Stop installing Unwanted Programs in Windows 7 -Application lock

Posted: 12 Apr 2010 11:21 AM PDT

Are you checking a way to stop installing unwanted programs in your Windows 7 computer ? If yes, you can use the application lock feature of Windows 7. AppLocker (Application Locker) is a Windows 7 feature which ensure the users of your computer can install the applications / software which you specify only. Using this you can prevent the installation of any potentially harmful software on your computer. To use this feature you should go to group policy editor and set rules in AppLocker.

Prevent the installation of Unwanted software in Windows 7 computer

To enable Windows 7 AppLocker feature follow the steps below.

1.Click on Start

2. On search type gpedit.msc

Now press enter ,you can see the group policy editor on your computer.

3. Click on Windows Settings

Windows Settings present under Local Computer Policy.

4. Click on Security settings

Prevent other users from installing harmful software on your Windows 7 computer

5. Click on Application Control Policies

You can find AppLocker under Application Control Policies ,click on it.

Group policy edit to stop installing certain programs on your computer

Here you can configure the rules about the installing programs in your computer by clicking Configure Rule enforcement.

Supported OS for AppLocker

Note: AppLocker is available in all editions of Windows Server 2008 R2 and in Windows 7 Ultimate and Windows 7 Enterprise.

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Get a Power Efficiency report in Windows 7 and Optimise your Energy Consumption

Posted: 11 Apr 2010 03:38 AM PDT

Windows 7 has many features compared to the previous MS Operating Systems. Have you ever used the Energy efficiency report generated by Windows 7 to optimize the power consumption of your Laptop or netbook ? Windows 7 has an inbuilt Command prompt command to analyse and monitor the power uses of your computer. To get the power efficiency report by Windows 7 follow the steps below.

Command Prompt to get energy efficiency report of Windows 7 computer

1. Click on Start

2. On search type command or cmd

Now you can see the command prompt icon

3. Right Click on command prompt icon and select run as administrator

Create energy efficiency report by Windows 7

4. On command prompt type powercfg –energy

After typing this command press enter. Now Windows 7 start analyse your computer and generate a power efficiency report for your computer.

Use command prompt to get power efficiency report of your Windows 7 computer

The Report is saved in your computer as an html file insystem 32 folder. You can find the energy efficiency report by following the path below.

c:\windows\system32

(If Windows 7 installed in different location you should change the drive name with the installed drive.)

The file is stored as energy-report.html. The report look like..

Windows energy efficency report - optimize your computer with latest enrgy efficiency report

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Create Windows 7 Bootable Emergency Repair Disc - Windows 7 Recovery Tool

If you are using Windows 7 on your computer it is the time to think about creating a Windows 7 Recovery Disc for your computer. This bootable Emergency disc can help you to recover your computer in case Windows 7 failed to boot further. Creating a bootable Windows 7 disc is as simple as following few steps given below.

How to Create Windows 7 Recovery Disc

To create a recovery disc for Windows 7 follow the steps below.

1. Click on Start

2. Go to control panel

3. Click on Backup Your Computer

How to setup Windows 7 Emergency Repair Disk

You can find this option under System and Security in Category view.

4. Click on Create a System Repair Disc

You can find this option on the left side of the window.

Now you will be prompted to insert a DVD or CD in your DVD/CD drive and continue the process of creating Windows 7 system repair disc.

Create a bootable System repair disc for Windows 7 on your computer

After inserting the disc on drive ,click on Create disc. You can use this Windows 7 system repair disc when your OS failed to boot your computer.

Interesting journal: Aether- The Journal of Media Geography. (A convergence of disciplines)

Interesting journal: Aether- The Journal of Media Geography. (A convergence of disciplines)
Interesting work: Mobile Projection & More from Johannes Shoening's YouTube channel
Teresa Brazen's Adaptive Path blog post: Explaining User Experience Design to High Schoolers (and other new audiences)

Interesting journal: Aether- The Journal of Media Geography. (A convergence of disciplines)

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 06:03 PM PDT

Aether is hosted by the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at California State University, Northridge. The April issue is editied by Tristan Thielmann, and "explores the spatial turn in media studies and the media turn in geographical studies, providing a sketch of the subject area "geomedia" from a phenomenological perspective and the field of "media geography" from a disciplinary perspective".

Tristan Thielmann, from the University of Seigen, introduces this topic in "Locative Media and Mediated Localities: An Introduction to Media Geography" (pdf)

Thanks to Anne Galloway for the link!

By the way, Anne Galloway has been blogging since 2002. Her blog chronicles her intellectual path as she worked on her Ph.D., and more recently, her experiences teaching courses such as "Design Anthropology".

Her dissertation, "A Brief History of the Future of Urban Computing and Locative Media" (pdf) was completed in 2008. If you are interested in ubiquitous computing and interesting theories, its worth reading, especially if your brain needs some deep feeding.

I plan to re-read it this summer.

