specialists SmoothWall. Both companies can be vis
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EduGeek
Save Your School Money
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 Verismic Power Management software to manage the power on your computer. The software that provides an all in one solution goes far beyond just setting and enforcing power policies it provides a number of useful reports on what each policy is doing and
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EduGeek
Joint Press Release NAACE- Of one mind: ICT in Education is important!
EduGeek.net today released a joint statement supporting the letter sent to Rt Hon Michael Grove MP in which the importance of ICT in Education is stressed. Attached is the letter and joint release. If you wish to get further details or comments from EduGeek.net then please use following contact details. --* Russell Dyas Tel UK 020 8133 4179 Tel UK Mob: *07884071535 Tel US 240 764 47 07 SkypeID: rdyasuk [email protected] EduGeek.net - The Front Page Naace Press Release Join
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EduGeek
Skydrive and Office, Live
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 2010 versions of Word, Powerpoint, Excel and OneNote. The service is free to use and requires a Windows Live Passport login. Testing today did reveal LA filtering succesfully blocking the social media aspects of the Live service while still allowing
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EduGeek
EduGeek Goes to Denver
In one weeks time. Shaun and I shall be in Denver, Colorado on the EduGeek stand at the ISTE Show (ISTE Conference 2010). We are primariliy there to meet up with our US visitors and counterparts to find out why, considering we are on of the largest tech support sites in the world, and certainly one of the largest and most successful online communities, we still don't get much interaction from our US visitors\members. US traffic accounts for the second largest group visiting the site with (ou
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EduGeek
Apple Adds Malware Detection
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. However, Sophos have reported that the malware detection only works on downloads from the Internet and does not cover all the various items of Mac-oriented malware currently in circulation. The article also showed a video of malware being succesfully run from a memory sti
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EduGeek
EduGeek at the Ruckus Big Dogs Conference in Marbella
Well, I’m back from Spain and am now in the office busying myself by paying bills and catching up on email etc. I have to start off by thinking Ruckus for having EduGeek at their Big Dogs conference in Marbella (and even one of our members was there as a guest of another company!) and getting to meet all of their staff from Selina Lo (the CEO) David Callisch (VP of marketing and MC of the event) right over to GT Hill (who likes to be called, simply, ‘GT’) their resident wireless uber techy who
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