Solving technology problems, one at a time
My iPhone started displaying a “No Service” message a few days ago. When it didn’t go away, I called the ATT Wireless people. Here are the easy steps to cure the problem:
Continue readingHigh-resolution Photoshop brushes based on Ernst Haeckel’s engravings of shells and sea jellies. Great used as stamps, or the spiky shells look particularly good when you use scattering and angle and opacity jitter. Download
Continue readingThis is my second set of brushes based on Haeckel’s drawings of diatoms, coral and other sea creatures. 11 different brushes are included, many with variations in opacity, spacing, size jitter, etc. Download file
Continue readingBecause I don’t use the command line that much, I usually forget this incredibly simple thing when it comes up: how to change to another drive using the command line (the DOS prompt). For example
Continue readingAfter a recent update to Firefox, all my precious debugging extensions disappeared. The Add-on’s window showed nothing installed. This post on the MozillaZine Forums explained how to force Firefox to rescan your addons and get
Continue readingFor the last week I’ve been getting “Startup disk is almost full” messages, and spent a lot of time cleaning house, only to have it nearly full again the next day. The X Lab suggests
Continue readingWhen building web applications I often use display styles to show or hide divs or table rows as needed. On one project, I found that the “colspan” property did not seem to work in Firefox or Safari. This was because I had incorrectly used display:block to style the TR element, instead of display:table-row. A demo is below, and the code follows.
Continue readingWhile working on a php insert-record form I was getting the error: #1062 – Duplicate entry ‘127’ for key 1 although there were no other records with the id “127” – just the latest one.
Continue readingWhen I hooked up my iPhone to iTunes the first time, I got “Can’t connect to iTunes” with an error code of 0xE8000025. After a quick browse of the forums and web, I tried several
Continue readingI’ve been using a Blackberry 8700c through Cingular for a couple of years now, and I really like being able to check all my email accounts on it and using the google apps wherever I happen to be. Typing on it is pretty easy. However there were many reasons I was looking for a replacement.
