Max Beatty

My day has been filled with peo­ple mis­us­ing tech­nol­ogy tools as com­mon as voice­mail and email, and as “cut­ting edge” as Face­book sta­tuses and Twit­ter. I’m not an expert or guru or ninja at any of them, but I’d like to think I pay enough atten­tion to see how peo­ple are using these tools and […]

I some­how got on this Oncourse mail­ing list awhile back and usu­ally dis­re­gard most of the emails, but today they were show­cas­ing a fac­ulty mem­ber at the Indi­ana Uni­ver­sity East cam­pus who is using a Flip cam­era to record short lec­tures for his course. I think it’s brilliant!

Last night when I was doing every­thing but home­work, I came across this Wis­eS­tamp Fire­fox plu­gin that lets you eas­ily cre­ate cus­tomized email sig­na­tures that include links to your social media sites like Face­book and Twit­ter. The only prob­lem I had with it is that it only works in Fire­fox and I com­pose most of […]

It looks like my Ama­zon account was attacked by some Ger­mans and caused Ama­zon to reset my account pass­word. Sadly, I was ready to dis­re­gard the email they sent me about my account change because I didn’t trust the sender. Accord­ing to Amazon’s phish­ing guide, I was doing the right thing but their guide didn’t […]

I love IU. I think it’s a great uni­ver­sity with many tal­ented fac­ulty mem­bers and end­less resources for stu­dents. I’ve never regret­ted my deci­sion to come here and pur­sue my degree in infor­mat­ics. Just last month, the uni­ver­sity announced that they had struck a deal with Adobe to pro­vide CS4 to every­one for free! This […]