Atomic Learning's PC Maintenance and Security Workshop

I love that I have free access to Atomic Learning’s resources through CEP 810; the site includes an abundance of wonderful information. I have only watched a few of the tutorials thus far, but definitely plan to watch many more.

The first video I watched from the PC Maintenance and Security Workshop was, ‘Using Online Backup Options, and a review.’ I chose a video discussing backup options because backing up my files is something that I definitely need to do. I will definitely share the online storage facilities, Foldershare, MediamMax and GBM Home by Genie Soft with others, because the narrator of the video only had good things to say about each of these sites. I was surprised to learn that there is a backup option (Foldershare) that allows users to synchronize multiple computers, or save files from multiple computers on the same site. This video did bring up some questions for me. I wonder about the security or privacy of backing up the files on my computer to the internet; putting them on the internet doesn’t seem like a safe place to me because I feel like someone, somewhere could find the files. I also wonder how these sites wont lose documents if my computer crashes; would I really be able to access the files from another computer?

The second video I watched was, ‘Using Sandboxie for browsing safely.’ I chose to watch this video because I had no idea what Sandboxie was, and I was also interested in watching a video that discussed tips for safer web browsing. I will definitely be sharing the concept of Sandboxie with others. I was totally unaware that normal computer operation involved reading information from the internet programs and writing that information back to the hard drive, storing temporary files on the computer’s hard drive.

The third PC Maintenance and Security Workshop video I watched was, ‘Clearing your internet tracks in IE and Firefox,’ as I was interested in learning about protecting my family online. I will definitely share how to delete the temporary internet files (cache) from Internet Explorer and Firefox with others who are interested. Something this video introduced me to is that every picture, icon, button – literally everything from every website you ever visit is save in ‘temporary internet files.’

I really enjoyed watching each of these videos and learning so much. I cant wait until I have some free time to watch more of the videos that Atomic Learning has to offer.