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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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EduGeek
EduGeek Refresh Desktop tool
I have developed a tool which I thought could be of use to all of you out there. It is primarily designed to refresh the desktop wallpaper at set intervals which may not sound like a big deal but in certain scenarios it will be of use. If you set your desktop background to a shared background for example of the school logo you will notice that if you change that image (keeping the same path) desktops wont be updated with the new background until you log in and out. This limitation means that yo
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Events
EduGeek Conference 2010
The EduGeek conference in Chorley went very well this year, with suppliers and school technical staff alike descending on the Woodlands Conference centre for another day of talks, raffles and free coffee and curries. There was much on the agenda with software such as the EduGeek Logon Tracker to the mind-blowing Mobotix cameras and a glimpse to the future from Microsoft's teams of anthropologists predicting what IT will be like in 2019. Please note that, while links to companies and suppliers
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EduGeek
Announcing the EduGeek Logon Tracker
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
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EduGeek Conference 2010 Timings and Speakers
We've 12 days to push and the speakers and sponsors are now on board, so please find below the line up of events for the day: 08:45 Coach leaves Ibis Hotel 08:45 - 09:30 Arrive - Register 09:30 - 09:35 Introduction - Chris Byers 09:35 - 09:45 OZ - New Free Piece of Software for EduGeek Members! 09:45 - 10:00 Will Townsend - IT Jobs Market Brief 10:00 - 10:45 Capita - MIS - Back To The Future 10:45 - 11:15 Coffee Break 11:15 - 12:00 SmoothWall - Security Brief 12:00 - 12:45 FI
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EduGeek
New Graphics Forum
EduGeek now has a new graphics forum for anything design or graphic related. http://www.edugeek.net/forums/edugeek-graphics/ Whether you have found a good resource website, needed some help with updating your schools logo or have something to you want to share with the community then this is the forum for you. We will be moving any current posts that relate to graphics in the coming days. We hope members will find it useful.
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Events
EduGeek Conference 2010 Line Up
Well, our speakers are 99% booked,and we have a hell of a crown this year, so in no particular order: Will Townsend (ESP Recruitment) - An update on the IT jobs market and BSF Tom Newton (SmoothWall) - Latest security issues and updates Capita - SIMS news Net-Ctrl - IP security cameras and Mobotix Ray Fleming (Microsoft) - Office 2010 and 'Where IT workers will be in 2020' Net-Ctrl - Ruckus update and new features FITS Foundation - FITS, what it is, where you can get it a
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EduGeek
Shiny new ranks are live
(SYSMAN_MK) sent me over the final designs for the new ranks and I have put them live right now. Thanks again for all the hard work. Enjoy all
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EduGeek
Ruckus Big Dogs Conf in Marbella - June 10 - 11
EduGeek has been invited to speak at the Ruckus Big Dogs Conference in Marbella on the 10 - 11 June 2010, and......so have you, only you don't have to speak, and Ruckus pick up the bill for your hotel and food Now I guess that some of you think theres a catch, well there is. Firstly, you have to be a Ruckus customer/user, and secondly you have to pay for your own flight over there (circa £100 return from the UK). So if you want to meet the Ruckus guys, Net-Ctrl and EduGeek get yourself over to
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