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"It is
disheartening to be charged with a crime, I've
found, when it's one you've committed. There's
rather less opportunity for righteous indignation."
--Lawrence Block
(wiki),
The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza
(amazon)
Another short week, but all is well. We're
back to a Friday publication day again, and Friday's
are great because the phone doesn't ring nearly as
much. On today's show
we have the software upgrade roundup and other
Palomar tech news, upcoming Academic Technology
training, Dave's Blackboard feature of the week,
brief discussions about the demise of FrontPage and
free downloadable audio books, and finally, the
gizmo of the week.
Campus Tech News
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The update roundup:
- iTunes has been updated to version 6.0.3.
Greater stability is the gain.
Click here to go to the Apple download web
site.
- MS AntiSpyware is now Windows Defender.
We recommend it.
Click here for details.
- StudyMate upgraded to ver. 1.5.5.
Click here for information.
- Acrobat upgraded to version 7.0.7.
Adobe Acrobat web site. Follow the
links for downloads.
-
OneCare Live is still available as a beta
download, and the pricing structure has been
announced. It is going to be 49.95 per
year, but beta participants can get it for
$19.95 for the first year if they subscribe in
April.
Click here for the OneCare web site, and
here for the MS press release on OneCare
pricing.
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The Proquest Safari Tech Book Online database
evaluation is still going on through the
library's web site.
More...
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The Concert Hour next week (March 2) will feature
Drought Buoy. Gunnar Biggs, contrabass;
Terry Sprague, dance; Brandon Cesmat, spoken
word, are Drought Buoy.
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Continue to use
PCPDF. It is an
Academic Technology service that permits faculty
and students to submit documents to a server,
and receive them back converted to PDF format as
email attachments.
Click here to try it.
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Bb World 06 will be held in San Diego Feb.
28-Mar. 2.
Upcoming AT Training Workshops
- Monday, 2/27 "FrontPage 1: 2 hours to
your own web site" 2-4pm,
LL-109, Chris Norcross will be facilitating.
- Tuesday, 2/28 "PowerPoint 2: Using Advanced
Features of PowerPoint to Create Classroom/Web
Presentations" 2-4pm, LL-109, Terry Gray
facilitating.
- Wednesday, 3/1 we had scheduled a "Basic
Communication Tools in Blackboard" workshop, but
have had to cancel because of the conflict with
the Blackboard World conference.
- Go to our
training schedule to get the details
Blackboard feature of the week
- This week David will be discussing how to
remove old or extraneous courses from your My
Courses list.
Reference
our PDF document for written instructions.
Contact Blackboard Support for more
information.
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= 3:14]
Tech Talk Topics
1. The demise of FrontPage?
This week I briefly discuss a new web authoring
strategy from Microsoft called the "Expression
Products."
Here is the link to find out more about MS
Expression and the Expression Products
Microsoft nowhere officially says, yet, that
FrontPage will be eliminated, but it is clear that
it will be. Expression Web Designer looks like
a hybrid of FrontPage and Visual Studio, but will
continue the FrontPage tradition. We will have
to wait to see how our campus licenses this product.
2. Audible Books
Did you know that audible books are available as
free downloads from the San Diego County library?
They have hundreds of titles for download, mostly
current books and best sellers, and all you need is
a library card, and a computer equipped with the
Windows media player. If you want to listen to
it on the go, you also need a portable media device
which is wma compliant, like the Creative Zen, or
one of scores of others. The iPod is out,
because it does not support wma format with digital
rights management. Here is what you get if you
try to convert a wma file with drm in iTunes:
That means, that if you want to go mobile with
your audio books (and who doesn't) you will have to
use a wma compliant mp3 player. (Yes, I know
this file has nothing to do with mp3, but that's
just what they have come to be called).
Links
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[mp3 - Play time
= 10:30]
Gizmo of the week
The world's first mobile wi-fi, Internet phone is
soon to be offered by Skype and Netgear together.
Skype is a program that can be downloaded and
installed that makes it possible to make free phone
calls over the Internet to anyone else on Skype.
The company has teamed with Netgear to make a phone
that makes this possible for mobile calling as well.
Now, if you are near an Internet access point, and
have one of these phones, you can call anyone else
with the same service for free. Find out more
at the
Skype and especially at the
Netgear web sites. The Netgear link goes
directly to information about the wi-fi phone
itself.
"Traditions are
group efforts to keep the unexpected from
happening." --Barbara Tober
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