2009 eNews Archive
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Volume 130 - 11/12/2009
CAS News: Success! First Virtual Extension Annual Conference
CAS News: Come Join the ITChatter
CAS News: New Site Enables Penn State Community to Reap Benefits of E-portfolios
Security News: The State of Internet (IN)Security
How Do I... Get My Own Adobe Connect Meeting Space
How Do I... SharePoint 2007 Keyboard shortcuts for Calendar View
Tech Spotlight: inPulse Smartwatch for BlackBerry
Tech Spotlight: Google Docs Adds New Features
Tech Spotlight: Are You Getting Scammed by Facebook Games
Tech Spotlight: Watermark Your Photos Online For Free
All Interest: Read Kindle Books on Your Computer
All Interest: Barnes & Noble's Nook Reads Books
All Interest: Less is Less
All Interest: Inside the Atari 800
All Interest: Adobe Photoshop App Now Available for iPhone
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Volume 129 - 10/29/2009
CAS News: Extension Annual Conference Details for Adobe Connect - Reminder Notice
CAS News: College Uses Google Analytics, No Longer Uses WebTrends
CAS News: University Launches Sixth Annual Take Control Security Awareness Campaign
CAS News: 2009 National eXtension Conference Recordings
CAS News: eXtension Horses YouTube Channel
How Do I... Find the Web Address of an Adobe Connect Recording
How Do I... Preview and Edit a PowerPoint Slide Show at the Same Time
How Do I... Create a Drop Down List in Excel 2007
Tech Spotlight: Different Audible Alarms from APC Smart-UPS
Tech Spotlight: Your World, Your Map [Update]
Tech Spotlight: Six Years of Windows Patch Tuesdays
Tech Spotlight: Scams That Use Microsoft's Name or Product Names
All Interest: U.S. Internet Traffic is Up Late
All Interest: Misplace Your Cellphone? This Site Can Help
All Interest: Growth of Social Media in Real Time
All Interest: Google Maps Uses "Crowdsourcing"
All Interest: The Weather Channel Launches Free BlackBerry App
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Volume 128 - 10/15/2009
CAS News: Extension Annual Conference is Just Around the Corner
CAS News: Enterprise Network (EN) Computer Pricing Online
CAS News: Managing in Tough Times, National Extension Initiative
CAS News: New Employee Video Features College Staff
CAS News: Cooperative Extension System Offices
How Do I... Use the Pin Feature in Office 2007 Recent Documents
How Do I... Filter Data in Excel 2007
How Do I... Add Google Translate to Blogger [Updated]
Tech Spotlight: Google Adds "Quick View" for PDFs
Tech Spotlight: Your World, Your Map
Tech Spotlight: Evernote - Collect Notes and Information on the Web
Tech Spotlight: Blue Screen Prompts to Install Spyware Fix
All Interest: FFA Today - The Dirt on Sustainability
All Interest: SlideShare's 3rd Annual Best Presentation in the World Contest
All Interest: Dell Closing N.C. Manufacturing Plant
All Interest: 35 Best iPhone Apps Of The Year (So Far)
All Interest: Star Trek Communicator Lives!
All Interest: New Yorkers Text Hi-Tech Beavers
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Volume 127 - 10/1/2009
CAS News: New ITS Training Services Video Outlines Technology Training Opportunities
CAS News: Adobe Connect - Should I Display the Attendee List
CAS News: Ag IT's Statewide Training Schedule for Oct-Dec
Security News: Fake Anti-Malware Install Video
How Do I... Manage Content from an Adobe Connect Meeting Room
How Do I... Use Table Styles in PowerPoint 2007
Tech Spotlight: UNC Data Breach Exposes 163,000 SSNs
Tech Spotlight: The FREETALK® Optimo Headset for Skype
Tech Spotlight: PackageTrack, Twitter App to Track Your Package
Tech Spotlight: Agile Messenger, Instant Messaging Client for Mobile Phones
All Interest: The Things Your Computer Can Catch in Public Places – Malicious Updates
All Interest: 5 Tips for Taming Clutter, Online and Off
All Interest: Twitter Guide and Glossary for Business Users
All Interest: Handwashing: Take Your Health in Your Hands!
