Author Archives: Karla
April 19, 2010 – 5:43 pm
Now that everyone’s gearing up for the end of the semester, I thought it would be nice to do a for fun post (though don’t forget, ITD still has office hours going on where you can practice presentations and ask questions!). Apple’s iPad isn’t the only news for Mac aficionados lately. News sources over a read more »
February 16, 2010 – 1:02 pm
Last night Adam and I hosted a Google Reader/Blogging workshop in the Elluminate Meeting Room. For my portion of the demonstration I talked about how users can personalize Google Reader to aggregate blogs and news feeds in order to keep organized and share them with friends and Gmail contacts. You can view the slides from read more »
January 13, 2010 – 3:15 pm
VPN: VPN stands for Virtual Private Network. It is a virtual network that makes use of an underlying network to create a secure connection between a computer and a network or a computer and another computer. The connection may be encrypted or require authorization (for example, CITES recommends you set up CITES VPN so that read more »
December 16, 2009 – 3:48 pm
After staying up until 3:30 AM working on the final project for one of my classes last night, I was woken at 8:30 this morning by my phone ringing. My friend was lucky that her picture showed up on the screen of my iPhone, because you have to be a pretty special person to get read more »
December 16, 2009 – 3:20 pm
Some blogs to check out! Check out the APA Style Blog. I heard about this from @ALALibrary. Some posts of interest: How to Cite Twitter and Facebook, Part I How to Cite Twitter and Facebook, Part II: Reference List Entries and In-Text Citations Another nice blog to check out is the Young Adult Library Services read more »
December 14, 2009 – 2:52 pm
operating system: a program that manages computer activities and is necessary in order to run other programs. The operating system manages the various hardware and software resources of a computer. Examples of operating systems include: Microsoft’s Windows 7 Apple’s Snow Leopard Linux Mint To learn more: Dictionary.com entry Wikipedia entry Webopedia entry How Stuff Works read more »
December 11, 2009 – 4:07 pm
My current default browser isFirefox. I like how my add-ons are set up and I’m comfortable with it. I also have Safari and Camino on my MacBook as sometimes things don’t work in Firefox, and it’s nice to have more than one browser for troubleshooting purposes here in the office. But a couple days ago read more »
November 30, 2009 – 11:06 am
Cyber Monday– the Monday immediately following Black Friday. It used to be the case that many people would do most of their online shopping for the holidays when they got back to work on Monday (during a time when more people would have faster internet connections at work than at home). The term was created read more »
November 22, 2009 – 3:58 pm
It’s nearing the end of the semester and that means final projects! For those of you who are preparing to present in Elluminate, check out our Presenters tutorial here: Presenting in Elluminate We also have our new Elluminate Meeting room for you to meet with people to work on group projects. For more information on read more »
November 3, 2009 – 5:09 pm
API (Application Programming Interface). An API is simply defined as an interface that allows software interaction. It achieves this through defining the vocabulary and calling conventions necessary for the communication. Web APIs provide a basis for mash-up technology, utilized in many Web 2.0 applications. To learn more about this term, see PC Magazine’s article read more »
