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…

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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.

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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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Adobe Captivate 4 Coming Soon

According to this Adobe employee’s blog, Adobe Captivate 4 is not too far off from being released. How long that is exactly is your guess. In case you haven’t heard (and you probably have, since a handful of fanboys have been spilling the beans prematurely – apparently they have [...] Continue Reading…

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How to enable Fullscreen Mode for a SWF and Does ExternalInterface Work In It?

At my day job I’ve been working recently on a project in which I needed to design and code a brand new elearning user interface/content player. It’s turned out great from a design standpoint and now I’m slowly adding features to it as I have time. Today, I got [...] Continue Reading…

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Elearning Development Video Tutorials Now Available

I’ve been wanting to create some online video tutorials for quite a while now and, finally, I have some spare time to devote to it. I’ve created a new page on my site to list the tutorials along with brief descriptions. You can access them (currently only one, but [...] Continue Reading…

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Captivate Audio Output Settings Comparison – Part Three – Encoding Speed

Update 12.28.08: I meant to publish this months ago, when I first wrote it! It’s been sitting in my unpublished ‘pages’ list, of all places, as I mistakenly left it there (why I put it into a ‘page’ versus a ‘post’ I have no idea!).

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Resize Adobe Connect Content Window

Trying to use Adobe Connect Training for something it wasn’t intended for is really a pain. Little things (that are big things) just drive me nuts about it. Anyways, here (mainly for me for future reference) is a script to force the content window to be fullsized. It goes [...] Continue Reading…

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T-Mobile@Home HiPort Adaptor – Anyone Have/Use It?

T-Mobile @Home HiPort adapter
My 2-year contract with T-Mobile for mobile phone usage is up this February. I’m on the ‘Family Talk 1000′ plan, so my wife and I both have a phone with a shared pool of 1000 minutes (it cost me $49.95 total for both phones and has [...] Continue Reading…

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