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Carl Chapman
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Lynda.com has released a FREE iPhone app providing access to award-winning training videos that teach digital photography, graphic design, web and interactive design, business, applications, 3D, audio and much more.
Lynda.com members have access to their existing accounts. Once logged in, you’ll see the most recent video you watched, whether you watched it on your iPhone, iPod Touch, or on your computer’s web browser. Just pick up where you last left off.
Adobe has released an Acrobat Connect Pro iPhone app to so you can attend meetings using your iPhone or iPod touch. The FREE Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro Mobile application allows immediate access to meetings anytime, anywhere. You can Watch and listen to live presentations including real-time presenter webcam video and screen sharing demonstrations.
Release 10 of 3GPP specifications will include LTE Advanced.
Although some wireless/cellular operators and vendors have already been using the term “4G” for their LTE and WiMAX services, the “true” specifications for 4G services developed by standards organization 3GPP will be published in March 2011 under Release 10, according to current targets.
The government communications watchdog has called for public opinion on whether Australia should introduce mobile phone jamming in prisons.
The call comes ahead of a proposed NSW State Government trial of mobile phone jammers in Lithgow gaol which if successful could make Australia one of about 10 countries to legalise the practice.
Australian and New Zealand heads of correctional services agreed at a Corrective Services Ministers’ Conference in June 2008 to plan the use of phone jammers in prisons and sent the communications watchdog a submission last March. New Zealand has already legalised and is expanding its use of jammers in correctional facilities……..
If you are using “123456″ as your password it is past time to stop. Same if you are using the always popular “Password” to protect your account. Those easy-to-hack passwords were the top and fourth most-popular from among 32 million hacked from RockYou.com, a new study finds…….
Following a recent crack of the simpler A5/1 standard, researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science say they have cracked the A5/3 security cipher (nicknamed Kasumi) by using what’s known as a “sandwich” attack. The group accomplished its goal by creating a distinguishing trait for the key and using just four related keys to determine the key for Kasumi itself.
While breaking the security takes time, the approach theoretically leaves GSM more directly exposed to call interceptions and other threats. Most cellular carriers still use the lower-grade GSM quality (A5/1) as their base calling technology, but 3G/UMTS (the upgrade to GSM) uses Kasumi and is potentially exposed as well.
More information:- http://www.emergentchaos.com/archives/2010/01/another_week_another_gsm.html
The internet is a very different experience on a slow connection, as I was reminded when I ran over my wireless data allowance recently and was limited to 64 kbps. The art of optimizing page download speed seems to have been lost, but there is hope on the horizon.
The usage indicator on my BigPond wireless broadband account has been broken since November 2009. There is some kind of server problem accessing the information for my account. I have a request in with BigPond technical support to fix it, but in the meantime I am not able to tell how much data I have used.
Last month I ran over my 10GB allowance due to having to reinstall Abode Creative Suites and eLearning Suite twice. They did not load correctly the first time, and each reinstall came with an 850MB update download…..Ouch!!!….. It must be time for CS5 release.
I have watched a few webinars recently where the presenter discussed using image-based presentations to improve learner interest. During some recent course conversion work, I had the revelation that future proofing courseware also requires the minimal use of text for distribution reasons.
In the last few days I have been converting a few courses from Adobe Captivate 4 to Video and evaluating the slide quality that was being output. It suddenly occurred to me that developing courseware for use across multiple learning platforms (including mobile learning), requires the use of more image-based presentations and minimal use of text.
This idea might seem obvious, but it is not something I have thought about until now, and is going to completely change the way I develop courseware in the future.
I am the sort of person who likes to design a course once and be able to scale it up and down for the different platforms, without having to modify the courseware for each individual platform. This also means that any updates or modifications need only be made to the master file, and can be redistributed easily down the track.
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For a while now I have been considering converting some of my non-interactive Adobe Captivate 4 courses to video, allowing me to post them to Youtube, or make them mobile video compliant. Captivate courses are normally output in SWF format, but Youtube and the Apple iPhone do not currently support the SWF or Flash format.
Captivate 4 can output AVI video, but in the past this has been a hit or miss approach for me due to the quirks of the various codecs.
Having some spare time, I decided to sit down and experiment with the different codecs to determine what works, and the options that can be used with Adobe Media Encoder to produce an acceptable final product on my Windows XP machine.
The Australian government has announced it will press on with its controversial plan to implement mandatory ISP-level internet filtering, after declaring the pilot trial a success.
Obviously there’s a lot of outrage at the government’s decision to plough ahead with its plans.
Some limits, like child pornography are obvious, but moving to a mandatory ISP filtering regime which includes politically controversial sites like pro-euthanasia sites, the Government will be stifling debate about these topics by restricting access to the sides of the argument they disagree with.
Back in May when the ACMA blacklist leaked to Wikileaks, it was made clear that only 32% of blocked sites were related to child porn. The other 68% included legitimate sites, YouTube videos and political sites.
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