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Volume 126 - 9/17/2009
CAS News: Dell Bulk Buy Computers Have Incorrect Tech Support #
CAS News: Share Large Files with a Remote Client
CAS News: PSU WebAccess Login Requires Lower Case Userid
Action Item (Maintenance): Determine the Strength of Your Password
How Do I... Creating Custom Slide Shows from One PowerPoint 2009 Presentation
How Do I... Add Timings to a PowerPoint 2007 Presentation
Tech Spotlight: present.io, Web-Based Real-Time Presentations
Tech Spotlight: Google Search Time Tip ... And Danger Revealed
Tech Spotlight: WebAnywhere - Web-Based Screen Reader
Tech Spotlight: AppRemover
All Interest: Norman Borlaug, Plant Scientist Who Fought Famine, Dies at 95
All Interest: Cell On Wheels Will Boost Call Capacity for PSU Football Fans
All Interest: A Grange Future at Universities?
All Interest: Extension Horse Management e-Tips
All Interest: Carrier Pigeon Faster than Broadband
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Volume 125 - 9/3/2009
CAS News: Doing More with Adobe Presenter
CAS News: ITS Enhances Penn State WebMail for Mobile Devices
CAS News: University to Significantly Increase Personal PASS Resources
CAS News: Penn State's Classroom Reservation Schedule Selector
CAS News: 4-H Hands-On Science Club –Potter County Experiment Videos
Action Item: Check When Your Penn State Access Account Expires
How Do I... Manage/Create Adobe Connect Meeting Layouts
How Do I... Turn Off AutoFit options in PowerPoint 2007
How Do I... Turn Off Automatic Bullets or Numbering in Word 2007
How Do I... Create Animations in PowerPoint 2007
Tech Spotlight: The LiveAbility House - eXtension
Tech Spotlight: Protected Blogs at Penn State
Tech Spotlight: Google Street View Visits University Park
Tech Spotlight: USAA Mobile iPhone Banking Application
Tech Spotlight: Mouse on Glass with Logitech Performance Mouse MX
Tech Spotlight: Ole Miss Buildings Have Twitter Accounts
All Interest: 'PayPal for Kids' Goes Live to All
All Interest: Coffee Craze
All Interest: AG-PHD
All Interest: The Top 100 Search Terms Queried by Kids
All Interest: Turning Data into Action: The Walk Across Texas Challenge
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Volume 124 - 8/6/2009
CAS News: Using Web Communication Tools to Market Your Products
CAS News: Upcoming Trainings Available to College Faculty, Staff, and Educators
CAS News: University-Wide Site License for Lynda.com Tutorials
CAS News: Computer Best Practices Blog
CAS News: Digital Literacy and its Relation to Higher Education
CAS News: Twitter Users in the College
Action Item (Maintenance): Reduce the Size of your E-mail Disk Space
How Do I... Rotate Text in Microsoft Word 2007
How Do I... Use Views in Outlook 2007
How Do I... Use and Customize the Status Bar in Excel 2007
Tech Spotlight: Deciding Who to Follow in Twitter (and Friendfeed) and Who to Friend in Facebook
Tech Spotlight: Twittering from the Tractor
Tech Spotlight: Help Customers Find Their Way with New Google Maps Gadget
Tech Spotlight: Professional-Quality Prints are now available from the KODAK Gallery
Tech Spotlight: 100 Serious Twitter Tips for Academics
All Interest: Census of Agriculture Data Now Available by ZIP Code
All Interest: Twitter Users Follow the Life of North Dakota Cow
All Interest: Digital Immigrant: A Day in the Life
All Interest: Social Media Quickly Becoming the Newest Tool of the Farming Trade
All Interest: Five Beliefs That Limit Productivity – And How to Overcome Them
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Volume 123 - 7/2/2009
CAS News: Welcome to Dean Bruce A. McPheron
CAS News: SharePoint Problem...Let Us Know the Web Address
CAS News: Friends of Penn State Accounts…Demystified
CAS News: Electricity Load Reduction Test a Success
How Do I... Recall an E-mail Message
How Do I... Log Onto and Use OWA (Outlook Web Access)
How Do I... Use Outlook Building Blocks
Tech Spotlight: Google Squared
Tech Spotlight: Sprint and Verizon Launch MiFi Wireless Router
Tech Spotlight: Blank Messages Drive Spam Spike
Tech Spotlight: SoliCall Noise Reducer
All Interest: Street Corner Science
All Interest: USB Flash Drives as Keys and Coins
All Interest: Let Homer Simpson Be Your Co-Pilot
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Volume 122 - 6/11/2009
CAS News: University Park to Conduct an Emergency Electrical Reduction Test
CAS News: Adobe Connect Demonstration Sessions for June 2009
