Display disaster!

Hi all, I have a major problem with LR though I'm guessing it's not LR's fault. I have two Samsung monitors and if I drag LR from one to the other, after about a second, the image changes significanty in terms of color rendition. On the right monitor there is sufddenly a LOT more red added. I then drag it back to the left monitor and after a second, poof, the red coloring goes away. Aghhh! I hate color rendition and management. I would pay $100,000 to someone who could a) sort it out and b) explain the whole mystical art to me! If I had $100,000.
Can anyone offer any explanation? I am using Windows 7 Personal, 64bit and have 2 Samsung monitors and they were calibrated with a Spyder a month or so ago but those profiles are now out of date.
Thanks for any help you can offer before I go totally bald with frustration!
Phil

Phil J Rose wrote:
Hi all, I have a major problem with LR though I'm guessing it's not LR's fault. I have two Samsung monitors and if I drag LR from one to the other, after about a second, the image changes significanty in terms of color rendition. On the right monitor there is sufddenly a LOT more red added. I then drag it back to the left monitor and after a second, poof, the red coloring goes away. Aghhh! I hate color rendition and management. I would pay $100,000 to someone who could a) sort it out and b) explain the whole mystical art to me! If I had $100,000.
Can anyone offer any explanation? I am using Windows 7 Personal, 64bit and have 2 Samsung monitors and they were calibrated with a Spyder a month or so ago but those profiles are now out of date.
Thanks for any help you can offer before I go totally bald with frustration!
Phil
Let me say first of all that I'm up for the $100,000
I have two monitors, both profiled/calibrated. But they are very different monitors: one is an old Samsung, approximately sRGB colour gamut. The other is an HP LP2475w, which is wide gamut (approximately Adobe RGB). I normally run the LR window on the HP, with the second window on the Samsung. The images look near identical on both (unless there are saturated colours beyond sRGB that the Samsung can't manage).
But if I drag the LR main window from one window to the other, I see what you describe. That is, if the LR window is on the HP (wide gamut) monitor, and I drag it to the narrow gamut Samsung monitor, at first the colours go rather pale, but after a second or so LR realises that it needs to re-render to a different profile, and corrects the display. Similarly if I drag it back. But, after it adapts, LR shows the same colours on each monitor. If that's not the same with you, I would first check that each monitor has a correct profile associated.
What happens if you use both monitors in Lightroom? That is, display Loupe view on the main monitor (whichever that is) by typing E, then display Loupe view also on the 2nd monitor by typing Shift-E. If the monitors are profiled and calibrated, it should show the same colours on each. If you drag the main window to the other monitor (and you might have to type Shift-E again to get the loupe view on the other) you should have swapped the displays, but again still have the same colours on each.
PS if frustration leads to baldness I must be frustrated.
Can I have the $100,000 now please?

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My iPad is in a similar state, although I arrived in the bizarro state by a different path. I am also waiting for the apple experts to get back with me. I have an iPad 1 with ios 5.1.1 and Pages 1.7.1.
In the mean time, while I was waiting, I found a way to extract the TEXT from a large Pages document I did not want to lose; it was the result of many years of notes. This might save you some time instead of sifting through the raw index.db.
The index.db file is a sqlite3 file. If you are on mac you can open it from a terminal with the command:
sqlite3 index.db.
I suggest you move the file out of the iTunes directory before you start working with it, just in case something unexpected happens, you don't want to lose the only copy of the data you are trying to recover.
1) Once the file is open via 'sqlite3 index.db' from a terminal command line, type ".tables" at the 'sqlite>" prompt and press enter. It should show five tables:
cullingState
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After upgrading since around 2002, and becoming paranoid after losing 65 songs, I went to great lengths to make sure that I had back-ups of all music, sometimes in two or three places.
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Just my 2 cents.
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Apple get your **** together - or we will vote with our feet (and dollars).

