Author Archives: ETC staff

Bye-bye, iGoogle; a moving tale

Posted on July 24, 2012 by ETC staff

Rats. I know very well by by now that keep­ing pace with tech­nol­ogy is like run­ning with the Red Queen. In fact, I usu­ally wel­come new prod­ucts and inno­va­tions with eager­ness. But then, this unwel­come mes­sage showed up at the … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Princeton learns at lynda.com — top ten courses for Spring 2012

Posted on July 17, 2012 by ETC staff
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Addendum to Productive Scholar session on Microsoft Word Templates: Adding Fields to headers and footers.

Posted on February 9, 2012 by ETC staff

Thanks to every­one who came to today’s ses­sion of the Pro­duc­tive Scholar, which fea­tured the advan­tages of using Styles in your doc­u­ments. I’d like to fol­low up about the ques­tion  asked about how to make a header (or footer) that … Con­tinue read­ing →

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New online software training from lynda.com at Princeton

Posted on September 2, 2011 by ETC staff

The Office of Infor­ma­tion Tech­nol­ogy at Prince­ton has recently pur­chased a site license for lynda.com, an award-winning, online software-training site. The lynda.com train­ing library con­tains over 1,000 titles fea­tur­ing a wide vari­ety of soft­ware pack­ages, such as Adobe and Microsoft … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Après moi le déluge: or, the 40:40 geek’s guide to power outages

Posted on September 2, 2011 by ETC staff

Hind­sight might be 40:40, once you’ve been incon­ve­nienced by a power out­age. Hur­ri­cane Irene made for a long and try­ing week­end this past week, and I wasn’t as pre­pared as I could have been. I was one among 750,000+ peo­ple … Con­tinue read­ing →

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