Did you know that most of the laptops stolen on campus belong to faculty and staff, not students?

Read this article at DoIT to learn how to prevent laptop theft:

http://www.cio.wisc.edu/security-initiatives-preventTheft.aspx

Check out our new travel section – look under Travel on the Hub menu.

On the Travel Links page, you’ll find links to a number of useful resources, including UW car fleet and a foreign currency converter.

On the Hub Travel Coordinators page, faculty members can look up who their travel coordinator is in the administrative hub.

Ever wanted to email someone a link to a page on your website, but the link wound up really long?

There’s another way to tackle this problem.  The UW offers a service called goUW which will create a short URL for you.  You will need your NetID and password to use the service.  To learn more, visit this page:
http://go.wisc.edu/

Yahoo Finance published this article on identity theft:

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/8-numbers-identity-thieves-want-103033107.html

Exec summary:

1. Phone numbers
2. Dates and zips
3. PIN codes
4. Social Security Numbers
5. Bank account numbers
6. IP addresses
7. Driver’s license and passport numbers
8. Health insurance account numbers

Do you have a Word document with lots of photos, and it’s so big that it won’t go through email?

You can compress the images inside Word to reduce the filespace.  Your choices include:

• reduce for printing or for online viewing
• reduce a specific image, or all images in the document

You can find the handout for Windows users here.

For those days when the snow is piling up, and you’re at home trying to decide whether you should come in or not, we’ve added a new link to the UW-Madison Inclement Weather guidelines.

It’s also listed on the Human Resources page, and on the Human Resources menu.

Did you know that you can access your lab files on the Russell fileserver from home?

This is a great thing for days when you work from home, like snow days, or days when your kids are sick.

These instructions show you how to map a drive with Windows 7.

Did you know that you can access your lab files on the Russell fileserver from home?

This is a great thing for days when you work from home, like snow days, or days when your kids are sick.

These instructions show you how to map a drive with a Mac – versions 10.5, 10.6, and Lion.

For people who already have WiscVPN installed and are running Windows 7 – instructions on how to login to the Russell VPN.