Technology and Tools

I'm always surprised at the reactions I get when I talk about online music. Thoughts of pirates, the RIAA and trials seem to be conjured whenever I dare same "internet" and "music" in the same breadth. To me, the internet is a great way for bands to...

ValpoLife.com ValpoLife.com is a comprehensive new website that highlights all that is positive going on in Valpo. Across sports, business, community, health, entertainment, photos, blogs, and videos, we tell the stories of the great people,...

The radio broadcasting work of four students at Valparaiso University’s student-operated radio station has been honored by the Indiana Association of School Broadcasters. Click "Read More" to hear some examples of WVUR's work. Students working for...

I know I usually reserve this space for ranting about sports or legal gambling, but ValpoLife.com just completed its first week and a half of officially being a central source for Valparaiso's citizenry. What a crazy week it has been. We've had the...

Facebook is facing a new attack on its users. "Fbstarter" is a new thread going across the site, usually sent via the site's messenger service. The attack asks users to "Check out this site", with a link to fbstarter.com. There, a faux-Facebook login...

The tremendous growth technology has provided us with some incredible gadgets in the past years. We've got handheld projectors,  pocket sized devices that browse the web, and so much more.But this growth comes hand in hand with it's fair share of...

Yesterday, I went to go check on the wonderfully robust ValpoLife Facebook page (Become a fan!). On my way there, as most Facebook users will be familiar with, I checked on my “News Feed”. I used quotations there on purpose. The top, most recent...

ValpoLife.com has now joined the masses, as we have created a page on Facebook. ValpoLife on Facebook will allow the fans of ValpoLife to more directly communicate with each other through discussion groups, wall posts, and all of the other things...

This news story was provided courtesy of The Torch, Valparaiso University's student newspaper, where it was first published on April 3, 2009. Contact Mike Jakubisin at torch.news@valpo.edu. A new Web site launched last week will provide information...

Recently, Google unveiled an exciting new feature to their email client: The Five Second Rule. Gmail calls it the 'Undo Send' feature, which allows its users to take back an email if they catch it quick enough. We have all accidentally hit 'Reply...