Month: July 2007

Speed control widgets for Captivate

Posted on July 30, 2007 by ellen

These 2 widgets allow your users to alter the speed (in frames per second) of the Captivate presentation they are viewing. To use them, go to the first slide you want the widget to appear

z-index problem in IE

Posted on July 24, 2007 by ellen

In IE 6, the border of a block element will cover up a contained item which should appear on top of it, even if the z-index of the contained item is set higher than the

PhpSuexec and Movabletype

Posted on July 23, 2007November 19, 2013 by ellen

Recently, my webhost enabled phpsuexec on the server, and several of the web applications on my site stopped working. Movabletype began rebuilding pages with the wrong permissions, so browsing an affected page would generate a

Fixing “Too many redirects” error in MediaWiki

Posted on July 21, 2007 by ellen

I run a wiki for my ParrotCichlid.com fish fancier’s site, based on “MediaWiki.” It had been running fine, except for an increasing problem with spam, but one day it simply stopped working. Browsing to the site would result in the following error message:

Too many redirects occurred trying to open “http://parrotcichlid.com/book/index.php/Main_Page”. This might occur if you open a page that is redirected to open another page which then is redirected to open the original page.

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Using trace function to print out all properties of an object in Flash

Posted on July 18, 2007 by ellen

The trace() function in flash is used much like alert() in Javascript. You can use it to print the contents of a variable or the result of an expression. For example var theNumber = 2

Resolving Error code 0xE8000025 when activating iPhone

Posted on July 14, 2007 by ellen

When I hooked up my iPhone to iTunes the first time, I got “Can’t connect to iTunes” with an error code of 0xE8000025. After a quick browse of the forums and web, I tried several

iPhone review

Posted on July 13, 2007 by ellen

I’ve been using a Blackberry 8700c through Cingular for a couple of years now, and I really like being able to check all my email accounts on it and using the google apps wherever I happen to be. Typing on it is pretty easy. However there were many reasons I was looking for a replacement.

Email is merely forwarded, so you aren’t dealing with the actual imap server you use when at home or work. So junk mail rules aren’t followed, any deletions or drafts are not seen by your other mail clients, etc. You used to be able to set up filters on the blackberry web client, but they removed that feature last year.

Using dynamic text to toggle a play/pause button

Posted on July 1, 2007 by ellen

I’ve been building a simple flash video player based on the one here and had the idea to use dynamic text to easily toggle the play button between the play and pause states. The Webdings font character for the play state is “4” and for the pause state is “;”

To avoid problems with fonts not displaying on some machines, click the “Embed” button on the text properties panel when creating the dynamic text, and embed the numerals.