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When installing Windows 7 in VMWare Fusion or Parallels, if you get the following error: The unattend answer file contains an invalid product key” simply open the VMWare Settings or in Parallels, select Virtual Machine
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I find the new debugging tools in Safari almost as useful as Firebug. There’s a Web Inspector that lets you see exactly how the HTML is formed, a Javascript console that lets you see errors and debugging messages written into the code and much more.
But to use them you must enable the Debug menu in Safari. Open Safari preferences in the Safari Menu, click Advanced, and select Show Develop menu in menu bar.
Continue readingSometimes a web app hits it square on target for me, and for once, Google Docs has done that with its new Drag to list to upload functionality. It’s as direct as dragging something to a folder with no intermediate step. Nice!
Continue readingIn Adobe Captivate, if you check Allow User to Review Quiz in the quiz settings in Preferences, a button should appear on the Score page that allows the user to go back and see what they answered and any available feedback for each question slide. Sometimes this button doesn’t display, even if this setting is checked.
Continue readingIf clicking on a link containing a javascript results in a white page contining nothing but the word “true” or “false”, check the link to see if it is written in the form:
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I’ve worked on a few projects where a CSS style on some page element has been specified as “!important” and it interferes with the way the page functions. Ordinarily, I would just change the original style, but sometimes I don’t have control over the stylesheet or script that is generating the style. One example is a recent project where an embedded Captivate player is written to a custom HTML wrapper at by the javascript SWFObject.js. SWFObject writes style attributes to the page dynamically to hide the Captivate player as required until it is fully loaded:
object, embed {
visibility:hidden !important;
}
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