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WARNING! Apple Store Hacked – Check Your Account

By on April 20, 2012 in Technologies

Well bad news in my email this morning. iTunes Account Hacked.  Overnight an app had been downloaded by someone to a device not mine then purchased $36.50 of something, cleaning my account out.

I logged straight into my iTunes account and changed my password and found that someone had downloaded a free app called “Kingdom Quest” from Sega then made in app purchases totalling $36.50 – leaving me with an iTunes Store account balance of $1.54.

The Sequence
First I knew was an email from Apple advising that my iTunes Store account had changes to Name and Credit card information.  Next was an email from Apple advising that the Kingdom Quest app had been downloaded to a previously unauthorised device.  Last, an email advising about the in-app purchases in Kingdom Quest.

Each email advises changing iTunes Account passwords if it wasnt a genuine account holder purchase.

Well, too late Apple.  Looking on your website I find that this has been going on since November 2010.  In the Apple forums there are more than 1500 comments over 101 webpages with over 230000 views on this same iTunes Store hack.  It has reached the media here.

I normally read of peoples Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, Paypal, eBay etc etc accounts being hacked and somehow always feel immune to it.  Well when it happens its not good.

Change your passwords regularly. Dont share them. Make them secure.

 

 

 

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Moodle Registration Based on Specific Email domain

By on April 18, 2012 in Technologies

I wanted to enable users to register in a course based on their email address.

It toom me ages to find where in Moodle administration the setting is.  I did the usual search Moodle.org forums, then the web, eventually finding it.  For users to register in a Moodle course and only be able to self-enrol based on a specific email address domain go to:

Site Administration > Plugins > Authentication > Manage authentication.)

Scroll down to the Allowed Email Domains field and enter the allowed domains without the @ symbol.

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2 Litre Water bottle = 50 Watt Light bulb

By on February 25, 2012 in Technologies, Videos

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Evernote Template – Bible Study Passage Analysis

By on February 7, 2012 in Faith, Technologies

evernote Evernote Template Bible Study Passage AnalysisA bunch of us have started looking at various Bible passages and are using a Bible Study format put out by the Navigators and other groups.

I thought I’d create it as an Evernote note file so that anyone using Evernote and a mobile Bible reader could import it and use it.

Download the Evernote Template from here
(Downloading to Dropbox makes it easier to access from various devices running Evernote.)

Once saved to your computer here’s instructions for various operating systems I use:

 

Windows

  • Open Evernote
  • Select File>Import>Evernote Export Files…
  • Browse to and select the downloaded Evernote file “Bible Study.enex”
  • Evernote will create a new notebook called “Imported Notes” and place the file there
  • Relocate the Bible Study note to wherever you want

 

Mac OS X Lion

  • Browse to and double click the downloaded Evernote file “Bible Study.enex”
  • Evernote will open and ask if you want to import the file and the tags. make your choice and click Continue
  • Evernote creates a new Notebook called “Import Bible Study” and places the Bible Study note there
  • Relocate the Bible Study note to wherever you want

 

Android

  • Its not possible ot import into the Android version of Evernote – so you will need to import into a Windows/Mac version then let the Android Evernote app sync to add the file

 

iPad

  • havent tested if I can import yet, but itll sync like Android otherwise

TIP: When your familiar with the template structure just delete the question prompts to shorten the note length.

 

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Ongoing Prezi – tools for teaching and learning

By on January 31, 2012 in Education, Technologies

I thought I’d embed a Prezi file Ive been developing to curate websites and web tools which I think are helpful in learning and teaching.  Its not complete, in that its not a presentation, but feel free to copy what Ive got and add or modify it.

Link to Prezi file – here – http://prezi.com/blnofkc6u0tu/maf-workshop-web-tools-for-teaching-and-learning/

 

MAF Workshop – Web tools for Teaching and Learning on Prezi

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