CAS News: Penn Staters Attend ACE/NETC 2009
Action Items: Sun and Adobe Release Updates
How Do I... Give or Remove Permissions for an Outlook 2007 Calendar
How Do I... Add a Folder Location to Send To List
Tech Spotlight: Agriculture Reports Network
Tech Spotlight: Tips for Developing Non-English Web Sites
Tech Spotlight: 10 YouTube URL Tricks
All Interest: Cultivating Connections: Telling the Ag Story Through Social Media
All Interest: Gantter Puts MS Project Online
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Volume 121 - 5/28/2009
CAS News: Ag IT eNews Moving to ITS List Server
CAS News: Upcoming Trainings Available to College Faculty, Staff, and Educators
CAS News: Penn State's Editorial Style Manual
How Do I... Add Google Translate to Blogger
How Do I... Identify Duplicates in Excel 2007
How Do I... Highlight Blank Cells in Excel
Tech Spotlight: LectureTools Student Response System
Tech Spotlight: Twitter StreamGraphs and TweetVolume
Tech Spotlight: The 2009 Personal Avatar Size Reference Guide
Tech Spotlight: Online Photo Editing Site - Pho.to
Tech Spotlight: Online Photo Editing Site - LoonaPix
All Interest: University Park Campus tours to be Available via Cell Phones
All Interest: 200 Years that Changed the World
All Interest: Eye-Fi Explore Video
All Interest: Google's Automatic Translation Technology Merged into Gmail
All Interest:: 8 Guidelines To Taking Panoramic Photos With Any Camera
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Volume 120 - 5/14/2009
CAS News: Penn State Launches Wireless 2.0 Service
CAS News: Register for ITS' Technology Workshops This Summer
CAS News: Web 2009 - A Conference for Penn State Web Professionals
CAS News: County Server's APC/UPS Battery Replacement
CAS News: ITS Workbench & Data Recovery Services to be Decommissioned 6/1/09
CAS News: Green Walls, Orchids and Other Cute Little Things
Action Item: Updates for Adobe Reader 9 and Adobe Acrobat Pro 7, 8, & 9
How Do I... Use the Shared Document Library in SharePoint 2007
How Do I... Insert a Page or Section Break in Word 2007
Tech Spotlight: Spammers of College Networks Indicted
Tech Spotlight: Microsoft Reports E-mail is 97% Spam
Tech Spotlight: How Can My Students Better Reach Me?
Tech Spotlight: Everything Search Engine for Windows
All Interest: Google is Mowing with Goats
All Interest: Shu....gah
All Interest: Visualizing the U.S. Electric Grid
All Interest: Microsoft Fix it Solution Center
All Interest: Reduce Ink-Printing Costs with Ecofont
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Volume 119 - 4/30/2009
CAS News: Computer Best Practices
CAS News: New Self-Paced Training Available
CAS News: Penn State Videoconferencing Rooms and Contact List
CAS News: Penn State's New Podcasting Website
How Do I... Install the Windows Live OneCare Safety Scanner and Scan Your Computer in Safe Mode
How Do I... Printed PDF is Smaller or Larger Than Expected
How Do I... Capture the Chat History or Notes from an Adobe Connect Meeting Space
Tech Spotlight: Grassroots Video
Tech Spotlight: Google Labs: Similar Images and Google News Timeline
Tech Spotlight: PBS Video Portal
Tech Spotlight: Get the Time of Your Event in Different Parts of the World
Tech Spotlight: Advertising Fraud Video
All Interest: Master Gardener Tweets About Gardening Trends
All Interest: Vegetable Garden Help from Illinois Extension
All Interest: Selecting Trees for Your Home from Illinois Extension
All Interest: Spam Uses 33 Billion Kilowatt-Hours of Energy Yearly
All Interest: Make Word Mosaic
All Interest: Listening on the Go, at Home
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Volume 118 - 4/16/2009
CAS News: Summer Assistants and Interns
CAS News: Behrend College - Data Breach of 10,868 Social Security Numbers
CAS News: Registration Open for Summer-Fest ITS Technology Training
CAS News: eXtension's Professional Development Opportunities
Action Item (Maintenance): Use Disk Cleanup
How Do I... Change Outlook 2007 Inbox Font
How Do I... Sort the Start Menu Items Alphabetically
How Do I... Navigating the Start Menu - Fast
Tech Spotlight: Advantages of Using SharePoint Document Libraries
Tech Spotlight: Security Sucker Punch
Tech Spotlight: Food and Drug Administration Recalls on Twitter
Tech Spotlight: The Top 10 Tech Skills Your Teen Needs Now
Tech Spotlight: Facebook Growth Around the World
All Interest: Original 'Schindler's List' Found in Sydney Library
All Interest: Where's Waldo?
