What You're Doing, Where We're Going
Spam is part of any open system, and while we do all sorts of things to prevent automated spam, there’s very little anyone can do about those friendly human spammers willing to actually type out comments and post them. Do remember that by default comments are all saved to your dashboard and won’t appear until you approve them, and try to take joy in there inevitable compliments. … Continue reading this post
(Image via State Senator Eric Adams)
Congratulations to all our graduates! It seems like just yesterday you started, and now you’re all grown up. Please keep in touch, and best of luck!
Featured Tutorial: Finding Print Quality Images
“Have you ever grabbed an image off the internet, then printed it, only to find it looks awful on paper or is the size of a postage stamp?… Continue reading this post
The simplest way to resize an image is to use an online service like PicMonkey.com. We don’t endorse any particular online service here at the OpenLab, and there are many online resizing free services. But this one is solid in that it has the things most people need when resizing (a bit of color changing, a size change option, a crop feature, and a way to reduce file size). … Continue reading this post
Image by Perfecto Insecto via Creative Commons License
Upcoming Launch!
With the Brooklyn spring here a bit early, consider this your first invitation to the official CityTech OpenLab launch, scheduled for mid-April. More details to follow, but pencil it in for the 19th of April. … Continue reading this post
Maybe there’s no mail, maybe the school is closed, but we here at This Week in OpenLab are working away to bring you this week’s highlights! And here they are, in no particular order:
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CityTech Club Fair!
(video from 2011 CityTech Club Fair, posted by The New Tech Times)
On Thursday February 16th, The CityTech Club Fair 2012 will be here–this is a great place to find fellow students who share your interests and check out all that the CityTech student body has to offer. … Continue reading this post
The KB Gradebook is our new grader option for the OpenLab. It allows a professor to upload a spreadsheet that the student can then access directly, via a secure password. That means, say, you can as professor put in all your mid-term grades in one place (the place you already keep them, probably), upload it to the class site, and save yourself the trouble of distribution, etc. … Continue reading this post
