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Tech: Bugs, tips, and tricks

Posted in Howto/Tips/Tutorials, Technology by cd on June 2, 2006

Right now, I throw everything together. Later when I have some time (well a lot of time), I will clean this post up a a bit.

Adobe ImageReady 7.0

1. I can’t save my animation as .gif?

A: Open the Optimize panel and choose .GIF in the “Settings” drop-down list

Blog

1. Thingamablog QaA

which I found to be very useful.

2. Thingamablog’s add-ons

3. Cool addons for blogger
http://www.bloggerforum.com/modules/mydownloads/topten.php?rate=1

4. WordPress FAQ

5. Blog web clients

Bloodshed Dev-C++

1. Official Dev-C++ FAQ
2. Aditsu’s unofficial Dev-C++ FAQ
3. Bloodshed Dev-C++ Forum
4. Installation and configuration screenshots

5. I cannot compile my code?
A: If you’ve tried everything, and it still doesn’t work, just download a new dev-c++ .exe and reinstall it.

MS Excel 2003

1. Problem with importing CSV file (American/English user locales) to Bosnian user locale.
ex: Decimal numbers e.g. 4.5 will be convert to Date format e.g. 4.May
Solution:

  • Go to Control Panel -> Regional and Language Options->Regional Options
  • Manually change the formats of the currency and dates or select a regional setting under the drop-down menu list next to the Customize button.
  • Choose English (United States)

2. How do I use the Data->AdvancedFilter feature?

Flash MX

1. How do I find out the version of the default Flash player?

  • Click File->Publish Settings->

  • Select theFlash tab

  • Look at the Version drop-down list (Version 1, 2, …6,…)

2. What is the ActionScript version? (1.0 or 2.0)
A: 1.0

3. What is the basic differences among Flash versions?
A:Flash 5 used AS 1.0 and Flash Player 5.
Flash MX used AS 1.0 and Flash Player 6.
Flash MX 2004 uses AS 2.0 and uses Flash Player 7.
Flash 8 will use either AS 2.5 or 3.0 and use Flash Player 8.
Flash MX 2004 and Flash 8 have both standard and professional versions. Source: http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=191548

4. “Unexpect file format” error when opening a .fla
S: File created or modified in Flash MX 2004 cannot be opened in Flash MX.

5. I created a stop button and put the following ActionScript, but the movie did not stop when I click on the button.
on(release){stop();}
Solution: I’m not sure if this is the answer but after I did the following, the button worked

  • Name the button instance in the panel.
  • Select all the frames containing the button (instead of just the first frame) so that the code exists in all frames.

FrontPage 2003

1.How to publish the website from FrontPage to tripod.com?

  • Click File->Publish Web
  • Type http://frontpage.tripod.com/username in the text box
  • Hit OK

2. What is FrontPage enabled?
A: To publish your website directly from FrontPage, you need to enable FrontPage Server Extension (FPSE) on your web server.
For example, Tripod is a free web hosting service which has FPSE. After registering your account, FSE is automatically enabled for you.

3. Where can I find a list of Web hosting service that have FrontPage Server Extension?

4. What is FrontPage Server Extension?
A:These are a set of server-side scripts and programs which enable users of Microsoft FrontPage to use its special components (called Web Bots). The extensions can be installed for Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) and on other Windows (usually Windows NT) and UNIX web servers.

5.List of Free Webspace Hosting with FrontPage Extensions.
http://www.free-webhosts.com/free-frontpage-extensions.php

6. How can I use a web template?
A: Uh, it’s very simple guys! All you have to do is open it in your web editor, e.g. FrontPage, modify it, and make it your own. A web template is just a name for a HTML file.

Web design

1. Can I use a free web template for commerical work e.g. design website for companies?

As long as you don`t sell/distribute the original sourcefiles ( PSD, PNG & HTML ) : NO ! You can use the templates for your commercial design work ( customize the logo, buttons and other graphics, implent the text content of your customer, add pages, hyperlinks etc. ) . The only restriction is that you can`t sell/distribute our templates as templates in any way. That`s our buisiness.

Depend on the templates’ creators. Some might not allow. Check for rules.

