Useful Technologies

Getting Started with Rails This guide covers getting up and running with Ruby on Rails. After reading it, you should be familiar with: Installing Rails, creating a new Rails application, and connecting your application to a database The general layout of a Rails application The basic principles of MVC (Model, View Controller) and RESTful design How to quickly generate the starting pieces of a Rails application

Very useful tools for batch processing of graphic images. I've used the PhotoResizer application - very handy. Downloaded the RealWorld Photos application that permits batch processing of simple things, such as watermarking, removing red eye, etc. No loss to original file. Site includes help (YouTube videos) and text instructions.

Useful utility for batch processing to rename files. Works great. 

Making Data More Usable With ScraperWiki September 20, 2011, 3:00 pm By Jason B. Jones The great strength of the internet is also its weakness: There is So! Much! Information! out there-so much, in fact, that it can become hard to access. And not everyone who publishes the same kind of information, or information about the same topic, publishes it in the same way, or to common repositories.

Very useful tool for generating QR codes.

"Use this time zone converter to quickly calculate the correct time that an event in Wisconsin, United States will take place in your local time."

"Here is the list of MAC Print Screen Tricks/ Shortcuts that would allow you to use Print Screen in MAC. Overview You just broke the highest score in your favorite game and want to keep a screenshot of it to share it with your friends. You have done it in a PC, but you using a MAC now. How do you do it? Unlike Windows PC, MAC doesn't have a dedicated Print Screen key on its keyboard which makes it hard for new MAC users to perform screen capture. This article comprehensively details every possible free method to use the Print Screen Feature in MAC. These methods include using keyboard shortcuts and bundled Apple utilities."

"Comprehensive guide to .htaccess Tutorial written and contributed by Feyd, moderator of the JK Forum, with additions by JavaScriptKit.com. Please see tutorial footnote for additional/bio info on author. Last updated: Jan 18th, 06' for additional section. I am sure that most of you have heard of htaccess, if just vaguely, and that you may think you have a fair idea of what can be done with an htaccess file. You are more than likely mistaken about that, however. Regardless, even if you have never heard of htaccess and what it can do for you, the intention of this tutorial is to get you two moving along nicely together. If you have heard of htaccess, chances are that it has been in relation to implementing custom error pages or password protected directories. But there is much more available to you through the marvelously simple .htaccess file."

"Open Journal Systems "Scholars need the means to launch a new generation of journals committed to open access, and to help existing journals that elect to make the transition to open access..." Budapest Open Access Initiative, 2002 Open Journal Systems (OJS) is a journal management and publishing system that has been developed by the Public Knowledge Project through its federally funded efforts to expand and improve access to research."

If you're a support professional, you know all about having multiple versions of software on your system. You need to cover the bases by having all the versions that your users may blow up. However, even if you're not a techie, you may be one of those more cautious people who would like to keep the old version of your software running while installing/learning the new version...just in case!

To create a master document (master document: A "container" for a set of separate files (or subdocuments). You can use a master document to set up and manage a multipart document, such as a book with several chapters.), you start with an outline and then you create new subdocuments or add existing documents to it.

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Python is an easy to learn, powerful programming language. It has efficient high-level data structures and a simple but effective approach to object-oriented programming. Python's elegant syntax and dynamic typing, together with its interpreted nature, make it an ideal language for scripting and rapid application development in many areas on most platforms.

Python runs on Windows, Linux/Unix, Mac OS X, OS/2, Amiga, Palm Handhelds, and Nokia mobile phones. Python has also been ported to the Java and .NET virtual machines. Python is distributed under an OSI-approved open source license that makes it free to use, even for commercial products.

This is the first in a series of online tutorial lessons designed to teach you how to program using the Python scripting language. There is something for just about everyone here. Beginners start at the beginning, and experienced programmers jump in further on. You simply need to enter the series of lessons at the point that best fits your prior programming knowledge.

We have constructed a fully functional, fully integrated radio receiver, orders-of-magnitude smaller than any previous radio, from a single carbon nanotube. The single nanotube serves, at once, as all major components of a radio: antenna, tuner, amplifier, and demodulator. Moreover, the antenna and tuner are implemented in a radically different manner than traditional radios, receiving signals via high frequency mechanical vibrations of the nanotube rather than through traditional electrical means. We have already used the nanotube radio to receive and play music from FM radio transmissions such as Layla by Eric Clapton (Derek and the Dominos) and the Beach Boy's Good Vibrations. The nanotube radio's extremely small size could enable radical new applications such as radio controlled devices small enough to exist in the human bloodstream, or simply smaller, cheaper, and more efficient wireless devices such as cellular phones.

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IBM Data visualization resource. Very cool

So here are 25 Web 2.0 applications (mostly free) that should help you on your quest as a student or professor in being productive.

The following training materials will assist Students, Instructors and Administrators in getting started with your Turnitin account.