The Dreaded T-Mobile@Home ‘Blue Light Went Out’ Dropped Service Problem and Solution?

I was sitting here yesterday at my PC and glanced over at the blue ‘phone 1′ indicator on my T-Mobile@Home router and thinkking to myself, “Man, it’s been at least a few weeks if not more since the last time I lost service and had to reboot the router [...] Continue Reading…

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Dynamic Loading of External HTML file Using Jquery

I’ve been playing around with the Jquery framework lately. I’m not a big JavaScript guy as my primary focus for the past few years now has been ActionScript/Flash/Flex. But I have to admit, Jquery (and I’m sure some of the other more robust JavaScript frameworks) is really nice.

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TMobile@Home Router WRTU54G-TM Phone Admin Screen and Call Log

I’ve had some folks ask about the router’s administration pages. It has basically all of the typical router settings pages, like port-forwarding, wireless security, etc. In addition, it has two features that are specific to the telephone capabilities of the router.

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) About the Tmobile@Home Service

I’ve had the Tmobile@Home service for about a month now. Although I’ve written a few posts on the subject, the first one I wrote has grown to be quite popular on the internet, I suppose because T-Mobile themselves linked to it via thier Tmobile@home service’s “Press Page” a while [...] Continue Reading…

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How-to: Non-Linear Navigation in Captivate Using rdcmndGotoSlide

Yes, it does work now. As many of you who have read my other posts on the subject of Captivate know, I often use a Flash ‘wrapper’ that contains custom navigation controls for controlling loaded Captivate movies. This was an absolute necessity prior to Captivate 2.0, as the navigation [...] Continue Reading…

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Get the Close or Exit Button to Work in Adobe Captivate

I get this question fairly frequently, so here is a link to an Adobe Technote on the subject.

Also, for further reading (with code sample), consult Andrew Chemey’s article here.

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A Solution to the ‘Transparent Captions in Captivate Still Result in Fuzzy Text’ Problem

I was asked this question via email the other day and I just had to shake my head. No, not that someone asked it - I’m just amazed that after 3 releases of Captivate with this same problem, more people aren’t going ballistic over this bug. The problem is [...] Continue Reading…

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3 Weeks with the Tmobile@Home Service

…and everything has been perfect. No complaints. I don’t know what else to say about it at this point. The audio quality is top-notch - better than my landline. I know that sounds like bullshit but it’s the truth. I’m pretty sure though that getting rid of DSL (and [...] Continue Reading…

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Captivate Audio Output Settings - Part Three - Encoding Speed

This is part three of the testing, where I’ll focus on the encoding speed setting and its effect on filesize and audio quality, in reference to voiceover audio.

Published SWF Files

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Captivate Audio Output Settings Comparison - Part Two - Encoding Frequency

This is part two of a series of articles written with the express purpose of finding the best filesize-to-quality ratio for publishing voiceover audio out of Captivate. Part One can be found here. At the end of the series I’ll provide my thoughts/opinions, followed up by a tabular summary [...] Continue Reading…

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