Fun Online voting/poll tool

mentimeter.com

Quick, easy way to do voting or polling.

Created one for my presentation on QR codes at IUG 2012 conference.

Smart Phone Emulators

All the online, browser based emulators that I looked at, never rendered web pages like a real mobile phone.  So best choice was so set up a stand alone emulator:

Android

Android Virtual Device - Easy to install, can select different versions, and set initial RAM.  Saves bookmarks between sessions, can use keyboard to enter text

Windows Phone 7

Be careful of requirements for graphics card.   Does not save info between sessions, cant use keyboard, must use virtual keyboard.

Apple

Have not tested yet, need to run this on Apple machine.

List of Emulators


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Michael Johnson (Shawnee Univ) suggested these online emulators:

http://iphonetester.com/

Safari as an emulator:  http://www.mydigitallife.info/how-to-emulate-iphone-change-user-agent-in-safari-and-firefox-web-browser/

I tried both, and neither produced output like a regular iPhone. They may convince a webserver that they are  an iPhone, but then they don’t render the HTML/CSS as an iPhone does.
For example, they ignore this tag
<meta name="viewport" content="initial-scale=0.5, maximum-scale=1.5" /> 

Below:
LEFT: Safari with user Agent set to iPhone.  
Right:  Android emulator (matches what I see on iPhone) 

Changing fuser in HP 4050 Laserjet

Step by Step instructions to replace fuser

DNS & Heinonline

Problems with HeinOnline again, pages loads, but none of the CSS, which is located at staticimage.heinonline.org 

tracert staticimage.heinonline.org

Tracing route to lamp.cit.cornell.edu [128.253.161.36]

over a maximum of 30 hops:

First thought it was problem with DNS 11.74  (staff PCs that had that could not resolve, one's with 11.73 could, going directly)

But made change on OPAC, still problem through proxy.  

Then set to Google DNS 8.8.8.8, solved problem 

Eventually asked campus IT to manually enter info for our DNS, and that way we could switch back to using our DNS server.

IE warning message

Using Javascript to show warning only in Internet Explorer Browser:

<script language="javascript">
function getInternetExplorerVersion()
// Returns the version of Internet Explorer or a -1
// (indicating the use of another browser).
{
  var rv = -1; // Return value assumes failure.
  if (navigator.appName == 'Microsoft Internet Explorer')
  {
    var ua = navigator.userAgent;
    var re  = new RegExp("MSIE ([0-9]{1,}[\.0-9]{0,})");
    if (re.exec(ua) != null)
      rv = parseFloat( RegExp.$1 );
  }
  return rv;
}
function checkVersion()
{
  var msg = "<p>Internet Explorer Users:<br> You will get a popup warning message (view content that was delivered securely).  You can <a href='http://blogs.msdn.com/b/askie/archive/2009/05/14/mixed-content-and-internet-explorer-8-0.aspx' target='_blank'>change IE settings</a> to avoid this warning, or use Firefox or Chrome instead.</p><p>&nbsp;</p>";
  var ver = getInternetExplorerVersion();

  if ( ver > -1 )
  {
    if ( ver >= 8.0 )
     
  document.write( msg );
  }

}

checkVersion();       


function getInternetExplorerVersion()
// Returns the version of Internet Explorer or a -1
// (indicating the use of another browser).
{
var rv = -1; // Return value assumes failure.
if (navigator.appName == 'Microsoft Internet Explorer')
{
var ua = navigator.userAgent;
var re  = new RegExp("MSIE ([0-9]{1,}[\.0-9]{0,})");
if (re.exec(ua) != null)
rv = parseFloat( RegExp.$1 );
}
return rv;
}
function checkVersion()
{
var msg = "
Internet Explorer Users: You will get a popup warning message (view content that was delivered securely).  You can change IE settings to avoid this warning, or use Firefox or Chrome instead.

";
var ver = getInternetExplorerVersion();

if ( ver > -1 )
{
if ( ver >= 8.0 )

document.write( msg );
}

}

checkVersion();       

</script>

Using Putty program to tunnel to Millennium server

1.  For each Millennium port (2000, 4600, 1031-1035, 80, etc.), I created a forwarding port (in Putty under "Connection" > "SSH" > "Tunnel").  I did this by entering the port number in the "Source port" area and the server's IP address and port for the "Destination".  You can see this in the attached screenshot. 

2.  Then I opened a Putty SSH session to the server.

3.  Then I opened Millennium by using the following command in the Windows "Run" box:

"C:\Program Files\Millennium\iiirunner.exe" ip=localhost

Updating the IP address listed in the iiirunner.lax file would also have the same effect.  You could also just modify your Millennium shortcut by adding "ip=localhost" (no quotes) to the end of the shortcut's target.

Some other things to keep in mind ....

1.  You have to have Putty open while Millennium is open.
2.  You might also need to tunnel additional ports for your specific situation.
3.  Sometimes a specific Millennium application wouldn't open the first time I'd select it from the control bar; the black iii runner.exe box would list an error message.  However, usually, everything would work fine if I selected the module again from the control bar.  May be something flakey on my end ... but I thought I would mention it just in case.

Matt Polcyn email 2008