Here is an excerpt:

"The types of ubiquitous or pervasive computing of primary interest in my thesis are those that openly seek to create unique forms of inhabitable space and means of habitation—thereby raising issues of spatialisation, temporalisation, embodiment and affect. So-called mixed reality technologies are explicitly concerned with such questions, and mixed reality environments refer to spaces that combine elements of the physical and virtual worlds. According to Milgram et al. (1994:1), "rather than regarding the two concepts simply as antitheses, however, it is more convenient to view them as lying at opposite ends of a continuum, which we refer to as the Reality-Virtuality (RV) continuum." At one end of the continuum are seen to be "real" objects that can be observed directly or "sampled and then resynthesized via some display device," while at the other end are "virtual" objects that are "simulated" through "some sort of a description, or model, of the object" (Milgram and Kishino 1994:1).

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I plan to find out more about the editorial board of Aether:

Paul C. Adams • University of Texas at Austin

Stuart C. Aitken • San Diego State University

David B. Clarke • Swansea University

Christina Dando • University of Nebraska, Omaha

Deborah Dixon • Aberystwyth University

Marcus Doel • Swansea University

Colin R. Gardner • University of California, Santa Barbara

Ken Hillis • The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Sarah F. Ives • Stanford University

Ed Jackiewicz • California State University, Northridge

John Paul Jones III • University of Arizona

Christina Kennedy • Northern Arizona University

Minelle Mahtani • University of Toronto

Susan Mains • University of the West Indies, Mona

Kevin McHugh • Arizona State University

Christopher M. Moreno • San Diego State University

Wolfgang Natter • Virginia Polytechnic Institute

Joseph Palis • University of the Philippines

Brent J. Piepergerdes • University of Kansas

Rob Shields • University of Alberta

Amy Siciliano • University of Wisconsin

Paul F. Starrs • University of Reno, Nevada

Dan Sutko • North Carolina State University

Jonathan Taylor • California State University, Fullerton

Stefan Zimmermann • University of Mainz

Leo Zonn • University of Texas

Interesting work: Mobile Projection & More from Johannes Shoening's YouTube channel

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 09:34 AM PDT

Here are a few videos of Johannes Schoening's research videos related to mobile projection:

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GeoLens: Allowing Multi-User Interaction with Geographic Information Systems on Interactive Surfaces

Teresa Brazen's Adaptive Path blog post: Explaining User Experience Design to High Schoolers (and other new audiences)

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 07:30 AM PDT

Teresa Brazen, from Adaptive Path, wrote a useful post about Explaining User Experience Design to High Schoolers (and other new audiences). In the US, we have lower rates of students deciding to pursue careers in technology-related fields, and among teen girls, the numbers are quite low. For example,

I've promised to give a little presentation to high school computer students about human-computer interaction and user experience design, with an eye on emerging technologies. I found Teresa's suggestions quite helpful. For a 15-year-old student, these technologies will be the tools of their work, should they decide to go forward with technology-related studies after high school. For anyone thinking about speaking to a group of high school students, Teresa brings up a few good points:

"The thing about high school kids is they won't pretend to be interested if you've lost them. Adults at a conference will gaze forward in your general direction, but high school kids will just put their head on the table and go to sleep. If you ever want to get a real gauge of how interesting a speaker you are (or how well you're really communicating), I highly recommend it, humbling as it is."

Any high school teacher will confirm that this is true.

Teresa links to a post on Ben Chun's "And Yet It Moves: Adventures in Teaching and Technology" blog, which is worth reading. Ben teaches at Galileao Academy of Science and Technology, within the Academy of Information Technology. He also teachers AP Computer Science. Prior to teaching technology, he taught math for two years. He has good insights to share.

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Edutopia
Ring, S. (2007) Tech gURLS: Closing the Technological Gender Gap

National Center for Women in Information Technology (NCWIT)

Alvarado, C., Dodds, Z. Women in CS: An Evaluation of Three Promising Practices. In Proceedings of SIGCSE 2010 ACM Press.

Asus 1005P Netbook - Mini Laptop specifications and features

Asus 1005P Netbook contains the Atom 450 processor and pre-installed Windows 7 Started edition. It introduce the feature Eee Docking an intuitive software which make our access to useful softwares ,Services and digital data easily.

Configuration of Asus Eee 1005P Netbook

Configuration of Asus 1005P Netbook is:

Processor : Intel Atom N450 (1.66GHz Processor with 512k of L2 cache)

Chipset: Intel NM10 Chipset

RAM : 1GB DDR2 RAM

Harddisk : 160 GB SATA HDD

Display: 10.1" WSVGA (1024 x 600), LED Display

Dimension : 10.31 x 7.01 x 1.02 ~ 1.44 inc

OS : Windows 7 Starter Edition

Weight of Asus 1005P: 2.80 lbs

Asus 1005P Netbook reviews and Laptop details

Available Ports and connectors in Asus 1005P Mini Laptop

Asus 1005P Netbook contains following accessories:

1. 3 USB 2.0 ports,

2. VGA out,

3. DC power-in,

4. RJ-45/Ethernet (10/100),

5. microphone-in and line-out

6. MP Webcam

7. SD/MMC Card-Reader

8. Wireless Adapter (802.11 b and 802.11g )

9. Built-in Bluetooth

Eee Docking in Asus 1005P Netbook offers the following services:

1. It helps to Stream or download a variety of exciting digital content

2. It helps share/sync messages and data with other Eee PCs, notebooks, or desktop PCs without connecting to the Internet

3. It contains applications that enhance visual effects

4. It contains a set of useful tools including Live Update, Parental Control and Font Resizer

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