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Monthly Archives: August 2016

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31 Wednesday Aug 2016

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British Brick Society newsletter (archaeology and history of bricks, brick making). Not all PDFs appear to be viable, some terminating abruptly in mid-download.

Southern African Humanities (appears to be mostly archaeology, reconstruction of prehistoric ethnographies, linguistics)

How to get big pictures from eBay listings

25 Thursday Aug 2016

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Here’s a handy little web-whittle. It lets you save large versions of images from fleeting eBay sales listings, in which images are usually blocked by a javascript lightbox. You don’t need an add-on to save them to your PC.

In Firefox, just go: View | Page Style | No Style. This strips all formatting off the page.

Then scroll down to the bottom of what is now a much longer page than before, and near the bottom you’ll see the 1600px size pictures. You can the right-click on the picture and save.

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25 Thursday Aug 2016

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Nyame Akuma Bulletin of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists

Prehistory Society of Zimbabwe Newsletters

West African Archaeological Newsletter (1964-1970)

Mythlore Index

22 Monday Aug 2016

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The new free Mythlore Index covers issues 1-128 of the long-lived Mythlore journal, which hosts work on Tolkien and his circle. Also indexes the Tolkien Journal issues 1–18, though not the field-leading scholarship of the Tolkien Studies journal. Mythlore Index also includes a subject index, and is a whopping 420-page PDF.

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20 Saturday Aug 2016

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Archeology & History in Lebanon

Copper Architecture Forum

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Report: Custom essay writing services

19 Friday Aug 2016

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A new report “Plagiarism in Higher Education – Custom essay writing services: an exploration and next steps for the UK higher education sector”.

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How to open a .pages file in Windows in 2016 – use Libre Office

18 Thursday Aug 2016

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Problem: You’ve been sent a .pages format document. No, I’d never heard of it either. Apparently it’s a sort of obscure equivalent of the old Windows .wps format, only it’s from word-processing software that ships with Macs. Like the old .wps format used to be, nothing on earth will open it as intended — except its own native production software.

Solution 1: (defunct) It seems there used to be a Windows trick where you’d rename the .pages file as a .zip and there would be a preview.pdf inside that which was usable. That trick doesn’t appear to work any more, at least with the newer versions of whatever Mac software makes .pages files. You may, however, at least get a .JPG image that can show you how the document was meant to look.

Solution 2: (working)

1. Get the free LibreOffice, a version of the popular Open Office suite. The developers of LibreOffice are not afraid to incur the wrath of Apple by enabling .pages import. Install. (LibreOffice has a notoriously long install time, and if you need it a bit quicker then try the portable version).

2. Open a new blank document in the Writer component of Libre Office.

3. Go: top menu bar | Insert | Document and insert your .pages file. Your document loads and appears, but looks like blank pages with a few lines of dots at the top of each page. The formatting has all been lost, but the dots are actually all the words scrunched up together.

4. Go: top menu bar | Edit | Select All | Copy.

5. Open MS Word or similar. Paste in what you just copied to the clipboard. As you’ll see, you’ve lost any fancy formatting there may have been in the .pages file, but at least you’ve got all the plain text and it’s in the right order, it flows and is editable.


Update: Insert | Document is no longer available in the current 2021 version of Writer. Seems to have been removed, presumably at the behest of Apple. Older versions of LibreOffice, inc. summer 2016, are here. Regrettably LibreOffice forces you to uninstall a new version, to install the older version.

Update 2021: There are now several online converters. The only one that worked for me was Zamzar set to convert .pages to a .txt file.

‘Has one a blending of a grammar-checker and search-engine?’

16 Tuesday Aug 2016

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New from MIT, Ludwig Search is a hybrid between a grammar-checker and a search-engine. It compares your sentence with similar sentences found on major news sites and in PubMed.

hasthisbeen

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15 Monday Aug 2016

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New Mexico Anthropologist (1937-43)

Hemisphere : Visual Cultures of the Americas

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13 Saturday Aug 2016

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African Disability Rights Yearbook, The

African Human Rights Law Journal

De Jure Law Journal (also mirrored here)

De Rebus

Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal

SADC Law Journal (Southern African Development Community)

Law, Democracy & Development Law Journal

Speculum Juris

Juridical Science (National Academy of Management, Ukraine)

Cornell Real Estate Review

Stability : International Journal of Security and Development

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