All Interest: All Interest: Find the Best Digital Camera for YOU
All Interest: Wearable Displays
All Interest: Retro Handset Allows Cell Phone Bluetooth Connection
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Volume 117 - 4/2/2009
CAS News: Microsoft Releases Latest Browser
CAS News: Phishing Scam Variants Hit Penn State
CAS News: I-Tech Technology Training
Action Item: Update for Sun Java Released
How Do I... Enter and Edit Formulas in Excel
How Do I... Create a Shortcut
How Do I... DVD plays Audio but no Video
Tech Spotlight: Screen Recorder for Windows
Tech Spotlight: Podcast - Safe Surfing on the Internet
Tech Spotlight: Assistive Technology Links from Microsoft
Tech Spotlight: 60+ Great How To Sites and Resources
All Interest: Dell Oklahoma City Goes 100 Percent Green
All Interest: How Dirty is a Cell Phone?
All Interest: Dig It! The Secrets of Soil
All Interest: Get Your SOCKSCRIPTION
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Volume 116 - 3/19/2009
CAS News: Training Handouts available 24/7
CAS News: New Website Tracks Pennsylvania's Economic Recovery
CAS News: PSU Computer Store Has New Website
CAS News: PSU Computer Store Opens New Location in HUB-Robeson Center
CAS News: Philadelphia Field Project
CAS News: Geospatial Revolution Project
Security News: Breaches Emphasize Need for Scanning, Encryption
Action Item: Updates for Adobe 9 and Sun Java Released
How Do I... Use Print Preview in Excel 2007
How Do I... Remove Flagged Mail from Outlook 2007 Tasks List
How Do I... Create a Home Page "Set" in IE7
Tech Spotlight: Illinois Extension Cook County Joins Twitter Ranks
Tech Spotlight: Speaker Keyboard (Tune Board) from Verbatim
Tech Spotlight: Opt Out of Google's Interest-Based Advertising
Tech Spotlight: BBC Creates a Botnet - Good or Bad?
All Interest: Cartoon History of the Land-Grant University
All Interest: Google - Shaking up Earthquake Searches
All Interest: Like Ice Cream? Then You Better Love This Site
All Interest: Mariner Unveils iPhone Spreadsheet App
All Interest: Information Technology, 50 Years Ago
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Volume 115 -3/5/2009
CAS News: Update 3rd Party Applications to Prevent Viruses
CAS News: Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro Demonstration Sessions for March 2009
CAS News: Living in Hard Times -- Bare Bones Budgeting from eXtension
CAS News: University Park VoIP Phones Provide News and Alerts
CAS News: Social Computing Magazine on Penn State Outreach's Intranet Launch
CAS News: Daylight Savings Time Reminder
Action Item: Help Prevent Drive-by Downloads by Updating 3rd Party Software
How Do I... Add More Readers to my Blog
How Do I... Make My Excel Data Tell a Story
How Do I... Automatically Number Rows in Excel
How Do I... Remove Faded or Dark Spots from Dell LCD Screens
Tech Spotlight: "Many Eyes" - Create Data Visualizations
Tech Spotlight: Create Stunning Diagrams with LovelyCharts
Tech Spotlight: Flash Game from the Got Milk Folks
Tech Spotlight: Digg Has Dug Into Twitter
Tech Spotlight: Canon Launches Waterproof PowerShot D10
All Interest: Can't Copy to Half-Full Thumb Drive, Why?
