January
This month's ITChatter session will be held on January 18 starting at 12:15. Our topic is Teambox: an Intro. Click the link for more information and to register. Registration is not required but if you do, then you get a nice little reminder.
Eric Mailloux, Ag IT Network Security Analyst, will be holding another session on using Identity Finder (IdF). The Adobe Connect session is scheduled for January 25, 2011 from 10:30 am to 11:30 am. Click on the link for more details and to register.
Penn State's Media Commons Tailgate was an interactive, one-day event held at University Park on Saturday, November 13, 2010. The event focused on exploring the possibilities for digital media in teaching and learning.
Penn State computers must be scanned for the presence of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) on a REGULAR basis using Identity Finder. Why? Because of the ongoing risk of this data being compromised. Here are two recent stories from Big Ten schools Wisconsin and Ohio State.
According to Wikipedia, a smartphone is "a mobile phone offering advanced capabilities, often with PC-like functionality (PC-mobile handset convergence)." In other words, smartphones are COMPUTERS and need to be protected as such.
Calendar items can add a large amount of space to your mailbox. If you want to free up some of this space, you can delete past entries from your Outlook Calendar.
No longer interested in a Facebook page? These steps will allow you to find the Unlike button.
Mobile applications or "apps" are everywhere. Depending on your device you may look for apps on Apple's App Store, the Android Market, Nokia's Ovi Store, Microsoft's Windows Phone Marketplace, BlackBerry's App World and others.
Google Voice has been free for U.S. users since August 2010. Google previously said that this free service would only be available through December 2010. Now they’re extending free calling for all of 2011. You can click the link to read more.
Switch is a $4.99 Web browser app for the iPad that lets different people browse the web while keeping their own history, bookmarks and tabs. You can click the link to read more about the app.
Word Lens will translate printed words from Spanish to English or English to Spanish with the built-in video cameras found in the iPhone 4, iPhone 3gs, and iPod Touch 4.
GroupMe enables you to organize and communicate with the groups of people in your life that are important to you via free group texting and conference calling.
2010 will be forever commemorated as the year Twitter matured from a cool but undecided teenager into more confident and assertive young adult. While there’s still much room to mature and develop, Twitter’s new direction is crystallizing. You can click the link to read more.
Vimeo, the video sharing site favored by photo and video enthusiasts, found so many tutorials posted on its site about how to make great looking videos it realized it was sitting on a gold mine. You can click the link to read more.
Syracuse University undergrads can take "Star Trek and the Information Age" this spring. You can click the link to read more.
Klout tracks the impact of your opinions, links and recommendations across your social graph.
Lighter Side items are links to interesting, funny, even weird items from the web. These may not be tech-oriented. We hope you enjoy them.
On Wednesday nights at 8:00 p.m., three Penn State employees put on quite a live online video show via UStream. What’s it about? Well, it features technology, Penn State, amazing baked goods, fine spirits, and just about anything else that pops up.
Have you heard? Yes, you've heard us talking about Plone and new county websites for a while but the time has finally come! County websites are ready for your news and your events and you can do this all via Plone! We aren't talking about just adding PDF's of your newsletters either!
Our January ITChatter session on Teambox: an Intro was recorded. You can find the recording along with our other ITChatter Series recordings on our Self-Paced Learning page.
If you are an Administer for a Facebook page (either a "Community" page or "Official" page), you can add photos for the page or tag people in photos uploaded to the page. If you want to allow non-Admins the same access to add or tag photos, you'll need to tweak settings for the page.
As monitors get larger, their resolution increases. The downside for many of us is that the default font size in Word, Outlook, Excel, or our web browser is too small to read comfortably for large stretches of time. Here's a quick tip to increase the font size in most windows swiftly.
Occipital has released a new version of their 360 Panorama app for the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 or iPodtouch 4g.
AMBER Alerts are now available on a state-by-state basis on Facebook. There are 53 U.S. AMBER Alert pages, one for each state plus Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Washington DC.
As students returned to class this week, some were carrying brand-new Apple iPads in their backpacks, given not by their parents but by their schools. You can click the link to read the full article.
Quora, rhymes with flora and is pronounced k-war-uh, is a question and answer website that is the latest "next big thing" on the Internet.
Are you still shying away from social media? You can click the link to read 8 reasons not to fear social media.
You can wirelessly sync your iTunes playlists, photos and videos with your Android phone using your home Wi-Fi network and the doubleTwist app.
TeamSnap is a unique way to manage your sports team. Anybody who's coached or played on a recreational adult sports team or youth sports team knows how hard it can be to keep track of all the players, games, and team payments. TeamSnap takes the headache out of team sports by making it simple to manage your sports team online.
Tweeting about what club "y'all" are going to tonight? Must be from the South. Looking forward to "suttin" special? Then you probably live in New York. Think that new movie was "koo?" Northern California. The words you write on Twitter can tell people more than just the status of your relationship or how you like the latest Bon Jovi CD. It may just indicate not only how you're living, but where you're living in the U.S. You can click the link to read the full article.
Lighter Side items are links to interesting, funny, even weird items from the web. These may not be tech-oriented. We hope you enjoy them.
