Monthly Archives July 2008

New Thayer Events Calendar

We are pleased to announce the availability of the new Thayer Events Calendar. This calendar is the long overdue replacement for the “This Week at Thayer” email.

The calendar contains many new features and improvements, while still mimicking the functionality of the old system. You will continue to get an email each Monday morning with the weeks upcoming events. However, there are now multiple other ways to stay in tune with events happening at Thayer School.

The new web address of the Thayer [snip...]

Wiki software upgraded

Over the weekend we upgraded the software that runs the wiki server. The most obvious change is a redesign of the user interface. The old tabs and links have been moved to the upper right and are now use drop-down menus to de-clutter things a bit.

You can learn more about the change on these pages:

There are a couple other changes which might be of interest. For instance you can now manually reorder [snip...]

Lookup Mania

Here’s an interesting new add-on that easily allows you to do just about anything you can imagine with text highlighted in Firefox. Simply highlight your text and up pops a hand menu with a plethora of options to look up, translate, convert, email, copy, print, blog, format, and otherwise use that text. This concept may at first seem simple, but it turns out to be surprisingly powerful. Perhaps the best way to appreciate it is to view a short demo or [snip...]