Simple Tips for Your Computer Security

Nowadays hackers aren't the spotty challenged teen rebels that you could be considering. Instead, this generation of hackers are grown individuals who are more than likely earning a living by stealing the identities of innocent, law abiding people and then selling those identities to others who wish to slide by the system. And the sole protection against these seedy individuals is prevention.

The computer protection couldn't be more necessary than it's today and that is why we've taken the time to introduce it for you. You'll be able to scale back the chance of experiencing identity theft by making your laptop as hacker-proof as possible. Everything is required is a little software package and a ton of ordinary intelligence.

• Set up an anti-virus/anti-spyware software. Anti-virus/anti-spyware program can stop malicious code from downloading and placing in on your computer whereas you use the Internet. Referred to as viruses, worms, or spyware, this malicious code will destroy your files and render your computer smart for only one issue: transfer sensitive information back to the server of an identity thief.
• Don't store sensitive data on your computer in the first place. Should your laptop get contaminated with an epidemic, worm, or piece of spyware, you'll thwart the people responsible by not storing your private information on your Computer so that once and if your computer will send back information - it won't be anything valuable. Hackers search for things like full names, social security numbers, phone numbers, home addresses, work-connected information, and mastercard numbers. If these things aren't saved onto a PC, there's nothing essential to fret concerning other than restoring your computer to a non-virus state.
• Do not open files if not scanning them with an anti-virus/anti-spyware program. In the past, the warning was to prevent from opening files from folks that you do not know. Today it's actual not safe to open files from someone (without scanning the files) because that is how viruses get extend - through files - even by mistake. So while your co-worker might have emailed a funny video, it's no a lot of safe to open than a video downloaded from an entire stranger. Be safe and scan every and every file you download from the Internet or receive through email no matter where it came from.
• Produce a barrier between your pc and prying eyes. Anti-virus/anti-spyware programs are only effectual once the effect. However you'll be able to prevent personal theft from happening by putting in a firewall. A firewall is software that checks all data incoming and existing in computer and it then blocks that doesn't meet particular security criteria (user-outlined rules).1
• Do not click on web site links in spam e-mail. In a trial to get personal information, some spammers will send email that asks you to click on a link. The email messages are usually disguised as vital messages from well-known online institutions, and they typically strive to scare their readers into clicking links with threats of closing an account of some sort. Sometimes the links are harmless and try to con the reader into volunteering personal data (credit card range), however other times the links attempt to download harmful software onto a computer.

Your best defense against computer crimes is your own experience. Hopefully the suggestions on top of can prompt you into taking acceptable action and into defensive your PC with the prompt equipment. In doing so, you may not only defend yourself, you might prevent the increase of these malicious activities and shield the others at the same time.

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The LG Xnote Mini X135 Netbook Reviews

LG recently released the latest netbook in its hometown. The Xnote Mini X130 netbook is the newest addition to the line-up of netbook computers from the home of LG. A very awesome device about the new netbook X130 is battery existence; it can provide the netbook a run time of 12 hours.

The Xnote Mini Xone 130 certainly includes a host of next generation features, but unfortunately there have been too many netbooks released in the past few months, that make the Xnote Mini X130 appear very ordinary.

Turning the interest towards the pros of this netbook, among the thrilling features in the new X120 netbook is its Smart Onbutton. It can boot up the pc in less than 7 seconds, enabling you to access frequently utilized services like music player, web browser, chat application, image browser on-the-fly.

The salient specifications of this new LG netbook include 170GB hard drive, 8-cell battery, 10.1 inches WSVGA LCD display and Intel Atom processor. It's powered by the Windows 7 Operating System, and support a HDMI port, 4-USB ports, Bluetooth and Wireless (WiFi) connectivity.

Though, as far as the pricing is worried, the Mini X130 is not at all a inexpensive deal at $599.99 and you are able to discover a number of other worthy netbooks in this cost range, which can deliver satisfactory performance.

It comes with 1.5MP built-in web camera, Intel GMA 950 video card and looks almost matching to its predecessor X100. Featuring the Intel Atom Processor N270, and 512KB L2 Cache Intel 945 GSE Express Chipset, X130 differs with the X120 only by the 6-cell battery.

