IT Insights Blog — PC Pro

If your are a child of the 1980s, and you haven't yet begun watching Stranger Things on Netflix, then, sheesh, you can read the rest of this later. Go immerse yourself in the goodness! An eight-episode Netflix original series, Stranger Things will play on your Reagan Era memories like a master violinist. It's the perfect blend of every '80s Steven Spielberg movie, every '80s Stephen King novel, and every '80s Stephen J. Cannell TV series. Just sit back and let the finely-tuned performances, exquisite period detail and increasingly suspenseful mood wash over you.

What do actress Courtney Cox and TestOut PC Pro have in common? No, it’s not Michael J. Fox — although Family Ties was a great show. The connection is actually through the Alabama Department of Career and Technical Education (CTE). It’s a state-run program that combines the academic courses that students will need for success in college with the technical courses that they will need to prepare for a career. The tech aspect of the program is designed to improve the technical and academic preparation of students and to provide a transition plan for those who want to enter a tech-related field

This week on Thursday, angry alien invaders are returning to Earth in the long-delayed sci-fi sequel Independence Day: Resurgence. The movie's trailers hint that the nations of Earth have not been idly twiddling their thumbs in the years since the first planet-wide conflagration. (Two decades past, both in real time and in the movie.) No, instead merely hoping that the intergalactic menace from the first film never darkens the skies over our major cities again, humanity has been bracing for the inevitable rematch. Our forward defense position is a base on the moon, and piles of money and resources have apparently been poured into advanced weapons technology.

The truthfulness of the age-old expression “Two heads are better than one” is borne out by a myriad of examples. There’s everything from the fictional partnerships of Han Solo and Chewbacca, or Batman and Robin, to the real-world success of Jordan and Pippen, or Lennon and McCartney. Successful duos even include the likes of the delicious cookies and milk, or the ever-palatable peanut butter and chocolate. (Mmmm, cookies and milk.)

I know others have mentioned that TestOut PC Pro 5.0.0 (released May 26) was recently validated as CompTIA Approved Quality Content (CAQC), and that is good news. It is our best-selling courseware and it does a great job preparing students for their certification exams. But I’d like to specifically mention a few of the aspects that make this the industry’s leading learning tool: