If you run into a display that has been turned sideways, here is an easy fix.
Press: CTRL & ALT & F12.
This will bring up the properties, where you can uncheck the "Enable Rotation" box.
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Papers Past
I wanted to pass along this great resource I discovered while doing research early this morning. Called “Papers Past,” it is a scanned digital archive of many pre-1920 newspapers from New Zealand. While located about as far away from Florida as one could be in a geographical sense, these papers offer excellent coverage of late nineteenth century events throughout the United States and Florida (such as the Spanish-American War and its effect on Tampa).
Here’s the link:
http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=p&p=home&e=-------10--1----0-all
Some newspapers are fully searchable; others may be browsed but have not yet been scanned with OCR that would allow full-text searching. What makes this collection so amazing is that it covers a substantial portion of the mid- and late-nineteenth century (from 1839 to 1920), provides free access, and allows for the easy saving of digitized “clippings” (just right-click!). It complements the Times of London and historical New York Times. The other nice thing—similar to many of the old county newspapers from throughout the United States before the 1920s—is that it includes excerpts borrowed by NZ papers from other publications that have never been microfilmed or digitized and thus no longer exist in their original form.
Here’s the link:
http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=p&p=home&e=-------10--1----0-all
Some newspapers are fully searchable; others may be browsed but have not yet been scanned with OCR that would allow full-text searching. What makes this collection so amazing is that it covers a substantial portion of the mid- and late-nineteenth century (from 1839 to 1920), provides free access, and allows for the easy saving of digitized “clippings” (just right-click!). It complements the Times of London and historical New York Times. The other nice thing—similar to many of the old county newspapers from throughout the United States before the 1920s—is that it includes excerpts borrowed by NZ papers from other publications that have never been microfilmed or digitized and thus no longer exist in their original form.
Microfilm scanner
three selections to the scanning menu-
“Default”- 300dpi resolution 256 shades of gray scanning, with auto polarity and auto brightness selected. Best quality for printing, but 1MB per scan.
“Low Resolution”- 200dpi resolution black & white scanning, auto polarity and auto brightness. Good quality for text but bad for pictures. Good for PDF scanning.
“Darker”- Same settings as default, but darker prints.
“Legal Size”- This theoretically should scan a legal size page, but has not successfully printed a larger size. It could be that the software is capable, but the optical limitations of the scanner prohibit it. The printer is capable of it. We’ll play with it for a while and see.
Due to all of the strange dialog boxes that pop up, as well as the lack of options for selecting the modes above, I changed the lockdown of the computer. I gave the login full permissions to the machine, as an administrator, but installed DeepFreeze so that all changes would be reversed upon restarting the machine. If you have any problems with it, please turn off both the computer and the scanner, then start the scanner and then the computer. It seems to be hit or miss whether the scanner can be turned off and on without restarting the computer. Sometimes it works, other times you get the ‘blue screen of death’.
The scanner unit itself will enter a powersave mode after about 15 minutes, and the bulb will go off. It recovers well from this state, but students will likely turn the unit off manually since this has been the procedure with the older units.
“Default”- 300dpi resolution 256 shades of gray scanning, with auto polarity and auto brightness selected. Best quality for printing, but 1MB per scan.
“Low Resolution”- 200dpi resolution black & white scanning, auto polarity and auto brightness. Good quality for text but bad for pictures. Good for PDF scanning.
“Darker”- Same settings as default, but darker prints.
“Legal Size”- This theoretically should scan a legal size page, but has not successfully printed a larger size. It could be that the software is capable, but the optical limitations of the scanner prohibit it. The printer is capable of it. We’ll play with it for a while and see.
Due to all of the strange dialog boxes that pop up, as well as the lack of options for selecting the modes above, I changed the lockdown of the computer. I gave the login full permissions to the machine, as an administrator, but installed DeepFreeze so that all changes would be reversed upon restarting the machine. If you have any problems with it, please turn off both the computer and the scanner, then start the scanner and then the computer. It seems to be hit or miss whether the scanner can be turned off and on without restarting the computer. Sometimes it works, other times you get the ‘blue screen of death’.
The scanner unit itself will enter a powersave mode after about 15 minutes, and the bulb will go off. It recovers well from this state, but students will likely turn the unit off manually since this has been the procedure with the older units.
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