Do students actually open the CD’s universities send them?

My brother is two years younger than me and I remember him getting College junk in the mail for his last two years of high school. I probably got all that same junk too, I just tossed it out since I already knew where I wanted to go. Postcards, booklets, letters and CD’s. The paper [...]

October 7, 2008 • Tags: , , , , • Posted in: main • No Comments

Saving Keystrokes with Firefox and Keywords

As a university web worker we constantly are typing in the same pattern of URL for every site. This becomes time consuming and routinely gets misspelled forcing a rapid delete key actions. I also wondered in the back of my mind about a shortcut to typing in URL’s much like IM word shortcuts but never [...]

March 18, 2008 • Tags: , , , , , • Posted in: main • No Comments

Refresh OS X Finder

The Apple products and community never cease to amaze me. When there is a problem to solve more than likely someone has already created an elegant solution. An experience I had today reinforced my findings ten fold. I have a few shares on a network drive that I connect from OS X via Samba. Files [...]

August 26, 2007 • Tags: , , , , • Posted in: main • 3 Comments