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Peng Zhang on December 10th, 2010
Flash’s FLVPlayBack Component has a weird problem: when it tries to play a FLV video, it first shows green stripes in the progress bar and takes extremely long before the video starts to show up, regardless of the connection speed and the size of the video file. The video will eventually play, but the striping [...]
Dec
9
Peng Zhang on December 9th, 2010
I had to deal with this issue of Word 2007 today – there is always a gap between an image and the left edge of either page or margin, no matter what you do with image positing, margins and alignment settings as long as the text wrapping option is set to “in front of text”. [...]
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I was snagged by Fireworks bizarre behaviour – it fails to export a selected slice as it is supposed to. The export process would complete normally, no warning or anything, and yet you go to the destination folder, there is nothing there. Closing the file and re-opening it does not help. I finally got it [...]
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The Telus outlet in Scarborough Town Center is not answering calls and I cannot leave a message because their voice mail box is full. Guess there are many unhappy customers calling for help. Stay away from Telus if you can wait for other carriers to offer Milestone. These days I totally cannot use my “new [...]
I ran into a couple of bizarre problems when I had to add a module to a completed Flash project. First of all, my project is a main Flash movie that dynamically loads individual modules. The main movie is published to Flash Player 10 using AS3, and the individual modules are published to Flash Player [...]
Problem: if you have Internet Explorer 8 and want to install or upgrade to the latest Flash Player by going to Adobe’s Flash installer page (http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/), your IE8 browser may freeze. I did some research online, and at this point, there appears to be no solutions from Adobe or Microsoft. Fortunately, there is a workaround [...]
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