Protect Your Laptop For Free

You can now protect your laptop with FrontDoorSoftware Laptop Loss & Recovery for free.  Installations include laptop registration, a new talk feature, and 4 years of software tracking protection. This is available to all faculty, students, and staff courtesy of the UF Police Department.  See the following link to get started.  http://www.frontdoorsoftware.com/ufl/

New Web Site

After months of hard work by Michael we launched the new Psychology website on December 1^st. The website is powered by Joomla’s Content Management System. Beside a whole new look and feel, the new site will provide a host of new features and abilities that we will be exploring. This will allow the content to be updated easier and result in more current content. In addition, video and blog style entries will be more convenient and easy to update. Enjoy the new site.Comments and suggestions are always welcome.

In addition we have upgraded to the newer version of Joomla. This allows more granularity in security permission. Allowing our users more control in editing the website.

MS Office Live Meeting and Office Communicator

MS Office Live Meeting (LM) and Office Communicator is now configured and available on all faculty office PC's. The software can be installed on departmental computers for graduate student use by request.

LM is a conferencing service hosted here at UF. LM allows you to hold meetings with people that are unable to physically attend your meeting. You can, broadcast via a web cam, share a whiteboard, share an application, share your desktop, and such. You can invite people outside of UF. All they need to do to attend is down load and install a plug-in for MS Outlook.

MS Office Communicator is more of an instant messaging type service. Its features include instant messaging, voice, desktop sharing and video. Training videos are available on our support page to get you started.

Microsoft Office 2010

In the last week of May we have started deploying Microsoft Office 2010. It has many of the same features of Office 2007, but brought back several requested items from Office 2003. Most notably is the File menu item. Plans are to have everyone up on the new Office suite by the end of June. This project has been successfully completed.

Welcome to Windows 7

On April 14, 2009, Microsoft retired mainstream support for Windows XP.  With this in mind we have migrated nearly all the networked computer to Windows 7.  The layout has changed slightly, but the operating system will generally run the same has it has in the past.  Microsoft lists the following as advantages of using Windows 7:

Accessibility improvements. Microsoft has revamped the accessibility features in Windows 7 with improved speech recognition and a new Magnifier utility with full-screen and lens-mode views.

Action Center. While previous versions of Windows included a feature called Windows Security Center that monitored the various security features of the system, Windows 7 takes this functionality to the

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