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Protected: Why we need autoaccept messages from on-premise equipment mailboxes to students in the Office365/live@edu cloud

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Why to save Audacity projects locally …

… with enough file space to avoid unspecific problems, including later parts of your recording becoming inaudible.

This problem was caused by attempting to save an Audacity project to a network share over a slow network and with limited storage space.

This Audacity project (.aup extension, with subfolders) had a size of a 200MB – the exported .mp3 likely less than 1% off that.

So always save Audacity projects you are working on on local hard drive or USB thumb drive.

Shortlinks for RUSS1201, RUSS1202 classes with Sanako Study 1200

 

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goo.gl/faI3F

sanako-study-1200;students;teachers;intro;cheatsheet;faqs;screencasts

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goo.gl/WQ3e9

russian;students;writing;teacher

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goo.gl/gIZpn

sanako-study-1200;students;teachers;intro;cheatsheet;faqs

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goo.gl/KOXuO

sanako-study-1200;teachers;intro;cheatsheet;faqs

Or use OSK: https://thomasplagwitz.com/tag/osk/o

Protected: How to convert Friendly Russian web pages for better use with the Sanako Study 1200

2012/09/16 Enter your password to view comments.

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Problems with accented characters in Respondus Lockdown Browser

2012/09/11 4 comments

Update: Just click on the menu item “ A” under Respondus titlebar window to bring the floating accents window back. image Problem is only: this menu disappears now also. Anyhow: using below keyboard shortcuts is faster, and MS FixIT can now enable it for you on your home or office PC also.

Respondus Lockdown browser limits the use of modifier keys (e.g. on Windows CTRL, ALT). This prevents the use of certain traditional keyboard shortcuts for entering foreign language accented characters – including the method from times yore: ALT+number code.

Respondus Lockdown browser can work with a floating toolbar for accented characters. Unfortunately, reports are in that the floating toolbar disappears (may be related to a recent Respondus upgrade?).

Fortunately, Windows US-international keyboard – the default in the LRC – is not as much hampered by Respondus – except in t he few cases where US-international keyboard also relies on ALT- and CTRL-modifier: consult this table.

Press (, then release)

then press

Example Result

` (accent grave)

any letter that can have this accent, e.g. “a”, also cedilla ç

à

(apostrophe)

á

^ (caret)-

â

Meta-search many historical German dictionaries and encyclopedias using Woerterbuchnetz.de

A meta-search by the University of Trier Center for Digital Humanities may not teach you much German – you need to know it already –, but help prevent you remaining a “one-dimensional man”.

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I came to know a lot of those during my own German and history studies a long time ago – – when they still only existed on paper, if not parchment Smile. Gotta love Digital Humanities, and find other activities for physical exercise. Her is an example search result:

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EWS are working

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How to download Centro Spanish Textbook audio

The audio is in (compressed) mp3 format. Just right-click on any audio link and choose save target/link as (or similar, depending on browser), like so: clip_image001

Example from Centro – Puntos de partida: Online Laboratory Manual, 8th Edition (you need access privileges to follow this link, but you can send links around, users can open them, provided their webbrowser is already logged into the centro site  – getting access and finding you way around the website is the real issue. Webspiders are prohibited, though – and even Downthemall saves only files without extensions: rename them to .mp3 or save them manually as .mp3 in the first place, as shown above. Does not work as above? Try a different web browser.