Author: ellen

The biggest medical stories of the year

Posted on December 21, 2006 by ellen

There were some incredible breakthroughs in medicine this year:

Diabetes and Nerve function linked
Drop in the incidence of breast cancer
New treatments for Macular Degeneration
Progress toward an Alzheimer’s Vaccine and other treatments

Diabetes linked to nerve function in the pancreas
One of the biggest stories, if it is confirmed by other researchers, is the discovery of the relationship between the nervous system and diabetes.

Diabetes Breakthrough | National Post

Windows Media doesn’t play in a new install of Firefox

Posted on December 15, 2006 by ellen

If you install Firefox in Windows, it may not play your windows media files, if there is no “embed” tag inside the object tag. Firefox is now capable of addressing the Windows Media Player ActiveX

What is this picture?

Posted on December 1, 2006 by ellen

Can you guess what this picture is? for the answer, click the link below: Click here to continue and see the answer Buffalo as seen from space! This is a satellite view of the buffalo

The new Groboto is OUT!

Posted on November 30, 2006 by ellen

After 5 years of development, the new Groboto is out, and it was worth the wait! What is Groboto? It’s a one-of-a-kind 3D application that lets you create amazing objects, scenes and animations. See example

Change screenshot format in Mac OS X Tiger

Posted on November 13, 2006 by ellen

Any time I do a fresh install of the system, I find it necessary to change the default format of screenshots in Tiger to JPG from PNG. Thanks to robg on MacOSXHints.com for this: open

Firefox causes 100% CPU usage on Mac OS X

Posted on November 9, 2006November 19, 2013 by ellen

I’ve been attempting to run down the cause of my iMac being constantly at 100% CPU. Here’s part of the cause: Clicking anywhere in a Firefox browser window pegs the CPU usage to 100%. Using

Psychedelic Video Display: embedded Windows Media Player

Posted on October 24, 2006 by ellen

A new computer running Windows XP was having a problem displaying some video produced a few years ago with Windows Media 7 format. The video image resembled a 60’s flashback, as shown below:

Can’t paste text into a file within Dreamweaver 8

Posted on October 13, 2006 by ellen

Working on a Dreamweaver site the other day, I tried to paste text from an email into the page. When CTR-V didn’t work, I tried the menu – but the paste option was grayed out.

It turns out this has something to do with having moved the site files panel over to the left monitor. (Yet another glitch in Window’s implementation of a two monitor setup.)

The solution is:

Close DW8 and Navigate as follows:
– Documents and settings
– Administrator or whatever your user account name is
– Application data
– Macromedia
– DW8
– rename the “configuration” folder

Restart Dreamweaver 8 – the problem should be gone.

Various solutions to the IE Active X issue

Posted on October 8, 2006 by ellen

For your convenience, all in one place, here is a list of sites that offer solutions to the new Internet Explorer ActiveX behavior. Includes links to Microsoft, Apple, Real Networks and Adobe pages on the

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