Came across some good stuff over the past week. Usually I’m too lazy to blog about this stuff, but I gotta hand it to Microsoft – they suck at a lot of things, but Windows Live Writer kicks ass. Nothing else out there touches it. So, without further [...] Continue Reading…
One Year Review of Tmobile@Home Phone Service
Hard to believe but it was just over one year ago that I heard about the Tmobile@Home service and, unprepared, I walked into the Tmobile store and purchased my setup. But alas, it’s been a full year of using the service and although I haven’t blogged enough on [...] Continue Reading…
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Using the Adobe Elearning Suite Workflow - Can Substitue Fireworks for Photoshop
As I sometimes am too quick to do, I’ve been stewing for a while now, since the Adobe Elearning Developer Suite was released, about why they included Photoshop instead of Fireworks. I totally understand why they might do this - more Photoshop users than Fireworks.
So last week I [...] Continue Reading…
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Tracking User Progress in Captivate 4 Using Variables and Actions
Wanted to take a shot at exercising Captivate 4’s new (and very useful) new features: actions and variables.
To try them, I decided to create something useful (for once!) by putting together a sort of ‘user progress’ slide. The premise is that there is one central slide that is a [...] Continue Reading…
Capivate 4 Text-to-Speech Feature Review
I’ve been using Captivate 4 extensively for a week now and I think it’s just a completely different product from previous versions. It’s awesome, while previous versions were just marginally useful to me. Heck, this blog gets hundreds of readers per day and you know why? Because of the [...] Continue Reading…
Don’t use width or height properties of Loader with AVM Captivate SWFs
Found a bug? Or just a limitation? Either way, if you try loading Captivate-generated movies into a Loader instance, like this:
var myLoader:Loader = new Loader();
myLoader.load(new URLRequest(”myCaptivate.swf”);
myLoader.width = 400;
myLoader.height = 300;
addChild(myLoader);
The result will be that the Captivate gets loaded but you won’t see it. You can hear it so long [...] Continue Reading…
unloadAndStop in Flash Player 10 - Necessary for Captivate and AVM1 Content
I spent a good part of yesterday trying to figure out a solution to this problem:
- I had coded a course ‘gui’ with navigation controls such as previous/next buttons, and a List component for the non-linear navigation.
- The list component is populated via an XML file that contains the [...] Continue Reading…
Adobe Releases Captivate 4 and the Elearning Suite
Today, Adobe released Captivate 4 and the ‘Elearning Suite’. As I stated in a previous post, Captivate 4 is a must-have, monster upgrade for any Captivate user. It is the first Captivate release that can reasonably produce a complete elearning content package. Prior versions either forced users to live [...] Continue Reading…
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Incorrect Time on Caller ID/Log/VM for T-Mobile@Home Service?
Just saw this webpage:
http://www.fixya.com/support/t1043931-vtech_model_tm3111_2_time
…where people are saying that their voicemails are stamped with the incorrect time. Easy enough fix. I never noticed because I might have set the time to EST right when I first checked out the router’s Admin settings.
Router Update Pushed Down from T-Mobile?
I just got a phone call, on 01/07/2009 at 12:32 Eastern time. I pick it up and it’s a recording saying:
“Hello! This is T-Mobile. We have sent an update to your @Home router. Please reset your router in order for the update to take effect.”
I’m paraphrasing, but that was [...] Continue Reading…
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