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.

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.

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.

The other day someone sent me a link to an article which was actually mirrored using a script to do just that.

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!

>>> a = [1, 2, 3]
>>> a.append(4)
>>> print a
[1, 2, 3, 4]
>>> while 7 not in a:
...   a.append(int(raw_input('append?')))
...
append?4
append?3
append?5
append?6
append?7
>>> print a
[1, 2, 3, 4, 4, 3, 5, 6, 7]
>>>

OK, that skips the step where I googled, saw an example, and then wanted to try it out in a simple cases to make sure I got it.  But this still demonstrates the value, right?