K-State faculty/staff are invited to meet their K-State Apple campus student representatives 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Thursday, April 16, in Union Room 204 for a come-and-go, question-and-answer session. Cookies, tea, and coffee will be provided, so bring your lunch and stop by and have a bite. Continue reading “Faculty/staff: Any Mac questions? Meet with Apple student reps April 16”
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Reduce ink-printing costs with Ecofont
K-Staters looking for a way to reduce printing costs might want to consider using Ecofont. This font style, created by the Dutch company Spranq, was designed to use less ink than other fonts — about 15 percent to 20 percent less — by placing small holes throughout the typeface.
K-State computer recommendations for 2009
K-State’s computer recommendations for students buying a computer to bring to college have recently been updated with the 2009 purchasing guidelines. Intended for freshman/sophomore levels, the recommendations cover operating systems, networking, software, environmental considerations, and more. Continue reading “K-State computer recommendations for 2009”
C2C Spring Forum first-time videoconference April 3
K-State will be one of seven host sites for the Colleague to Colleague (C2C) 2009 Spring Forum, which will be C2C’s first-ever videoconference. It will be 10 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Friday, April 3, in Dole Hall Electronic Classroom on the K-State campus. Participants do not need to register, but should RSVP to Susan Zvacek (szvacek@ku.edu), C2C chair, if they plan to attend the K-State site or any of the other host locations (see list below).
Program
| Friday, April 3 | C2C videoconference sessions |
| 10:00-10:15 | Introductions, announcements |
| 10:15-11:15 | Semantic Web (Web 3.0): The Platform, the Promise, and the Potential for Education and Instruction (Jim Van Horn, University of Central Missouri) |
| 11:30-12:30 | Copyright Issues (presenter TBA) |
| 12:30-1:30 | Lunch (on your own) |
| 1:30-2:15 | Intensive Course Re-Development for Bb (Doug Golick, Toshi Urata, University of Kansas) |
| 2:15-2:30 | Wrap-up |
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8 million+ ID thefts target college-aged, but everyone needs prevention steps
A general misconception is that identity theft occurs primarily to either the middle-aged or to senior citizens. A recent report published with data from the Federal Trade Commission debunks this myth by clearly showing that the group most affected by this crime is college-aged individuals.
In the January-December 2008 report (PDF, 101 pages) compiled by the Consumer Sentinel Network, there were more than 300,000 identity-theft complaints registered in 2008, with 24 percent of complaints made by individuals from 20 to 29 years of age.
The Consumer Sentinel Network is a partnership between several federal-level law enforcement entities, including the Federal Trade Commission and the Internet Crime Complaint Center. Their 2008 report is based on data from several cooperating federal agencies. Even though the report indicates 300,000 identity-theft complaints were registered, the FTC estimates that nearly 9 million U.S. citizens have their identity stolen each year.
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Create your own PDF files
Have you ever wanted to make your own PDF files? The process has become increasingly simple over the last few years and now there are several free options out there for both PCs and Macs. Think of these solutions as PDF printers but instead of producing a sheet of paper with your document, a file will be saved instead.
While these solutions will create PDF files, they will not create fillable PDF forms. To produce a fillable PDF form, you will need to purchase a solution like Adobe Acrobat Standard or Pro (see Adobe’s Product comparison webpage).
Customize your RSS feeds with Yahoo Pipes
Have you ever had a bunch of RSS feeds that were very similar and that you wished were just one aggregate feed? For instance, many sites publish a number of feeds for different parts of their content, and it would often be more useful to have all that content in one feed so you don’t have to check multiple sources for the content.
Or, have you ever had a bunch of feeds that share a certain topic and that you’d rather be in one feed rather than separated?
Yahoo Pipes offers a simple way to aggregate feeds. Yahoo Pipes is a service that has a wide range of applications and can be used for some fairly complex tasks. For this example, we will use it to easily perform three tasks:
- Retrieve a number of RSS feeds
- Aggregate and sort the feeds
- Republish the feeds as a single RSS feed
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Microsoft Office online training for 2003, 2007, Mac 2004
Information Technology Services has recently purchased Microsoft Office online training for Office 2003 and 2007 (PCs) and 2004 for Macs. The training includes self-paced courses as well as online technical references on a wide variety of topics. We are first offering access to the training to K-State faculty and staff on a first-come, first-served basis. The tutorials are free but registration is required for access.
Note: There are a limited number of licenses. Account activity will be monitored, and accounts that are not being used will be reassigned, so only request access if you intend to use the training.
Don’t forget to change your password in Dreamweaver too!
After you change your eID password, if you use Dreamweaver’s FTP function, don’t forget to change your password in Dreamweaver, too. To change your password in Dreamweaver, do the following:
- On the Site menu, click Manage Sites.
- Highlight the site you want to change your password for and then click Edit.
- Click the Advanced tab.
- Under Category (on the left), click Remote Info.
- In the Password box, type your new password.
- Click OK and then click Done.
Create videos easily with Jing
Have you ever wanted an easy way to make videos on your computer? Ever thought video screen capture would be great, but think it would too hard to figure out how to create the video, put it online, and stream it?
Jing is here to help. Jing provides an easy-to-use three-step process to:
- create a video
- upload it to a server
- embed or link to the video on a webpage or in an e-mail
After installing and running the Jing program, a small, sun-like icon appears at the top of or in the corner of your desktop. Upon clicking it, you have three options — you can capture, see your recorded history, or adjust the settings.
