If you have an iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch, you’ve probably played around with your passcode lock. If you’re not familiar with the passcode, it’s a way for you to have to “log in” to the device using a four digit PIN or a passphrase. While there is a way to set the device to let you lock and unlock it several times without using a passcode (the “I text message constantly” setting), having an unprotected device is much easier to use.
If you’re like me, you’ve used a passcode sometimes, removed it other times, forgotten it on occasion, etc. This article will detail how I’ve set up my iOS devices to not use a passcode, but for me to still be able to track them down using Find My iPhone as well as preventing them from being wiped and restored should they be stolen.
A quick note before we continue: I am not suggesting that the data on iOS devices is more secure without a passcode. In fact, the opposite is true. All this article is offering is a way to keep your device unlocked while still allowing you to track it down using Find My iPhone should it get lost or stolen.
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On this week’s episode we discuss the return of our IT Training Live! series this semester. These are online workshops that you can watch on your computer, and get training from wherever you are.
Check out our IT Training Live Schedule here
Listen to episode 31 here.
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A few years ago I made the decision to stop grading papers. This might come as a bit of a surprise to my Spanish students, as they still have to do homework and write research papers. What I really did was come to the conclusion that I was done with paper. I was spending way too much time trying to keep track of who had turned in which assignment, when they turned it in, whether or not I had handed it back or recorded the grade… and let’s face it, handwriting skills are not universally emphasized anymore. (Frankly, that goes for me, too – my poor students have had trouble for years deciphering my scrawl). I was done with it all. I went digital.
I became a very heavy user of Oncourse’s Assignments tool, in all of its incarnations. The current version, called Assignments 2, has several features that have made my transition to purely digital assignments much easier. Read the rest of this entry »
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As a Senior Education Specialist for UITS IT Training at Indiana University, I use presentation tools and video editing applications almost daily. Because of this, it doesn’t usually take me very long to figure out how to perform a simple task in one of these applications. That is why I was so frustrated the other day when I couldn’t figure out how to select and move a large number of audio clips on my Camtasia timeline without pressing and dragging each one separately. Since the presentation I was working on had over 50 clips, it was going to require a lot of adjusting and I knew there had to be a better way.
When I need to do this in Adobe Premiere Pro, I simply select the Track Select Tool and then go to work. C’mon TechSmith… Give me a tool. I shouldn’t have to guess how to do such a common task!
After searching online for an answer, I realized there are lots of other users who agree with me. Consequently, I thought a nice, short blog post that answers this question would probably be appreciated. So here you are folks.
If you want to move multiple clips on a Camtasia Studio 7.0 timeline, press and hold down the Shift key on your keyboard, and then press and drag the left-most clip in the sequence (while the Shift key is still being held down). When you do this, the clip you are manipulating and all clips to the right of this clip will be moved.
Sounds easy, right? It is… Unless you don’t know how to do it. ( :
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On this week’s episode we’re covering the Spring 2012 schedule and discussing the return of a popular workshop type.
it2go – The IT Training Podcast
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This little tool can do big things in showing motion on paper!
First, create an object:
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If you are using Internet Explorer 9 you may have run across web pages where only a background color is loading or pieces of content are missing. If you have been wondering why this is happening, the answer might be that you have the PostScript Type 1 font Helvetica installed on your computer.
IE9 has display issues when it tries to use this specific font. This is not the first issue that has been linked back to PostScript Type 1 fonts like Helvetica. We’ve previously detailed a problem Outlook 2010 has with this font (and other PostScript Type 1) fonts in the article Help! Outlook 2010 Keeps Freezing and then Restarting!
The extent of the problem depends on how Helvetica was used. The problem causes less significant issues if the font is only applied to parts of the site. On the other hand, if it’s applied to the whole page, then all of the content of the page just doesn’t appear. Read the rest of this entry »
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This spring, and this spring only, UITS IT Training is offering our workshops to faculty and staff for no charge!
That’s right, instructor-led UITS IT Training workshops covering various topics are free for university faculty and staff this spring 2012.
This is a pilot program to assess the demand for barrier-free training for IU faculty and staff. So, if there is a workshop that you’ve been wanting to take, but couldn’t spare the extra cash, let us know by signing up for that workshop today!
Have you always been wanting to learn how to use Photoshop so you can advance your photography hobby? Have you wanted to better your skills in Excel to make your workday less stressful? Have you been wanting to explore different ways to program a computer? Now is your chance to learn these things, and more, for FREE!
Along with signing up for our workshops for free, you can request a special session of one of our workshops to be taught to your group or class for free. Visit our special request page to see more details and to request a workshop.
We are excited to offer these workshops to IU faculty and staff for free and hope you are just as excited to attend them!
If you have any questions, feel free to leave them in the comment section of this post.
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Over the past several months I have been attempting to use Internet Explorer 9. Even though I have read about its strengths (hardware acceleration, security enhancements, option to pin favorites to the Windows 7 taskbar, etc.), I have not been pleased. While I haven’t done a great deal of trouble-shooting to try and figure out why it is not working well for me, this newest version of Microsoft’s web browser freezes up, doesn’t display content, and frequently displays pop-up messages informing me that it is opening web pages in compatibility mode.
A few days ago, I decided that this was simply too annoying to deal with any longer. I deleted IE9 and restored IE8 on my computer.
Are you in the same boat but don’t know how to go back to a previous version of Internet Explorer? If so, and you are working on a PC that is running Windows 7, you can follow the directions below:
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This is the second in a series of articles about how to create specific functionality from Gmail in Outlook using various tools and features. Today’s article uses built-in Outlook functionality combined with macros to attempt to create staring functionality.
Outside keyboard shortcuts to move conversations to folders, there is no good way to ‘star’ messages in Outlook with the keyboard. In this article, I will show you a macro that builds on the macro functionality explained in this article by using follow-up flags to mimic the star functionality in Gmail.
Before I go any further, I’ll add the same warning I included in the last post here:
This article is not for beginning users of Microsoft Outlook or for users who only use one incoming mail folder. It requires a decent understanding about how to organize email, work with the Office 2010 interface, and knowledge about how to create and modify a macro. Information about how to create a macro can be found in the workshop Excel 2010: Basic Automation Using Macros and more in-depth Visual Basic for Applications information can be found in the workshop Excel 2010: Advanced Macros and User Defined Functions.
Now that that’s out of the way, I’m going to show you how to use a macro to add a one day flag to a particular message and then move it to a folder called ’01 – Today’.
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