Tuesday Tips Archive
Find past editions of the weekly Tuesday Tips emails.
- April 19, 2016
- Goodbye MoobilenetX, Hello eduRoam! * Welcome Our New Student Service Analysts * Books: A Bevy of Books about Business
- April 5, 2016
- Making the Most of Microsoft Office * Congratulations to Drawing Winner MaryJane Miller * Welcome Sam Mosher, Senior Desktop Support Analyst * Books: iPad, BASH shell
- March 8, 2016
- De-cluttering Office365 Email * Security Notice: Mac Ransomware * Congrats to Drawing Winner! * Meet Mahashree Rajendran, Student Desktop Support Analyst * Books: Excel Macros, Data Wrangling with Python
- February 23, 2016
- Qualtrics Now Available Campus-Wide * Congratulations to Drawing Winner Xiaoling Shu * Meet Faustine Yiu, Student Service Desk Analyst * Books: File Management; Power Pivot and Power BU; BASH shell
- January 26, 2016
- DSS Staff Training Incentive Program: Congrats! * Microsoft Surface Pro Power Adapter Recall * Welcome to New Student Service Analysts * Books: File Management, Access 2016, Switching to Mac
- January 1, 2016
- Self-Service Software Installation! * Congratulations to Drawing Winner Lupe Sanchez * Meet Henley Kuang, Student Service Desk Analyst * Books: Word 2010; DAX and M for PowerBI; Relational Databases
- December 15, 2015
- Major Systems Maintenance 12/19 - 12/20 * DSS IT Closed over Winter Break * Meet Sang Ho, Student Service Desk Analyst *Books: Windows 10, Making Sense of Data, iPhone
- December 1, 2015
- Power Query: Excel Add-on for Importing and Shaping Data * Congratulations to Drawing Winner Lupe Sanchez! * Meet Don Kaing, Student Service Desk Analyst * Books: Intro to SAS, Python Data Analytics, SPSS for Dummies, OS X El Capitan
- November 3, 2015
- Adobe Creative Cloud * Cool Campus Challenge Update * Congratulations to Drawing Winner Ruth Parcell * Meet Edugie Irivbogbe, Student Service Desk Analyst * Books: SAS Data Visualization, Facebook Marketing, Python Automation, Social Semantics, Data Science Love
- October 20, 2015
- Computer Replacement Program * Join the Cool Campus Challenge * Meet Student Service Desk Analyst Young Cho * Books: C++, iPad at Work, Bitcoin, R Statistics
- October 6, 2015
- Top Security Tips * Monthly Drawing Winner * Don't Climb El Capitan Just Yet * Meet Webmaster Carol McMasters-Stone * Books: Graphs, Data, and Semantic Web; Python Games; Windows 10
- September 15, 2015
- Welcome, and New Services for Fall 2015 * New Economics Website Launched * Meet the DSS IT Service Desk and Desktop Support Team * Books: Data Collection with R; Conflict Resolution; iPython; Graph Databases
- September 1, 2015
- Recycle Old Equipment * Congratulations to Drawing Winner Brianna McGee! * Meet Student Service Desk and Desktop Support Analyst Ricky Wheeler * Books: Mindfulness at Work, Coding Intro, Data Science, Organizing
- August 18, 2015
- Box now provides unlimited storage! * Meet Dayna Wong, Student Service Desk Analyst * Books: Data Visualization, Big Data, Data Science
- August 4, 2015
- Weebly Available for Faculty Websites * Monthly Drawing Winner Janet Lane * Security Tip: Please Don't Send Us Your Passwords * Meet Alleen Tu, Student Service Desk Analyst * New Login Screen for Office 365 * Books: Excel for Evil Geniuses, SAS TABULATE, Photos for Mac and iOS
- July 21, 2015
- SECURITY ALERT: please reboot TODAY! * Monthly Drawing Winner: Grace Woods * Meet Service Desk Analyst Sylvia Lam * New on Books24x7: Computational Linguistics, Power Excel, and SQL for Smarties
- June 23, 2015
- Java Updates to Resume * Now Easier to Access Books24x7 * Meet Derek Wong, Student Service Desk Analyst * Books: Web Scraping; Guerrilla Data Analysis with Excel; Big Data Analytics; Mac OS X Yosemite
- June 9, 2015
- Phone Scams: Don't Be Fooled! * Traveling with Technology * Analyst Alex Yi * Books: Computing Fundamentals, Core Java, Cognitive Computing
- May 25, 2015
- New Rules of Thumb (Drives) * Service Analyst Leslie Chan * Books: FileMaker Pro 14; Think Stats
- May 12, 2015
- Microsoft Office 365 Collaboration Features * Meet Analyst Ryan Bui * Books: Data Scholarship, Windows 10, Certainty
- April 21, 2015
- Goodbye "moobilenet," Hello "ucd-guest" * Voicemail Transition * Connecting to Projectors and TVs * Books: Qualitative Big Data; iPhone; Data Science
- April 7, 2015
- Redesigned Psychology Website Launched * teftw: Text Expanders for the Win * Books: R for Data Science, Matlab for Graphics and Math Analysis
- March 24, 2015