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I'm very disappointed because I realize that if I give it for guarantee service and they offer me to change it - I'm sure that I'll got the display with dead pixels and I don't want it! So I hope that it the software/firmware trouble and it'll be fixed in the next MacOS update. If no - it'll be the disaster because I'll not be able to return the display and give my money back from the one hand (under Ukrainian laws the money back period of goods is 14 days), and I don't want to give the guarantee replacement with dead pixels!
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If you are seeing this Buy a fire wire drive NOW and Back-up.
I suspect the Video update changed a low level feature in the power management routines and this resulted in my Power book cooking itself.
I've got a 12mth old Hitachi 7200 PATA drive in my Power Book after the Apple Drive cooked itself soem tim back and I have now got to back-up and restore my whole system. Luckiliy I have plenty of Big fast firewire drives around so I'm imaging the corrupt drive and going to run the Hitachi tool on it via a WINDOZE Thinkpad. Then a combination of clean install of 10.5.x and a migration assisted restore should do it.
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Belle is a disaster for the E6: how to move on?

Many and perhaps most who upgraded to Belle did so because the phone prompted them to perform updates. It is considered to be the responsible thing to do. As with PC's; don't skip updates, it may harm your computer or data.
There was never any warning displayed as to the impact of the upgrade. For example a reduction in available screen, reduced usefulness or widgets or reduced function of the D-pad, were never mentioned. That was negligent. A backup was made during the upgrade process - giving the false impression that the previous version could be restored. That was misleading.
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Belle has a ridiculous UI for a business phone, and much reduced functionality compared to Anna. Belle is a disaster specifically for the E6 because the screen is way too small for all the unnecessary eye candy (monstrous widgets) and Belle lacks important functions that Anna had.
If anyone from Nokia reads this, please respond. Complaining customers are still customers. Complaining customers are more useful than the ones that walk away in silent anger, because you can learn from them.
As to how to move on: Getting rid of the E6 and trying to forget about it is one thing, but does anyone consider some form of legal action? After all, when you buy something that has properties A, B, and C, and 6 months later the manufacturer single-handedly decides that the product now has properties C, D and E, to all intents and purposes the product is now defective because it lacks properties A and B.
For example, if the product were a washing machine ("New sleeker user interface, you can now start it by swiping the door, and the water temperature control is gone, it is now 60 Celcius always for everything because 95% of users find that easy"), and no matter what smallprint there is in the warranty, it would be utterly unacceptable.
Current N900 and former E6 user regretting Belle upgrade
Devices owned: 2110, 2110i, Cellular Data Card, 8110, 7110, 6210, 6310i, 6100, 9500, 6233, 5140i, 3109c, N900, E6-00

@slitchfield: on the mentioned page, it is stated that "Improvements in screen real estate, with slimmer top status bar and optional (in some apps) bottom toolbar, meaning that all phones will have a larger useful display area."
But on the E6 the bottom toolbar decreases available screen size in most apps, most noticeable in Web browser where the full view has gone. The bottom toolbar is not optional, you can't configure it yourself.
And: "Homescreen widgets will now come in up to five different sizes (1x1, 2x1, 4x1, 2x2, 4x4) and allow a greater degree of interactivity.", but on the E6 they are in only one size, always with large borders and other visual effects.
So beware of differences between phones, perhaps some aspects of Belle work differently depending on the type of device.
"Notes now brings up a white (and AMOLED-unfriendly...) editing screen.": that you can change by switching themes, "Dark Solid for Anna" does a good job. It is a shame that the lines of Notes have gone though.
When switching themes, I found you have to restart the phone, otherwise the theme doesn't get properly loaded in all apps. Stopping/starting apps is not enough. So when experimenting and loading one theme after another, you may end up with disfunctional combinations of black-on-black and white-on-white, but it may not be due to the last theme. Also you may end up with a good combination that isn't around anymore the next time you restart your phone.
Current N900 and former E6 user regretting Belle upgrade
Devices owned: 2110, 2110i, Cellular Data Card, 8110, 7110, 6210, 6310i, 6100, 9500, 6233, 5140i, 3109c, N900, E6-00

