Happy Holidays!


The holiday season is upon us, and I wish everyone safe and joyous times. For many of us, the holidays mean celebrating with family and friends, finding and receiving special gifts, and giving thanks to those who have helped us throughout the year. However, even as we enter the season of gift giving and good tidings, cyber and other criminals are at large and more persistent than ever in seeking ways to compromise our identities, our credit, our livelihood, and even the wellbeing of our families.

Online and physical securities are vital to the defense and protection of both personal and professional assets. As we enjoy the festivities during this time of the year, let us also remember to take simple precautions to protect our homes, our work environment, and our families from those who may wish us harm.

  • Lock doors and/or otherwise secure areas of entry from unwanted intruders.
  • Do not provide personal or organizational information unless you are certain of a person’s authority to have the information.
  • Be suspicious of unsolicited phone calls, visits, Web sites or email messages.
  • Keep laptops, mobile storage devices and other valuables locked and secured.
  • Encrypt important data, particularly when traveling with it.
  • Ensure that your computer is up-to-date on all patches.
  • Ensure that your antivirus program is installed and up-to-date.
  • Do not enter your personal information in pop-up screens.
  • Do not click on any links or open any attachments in a suspicious email.
  • Be vigilant while you shop and be sure to protect your credit cards and other sources of personal information you carry with you.
  • Be aware and cognizant of others listening in if you have to provide credit card information via phone or otherwise verbally.

 

It would be wonderful to live in a world of good will and benevolence. However, until that world evolves, simple precautions can go a long way to help us remain out of harm’s way as we celebrate the end of this year and welcome a new one.

 

Happy Holidays and Keep Safe.

Instructions on creating a tri-fold brochure


Here are some links to instructions on creating a tri-fold brochure.

http://www.vtaide.com/gleanings/BrochureMSWord.htm
http://www.veradzn.com/home.html?gclid=CNKzw-as4qwCFQJ8hwodhHUIpQ (Graphic Design company for ideas!)
http://www.ehow.com/how_5817870_create-trifold-brochure-word.html
http://www.trickyways.com/2010/06/how-to-create-brochure-in-word-20072010/
http://www.word-2010.com/make-a-tri-fold-brochure/

Links to Photo Sites


We talked a lot about different photo sites and related sites in the Integrated Technology class tonight. Listed below are those we discussed.

https://home.live.com/allservices/ (Windows live services, including Skydrive)
http://www.dropbox.com
http://www.flickr.com/
http://photobucket.com/
https://www.facebook.com/
http://www.eye.fi/
http://www.nuance.com/for-business/by-product/omnipage/index.htm (Optical Character Recognition software)
http://www.google.com/intl/en/about/products/index.html
http://picasa.google.com/intl/en/features.html
http://www.kodakgallery.com/gallery/welcome.jsp

Welcome Integrated Technology Students!


This class is all about how things work together. For this class you are going to create a class assignment of your choosing! We are going to have a lot of fun over the next 4 weeks and I am glad you are here!

Here is a link to the class outline. https://skydrive.live.com/redir.aspx?cid=229524c4f877ffb1&resid=229524C4F877FFB1!323

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(626) 256-0302
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Welcome Internet Students


Welcome Internet students! I am so happy to have you in my class. I look forward to the 4 weeks we will spend together. I promise to make it as enjoyable and as informative as possible. We do not use a specific book in class. Any book on the Internet will cover the items I discuss in class. You may chose to go get a book at your local book store for additional information or not. It is up to you.

Steve Simpson

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Holodesk Technology!


Here is some new technology for you to read about. It is using Microsofts Kinect. I think it is very cool. Take a look! http://blogs.technet.com/b/next/archive/2011/10/19/microsoft-research-shows-some-fresh-thinking-on-nui-and-touch-interface.aspx

 

Here is another use for Kinect. http://arsvirtuafoundation.org/research/2010/08/18/meet-milo-the-virtual-boy-cloud-sculpting-the-mind-of-a-synthetic-human/

 

 

Welcome Excel Level 2 Students!


Welcome Level  2 Excel students! I am so happy to have you in my class. I look forward to the 6 weeks we will spend together. I promise to make it as enjoyable and as informative as possible. The book we will be using in class is new. The ISBN number for the Level 2 book is 9780763843151.Used books are very hard to find since this is a very new book. As discussed in class, this is where you will find additional information for class. Below are some helpful links for getting strated in the new 2010 software and specifically, Excel.

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Getting started with Office 2010

Getting started with Excel 2010

Cheat Sheets

Windows 7 tutorials


Microsoft has many tutorials that you can access on their website. Here are a few that we covered in class.

Personalizing your computer: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/help/videos/personalizing-your-pc
Finding and organizing your files: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/help/videos/finding-your-files
Backing up and restoring your files: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/help/videos/backing-up-and-restoring-your-computer
Using System Restore: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/help/videos/fixing-a-problem-using-system-restore
Burning a CD: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/help/videos/burn-a-cd
Using Remote Assistance: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/help/videos/using-windows-remote-assistance-to-get-help-with-your-computer