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To use the KML files, right click the “Download KML file” link and select “Save Target As”. Windows may try to add an “XML” extension onto the end of the file name. Change the extension back to “KML” if it does.
You must have Google Earth installed to use these files. Double click the KML file and it should open in Google Earth to the correct spot.
As if the current crop of virus warnings and financial data-stealing Trojans weren’t enough, mandatory security updates just came out for both Movable Type and Drupal. The Movable Type upgrade went without incident but Drupal
Continue readingI had a lot of trouble trying to update the Views module. When I would attempt to run update.php, I got the White Screen of Death. I removed several modules and tried to view the
Continue readingWhile looking for more information on how Server Side Includes are implemented on IIS servers, I ran across the #exec directive. <!– #exec CommandType=CommandDescription–> #exec allows an HTML page to run an application (ASP application,
Continue readingIf you are having problems sending mail from the iPhone, try the following. Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars Under Accounts, click the account you are having trouble sending mail with. Scroll down to Outgoing Mail
Continue readingThe scrolled window setting is a feature in Snagit that can be used to capture a page or application whose contents are too long or too wide to fit in one window. There is an “auto-scroll” setting which is supposed to scroll the window vertically or horizontally until all the content is captured.
I’ve never been able to get that to work and assumed it was broken on Windows XP. Perhaps it works on Vista. After playing with all the options I did finally manage to find a good workaround, although I still can’t get the default “auto-scroll” setting to work.
Continue readingIf you get an error like this in an actionscript 3 Flash file: TypeError: Error #1034: Type Coercion failed: cannot convert flash.display::SimpleButton@61422481 to [symbolname]. at flash.display::Sprite/constructChildren() at flash.display::Sprite() at flash.display::MovieClip() at classname()[/path_to/as/classname.as:34] Check the symbol
Continue readingI just lost 20 minutes trying to line up a list of numbers inside a table cell in Word. The problem was that clicking “tab” only caused the cursor to jump, usually outside the table
Continue readingWhen trying to replace some old files in my local workspace, then commit the new ones to CVS, I got this error:
It turned out that the files had been previously stored in another CVS repository, with a different directory structure. Some of the directories still had CVS folders with pointers to the old repository directories and hostname.
Continue readingI have a very fast multi-core system, so I was puzzled because Photoshop always opened even tiny images slowly, sometimes taking 5 or 10 seconds, and freezing everything in the process. Thanks to a post
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