At some point along the road, nearly all of us will need (or want) to find a color that goes well with another color. Or maybe we need a whole group of “harmonious” colors. Enter Adobe’s Kuler color tool.
Kuler uses Flash to help you create color schemes derived from a base color that you can specify yourself via Hexadecimal, RGB, and other color codes. Totally priceless when it comes to choosing colors in a web design. Plus, it’s free. Check it out: Adobe Kuler
I fought with this for a couple of hours today, while working in an ASP.NET MVC 3 application using Telerik MVC controls. It worked the last time I checked, and I was scratching my head as to why in the world it wouldn’t work with all of the proper scripts in place.
The answer was that my Telerik MVC UI Extensions were older than my FullCalendar, so the Telerik ScriptRegistrar was calling jQuery 1.5.1 after I had manually loaded 1.5.2 in the head of the document. I updated my Telerik controls and did some preventative maintenance to stop this from happening again. At the bottom of my Master page (before </body>), I disabled Telerik’s ScriptRegistrar from managing jQuery anymore:
<%= Html.Telerik().ScriptRegistrar().jQuery(false).jQueryValidation(false) %>
</body>
Then I kept my traditional <script> calls to jQuery in the <head> section of the Master page. Everything is back to normal, and I can now get on with my life. Hope this helps someone.
If you use Firefox and suddenly find yourself having to re-enter your username and password for websites that used to “remember” who you were, you might have encountered the same bug I just battled with for a while. Here’s the fix:
For Windows Vista (and probably Windows 7) users, open My Computer and browse to C:\Users\[your username]\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\[random characters].default . Make sure Firefox is closed and delete cookies.sqlite. I also deleted prefs.js, but that might have been unnecessary. Try it out and you should be good to go.
After about eight years of building websites, I’ve decided to share a few tips and secrets that I wish I had known about earlier. It’s easy to become intimidated by the sheer volume of technology available in this field, so I figure I’d do my good deed and post a summary of what I’ve learned about this monstrous topic. Continue reading this post…
At first, I thought Vista Business Edition came with no games at all, being geared towards the work environment and all. Luckily for you Solitaire and Minesweeper fans out there, that’s not true. Here are the steps to bringin’ the Windows games back:
Start > Control Panel > Classic View (on the left-side menu) > Programs and Features > Turn Windows Features On or Off (on the left-side menu) > and put a check mark in Games. Done!
Since MKV2VOB has been updated, this post is obsolete. I can now recommend it for converting MKV files for the PS3. Download it at http://www.mkv2vob.com.
More good news for Playstation 3 owners. While mkv2vob was a step in the right direction, I found another page that uses a new set of tools to accomplish the same task with even better results (reliable seeking, more consistent conversions, etc.). Check it out at the Playstation.com Forums.
To simplify the process, here are the direct links to the files you’ll need:
Since these apps are updated constantly, I highly recommend you follow through the guide and visit each page individually.
Since the stripped-down Express version of SQL Server 2005 doesn’t include a tool to automate backups, I recently had to find a way to reliably backup my databases each day.
Requirements:
If you ever need a quick way to convert a FLAC file to or from WAV, it couldn’t get any easier. Some genius created a super-simple frontend called FlacDrop for drag-and-drop FLAC encoding and decoding. Just unzip the program, run FlacDrop.exe, and drop your FLAC or WAV file(s) into the small program window. That’s it. You can access the program’s options by right-clicking in the window.
You can find FlacDrop on SourceForge’s FLAC page and many other lossless audio sites.
I found this out when preparing my music for a high-fidelity music download service called MusicZeit. Highly recommended!
No software-fixing advice this time… Today I added six song excerpts to my Entide MySpace page. Check them out and keep in mind the album will be for sale online in the next couple of days.
More info at Entide.com.
Sometimes when plugging in a flash drive, an old USB mouse, or similar devices, Vista can’t find the drivers in its own driver store and begins searching online. The process takes a while and is usually a waste of time.
There are two ways around the problem, but I believe any permanent solution is up to Microsoft (Vista SP1, please?).
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