Archive for December, 2011
Featured Article: There’s a New Look Coming to a Google App Near You!
It is expected that Google will be introducing a new look to the LakerApps suite of applications for all users in the December/January timeframe. This includes the Gmail, Calendar, Docs and Sites apps. In June of this year, Google announced it would be working on creating new user interfaces for its primary applications. Google cites [...]
Google No Longer Supporting Older Firefox and IE Browsers
Google recently announced it will no longer be supporting versions of Firefox 3.6 and below nor IE 7 or below in use with its applications. This is especially true of the new Gmail interface scheduled to become the default look with an opt-out setting in mid-December (see “There’s a New Look Coming to a Google [...]
Using Mail Links with LakerApps Gmail
Are you a LakerApps Gmail user and wished when you clicked an email link in a web page that it would just use Gmail rather than asking you to launch Microsoft Outlook or Thunderbird? Well, now you can, at least with the Firefox browser. To integrate Firefox with LakerApps, there is a simple configuration setting [...]
Lecture Capture Pilot Project Continues to the Spring 2012 Semester
Over the last year, CTS has been piloting lecture capture products used for recording presentations and lectures. The service has been primarily used for capturing faculty class lectures so students can then review the lecture material later. CTS will continue this pilot in the Spring semester with two capture products, echo360 and Tegrity. We are [...]
Notes from the Help Desk
The Technology Support Center (TSC) will be open extended hours for the first two weeks of the semester to assist with any start of the semester technology issues students, faculty, and staff may have. Please check the TSC website for specific hours. The TSC is located in 26 Lanigan Hall and is available by email [...]
Did You Know?
Did you know as an employee or student of SUNY Oswego, you are eligible for discounts on some Dell and Apple merchandise? Both Dell and Apple give SUNY Oswego faculty, staff and students discounts on their personal purchases of some of their merchandise. With the holidays right around the corner, it might be worth a [...]
Professional Development
Instructor-led workshops for the fall semester have wrapped up, but look for some to be held during the CELT sponsored Winter Breakout January 17-20.Until then, feel free to check out our self-paced, on-demand tutorials available from our iTunes U site. Tutorials covering Microsoft Word 2010, Excel 2010, PowerPoint 2010 and LakerApps Sites are currently available. [...]
Gartner Research Now Available to SUNY Oswego
Gartner is a company that offers services in the area of Information Technology research and consulting. Gartner has about 1200 research analysts who are experts in different IT subject areas including consumer technologies, mobile and wireless, emerging trends, security, hardware and storage, infrastructure and architecture, business process improvement and more. These experts produce reports on [...]