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Dell and Apple Employee and Student Discounts
Need to buy a computer and save some cash? All SUNY Oswego employees and students can receive discounts on certain Dell and Apple laptops, desktops, printers and software. Go take a look at http://www.oswego.edu/discounts for more information.
Multimedia Production Room Services
CTS and Penfield Library have teamed together to provide a Multimedia Production Room, which is located in room 210 across from the Periodicals/Media Desk in the Penfield Library. This room can be used by faculty, staff and students to create multimedia projects using audio and video. It is equipped with the following: A [...]
Featured Article: Get Ready for Windows 7
CTS is preparing to upgrade campus-owned PCs to the Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system over the next year and a half. All new computers delivered to faculty and staff this spring semester will have Windows 7 pre-installed. One Advanced Technology Classroom in Lanigan 105 will have Windows 7 installed later in the semester so we [...]
Campus-owned Computers Will Be Receiving Regular Operating System and Software Updates
To remain current with operating system, security, and other software releases, CTS will be updating college-owned computers, servers and services throughout each semester.For college-owned computers assigned to faculty and staff, these updates will occur weekly on Wednesdays. On these “Patch Wednesdays,” CTS staff will remotely push, via the campus network, operating system and/or security patches [...]
Web Conferencing Options
Have you ever wished you could bring a remote speaker to your class? Ever wanted to conduct an online meeting with people from afar? Teach a class online with a synchronous component? If so, there are a couple of options available to you. CTS has been working on making two different web-conferencing services available. They [...]
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 [...]