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To create a poster in PowerPoint, design one “slide” with its page size set to the size of your poster. Any color scheme that offers good contrast between foreground and background is acceptable, although you may find that white or light colored backgrounds wi...

ProblemIf you try to open a socket (fsockopen, pfsockopen) with SSL in PHP 4.x under Windows, the operation might fail with the following message: Warning: fsockopen(): no SSL support in this buildThis problem occurs even if phpinfo() shows openssl as loaded ...

Installation of Ant on OS X is a solid walkthrough. It not only walks you through the Unix commands to install Ant and set up a symbolic link to it but also explains what they do.

Browsers often have different ways of rendering the same element. For example we expect lists to be left-indented. Firefox does this by applying a left padding of 40 pixels to an unordered list (<ul>). Either Opera or Internet Explorer acheives the sam...

Models and specifications change so rapidly in the world of digital cameras that up-to-the-minute research is essential to choosing the best camera for you. Here are some time-tested Web sites that reliably serve up the latest news, reviews, and user opinions ...

Taken from: http://cybercapital.org/index.php/2007/05/21/did-you-know-these-basic-firefox-tips/ To quickly find any word in a web page type /word it will highlight the word and press Ctrl+G to “Find Again” that word again If you wish to remove an item from...

Moodle has a feature called “switch role” which allows users with enough access to choose other legacy roles (the Moodle default roles) and to view the site from the point of view of these other roles.Basics of Switching RolesThe switch roles function allows a...

Mozy is an online backsite that offers 2GB of free backup space. For pricing above that see http://mozy.com/home/pricing/. Additional features include: Incremental backups Open and locked file support In-Windows Explorer restore Support for files greater tha...

Here is the page for UCLA’s bike shop, which is located in the Wooden Center. https://www.recreation.ucla.edu/oa#17166747-bike-shop This explains their services.

Free SFTP ClientsFor security reasons, SSC has switched to SFTP (Secure File Transfer Protocol). The following is a list of SFTP clients that are free for download, for Mac and Windows.SSH Secure Shell – http://computing.sscnet.ucla.edu/public/security/ssh.as...

This article is intended to provided reasons to use the UNIX program less over its predicessor more.What is less?If you use the whatis program for less on a UNIX terminal you get “opposite of more”. What does this mean? more allows a user to incrementally disp...

With the growth of “switchers” now that intel macs have been out, a lot of people are curious about being able to use their windows licenses for mac products. While you cannot use the same license code for the same product on multiple platforms (e.g. Photosho...

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...