Dynamic Edge Author Archive
App Review: RedLaser – Barcode and QR Code Scanner
Works with: iPhone, Android, Windows Phone
This is the most popular bar code and QR code scanning app on both the Android Market and the iPhone App Store — and for good reason. It is one of the few apps on my phone that I use regularly and actually provides me benefits other than mind numbing repetitive entertainment (fruit ninja?).
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Continued from Part 1
Week 3:
The following week, another familiar face joined me at Cody. Sean Lynn (DE Consultant) came with me to Detroit to teach the students something he learned to do in Iraq—make network cables.
We brought CAT 5 cable, ends, a crimping tool, scissors, and a test kit to show the kids how to make their own Ethernet cable. It is a pretty complicated process that consists of getting 8 very small wires into the plastic tip exactly how you want them before you clamp the tip onto the wire.
Cody Project: Semester in Review Part 1 of 2
Dynamic Edge has continued its outreach program this year providing weekly after school technology classes for the students at Cody High School in Detroit. I (Bryan Emmendorfer, Sales and Marketing) head out to Cody each week and bring along with me a techie, a geek, or someone smarter than me in general, for some small class size, hands-on, interactive, sandwich fueled, non-classroom style, high level learning.
We have all seen those annoying spam posts on our friend’s Facebook walls. Or gotten the apology/please don’t click on that/my account was hacked inbox message. These Facebook viruses are spread when a hacker gains control of another user’s Facebook account and starts blasting out spam to the their friend list. How does the hacker gain control? Well, they could have manually hijacked your password, or you could have clicked on a bad link. Or, you could have downloaded a “rouge app” by mistake. All finger pointing aside, if your Facebook has somehow been compromised, follow these steps to take to protect your data and stop annoying your friends:
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One of our clients was recently infected with the “FedEx Virus”. He got a fake email claiming to come from FedEx with an attachment claiming to be an invoice. When the attachment is opened, a virus is installed. Below is a screen shot of the email.
If you receive this email, do not click on the attachment. This virus is very serious and will allow the hacker to gain control of your machine.
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Dropbox.com allows registered users to share up to 2 GB of data between devices wirelessly– for free. With Dropbox, you can download music from your Smartphone, and listen to it on your computer. Edit documents on your iPad while you’re on the road, and when you get home, you’ll have the same documents already on your computer. No more thumb drives. No more emailing files back and forth to yourself.
How it works: Dropbox gives you a 2GB “Box” located in the cloud for you to store whatever you want in. Then, you control who and what devices have access to that box. For instance, you can create a folder inside the box containing your vacation photos. Once you put the photos in the box, you will automatically be able to view them on all of your devices with Dropbox installed (Smartphone, tablet, laptop).
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