Apparently this is unsupported but possible.
Monthly Archives: November 2009
What happened to Apple’s awesome web movie trailer service?
I used to go to Apple.com for movie trailers because they had really high quality trailers and the downloads were really fast…
However, today I went to watch the “Shark’s Tale” trailer and I found I was unable to full screen the trailer.. and I couldn’t figure out how to pull the cached file so I could view the trailer full screen.
This is what I saw:
Admittedly, I am watching this on my TV, so I have a very large screen.. but without being able to full screen (or at least zoom) the video, this is practically unwatchable.
I am certain this is not what Apple is trying to accomplish with their trailer service.
SugarSync
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While reading about the limitations imposed by the Dropbox developers.. someone mentioned SugarSync which is apparently a competing product. It’s not clear that it will support Linux.. but they do support Windows and Mac. They offer a free 2g plan similar to Dropbox’s free plan, but they also have a 30g paid plan for $5/mo or $50/yr.. which is less expensive than Dropbox’s cheapest plan.
How to rename the ‘My Dropbox’ folder in Windows
The fact that I can’t change the name of the dropbox folder in Windows from “My Dropbox” has been driving me crazy. After more Google searching than should have been necessary, I found this page describing how the author managed to find the setting and change it.
I found out the dropbox.db file in my
\AppData\Roaming\Dropbox folder on Windows 7 is a SQLite 3 database. Using a SQLite database GUI I opened it up and found a table called ‘config’, with a value called ‘dropbox_path’. The value appeared to base base64 encoded.
The value is base64 encoded. I see absolutely no reason for the developers to have done that except to make it difficult to change the setting.
Update: It appears this is a deliberate decision on the part of the developers. One of the developers has written up an explanation for the decision.
Wiki software comparison
I was comparing wiki softwares over at wikimatrix.org and this is the list I came up with.
There were a number of things I required to make that list. It must be software I can install which is free. It must not require root access or anything super crazy to run. It must support MySQL. It must support revisions, page permissions, unicode, and file attachments. I docked points aggressively for software packages that had other things I felt were weak, such as no XML/HTML export, no tables support, no commenting system, no email notifications, no full-text search, or no recent updates to name a few. Some also lost points for only supporting features I consider critical through a plugin or a patch.
As it is there are still a couple on that list that I consider weaker than others, like Wicked for example.
