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I'm a Freelance Web Developer from Oldenburg, Germany
Part of the Weekend never dies
Just saw the Soulwax “Rockumentary” Part of the Weekend never dies – really enjoyed it. The DVD comes with a Mix CD. It’s a bargain, buy it. Somehow it reminded my of Air’s “Eating, Sleeping, Waiting and Playing”.
The Movie contains nice Titles by “So Me“, lot’s of live Footage, lot’s of Good Music, lot’s of People going crazy while dancing, appereances by Justice and other Kitsune Artists, James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem (and his bottomless Porta Filter) and lot’s of Vintage Equipment in the Studio 54 and of course not only Soulwax Performances but also 2 many DJs Gigs… any way: go watch!
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WMode Transparent kills Flash Input Field Mappings
Recently i noticed a Bug in the Flash Player which is there for a really long time and hasn’t been fixed by Adobe since then:
http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FP-479
It affects all Input Fields on not showing the correct User Input, especially for Specialchars. So if you are for example typing a double Quote Flash will display the at Sign. When using WMode Window all works fine, but when using WMode Transparent it all screws up (in case you don’t know: using WMode Window is fine as long you don’t need to Display any HTML Content on Top of the Flash Movie, like when embedding a SWF and you have to Display a HTML PopUp above it).
Thanks to Max there’s are partial Solution available here:
http://analogcode.com/p/JSTextReader/
The JSTextReader comes in 2 Favours: a Class File and an “load at runtime” SWF. If you use it, be so kind at Donate – Max did great work finding a Solution for a problem Abobe hasn’t fixed for Years. “Partial” because it doesn’t work on Safari.
p.s.: if you downloaded JSTextReader recently and couln’t make it work, download it again, Max just updated the Download some Days ago because the old one was broken
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iPhone Developer Program Enrollment
I registered as iPhone Developer on that Day the SDK was released. On the Day the iPhone 3G was released i bought one. 1+1=2 so on the same Day i started doing some Stuff with XCode and the Emulator but soon i wanted to try some real World testing on my Phone and not on the Emulator so i applied for the Standard Developer Program… Instead of dropping the Program into the Shopping Card i ended up on a Page that told me that i’ll shortly receive Information about my Enrollment Status. What?
I tried again. Same Result.
I contacted the ADC Support via Email. No Repsonse (except an automatic Confirmation Email letting my know they received my Request).
1 Week later i tried again. Again i ended up on that Enrollment Status Page…
Antoher Email to ADC Support, another automatic Reply, another no Answer.
I tried again, but this time not with my existing Developer Account, but creating a completely new Apple Account and “TaDa!” the iPhone Developer Program went into the Shopping Card.
Ain’t it strange? Existing Users get an Enrollment Notice but no chance to buy the Program and new Users can shop it directly? Tsk Tsk Tsk.
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Dann warte ich jetzt mal sehnsüchtig auf die ersten Programme von dir. Beta-Tester? Hier!
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admin on September 17th, 2008
Cert ist heute gekommen, kann also los gehen … i’ll keep you up to date
(Still) no WiFi on a Powerbook G4 running Leopard
It’s been a Problem since i upgraded my good old 12inch Powerbook G4 from Tiger to Leopard:
WiFi Connection drops when moving more than 1 metre away from the Router.
There are various Websites and Forum Threads describing the same Problem, mostly when updating the OSX Install (not doing a Clean Install). I tried nearly all from removing the Airport Startup Preferences Plist File, changing Channels, turning of IPv6 Support, disabling DNS and so on. Latest try was changing the Encryption from WEP to WPA: Still no WiFi Connection when the Powerbook is more than something like 2 metres away from the Router.
Guess my last try will be doing a clean Install, after i backuped all my Data… Thanks Apple for nearly no Support on this Thread.
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PowerBook User on November 14th, 2008
I am having the same problem with my 17″ G4 Powerbook 1.5ghz, 2gig RAM, with a clean install of Leopard. I would love to sell the machine, but I am worried because of the wifi dropping constantly. Please post something if you figure this one out. THANKS!
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iPhone 3G and Google Maps “lite” or No KML on the iPhone
This weekend we did a little Trip to Groningen (Holland). Shopping, Coffee, relaxing… I thought it would be a good idea to use Google Maps “MyMaps” Feature and collect some “Points of Interesst” before starting the Trip. So i added some placemarks to the Groningen Map and sent the link to my iPhone.
… trying to open that Google Maps generated Link on my iPhone opened Google Maps but did not show any of the Placemarks i placed. Hmmm, ok, let’s try to export an KML File and open that… Error. Na, nothing, just the Map, but without any Placemarks. Diggin’ a little deeper i learned that Google Maps on the iPhone doesn’t support KML Files (even it did prior to v2.0). Even there’s a little Hack by changing the original Google Maps URL and redirect to the KML File stored on your own Webspace i could not make it work.
I ended up in taking a Screenshot and adding it to my iPhone Photos… but, well, as you maybe know they get scaled down, resulting in a pixelated Map of Groningen with no Chance to read a single Street Name. Lovely. So back to good-old printed Street Maps.
p.s.: i’m aware that Applications like Nearby allow you to create own Maps with Placemarks, but i was looking for a solution to access that Maps without any further Roaming Costs when accessing it in a foreign Country, something like a cached Map or even a static Screenshot one.
UPDATE: Thanks to Tim i now have a working Solution for the next Trip: http://adlr.info/mymaps-iphone.html
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tim on September 11th, 2008
A neat little trick/app that I found at http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8058751&tstart=0 is a little webpage created by Andrew de los Reyes at http://adlr.info/mymaps-iphone.html which gives you a url that you can send to your iphone that will bring up the KML link from a google MyMaps in your iphone’s google map program, with all placemarks/data.
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Sweet! I’ll give that a try. Thanks
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Interesting to know.
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At least in iPhone 3.0 you can put the URL of a a kml/kmz file in the search box of the Maps app and it will pull it up. So, email/message the link to yourself, copy it, and paste it in!
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Hey, great tip, thank you. Also, really like your site’s colorform.
Truth be told, it looks like this bug is not Adobe’s alone, but rather requires additional fixes from the browser makers. From the looks of it, with wmode Adobe (or Macromedia) really pushed the envelope as far as browser plugins were concerned, since this bug occurs in several browsers with various manifestations.
This is a maybe more flexible workaround: http://blog.sebastian-martens.de/2009/05/swfinputs-solving-mozilla-transparent-mode-win-special-chars-within-inputs/