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Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 and Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 provide a new option named the Read all standard mail in plain text option. This option lets you view all e-mail messages in plain text format. If you are concerned that a virus or some other type...

Introduction to Choropleth MappingThis article is intended to serve as a starting point for anyone trying to create choropleth maps. It outlines the numerous free methods for creating a dynamic map from a given dataset.Choropleth mapping, or “heat mapping” is...

To reset your keychain in Mac OS X 10.4, or Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, or later:1. Open Keychain Access, which is in the Utilities folder within the Applications folder.2. From the Keychain Access menu, choose Preferences.3. Click Reset My Keychain, which is under...

When do students get access to the CCLE class sites?The moment the students are officially enrolled in the class, they will have access to the CCLE class sites. However, there might be a slight delay in syncing the roster to the class sites. If this happens, p...

Python isn’t especially known for its support of soap functionality, but that’s usually not a problem as most folks needing that sort of functionality are using REST or XML-RPC. However, in case where you need SOAP functionality, such as using UCLA’s ISIS ser...

According to N.Y. Times – Tip of the Week: Viewing Gmail From Anywhere By J. D. BIERSDORFER – November 8, 2007 apparently, now you can access your Google Mail with IMAP Mail clients. This means that you could use Apple Mail, Microsoft Outlook, Thunderbird, or ...

Using Python and SOAP to attach to a Web ServiceYou can create a Python class from a SOAP WSDL in 4 steps, in about 20 minutes. Create your Python Project Download and install a SOAP library for Python (this how-to will use ZSI’s soap library) Create a base Py...

SQLAlchemy is an open-source Python Database toolkit, which provides the following functionality: It maps relational databases into objects It manages an applications database connections It can create/alter a database layout if it is allowed toThe most powerf...

Windows XP installer does a blue screen of death on installation, with a STOP: 0×0000007B error. Installation fails due to the BSOD and is not recoverable.In this particular instance, it means Windows cannot detect and load the correct harddisk controller driv...

For those that get the “This software requires” AGP card error when running Final Cut on a machine that has a PCI-Expresss video card instead of AGP, there’s a really easy fix: Go to Applications folder Right click on Final Cut Pro HD, choose Show Package Cont...

This web design tip I just read is ingenious and priceless, if we can just get our clients to accept the condensed versions.Speaking generally, Steve Krug's Third Law of Usability states:"Get rid of half the words on each page, then get rid of half of what'sl...

While looking for something else in the Moodle Forums, I found these links that refer to the underlying way Moodle connects to databases using ODBC.“adodb just harnesses the underlying PHP functions for whatever type of connection you use, so it helps to be fa...

“The Google Chart API returns a PNG-format image in response to a URL. Several types of image can be generated: line, bar, and pie charts for example. For each image type you can specify attributes such as size, colors, and labels.”“You can include a Chart API...

“IBM has a very cool Firefox-only plugin called CoScriptor which is sort of a macro recorder for Firefox:http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/coscripter/browse/aboutThere are a variety of scripts available for perusal, use, and editing. Scripts that get create...

Moodle’s language display is controlled by the interaction of two settings: (1) the “Preferred language” in the user’s profile, and (2) “Force language” in the settings for each individual course. The course setting overrides the user’s preferred language. ...

Taken from a PC World article…Open FirefoxType about:config in address bar and press EnterType network.http in the filter fieldDouble-click network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to bring up the "Enter integer value’ dialog box. Enter a higher number than the de...

This Slashdot article describes the release of version 3.0 of Octave. Afterwards there are some links from the article and a quick search of Octave versus Matlab.“GNU Octave is a free numerical computing environment highly compatible with the MATLAB language. ...

Problem: Suppose you have a CGI script (PHP or otherwise), say genimage.cgi, that generates an image and sends it to the browser. If the user visits the URL of the script and tries to save the generated image, the browser might suggest “genimage.cgi” as the de...