Author Archives: Mark

At Adobe MAX 2008: My Notes from Day One Pre-Conference Session

It’s the first break and I want to jot down my notes.
I couldn’t get into the Flex session that I wanted to attend - it was booked solid right when it was first offered. C’mon Adobe - knowing it’s been booked solid for months couldn’t you have scrapped together another conference room or at least [...]

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My IP Hasn’t Changed Since the T-Mobile@Home Firmware Update

A couple of months ago I applied the latest firmware update for the T-Mobile@Home/Linksys router and have not experienced any issues with the service since. In particular the ‘blue light’ special (service outage). I, with the help of some great readers/comments, was pretty certain that the reason the blue light was going out on the [...]

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I’ll be at Adobe MAX 2008 in San Francisco. Anyone Else?

This Saturday morning I’m heading off to the airport to fly to San Francisco (awesome city!) for the Adobe MAX conference. I’ve been wanting to go to this conference for 4 or 5 years now, ever since I first really fell in love with the Flash platform, and started using all of the then Macromedia [...]

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It took 8 months to realize it, but Vista really does suck.

I’m an operating system junkie. I’m on an eternal quest for the perfect operating system. One of these days I’ll admit that there is no such thing. I’ve tried all of the ‘big 3′ (Windows, Apple OS X, and numerous linux distributions) over the past 10 years and every one of them has huge drawbacks. [...]

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T-Mobile@Home Monthly Bill - How Much It Really Costs (Me)

I get an email once in a while from folks who are considering purchasing the T-Mobile@Home service but can’t seem to believe that the $10 per month is true. In fact, for me at least, it isn’t $10 per month - it’s $9.99 plus taxes. I’m surprised T-Mobile doesn’t advertise $9.99 per month instead as [...]

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Looks Like the New Firmware Update for T-Mobile@Home Worked!

Just a heads up and a query on this subject…
Last week my T-Mobile@Home service dropped 3 times in a matter of 4 days. Each day that it happened it happened sometime in the morning. As previously discussed, to fix it I had to cycle power to the router.
Well, last week after the last time it [...]

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Firmware Update for T-Mobile@Home Router WRTU54G-TM Now Available

Version 1.09 of the firmware for the T-Mobile@Home router WRTU54G-TM has been made available on the LinkSys website today. Here is the link to the download page.
I advise everyone to install the firmware update.
Special thanks goes out to Alex for letting me know it was available. I had just checked LinkSys’s site this past Monday [...]

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Captivate vs. Camtasia - No Contest…

The company I am employed by has recently acquired a new software application in which the original developers embedded some elearning modules. The modules are a combination of static slides and screen recordings. The tool of choice by the developers was Camtasia. I’ve used Camtasia in the past but only for quick, no edits needed [...]

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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 and cable modem to get it [...]

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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.
Anyways, here’s how to load in an external [...]

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