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Standard Operating Procedures. Copy all Safari tabs to Notes.app – Scripting OS X. I had previously posted about one of my oldest but still frequently used scripts which gathers all tabs from a window into a text list to be pasted in an email or something like that.

Copy all Safari tabs to Notes.app – Scripting OS X

I have recently adapted that script to do something new. This new script will gather the tabs in the frontmost Safari window and create a note in the Notes app with all the links (then, presumably, you would want to clean out and close most of the tabs) View the code on <a href=" Also I learned that the Safari tabs from all your Macs and iOS devices are stored in the `~/Library/SyncedPreferences/com.apple.Safari.plist` and extended the script to read that instead of grabbing them directly from Safari: View the code on <a href=" To use it is probably easiest to enable the Script menu (in Script Editor > Preferences) and drop the scripts in the `~/Library/Scripts/Applications/Safari` folder.

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How IT Professionals can Join ISACA

Download the Membership Application Download the Membership Application: Spanish Membership Terms * Total membership fees consist of International Dues + Local Chapter Dues + New Member Fee. Local Chapter Dues US dollar amounts listed below are chapter dues for new ISACA members. For current chapter dues, or if the amount is not listed below, please contact your local chapter. * Contact Chapter.

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Choosing Secure Passwords. As insecure as passwords generally are, they're not going away anytime soon.

Choosing Secure Passwords

Every year you have more and more passwords to deal with, and every year they get easier and easier to break. You need a strategy. The best way to explain how to choose a good password is to explain how they're broken. The general attack model is what's known as an offline password-guessing attack. In this scenario, the attacker gets a file of encrypted passwords from somewhere people want to authenticate to. There are commercial programs that do password cracking, sold primarily to police departments.

The efficiency of password cracking depends on two largely independent things: power and efficiency. Power is simply computing power. Choosing Secure Passwords. How and why we use DevOps checklists.

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Packer 7-Day Calendar Automater. This online app will allow you to input just one single Color Day "cycle" of classes and receive a file which you can import into any calendar program to populate an entire semester's or year's worth of class meetings.

Packer 7-Day Calendar Automater

Here are the steps: Choose your school from the list Enter your classes for a single cycle Enter your email address Receive an "ics" file via email Save the ics file to your computer Run your calendar program and import the ics file If your school is not listed, contact us or email us your information including weekly period start and end times, color days of the weekly cycle, and a yearly calendar showing the color for each day of the school year.Email us at steve@architectronics.com. Input your class meetings in the boxes for a single cycle. The color days and period times should match your school`s cycle. If you need to manually set the period times, click here.

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Scanning Application With OCR And Annotation. Epson GT-S50 Driver and Software. StatusPage - Hosted Status Pages for your app or website. Software Planning, Evaluation and Implementation. Hosted by Katie Floyd and David Sparks. Should we get rid of technology directors?  [This is a guest post from Doug Green.

Should we get rid of technology directors? 

If you’re interested in being a guest blogger, drop me a note. Happy reading!] Update: see also Don Watkins’ response to this post. With the coming of computers to schools, district leaders felt the need to hire district level administrators to oversee instructional and administrative computer systems. After about 30 years, some districts are finding that they can do without their own technology gurus. Things Have Changed. Hiring a Director of Technology ~ Interview Questions. I was asked recently to suggest some interview questions for a school district hiring a new Director of Technology.

Hiring a Director of Technology ~ Interview Questions

Here are my suggestions, but I’m sure readers have great interview questions to contribute. Please comment and offer your own suggestions. First, I think that throughout the interview you want to ask questions that will reveal attitude and philosophy, but you also want examples. If the candidate says she is a staunch believer of using data to inform instruction, ask for examples of how she has accomplished this in her current job, or in previous jobs. An opening question would be the same type of question you might use for any administrator interview. Describe the role of a technology director in an educational environment. Technology strategy. Technology strategy (Information Technology strategy or IT strategy) is the overall plan which consist of objective(s), principles and tactics relating to use of the technologies within a particular organization.

Technology strategy

Such strategies primarily focus on the technologies themselves and in some cases the people who directly manage those technologies. The strategy can be implied from the organization's behaviors towards technology decisions, and may be written down in a document. SurveyMonkey Powered Online Survey. Dear Participant, We are asking for your involvement in this survey in order to better understand technology curricula and technology integration among private schools.

SurveyMonkey Powered Online Survey

This survey also attempts to capture what technology in private schools might look like in 5 years time. This survey should take no longer than 20-30 minutes to complete. None of the questions are required. We appreciate any information you can give. How to Create a Strategic Technology Plan for Business. “Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act.

How to Create a Strategic Technology Plan for Business

There is no other route to success. “ -Pablo Picasso To succeed in the world of business, you must have a number of plans. Eight business technology trends to watch. Technology alone is rarely the key to unlocking economic value: companies create real wealth when they combine technology with new ways of doing business.

Eight business technology trends to watch

Through our work and research, we have identified eight technology-enabled trends that will help shape businesses and the economy in coming years. These trends fall within three broad areas of business activity: managing relationships, managing capital and assets, and leveraging information in new ways. Podcast Eight business technology trends to watch Managing relationships 1. The Internet and related technologies give companies radical new ways to harvest the talents of innovators working outside corporate boundaries. Information goods such as software and editorial content are ripe for this kind of decentralized innovation; the Linux operating system, for example, was developed over the Internet by a network of specialists.

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Get started with Office 365. Microsoft Student Advantage - Office 365 ProPlus - Northeastern ITS. Active Northeastern students are able to download the latest version of Microsoft Office – currently Office 2013 for Windows and Office 2011 for Mac – for FREE through the Microsoft Student Advantage program. The program provides Office 365 ProPlus to students, as part of Northeastern’s site wide license for Office 365. Students are able to download and install the full suite of applications on up to five computers and on up to five devices. ITS will roll additional Office 365 ProPlus features such as OneDrive for Business, an online file storage service with 1 TB of storage space, and the full mobile experience in 2015. Platforms: Windows and Mac. The full mobile experience will be available in 2015. Interpersonal Communication: Putting Theory into Practice.

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