Problem: You can’t subscribe to any Podcasts in iTunes music store because the the buttons are greyed out. An example is shown below: Fix:This happens when the ‘Podcasts’ item is not enabled in the iTunes library. To enable it, follow these steps: Open the iTunes Preferences. To do this, either press ‘Ctrl+,’ (that’s the control [...]
Problem: This one crops up every-so-often, and a colleague just asked me again, so it’s probably worth posting. When an FLV is loaded into a Flash app, the FLV file is ‘played’ when the SWF or Projector is run. When this is done locally – i.e. you run an SWF from your hard drive, or [...]
TextPad is a great editor, been using it for years, but never really used it to it’s full potential. Recently I needed to do some find/replace work in some huge SQL and CSV files – huge enough to make manual editing impossible – so I had to start using Textpad’s Regular Expression capabilities. Here are [...]
Problem If you need to center a div (or any another block element) over the rest of the content in a page, and you need it to be cross-browser and valid (CSS and XHTML)… Solution Try the following CSS in your stylesheet or page head: #cdiv { position:absolute; /* important. */ left:50%; /*important if you [...]
Problem I recently replaced the water pump on my car, and found the existing paper gasket clinging solidly to the pump face on the head. I needed a very quick removal method, as it was getting dark and the car had to be driven 30 minutes later, so I searched around for something hard, flat, [...]
Problem Yesterday my father-in-law needed to hook his old HP Photosmart 1215 Inkjet to Windows Vista Home Edition. HP don’t provide a Vista driver for the 1215… Solution A quick search around the web found that the driver for the Photosmart 7200 works perfectly. He tried it and says it works exactly as it should. [...]