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Did you know September is International Save Your Photos Month? At the Do Space Tech Desk, we get a lot of questions about saving, transferring, and storing photos. Sometimes staff or volunteers are available to offer tips or even work directly on the issue. Other times, it is clear the job the member is hoping to accomplish is too complex for us to address in that moment. Then our options are...

It all started a few months ago when we went back to using paper forms because the vendor that provided digital document services changed their prices. I was assigned to take the paper forms and digitize them so my coworkers can upload them to storage. The tediousness of digitizing those forms drove me to search for an alternative. There are a few open source alternatives but none that were...

Outlook Nebraska, Inc. (ONI) COO Patrick MacBride and Information Technology Facilitator Mitch Green are discussing ONI’s expansion plans. Mitch, totally blind, knows that the changes in the building will create the need for additional cabling, the re-location of many work stations, and the possibility of purchasing additional equipment. He uses his hands to explore the 3-D model of the...

One of the single friendliest members that we host on a regular basis here at Do Space is Chikadibia Ebrim. Chikadibia is a Cultural Producer and Musician who works as a multimedia artist here in Omaha. Most likely when you see him at Do Space it will be with a smile on his face, and while we would like to think that has to do with our facility, he has a personality that shines with postivity....

Now that you’ve got the windows 10 anniversary update you can use Bash, the shell that has been carried over from Ubuntu Linux. To Activate: Select the Start Menu > Settings. Once settings comes up select Update & Security then For Developers. Now select Developer Mode and exit. Now for the second slightly less apparent part. Begin by Right-Clicking the start...

What is a server? The definition is: a computer or computer program that manages access to a centralized resource or service in a network. Some may say this isn’t really a server but I disagree. We have decided to build a dedicated machine to host various projects in-house. One great example of a project it will host is the web page we created so that members can sign forms digitally. Here are...

There is an unfortunate but well-documented lack of women in the science, tech and mathematics fields. Out of 8,000 incoming freshman at Indiana University the gender is split pretty evenly. However, only 3% of those women were in a remotely tech-related degree! The gap is so large that there are niche scholarships available for women interested in computer science, engineering and math. The...

Keegan Korf, Regional Manager of Common Sense Media, will join us at Do Space on Tuesday, August 23rd at 6:00 PM for a discussion about kids and social media. The session will be for parents and will help them guide their children toward using social media in empowering and positive ways. Then on Tuesday, September 20th, Keegan returns for a new session titled Managing Screen Time. This one will...

A member recently requested help with a pretty special project, help making a new prosthetic limb for a disabled goat.  Manny the feinting goat suffers from a genetic disorder that affected his leg.  The leg joint was bent and fused in place.  His owner had a prosthetic for Manny already but as Manny's conditioned progress the prosthetic no longer fit.  That is when she reached out for Do...

In these days of near-terabyte flash drives, let's take a look back at the days when punching a hole in some plastic would double your stoage to a whopping 2.4...