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PCMag's Eric Griffith has compiled one heck of a gigantic 196 Best Free Software of 2010 list that is to die for. How's that for an introduction? It's all FREE and it's all here. Just pick your favorite categories and he has the newest version of each app or utility, as well as a little blurb to explain what it does. This will keep anyone busy for hours. Goooood stuff. The Best Free Software of 2010

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After attending this year's MACUL Technology Conference, one presentation tool stood out.  Prezi is a Web-based alternative to PowerPoint.  Yesterday I got a chance to create my first Prezi. As we all know, PowerPoint has been used in education for many years, but education was not its inteded use.  It was created to be used in business presentations.  Prezi has a format that is more user-friendly and (better yet) educational friendly.  You can easily create "Frames" which allow you to group like objects (text blocks as well as images) and when you're done, you can: Share the Prezi with someone else, allowing them to edit it or just watch it, Include a public Web link that can reside on your classroom Web site or blog, Embed the Prezi on your classroom Web site or blog (like I did below), Download the Prezi and show it without an Internet connection.  It can be stored on a DVD or USB Flash drive, for instance. Here is the public link to the Prezi below...

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http://www.orbicule.com/undercover/mac/ There is little you can do if your Mac is stolen other than make sure it's insured and take a note of the serial number for any claims. According to the developers, there are 600,000 laptops stolen every year in the USA alone and about 97% of these are never recovered. However, Undercover offers an extra way to recover your Mac if the worst happens. It makes ingenious use of your Wi-Fi enabling the developer security center to locate your Mac within a range of 30-50 feet. It also makes ingenious use of your iSight - it takes pictures every 6 minutes of whoever is in front of your Mac and transmits them to the security center so your thief will be completely exposed! Undercover doesn't stop there however. If for any reason your Mac can't be recovered, it reverts to "Plan B" which is basically to make your Mac unusable by completely dimming the screen. If the Mac is returned to a shop or Mac dealer for repair, Unde...

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Microsoft's Mark H. Walker wrote a classic article that still holds true today.  With the amount of trojans and malware that I keep seeing on customer computers, I think right now is a good time to share most of Walker's article here about the dangers of drive-by downloads.  Although the article has been around for quite a while and refers mostly to features found in IE 7, it is still pertinent today:  Drive-by downloading is a catch-all name for software downloaded on your computer without your knowledge or intervention. Drive-by downloading is different than phishing, which misleads users by using authentic-appearing sites that deceive users into entering sensitive information, and different than pop-ups, which fool users into agreeing to download software. Drive-by downloads sneak onto computers without the user’s knowledge or permission. Some of the most common drive-by download carriers are songs from free music share sites, free screensavers, etc. Many of these ...

The Problem It's an epidemic. Computers are coming in for repair at an alarming rate. The culprit: Rogue security products are tricking normal computer users into installing a trojan disguised as legit anti-virus or anti-spyware software.  Antivirus 2010 (shown above) is one example of this.  There are products that will help you remove these infections from your computer, such as the ones detailed in this PC Magazine article. How and Why?...from Microsoft But how and why does this phenomenon happen? Microsoft has this article that explains the situation and reasoning behind it.  It adds quite a bit of insight into the hows, whys and what-fors. Anti-Trojan.org: The Ultimate Rogue Software Resource Since most of these rogue programs drop malicious trojans onto unsuspecting computers, leaving an ugly mess behind, it is very helpful to read up on what trojans are and discover the ultimate anti-trojan Web site.  This is it .  Everything you ever needed to kn...