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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.
End of the Semester Technology Reminders for Students
As you prepare for finals and the end of the semester, CTS would like to remind you of a few things: If you need to use a computer lab late at night to complete final course work, there are computers available 24 hours in the Penfield Library 24 hour room. Printing is also available at [...]
Tech Tip
Have some important events on your LakerApps Calendar that you wished stood out from the rest? Give it a special color. While viewing the details of an event, click a color in the “Event Color” section. A small palette of colors is available. Save the event. When you view your calendar, especially in “Day” or [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Tech Tip
Have you noticed some people using LakerApps Gmail have uploaded a picture of themselves? Their picture shows up anytime you hover over their name in an email or their name in the chat list or in your Contacts.Ever thought about adding your own? Follow the instructions on Google’s “Selecting your Gmail picture” article to upload [...]
Tech Tip
If you’re like us, you are subscribed to numerous mailing lists. Often, some of the discussion threads are irrelevant or uninteresting, but you don’t want to unsubscribe from the mailing list in order to avoid them. Luckily, Gmail has a “mute” feature that will allow you to suppress these discussions from your inbox. Simply select [...]