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Building the Individual Asset Status Report: A Partnership Between IT and Strategic Initiatives
As people prepare to leave their positions at Berkeley Lab, they work with their supervisor to ensure the return of assigned assets and a completion of responsibilities based on their specific work. Timely completion of these responsibilities and the return of assets helps to make for a smooth exit transition and assists the supervisor and… Read more »
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Gmail Contacts Upgraded
Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Mar 14, 2011 Google Contacts for the Lab’s Google domain has been upgraded so it looks like the consumer version (which has been available for several months). For Google’s blog on this change, go here. Some of the new features include: Keyboard shortcuts (go to Contacts and hit “?” for the full… Read more »
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Camtasia Relay Pilot Available
Julie Petersen posted on Mar 10, 2011 Camtasia Relay version 3.0 is available for pilot testing. Camtasia Relay captures and publishes your lecture or presentation (anything that’s happening on your computer screen, plus audio) and publishes it to the Lab’s screencast.com account. You can also choose other video formats for download, such as .avi for Quicktime… Read more »
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Google Use Increases Dramatically
Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Mar 09, 2011 The Lab community is expanding it’s use of Google products in many areas. For a quick look at some metrics, we are providing some screen shots of some of the more interesting trends. In the graph below, it is evident that many more people at the lab are… Read more »
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Old “Imap” mail accounts to be retired
Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Mar 08, 2011 Old Mail Account “Retirement” Process: March 15 – April 12 Time-frame With the exception of a handful of accounts, the lab has transitioned to Google for mail storage. The infrastructure required to maintain old imap storage will be retired later this year. Before this happens, we are going… Read more »
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Mathematica On-line Seminars
Nina Lucido posted on Mar 07, 2011 THESE SEMINARS ARE PROVIDED BY MATHEMATICA, NOT BY IT =============================================================================== Explore advanced topics in the newest free online Mathematica seminars. S51: Image Processing Applications: This seminar explores several applications of image processing in Mathematica, including segmentation techniques, feature detection, working with multiple images, image stitching, and deconvolution. The new… Read more »
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Matlab Event Scheduled in April
Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Mar 02, 2011 Mathworks (Doug Eastman and Jaime Winter) will be at the lab on Tuesday April 26 and will offer two seminars in the Bldg 50 Auditorium. AM session: 9:30 – 11:30: How a Differential Equation becomes a robot – which focuses mainly on Symbolic Toolbox, Simulink, SimMechanics, and xPC… Read more »
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Google Announces Cloud Connect for MS Office
Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Feb 24, 2011 Google released a product they call “Cloud Connect on Feb 24. Using a Microsoft Office Plug-in, it allows someone who works in Office and stores documents locally to also sync them to Google Docs. At the moment, it works on Windows computers (XP, Vista, Windows 7) Google’s help… Read more »
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Google Class Schedule
Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Feb 24, 2011 We have added a number of new sessions to our continuing series of Google “Hands on” Classes held in the 90-26 Training Facility. Register for these classes at Employee Self Service. To take a quick look at the IT calendar which lists these classes, go here. These are the classes… Read more »
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New features for Google Docs Viewer
Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Feb 23, 2011 From a Google Blog – New features for the Google Docs Viewer Google Docs Viewer allows users to quickly view PDFs, Microsoft Word documents and PowerPoint presentations online by viewing them in the browser without downloading them locally. New files supported: Microsoft Excel (.XLS and .XLSX) Microsoft PowerPoint… Read more »
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Google Video Now Available to LBL
Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Feb 17, 2011 As of Thursday, Feb 17, anyone with a Lab account has access to Google Video. This allows you to store videos and then reference them from links in email or on websites. Our first successful use of this new capability was achieved by Anne Boynton, Emergency Services Specialist. … Read more »
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Business Systems Windows Web Server Scheduled Outage Feb 22
Laura L Eichman posted on Feb 01, 2011 ITBS Application Outage IT-Business Systems Windows Web Servers Scheduled Outage, Tuesday, 2/22 5pm – midnight The IT Business Systems Windows web servers will be offline for scheduled maintenance on Tuesday Feb 22, from 5 pm to midnight. Approximately 100 IT Business Systems web applications (listed below) will be offline… Read more »
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Google Docs Gets a Facelift
Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Feb 01, 2011 Lab Users will see a redesigned user interface for Google Docs over the next several days. One of the most helpful changes is the addition of a preview pane on the right side of the screen. Filters that allow document selection by the manner in which they are… Read more »

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