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Upcoming Login Screen Refresh Paves the Way for Passkeys

June 9, 2025

In our ongoing efforts to enhance security and user experience across the Berkeley Lab community, IT is preparing for a significant upgrade to our authentication methods with the planned Lab-wide rollout of Passkeys later this year. As an initial step in this transition, we will soon be releasing an update to the authentication screens you… Read more »

eRoom Upgrade – Sunday April 17

April 11, 2011

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Apr 11, 2011 An upgrade to eRoom is planned for Sunday April 17 between 9:30am and 2:30pm. This upgrade will provide support for later versions of IE and Firefox, as well as implement some bug fixes. Update: eRoom is operational again, as of 12:30pm, April 17. Notes: (1) the eRoom Plugin… Read more »
Reading Lounge

April 8, 2011

Michael V Golden posted on Apr 08, 2011 The new Reading Lounge is now open in 54-002, the room underneath the Cafeteria. The lounge is currently open Monday – Friday from 6:30 am – 5:00 pm, and is staffed from 8:00 am to 3:00 pm. Staff can be reached at 495-2176. This newly renovated lounge is… Read more »
Registration for 2011 IT Security Symposium (June 15-16, 2011) is open!

April 7, 2011

Nina Lucido posted on Apr 07, 2011 We hope you can join us for two days of in-depth guidance and instruction on critical computing and network security topics, plus plenty of opportunities to network with your security peers from throughout the University of California. The low registration fee of $95 gives you access to lectures, panel… Read more »
BLI – Class on Archiving Files, Records on April 18

April 5, 2011

Nina Lucido posted on Apr 05, 2011 Are you running out of space in your office? Are you moving to a new office? Is the size of your office being reduced? Are you responsible for dealing with the records of retiring (or already retired) scientists? Are you wondering what to do with all the files you… Read more »
Mathematica Latest On-line Seminars

April 4, 2011

Nina Lucido posted on Apr 04, 2011 THESE SEMINARS ARE PROVIDED BY MATHEMATICA AND NOT BY IT =============================================================================== New seminar titles featuring the latest technologies in Mathematica 8 are available to the technical computing community. Here is what participants are saying: “The GPU team at Wolfram Research has accomplished a minor miracle with GPU programming, providing… Read more »
Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) Scifinder Meeting

March 31, 2011

Nina Lucido posted on Mar 31, 2011 On Tuesday, April 12, 2011, LBNL’s Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) representative Jennifer Sexton will be visiting LBNL from 10:30am-11:30am in Pers Hall (54-130). Registration is encouraged by filling out the online form: https://spreadsheets.google.com/a/lbl.gov/viewform?formkey=dGlITWVnU2RPcHhUSEN6amhYZk1lc3c6MQ Jennifer will present the latest features shown below. View experimental procedures 1. View experimental procedures (covering… Read more »
GMail-Gcal Class scheduled for Tuesday March 22

March 18, 2011

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Mar 18, 2011 If you are confused by the Web version of Gmail or just need more information on the functionality of Google mail and calendar, consider registering for a hands on Class Tuesday morning, March 22. Register for ITD0200 here. Class Content Using Google Mail, Google Calendar & Organizing Contacts Overview… Read more »
Powerful New Commenting Features in Gdocs

March 17, 2011

Adam Stone posted on Mar 17, 2011 Google has launched a set of powerful new commenting features in Google Docs. Now, you can group comments together, use @mentions to call out people for comments, respond to comments via email and have those appear seamlessly in the document, and resolve and collapse comments to remove them from… Read more »
Webspace Outage 3-25 6pm

March 17, 2011

Adam Stone posted on Mar 17, 2011 Webspace, the online file storage service provided by IT, will be down for maintenance beginning at 6pm on Friday, March 25th. The outage is expected to last five hours. The upgrade is generally intended as a ‘bug fix” release, but there are a couple of functional improvements worth noting:… Read more »
Gmail Contacts Upgraded

March 14, 2011

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 »
Camtasia Relay Pilot Available

March 10, 2011

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 »
Google Use Increases Dramatically

March 9, 2011

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 »