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MapeteriaThis article is part of a series on choropleth mapping, to see other solutions, please visit the introduction here.Mapeteria operates on the opposite model as Color-It, which is to store coordinates on the generated file itself. Ducky Sherwood, the a...

Google Earth ProJanuary 2015:Google Earth Pro is now free to all.http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2015/01/google-earth-pro-is-now-free.htmlhttp://www.google.com/earth/download/gep/agree.htmlKey: GEPFREEend updateThis article is part of a series on choropleth...

Yahoo Pipes MashupThis article is part of a series on choropleth mapping, to see other solutions, please visit the introduction here.Yahoo Pipes is an exciting tool because of its ability to create web mashups. After working with Mapeteria and Color-It, I cam...

Roxio Creator is a common preinstalled application on many OEM systems. You may wish to remove it to reduce system overhead or in favor of your preferred CD burning program, such as Nero, Imgburn, CDRWin, etc.Uninstallation via Add/Remove Programs in Windows n...

To properly remove a damaged Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional installation (e.g. you’ve installed Adobe Creative Suite 3 Web Premium on a system that already has Acrobat 8 Pro installed, and you want to reclaim the 1GB of space from the other Acrobat 8 installatio...

To convert image files to a word or text format using OMNIPAGE Pro.If you haven’t already scanned your document, you can scan it and save the file.(You can scan it using the built-in OCR reader which may save you lots of time, but the reader sometimes isn’t as...

BackgroundLucene is a open-source search library written in Java.GCJ is a Java to native-executable compilter. As shown in a LinuxJournal article, using gcj is similar to using gcc.Versions UsedAs of 1/26/08, the latest version of Lucene is 2.3.0. It needs Jav...

Problem: While doing a svn update, you get the following message: “svn: Working copy ‘[filename]’ is missing or not locked”Cause: The directory that the file [filename] is in needs executable (i.e. list) permission on for the user that issues the command.Solut...

The recommended method is via Windows Update, per Windows Vista integrated help or the online help here:http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/35a1b021-d96c-49a5-8d8f-5e9d64ab5ecc1033.mspxPlease scroll down for Vista Service Pack 1 MUI’s.-———————C...

The original ArcGIS 9.2 distribution— including the one at UCLA Software Central— is not properly compatible with Windows Vista.Per ESRI:http://support.esri.com/index.cfm?fa=knowledgebase.techarticles.articleShow&d=34020You will need to follow the instruct...

Good news: Windows Vista natively supports all components in the typical Dell Optiplex GX620.Bad news: except for audio.Worse: Dell lists no Vista drivers of any sort as of this writing on their support site for the GX620.Dell USA does not list any audio drive...

We were in search of a good survey tool, and after some research came upon LimeSurvey (www.limesurvey.org). We found it extremely easy to set up and use and allowed for professional surveys with features commonly found in commercial products.The following lis...

I have found that Paint.Net does most of the things I want to do with images.For instance, import and export in multiple formats; resizing images, including drastically reducing file size; and touching up.http://www.getpaint.net/index.html

For those of you who have inadvertently been sent a Microsoft Word document in the new .docx (x for xml) format and can’t open it in your older version of Microsoft Word, this N.Y. Times Personal Tech article has the explanation and some alternatives. Search U...

In Java 5 and above, how to create a Java class that is only comparable to itself? The answer is to extend Comparable<TheClass>. This works even if TheClass uses generics.public class SelfComparableOnly<T> implements Comparable<SelfComparableOnl...

There is useful Google service for webmasters at http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/. It gives you stats on broken links, internal links, problems that Google’s crawlers have with your site, what search terms people have used to find your site etc.Really ...

My goal is to create PDF on the fly using PHP. I use php to query the database, the result from the database will be listed in a table, and this view need to be output as a pdf file.The requirements are 1) it needs to run on sun solaris. 2) need to write dyn...

Here are the main differences between the Office of Instructional Development’s BruinCast service and UCLA on iTunes U: UCLA on iTunes U offers the faculty a place to log in and post their own content, whereas the content via BruinCast’s is solely class lect...