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OS X: “Connect to Server / Favorite Servers” – entries disappeared – cannot add new entries
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/228278/favorite-list-of-servers-of-connect-to-server-window-disappears I am not sure this cures my problem.
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my Polar V800 and where to …
https://www.polar.com/en/products/pro/V800 Its watch strap has 21 holes. I usually wear it at the 12th hole. Whenever I have to charge its battery via USB, I ask myself: at which hole will I wear if for now?
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installing Microsoft Office for OS X from office.com
https://portal.office.com/OLS/MySoftware.aspx Double-clicking on the “.pkg” (1.6GB) resulted in a window that popped up saying this: Verifying “Microsoft_Office_2016_15.35.17061000_Installer.pkg”… This “never” ended in my case. And I waited for more than 30 minutes. And I tried more than once. Then I turned to “Microsoft Office Online”.
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Microsoft Office Online AKA “Office Web Apps”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OneDrive#Office_Online Microsoft Office in a web browser.
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Asaf Avidan’s 2017 “into the labyrinth” tour
http://www.asafavidanmusic.com/tour-1/ He will be in Berlin again. I am looking forward to 2017-12-04.
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MediaWiki: how to extract the wiki text (only) from an article?
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1625162/get-text-content-from-mediawiki-page-via-api https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33844207/how-to-get-wikipedia-content-as-text-by-api https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=query The above articles (Stack Overflow) do not exactly answer my question, but they are rather close. The key is using api.php and action=query. Purpose: I want to compare articles of two rather close wikis, and the articles have a common ancestor.
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ebooks: bookzz… moved to b-ok…
I hope this note will help me finding them again next time. http://www.gadgetswright.com/bookzz-alternatives
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dmoztools.net “is an independently created static mirror of dmoz.org”
http://dmoztools.net https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMOZ – as of 2017-04-21 does not mention the life of the DMOZ.org content after the closedown on 2017-03-17 https://www.resource-zone.com – “visit resource-zone to stay in touch with the community” I have no idea, whether dmoztools.net is being maintained actively, but I (still) find DMOZ’s “hierarchical ontology scheme for organizing site listings” very useful. I am…
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Oracle and “Dyn” (formerly known as “DynDNS”)
https://www.oracle.com/corporate/acquisitions/dyn/index.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyn_(company)
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Dorling Kindersley and their “visual bilingual dictionaries”
https://www.dk.com/uk/language-learning/ https://www.dk.com/uk/9780241292457-german-english-bilingual-visual-dictionary/ https://www.dk.com/uk/9780241292457-german-english-bilingual-visual-dictionary/?Format=eBook https://www.dk.com/uk/9781405353304-portugueseenglish-bilingual-visual-dictionary/ https://www.dk.com/uk/9781405353304-portugueseenglish-bilingual-visual-dictionary/?Format=eBook Really nice visual language learning aids. Not only for kids – but especially good for kids.