Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Brainblast Boot Camp - Prezi




Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Fake Anti Viruses

Hi Staff, these viruses give me busy repairing personal computers on the side, so I thought I'd help you stay ahead of it here at school.

 

The Scam:


You come across a website that has a secure looking address like security-site-protection.net.... or something like that, and the warning comes up that you've got infections.  It looks VERY intimidating as the alarms are going off.  Prompts to install the scanner will come up, and are difficult to cancel out of.

 

Clicking OK, Install, or Run will INSTALL THE VIRUS.  Your computer will bog down immensely and you will be continually prompted to purchase some sort of program to "make it all go away".

 

NOTE:  You should NEVER see any infection warnings from any program except for your Anti Virus that is already installed, which is Trend Micro here at school.  Any other program warning you about threats, is usually a threat itself.

SOLUTION:  If you've come across something similar, please contact me.  You are not in trouble, it's not your fault, I just need to remove it before it infects other users.  Even if you don't think it installed, I'd like to get the web address blocked.

 

Here are some images of what they may look like.  When you take a closer look, you'll notice some bad grammar and misspelled words that should hint to their unprofessionalism. 

Click on the images for a larger version


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Clicking Cancel here will USUALLY avoid the install.

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Make a screencast video

Here is one method of how to make a screen capture video, like most of the tutorials I have here on my blog.

Here, I am showing Camstudio.org. The reason I like Camstudio is because it records to .AVI format which can easily be further edited in Windows Movie Maker, or most other video editing software.

Jing is also a good program. It's VERY easy to record. My problem with Jing though is it records to .SWF (flash format) which makes it a little more difficult to edit and share. (in the free version)

Then after you've made your video, upload it to Webertube.com and share with others.

Here's the tutorial:


Friday, January 29, 2010

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Show Current Semester MyGrades Classes

Here's a quick fix in the meantime. I've heard that there will be a permanent option for this, possibly a checkbox to "Show current semester classes only", but here's what you can do right now.

EDIT: This issue has been FIXED :)



This is a 1 minute video:

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

(NEW) Posting grades in MyGrades

Here's an updated version of my video with the new look.

It's under 2 minutes long:

Create a New Gradebook in MyGrades

This is how to create a new gradebook in MyGrades. You will do this every new semester to get your new class lists.

Here's a 90 second video.