F.lux is a free application that alters the color temperature of your screen from a bright, beaming blue to a calm, relaxing reddish hue. This application was created by both Michael and Lorna […]
Tech Talk: Don’t Fear the Penguin
How a Linux Live CD Could Help You in a Pinch. So: first week of the new semester and your computer decides to take a dump. You boot it up, a vague error […]
Letter to the Editor 1
Dear Beacon editor, I would like to applaud you for being able to get a gang of college students to be in a room together and write stories for a newspaper that […]
Campus Exposed: Advising Month and UhaulCarShare
Megan Prevost, Liberal Studies Major If you’re a student here at SMCC you’ve probably heard through the grapevine that this month is advising month. Either you’ve heard your teachers rambling on about it […]
Tech Talk: Improving Battery Life in Android Phones
By Joe Lambert It seems that the common theme of phone developers is to try and sell us the biggest phone with the fastest processor and the newest (and not always useful) […]
Citypass, Oh the Places You Will go!
By Dierdree Glassford Hospitality/Culinary Arts Major When deciding on what to do for a special occasion, as a college student with very limited funds, there is always so much that goes into it. […]
You Said…What?
by Tegan Bradley, Liberal Studies Lorelei is a first year SMCC student, a country girl at heart working to one day become a veterinarian. She’s five feet short, constantly emitting positivity and a friendly […]
The Best Free Tools for a Safe Computing Experience
If you’re like me at some point you bought a new personal computer and that computer came with an antivirus program. However, that antivirus program unlike a lot of other software that probably came […]
The Dark Side of College
By Garrick Hoffman Depending on whom you are and where you plan to apply to, investing in college is barely considered a rational, calculated decision today. Today four-year universities come with an astronomical and […]
Mentally Unprepared
Megan Prevost, Biotechnology Major Going away to college is a big change, one of the first changes that most teenagers go through before adulthood, especially if you’re living on campus or far away […]
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