Congress voted to move Daylight Saving Time up by two weeks and in this week's Coffee Break host Ken Newquist and Courtney Bentley discuss the implications that has for your computers. In Tech News they discuss Google's opening of Gmail to the general public, assess the tech-savvy of various presidential candidates at TechPresident.com and speculate on Middlebury College's decision to ban Wikipedia as an academic source. In Help News, Courtney reviews how to connect a Nintendo Wii to the campus network and gives a rundown of upcoming workshops.
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Show Notes
ITS News
- iTunes U System Maintenance: 7 p.m.-8:30 p.m., 2/27
- Apple will be performing system maintenance on iTunes U on Tuesday, February 27, from 7-8:30 p.m. Lafayette's iTunes U will be unavailable during that time.
- What does iTunes U do?
- Daylight Saving Time Patches & Updates
- Daylight savings time has been moved up to March 11 this year, creating the potential for all kinds of computer shenanigans. Learn how to update Windows XP, Windows 2000, Outlook and Mac OS X.
Tech News
Help News
- How to connect your Wii to the wireless network
- Upcoming workshops:
- Acrobat II: Interactive PDF Documents: 10 a.m.-Noon, Tue., Feb 27
- Outlook II: Beyond Basics: 10 a.m.-Noon, Wed., Feb 28
- Web Workshops: Update Your Lafayette Web Page, Thursday, 10 a.m.-Noon, March 1, 2007; Dreamweaver Topics: Cascading Style Sheets, 4:10 p.m.-5:30 p.m., Monday, March 5, 2007
- Register for a workshop
- Complete Workshop Schedule
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Contacting the Podcast
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