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Forgotten your password? Google can find it for you. Unfortunately |
After reading this article in the Guardian by Charles Arthur I have just spent the last 20 minutes changing my various online passwords. Its an article that describes how a Russian hacker broke into the blog of the Cambridge University security team at the [...]
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BBC NEWS | Education | YouTube tackles bullying online:
YouTube has set up a site where youngsters can post their own videos and messages. Launched in collaboration with the charity BeatBullying
The first online anti-bullying channel has been launched to encourage young people to denounce the intimidation. The new channel will launch with a raft [...]
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I suppose it had o happen sooner or later.
Police arrest teenager over virtual theft | Technology | The Guardian:
“Police in the Netherlands have arrested a teenager suspected of stealing virtual objects inside a popular social networking site, it has emerged.
The 17-year-old, who has not been named, is alleged to have tricked players of 3D cartoon [...]
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Maybe. The arguments were quite convincing but…………………..
BBC - Photography - Genius of Photography. Well worth the license fee.
This has been brilliant so far. Half way through the series and it only gets better. Last nights programme looked at the photography of Henri Cartier-Bresson , Robert Capra and the setting [...]
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Ambient Findabilty:What We Find Changes Who We Become by Peter Morville. I read this a couple of months ago and I have been thinking quite a lot about some of the points raised by the author. The book’s central thesis is that information literacy, information architecture, and usability are all critical components of this [...]
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Interesting piece on the Apple Insider web site about Adobe’s plans to release Photoshop Express Beta by the end of the year. Nothing too surprising you might think. However this version will be an online version of the software. It will run under existing web browsers using, via the app’s Flash interface [...]
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“Today’s child is bewildered when he enters the 19th century environment that still characterizes the educational establishment where information is scarce but ordered and structured by fragmented, classified patterns, subjects, and schedules.”
– Marshall McLuhan 1967
This is an excellent video summarizing some of the most important characteristics of students today - how they learn, what they [...]
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Bobbie Johnston has an interesting piece in the Guardian about the nature of blogging in the UK today. His claim that there are 4 Million bloggers is based on a survey that was commissioned by the online company Garlik, which aims to give citizens more power over how their personal information is used digitally. It [...]
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I installed this last night. It is a nice evolution of Mac OS x 10.4(Tiger). I just calculated that the first Mac upgrade I ever performed was in !986 upgrading from System 2 to System 3.
I am still getting to grips Leopard. Their are lots of features I probably will not use. So far though [...]
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