- eduRoam Around the World * Keyboard Shortcut: Search * Books: Beginning and Advanced Python; Massive Data Mining; Numerical Methods in MATLAB
- March 10, 2015
- Spring Cleaning? Don't Trash that Technology! * Congratulations to Annual Survey Drawing Winners * Skip the Mouse to Manage Windows * Books: Instructional Design, GPU Computing, Visual Problem Solving
- February 24, 2015
- Reminder: DSS IT annual survey * Adobe Licensing Changes * Keyboard Shortcut: Reopen that Tab! * Books: Time Series with R; Big Data; Language Processing with Perl and Prolog
- February 10, 2015
- Reminder: DSS IT annual survey * Accessibility for Color Blindness * Shortcut: Ctrl/Command-L for Address Bar * Books: Scoring with SAS; Data Science
- February 3, 2015
- Special Edition: DSS IT Annual Survey * Winner of Monthly Customer Satisfaction Drawing: Dr. Monique Borgerhoff Mulder from Anthropology
- January 27, 2015
- Tell us what you think for a chance to win $25! * DSS IT drop-in location moves to 483 Kerr Hall * Goodbye to Pierce Bae * Books: SAS RegEx; R Image Processing; Matlab Matrix Algebra; Advanced Excel
- January 13, 2015
- Kerr Hall Location * Screenshots: Help Us Help You * Meet the Application Development Team * Books: SAS, Evernote, Matlab, Python, Yosemite
- December 16, 2014
- Outage Notification Information * Systems Administration Team * 7-digit Dialing starts 12/22 * Books: Wordpress and Time Management
- December 9, 2014
- Find Your Way Around the Death Star * Awards for Iris Chan and Pierce Bae * 7-Digit Dialing Starts 12/22 * Books: Office 365 Calendar Sharing, Excel PowerBI, iPad
- November 18, 2014
- New videoconferencing services and loaner equipment * Student Service Analyst Aidan Garrahan * Still using Geckomail? Not for long! * Books: Double Helping of Matlab, Python Visualization
- November 4, 2014
- DSS Web Initiative Update * Goodbye, James Mathison * Geckomail Retirement * Defend Yourself: Security Training * Books: Business Statistics; Pages and Keynote; Linux
- October 21, 2014
- Free Alternatives to Adobe Applications * Reminder: Geckomail Retirement * Analyst Marina Becker * Defend Yourself Online: Security Training
- October 7, 2014
- Office Free for Students * Geckomail Retiring * Analyst Alex Bui * Shellshock Bug * Books: SAS 9.4, Office 365 Co-Authoring
- September 23, 2014
- Welcome Back for Fall 2014 * Which Wireless? * Service Desk Analyst Ben Leung * Books: PowerPoint 2013, Unix Text Processing
- August 26, 2014
- Password Managers * Windows XP Blocked TODAY * Analyst Dayna Wong * Books: JMP; Excel Power Pivot
- August 12, 2014
- Research Software at No Cost * Analyst Trisha Funtanilla * 8/27 XP Deadline * New on Books24x7: Predictive Analytics, Models for Correlated Data in SAS, Excel Tables
- July 29, 2014
- So you want a website . . . * Service Analyst Edugie Irivbogbe * Major Service Outage on 8/1 * New Books24x7: Excel Analysis, PowerPoint for e-Learning
- July 15, 2014
- Computer Replacement Program * Books: Hands-on with R, WordPress * Interim Manager Janine Carlson
- July 8, 2014
- Special Edition: Farewell to Dewight Kramer * Base SAS * Anti-Hacker Toolkit
- July 1, 2014
- DSS Computer Rent-to-Own * Analyst of the Week: Yvone Chau * Career Staff Training Incentive Program * New Books: Advanced Research Methods, Excel Reporting
- June 17, 2014
- Goodbye Geckomail * XP Upgrades * Mavericks, Matlab, and R * Analyst Ben Leung
- June 3, 2014
- Alternatives to Photoshop * Analyst of the Week: Russel Manalo * E-Accessibility for Course Materials * New Books: Excel Dashboards and C for Science
- May 20, 2014
- WordPress for Faculty * Replacing SmartSite * Analyst Brandon Baker * Proquest Safari Book
- May 6, 2014
- Skip Email: Send Big Files with Box * Analyst of the Week: Iris Chan * Windows XP Login Warnings starting 5/7 * New on Books 24x7: Happy@Work
- April 22, 2014
- Is SmartSite Down? Check status.ucdavis.edu! * Analyst of the Week: Pierce Bae * Planning a Trip this Summer? Check out our tips! * New This Week on Books 24 x 7: All about the iPad
- April 15, 2014
- Spare Your Mouse: Use Desktop Search * Analyst of the Week: James Mathison * Responding to the Heartbleed Bug * New This Week on Books 24 x 7: Research Methods for Virtual Communities; Protecting Your Online Identity
- April 8, 2014
- Need to learn about PivotTables in Excel or GPU programming in Matlab? Books 24x7 to the rescue! * Analyst of the Week: Christina Gin * Time to upgrade from Windows XP