Blackboard Collaborate (formerly from Elluminate) allows online learning in a virtual classroom. Instructors are able to present material and discuss it with attendees in the classroom, just like a physical classroom. PowerPoint presentations from Microsoft Office are commonly used for the presentations and you simply import the content. In Blackboard Collaborate, you simply … [Read more...]
Amazon heads Underground to revamp free Android apps
Amazon's free Android app of the day page, which I visit daily, was oddly generic this morning. After posting free apps for the past couple years, though there were some repeats, it was odd for Amazon to miss a day. It turned out that the company had much, much more up their sleeves. With what they're coining ActuallyFree, Amazon is able to make more paid apps free through an … [Read more...]
Simple Tip: Understand ‘danger’ to quickly bypass Chrome https warnings
If you visit websites with invalid certificates in Google Chrome, you're presented with a warning screen. These seem somewhat common on home networking equipment like routers or wifi that are not usually worth paying for an SSL certificate. One common warning reads: "Your connection is not private Attackers might be trying to steal your information from 192.168.1.1 (for … [Read more...]
Microsoft releases RSAT for Windows 10
Microsoft released the newest version for the Remote Server Administration Tools that allow you to manage Active Directory, Group Policy, and other server-based tools. The version released today supports Windows 10 along with the also just-released Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 3. Microsoft also released the final version of the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2013 Update … [Read more...]
Microsoft provides virtual machines to test the web against all versions of IE
Microsoft has provided virtual machines in a variety of platforms to allow testing the web against Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer. In yesterday's post to the Microsoft Edge Dev blog, it was explained that the team had improved the VM build process so that VMs of Edge could be provided sooner. You can download these VMs for Windows, Mac, or Linux on platforms like HyperV, … [Read more...]