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It is common for students to use USBs to store their homework so that they have access to them at school. Unfortunately, USBs are very easy to lose. This can be devastating if the USB contains the only copy of your work or data. If your files don’t contain really sensitive personal data, such as banking data, you might consider using these new “files in the cloud” services instead of USBs and save your temporary working documents in the cloud. Many companies offer free versions of the services with limited storage, say 1GB to 2 GB free. For example, there is dropbox, syncplicity, sugarsync, and google upload. No more nightmares about losing your USBs!

Permalink November 07, 2010, 12:26pm   Comments

CityU has a new theme: Discover and Innovate @ CityU - promoting original discovery and innovation among students.

The University Slogan competition is to come up with a new slogan to go with the new theme. Winning slogans will be used for CityU’s publicity purposes. All full-time and part-time CityU undergraduate and postgraduates are eligible to participate. 

The overall winner will receive an iPad; the 1st Runner-up, an iPod Touch; and the 2nd Runner-up, a 1TB external hard drive. The next two finalists will receive a set of Sony headphones each.

Participants may submit more than one slogan, either in English, Chinese or in both. Entries should be sent to CPRO (cpro@cityu.edu.hk) on or before 30 November. Each entry should include a brief note (approximately 100 words) explaining the idea behind the slogan. Please write “Slogan Competition” in the subject line of the email and include your name, student ID number and mobile phone number in the body of the message. 

Good Luck!

Permalink November 05, 2010, 2:55pm   Comments

It is time for the annual “eXtreme Web Designer Award” contest that I co-organize with the Hong Kong Computer Society and other Universities in Hong Kong. This is our 6^th year. This year is special as we started to invite Universities outside of HK to join as well. Each year we have a different theme; this year it is “sustainable campus.”

The main objective of the competition is simple - to encourage students to learn and use professional Web development techniques through a fun competition. Key themes we like to promote includes use of Web standards, accessibility, usability, and search engine optimization.

If you are a student, please join, or encourage others to join. Deadline is 10^th December.

Here are some photos from last year’s award presentation ceremony at the HK Computer Society’s annual New Year party.

Permalink November 04, 2010, 3:30pm   Comments

It’s been a while since I blogged; so much has happened in the past few months. We have been busy aligning all our enterprise systems for the launch of new 334 academic reform in 2012 as well as procuring new systems to support this change. To keep the entire University up-to-date on all these IT developments, we began to produce a quarterly OCIO Newsletter.

In this issue, we highlighted some of the IT work we are doing for 334, our re-launched student computer literacy training, business continuity plans, email server technology upgrade, collaboration services from Google/MS and the new Google intranet search.

Permalink November 02, 2010, 10:18am   Comments