We have made a number of improvements to embedded Twitter feeds to make them nicer to use and add extra functionality. This includes:

• Big visual improvements - you can go back to the plain text feed by adding plaintext=true to your [twitter] tag
• Adding of actions to tweets

You can now download a free iPhone, iPad and Android application for Celebrating Dickens, a collection of videos and articles to celebrate Charles Dickens' bicentenary.

The application was developed by IT Services in conjunction with the Communications Office. Celebrating Dickens provides an academic insight into the novels, life and times of Charles Dickens, one of the greatest ever storytellers.

Award-winning screen-play writer Andrew Davies, who adapted both Bleak House and Little Dorrit for the BBC, contributes with an exclusive insight into how one goes about transferring Dickens’ illustrative text into compelling television.

Led by Professor Jon Mee, from the University of Warwick’s English and Comparative Literary Studies Department, the App offers a plethora of podcasts, articles and videos exploring aspects of Victorian Britain, Charles Dickens’ novels and adaptations of his works.

Web Publishing have worked for the Outreach team to create a child-friendly new website called 'Thinking about University?' to raise awareness of universities in schools.

The site went live on December the 6th. It is targetted at school children aged 7 to 13 and is now currently being introduced to schools as part of the Universities Outreach programme. The site explains what universities are and what university life is like, using age-specific content and a pictorial virtual campus.

IT Services is currently reviewing the University print and copy infrastructure with a view to making it more efficient.

Likely benefits are expected to include:

• A reduction in the environmental impact of printing
• A more reliable print infrastructure with clear service levels and a better fit to your needs
• A reduction in operational print costs

To achieve these goals, we are actively working with NewField IT, a company that specialises in this form of exercise. Their staff will shortly be on site auditing the current print infrastructure and they will be working closely with the University’s project team throughout the audit.

Where are we up to with our staff email migration project? Latest information including FAQs and migration schedule is available on the Staff Email Project web pages.

Here's an update on the Live@edu plans first published in November 2011.

You can now download a free iPhone and Android app for Start.Warwick, offering you the chance to create your own customised page of Warwick-related information on your iPhone, iPad, or any device that uses Android.

The Start.Warwick app currently includes:

• Bus times and other travel-related information, including trains and driving directions
• Opening times around campus (the Library, cafés and restaurants, the Sports Centre and more)
• A map of campus that you can search for room locations (iPhone/iPad only at the moment)
• Contact Numbers for Warwick's departments and services
• Staff Contact Details Search with details of all Warwick staff
• News and Events at Warwick
• IT-related information - details of any disruptions to normal service

IT Services plan to add extra features for both internal and external users of the app in future versions. These extra features will allow you to customise your Start.Warwick app based on your IT Services login code.

Download the free Start.Warwick app now:

The hugely successful Writers ‘app’ has been updated, it now has an extra five hours of content – plus new features including video material, improved navigation and playback control.

Over 10,000 people have already downloaded the free app, which provides access to more than 200 rare recordings of over 150 authors and poets discussing their work and creating processes, from the 1970s to the present day.

In the first two weeks after launch, the app was in five 'Top Free' apps in the UK App Store Education store and remains on the main iTunes UK App Store home page under 'New and Noteworthy'.

As part of a review of the limits on file spaces and file uploads in Files.Warwick, we have increased both for both staff and students:

• All filespaces now have a minimum quota of 2GB (previously 500mb for staff and 50mb for students)
• The maximum upload size for a file in the web interface is now 1GB (previously 250mb) - the Files.Warwick files transfer utility (SFTP) also has a 1GB limit.