SPAM Mail Statistics from Dec 1, 2006 till Mar. 31, 2007
by Voyage Io, Computer Service Centre, MPI
The MPI Anti-Virus & Anti-Spam Service has been launched since 2006/12/1 to reduce the number of spam messages received in MPI email accounts. In the last four months, the anti-spam service has successfully identified 1,494,713 (87.38%) spam messages and blocked 8,466 (0.49%) virus infected messages.

An online survey about the MPI Anti-Virus & Anti-Spam Service has been sent to all users in order to receive their comments and feedback for the continuous improvement of our services.

For information about the MPI Anti-Virus & Anti-Spam Service, please refer to CSC webpage at http://csc.ipm.edu.mo/spam/

Open Training Platform
UNESCO
"The objective behind this platform is to empower trainers or/and trainees with free resources, offer them a structured collaborative space to share their training but also to promote and value the “open” training materials, which are freely and openly accessible for trainers and self-learners to use and re-use for non commercial purposes such as teaching, learning and research." Covered fields include, among others: computer science and information management, culture, education, health and sanitation, languages, management, media and communication and social problems.

Wikipedia Co-founder Seeks to Start Over
APNews
Get to know the new project of Larry Sanger, Citizendium launched on March 25, 2007. Sanger participated in a Symposium of the Macau Ricci Institute in 2005, where he presented "The Future of Free Information" (full article available in the Digital Universe Journal as a PDF file).

TeacherTube
Launched on March 2007, TeacherTube is an online community for sharing instructional videos. Anyone can access videos on TeacherTube. "We seek to fill a need for a more educationally focused, safe venue for teachers, schools, and home learners. It is a site to provide anytime, anywhere professional development with teachers teaching teachers. As well, it is a site where teachers can post videos designed for students to view in order to learn a concept or skill."

Computer and Information Technology Interactive Digital Education Library (CITIDEL) Repository
Department of Computing Sciences at Villanova University, Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech University.
A digital library of reviewed resources for teaching computer science.

Innovate Online
James L Morrison, UNC-Chapel Hill
The April/May issue of Innovate focuses on the so-called Net Generation, "a generation that has grown up with video games, computers, and the Internet. The expectations, attitudes, and technological fluency of this new generation present both a challenge and an opportunity for educators". This issue of Innovate examines "how educators and educational systems can respond to the challenge and leverage the opportunity."

Video Lectures
Video Lectures provides "free video lectures from the world's leading and prominent scientists." The site is searchable by key words and also displays a browsable listing of the most popular and latest lectures.

SuTree
SuTree is a searchable "index & library of free video/audio lessons, tutorials, lectures & how-to's". The lessons are organised into a wide directory of categories such as Business, College & University, Computers, Electronics, Health, Languages, etc. The College & University category includes Biology, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Chemistry, Computers, Economics & Business, Humanities, Law, Math, Medicine, Physics, Psychology, Social Sciences & Education and Statistics.

Roll your own Adobe CS3 for free
Seth Rosenblatt, Associate Editor, CNET
An article about free software alternatives (and corresponding links) to commercial software like Photoshop, Acrobat, Dreamweaver, Flash, Premiere, InDesign, Soundbooth and After Effects.

Flashmeeting
Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK
"FlashMeeting is an application based on the Adobe Flash 'plug in' and Flash Media Server." It allows you to create meetings with people located anywhere just through a web browser.
If you want to know more about FlashMeeting read its review by a member of the Free and Open Source Software Association who has been using it in an online course:
Flashmeeting-the-youtube-of-videoconferencing.

SideKik
A web site allowing contextualised and multiple-engine searches. You enter a search query and then click on the different categories or subcategories to display the "search results from a different perspective/site".

Another Look at Zotero
etc@bmc, Bryn Mawr College
The Firefox plugin, Zotero, for managing bibliographies has "recently released an alpha version of a plugin for Word. What this allows you to do is to add citations and a bibliography right from Word".

Universal Viewer (ATViewer)
"Universal Viewer (ATViewer) is an advanced file viewer with wide range of formats supported" including PDFs, Images, Music, Video, Flash and Microsoft Office files.

Using Windows Magnifier
by Jack Tang, Computer Service Centre, MPI
Windows magnifier is an utility enabling users with visual impairments to enlarge the view of applications that do not provide any zoom function.

The Fastest Way to Find High-Quality Freebies on the Web
Bitt Box
You can adapt this freebie search tip to your specific search: images, software etc.

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