IT News

New Passkey Dashboard and Temporary OTP Access Coming Soon

August 3, 2026

This week, Berkeley Lab will be launching a redesigned Passkeys Management Dashboard and will feature a self-service feature called “Passkey Holiday” coming soon. Together, these updates will make it easier for employees to manage their passkeys, monitor account changes, and temporarily access legacy tools that do not yet support passkey authentication with a one time… 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 »
Old “Imap” mail accounts to be retired

March 8, 2011

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 »
Mathematica On-line Seminars

March 7, 2011

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 »
Matlab Event Scheduled in April

March 2, 2011

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 »
Google Announces Cloud Connect for MS Office

February 24, 2011

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 »
Google Class Schedule

February 24, 2011

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 »
New features for Google Docs Viewer

February 23, 2011

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 »
Google Video Now Available to LBL

February 17, 2011

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 »