Tech Talk – 1/5/13

Phishing exploit, OS X Mail vs Windows Live Mail, capturing screen shots in Windows, eBook format conversion using Calibre, VoIP options (Skype, Google Voice...

Phishing exploit, OS X Mail vs Windows Live Mail, capturing screen shots in Windows, eBook format conversion using Calibre, VoIP options (Skype, Google Voice, Vonage, Ooma, Magic Jack), Profiles in IT (Norman Joseph Woodland, creator of the barcode), Internet 30 years old (TCP/IP activated January 1, 1983, switchover involved only 400 hosts, congestion control added later), Idea of the Week (Gravity Powered Light, powered by bag of rocks, lasts 30 minutes, crowd funded on IndieGoGo.com), top jobs for 2013 (6 of the top 15 were IT related, number one job is Software Developer, future bodes well for IT profession).

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Dr. Richard Shurtz

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Andrew Mitchell

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