WebEx personal rooms are great for impromptu collaboration.
If you're a faculty, staff, or student at Brown, you have a "personal room" in your Brown WebEx account. This "room" is a permanent link you can share with others so they can join you online. Just like in a regular WebEx meeting, you can share video from your webcam, audio chat, broadcast your screen, or share a file. But unlike a regular WebEx meeting, you don't need to schedule in advance.
Tableau is a powerful data visualization tool.
If you are an enrolled student, you are eligible for a FREE Tableau Desktop license through the Tableau for Students program.
This is an incredible value as licenses start at $999. It's good for one year and can be renewed as long as you are a full-time enrolled student.
Free Tableau Training
Today, almost all Brown students, faculty, and staff have a computer. But in 1969, when our campus was home to only a couple, the mainframe was king.
Tired of signing out of your Google / Gmail accounts?
If you use both Brown email and a personal Google account, as many members of the Brown community do, Chrome Profiles are a convenient way to stay logged into both accounts at the same time. You can add each of your accounts in the "People" section of your settings, then keep a browser window open for each account.
For detailed instructions, see our article Use Chrome with Multiple Google Accounts.
Phishing is scary, and it's getting more realistic every day.
If you have a brown.edu email address, you've probably gotten plenty of emails that attempt to scam you out of your Brown username and password (or other personal information). These are known as "phishing" emails.
Today's example is especially realistic, especially due to the accurate contact information for our IT Service Center. How do we know it's fake? Let's take a look.
The following list includes technology-related trainings offered by various campus groups.
As always, we recommend following the links to confirm the time and date in case anything changes. If we missed something, tweet us @ITatBrown or email cis@brown.edu. We will continue to update this list as new events are scheduled.
In October 2015, we had the pleasure of welcoming Michael Dell and Aneel Bhusri as part of the Leadership in Technology series.
Thank you to everyone who was able to join us for these events. Recordings of the events are available below.
October 9th, 2015
October 14th, 2015
When you paste text, unwanted formatting sometimes comes along for the ride.
If you already use the Paste keyboard shortcut Control+V (PC) or Command+V (Mac), try adding a Shift to paste the text without formatting.
What are some simple steps that iPhone and Android owners can take to make their phones more secure?
Last week, CIS staffers Andy and Obasi presented phone security sessions as part of BEar AWARE month. We'd like to share some of our favorite tips from these sessions.
We've made a change to the way that Adobe Creative Cloud Applications are installed on Brown-owned computers.
The process for Creative Cloud installation is now the same as the personal version: instead of downloading each piece of Adobe software individually from the software catalog, you can simply install the Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop Application and manage software installation and updates from within that program.
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