A flash animation overview of Citrix App and how it can increase company’s productivity and reduce application costs.
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Demo of dual-screen Acer tablet/laptop hybrid
HP ePrint technology lets you print at your convenience – from across town, or across the room – using any email-capable device.Simply send your photos or documents to a web-connected printer and pick up the pages later. The process is as easy as sending an email—no software setup required.
HP’s free ePrint service makes it easy for you or guests in your home or office to send documents and photos to your web-connected HP printer—no special software is required. You can send print jobs from a variety of devices – an Apple iPad, an iPhone, a Blackberry or other smartphone, your primary desktop PC, a work or personal laptop, or a netbook computer. Print jobs are securely and reliably sent through email, right to your printer. The solution makes sharing a printer with multiple computers in your home or office effortless.
HP ePrint technology liberates printing from your home or office by allowing you to print important email and office documents while away from your desk, travelling, or simply out-and-about. Larger documents, presentations, and PDF files can be difficult to read on small, handheld device screens. Now you can easily print documents instead,
to read or share with others.
HP’s ePrint email solution is as simple as attaching your photos or documents to an email message that you forward to a web-connected printer using any device with an Internet connection.
You can use email as a transport mechanism to send documents and photos from your email-capable device to a web-connected printer in just a few steps:
HP ePrint makes it easy to send and print standard PDF, Microsoft Word and PowerPoint files, text files (.txt), and JPEG, TIFF, BMP, PNG and GIF image files – no printing software is required.
HP ePrint intelligence automatically sends files to the appropriate paper tray. For example, photos are sent to the printer’s photo tray (when available). Documents and email messages are sent to the main paper tray.
Printing an email message with HP’s ePrint solution is as easy as forwarding the message to your printer’s email address. Simply select an email message to print, and choose “Forward.” Enter the printer’s email address in the “To” box, select “Send” and then go to the printer to pick up your printed email. You can use HP ePrint to print email messages with any email-capable device. There’s no need to download and install special software.
The HP ePrint email address for your web-connected printer is provided when you enable the service during initial product setup and registration. To help prevent unauthorized email, HP assigns a random email address to your printer and does not publicize the address. Your printer’s email address is only available to those whom you have given the address or individuals with direct access to your printer, such as family members. HP ePrint also provides industry-standard spam filtering and transforms email and attachments to a print-only format to reduce the threat of a virus or harmful content.
For further protection, HP offers you the option to place your printer in “protected” mode. This mode lets you limit access to your web-connected printer by creating a “preferred sender” list of the email addresses of family members, friends, business associates, or others that you allow to send email to your printer. Only email messages indicating they are sent from a preferred sender will be sent to your printer.
You can place your printer in protected mode and specify who is allowed to print to your printer by visiting www.hpeprintcenter.com and registering your printer. You also have the option to disable the ePrint service at any time.
To get started with ePrint, press the Wireless button on the front panel of your HP web-connected printer, and select the Web Services menu. From here, you can turn the ePrint service on or off, view your printer’s email address on the front-panel display, and print an information page (some updates may be required to enable certain functionality). For more detail, please see the Setup Guide included with your printer.
All 2010 HP Photosmart network-capable printers with integrated wireless or Ethernet support HP ePrint technology. The feature also is available with select 2010 HP Officejet printers. HP ePrint can be used with any email-capable device that is connected to the Internet. Visit: www.hp.com/go/ePrintCenter for details.
A flash animation overview of Citrix XenDesktop and how it helps companies in desktop virtualization/virtual desktop initiatives.
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When it comes to picking the perfect projector for educational settings, two choices often come to mind – DLP and LCD! Both offer excellent picture quality, presentation support and thoughtful features. Yet, according to our recent survey, DLP education projectors seem to stand out as the smarter choice in educators’ eyes! So, the question would be: is DLP truly the smarter choice? If so, then how? Not to worry – we are here to help you figure it out!
In the education world, high contrast ratios translate to crisp-clear colours in even the tiniest detail that’ll help teachers engage students in learning. They also determine the readability of the projected image. DLP education projectors deliver exactly that by boosting the native contrast ratio from 2000:1 up to 4000:1 using a chip that contains rectangular array of up to 2 million microscopic mirrors. This allows students to enjoy truly saturated and vividly coloured images with deeper, truer blacks and whiter, more pristine whites for sharper, clearer text – even from the very last row of a brightly lit classroom.
Wit all-digital DLP image processing, DLP education projectors are virtually immune to colour decay – a phenomenon of a projector taking on a yellow or green tint over extended periods of usage. Hence, DLP out-classes LCD with truly vibrant and lasting colours.
With 3D becoming the trend for educational resource development for the next 4-5 years, leading DLP projector brands now offer 3D ready DLP Link technology to add a new dimension of effectiveness in teaching and an immersive learning experience for students worldwide. The best part in that 3D functionality is built right into BenQ education projectors at no extra cost! Just add 3D glasses, 3D content and an inexpensive quad video card, and you’re ready to teach in 3D!
Unlike LCD projectors, DLP projectors do not need filters to protect them from dust. A filter-free design ensures DLP to be hands-down the only smart choice for all educational projection needs. With no filters to clean or replace, DLP projectors offer lower maintenance needs, which leads to lower costs of operation.
A unique colour-processing system, BrilliantColour technology vastly expands the colour gamut beyond that of previous generation projectors – delivering true-to-life images with enhanced secondary colour brightness. Unlike LCD projectors, which use only 3 colours (red, green and blue) to create image on the screen, Brilliantcolour processes up to 7 colours for incredible colour fidelity. With the help of BrilliantColour, teachers will find it much easier to gain an extra hold of students’ attention and interest!
