A Sweetness Pic for the Day

category: Animals

“Give me a kiss, deer, I’m off to the office…”

Posted by FA Editors at 11:36 AM PDT

Has the email you sent been read?

category: Web Matters

Get notified when your email has been read!

Have you ever wondered if a client received your important email already? Don’t you wish you had a way to tell?

It can be done, although it’s a bit more complicated than just clicking a switch. Visit Spypig and follow the instructions for a one off tracking image that will be used to check the delivery of your email.

You could do this with your own web host, by checking when that particular unique image has been accessed by your recipients email application, but it would be complicated to set-up a new image every time and then keep checking when the stats show access.

The good thing is that Spypig works with most email systems, including Apple Mail.app or Gmail.

Via Ivan from Creativebits.org

Posted by FA Editors at 10:43 AM PDT

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Geneva schools switch to Open Source completely

category: News, Open Source

About 70,000 students and their 7,000 teachers in the Geneva school district will gradually be moving to Open Source.

“Moving to a complete Open Source system will cut the IT costs by a third.”

The decision to move to Open Source was taken by the Geneva Public School District (Département de l’Instruction Publique Genevois (DIP) in March 2006, says Manuel Grandjean, project leader for the Geneva district’s Open Source migration. “The district wants Open Source software to become the default.”

The migration to Open Source will begin after the next summer holiday with three projects. One school, the Candolle College in Geneva, will try out a complete Open Source desktop, using the GNU/Linux distribution Ubuntu. Next, OpenOffice will be installed on the 9,000 PCs in the school district that are used by teachers, replacing Microsoft Office. A third project is the migration to OpenOffice on the PCs used by the boards of all primary school.

Replacing Microsoft Office by OpenOffice saves the state some 300,000 SFr (about 186,000 euro) per year, says Grandjean. “Moving to a complete Open Source system will cut the IT costs by a third.”