Probably with the Virginia Tech Tragedy in mind (though not specifically stated), Boston University recently began requiring its students to hand over their cell phone numbers for the university’s new Send Word Now system (or SWN, if you text with a lot of acronyms).
Send Word Now is an emergency notification system that will help ensure rapid and reliable mass communication to students, faculty, and staff. The Send Word Now system is designed to communicate with cell phones (text and voice messages), landlines, e-mail systems, and pagers during a crisis or time-sensitive situation on the Boston University Charles River and Medical campuses. In certain cases, Send Word Now has the capability of allowing recipients to provide responses to messages received.
Great step, Boston University. Here’s hoping other colleges and universities follow your lead.
Want tons of cool, free [adult swim] schwag? Today’s the last day to submit your video! And we mean it! We want videos!
So stop procrastinating. Shoot a quick video, upload it, and win. It’s that easy. But go ahead and use this as a reason to skip class if you really need to.
Accidentally delete your work? Or save it somewhere and you can’t find it? Or the power went out? Before you start frantically emailing your professor, follow these steps:
Send out a search party.
In Windows, click Start, Search, All files and folders.
Type what you remember of the name or simply *.doc to get all your Word documents.
Select My Computer under Look in, and then under More advanced options, make sure Search hidden files and folders is checked.
Then hit Search.
Still no luck? Check your Recycle Bin.
Open it up and look through whatever files you’ve got. Did you find it? If so, right-click and choose Restore. Then if you’re not sure where it actually restored to, perform a search for it.
Or you can pray for AutoRecover.
Sometimes if Word crashes or closes unexpectedly, it’ll still save what you had. Re-open Word. If a Document Recovery task pane comes up, double-click your document to open it and immediately Save As.
Chris, Kelly, and Scott once again podcast from a train, with their first live audience. The guys are still hot from their great time at the Future of Web Apps conference in London and are just leaving Berlin. While not harassing Kevin Rose in London, Chris, Kelly and Scott learned about plenty of new sites and some new soulless business tactics. Berlin was more of a vacation sponsored by their program, and the guys don’t talk about it too much.
We’re still searching for videos, any videos, for our [adult swim] schwag contest. We’ve gotten a lot of enthusiasm but no videos! So submit your videos!
And the $500 study-break contest deadline has been extended. We’ve already given away our free pair of carpet skates, but you can still win your own and a chance at $500 here.
Research season: the productive student becomes a tab maniac during this time of year. Just in time for midterm papers, I’ll share some methods for saving tabs in Firefox so that you can come back to your research later. You and your computer can take a rest.
Impromptu
Personally, this is my favorite method, just because of how resourceful it is. You can do this right now, using Firefox’s built-in capabilities: no need to install a plug-in (which means you can do this on a computer other than your own). The idea is simple. Force Quit (Command+Option+Escape) Firefox. This will “force” your tabs into Firefox’s Auto-Recover. When you open the browser again a window will pop-up, asking if you’d like to restore your last websites – think of this as a “reminder” that you’ve got to get back to your research. Agree to the restore, and you’ll have the last session’s info. If you chose to decline and procrastinate, you’ll loose your work.
I won’t completely endorse this method, because of the ramifications of a Force Quit. Kelly Sutton got all up in my face about “memory leaks” and other disasters of the Force Quit, but I think Firefox is robust enough to handle such an action every once in a while. And if you’re using the school’s computer lab, who cares?
Built-in Power
Hidden within the depths of Firefox, there is indeed a way of easily saving your last session – but you have to know where to find it. Open Options/Preferences and in the “Main” tab, under the “Start-Up” heading, select “Show my windows and tabs from last time” under the pulldown menu at “When FireFox starts:.”
College students around the U.S. wake up today hopefully more hungover than they’ve been in awhile. That’s because last night was “madness at midnight” or “midnight madness” across the nation; the NCAA basketball season officially started at midnight this morning. To commemorate this annual occasion, we’ve dug up some sports-related posts from our archives. Enjoy.
We’re growing a little too fast and our bandwidth costs are going to dry out our empty well of funds soon. So we’ve decided to ad ads (hah) back to the site, but only for visitors coming from search engines. So to you regular readers, you’ll never know anything was different.
Probably with the Virginia Tech Tragedy in mind (though not specifically stated), Boston University recently began requiring its students to hand over their cell phone numbers for the university’s new Send Word Now system (or SWN, if you text with a lot of acronyms).
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Accidentally delete your work? Or save it somewhere and you can’t find it? Or the power went out? Before you start frantically emailing your professor, follow these steps:
