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Second Life (SL) is a 3D virtual world developed by the Linden Labs. Basic accounts are free and provide you with an avatar. Once you have an avatar, you need to download SL software and go through orientation. See system requirements: secondlife.com/All objec...

Online Version of Using Moodle Version 2 by Jason Cole & Helen Foster Review of Moodle Books from Pakt PublishingRelated Articles https://kb.ucla.edu/link/813/Using Moodle, 2nd ed is available through UCLA’s aggreement with O’Reilly Book/Safari Online : h...

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In order to give a feel for what people at UCLA are doing with Second Life, this article has been created. Please add anything you think appropriate. And please mention it to any instructors, grad students, or staff that use Second Life in their teaching or re...

Microsoft Office 2007 has a new “ribbon” to replace conventional menus, and a new Equation Editor in Microsoft Word.To use the old Equation Editor 3.0 if you need easier access to advanced functions, per MTU:https://help.we.mtu.edu/index.php/Equation_Editor_in...

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Instructions taken from: http://www.broobles.com/imapsize/th2outlook.php1. Compact your Thunderbird folders (optional)Thunderbird keeps messages in mbox files even after they have been deleted. If you don’t want to include deleted messages in the conversion, y...

The traditional way of handling dynamically-generated Web content is to have the Web server use multiple threads, even keeping a thread pool. Then whatever program that generates the content acts as quickly as possible. As long as there are a lot of threads, t...

We have Handbrake on PCs, but the current version has some limitations when used on the PC platform: 1) Its performance is not stable; it crashes quite a lot; 2) it cannot covert files to .wmv; 3) although it can covert a file to .avi, we have to be very caref...

There comes time when a service or scheduled job running on windows machine needs access to a folder on the remote system. There are different ways to accomplish the task. Information below describes how to access remote share by mapping drive on the local sys...

If you are looking for web based and free tools for word processing, power point, database creation, and spreadsheets here are some tools to explore.Zoho www.zoho.com provides a wide range of basic office tools as well as options for managing email, taking not...

I have come across a wiki and a web site with free resources to use in research, especially quantitative and survey research.The Impoverished Social Scientist’s Guide to Free Statistical Software and Resources http://maltman.hmdc.harvard.edu/socsci.shtmlDigita...

SeleniumSelenium is an open-source web application testing system that records and generates testing scripts that can be used for debugging purposes. Selenium IDE is a Mozilla Firefox plugin that enables users to easily create testing scripts by directly reco...

1. YouTube video annotation Web application. Free to use. Only annotates videos on YouTube. You can only annotate videos you have uploaded, while others can see the annotation. Text annotation (“text bubbles” or notes), highlight part of the screen. All annota...

Are there good enough tools for annotating documents and sharing those annotations that are easy enough to use that students might actually read things online for classes?I don’t know, but here are some possibilities: http://a.nnotate.com (web-based free and ...

For Users:If you have forgotten your password, click on the “Forgot your password?” link on the Wimba login page: http://ucla.horizonwimba.com/ucla/loginYour password will be sent to you via email.The login email address will be the email address you had on fi...

Installing Plone v3.2 on Mac OS X 10.5Instructions to install Plone v3.2 on Mac OS 10.5 Server and client.Plone is a Python-based, multi-platform content management system.  If you’ve stumbled on this document not knowing what Plone is, please take a look at t...

When you try to print another user’s shared calendar in Microsoft Office Outlook 2003, the calendar does not print. Additionally, you receive the following error message:The messaging interface has returned an unknown error. If the problem persists, restart Ou...