Stratford University's Tech Talk
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Text messsaging from computer (SMS gateways are the key), discovering product keys (MyKeyFinder revealed), digital images (RAW vs JPG vs PNG), best way to learn Linux, time standards (over the air and using the Internet), Profiles in IT (Steven Jay Sinofsky, Windows 7 and 8 product manager), David Burd surprise visit (Windows 8, iPad mini, technology musings), Paula Broadwells Internet trail (throwaway email accounts, IP adddresses correlated with hotel stays, excellent FBI forensics), Dumb Idea of the Week (pee controlled games in urinals), and how the cloud helped Obama win (Amazon Web Services and Amazon Relations Database Services, supported over 200 applications, scaled to meet one day demand, highly succcessful).
September 17, 2012 -
Google Map update frequency, configuring VoIP phone in DMZ, installing Ubuntu Linux on laptops (use VMWare to create a virtual machine, old OS will remain intact), switching from MS Messenger to Skype, meaning of BIOS beeps during bootup failure, Profiles in IT (Donald Ervin Knuth, author of The Art of Programming and TeX), Device of the Week (Phillips HUE LED lights, controlled with Zigbee wireless standard, bridge to Wi-Fi network, use iPhone app), Google blocked in China (in preparation for the Communist National Congress), Website of the Week (FiveThirtyEight.com, a polling aggregation site run by Nate Silver, sophisticated statistics, called the election with accuracy), and Romneys ORCA website failure (a centralized site to orchestrate the get-out-the-vote campaign crashed on election day, app that had not been beta tested, failure may have cost him the election).
September 17, 2012 -
LastPass vs. Keepass (password vauls), setting time zone in iPhone, Windows disk clearnup (removing old restore points can reclaim diskspace), open source MS Office alternatives (Open Office, Libre Office), controlling spam (setting filters, reporting spam, masking email address when posting), Profiles in IT (Eben Christoper Upton, creator of Raspberry Pi hacker computer), Devicee of the Week (Rasberry Pi computer, ARM-based PC, five ports, boots Linus from SD flash memory, great way to learn computer science, $35, starter kit $100), Russian hacker outed with webcam picture (Nation of Georgia enticed hacker to download malware, turned on webcam, published photo), Phillips Hue LED lighting system (color and intensity controlled with iPhone app, connected with Wi-Fi, $59 per bulb) and Republicans use more social media (both parties now on par, Dems dominated social media in 2008).
September 17, 2012 -
File compression with Zip, cell phone privacy (digital networks are encrypted), password storage (LastPass vs browser cache), disk size arithmetic, transfering files to new Win7 laptop, Profiles in IT (Phillip Walter Katz, creator of PKZIP), technology job trends (social media, big data, jQuery, Platform as a Service, Hadoop, San Jose and Washington DC top cities), worst passwords of 2012 (password, 123456, iloveyou, plus more), Gmail tips (dots and case are ignored), impolite Wi-Fi network names used to communicate with neighbors, and big data to create 4.4 million jobs by 2012 (cloud, mobile devices, social media, data mining).
September 17, 2012 -
Photo Streams in iOS6 (sharing was never easier), transferring Windows Live Mail to new computer (export and import details), portable MP3 and FLAC players, favorite iPhone apps (Camera+, Viber, Flipboard, plus many more), audio vs data CD formatting, Profiles in IT (Stanford Robert Ovshinsky, American inventor and scientist), how are most iPhones damaged (falling out of users hands is first, water damage is second), Ada Lovelace Day (October 16, Ada was the first computer programmer, created a program for the Babbage Analytical Engine), Day Zero exploits good for at least 10 months (most target Windows or Adobe products, increasingly used for cyber warfare, based on Symantec study), and text spam is on the rise (4.5 billion text spams in 2011, forward spam message to 7726 to report).
September 17, 2012 -
Disabling IDFA tracking in iOS6, Windows 7 power management, using TreeSize to analyze disk storage, exporting Gmail and contacts to Yahoo, prepaid SIM cards with data in Asia, Profiles in IT (Thomas Anderson, co-founder MySpace), search traffic trending down (mobile app searching on the rise, bad news for Yahoo, good news for Apple), Skype IM worm update (takes over computer, holds contents for ransom, dont click on suspicious messages, update Skype and operating system), and Iran behind Saudi cyberattacks (Shamoon virus shut down Aramco and Qatari gas computers, wiped out critical files, Iran has entered the cyberwarfare race).
September 17, 2012 -
Scaling online servers, PHP application development (CakePHP vs CodeIgniter), NINITE installer (highly recommended), installing SSD in laptop (challenges revealed), Profiles in IT (Frederick Emmons Terman, co-founder and Father of Silicon Valley), Special gusest (Feroze Khan, Stratford VP for International Programs), market demand for web programming languages (PHP and Java top server side languages, HTML and CSS top client side languages), and scaling facebook for 1B users (hacker culture with rapid code releases, dedicated data centers with custom software).
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