2. Transparent PNG images conflict with some web browsers.

I created an PNG text logo with a transparent background. It appears flawless without the rectangular background on Firefox, Opera, and Netscape. However, an ugly white background displays when I tested the pages on IE, AvantBroswer, Maxthon. If the problem only lies with AB and M browsers, I will ignore it since these two browsers are not too popular. But given IE’s dominance in the browser market, I have to fix it asap. I will save the image as GIF and see what happens.

Solution: I solved the problem by saving the image as GIF.
Other tips:Somebody wrote a javascript to fix this PNG’s transparency. It has something to do with PNG’s raster format technology and lack of support from IE version 6 and below. It’s complicated and I don’t want to get involved right now. I included the script but it did not work so I just use my simple GIF image instead. But if I want a professional looking image, I’ve better understand this PNG concept soon. If you’re interested, read this tutorial.

Hardware/Software

  1. Printing error : “Can’t get the dc of the printer” It happened when I try to print a .pdf document opened in Foxit Reader to a HP LaserJet 1020. Not sure which causes the problem. When I switch to Adobe Acrobat Reader (v. 7.0, not sure if the version makes much of a different), printing okay.
  2. Error “Unable to Locate DLL – The Dynamic Link Library mscoree.dll could not be found: Indicate that you don’t have .NET framework installed.
  3. Enable “switch user” option in Windows XP Pro. Answer from Microsoft website. However I still don’t see the option “Change the way users log on or off.” http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=279765
  4. Windows XP do not recognize my USB 2.0 hard drive, 3′5 DiskGo Edge.
    Believe it or not. Pick it up and shake shake shake it!

Networking

1. I can’t see my computer (Windows XP) on Windows 2000 network

  • Make the folder shared.
  • Set the clientcomputer’s workgroup name to be the name of the network domain that you want to connect to.

2. The system security log is full. Only the administrator can fix this error!
A: Eh, will definitely solve this problem. The network administrators came and was able to fix this problem, but it seemed to me that they didn’t let me follow to keep trade secret.

3. I unplugged the network cable from the other computer which hooked up to a cable modem and plugged to my laptop. However, I could not connect to the internet

Cable modem identifies the computers by their MAC addresses. So unhooking and hooking the cable alone will not do it because the cable modem remembers the old address and now sees a new one. So I restarted the cable modem by disconnected it from the power source after I hooked the cable to new computer.

4. What is a 1394 network connection?

This network device is actually your FireWire card. Although most users use FireWire to connect video and storage peripherals, Microsoft chose to list FireWire as a network device, which might confuse some users. Either you can ignore this connection, or you can disable it by right-clicking the connection from within Network Connections (from the Start menu, go to Settings, Network Connections) and selecting Disable.

5. “5.7.0 Must issue a STARTTLS command first” error when I tried to send mail (Gmail) from Thunderbird email client.

This error may come up if SMTP server that you’re sending through has email sending restrictions. Sometimes, mail servers are configured to e.g. only allow emails from common email clients (outlook, etc.) and block any email sending requests coming from other programs. You should try a different SMTP server or use Email Seeker’s internal mail server (comes with Pro version). (source)

This answer did not directly solve the problem, but at least it helped me to narrow the problem sources. So my SMTP was no configured correctly. Then, I found a tutorial on how to add Gmail account in Thunderbird from the Mozilla website. Turned out, I had to choose “SSL” for the security connection. And it worked.

Update: The next morning, I could not send mail again and got another error complaining about my smtp configuration. So I changed from “SSL” to “TLS” for no reason, and again it worked. Wondering what will happen the next time I start Thunderbird.

Online Services

  1. Convert documents to pdf
  2. http://www.faxdigits.com (receive free faxes)
  3. http://faxzero.com/ (send free faxes to us and canada)
  4. Word processor
  5. 25G free online storage (streamload.com)

Cool wiki pages (name too)

  • pickle.com (share photos and videos)
  • wetpaint.com (wikis)
  • markboo.com (bookmarks)

Information

1. USB hard drive

DiskGo Edge

Where: from egghead.com
When: December 2005
Notes: 1 year warranty
327 East 14St Street
Ada, OK 74820
800 332 6581
580 332 6581
www.edgetechcorp.com/support


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