App of the week: Auto AirBears

App of the Week, Auto AirBears
Uday Mehta/Staff

Name: Auto AirBears Platform: Google Chrome Price: Free Mission: “Automatically logs into AirBears” The dorms’ wireless service, ResComp, kicks you off the Internet at the conclusion of four hours online and requires you to enter your username and password every time. AirBears, the campus’s Wi-Fi, makes you log on every Read More…

The Top 10 Signs You're Leaving The Dorms

10 great things about leaving the dorms

We’ve all been forced to live in close quarters at some point in our lives. Whether it was with your annoying little sister until you outgrew the bunk bed, a quadruple dormitory room your Freshman year or that one time in the same sleeping bag the night the heat went Read More…

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AirBears, you suck … but not for long!

There are many places on campus where the AirBears signal is so weak that you just want to pull your hair out. Your Internet connection has slowed to a crawl and pages take whole minutes to load (gasp). Fortunately Berkeley alum Roland Saekow, who was also tired of weak AirBears Read More…

All students, like Patrick Chen, above, will be able to access bConnected by June 2013 at the latest.

ResComp handles the highs and lows of student computing

UC Berkeley students who have lived in the residence halls are all undoubtedly familiar with Residential Computing, otherwise known as ResComp. The ResComp Residential Computing Consultants provide support for all students’ “digital security, operating system troubleshooting, device configuration, networking, and data recovery” needs, according to their website. Though their job Read More…