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DCP/OIT has licensed the SensusAccess online file conversion service. Sensus combines a series of file conversion tools & unifies them in a web form interface. Specify the source file & desired format, and it emails you the result. It converts one file...

The ELK stack is an open source way to consolidate various logs gathered by logstash to a real-time search, analytics, and visualized form by way of ElasticSearch and Kibana.From the web site— Elasticsearch is a flexible and powerful open source, distributed, ...

Often people in the developer world have the question, “What is the most popular programming language?” Context is key, but there are two popular lists tracking the inquiry— IEEE, http://spectrum.ieee.org/static/interactive-the-top-programming-languages Tiobe...

Microsoft EMET 5 has now been released to general availability.Could be an interesting addition for those needing Internet Explorer and added protection— http://www.microsoft.com/emet http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2458544TechNet Blogs– http://blogs.technet.c...

Google’s Zeitgeist events are a series of intimate gatherings of top global thinkers and leaders. ZeitgeistMinds is a collection of inspiring videos from these events.Dive in to explore the ideas that affect our social, economic, political and cultural surroun...

Some UCLA 3D printing groups— Avengineering, http://18hats.net/a/home/ Ozcan Research Group, http://innovate.ee.ucla.edu/ UCLA’s student-run 3D printing club_ _ _ _Some 3D Printing resources from Doug Daniels— A Model for Managing 3D Printing Services in Acade...

Prominent item can be, “If your version of Outlook is different from the version of Word or when Word is not installed at all, some features will not be enabled including the automatic (background) spell checker and AutoCorrect. In order for these features to ...

Mozilla offers an Extended Support Release (ESR) based on an official release of Firefox for desktop for use by organizations including schools, universities, businesses and others who need extended support for mass deployments― https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/f...

UC CIO Tom Andriola has a blog. It has photos, ways to contribute, and focus on IT systemwide. He seeks to keep readers up-to-date about his activities as systemwide CIO and welcomes everyone’s input and comments to his posts. Things to check out— An “end o...

Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2012 TechNet Library documentation as a PDF(Quoting:) " This download is an Adobe® PDF of the entire contents of the Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2012 section of the Microsoft TechNet Library, for the conv...

Quoting, “Some applications that access your Google Account (such as Gmail on your phone or Outlook) cannot ask for verification codes. To use these applications, you will not use verification codes. Instead, you’ll enter an application-specific password in pl...

Google Labs’ Public Data Explorer makes large datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate. As the charts and maps animate over time, the changes in the world become easier to understand— http://www.google.com/publicdata/ DSPL: Dataset Publishing Langua...

Quoting, “Test Lab Guides (TLGs) allow you to get valuable hands-on experience with new products and technologies using a pre-defined and tested methodology that results in a working configuration. When you use a TLG to create a test lab, instructions define w...

For those seeking more information on OS X 10.11 El Capitan, Lynda.com has: Mac OS X El Capitan New Features, http://www.lynda.com/Business-Computer-Skills-Mac-tutorials/Mac-OS-X-El-Capitan-New-Features/417648-2.html 1h 8m; This is the quick intro module Ma...

By default Windows 7/8 Bitlocker uses 128-bit encryption. Each version has an option for 256-bit AES encryption. The change to 256-bit requires a Windows policy modification.See also— Bitlocker Step-by-Step Guide, http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=53779...

Rclone is a command line program to sync files and directories to and from various cloud file sharing and cloud storage services. At this time, Box.com is not a supported service, but a feature request has been submitted (link from 04/2015).see also, http://r...

Apple’s High Sierra is coming. Below are some links to help prepare for it—Upgrade to macOS High Sierra Model specific firmware updates are required (via the internet) for each system. Monolithic system imaging is therefore only supported to re-install macOS ...