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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 [...]
LakerApps’ New Look Now Permanent
Over the course of the Fall semester newsletters, we have been letting users know that Google has been working on changing the interfaces of their Gmail, Calendar, Docs and Sites apps. Google allowed users to preview the interface and then switch back to the “classic” look for a temporary time frame. Google has now made [...]
Did You Know?
Did you know you can use LakerApps Gmail when clicking an email address on a web page viewed with the Firefox browser? Did you know you can send email to your entire class when in myOswego? There is just one small configuration change needed in Firefox to make it all happen. From the Firefox Tools [...]
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 [...]
Learning Management System (ANGEL) Updates
Browser Compatibility This past spring, Microsoft released Internet Explorer (IE) version 9 and shortly afterward, Mozilla released Firefox version 4. ANGEL was not immediately compatible with these two browsers. An ANGEL software patch was applied to our installation last month that now makes it compatible with both of these browsers. ANGEL to Blackboard Migration In [...]