Author Archives: Anna-Liisa
Take care of updates and backups on your home computer
Software updates and backups are important! To avoid losing your important files, for example your photos, you should take backups of your files on a regular basis. For backups, you can use e.g. an external USB hard drive, which you connect to your computer only for doing or restoring backups. A removable hard disk, which costs […]
(suomi) MS Office–sovellusten asentaminen iPadille
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(suomi) iPad: Tietojen suojaus ja laitteen etätyhjennys
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Office tools for students to use at home
Typically, the teachers give handouts as PDF-files or some the MS Office file formats. (In addition, also videos and sound files can be used, as well as specific professional software files (e.g. CAD) but these are not the subject of this post.) In order to be able to open these typical files the teachers hand out, you […]
Office 365 – Outlook: Setting up automatic replies
Automatic Out-of-Office Reply in Outlook When you’re on vacation, it’s a good idea to set up an automatic out-of-office reply in your email. This reply should reach all members of your organization who email you during your absence. Additionally, you can set up an automatic reply for everyone in your Outlook contacts, even if they […]
Adobe Creative Cloud installation and useful links (OUAS)
Adobe Creative Cloud is the Adobe installation portal where you can install various apps offered by Adobe. The package includes most of the apps offered by Adobe. For example, Acrobat, Photoshop, Premiere, etc. Members of OAMK staff can install Adobe CC from Company Portal If you are not sure if you have an Adobe CC […]
About using USB memory sticks
It’s not recommended that you use a USB memory stick for confidential data. Also, you ought to keep your entertainment and study related USB drives separate. Don’t use your study related flash drives in Internet cafes and alike. You can make your USB memory stick (= Flash/USB/thumb drive), more secure by using encryption: There are […]
Protect your website with a password
Password protection on the web If you wish, you can make password protection for your public_html directory or its subdirectory. Security is as secure as a Telnet connection: Passwords are encrypted on the network, but if they wanted enough, someone could decrypt them very easily. So it’s not a really safe system, but this level […]
Your own homepages at Oamk
Publishing your own webpages at Oamk’s students (or staff) server What you have to do in your Unix home directory You can publish your own web pages at the students.oamk.fi server (or staff.oamk.fi in case you’re a member of OUAS staff). You need to make a directory called public_html which is the default directory for […]