The other day, project management software came up and the Libraries do have an account with Basecamp from 37Signals (the site is here, this link goes to an external site off of the University webspace and is provided for reference only). The account (and this may be incorrect and may be subject to correction) is [...]
Automatic Audio Conversion
Lifehacker (a techie tools website) mentioned several tools that convert text files to audio, in mp3 or other formats. This is handy for teachers and others who may type notes for a presentation or a class and may not have time to then record themselves reading the notes. While the automatic voice won’t sound lively, [...]
Documentation
Logan activated the Akismet spam blocker on all of the active blogs.
To further reduce spam problems, the blogs are set to only allow user accounts with UFLIB.ufl.edu or UFL.edu email addresses. In general, this should be fine and it makes it easier for us to manage the blogs for spam, possible hack attempts, and [...]