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New HD Classrooms
Over the past two summers, Media Services has upgraded a number of classrooms, seminar rooms, and lecture halls to high definition projection A/V systems. What this means is that you will now be able to show your laptop presentations in high definition and wide screen. The installed classroom computers and disc players will project in high definition. Not all of the classrooms have this capability. We have compiled a list of rooms that we call HD Digital Media A/V projection systems. For more information on our HD classrooms, please visit the Media Services website. Below is a list of rooms … Continue reading New HD Classrooms
Shifting Funds from Student Voice Mail Services to Internet Bandwidth for Students
PLEASE NOTE: STUDENT RESIDENCE HALL PHONES ARE NOT AFFECTED BY THIS CHANGE After studying the voice mail usage logs and consulting with available students, we have decided to redirect the funds previously spent on student voice mail services and purchase additional Internet bandwidth instead. Eliminating student voice mail will save $9,000 per year in maintenance fees, and this will fund a 50% increase in bandwidth available to students. This fall, we will move from 200MB to 300MB in Internet bandwidth for students. Student use of the voice mail service connected to the residence hall phones has declined to very near … Continue reading Shifting Funds from Student Voice Mail Services to Internet Bandwidth for Students
Update Your Browser.. Save Your Computer!
Out of date browser software is a great way to install malware on your computer. A simple way to help avoid computer “infections” while surfing the web is by keeping your browser up to date (note: this is one of the most common ways that Macs get infected). At the time of this writing, the following are the latest browser versions: Firefox 3.6.17 or 4.0.1 5.0.1 (you should strongly consider upgrading to 5.0.1 unless there’s a specific application you use that requires 3.6.x) Safari 5.0.5 Chrome 12.0.742.100 Opera 11.11 Updates for Internet Explorer are bundled in Windows Automatic Updates. So, … Continue reading Update Your Browser.. Save Your Computer!
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!