The Best of '08, Redux

By Claudia Lynch, Benchmarks Online Editor

In case you missed it last month, you have another chance to revisit these articles from past issues of Benchmarks Online. Published in 2008, they contain information that is still helpful and timely:

Feature Articles

• Managing Your Spam

• UNT, Microsoft partner to give students free access
  to top software development programs

• CITC Projects Planned for 2008 or 2009

• Student SAS Distribution Policy Changed

• Photoshop Express - Free Online 'Photoshop' is a pretty good deal

• IT Help is Here

• Information Security Training Now Available Through WebCT Vista

• Computing Information for Faculty

• Information Security Awareness

• The College of Education General Access Computer Lab Renovation: Creating a welcoming environment for all learners

• Wimba Classroom Provides Green Alternative to Campus-Based Meetings

• Merger of Faculty Support Units – CDL and CTLA are now CLEAR

• New Computer Classrooms for General Use Being Developed at the Discovery Park

• The General Access Computer Lab Managers: What We Did This Summer

• Where in the World Did UNT Student Storage Go?

• S-Plus 8 and EViews 6 are Now Available

• CITC Strategic Directions

• Protect Yourself From Phishing

• Mean Green VM Machines

• Stay Secure During the Holidays (and beyond!)

• New Scantron 888P Test Scoring Machine Now Available

• Banished from the Garden of Facebook, a 21st Century Tale

Link of the Month

• University Union Information Center

• Center for Achievement and Livelong Learning

• UNT Lost and Found on Facebook

• The CITC Helpdesk  

• ITHelp Center

• Messaging Systems Group's education page

• The Center for Student Rights and Responsibilities (CSRR)

• Six Degrees of UNT

• "Free – and Legal – Music, Videos and More"

• UNT Staff Council Perks Program 

Helpdesk FYI

• Microsoft Outlook's Task System

• RSS Feeds in Microsoft Outlook

• Phishing

• Recalling a Message in Outlook

• IT Help Center

• Outage Calendars

• Preferred UNT Email Address

• Activating Your EUID account

• EUID Passwords

• Campus VPN

• Forwarding Eaglemail to Exchange

RSS Articles

• New Developments With R - version 2.6.2

• Mapping And Data Representation In Stata: Part 1

• Mapping And Data Representation In Stata: Part 2

• Getting Started with a Modern Approach to Regression

• How Long Should My Data Analysis Take?

• Overview of ACS-Supported Software for Fall 2008

• Creating Maps With GIS Data in SAS 9.1.3, Part 1

• Statistics: a Clarification

• The State of SPSS @ UNT

• Creating Maps With GIS Data in SAS 9.1.3, Part 2

The Network Connection

• Going the Last Mile

• No Reasonable Expectation of Privacy

• Understanding

• The End of Media as we Know IT

• Long Live the Browser

• Brand X

• A Bit of History

• Lost in the Clouds

• Brave New Browser

• Bits in Space

• No Escaping the Big G

• Obama Tech

Casting a wider net

Here are some "best of" links from the wider world. This a slightly different list from the one published in December.

• The Best of 2008 on iTunes

• Best Inventions of 2008

• 50 Best Websites 2008

• The Top 10 Everything of 2008

• The Best Books of 2008

• Best Books of 2008

• Best Books for Young Adults 2008

• American Film Institute Awards hail top 10 best movies of 2008

• Best TV of 2008 - TV.com

• About.Com's "The Most Popular Top 10's of 2008":

  • The Top Ten Sites for Free Full Length Movies

  • Ten Ways to Find People For Free Online

  • The Top Ten Job Search Engines on the Web