Link to An Academic Technologist’s Toolbox
R Statistical Software Training
R is a free statistics program widely used at Swarthmore (and the rest of the world, too). If you would like to learn more about how to use R, ITS will be hosting a series of web training sessions from the National Institute from Computational Sciences. The sessions take place every Wednesday at 3PM from June 22 to July 6, 2011. The topics are: June 22 – Introduction to R June 29 – R graphing with ggplot2 July 6 – Parallel computing with R Contact Andrew Ruether (aruethe2, x8254) if you would like to attend any of the sessions. Continue reading R Statistical Software Training
Learn “Things Everyone Should Know” by David Pogue at The New York Times
If you’ve ever been working with your smartphone or computer and thought, “there has to be an easier way to do this”, it turns out you’re most likely right. David Pogue’s recent articles at The New York Times, “Ins and Outs of Gadgetry” and “25 More Things Everyone Should Know” offer tips and tricks to make the technology-related aspects of your life easier. In these articles Pogue covers a wide range of topics from filling out online forms, to spotting “phishing” attemps in your inbox. Below Pogue addresses the practice of capturing screenshots on both Windows and Mac OSX platforms: … Continue reading Learn “Things Everyone Should Know” by David Pogue at The New York Times
New Versions of Microsoft Office Now Available!
MS Office 2010 (Windows) and MS Office 2011 (Mac) are available for download. Office 2010 (Windows): While the look of Office 2010 hasn’t changed much from 2007, its feel and navigation has certainly improved. For more information on what’s new in Office 2010 visit: http://www.microsoft.com/office/make-it-great/en-us/whatsnew.aspx Office 2011 (Mac): Outlook users rejoice!! Outlook is now available in 2011. For more information on what’s new in Office 2011 visit: http://www.microsoft.com/mac/word/whats-new Continue reading New Versions of Microsoft Office Now Available!
Summer Software Developers: Don’t forget version control
If you are planning on doing software development this summer, consider using some form of version control software. This will let you backup your work, allow you to roll back to a previous version, and make it easy for multiple users to work on the same code. If you are still appending suffixes on to different versions of your program (e.g. myapp, myapp_1, myapp_2, myapp_old, etc.) version control will be a big help. There are a number of free or paid options available online, but ITS offers a free software development system including version control. If you are interested, get … Continue reading Summer Software Developers: Don’t forget version control
Print Release Station Saves Trees, CO2, Real $$
The Print Release Stations, which we’ve tested a bit in McCabe, and have been testing in the Beardsley Media Center continuously since Spring Break, have led to real savings in resources not used… that is, jobs that people send to the printer, but choose not to actually print (or just forget to pick up). In the past one month (April 5, 2011 to May 5, 2011) we have saved a total of 8,159 pages, of which, 5,847 were color pages and 2,312 were grayscale. They would have been printed on 5,807 sheets of paper (some people choose duplex). To put … Continue reading Print Release Station Saves Trees, CO2, Real $$
Do you crave more power?
ITS probably can’t help you with your plans for world domination, but we do have lots of computing power that we can share with you this summer. Virtual Desktops – If you are running projects that can use extra Windows-based systems, we have a pool of “virtual” computers that run on ITS servers and can be accessed from anywhere. You can run a processor-intensive job on the virtual computer and leave your desktop computer free to perform other operations. This is also useful if your program needs to run under Windows but you have a Mac or Linux system. If … Continue reading Do you crave more power?