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Monthly Archives: January 2015

Microsoft Hololens

27 Tuesday Jan 2015

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Interested in this awesome new technology but don’t want to watch the full 2+ hour Microsoft presentation? Here is just the part on the Hololens.

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The 2015 Social Engineering Survival Guide

26 Monday Jan 2015

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Excellent article on social engineering and security. A definite recommended read.

Here is the link

Which mobile data provider is best? (And will you make a switch?)

26 Monday Jan 2015

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Good article…

read it here

PCs in 2015: Smaller, Thinner, Affordable and Armed With Windows 10

26 Monday Jan 2015

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Here is a link to the article.

Microsoft Says Windows 10 Will Be the Last OS Upgrade You’ll Ever Need

26 Monday Jan 2015

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Interesting article! This may not only save MS money but businesses as well. It will certainly change how we view operating systems.

 Microsoft Windows 10, no upgrades?

Microsoft 10 Presentation

21 Wednesday Jan 2015

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Microsoft came out swinging for the fence! This is a link to the complete presentation this morning. It may be the biggest set of announcements that Microsoft has ever made. This is a must watch! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ORs4990OAk

Highlights:

  • Windows 10 free upgrade for Windows 8.1 and 7 users
  • New hardware: Surface Hub
  • Windows 10 on all Windows devices including Xbox
  • Windows Holographic! (Amazing!)
  • New Office apps and browser
  • Cortana everywhere
  • Universal Apps
  • Music coming to OneDrive (also, some photo stuff)
  • Universal Chat App

A Day in the Life with Speech Recognition

12 Monday Jan 2015

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http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-technology/realsense-5speech-future-demo.html

The “Internet of Self”

12 Monday Jan 2015

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Here is an interesting article on a concept called “Internet of Self.” I can definitely see we are headed in this direction…..

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2867234/here-comes-the-internet-of-self.html?phint=newt%3Dcomputerworld_thisweek&phint=idg_eid%3De6a70c0a773b5dd93399e3283c15a855#tk.CTWNLE_nlt_thisweek_2015-01-12

Virtual Reality Conferences

12 Monday Jan 2015

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AltpaceVR showed technology at CES where using a device such as Occulus Rift and Intel RealSense 3D camera system a participant could attend a virtual conference. Obviously there are potential telecommuting possibilities with a system such as this.

Service translates languages on the fly!

12 Monday Jan 2015

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Services were part of the mix at CES, including Lexifone, which offers in-call translations in these languages: English-U.S., as well as English used in the U.K., and Australia; French Canadian, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Mandarin-China, Mandarin-Taiwan, Polish, and Portuguese both Brazil and EU, as well as Russian, Spanish-Mexico, Spanish-Spain.

A users dials into Lexifone, identifies the language that needs translation, and then reoriginates the call, or dials out to the other party. When a caller stops talking, the cloud-based system, after an approximately four-second pause, will translate. The accuracy for languages such as Spanish can be as high as 95%, and for Mandarin, the most difficult, about 70%, but it’s improving, said Patrick Tata, vice president of marketing. The service is available to consumers as well as businesses.

Intel RealSense Technology to be built in to Windows devices this year

12 Monday Jan 2015

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Check out the link to learn more about this new technology that is coming VERY soon!

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-technology/realsense-depth-technologies.html

My idea of the perfect car!

07 Wednesday Jan 2015

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Now if they add Toyota’s hydrogen fuel technology to this, I’d say it is perfection. I hope we see it sooner then they anticipate! Road trips across country will be back!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYTV4d-Gn0s

2015 Winter and Spring Important Dates

07 Wednesday Jan 2015

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GCC Dates

Welcome Excel Level 1 Students!

07 Wednesday Jan 2015

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Happy 2015! Thank you for your attendance. I am looking forward to the next 6 weeks together. I promise to make the class as enjoyable as possible, while teaching you all about Excel! The book ISBN for this class is Benchmark Excel 2013 L1&L2, 9780763853891. The Excel 2013 Level 1 only is 9780763853907. I would suggest looking for a used book at Amazon.com or half.com. It should save you some money. Make SURE and have it shipped expedited!

I suggest that you take a look at some of these books at Amazon as well. They will help you with the business math part of Excel.

  1. Business Math Excel Applications for Business Mathematics (2nd Edition) Paperback – August 29, 2008 by Edward D. Laughbaum (Author), Ken Seidel (Author), ISBN: 9780136071846
  2. Excel For Business Math (Quick Study: Computer) Hardcover – December 31, 2013
    by Inc. BarCharts (Author)
  3. Microsoft Excel 2010 Formulas and Functions Inside Out Paperback – January 1, 2012 by Egbert Jeschke (Author), Helmut Reinke (Author), Sara Unverhau (Author), Eckehard Pfeifer (Author), ISBN: 978-0735658028
  4.  Excel Formulas and Functions For Dummies, by Ken Bluttman
  5. Business Math Using Excel, by Sharon Burton and Nelda Shelton
  6. Mastering Financial Mathematics in Microsoft Excel: A Practical Guide for Business Calculations, by Alastair Day
  7. Working with Excel: Refreshing Math Skills for Management (Quantitative Approaches to Decision Making), by Priscilla Chaffe-Stengel

Engadget’s Best of CES 2015 finalists

07 Wednesday Jan 2015

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Some interesting stuff here. Take a look.

http://www.engadget.com/2015/01/07/introducing-the-best-of-ces-2015-finalists/

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Commercial

  • Amazon – Great place to buy used textbooks. Just get the ISBN number for the textbook you need and do a search at this site. Great deals on used textbooks.
  • Dell Refurbished Computers Short on Cash? Here is the Dell site for refurbished computers. It changes frequently and you can often find good deals on computers!
  • Dragon Naturally Speaking – Control your computer with your voice. Control your computer with your voice and dictate into Word!
  • Music – Pandora Create your own radio station.
  • Music – Spotify Listen to anything you want as long as you want!
  • Slack Please join our team and get your questions answered and share info. Our team is GCCteach.slack.com.
  • SnagShout This is a discount shopping site that connects to Amazon. Some really good deals can be found here!
  • Speccy – Detailed computer information Tells you everything you would ever what to know about your computer.
  • TeamViewer A simple and extremely fast remote support and remote access free tool!
  • Twitter Don’t have twitter yet? Now might be a good time! You can follow me at @slsimpson.
  • VoIP Ooma This is one of the major Voice over IP providers.
  • VoIP Vonage This is one of the major voice over IP providers

Educational

  • Engadget's Tomorrow This is Engadget’s page that publishes articles based on tomorrow’s technology.
  • Khan Academy – Video tutorials Video tutorials on all kinds of stuff!
  • Kurzweil's Timeline to the Singularity This is Ray Kurzsweil’s timeline on technologies progress toward the singularity.
  • MIT Media Lab Check out what future technology they are working on!
  • MIT Media Lab — Research MIT Media Lab Research Projects
  • Personal Computer Information This is the Wiki site that has all kinds of information about the personal computer.
  • Ray Kurzweil's site about all things coming in the future Ray Kurzweil has been described as “the restless genius” by The Wall Street Journal, and “the ultimate thinking machine” by Forbes. Inc. magazine ranked him #8 among entrepreneurs in the United States, calling him the “rightful heir to Thomas Ed
  • Sideways Dictionary A Dictionary that uses analogies and metaphors to help regular, non-techy people understand IT terms.
  • TED: Ideas Worth Spreading Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world
  • Texting Lingo and Abbreviations This site will help you decipher all those texting abbreviations your kids are using!
  • Wikipedia. The encyclopedia of the Internet! Here you can find info on just about anything and it is pretty accurate!

GCC

  • Class Folder – Project Class notes for Microsoft Project
  • Class Folder – Access Files for the Access class
  • Class Folder – Excel Class info for Excel
  • Class Folder – Integrated Technology Here you will find files for my Integrated Technology class.
  • Class Folder – Internet This folder contains information for my Internet Class
  • Class folder – Intro to Computers This is my class folder where I store information about the Intro to Computers Class.
  • Class Folder – Outlook GCC class folder for Outlook class materials
  • Class Folder – Power Point This is my public folder containing information for my Power Point students.
  • Class Folder – Windows Files for Windows class
  • Class Folder – Word This folder conatins all the info for my GCC Word class.
  • Creating your own website A good site that describes the different processes for building your own site.
  • Creating your website using Google This is googles answer to creating your own site
  • Dropbox Cloud storage Here is a free site that you can store data in the cloud. Useful for back ups as well.
  • FILExt – File Extension
  • For GCC Students – Cheap Microsoft Office Software You can get a great price on Microsoft Office at this site. You just need to be a student at GCC.
  • Get a Windows Live ID A necessary item to get free use of Windows Live Essential software and a number of other Microsoft services.
  • History of Computers This is the Wiki for all things related to the history of computers. Great info!
  • History of Computers — A Timeline Here is a nice timeline describing the history of computers.
  • Mac commands compared to Windows commands This will compare the Windows commands versus the Mac commands allowing you to more easily use both types of computers.
  • Measurements List of how we measure things in the computer world.
  • PCMags Top 100 Websites
  • Photo Sharing – Smugmug A photo sharing site dedicated more toward the professionals.
  • Picture Sharing – Flikr Share your pictures here
  • Picture Sharing – Photobucket Picture sharing site.
  • Podcasting This site helps you understand podcasting and how to do it.
  • Search the web – a tutorial This is an in-depth look at searching the web to find the information you are looking for.
  • Setting up a wireless network This should help you set up a wireless network.
  • Wordpress – Learn WordPress.com

Security

  • Comodo IceDragon IceDragon features privacy and performance enhancements over the Firefox core browser as well as many additional security features such as SiteInspector malware scanning, Comodo Secure DNS and improved social media functionality.
  • Epic Privacy Browser First web browser engineered to protect your privacy. Epic is in always-on “private browsing mode”, so on close of Epic all browsing data is deleted (while you’re browsing as little as possible is stored). Plus many other safety features!
  • Password Manager and Password Protection This program will manage, store and help you create passwords.
  • PC Matic – Excellent Anti-Virus Software My recommendation if you need new anti-virus software. 100 percent US!
  • Securing your wireless router This should help you make sure your wireless network is secure.
  • Security – Carbonite – Automated Backup for your computer at a good price This is a completely automated solution for backing up your files on your computer.
  • Security – Check to see if a virus threat is real or a hoax.
  • Security – Check to see if that virus is real or a hoax.
  • Security – Darik's Boot And Nuke – Erase Hard Drive! CAUTION! This software completely erases your hard drive. To be used ONLY if you want to get rid of your computer and make sure the hard drive is empty.
  • Security – Eraser – Permanently erase files on your Hard Drive CAUTION! This is a free file shredder software program. It is used to get rid of file(s) you no longer want or need. Use with caution.
  • Security – Malware Software This software finds and rids you computer of Malware.
  • Security – Online Virus Checker called VirusTotal This free service will analyze suspicious files and URLs.

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