Although, prior to you set your cash on this device, do take an appear at other recent products in the marketplace even in the event you think you've start the best deal round, ensure to check out slick offers prior to you buy.

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New Minitex MDL Webinar

Especially for those of you who were in my LIBT 2210 Intro to Indexing and Abstracting course, you may want to sign up for this webinar or view the recording later. This updates what we learned in that class.

Moving Forward: New Guidelines for Contributors to Minnesota Reflections
Feb. 3, 2011, 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.

This webinar will include a walkthrough of the Minnesota Reflections Metadata Guidelines. Participants will learn to use the newly updated Guidelines to create individual records that are searchable and understandable to users of the Minnesota Reflections database. There will be ample time for questions and discussion.

Audience: The session is intended for staff of any Minnesota library, historical society, archive, museum, or other cultural heritage organization that has contributed items to Minnesota Reflections and is interested in a new project, which will use the new Guidelines. Experience working with the previous version of the Minnesota Digital Library’s Metadata Guidelines is required.

Registration: http://www.minitex.umn.edu/Training/Details.aspx?SessionID=325

NOTE: We plan to record the webinar and make an archived version freely available to anyone who cannot attend.

College of DuPage Library Futures Web Presentation

MCTC Library Information Technology Program presents...

"Free Content for Library Collections"

Broadcast date: Friday, February 4, 2011, 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. (bring your lunch and come for part or all, including a brief discussion following presentation) 

LOCATION: MCTC Science Blding, Conference Room S2140

To Register, please contact Jennifer.Sippel@minneapolis.edu 

The Internet offers a treasure trove of free resources that can greatly expand the range of information and services that libraries can offer their patrons.  But it's not always easy to find the best information to meet users' needs.  In this program, Michael Galloway, Manager, Digital Collections for ipl2: Information You Can Trust, and John Mark Ockerbloom, editor of The Online Books Page, will give a tour of some of the millions of books, magazines, journals, and informative web sites that can be accessed online for free.  They will discuss how they evaluate and describe online resources to include in their directories, how readers can find what they need in these directories and elsewhere online, and how they can distinguish useful information from unreliable or irrelevant sites.   You'll find out how you can integrate free online resources with your local library offerings in ways that give patrons better service than either online or print alone can provide.   And you'll also learn how your library and your patrons can contribute to this growing corpus of knowledge.

Guest Speakers

Michael Galloway is Manager, Digital Collections for the Internet Public Library (now called ipl2) at Drexel University.  He instructs students in  ipl2 member school workshops in collection development and maintenance for the ipl2. 

John Mark Ockerbloom is Digital Library Architect and Planner at the University of Pennsylvania and editor of The Online Books Page, which lists over 40,000 books that are freely available for reading online or for downloading. He publishes the blog Everybody's Libraries. 

 

MD Job Posting: Cataloging Technician

The National Agricultural Library has two vacant copy cataloging/bibliographic maintenance technician positions available.

These are full time, term positions at the GS-07 level. The initial contract is for one year, with the possibility of renewal up to four years. For details, see the link below:

http://jobview.usajobs.gov/GetJob.aspx?JobID=95875268&JobTitle=Library+T
echnician&q=ARS-D11E-0030&where=&brd=3876&vw=b&FedEmp=N&FedPub=Y&x=96&y=
13&AVSDM=2011-01-14+10%3a33%3a00

Tina Shrader
Cataloging Section Head
Bibliographic Services Branch
National Agricultural Library, Room 112
10301 Baltimore Ave.
Beltsville, MD 20705
Phone: 301-504-5040
Email: tina.shrader@ars.usda.gov

Local Library School News

The following is an excerpt of an email sent by Andrea Lee, President of St. Catherine University.

 

The Committee on Accreditation for the American Library Association (ALA) has informed me that St. Catherine University has been granted initial accreditation without stipulation for the MLIS program. For the first time in St. Catherine’s long and distinguished history with library education, we now possess a fully accredited master’s-level library and information science program. Ours is the only accredited program in Minnesota and one of only 57 throughout North America.

