Remembering complex passwords could be a thing of the past if facial recognition technology takes off - but is it as secure as a password and does it work?
IT support for Apple products is also on the rise. Some 30 per cent of workplaces support Macs, 27 per cent support iPads and 37 per cent support iPhones.
Microsoft's corporate Windows business is losing ground to Apple .. Apple's gains coupled with Microsoft misses on mobile devices, which increasingly are issued by companies and used by workers, may signal that "Windows' dominance is at an end,"
"IceClean is a powerful System Maintenance and Optimization Tool using only UNIX built-in System Tasks to help your Mac stay healty and to keep it running smoothly. Version 3.0 is now completely renewed in Scripting and Cocoa Interface for help you in faster and useful Tasks Managing of All Unix Power."
Have you played with Google Labs' Ngram Viewer? It's an addicting tool that lets you search for words and ideas in a database of 5 million books from across centuries. Erez Lieberman Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel show us how it works, and a few of the surprising things we can learn from 500 billion words.
"Victorian high schools will trial the country's first Year 12 computer science subject next year, in a bid to reverse a long-term decline in enrolments in hardcore computer science and engineering courses in Australian universities."
SuperDuper is the wildly acclaimed program that makes recovery painless, because it makes creating a fully bootable backup painless. Its incredibly clear, friendly interface is understandable, easy to use, and SuperDuper's built-in scheduler makes it trivial to back up automatically. It's the perfect complement to Time Machine under Leopard, Snow Leopard, and Lion, allowing you to store a bootable backup alongside your Time Machine volume-and it runs beautifully on both Intel and Power PC Macs!
"The Connect.ed portal is designed to support Australia's 250,000 teachers by providing them with the flexibility of a self paced environment to learn about current online behaviours of students, potential risks involved in these activities, a teacher's and school's duty of care and the appropriate tools, resources and strategies to help students to have safe and positive experiences online.
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"Clearly, there's a need for multiple backups. The questions are, how? and how many? .. For most of us, it's all in one place, so we need a single strategy -- one, two, or more backups. But if you have original data on separate Macs and/or external drives, you may want more backups of one than others. How? There are several ways to have multiple backups, detailed below:"
"Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have come up with a device that can render digital 3D content physically and which could change the way we interact with PCs ... In a video, the inFORM was shown to be used for 3D modelling, viewing bar charts, maths education and controlling media (like the volume of a radio), among many other things."
"For women working in the ICT industry, where they're outnumbered more than four to one - the ABS puts their participation at 18 per cent - having an experienced mentor can mean the difference between surviving and thriving.
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"Paying attention to just a few common sense pointers will pay off with a longer battery lifespan and battery life for your iPhone. The most important thing is to keep your iPhone out of the sun or a hot car (including the glove box). Heat will degrade your battery's performance the most.
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"Apple announced a few new products yesterday, including a new thin and light iPad Air model. But mostly, the event was an assault on its old rival Microsoft. Always disciplined in messaging, the message from Apple was loud and clear: Microsoft has no vision and their software is wildly overpriced."