The ITS Coffee Break returns for the fall semester with news of bouncing e-mails, the switch to SFTP for accessing web sites on WW2, updates to the Lafayette Toolbar for Firefox, a discussion of the top ten Facebook apps for Librarians, and a look at the latest features added to Google Maps.

Getting the Podcast

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• Download the MP3 directly
• Subscribe to the Soapbox podcast rss feed using an aggregator (you only need to do this once; subsequent shows should download automatically)
• Subscribe to the Soapbox feed via iTunes

Show Notes

ITS News

• The Switch to SFTP
  • You should use SFTP to connect to WW2 instead of regular FTP.
  • How to configure secure FTP in Dreamweaver:
    • http://ww2.lafayette.edu/~its/help/dreamweaver/ftp
• The Case of the Bounced Email
  • Spammers are spoofing email addresses from Lafayette accounts when they send out their messages. This causes messages that are undeliverable to bounce back to folks at Lafayette. Annoying, but not much we can do about it. To verify that we're not sending these or to request a more restrictive spam filter to deal with the bounces, contact the help desk.
• Firefox Toolbar Updated to 1.2
  • Links to Moodle and iTunes U have been added.
    http://ww2.lafayette.edu/~its/firefoxtools

Tech News

• Top Ten Facebook Apps for Librarians – Part One
  
  • Runs down applications that librarians might want to add to their Facebook accounts, such as "iRead", which lists (obviously enough) the books you've read, your delicious bookmarks, library guides, and much more.
  • http://oedb.org/blogs/ilibrarian/2007/top-ten-facebook-apps-for-librarians-part-one
• Google Launches Mapplets
  
  • Google Maps will let you add your own data as overlays. Very cool!
  • http://lifehacker.com/software/mashups/google-launches-mapplets-277155.php
• Students Build Campuses in Google Earth
  • From the Chronicle of Higher Ed: "Google announced last month that seven colleges won a competition that had students creating three-dimensional models of their campuses in Google Earth, the company’s mapping Web site. Out of 350 entrants, the winners were: Purdue University, Concordia University’s Loyola Campus, Stanford University, Indiana University-Purdue University at Fort Wayne, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, Dartmouth College, and the University of Minnesota."
  • http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=2347

Help News

• Gearing up for Moodle's first full semester
  • Almost everyone's been added to moodle and enrolled in their classes, but there are a few folks we've missed because of eddies in the data continium. If you're having problems, call the help desk.
  • http://moodle.lafayette.edu
• Upcoming Workshops
  • Moodle Quickstart
  • Mapping & Google
  • Full Calendar: http://ww2.lafayette.edu/~its/pages/calendar/
  • Register: http://ww2.lafayette.edu/~its/help/workshop/registration