Saturday, July 31, 2010

Cool Web 2.0 Tool

Need help with your search for documents for your dissertation; you can use the “Ultimate Research Assistant”.

It is a different type of search engine, different from Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc… How it works: you can type the name of any subject you’re looking for and choose different search options such Wikipedia, Government, Military, Non Profit, Educational, of just basic Internet Resources. It doesn’t give different documents, it actually reads the underline document and extracts key concepts which kind give you a better organization to the research. I really liked it and I am positive I’ll be using this search engine for my thesis.

Refence:
http://ultimate-research-assistant.com/

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Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Future Technologies in Our Everyday Use

After reading the Horizon Report 2010 I am feeling pretty confident that in the next couple of decades hard copy textbooks will be way gone and if someone has a copy people will ask are you OK!

It is weird how there’re still many people (students) that prefer very much hard copy textbooks instead of electronic copies. My wife one is one of those people, she can’t study and comprehend the material from an electronic textbook, she must have a hard copy textbook. I am totally the opposite, I prefer much more electronic copies, it help me focus much easier when reading and we can save a lot or trees :).

http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2010-Horizon-Report.pdf

Friday, July 16, 2010

Why do we need security in industry!

The main reason we have an IT security industry is because IT products and services aren't secured by default. If workstations were pre-secure against viruses, then we won’t need any antivirus products. If poor network traffic couldn't be used to attack workstations, there will be no need to purchase a firewall. If buffer overflows didn’t exist anymore, there will be no need to purchase products to protect against their effects. If the IT products when purchased had built in security, there’re won’t be need to spend billions every year making them secure.