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Overview of MCSE



An Overview of MCSE – Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer Program

By: Colin P

A growing number of people are working at attempting to make a profession out of their involvement with computers, computer programming and related enterprises. To this end, a considerable lot of people are attempting to find methods through which they can make their services more marketable in today’s competitive world. Consequently, many people are seeking training as an MCSE or Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer.

Perhaps you are one of the many people who is attempting to make a career in the field of computers, computer programming or in a related high-tech venue. You may have found yourself interested in exploring options such as obtaining an MCSE. However, you may not be entirely certain what an MCSE is and what is involved in obtaining an MCSE. Through this article, you are provided a very brief overview of an MCSE and what generally is involved in gaining this type of designation.

As the full MCSE moniker indicates (Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer) the designation is associated with Microsoft behemoth. A person who obtains a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer or MCSE certification or designation is a person who has passed certain exams about Microsoft products and software. The exams and attendant study materials are created under the auspices of the Microsoft Corporation.

With that said, there are now some private resources available to people interested in obtaining an MCSE through which they can prepare for the subject exams. These resources operate independently of the Microsoft Corporation. However, while these independent preparation resources now do exist, if you are interested in obtaining MCSE certification in the end, you need to take the certified training courses that are conducted by Microsoft at various designated locations around the world.

Microsoft frequently holds its training courses for MCSE certification at locations such as high schools, colleges and junior colleges in different locations around the world and throughout the year.

If you are unable to attend such a course, or if there is no course being offered in the brick and mortar at a location near you, you can also obtain self-study materials from Microsoft. (If you are involved in a self study course of MCSE, one of the private, independent study programs referenced earlier may be of great assistance to you.)

In addition, Microsoft now offers its MCSE training courses and educational materials over the Internet and World Wide Web. In other words, an interested person can work his or her way through the MCSE courses at his or her own pace on the Net.

If you are interested in obtaining an MCSE certification or designation, you need to pass exams in the following areas: MCSE(Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer) is someone who has passed exams about the Microsoft Windows NT operating system, related desktop systems, networking, and Microsoft’s BackOffice server products.

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New Opportunities for Game Designers



Flash – New Opportunities for Game Designers

By: Paul Wilson

Flash is an interactive platform that has a powerful design and animation tool along with a dynamic scripting engine, bitmap rendering, as well as advanced video and audio playback. There are three main aspects: the player, the file format, and the authoring tool/IDE. Flash games can be developed for websites, interactive TV, as well as handheld devices. There is no need to adopt multiple programming languages to build games.

It is the universal tool that permits the development of multimedia driven complex games. Games means fast, furious, efficient with rich graphics.

Flash enables developers to build the most popular games for online gamers. It just needs to support:

  • Rich engaging graphics.
  • Smooth download of files from the net.
  • A playback device that can interpret downloads.

There are three main areas: design, development, and hosting.

The first step is creation of graphics. One must use Fireworks as well as Freehand for this aspect. The tools are compatible and fireworks allows the addition of Java script to images.

The game development will be done in Flash by importing graphics created in Freehand and Fireworks. The graphics are then placed in Director the parent tool of Flash.

The next part, hosting, uses a Web server. Dreamweaver MX is the tool that will create Web pages to host the game.

And, finally Action Script is used to provide enhanced functionality.

Advantages:

  • Integrates almost all features needed for developing a game. It is a great interactive tool.

  • Can be used anywhere does not need additional software or plug-ins.

  • It is Mac friendly.

  • Permits conversion from a full game to web version and vice versa.

  • Low cost and free to distribute. Licenses for decoders MP3 and Sorensen Spark are included.

  • Artists that can use flash easily are in plenty.

  • Flash delivers broadcast quality images over the Internet.

  • Permits embedding of game in power point for use in presentations.

  • Plenty of information as well as guidelines can be accessed as well as understood by all -tutorials, articles, as well as blogs.

  • The size of the game file remains small as the vector graphics and sound files are compressed.

  • Learning Flash language is easy.

  • Permits copy-paste to test components

There are traps one must be wary of and a few cons. Know the system well to maximize its use. There are plenty of tutorials inline that can be used as guides. Flash interface is ideally suited to both designer as well as developer, you can have fun while creating the game.

Flash is simple to use and a game can be developed in a few hours in a packaged form that can run on a PC, Mac, or Linux. One can make use of a browser or run the game as a stand alone.

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Paul Wilson is a freelance writer for www.1888FreeOnlineGames.com, the premier website to play thousands of free online games including arcade games, action games, card games, flash games, strategy games, puzzle games and more. He also freelances for www.1888SoftwareDownloads.com.

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Notebook or Desktop Computer, What is the Best Buy?

The idea of purchasing a personal computer may be appealing to a lot of people, however they may feel undecided as weather to go for a traditional desktop computer or for a light weight portable notebook. Several aspects should be taken into consideration as for the purposes of such acquisition. If the main purpose of buying a computer is for occasional use, regardless if it is for work or entertainment activities, one may consider buying a traditional desktop computer taking in consideration that its price is usually lower than the portable version.

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New Spam Email going around

There is a new phishing email that is making the rounds.  It has hit some users on my domain and looks very legit. Below is an example of the email.  It is made to look like it is coming from support@mydomain.com or automailer@mydomain.com so that users will believe it is real.  Make sure you inform your users that these are not real and not to click on the link or download anything.  I am still working on how to remove or block this from further happening.  I will post up when I have more info.

Update :

I have found that Spam Bully works really well.. check out the link below.

SpamBully!

I have changed my real domain name to “mydomain.com” for security reasons. I have also removed the hyperlinks.

From: automailer@mydomain.com [mailto:automailer@mydomain.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 3:01 PM
To: Chris Dyslin
Subject: For the owner of the chrisd@mydomain.com mailbox

Dear user of the mydomain.com mailing service!

We are informing you that because of the security upgrade of the mailing service your mailbox (chrisd@mydomain.com) settings were changed. In order to apply the new set of settings click on the following link:

http://mydomain.com/owa/service_directory/settings.php?email=chrisd@mydomain.com&from=mydomain.com&fromname=chrisd

Best regards, mydomain.com Technical Support.

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