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Carmen Update: What You Need to Know

Megan Strathearn

Tomorrow, May 3rd, Carmen will go offline at approximately 7pm for its annual update.
Carmen will come back online Sunday, May 5th.  Exactly when we’ll come back online depends on how well all the parts of the process go.
If you store and calculate grades using Carmen, we encourage you to finalize and transfer all your final …Read more at the full article: Carmen Update: What You Need to Know

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“I can’t go on. I’ll go on”: Life after Google Reader!

Ashley Miller

As you probably know, Google Reader joins the long list of retired Google products this July 1st. Bye bye, old friend. You had a good run, but it’s time for us to move on.
“But how,” you ask. “How can I move on?”
I know you’re hurting. You’re confused. How could they? It’s not the first time …Read more at the full article: “I can’t go on. I’ll go on”: Life after Google Reader!

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Saving as PDF for free.

Larissa Borcz

Almost everyone has run across someone, whether it is a professor or a colleague, who for some reason wants all their documents as PDF’s. 

While Adobe Acrobat Pro is wonderful, not everyone has access to it on the fly. So here are a few quick and free ways to convert a single document into a PDF.
1) …Read more at the full article: Saving as PDF for free.

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How to Find an iPhone’s Owner with Siri

Jonathan Diehl

“Hold down the home button and ask Siri, ‘Who am I?’” was the question that returned an iPhone to its rightful owner. Last week I got a call from a coworker. She had found a guest’s iPhone in the Digital Union. Being the thorough person that she is, she had narrowed down the list of …Read more at the full article: How to Find an iPhone’s Owner with Siri

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jQuery Isotope – A Brief Introduction and Tutorial

Joe Bondra

Suppose that you wanted an interface of sortable, tiled information that was responsive enough to reorganize itself to fit in the available screen space?
You might start out towards this goal filled with consternation, asking yourself: “how would I even start thinking about how to make such a complicated thing?” Well, the good news is that …Read more at the full article: jQuery Isotope – A Brief Introduction and Tutorial

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Poster Printing at OSU

Queenie Chow

Shortlink to this article at go.osu.edu/osuposter
Large format printers capable of cranking out poster sized prints are often referred to as plotters. They are more costly to own, supply, and maintain than your standard office printer, so you don’t see them in very many places. If you’ve ever printed a poster at Kinkos, Office Max or some …Read more at the full article: Poster Printing at OSU

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Wherefore art thou Mac audio?

Larissa Borcz

Have you ever gotten the dreaded circle with a slash through it on your Mac when you try and turn up the sound?  If  so, there are many different reasons why you could be getting it.  Deny thy frustration, and refuse no sound! Here are a few solutions that may help you.

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Make Your PowerPoint a Movie

I recently had a consult with a guest who was having issues with a PowerPoint presentation. The audio and video was continually out of sync, even after corrections were made. Certain animations were not always playing correctly. Overall, the presentation was running slowly. He was moving from location to location, trying to give this presentation …Read more at the full article: Make Your PowerPoint a Movie

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How to add links to a PDF

Cindy Gray

In Adobe Acrobat Pro, you can add links to web pages and to other pages within your document.
To link to a webpage
In your browser:

Open your browser and find the page you want to link to.
Highlight the URL and select Edit > Copy.

In Adobe Acrobat Pro:

Open your PDF and find the page you want to link …Read more at the full article: How to add links to a PDF

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So You Want to Assign a Video…

Queenie Chow

If you wouldn’t assign a lab report without having written one, why would you assign a video without having created one? How would you go about answering students’ questions? How would you advise on structure, content, format, and citing? How would you know what expectations are reasonable, how much time to allot, what resources to recommend, …Read more at the full article: So You Want to Assign a Video…

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