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Avaya Messaging, New Voicemail Coming May 20
Telephone Services is pleased to announce a new voicemail service coming May 20 called Avaya Messaging. Your new voicemail service provides a web access portal for managing messages and settings for Lab phones online and a new feature that allows you to define “find me” rules. Read more »
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EndNote Training July 19 2011
Adam Stone posted on Jul 05, 2011 IT Division is pleased to offer an EndNote training opportunity on Tuesday, July 19. Senior Product Trainer of Research Software, Donna Kirking, will provide a morning and afternoon session on: Building an EndNote Library The morning session (1.5-hour) will focus on the ways to get data into an EndNote… Read more »
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Computer Classes in July
Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Jul 01, 2011 The IT Division is sponsoring 4 “What’s new in Office 2010” classes in July. These sessions last 3.5 hours each and cover the primary differences between Office 2010 and older versions of the Office Product. We also want to mention the eRoom to Gsites transition classes. If you… Read more »
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Google Profiles – Plus One – Circles
Adam Stone posted on Jun 30, 2011 If you’ve been on any of Google’s consumer tools (like search, Google News, etc) recently, you’ve probably noticed thew new +1 buttons and other new social features. If you’re logged in with your @lbl.gov Google Account, clicking on any of these will result in an error that reads: Google… Read more »
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Gcal gets New Look
Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Jun 30, 2011 Google is gradually rolling out some changes to the look and feel of their products. In Google calendar you can “opt-in” to the new look by clicking on the gear icon in the upper right and selected the link titled “Try the New Look”. As an example of… Read more »
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Data Center Efficiency Workshop
Nina Lucido posted on Jun 30, 2011 Handouts from Workshop: Individual PDFs: Here (Updated with Presentation 1) July 26, 2011 9AM – 5PM On July 26, Berkeley Lab will offer a special all day Data Center Efficiency Training Workshop for West Coast DOE National Labs, Northern California UC Campuses, and West Coast Federal Data Center Stakeholders. At… Read more »
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Voicemail Outage — Update
Adam Stone posted on Jun 28, 2011 Voice Mail service has been restored. We apologize for the inconvenience. *********************************************************** Subject: Voice Mail Outage The Laboratory’s voice mail system is experiencing an unplanned service interruption and is currently not available for callers to leave messages or for Lab staff to retrieve existing messages. We do not yet… Read more »
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Google Sites is now Mobile
Adam Stone posted on Jun 28, 2011 Google Sites now supports access from mobile devices. You can access your sites list and get content from your site optimized for the small screen experience. This new functionality gives LBL users a platform to quickly deliver mobile optimized content. By going to General settings under More actions >… Read more »
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UCCSC 2011 Registration is Open
Adam Stone posted on Jun 28, 2011 UCCSC – the Computing Conference for the University of California, will be held this year at UC Merced August 7-9. Registration is now open. For more information visit the UCCSC 2011 website: http://uccsc.ucmerced.edu/ Read more »
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Chromebook Pilot Begins
Adam Stone posted on Jun 22, 2011 Google formally released its first batch of Chromebooks last week and IT has received its first few to test in a pilot program. The Chromebooks, produced by Samsung and Acer, are netbook-style laptops running a customized, pared down version of Linux with the Google Chrome browser. Chromebooks are fast… Read more »
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New Gmail Gadgets to Try
(mjchoung@lbl.gov) posted on Jun 22, 2011 Gmail has a feature in Labs called “Add any gadget by URL” that allows users to add iGoogle gadgets (or any gadget that is an .xml file) to the side of your Gmail account. In order to install any of these gadgets: 1. From your Gmail account, go to the… Read more »
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Pasting Images into Messages
(mjchoung@lbl.gov) posted on Jun 22, 2011 Initially, Gmail employed a function that let users drag/drop images from their desktop right into the compose window. Now, with the latest version of Google Chrome, users can paste images right from their clipboard. For example, users can copy an image from the internet, email, etc. and paste it right into the… Read more »
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InCommon Expands to Include Research Organizations
Adam Stone posted on Jun 21, 2011 Ed Note: The following press release from InCommon discussed Berkeley Lab’s role in Federated Identity projects. Berkeley Lab was the first National Laboratory to join InCommon. —- Press Release from InCommon: Ann Arbor, Mich. June 21, 2011 Research organizations, including government labs and virtual organizations, can now join InCommon… Read more »
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