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Apple on Campus Student Discounts

Megan Comerford — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 03:22:35 +0000

The University has recently announced a new programme entitled “Apple on Campus“:

Apple on Campus is a new and exciting partnership between the University of Adelaide and Apple. Current staff and students are entitled to get up to 12% off the RRP of selected Mac computers, around the clock, through an exclusive online store!

This discount is only available to current University of Adelaide staff and students, for the duration of the agreement, along with additional promotions and discounts on Apple accessories and software.

Visit alumni.adelaide.edu.au/apple for more information, and to access the store.

While Apple’s online store has always offered discounts to University students (visit apple.com.au/edu), “on Campus” appears to offer greater savings.

For example, the base level MacBook retails for $1599 generally, and is reduced to $1499 on the general student store. On the “on Campus” website though, it sells for around $1439.

The top of the line Mac Pro is discounted by over $800 (but would still cost you more than $5000 to buy)

Unfortunately, the store does not seem to offer discounts on iPods and iPhones.

Note that before purchasing any Mac online, it may be worth checking the prices offered by Unibooks.

Unibooks is South Australia’s only Apple Authorised Campus Reseller! That means that students and university staff, you are entitled to up to 10% off the recommended retail price for Apple computers software and accessories! (conditions apply)

Unibooks is South Australia’s only Apple Authorised Campus Reseller! That means that students and university staff, you are entitled to up to 10% off the recommended retail price for Apple computers software and accessories! (conditions apply)

www.unibooks.com.au/Apple/Default.htm

If you know of any other student discounts we should publicise on the aulss.org.au website, please leave a comment.

IT Tips: Using Classic Uni Email in Outlook, other desktop clients

Megan Comerford — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 06:54:33 +0000

Although the University doesn’t publicise the fact very heavily (if at all), you can access both classic Uni email, as well as UofA Gmail accounts via desktop email clients. This article focuses on Uni email accounts of the non-Gmail kind. This means that if you have migrated to Gmail, this article can’t help you.

Note that you can still access Webmail after setting up your email account in your desktop client. The two will be kept in sync. If you read an email in your desktop client, it will be marked as read in webmail too.

First, I’ll provide generic settings that should work with any email client that supports IMAP (most do). Then, I’ll provide a quick walkthrough of what’s required to get Uni Email up and running in both Outlook 2007, and OS X’s Mail.app. Read on to find out how.

The Quick Version

These are the IMAP Settings for the Uni’s classic email accounts, that should work with any IMAP email client.

Incoming

Protocol: IMAP

Server: mail.adelaide.edu.au

Port: 993

SSL: Enabled

Username: Your student number (a11xxxxx)

Password: Your Uni password

Outgoing

Protocol: SMTP

Server: smtp.adelaide.edu.au

Ports: Default (25, 465, 587)

SSL: Enabled

Authentication: Password

Username: Your student number (a11xxxxx)

Password: Your Uni Password

Outlook 2007

1. From the Tools menu, click Account Settings.

2. Open the Email tab, and click the ‘New…’ button.

3. Tick the box ‘Manually Configure Server Settings or Additional Server Types’ and click Next.

4. Select ‘Internet E-mail’ and click Next.

5. Fill out your details, as shown in the screenshot.

Match these settings

6. Press ‘More Settings’

7. Go to the ‘Outgoing Server’ tab. Tick ‘Outgoing Server (SMTP) requires authentication’

8. Press ‘Log on using’, fill in your username and password, and tick ‘Require SPA’

Match these settings

9. Select the ‘Advanced’ tab

10. Change the incoming port number to 993. Set the encryption type for incoming and outgoing to SSL.

11. Press OK

12. Press Next

13. Press Finish

Mail for Mac OS X

NB This guide was prepared using Mail 4.0 in Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. Steps may vary slightly in other versions.

1. Open Mail

2. Open the ‘Mail’ menu (immediately to the right of the Apple logo at the top of the screen, and from it select ‘Preferences’

3. In the Preferences window, select the ‘Accounts’ icon at the top of the window.

4. Press the ‘+’ icon at the bottom of the window.

5. Enter your full name, and your full Uni email address.

6. Press Continue

7. When prompted, enter your Uni username and password, and press continue.

8. Change account type to IMAP, enter a suitable description, and set the incoming mail server to mail.adelaide.edu.au

Match these settings for Incoming Server

9. Press Continue

10. In Outgoing settings, enter a sensible description, server address smtp.adelaide.edu.au Use only that server, and use your Uni username and password.

Match these settings for Outgoing Mail

11. Click Continue.

12. Check the settings on the Summary page, and then press ‘Create’.

13. Test the account by sending yourself an email from the new account.

Please leave a comment below if you have any questions about these instructions. Good luck!

IT Tips: Uni Wi-Fi on iPhone and iPod touch

Megan Comerford — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 05:14:10 +0000

The IT Services website says that a Wi-Fi configuration guide for the iPhone and iPod touch is ‘on the way’. But there’s no reason that you can’t connect your iPod to the Uni’s Wi-Fi network right now.

Read on for a step-by-step guide to connecting your device.

Of course these instructions need to be followed on-campus, at somewhere covered by the Wi-Fi network. See the ITS Coverage page for maps.

1. Open Settings, select Wi-Fi, and turn Wi-Fi on.

2. Look for and select a network called ‘UofA‘

Select the network UofA

3. You will be asked for your username and password. Enter your University credentials and press join.

Enter your University username and password

4. Accept the University’s security certificate.

Press Accept

5. You will now be connected to the Uni’s Wi-Fi network. However, at this stage you will only be able to access sites within the University (eg MyUni, Access Adelaide) and you will need to set up proxy settings to be able access any websites in the wider Internet. Touch the Blue Arrow next to the UofA network.

Tap the Blue Arrow next to UofA

6. Scroll down to the HTTP Proxy section, and tap Auto.

Tap Auto under the HTTP Proxy section

7. In the URL field, enter http://www.adelaide.edu.au/digest-proxy.pac

8. Tap Manual. Enter the following info:

Server: www-proxy.adelaide.edu.au

Port: 8080

Authentication: ON

Username/Password: Your Uni username and password

Fill in details as above

9. You should now be connected. Open Safari, and go to a website to check its all working.

Caveats

1. You can only access content outside the Uni over HTTP and HTTPS. This won’t mean much to many people, but the upshot is that some applications will not work. Some will – Google Maps for example normally works fine on Uni wireless, but Facebook and Twitter applications generally don’t. iPhone users can switch off Wi-Fi and access the applications over 3G. iPod touch (or iPhone for that matter) users can try and use web based versions of these, such as iphone.facebook.com

2. Email accounts generally don’t seem to work, with the exception of Uni Email (the traditional, non-Gmail kind) and possibly some Exchange accounts where they run over HTTPS. For Gmail accounts, access using the iPhone interface via Safari. It should automatically detect you are using an iPhone/iPod touch, and give you a properly formatted page. Either that, or on iPhones, turn off Wi-Fi and use mobile data to check your email.

3. Any data used comes out of your University quota. In most cases, this should prove cheaper (and faster) than using mobile data though.

4. The Uni can probably track what you’re doing. No more so than any other device on their Wi-Fi though. I don’t have an issue with this, but some people might.

If you have any questions at all, please leave a comment at the bottom of this post. And if you have anything you’d like explained in another ‘IT Tip’ leave a comment too.