Posted by bweaver on 2009/11/21 – 01:49
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.
Posted by bweaver on 2009/11/14 – 21:53
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.
Posted by bweaver on 2009/09/09 – 19:45
Ever noticed plugins stealing your keyboard focus in Firefox so you can’t use Firefox keys anymore? Very frustrating because I thought the only way to get focus out of the plugin is to use the mouse, which may be unavailable.
Funny, it turns out this has been a known bug for 8 years! Well, I’ve found a work-around that works for me in FF3 on Windows XP, and I included it in some comments on bugzilla:
When I’ve focused a flash object, windows shortcuts like ctrl-escape and alt-f4 still work. If you have more than one tab open and you enable the “warn me when closing multiple tabs” option.. you can press alt-f4 and the browser will pop up the warning/confirmation.. you can then hit escape to say “no I didn’t actually want to close” and focus has magically been shifted back to Firefox!
Posted by bob on 2009/04/28 – 22:19
Filed under cry
Tagged as destroy_internet
Brian and I are geeking out here, resurrecting the quotefile webpage. I’m trying to add openid authentication. Details on all that hullabaloo later. My main problem is that I find a nicely reviewed simple openid php class that I want to use, but the downloads are hosted on this god-forsaken disaster of a website: Welcome to the PHP Classes Repository - PHP Classes.
As a lesson to all website creators out there, do not imitate their mistakes. If you can find anything that this site has done in your own work, change professions. I don’t even think I can describe it. Just go try and hit that site, search for something, and download it. I apologize in advance for the agony.
