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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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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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Mathematica Training Onsite – Tuesday Feb 8 2011
Adam Stone posted on Jan 28, 2011 Wolfram will be on-site for a two-hr. training on Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2011 from 1:00-3:00; Bldg 2-100. Doug McClinitic from Wolfram will provide an overview on the newest Mathematica features. Add to your Google Calendar: Agenda: Brief Overview of Mathematica A brief introduction to Mathematica for those unfamiliar with the… Read more »
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New – Hosted Backups With Carbonite for just $4mo.
Adam Stone posted on Jan 20, 2011 The IT Division is offering a new backup service for PC and Mac computers called Carbonite that is reliable, cost effective and easy-to-use. Carbonite is easy to install and runs unobtrusively in the background. It securely encrypts data for protection. More importantly, restoring files, whether just a few or… Read more »
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Google Upgrade News
Adam Stone posted on Jan 19, 2011 Over the next three weeks, IT will be upgrading one division to the new Google Apps Environment each evening. Users who will be transitioned will receive a notice the day before as well as immediately after the upgrade. After the upgrade, users will have access to additional Google Apps… Read more »
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Recharge for CPU usage starting Jan 1 2011
Adam Stone posted on Jan 12, 2011 When we originally launched the Lawrencium cluster project, we said there might be a possibility of a charge for CPU cycles to recover some of the costs. Unfortunately, that time has come and we will start recharging for cycles. The good news is that the charge will only be… Read more »
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Purchasing EPEAT Monitors and Computers
Adam Stone posted on Jan 10, 2011 (the below message went to the most frequent purchasers of monitors at LBL) As part of our overall sustainability program, the Laboratory tries to purchase sustainable products, including computers and monitors that are EPEAT registered. Registered computers and monitors are confirmed to use significantly less energy and meet our… Read more »
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Google Docs LaTeX Equation Shortcuts
Adam Stone posted on Jan 07, 2011 The Google Docs equations editor now supports a variety of LaTeX shortcuts for equation entry. More information is available here: http://docs.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=160749 Read more »
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