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  • Innovative headteachers at schools around the country are abandoning traditional chalk and talk teaching methods in favour of widely differing visions of an educational future. Judith Woods enters a world of spaced learning, praise pods, flexible Fridays and sixth-formers in business suits.
  • For the last several years malicious spam has held steady at around 600 million a day, but in 2009 it jumped up to 3 <carlsagan>billion</carlsagan> a day. (Malicious compared to simply unwanted. The “unwanted” numbers are much higher.) According to the report [pdf file] the increase was due to the increased proliferation and sophistication of botnets. It’s interesting to note that Adobe Acrobat (and the Adobe product line in general) was by far the leading source of vulnerabilities. Which makes it humorously mysterious as to why the people who put the report together chose to package their findings inside of a pdf file. Okay, the report itself is not a source of infection, but the second biggest problem* with Acrobat is that people routinely use it for packaging information that would be more useful in simple HTML. Let us not further legitimize this practice using a document outlining the dangers of this practice. Anyway. Botnets. Botnets is such a strange term. It makes it sound lik
  • Since we've launched our new web site, we're getting some great feedback from our viewers, but you also have some questions. We understand you might not find things you were used to finding before. To help you find your way around, we compiled a list of FAQs specifically for KPLR11.com. Q: How do I get back to the homepage? As you are navigating the site, you can always get back to the homepage by clicking on the KPLR logo in the upper left-hand corner of your browser. Or just click here. Q: How do I make kplr11.com my homepage? If you have Internet Explorer go to tools, click on Internet options and type "http://www.kplr11.com". If you have Firefox, go to tools, and options and type "http://www.kplr11.com". Or just click this link and kplr11.com will become your home page. Q: Why won't the video play on my computer? You have to download Flash 8 or newer to allow the video to play. It is an easy, free download that takes up little space on your computer. Many news and entertainment
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    links for 2010-02-04

  • These wonderful posters are by an artist called Jamie Bolton. They sum up each of the films in an amazing minimalist style. I would love to have them all on my wall.
  • By following a few simple guidelines, you can maintain your computer and keep it running smoothly. This article discusses how to use the tools available in Windows 7, Vista, and XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) to more efficiently maintain your computer and safeguard your privacy when you're online. 1. Free up disk space The Disk Cleanup tool helps you free up space on your hard disk to improve the performance of your computer. The tool identifies files that you can safely delete, and then enables you to choose whether you want to delete some or all of the identified files.
  • You will find lots of useful guitar lessons and information here – it works on an "honour system". If you can afford to pay for the lessons then please donate for what you use – imagine it was a pay site. If you can't afford to donate it is no problem at all – the site is free for you :). Updates and new material is pretty much donation dependant. Donations give me more time away from paid work to develop this site and make new lessons and features. BIG THANKS in advance :).. Donations keep the site free for those that can't afford to donate! Click here for details on how to donate or contribute to the site. Thanks. J Please register in the space on the left, I only send out newsletters once a month and the emails will come from me, I won't pass your email address on to anyone else – and you can unsubscribe automatically at the bottom of any email I send you.
  • Despite the glamorous reputation, freelance design is no walk in the park. It takes an incredible work ethic, significant entrepreneurial prowess, and a little bit of insanity to pull it off effectively. This article will discuss how to effectively make a living as a freelancer (designer or otherwise). Since we are in fact a design blog, I’ll scatter in some well-designed freelancer sites along the way for inspiration.
  • Smush.it uses optimization techniques specific to image format to remove unnecessary bytes from image files. It is a "lossless" tool, which means it optimizes the images without changing their look or visual quality. After Smush.it runs on a web page it reports how many bytes would be saved by optimizing the page's images and provides a downloadable zip file with the minimized image files. Do not link to the smushed images on Smushit.com since they will only be available there temporarily. Instead, download the zip file containing the smushed images for your web page and replace your image files with those files.
  • Ever wonder how to super style your blog’s post date? I am going to show you how to do this using CSS sprites in about 18 minutes. Editorial Note: This post is geared toward theme designers. Prior knowledge of CSS and WordPress is recommended. What you will need: * A graphics program (I use Adobe Photoshop CS4) * A simple text editor What you will accomplish in this tutorial: * The dates on your blog’s posts will be super styled using CSS Sprites Let’s get started… Step #1 Fire up your graphics program. You can download a PSD or PNG template to help with the layout of all of the dates in our Sprite.
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