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Creating a form is arguably the most annoying pure (x)HTML task. This article provides resources for standards based accessibility then looks into some research into the less quantitative sides of formdom.Meeting Accessibility StandardsFor the basic nuts and...

Favelets, or bookmarklets, are a quick and easy way to add functionality to your browsing experience. Favelets (as I will refer to them from here on) are bookmarks (i.e. favorites) for your browsers, but instead of storing a web or ftp address as a URL they st...

When a Windows XP sp2 system cannot boot, but system restore had been enabled (as is now by default), How to recover from a corrupted registry that prevents Windows XP from starting.The procedure describes a method by booting from the Windows XP CD-ROM. Under...

Ever wonder how to contact a person at UCLA by phone, but all one has is their extension? Add the dialing prefix.A downloadable PDF of the phone directory is available in a campus edition and a Medical Enterprise edition.The directory database is maintained b...

Ever wonder about what search trends on Google are?Google Zeitgeist has an answer.Previous Year’s Archives—Google Zeitgeist 2005Google Zeitgeist 2004Google Zeitgeist 2003Google Zeitgeist 2002Google Zeitgeist 2001Google Zeitgeist Around the World

Microsoft PowerPoint sets a large amount of default preferences which may not be in the best long term interest of user.To access these settings, open PowerPoint and go to “Tools” > “Options…”. Mac Office users can go to “PowerPoint” > “Preferences”.“Al...

To assist in reducing laptop theft UCPD participates in part of a nationwide security tracing program. The STOP system is applicable to computer laptops, digital projectors, and other portable devices. For $20 UCPD will affix a permanent tag which ‘tattoos’ t...

Many in the UCLA community are aware of the BOL VPN, Virtual Private Network, for on-campus wireless and off-campus wired connectivity. Some departments have discretionally implemented specific department VPN profiles as well. Department will policies vary. ...

ProblemPictures added to PowerPoint are added in a non-optimized form. Consequently, large images added to PowerPoint result in a large file size.SolutionIn Microsoft Office XP/2002/2003, use the “compress pictures” feature. Mac Office does NOT have this fea...

Firefox’s major asset is its wide variety of user community created and supported extensions.The ability the save all open windows and active tabs was a “cannot live without” feature brought forth, in part by Tab Mix Plus. Firefox 2 now incorporates similar f...

UCLA students, faculty and staff with a valid UCLA Logon ID and password can borrow a laptop from CLICC for limited daily use.Those who are not able to use these services, or for those requiring a longer loan period, they can contact their department for addi...

In UCLA’s Sakai Pilot, it’s not enough to install the Wiki tool and assume that those with Maintain privileges will be able to edit pages.To give those privileges, a Sakai Administrator needs to do the following: in Sakai, go to the appropriate site click on W...

Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) for Windows XP+ only has been released in November 2006. Some have said the “Quick Tabs” is reason alone to use IE7.Firefox already has had such a feature through add-ons:Tab Catalog — https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1937/ Has an ...

Below is the beginning of (hopefully) an ongoing collection of design-related CSS issues concerning different browsers. For this initial posting, I focus on Firefox, IE6, and IE7.The good news regarding IE7 is that a lot of bugs were fixed. See the following...

You can do it yourself by going to At Your Service Online website https://atyourserviceonline.ucop.edu/ayso/ Under “Income and Taxes” section you can click on “Employment Verification” link. That will generate a letter with UCLA logo and all the information pe...

You’ve heard the buzz about Second Life MMORPG and its instructional potential, but don’t know how to dress and name your character? Try this random name generator. It will generate random names that sound Greek, Elvish, monster-like or heroic, depending on y...

Ever wonder about web browser standards support for particular products? The following links attempt to summarize standards support, features, and technical detail comparison between browsers for web developers.Wikipedia Comparison of Web BrowsersWebDevout Br...

If you have multiple Plone instances and you would like the search feature to search across the instances instead of only the one you are performing the search in, there is an add-on called PloneRSSSearch and it is available from the following site:http://inge...