Solving technology problems, one at a time
Drupal’s Feed aggregator has a problem displaying some of the escaped tags in Google Alerts Feeds. For example, see the screenshot below:
The fix is to alter the code in
modules/aggregator/aggregator.module
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function aggregator_save_item($edit)
In both the UPDATE statement and the INSERT statement:
replace $edit['title']
with
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After installing ImagePicker 6.x-1.2 in a new Drupal site, I opened a book page to try to add images to it. There was no ImagePicker Fieldset below the text entry area. It did show up
Continue readingThe fastest way to grab a YouTube video for Powerpoint? If you can’t count on internet access at the lecture hall, you will need to download the video in a format compatible with Powerpoint. YouTube
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By default, Drupal takes control of all subdirectories within its root folder. If Drupal resides within the web root of your site, you will not be able to get to any subdirectories that are non-Drupal related. Drupal will give a “Page Not Found” error on any page that doesn’t have Drupal content associated with it.
Continue readingWriting notes and sketching on PDF’s using a Tablet PC can be an excellent replacement for a blackboard or whiteboard in the classroom, meetings or lectures. Easier than using Powerpoint, especially when you want to improvise, it is particularly useful for annotating complex diagrams, music, mathematical problems, or anything requiring gridlines or graph paper.
On a Lenovo Tablet PC, you can use the clipping function to drop PDF’s into the Journal application and type or write on them with the pen. The pen has good enough resolution to write legibly, and draw lines and curves.
Continue readingThere are some errors that come up time and time again when working with Jeroen Wijering’s Flash Video Player. Here’s how to troubleshoot them. I’ll keep adding to the list as time permits. Click the images to see a larger view.
After a couple of months of watching Microsoft’s teaser “Mojave Experiment” commercials on TV, I finally got around to looking at the Mojave Experiment site. The TV commercials (unlike the web commercials) give the impression
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Ever since I got the new iMac, the FKeys never seemed to work as expected. The special functions on each, like brightness, volume, dashboard, etc. would take precedence over whatever function my applications had assigned
Continue readingAfter years of institutionalized incompatibility in their browser software, office software, and video software, Microsoft has come out with with Silverlight, their Rich Internet application platform and supposed Flash Killer. Flash is universally accepted because
Continue readingOne important element that is often left out of beginner Dreamweaver courses is how to make your photos web-ready. Today’s cameras turn out multi-megapixel images that are several feet wide when dropped into a web page at web resolution. Here’s how to take a folder of high-resolution images and turn them into smaller files that will display at about 5-6″ wide at 72dpi using Photoshop.