Reading Time: 2 minutesAuthor: Emily Farris, Texas Christian University On Twitter recently, I came across a viral tweet by documentary filmmaker Arlen Parsa, who edited John Trumbull’s painting, Declaration of Independence. Parsa placed red dots over the slaveholders present in Trumbull’s painting, which depicts the drafting committee presenting their work to the Second Continental Congress. Dots cover all […]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAuthor: Emily Farris, Texas Christian University President Donald Trump was impeached on December 18, 2019. Impeachment can be a tricky topic for an introductory class to cover, particularly as it unfolds in the news. One way I would approach talking about impeachment is through the great speech by Barbara Charline Jordan, from the 1974 House […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes[Reading Time – 1 minute 44 seconds] When I am speaking to users about passwords, towards the end of the presentation I give my three password principles: Any password that can be memorized is a weak password (This is somewhat tongue-in-cheek, but it is to remind everyone that long passwords are more important than complex […]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAre you ready to bring your presentation to life using the new PowerPoint zoom feature in Office 365 and 2019? First, you must see it, to understand it, so play the video and then read on! Let me explain the magic. You are presenting at a meeting and you have several options that might […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes[Reading time – 2 minutes 38 seconds] The popularity of voice-activated speaker devices is exploding. Amazon Echo and Google Home have sold over 100 million units. However: when do these devices start listening to our commands? does it immediately erase our instructions after carrying them out? could a human eavesdrop on our private conversations through […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesAs Microsoft tries to update everyone to the latest secure operating system, Office 2019 will have one big system requirement: Windows 10. Office 2019, the next perpetual version of Office, is aimed at businesses that are not quite that ready for the cloud connectivity of Office 365. The Windows 10 requirement specifies any currently supported […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute[Reading Time – 1 minute 2 seconds] Do you need a little stress relief from the 24/7 news cycle on COVID-19? Then maybe this will help. A Computer Program To Protect Against a Biological Virus? Malwarebytes Lab has uncovered the website “antivirus-covid19[.]site.” This site is advertising “Corona Antivirus – World’s best protection.” By downloading and […]
Reading Time: 6 minutes[Reading Time – 6 minutes 8 seconds] It’s hard to think about much else than the coronavirus right now. And maybe we shouldn’t. But we can think about how this virus is similar to another type of virus: namely, a computer malware virus. The Word “Virus” Our English word “virus” is based on a Latin […]
