Moving from Mulberry to Thunderbird

10.27.09 Mulberry will be retired December 2009. If you are using Mulberry and would like to change to Thunderbird, ITSS is offering a number of workshops, open sessions and online videos to assist you with the conversion.

For a complete listing, see: Mulberry Reaches Retirement.

Windows 7

10.21.09 Windows 7 is now available for purchase on new computers or for upgrading existing computers through the Campus Agreement. Before making the move, make sure you and your computer are ready. For the current status of support for Windows 7 within the University, see: Windows 7 Support.

Music alternatives

09.16.09 Looking for alternative, legal sources for online music and videos? Here are a few choices to get you started: Music & More.

Snow Leopard

09.14.09 Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard has been released. There are a number of University applications that are not compatible with this OS, including SPSS 17, Parallels, Norton Antivirus 10, and Novell. Because of these issues, ITSS is recommending that faculty and staff do not update their computers at this time. For details and additional incompatible applications, see: Mac OS X v10.6: About incompatible software.

Teaching and Learning During a Pandemic

09.09.09: According to UMD's Pandemic Influenza Response Plan: "The University will make all reasonable efforts to continue its teaching mission during an H1N1 influenza outbreak with the goal of enabling students to continue to make progress in their studies and to complete their academic programs in a timely manner. Instructors, individually and with their colleagues, should create strategies for instructor teaching and student learning to continue should student and/or instructor absenteeism increase possibly to levels that severely disrupt the teaching mission of the University."

For details, see: Teaching and Learning During a Pandemic.

Six Big-Risk, Unpatched Applications to Fix Now

07.01.09: Not all applications on your computer have automatic updates enabled. When applications are left unpatched, they are at risk and make your computer very vulnerable for virus infections from the Internet. This can compromise your data and your processing power.

The six most recent high-risk applications are:

• Adobe Reader
• Adobe Flash
• Adobe Acrobat
• Java
• Microsoft Office
• Quicktime

To find out if you need to fix any of the targeted applications, check the Secunia web site for Windows users or the Metaquark web site for Mac users.

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