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According to IBM survey of 2000 IT professionals from 87 countries cloud computing will overtake on-premise computing as the primary way organizations acquire IT over the next five years.
More than 65 percent expect that the cloud will likely, most likely, or definitely overtake on-premise computing as the way organizations acquire IT by 2015.
Find more results from the survey, including mobile application development, in this article, IBM Survey: IT Professionals Predict Mobile and Cloud Technologies Will Dominate Enterprise Computing By 2015,
A popular choice for schools in Australia, a ‘TekSkin’ is a vinyl sticker that is attached to the top cover of the notebook. The TekSkin helps to reduce the damage caused by the constant use of the product over the 3 or 4 years it is in the hands of student. The vinyl sticker can be customized with the school logo, barcode, the students name/number or if you want to encourage ownership, the sticker can be personalised using a design provided by the student.
These can be installed onto the notebooks prior to deployment to further minimise the workload of your IT team.
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The iPad has arrived. Tablets have been promised, delivered and yawned over for years but there’s a sense where somehow, Apple just gets it right. They’ve broken new ground. This is not a laptop with a touchscreen, this is something else.
The iPad delivers well on many of the expectations for a device of its kind. Web surfing, email, and gaming are fine. Photos and movies are stunning. Performance is snappy. Unique applications utilise the GPS, magnetometer and accelerometers. You can run word processing, spreadsheet and even slide show applications on it.
However the question was raised, whether it would be good for classroom use. Catholic education institutions have confirmed plans to introduce the iPad as a learning tool for students.
Stu McGregor, an ICT consultant for primary and intermediate schools, has hired one out to some schools to get their feedback and these are conclusions:
Granted this is not a scientific test but it seems that for the schools that have tested it, it’s not a go for the classroom deployment. Here’s the deal breakers that were fed back starting with the most concerning:
These are devices aimed at consumption rather than creation or collaboration. They’re designed as a personal device, rather than as ‘generic user’ tool like laptops. They’re excellent devices for researching on the Web, watching video, reading books, and have huge, huge potential. But be aware, iPads do not replace laptops, not even close. They simply make for a different experience.
Stephen Wilson, NSW Department of Education and Training chief information officer, said:
The education revolution laptop scheme is not going to look at iPads. An iPad is a wonderful consumption and entertainment device with a little bit of creative ability. It is one-way mostly. What we are trying to get students to do is to create and collaborate and to use the tools they will ultimately use in the workforce. The iPad is also not capable of supporting the diversity of software currently being used by ACT public schools. Schools require a range of functionality on their devices including the ability to run common desktop applications.
Sources used:
Is the iPad good enough for classrooms? Published by Interface magazine
No place for iPad in education revolution, Published by theaustralian.com.au
Other recourses:
Catholic schools keen on iPad for education Published by arnnet.com.au
Is the iPad Coming to Your Classroom? Published by teachingmatters.org
These are excerpts from the report that summarises the progress of the Urban School’s one to one laptop program as it has changed and matured since its implementation in 2003:
I will examine four key areas where laptops and ubiquitous access to network resources affect the learning process: communication, organization, information, and production using anecdotal evidence as well as results from our recent Laptop Program Survey.
The most obvious change brought by our laptop environment is soaring levels of communication. This was true two years back, but the difference now is the natural assumption of electronic communication. Student-to-student, student-to-teacher, and teacher-to student communication by e-mail as well as Internet-based learning environments are no longer considered bonuses, they are expected.
New communication tools enable powerful, oft en unintended dialogues between age groups. Electronic communication has encouraged students to step out and be heard.
More than half our students report that their organization for school has improved since receiving a laptop. Teachers at Urban post a majority of their handouts, assignments, and other class information online within their course conferences.
Students have one place to access nearly all the information that in the past was lost or simply never recorded in their notes. Says English teacher Tilda Kapuya, “Students’ comprehension is enhanced by having more continuity between what happens in the classroom and what happens at home. Homework now serves to build upon class work more than ever because the laptop holds all the information together in one place.”
In many ways, student access to information flows from improvements in communication and organization. Teachers direct students to information not previously available, and this is contributing to a more dynamic curriculum.
The progress we’ve seen in the areas of communication, organization, and information and how this helps the learning process is clear to most. The more powerful change which in part is enabled by these same forces is evident in the end products of student work (i.e., those areas of student production that teachers are most apt to evaluate). Our ubiquitous laptop environment increases the alternatives for students to demonstrate understanding and therefore aids teachers in their ability to more adequately evaluate understanding. We see a wider array of assignments that give students more opportunities to practice in meaningful ways, and this leads to observable improvements in student sophistication.
Among the most obvious areas supported by laptops is student writing. In fact, more than 67% of Urban students report that word processing represents “the best use” of their laptop. Teachers report specific improvements in students’ ability to express more ideas and to better edit their work.
Teachers and students almost universally embrace the benefits of laptops to the learning process at Urban. However, some concerns persist, mostly regarding distraction among mainly the younger students. Only a handful of our incoming ninth graders experienced laptops in their middle school classrooms, therefore freshmen’s first few weeks at Urban are fraught with struggles over excessive e-mail use, gaming, and Internet surfing. We generally find the novelty wanes rapidly for the vast majority of students as academic expectations become more pressing. Although we do not filter or restrict access in any physical ways, we periodically remotely monitor use and report students caught gaming during class to their classroom teacher. In more extreme cases, the Dean of Students becomes involved, because we treat this not as a technology issue, but as a behaviour/focus issue. For the most part, however, our laptop program is smoothly making the transition from its earlier experimental phase to one where use is truly seamless, ubiquitous, and normal. The reported advantages are also helping to support a truly dynamic curriculum filled with a sense of new possibilities.
By Howard Levin, director of technology at the Urban School of San Francisco.