Archive for January, 2007
IT @ FF
In: Good Stuff
27 Jan 2007The 30th Annual Ann Arbor Folk Festival: The IT crew and friends held down some nice seats on the main floor of the gorgeous Hill Auditorium. The first night included: Millish, Ember Swift, Martha Wainwright, Gandalf Murphy & the Slambovian Circus of Dreams, Jackie Greene, then an intermission followed by the Kiyoshi Nagata Ensemble and [...]
Thank-you Cards
In: Good Stuff| Review
26 Jan 2007As my workmates now know, I’m not a big fan of receiving thank-you cards. On first hit it’s nice but then I feel obligated to hold on to them, to display them, to not throw them away… Argh. On the other hand, my workmates seem to love receiving them. Sigh.
So I made up some thank-you [...]
NATO Phonetic Alphabet
In: Geek Finds
25 Jan 2007I got tired of trying to recite MAC addresses to people on the phone and not knowing what word to associate with D and E to make them sound different. So this morning, knowing I had to read a bunch of letters and numbers to a Comcast tech, I went and looked it up. How? [...]
Print on Demand. Right then and there.
In: Geek Finds
23 Jan 2007On Demand Books created the Espresso Book Machine – an instant book printing machine! You press the Order button and it prints you a crisp new book in seven minutes! I want one.
In the video of the launch, the producers talk about what makes it awesome (zero inventory, zero shipping costs, instant gratification, [...]
Zing Spell Check Tool: Vision
In: Improvements
23 Jan 2007 January 2008
The Zing Spell Check Tool (SCT) has been in use for nearly 12 months now. It’s been installed on all ZCoB desktop computers – remotely installed on Windows computers using group policy in Active Directory – and has received lots of positive feedback. Writing and emailing in the MS Office suite [...]
Google Tool: Gapminder
In: Good Stuff
23 Jan 2007OMG, this is an amazing information tool! Makes the sociologist in me drool.
Google Gapminder
What we’ve got here is the ability to compose visual pictures of dynamic global information on many different matrixes. Such as how does income affect life span across all countries while showing the countries by population and then run it as a [...]
Code Green from Erica, Hannah & Alex
22 Jan 2007Such a nice code green: “Consistently amazed that a dept. of five people are so on the ball about assisting the many Zingerman’s businesses. We always receive instant extra mile service from them – even for our prehistoric technologies. After saying they were going to send us a whole new heatless laminator, 3M [...]
AATA RideTrak goes mobile
In: Geek Finds| Treo
18 Jan 2007You can now easily check the status and location of the bus from your smartphone. I’ve setup a favorite from my Treo and it works quite well–just scroll to the bottom of the results page for the info. Here’s the full scoop from Scott at carfree ann arbor:
A while back we got the [...]
Product Review from Special Guest Writer
In: Review
18 Jan 2007This week Mo wrote us with an excellent product review of a screen cleaner he tested on his MacBook. Here’s what he had to say:
From: Mo Frechette
To: IT Support
Subject: crappy wipes
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 08:44:38
make screen all streaky! no buy!
Solid work, Mo. Thanks!
The latest and coolest in Intranets
In: News
17 Jan 2007In Jakob Nielsen’s annual intranet design roundup, he outlines some major trends and winning features of successful and usable intranets. Some new and interesting ones:
1. Photo of the day on the homepage (how about zingy illustration of the day? oh that would be so fun!)
2. Webcams (done!)
3. Managed news feeds, filtered by an editor for [...]
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