by Youssef Kassab | Jun 16, 2020 | Reviews
With COVID-19 causing a lock-down all over the world, a lot of schools and universities had to move their classes online. While some institutions already had learning management systems in place a lot of others weren’t ready and had to find quick solutions including Whatsapp groups and zoom calls.
Without any confirmed cure or vaccine for COVID-19 a big transformation is expected to happen in education. Schools will rely more on e-learning platforms and reduce the physical presence in their premises. To manage their classes efficiently, instructors need a Learning Management System that gives them control and flexibility.
If you are looking for an e-learning platform for your institution you will find many paid and free solutions that cater to different needs. I personally recommend Moodle: an open-source platform with a lot of features, a lot of available modules and a big community of users who are ready to support you if you face any issues.
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by Youssef Kassab | Jul 5, 2011 | How-To Guides
How many passwords do you have to remember? How do you remember your passwords? Do you use the same password for all your accounts?
We have lots of passwords to remember: our personal emails, our Facebook accounts, twitter accounts, our work email accounts, some FTP accounts and much more. We all know we should use different passwords for each account because if we use only one password everywhere and someone gets this password we have a serious problem. Still we have hard times trying to remember what password we used on which website or for which account. (more…)
by Youssef Kassab | Nov 9, 2010 | Technology
In their daily operations small businesses use a variety of software applications. Text editors, spreadsheets, presentations, email, anti-virus, accounting software, Customer Relationship Management, collaboration tools and development tools are mainly used and buying all those tools can be quite expensive for small businesses. In this article I will list some good and free useful software applications that you can use as alternatives for other expensive software utilities.
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by Youssef Kassab | Aug 22, 2010 | Reviews
Portable applications are applications that can be ran on USB flash disk without the need to install them on your PC. Generally the data is stored with those applications on the USB flash disk and your data is accessible on any PC without the need of any software installation. This kind of applications will help you also keep your Notebook at home. You will carry with you the web browser with your favorite bookmarks, your calendar with all your appointments and your mail client with all your received emails. There are portable applications for lots of software categories.
There are many software suites but I am going to write about PortableApps.com a free and open source portable apps platform.
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by Youssef Kassab | Aug 22, 2010 | Reviews
Mozilla Firefox is an Open Source free Internet Browser. It is the second most used Web Browser according to NetApplications. It was released in 2004 by the Mozilla Corporation. It is a very rich and secure web browser and its engine (Gecko) implements most current web browsers.
Firefox includes tabbed browsing, spell checking, incremental find, live bookmarking, download manager, private browsing, location-aware browsing and many other features.
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