What this means for our more than 800 alumnae and current students, our faculty members and, indeed, our state and region is almost beyond measure.

An accredited MLIS degree better positions graduates for professional-level employment nationwide; it allows us to launch a chapter of Beta Phi Mu, the national library science honor society; and it makes students eligible for a variety of scholarships, including one from the ALA that promotes ethnic diversity in library science. And, of course, accreditation fulfills a key initiative of our 2020 Vision strategic plan — namely, to position St. Catherine University for national preeminence in a number of our core academic areas.

Creating Your Digital Destiny

Check out this mid-winter workshop/conference held in Fergus Falls.

"Creating Your Digital Destiny"

a North Star Library Consortium Midwinter Workshop

Sunday, Jan 23, 2011 6pm - 8pm

Monday, Jan 24, 2011 8:30am - 3:30pm

Big Wood Event Center

Fergus Falls, MN

Program changes

To all of our program students:

You should know that St. Cloud State announced at the end of last spring, 2010, that they were going to sunset their Information Media undergraduate major and minor:

"...two of CIM’s numerous programs (the undergraduate major and minor) have been designated for closure. All of our other degrees (Tracks I, II, and III masters) and certificates (Instructional Technology graduate and undergraduate, Design for E-Learning graduate, and Library Media Specialist graduate) are still in place. This closure of the undergraduate major and minor will allow us to use our existing resources to focus on the graduate and certificate programs and our service courses.

"For undergraduate students already in either the major or minor, there are provisions in place to allow for the completion of those degrees. But, we will not be accepting newly declared majors into either the undergraduate major or minor."

We found out about this change late in the spring. As an Associate of Science program that articulated into this program, this change was announced to us too late for us to give our students any real advance notice.

This fall, the faculty of MCTC's Library Information Technology program went before our Academic Council to improve our own program and address the changes in our curriculum that St. Cloud State's change prompted. Our Academic Council approved the changes, and we will now be presenting them to MnSCU for final approval. We'll be making a more formal announcement later this semester, but here's the short version.

1. Our current A.S. degree program will sunset in Spring 2013. That means that any students in the program that have started in the 2010-11 catalog year (this year) or earlier and wish to complete their studies under that catalog will need to complete their award by then. With the changes at St. Cloud State, there is no longer a formal program into which an MCTC student can articulate. All transfers will happen like any other transfer - the receiving college or university will review the incoming courses as per their standard transfer policy.
   
2. Beginning with the 2011-12 catalog, we will be offering an Associate of Applied Science (AAS degree) in Library Information Technology. Based on feedback from our advisory committee and past students, we are making the following changes to the curriculum:
1. We are dropping 3 credits of previously required coursework in the MnTC goal areas. An A.S. degree must have at least 30 credits in a minimum of 6 MnTC goal areas; an A.A.S degree must have at least 25% of the credits (15 in our case) from a minimum of 3 MnTC goal areas. The changed program will require 27 credits from the MnTC goal areas.
2. We are changing LIBT 2900 from 4 credits to a choice of 3 or 4 credits
3. Adding a new required program course, LIBT 2??? Library Community & Outreach Services
4. To make up those "dropped" credits, we are adding a choice of elective courses from which students must choose. Those courses are:
• CSCI 1200 Computer Applications in Home and Business[1] OR ITEC 1110 Information Technology Skills (2 cr)
• BUSN 1155 Human Relations and Team Building[2]
• CHDV 1640 Literature, Language and Literacy for Young Children
• EDUC 1215 Child, Youth Growth and Development
• ENGL 1161 Children's Literature
• ITEC 1100 Information Technology Concepts (2 cr)
• LIBT 14?? Topics in Library Information Technology (1 cr)
• LIBT 14?? Preserving History and Memory: Archives in Current Society



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[1] Dropping this as a program requirement to add new outreach course LIBT 14??

