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HostExplorer Hummingbird crashes when opening

MacOS, Windows, and Linux

If you receive an error message “HostExplorer for Win32 (or Win64) has stopped working”Download the Hummingbird patch and install the correct 32bit or 64bit version for your computer:https://ucla.box.com/s/or6eir4a04pr7x1bz4gi

HostExplorer
hummingbird
OASIS

Sightseeing in Los Angeles

Useful Links

Students create website encouraging the exploration of LA by bus – Oct. 16, 2014 (writeup of http://busla.me/ student created site) Venice Canals: Walk Europe in Southern California – Dec. 19, 2013Please add your personal favorites.

Google Spreadsheet Tricks

Useful Links

Use Google Sheets for Multilingual Chat with Speakers of Different Languages How to Color Alternate Rows in Google Sheets Add miniature charts or Sparklines into individual cells and SPARKLINE function help Scraping and Cleaning Your Data with Google Sheets: ...

collaboration
language translation
spreadsheets

Windows 7 computer will not detect any USB Flash Drive

MacOS, Windows, and Linux Windows 7

Steps to Safely Cleanup and Remove old USB Mass Storage Drivers on your PCShut down your computer. Unplug your USB storage devices: USB Disks, flash, cams, CD/DVD, etc. as well as your USB hubs==> Other USB devices like keyboards, mice and LAN adapters can ...

USB data drive
USB flash drive
USB storage drive

Get rid of default annoyances in MySQL Workbench

Programming and Web Development SQL

By default, if you make any changes to table rows, there is an annoying 2-step confirmation dialog when you click Apply. It also prevents you from doing many mass UPDATEs and DELETEs (this is called ‘Safe Updates’).Safe Updates is a good idea in principle, sin...

MySQL

3D Printing Resources

UCLA Tech Resources

Some UCLA 3D printing groups— Avengineering, http://18hats.net/a/home/ Ozcan Research Group, http://innovate.ee.ucla.edu/ UCLA’s student-run 3D printing club_ _ _ _Some 3D Printing resources from Doug Daniels— A Model for Managing 3D Printing Services in Acade...

3D printing
CAD
fossils
makerbot
makerspace

DevOps Resources

Programming and Web Development

DevOps (“development” and “operations”) is a software development method that stresses communication, collaboration and integration between software developers and Information Technology (IT) professionals.[ DevOps is a response to the interdependence of softw...

developer sysops

Outlook Spell Check Not Working

Email Outlook

Prominent item can be, “If your version of Outlook is different from the version of Word or when Word is not installed at all, some features will not be enabled including the automatic (background) spell checker and AutoCorrect. In order for these features to ...

Outlook
Microsoft Office
spell check

Firefox ESR

Internet and Web Browsers Firefox

Mozilla offers an Extended Support Release (ESR) based on an official release of Firefox for desktop for use by organizations including schools, universities, businesses and others who need extended support for mass deployments― https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/f...

Firefox
esr
extended support
web browser

UC CIO Blog

UCLA Tech Resources

UC CIO Tom Andriola has a blog. It has photos, ways to contribute, and focus on IT systemwide. He seeks to keep readers up-to-date about his activities as systemwide CIO and welcomes everyone’s input and comments to his posts. Things to check out— An “end o...

cio
blogs
UCOP

Open Educational Resources

UCLA Resources

UCLA Library Affordable Course Materials Initiative – ACMI – A total of $10,000 will be offered for the 2013-14 academic year. Growing the Curriculum:Open Education Resources in U.S. Higher Education OER Commons Diigo collection of OER tagged links Creative C...

ACMI
OER

Two Turnitin IDs for one user

CCLE and Moodle

A student was getting this error message when she tried to submit her assignment to the Turnitin Activity on the CCLE class site: “Uploading user information failed because user email was changed to an address that is already associated with an account. UID: ...

Turnitin
CCLE
Moodle

Windows Server 2012 TechNet Reference PDF

MacOS, Windows, and Linux Windows Server

Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2012 TechNet Library documentation as a PDF(Quoting:) " This download is an Adobe® PDF of the entire contents of the Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2012 section of the Microsoft TechNet Library, for the conv...

Microsoft
TechNet
Windows Server 2012

Diagramming in Markdown

Useful Links

Markdown is often used for writing documentation, but it doesn’t provide supports for diagrams. Now, something called mermaid does. It can generate diagrams and flowcharts from text in a similar manner to markdown. Mermaid DemoThere is also a project called vi...

diagrams
JavaScript
programming

urban computing

Useful Links

Urban computing is a process of acquisition, integration, and analysis of big and heterogeneous data generated by a diversity of sources in urban spaces, such as sensors, devices, vehicles, buildings, and human, to tackle the major issues that cities face, e.g...

open data
mapping
GIS

Using a Google Account "Application Specific Password"

Internet and Web Browsers

Quoting, “Some applications that access your Google Account (such as Gmail on your phone or Outlook) cannot ask for verification codes. To use these applications, you will not use verification codes. Instead, you’ll enter an application-specific password in pl...

2FA
Google Apps
security

Equipment for loan on campus - cameras, etc.

UCLA Tech Resources CLICC

Here are some places where faculty and/or staff and/or students can borrow equipment for coursework, teaching and/or research. Please update this with any new offerings that come along!Laptops and tablets CLICC.Loaner laptops and iPads are available for loan f...

AV
borrow
camera
equipment
loan
loaner

Google Public Data Explorer

Useful Links

Google Labs’ Public Data Explorer makes large datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate. As the charts and maps animate over time, the changes in the world become easier to understand— http://www.google.com/publicdata/ DSPL: Dataset Publishing Langua...

data visualization
forecast
Google
public data