IE8: Font size problems
Now that Internet Explorer 8 is out, I’m getting some reports of font-size issues: text that looks fine in all other browsers becomes very tiny. When I check the same pages in my own IE8
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Beginning Eclipse CVS – Basics 2: Create a new project from scratch
<= Back to previous section “Getting Started”
- Eclipse Terminology-“Perspective”:
The word “Perspective” is used to denote a window panel in Eclipse with a specific purpose. There are Eclipse perspectives for different functions, like the Resources perspective for viewing workspace assets or resources, the Team Synchronization perspective for viewing CVS synchronization information, and the CVS perspective for viewing CVS Repositories, to name a few.
Error: “Partition size not a multiple of 4k” on formatting a new drive
New Iomega drives ship with NTFS filesystems, formatted for MSDOS. They must be reformatted to work with Mac OS X. However when attempting to format these drives you may get this error: “Partition size not
Continue readingKeyboard stops working but only in Finder
A new problem that’s been plaguing my Mac these days is that the keyboard sometimes stops working, but only in the Finder. In all the other applications, it remains functional. I use a Wacom tablet,
Continue readingDownloaded dmg files and codec overrun errors on Mac
I’ve been downloading disk image files (.dmg) containing Mac utilities and applications with no problem for years, but all of a sudden, a particular update .dmg always downloads in a corrupted form. I’ve been trying
Continue readingManaging your privacy on Facebook
Facebook’s privacy settings can be managed in a very detailed manner, but setting them up correctly can be confusing to new members. It is not at all obvious that you have any control over what people see of your personal information.
Put your friends into lists
To get started with taking back control over your personal life, take a moment to consider what privacy levels you might need. There may be items you may be comfortable with your family seeing but not friends, and vice-versa, such as photos of yourself uploaded by your friends. You’ll be grouping people into lists that will allow or prevent them to see specific items. Typical lists you might consider making would be “family”, “friends”, “acquaintances”, “coworkers”, “party animals”, etc.
Click “All Friends” under the Friends menu in the blue stripe up top.
Continue readingSlow scrolling with IE8 and old PC
At work, I installed Internet Explorer 8 on an old computer running XP to see how well it would work with our Learning Management System. It was immediately apparent that the scrolling and rendering performance
Continue readingIE8: Navigation to the webpage was cancelled
With the advent of IE 8, I started getting calls about a new error when accessing our learning management system.
“Navigation to the webpage was cancelled.”
This error can be caused by many things, but in this case, I believe it has to do with the fact that the LMS has both secure and insecure assets in the frameset. Unfortunately, many times messages will come up asking people whether they want to view both types, and they will click “no” without knowing that the page requires them to function.
Since I can’t ever really know what is going on with a user’s home computer’s security setup, I simply tell them to reset their Internet Explorer to its default settings.
Continue readingiPhone doesn’t ring while locked
A while back, my iPhone stopped ringing while locked. It didn’t seem to matter what settings I used, it simply would not ring. Calls were being missed, so I finally decided to look into it.
Continue readingPapers! iTunes for your PDF’s
If you do a lot of research, like me, you may have a desktop full of PDF’s all named with such informative filenames as “c_dat09.pdf.” I spent a lot of time futilely trying to organize them along with their notes and citations, so it was a revelation to come across the application Papers.
