Category: Applications

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.

onChange=”document.form.submit()” doesn’t work

Posted on October 8, 2006 by ellen

Have you ever used the onChange event to submit a form? onChange=”document.form1.submit();” If you are creating a form that submits as soon as a change is made to any selection, make sure you remove the

Slow, jerky playback of iTunes video

Posted on October 7, 2006 by ellen

After upgrading to iTunes 7, playback of videos purchased from the iTunes store became unwatchably slow and jerky. The video would play for about 1 second, then freeze, then play, then freeze. The solution was

Working with ODBC databases on a Mac

Posted on October 3, 2006 by ellen

The ODBC Administrator If you do much work with databases on a PC you’ll be familiar with the ODBC Data Source control panel in Windows. But where is the corresponding control panel on a Mac?

Dreamweaver: Mass Detach from Template

Posted on September 27, 2006 by ellen

There are times when you may find it necessary to detach hundreds of pages from their Dreamweaver templates. Unfortunately, within the Dreamweaver interface the only way to detach multiple files from their templates is to open each one, then select “Modify:Templates:Detach from Template” from the menu.

A better way to go is to use a simple “grep” search in BBEdit:

Make sure you have a backup of your site. You can cause truly spectacular destruction with mass search and replace! OK, you’ve been warned!
Open BBEdit, and select Find from the Search menu. The Find & Replace dialog will appear. (click to enlarge)