http://www.homeschool.co.uk/blog Christian Home Education and Schooling Tue, 12 May 2009 23:15:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Mac vs. PC: Windows Vista http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=FxOIebkmrqs Apple Mac Ad: "Work vs. Home" http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=ot9Jp6-mB-8 Mac PC 2-Girl http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=L_vV5mZ8Ox8 Mac ads - Networking http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=eU9EflLJuf8 Apple Get a Mac Ad: Choose a Vista http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=PxLgBx3W9Ss Get a Mac ad with Gisele Bundchen http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=KNnX6XRQBec Apple "Get a Mac" ad: "Goodwill" http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=MSWNYlaqzw8 Novell Linux, Mac, PC http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=Pa1RCg-Ccp0 Apple Mac Ad: "Computer Cart" http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=Rolx3HQbs74 Novell Linux - Apple Ad Spoof (1st) http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=rtp5gNhBZgo Apple "Get a Mac" ad: ... http://www.homeschool.co.uk/blog/2009/05/13/mac-ads/ Hi,  Continuing my pursuit for the perfect student desktop I am exploring VMWare ACE and VMWARE Views + ThinApps on a fleet of student owned laptops. I presently look after 250+ desktops alone so I am confident that my methodology works reasonably well and I can also honestly say ... http://www.homeschool.co.uk/blog/2009/05/01/exploring-vmware-ace-and-vmware-views-thinapps-on-a-fleet-of-student-owned-laptops/ Time Flies, its seem like only yesterday I was busy constructing this web log and then failing to update it as regularly as had initially hoped I might. It has certainly been a long time since I last maintained and updated my blog, I think there was only ... http://www.homeschool.co.uk/blog/2009/04/07/time-flies/ I have added a wiki to the Christian Home Education website. This is available at http://www.homeschool.co.uk/education and you would hardly know it was a wiki. One of the primary benefits of using a wiki is that it facilitates easily adding and updating information. So the three main sections of CHE ... http://www.homeschool.co.uk/blog/2008/02/02/homeschool-wiki/ Home Educating in France In October 2003 we moved our family of five, our furniture, belongings and the cat to a quiet but quaint little village in the Cotes d’Armor region of Brittany. We had always wanted to live in France and in 2003 we felt that it was ‘now or ... http://www.homeschool.co.uk/blog/2007/07/07/home-educating-in-france/ After several published reports by the Department of Education on the decline of education, Jonas E. Alexis felt compelled to do a little detective work of his own and discover what has caused the political, social, moral, educational, and spiritual malaise of our time. The book includes discussions on everything ... http://www.homeschool.co.uk/blog/2007/06/06/jonas-alexis-talks-about-his-new-book/ We have over the past 5 months or so been supporting a local youth group. In fact, together with another family and their church we have been part of the initial set up of the youth group which takes place on a Saturday night in the local village. ... http://www.homeschool.co.uk/blog/2007/06/03/youth-group/ CheckerBoard This freeware software by Martin Frerz is better than most commercial checkerboard applications. There is a significant amount of information about the game of checkers at Martin Frerz's website. - Enjoy. http://www.fierz.ch/checkerboard.php http://www.homeschool.co.uk/blog/2007/04/14/checkerboard/ The following is a list of what I have installed on my Personal Computer April 2007 Software Money Dance Dreamweaver 8 PDF Creator Google Picasa Version Tracker Skype UltraISO SnagIT Vista Video Codecs Paint.net Driver Detective Version Tracker Adobe DVD Shrink 7Zip AntiVir Utilities StartUP CPL Sync Toy Universal Extractor Gmail POP Trouble Shooter http://www.homeschool.co.uk/blog/2007/04/14/my-desktop-today-and-yesterday/ SVS is a program developed by Altris which can be used to run and manage virtual applications and software. I have been using SVS for about six months now and am very impressed by what I can do so easily and ituitively. I have used it to run almost all ... http://www.homeschool.co.uk/blog/2007/04/14/svs-software-virtualisation/