Blu-Ray Wins Hi-Def DVD War

Toshiba announced this morning that it will no longer produce players for the HD-DVD format. Blu-Ray’s recent adoption by Netflix and Wal-Mart, two of the key players in the DVD world, were the final nails in the HD-DVD coffin. So go ahead and buy that Blu-Ray player!

For the holidays, open up Pandora’s box

If you need some good holiday background music for social events, visit pandora.com, create a “station” by typing in a holiday song you like, and Pandora will go out and find other songs like it and play them for you, streaming them right to your desktop. Plug in a set of inexpensive computer speakers, and […]

New Contacts Page is Live

This a quick note to let everyone know that the new contacts page is live. This index replaces several other pages that were previously used to house contact information. In addition to collecting this information in a single place, this new page is populated with data drawn directly from PowerSchool, our database of record. This will facilitate […]

Blaine Library has moved, well at least the address changed.

A change that happened over the summer when Rowley Library switched from Follett Catalog Plus was that the URL address of Blaine Library automatically changed. Blaine last year had a URL that indicated siteid=2, now it is siteid=1, further the software last year used the default port 80 for listening on the web, but […]

Office 2007 for Windows, Vista

We’ll be acquiring copies of Office 2007 for Windows and Vista soon under the Microsoft Campus Agreement. Before you borrow and install these programs for professional use at home, you may want to think twice. Office 2007 for Windows is not backwards compatible with other Office versions, either on Windows or the Mac. And Vista […]

New & Improved DNS Servers

Here’s news we’ve all been waiting for the addresses of the New & Improved DNS Servers with the special mud flaps and chrome trim are now in. And the addresses are: 128.135.249.50 and the ever popular 128.135.247.50 Don’t forget those old worn out addresses need to be replaced with New & Improved addresses […]