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Older versions of PowerPoint cannot rotate imported scans. If you are using an older PowerPoint version, you’ll need to use image manipulation software to correct any pictures that are not properly oriented, before attempting to bring them into your presentat...

There are many different free photo-sharing sites on the web. This 2007 article from the N.Y. Times by David Pogue compares 8 of them.Find images on Google that you can reuse – Google Support articleSome major sites: Flickr 500px Imgur Photobucket Instagram Im...

By default, PowerPoint will automatically adjust the font size of your body text on each slide depending on the amount of text. This can create inconsistent font sizes for each slide if one slide’s body text only has a few lines of text and another slide’...

Audio interview: a guide to college podcasts from Chronicle.com – Today’s News Daniel Colman, director and associate dean of Stanford University’s continuing-studies program, runs a blog tracking podcasts made by colleges and professors. In an audio interview,...

Produced by Reazon Systems, Inc., rCampus.com is an online resource for students and faculty. Rubric is one of the website’s free tools.Through this feature, instructors can design rubrics online. Like traditional hard copy rubrics, they are constructed by th...

You can use the Find and Replace in MS Word to replace any characters with a Line Break or other special characters or properties (i.e. creating a page break, em dash, column break, etc.) by using the Find and Replace with “Special” function.…Microsoft Word ha...

Updated Instructions for Installing the Novell Client Version 1.0 on Windows Vista (SSC) Choose Custom Installation Do not install ANY additional services (uncheck NMAS, etc) Go to Novell Properties Advanced Login Clear Connections > Turn to On Forgotte...

You may have noticed in your web browser that some web sites have a little icon in the address bar to the left of the URL. Favicon – Wikipedia Tutorial on what it is and how to make one Tutorial for creating Favicon Free Photoshop plug-in to save as .ico In...

For any system service agent that you want to create in Mac OS X, you would do the following:sudo dscl localhost -create /NetInfo/root/Groups/system_groupnamesudo dscl localhost -create /NetInfo/root/Groups/system_groupname gid group_idsudo dscl localhost -cre...

addslashes() escapes single quote (’), double quote ("), backslash (\) and NUL (\x00).mysql_escape_string() and mysql_real_escape_string() escapes the characters above plus: CR (\r), LF (\n) and EOF (\x1a). Apparently (according to the manual), MySQL wants the...

Say you have a PHP script and you want to pass command-line arguments into the script, e.g. calling the script like this:php script.php datafile.txt 10 100PHP stores all command-line arguments in an array:$argv 0 => “script.php”$argv 1 => “datafile.txt”$...

You can use these variables in a batch file:%0 – the batch file’s name%1 – the 1st argument%2 – the 2nd argument%3 – the 3rd argument…%9 – the 9th argumente.g. Support the content of test.bat is as follows:@echo offecho param0: %0echo param1: %1echo param2: %2...

“In addition to the features and functions of Excel that make your database useful, you can also use the database to merge information into Word for large mailings. This means that you will not have to duplicate information you already have in your Excel datab...

Taken from various posts on the Plone mailing list (http://www.nabble.com/Plone-f6741.html)Stan McFarland wrote:“The short answer is that you can make Plone look any way you want with a combination of template customization and CSS. You just need to learn h...

Choose OS while starting upYou can select which operating system to use during startup by holding down the Option key. This displays icons for all available startup disks, and lets you override the default setting for the startup disk in Startup Disk preferenc...

If you’re an administrator to a Moodle class site, you can actually login in as a user to duplicate the error the user is experiencing. You won’t need Moodle wide admin access, just admin access to the course (note, only admins can do this function, not cours...

Sometimes roles set at the site-level may not properly work because they are over-riden by a system-level setting. For example, see the following exchange on the Moodle forums:Q: “I’m using Moodle 1.8. I went to Users → Permissions → Define roles and for both ...

If your private key file (e.g. ~/.ssh/id_rsa) has too much permission, OpenSSH will complain “permission denied” and not work. By default, the permission might be something like 644 or 700. You need to set it to 600. (Got the solution from this article)