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Here’s an interesting story about a university trying to take advantage of new technologies and getting sued. And, no, it’s not by the publishers of the e-books.

Here is a summary of the ECAR study and its revelation of technology trends and preferences among college students. Courtesy of the ACRL blog.

The best college websites include several that only offer online courses. Click the link to see who made the top list or visit the WordStream site to read the report about college websites being optimized for search engines (which is what this ranking is really all about).

For those of us who traffic in IPA symbols, especially those who do phonetic translations of foreign language texts (like musicians), typing accurate IPA symbols (and diacritical marks) has always been a pain.

Kudos to Microsoft for enabling an easy way to add them. No longer do we have to download fonts, insert symbols, or mess with virtual keyboards. There’s an add-in for Word 2007. Granted, it’s been around since 2001, but it’s much easier to use in the new format of Word. Östen Dahl originally wrote the plugin, which works for Word 97, 2000, or later.

Just get the uniqoder.dot file and save it to your C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office10\Startup folder.

Special thanks to Hans-Jörg Bibiko for providing the template, modifying it for Mac Word, and providing a nice, simple explanation on his website.

Visit http://email.eva.mpg.de/~bibiko/downloads/uniqoder/uniqoder.html to read more and to get the template.

So Google Chrome has been around for a while now. What I’m hearing and experiencing most about this new web browser is that it’s FAST! And the biggest drawback is that there aren’t plugins available yet. And I know when I tried it right at the beginning that it had issues with displaying popups and that kind of thing. I tried it again today and the display issues seems to be gone. And I’ve also read that plugins are indeed available now, but slow getting started and not yet ready for general public production like Firefox has. So the speed is great and the only thing Chrome seems to be lacking is some bells and whistles that I’ve become accustomed to with Firefox.

Cnet has a good article about Chrome: Why I Switched from Firefox to Chrome. The author, Stephen Shankland, does some great comparisons and talks about the strengths and weaknesses of both browsers. It’s definitely worth a read and some clicks on the embedded links.

And definitely give Google Chrome a try. It’s a little different but you will probably like it.

Adding to the confusion regarding copyright, but certainly increasing accessibility for consumers, YouTube has partnered with MGM to provide full-length movies on their site. This will also include episodes of TV shows produced by MGM and will supplement a similar deal already announced last month with CBS.