[2] Was formerly a program requirement but dropped to make room for a 2^nd required 2000-level tech services course

You can see we're adding two new regular program courses, Library Community & Outreach Services, which will be required as part of the Public Information Services certificate and the new AAS, and an elective course, Preserving History and Memory: Archives in Current Society.

We're also developing a Topics course which will change each semester. For this course, we're envisioning a number of different online,hybrid and face-to-face options, depending on the topic. For example, we might meet one time, then have follow-up online, or meet over a series of weekends. Because it is an elective, it gives us some flexibility we don't have with our regular program courses.

We're excited about these changes, and we hope you are as well. We'll be posting up new program planning documents in late January or February. If you have any questions about course sequencing and/or how these changes impact you, please contact me (Ginny Heinrich).

Our View From the Park - Student Email

Join us this Friday 1/14 for the first MCTC Library BlogTalkRadio show of spring semester!

Our View From the Park - Student Email

The Benefits of Cloud Hosting Server for Web Developer

The underlying fundamental idea for cloud hosting technologies date back to the 60s and the term was first used commercially in the 90s. In the term ‘cloud hosting’, the word ‘cloud’ is taken as a metaphor for Internet. This is storage space or computation service that is supported by different distributed computing resources. It allows for the de-share or the on-demand allocation of the CPU or central processing unit and for the large-scale storage and network bandwidth. Cloud web hosting has several benefits which include:

• No Hardware Installation- With cloud web hosting, there is no hardware installation. This is because you are connected with several servers. This means you only need to join with any server that is in that exacting cloud. This brings down direct costs in that you do not have to buy hardware and it eliminates indirect expenses such as maintenance costs. Companies offering this service will cost you based on the computing power consumed. 
• Website Expansion- The high scalability of cloud web hosting makes it potential and easy to do load balancing and hardware upgrades. It also makes it possible to do website expansion minimum limitations. This means you do not have to undergo the hustle of migrating your site from shared servers to dedicated servers. Also the risk of your server crashing due to sudden surge is mitigated. 
• Uptime- With this service, you will get superior uptime compared to the regular methods of hosting domains such as shared hosting. This leads to traffic boost due to the reliable uptime. 
• Technology Integration- Cloud hosting provided you access to different technologies. As an instance, you can use .asp and .php files together because your system will be able to draw the related technologies from the cloud. This gives you great compatibelity. You also grow to use virtual servers.

Other benefits of this technology are that you can direct and split large amounts of spread data and security, load balancing and server resources are handled virtually. This means that you will not be restricted to the physical size of the server or the hardware. It also means that online operations have better processing power and this makes it perfect for web developers.

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Quick Respond To The Client with Email Marketing

Promotion is very vital for make your businness operation effectively. Without marketing your products will not reach the closely to the customers on right time, and finally will impact on your profit out of the venture. Today eiht the advancement of internet all across the world, promotion has got a very new phase where you will be able to take full advantages of the facilities that are usually used by the people on their regular move.

And the emails are one of the thing that people always check every day and most of the communications are happening through the emails around the world. You could be have to noticed that emails in your inbox that mostly pertains to the message of the free of any new products or services by any specific company. This can be measured as the perfect example for carrying on with the email marketing process. the marketing team will always stay tract of the email ids of the people who may have visited the firm for any motive and whenever any important announcements are completed to the public the same details will be passed on to all these people via an email. Absolutely this group of people will come across the email and they will logically come to know regarding the offer or the discounts issued at that time.

The marketing team must make up several conveniences through email promotion. You should be very careful while framing an email and it must look professional. The customers should not get a feeling that the email is solely intended for getting sales to the company. It will be an added advantage if you add some valuable information pertaining to the service or the goods announced through the email so that whenever customers find your email in the inbox they will be really concerned to read with the view of getting some additional information apart from the offers and discounts.

Also you must set up an effective auto responder for every and each email sent to the customer so that if the customer sends you an enquiry on any of the email, the system must directly sent an auto responder addressing the notice of the customer to find in touch with the company. Most of the business makes use of email promotion soft wares that are available in the marketplace at affordable rate. It is having good storage space capacity so that you can save any number of email Ids and also can compose any number of emails by keeping track with them effectively.