All Interest: 35 Basic Tutorials to Get You Started with Photoshop
All Interest: In Mottos We Trust? United Statements of America
All Interest: Pew Research Center's RSS Feeds and Widgets
All Interest: Nuclear Grade Duct Tape
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Volume 114 -2/19/2009
CAS News: E-Mail Aliases and Impact on E-mail Delivery
CAS News: Trouble Adding Participants to an Adobe Connect Meeting Space?
CAS News: Phishing E-mails Sent to Penn State Addresses
How Do I... Easily Format a Word 2007 Document
How Do I... Use the Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool
Tech Spotlight: On-Demand SharePoint 2007 Seminars
Tech Spotlight: StatPlanet - Interactive Data Visualization through Maps and Graphs
Tech Spotlight: KMPlayer Media Player Plays Them All
Tech Spotlight: Foxmarks
All Interest: Assessment to a Seven Year Old
All Interest: Altec Lansing inMotion Orbit M Portable Speaker
All Interest: Key Ingredients: America by Food
All Interest: Google's Book Search Adds Print Magazines Search
All Interest: 25 Years of Macintosh Pictures
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Volume 113 -2/5/2009
CAS News: Direct Shipment from Dell
CAS News: Penn State Images for PowerPoint Presentations
CAS News: Upcoming Trainings Available to College Faculty, Staff, and Educators
CAS News: Impact Reports - Ninja and Symantec Endpoint Protection (Jul-Dec 2008)
Web 2.0 Tech: Turfgrass Project in Second Life
How Do I... Add SharePoint as a Local Intranet Site for Automatic Login
How Do I... Delete Duplicate Contacts in Outlook 2007
How Do I... Copy an Outlook Web Access (OWA) Hyperlink
Tech Spotlight: Penn State's Public Internet Connection on Jan 20, 2009
Tech Spotlight: Less Than 10 Percent of Email Non-Malicious
Tech Spotlight: Anti-Phishing Education Game
Tech Spotlight: New Nanowire Sensor Technique from PSU Researchers
All Interest: Ice Cream Utopia in State College, PA
All Interest: Williamsport Company Receives Twitter Award
All Interest: Doubling Your Clientele with Twitter
All Interest: Colors In Corporate Branding And Design
All Interest: Obama Day: Coming Together on the Internet
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Volume 112 -1/22/2009
CAS News: Locate a Signature Station at a Penn State Campus
CAS News: "Secure VPN Connection terminated locally by client. Reason 429" Error Message
CAS News: Discounted Personal Cellular Service Plans to University Faculty and Staff
Action Item (Maintenance): Check Ninja's Quarantine Folder
How Do I... Prevent People's Calendars from Disappearing in Outlook 2007
How Do I... Replace a Dell Laptop Battery
How Do I... Convert PowerPoint 2007 Presentation for YouTube or Burn to DVD
Tech Spotlight: Fake CNN site from Phishing E-mail Hides a Trojan (Please READ This)
Tech Spotlight: Download Free 2009 Calendars for MS Office
Tech Spotlight: How Much CO2 Does a Google Search Produce?
Tech Spotlight: SlideShare Ribbon for PowerPoint 2007
All Interest: Google Updates its Favicon
All Interest: Do You Need a Digestive Table or a Farm Fountain?
All Interest: Mount Washington — National Geographic Magazine
All Interest: French Parking Meters Call Cops When Time's Up
All Interest: 2000 Year Old Antikythera Computer Rebuilt
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Volume 111 -1/8/2009
CAS News: Best Practices Blog Created
CAS News: Access Adobe Connect Meeting Room Reports
CAS News: SharePoint Training in 1 hour Seminars
CAS News: The Extension Professional's Creed
Security News: Scanning Initiative Starts
How Do I... Apply Formatting to an Excel 2007 Worksheet
How Do I... Clear Out My Browsing History in IE
How Do I... Stop Informational Printer Popup Balloons
Tech Spotlight: Free Online Scans for Malware
Tech Spotlight: Zip Decode Project
Tech Spotlight: The Use of the Internet by America’s Largest Newspapers (2008 Edition)
Tech Spotlight: Almost No PCs Are Fully Patched
All Interest: Twitter, Facebook, Digg: Can You Join Too Many Networks?
All Interest: Custom Eye Chart Maker
All Interest: No More Mildewy Undies, Thanks to the Twittering Washing Machine
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