giovedì, marzo 31, 2011

Photoshop for the Ipad = Awesome

mercoledì, marzo 30, 2011

Flash Player Video: Hardware Acceleration Woes

Useful tidbit to remember: if someone viewing your Flash video complains that it is choppy, it’s probably hardware acceleration. From Adobe:

“Flash Player 10 and later can use your system’s graphics hardware to accelerate video decoding. Flash Player 10.2 and later can also accelerate video presentation on some sites, accelerating all aspects of video playback. If you are experiencing video playback issues in Flash Player, it is possible that your video adapter driver software has incompatibility issues.”

To disable hardware acceleration:

1.       Right-click the Flash movie

2.       Choose Settings from the context menu.

3.       Deselect Enable Hardware Acceleration (on the Display tab), then and click Close.

martedì, marzo 29, 2011

Amazon Cloud Drive

lunedì, marzo 28, 2011

Regular Expression Generator

What a great utility! It generates allows you to enter a string to use a regular expression on, and then build it for Perl, PHP, Python , Java , Javascript,  ColdFusion,  C,  C++,  Ruby,  VB,  VBScript,  J#.net,  C#.net,  C++.net, and  VB.net.

http://txt2re.com/

giovedì, marzo 24, 2011

IE9 Font Rendering Issue

I experienced an unusual problem after installing Internet Explorer 9. Some web pages were rendering strangely in all bold fonts. After some searching I came across the solution in a Microsoft Forum.

 

Problem: after installing IE9, many websites were displaying fonts in bold.

Solution: Reinstall all Arial fonts.

 

Fix MS Office programs using Office Diagnostics

This is a really handy tool. The funny thing is that it fixed a problem I had with IE without officially finding any issues.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/diagnose-and-repair-crashing-office-programs-by-using-office-diagnostics-HA001234076.aspx

 

Adobe Lens Profile Creator and Downloader

I saw this in a Ben Willmore class yesterday. Pretty cool!

“Lens Profile Creator is a free utility that enables the easy creation of lens profiles for use in the Adobe Photoshop® family of products, such as Adobe Photoshop CS5, the Photoshop Camera Raw plug-in and Adobe Photoshop Lightroom®. A lens profile describes the types of optical aberrations that exist in a particular lens and prescribes how to correct the lens distortions in an image captured from the same lens.”

venerdì, marzo 18, 2011

"Outlinify" It For Me

“Topicmarks summarizes text documents for you electronically. Get a smart synopsis in minutes instead of reading everything yourself.”

http://topicmarks.com/

mercoledì, marzo 16, 2011

IE9 Will Support WebM?

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2011/03/16/html5-video-update-webm-for-ie9.aspx

“Today IE9 can play HTML5 video in both the industry-standard H.264 format and the newer WebM format. With the WebM Project’s release of WebM Components for IE9 (Preview), Windows customers running IE9 can play WebM videos in Web pages. IE9 is the only browser today committed to supporting both formats directly.”

lunedì, marzo 14, 2011

SharePoint: Search-As-You-Type

I ran across a nice piece of code on Jan Tielens' Blog that allows you to quickly create a “search-as-you-type” option using a Content Editor Web Part. Aweome!

 

mercoledì, marzo 09, 2011

IE9 Launches on March 14th

martedì, marzo 08, 2011

Information Overload

A thoughtful article JB pointed out about information overload. I don’t think I can part with my filters!

http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2011/03/situational_ove.php

If, as Shirky argues, improved filters will reduce overload, then why haven't they done so up until now? Why don't we feel that information overload is subsiding as a problem rather than getting worse? The reason, I've come to believe, is that Shirky's formulation gets it precisely backwards. Better filters don't mitigate information overload; they intensify it. It would be more accurate to say: "It's not information overload. It's filter success."

 

Adobe Wallaby: Convert Adobe Flash FLA files into HTML

This sounds really promising! I was just reading a Mashable article that Adobe is previewing its new tool, code-named “Wallaby,” that converts FLA files to HTML5.

From Adobe:

“"Wallaby" is the codename for an experimental technology that converts the artwork and animation contained in Adobe® Flash® Professional (FLA) files into HTML. This allows you to reuse and extend the reach of your content to devices that do not support the Flash runtimes. Once these files are converted to HTML, you can edit them with an HTML editing tool, such as Adobe Dreamweaver®, or by hand if desired. You can view the output in one of the supported browsers or on an iOS device.”

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/wallaby/

 

lunedì, marzo 07, 2011

SharePoint Designer: Limit of 200 Controls?

Using SharePoint Designer, I ran across this error: “This page allows a limit of 200 controls, and that limit has been exceeded.” The weird thing is I am not exactly sure how SharePoint calculates the number of controls…I certainly don’t have that many DVWPs. In any case, Mossable.com had a fix. I didn’t end up using it, but it seems handy to file away for future reference.

“Go to IIS Manager, right click on the SharePoint Web application you are having the issue on and select Open. This will take you to the root folder on the filesystem. Then right-click on the web.config file and search for “MaxControls”. Change the default number from 200 to say 500. Make sure to reset IIS (go to dos prompt and type IISReset).”