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Moodle Streaming Video Recording Assignment Glitch
Environment: Mac OS 10.6.6, Moodle 1.9, Kaltura TBA, Firefox 3, Flash TBA.
Symptom: As pictured below, when student tries to redo a video assignment submitted previously, by pressing button “resubmit …”, Flash security window pops up, asking for her permission to access the webcam, but won’t accept any input (“pizza of death” spins).
Workaround: Use Safari instead of Firefox.
Lesson to learn: Not only, but especially with computers, be resilient (“Try something else”: modify the sequence of steps, browser version, browser make, operating system, hardware…).
MS-Expression Encoder 3: Workaround to force video cropping
In MS-Expression Encoder 3, the video cropping feature in the “Enhance”tab is broken, unless you use the workaround for cropping in this screencast.
How can I change the volume on my SANAKO headsets?
- Q: How can I change the volume on my headsets? Hear my own voice on the headsets? A:Use the Sanako Student Player 1. Volume Slider and 2. (for Sidetone = echo of your speaking) Headset Icon:
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- Q: Where is the Sanako Student Player? A: Show Sanako Student by clicking on the notification bar icon:
How to: Send email with non-western (e.g. Japanese) characters in Outlook Web Access (e.g. 2003, e.g. from Safari)
- If your emails with Japanese sent from Safari arrive with unreadable characters (squares or question marks, meaning the recipient’s computer cannot decode how to display the character your computer sent), you may have set your browser to the wrong characterr encoding.
- However, the encoding Unicode (e.g. UTF-8) can handle both western and .
- Simply go to Safari (similarly in other browsers)/ Preferences / Appearances / Default Encoding and change to UTF-8, like so:
- This has been tested to work already from/to OWA 2003.
- However, for your reference, here a matrix of imminent upgrades of email clients on your computer and the corresponding university server software:
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When? |
Your office computer |
recommended? |
Any computer (travel, home) |
University server |
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mac |
pc |
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soon |
Outlook 2011 |
Outlook 2010 |
is better than |
Outlook web access 2010 |
Exchange 2010 |
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recommended? |
is better than |
is better than |
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is better than |
is better than |
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now |
Entourage (limited support for Exchange) |
Outlook 2007 |
is better than |
Outlook web access 2003 |
Exchange 2003 |
Visual-Studio.net 2008 install experience
Symptom: Error 32003. Vsvars.bat could not be opened for write. 
Context: After VS.net 2008 Professional Install on Windows-7 home premium 64-bit , reboot, on opening Outlook 2010 32-bit.
Resolution: In the file properties, tab:security, give “full control” permissions to “Everyone”.
Comments: Changed permissions back after installer finished, have yet to see whether whether this errors again. – Error did not occur on Vista Home Premium 64-bit .
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