December

On November 2, 2011, Penn State upgraded to lyndaCampus, part of lynda.com. In addition to unlimited access to the lynda.com library of training videos, lyndaCampus offers these additional benefits: individual profiles, bookmarks, certificates of completion, and personal training history. Please click the link to read more about the lyndaCampus new features.

The ANGEL Import Console and Export Console tools will be available during finals week December 12-16. However, in the event of performance issues, Information Technology Services (ITS) may restrict or reduce their availability. If ANGEL becomes inaccessible during finals week, faculty may wish to contact their students via e-mail. Faculty/instructors can e-mail their class via a listserv specifically created for their course in ANGEL. Please click the link to read the full article from ITS.

The major Web-based e-mail providers are joining forces with an anti-fraud startup to help keep phishing messages out of peoples' inboxes. Please click the link to read the full article.

MAP2PIC is Flash-based app that lets you take image screenshots from Google maps and save as .png or .jpg. You can edit the image's size and also choose a marker for the map.

Stanford’s iPad and iPhone Application Development (CS193P) course is now available for free on iTunes U. The course includes lectures and lessons focused on iOS 5 app development. It’s broken out over 11 episodes that consist of videos and slides. Please click the link to read more about the Stanford course.

Taking a page from Apple's App Store and the Android App Market, RIM has created its own content ratings for the BlackBerry App World. Please click the link to read the full article by The Verge.

The “4-Day Throw Away” leftovers app for iOS devices is available for families looking for an extra line of defense to protect themselves from bad leftovers. The 4-Day Throw Away campaign is funded by a United States Department of Agriculture grant and is a partnership between Iowa State University Extension and Outreach and University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension. Please click the link to read more about the app.

In this episode of The Stream, Salman Khan discusses Khan Academy, education reform, and how videos can change the future of education. The 32 minute video is well worth the time to watch.

The story of Dr. Amar Bose and the Bose noise-cancelling headphones.

TED’s official app is now available for iPhone and is optimized for a small screen. With the iPhone app, TED introduces TED Radio, which streams curated audio TEDTalks 24/7 – click the button and start listening immediately. The app plays audio in the background, allowing listeners to multitask, using other apps like Safari or Mail simultaneously. Please click the link to read the full article.

Tablets seem to be everywhere today; from people on the subway, to cash registers at restaurants, to blue chip CEOs’ briefing kits. Brands are taking advantage of this, and are increasingly asking for platform agnostic digital solutions. But who actually owns a tablet, and how do the demographics and statistics of tablets affect brands? We have created an infographic on the Tablet Economy that shows how tablets are affecting people's online behaviour and commerce habits. Please click the link to read the full article and view the infographic.

There’s a lot of talk about Social Media these days both at Dell and around the world. Dell encourages all employees to use Social Media the right way, and this policy should help you on that path. This policy is the first step, not the last. To read the rest of Dell’s Social Media Policy, please click the link.

The Winter Survival Kit smartphone app can be as critical as a physical winter survival kit if you find yourself stuck or stranded in severe winter weather conditions. The app was developed by NDSU Extension Service and Myriad Devices, and funded with USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture Smith-Lever Special Needs grants. Please click the link to read more about the Winter Survival Kit app.

Our December 20th ITChatter session will focus on Invitee Registration, Management and Event Reports. Staff will demonstrate the registration process, posting check and cash payments, and advise on features of various reports within Cvent. For more information, click the link.

During our December 20 ITChatter session, Cindy Kunes, Darlene Jury and Becky Freeman demonstrated the process for entering a registration and posting a check or cash payment into the Cvent system. They also showed several Cvent reports which will assist in managing registrations including obtaining financial details associated with event registrations. Click the link for a list of our ITChatter series recordings.

This article describes what to do if your Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble Nook or Sony Reader has been lost or stolen. It has information on "what you can do to protect your data, prevent further purchases and try to recover your device." Please click the link to read their recommendations.

This list is from the U.K. (so prices are in £). But you might find an app or two that you might explore with your end-of-year gift to yourself. Please click the link to read their recommendations.

Three apps to record Calls on the iPhone are Recorder for iPhone, Google Voice, and EonPhone. Please click the link to read the full article by TechGlint.

"Camera 1.0 was film. Camera 2.0 was digital," said Ng, who worked on the technology at Stanford University before founding Lytro, originally called Refocus Imaging, in 2006. "3.0 is a light-field camera that opens all these new possibilities for your picture taking." Please click the link to read more about this exciting new camera design.

This article was published for Thanksgiving. But you can use the same six tips to end the year (or begin anew in 2012) by thanking your online community. Please click the link to read the full article.

The Wilson Bohannan Padlock Co., was founded in 1860 in Brooklyn, New York. The company's motto is "Locks since Lincoln." Using an iPad with StoryDesk's CatalogApp, customers "can interactively configure the type, style, color and other features of their padlock order." Please click the link to read the full article.

It’s the basic question everyone wants to know about Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale boom, and it’s something StateImpact’s new interactive app will help answer.

The Doxie Go is a wireless, self-contained scanner that saves scans to its internal memory. You can then connect the scanner to your computer (or iOS device, with optional accessory kit) and transfer your scanned documents to its hard drive. Please click the link to read more about the Doxie Go.