Technology Services

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  • Get your Gravatars!

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    jlencion

    We recently enabled some new features involving comments on blogs at Gustavus. One of the coolest features, and the one that could use a little help from you readers, is the addition of Gravatars.

  • Gustavus 6-year Academic Calendar

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    nsonsteb

    Hi everybody, You may have noticed that your 6 year Academic Calendar has disappeared from your Gustavus Google Calendar. We wanted to let everybody know the URL to add it back. The button is at the top of the web page, and make sure you choose Gustavus Google Calendar. Have a great day! http://gustavus.edu/registrar/six_year_calendar/six_year_calendar.php

  • How to Find Free Images

    How to Find Free Images

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    jlencion

    Have you ever been writing a blog post or putting together a website and thought that all it really needs is a couple of decent photos? If you don’t have the time or talent to take photos for your pages, you might feel like you are out of luck. On the contrary, there’s good news…

  • Calendar Widgets Get Date Links

    Calendar Widgets Get Date Links

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    jlencion

    You may have noticed that a number of Gustavus pages feature calendar widgets that display events from the College Calendar. Today we added a small but hopefully useful feature to these widgets–whenever a date is shown, that date will link to the same date in the College Calendar.

  • Google Calendar Gets Offline Mode, Docs Attachments, and iPhone and Windows Mobile Sync

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    jlencion

    Kyle Chambers in the Psychology department kindly writes in with news that Google Calendar recently added a couple of valuable features–offline access and Google Document attachments. Offline Calendar From Google’s FAQ about offline calendar: Calendar keeps you on time, even when you’re not online. Offline Calendar allows you to access your events through your browser…

  • Scheduled Maintenance: 5pm February 6, 2009

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    jeremy

    This evening, beginning at 5pm CST, Technology Services will be performing scheduled maintenance on a group of servers that provide essential functionality to the Gustavus Website. During the scheduled maintenance, portions of the website will be replaced with a friendly message stating the site is currently unavailable and provide some Gustavus-related links. The entire maintenance…

  • Reminder: Update Your Profile

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    jlencion

    Calling all faculty, administrators, and staff–now is the perfect time to check out your profile and make sure it is completely up to date. Make sure you have a picture! Or, if you haven’t created a profile yet, take a few minutes to introduce yourself to website visitors. If you want some inspiration, cruise the…

  • Religion Theses Search

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    jlencion

    While the religion department has been posting copies of students’ senior theses on its website for a number of years, we recently added a handy search box to the page. Thanks to a little bit of help from some Google technology, you can now search through all of these academic documents. There’s a lot of…

  • College Calendar Redesigned

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    jlencion

    One of the oldest, largest, and most important pieces of the Gustavus website, the College Calendar was just rethought, redesigned, reprogrammed, and released.

  • Browser share

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    jlencion

    Since each web browser behaves differently, web developers are always interested in how many visitors are using which version of each of the major browsers. As new versions are released, fewer people end up using older versions of browsers and we have to worry less about our pages looking perfect in some of the less…