Do Not Track

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May 17, 2012 By

I’ve been reading about “Do Not Track” today: http://www.slashgear.com/twitter-joins-do-not-track-17228813/ – Twitter joins “Do Not Track” donottrack.us – Do Not Track, Universal Web Tracking Opt Out http://www.ftc.gov/opa/reporter/privacy/donottrack.shtml – The Do Not Track Option: Giving Consumers a Choice  

Google Glasses

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March 6, 2012 By

All that iPad-hype-reading yesterday led me to an article on Google Glasses today. Not only did this article excite me, but the “Productivity Future Vision” video got me dreaming of the in-my-lifetime-future.

I’m a Netbook Fan

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February 29, 2012 By

First off, I’m a netbook fan. I support many of them, them – those little guys. They work fine, they do their job, and they don’t complain, and if they break, I can throw them away and not feel so bad. If someone offered to pay me to a high price to get a “I [...]

The Eagles are Back!

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February 24, 2012 By

It’s been a busy outside-of-whatthe-tech.com-week, so I will close this week with an announcement: The eagles are back! The www.ustream.tv/decoraheagles Eagle Cam has made its return, and now school district Tech Dept’s are faced with questions – Do you allow access? Unblock it for staff? Block it students? Some great lessons can be learned from [...]

10 problems with outsourcing IT

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February 3, 2012 By

It’s finally Friday. Every Friday I try to wrap up my week… finish out lingering work order tickets… do a couple of requisitions… maybe sign a couple of invoices… check out those server event logs that I’ve been wondering about all week but haven’t had a chance to sit down and investigate… you know, wrap [...]

Google in Education

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January 31, 2012 By

Today I came across this article talking about the “Google in Education” website. We’ve been using “Google Apps for Education” for our teacher webpages for the last couple of years. Apps was very easy to setup, easy to create or import new users, easy for the Tech Dept to manage AND easy for the teachers [...]

YouTube in School

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January 24, 2012 By

How to access educational and school-appropriate content on YouTube: http://support.google.com/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1686318

What whatthe-tech knows about SOPA

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January 18, 2012 By

The majority of whatthe-tech’s tech friends are calling it evil. Here’s why: * http://blog.reddit.com/2012/01/technical-examination-of-sopa-and.html <– interesting to read * http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7007647/sopa.txt <–also interesting to read * And lastly, here are some other websites to check out for more information. http://americancensorship.org/ and http://fightforthefuture.org/pipa and https://www.eff.org/action

Windows Phone? Yeah, I kinda want one

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January 12, 2012 By

I was surfing the interweb this morning (’cause it’s a Snow Day and school is not in session!) and I read this Windows Phone article. I currently carry two phones – one personal and one for work. My work phone is an iPhone and I love it. It has changed my work life forever. My [...]

Guide – Effectively Blocking Facebook

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November 11, 2011 By

Blocking Facebook can be a mighty task to accomplish even if you have a top of the line firewall.  Most newer firewalls have HTTPS filtering but this usually only works when there is a single IP or authentication server for a domain. Facebook uses large IP ranges for facebook.com and www.facebook.com so blocking just a [...]