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Local Services

• Tools - useful on-line tools for support staff and end-users
  • display your browser's network address - is it a valid one?
  • Display free classroom PCs
• PHP  - documentation and examples
• MySQL
  • Create / Delete databases, change passwords
  • PHPMyAdmin - general administration service for your MySQL databases
• Streaming Media Service - introduction to the Flash Media Server, with links to related services
  • Streaming Media Manager - upload streaming media files (starts at the correct location for uploading your streamed media files, ie. .mp4 and .flv files).
    (notice that the above links are for an updated version of the streaming service; if you have used the service prior to this year (2009 and before) and want to access your old content, please use this link instead - your old content can be migrated to the new service - please log a call with Service Desk if you want to do this).
  • Streaming server administration console (open only to support staff)
  • Icecast Server Administration (support staff only)
• Publish your Web pages -  do this after saving or uploading your Web pages to the central Web service
• Check your usage of central filespace
• Software Download service - download software for which the University has site-wide licenses
• Large File Transfer service - transfer to other people files that are too large to send by e-mail.
• Online Student Registration - a link to the student E-registration service
• E-mail forwarding & filtering service - redirect your mail to another address or into folders, automatically delete "spam"
• Central password services
  • change your password
  • check your password is valid
• Class handbooks
  • links to downloadable course material
  • upload documents to the service - for authors of course material
    
• RSS Feeds
  • If you wish to subscribe to RSS feeds from an external URL for use in a web-based application (e.g. Drupal or WordPress) you must first prepend this URL for access through the central proxy service:   http://www.abdn.ac.uk/local/rss/proxy.php?
    For example, instead of subscribing to:

    http://feeds.feedburner.com/astronomycast

    you should instead subscribe to:

    http://www.abdn.ac.uk/local/rss/proxy.php?http://feeds.feedburner.com/astronomycast