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Have ever hooked up your laptop to a secondary monitor and then disconnected without remembering to move the windows back to the primary desktop?
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To upload images or links to files onto a page,
1. Open a page editing form (either Create >> Page for a new page or Manage >> Pages for older pages).
2. Click the Insert Image icon (mountain icon) or the Insert File icon (doc icon) in the editing tool bar.
3. For images, follow the procedure on http://blogger.psu.edu/help/upload/images starting at step #3. You will be presented with various formatting and resizing options. Use resizing if the image wider than 400 pixels.
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In recent years, Pat Besong of ITS had developed and offered a captioning tool for the Mac called "Parity." This tool has now been released as MovCaptioner from http://www.synchrimedia.com.
It is still free for Penn State users. You can contact Pat Besong (pzb@psu.edu) for information on how to obtain a license.
The cost for users outside of Penn State is approximately $40, but it does support a wide range of caption types including Quicktime, Flash, YouTube, video poscast and more.
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Though its been a bit longer than I had intended since my last update, I wanted to take a few minutes to show off some new screen shots from ChemBlaster
 


These screenshots were taken from the game's second level, which deals with ion identification (as compared to level 1 which is about element identification).  Though the core gameplay is the same, in level two, the player fires positive and negative charges at randomly generated elements to build out 10 of a possible 30 cations or anions. 
As you can see if you compare the new screens to the old ones, quite a few new interface elements have been added since the last update.  A few highlights for your reading pleasure:

I had a request the other day from a person who wanted to embed an iTunes file (MP3) into a PowerPoint slide on a Macintosh.
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The following tutorial will allow demonstrate how to create text fields in forms.
http://www.lynda.com/home/Player.aspx?lpk4=37613

In shape tweening, you draw a vector shape at one specific frame in the Timeline, and change that shape or draw another shape at another specific frame.
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So far, the tutorials have covered how to add a page with a tab, but I suspect you will want to more than one page and control tab order. To do that:

Create a Second Page
Follow the instructions on http://ets.tlt.psu.edu/twt/node/167 for creating a "Teaching Philosophy" page or http://kb.its.psu.edu/psu-all/hd/faq-s-about-using-the-professional-webs.... Don't forget to include to @topnav in the Tags field.read more

Today, I am going to examine Null when associated with text fields.  I will continue this subject in my next post by looking at Null associated with number fields.  A Null value is data that is
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Penn State's Computer Store is coordinating 2 VMware training classes at the University Park campus. Both courses will be offered by VMware trainers and have class sizes limited to 12 attendees.
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