DW cs4 not displaying correctly in IE9

I built a site in DW cs4 it does not display properly in IE9, am I missing code?
The website works great in Safari, FireFox, Google Chrome and then it goes wackie in IE9 ( and earlier IE)
Here is the site: www.mexicobeachcharters.com
Please help.
jsw313

Looks quite bad in Firefox with increased text-size.
This is caused by your liberal use of position:absolute and explicit height values on containers. For the web, this is a recipe for disaster. It's much better if you don't use any positioning or height values. Web pages must be flexible; not rigid.
Nancy O.

Looks fine in FF and Safari, disaster in IE8

http://www.jdcdemo.com/d4/index.html
This site displays as I set it up in FF and Safari for Windows. In IE8, it is a disaster. The menu spacing is doubled and the main image is way down in the page. I'm guessing it is a CSS and/or Doctype problem, but have not figured it out. Can someone help??
Thanks in advance,
Joe

Give your page a valid document type. As it stands now, you're page is in Quirks Mode which produces unexpected results.
Modify > Page Properties > Title/Encoding. Select either HTML or XHTML transitional.
Also, I'm not sure you need Float:Right on your #mainContent division.
Nancy O.
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Web | Graphics | Print | Media Specialists
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Different retina display

I and my friend have two iPhone 4 and bought in different time. One about in august and the other one in november. I noticed that the display are very different, on the new one I'm able to see black lines between a row of pixels and another one. The effect is a disaster.
And there is another problem... with this display the degree of view is shorter compared the other one.
Apple store say that there is no diffences and the display is ok.
How is possible?
Another iPhone 4 (bought in november) has same issue.

faabri wrote:
I and my friend have two iPhone 4 and bought in different time. One about in august and the other one in november. I noticed that the display are very different, on the new one I'm able to see black lines between a row of pixels and another one. The effect is a disaster.
And there is another problem... with this display the degree of view is shorter compared the other one.
Apple store say that there is no diffences and the display is ok.
How is possible?
Another iPhone 4 (bought in november) has same issue.
I am starting to believe that Apple has switched to cheaper LCD manufacturer

Displaying a subset of records is limiting the information I can show

Hello All,
I'm developing my photo gallery's TOC page and when I began, I had lots of data I wanted to display and through the use of lookup tables and the proper logic in my SELECT query, I could show a vertical list of galleries that matched a specific category. With each was listed two sample thumbnails, title, description, model, photographer and make-up artist names. I even was able to set the page title and header to display the proper information.
An additoinal SELECT query counted the number of galleries in the main table that were relevant to the present query string value.
Another SELECT query counted the number of photos in each different gallery photoset and displayed that information in EACH gallery's title.
The description is in reverse to the flow of the code, keep in mind. Here is the code (the $spec variable is that of the query string.):
//get the total number of photos in a gallery photoset
$conn = dbConnect('query');
$getTotal = "SELECT COUNT(*)
            FROM photos, galleries
            WHERE galleries.g_spec = '$spec%'
            AND galleries.g_id = photos.g_id ";
$total = $conn->query($getTotal);
$row = $total->fetch_row();
$totalPix = $row[0];
// get the number of galleries
$conn = dbConnect('query');
$getGtotal = "SELECT COUNT(*)
            FROM galleries
            WHERE galleries.g_spec = '$spec%' ";
$g_total = $conn->query($getGtotal);
$row = $g_total->fetch_row();
$galTotal = $row[0];
//get gallery thumbnails, name, description, subject, category, model, photographer, mua
$conn = dbConnect('query');
$sql = "SELECT g_thumb1, g_thumb2, g_name, g_desc, subject_id, category_id, model_name, photographer_name, mua_name
        FROM galleries, gallery_spec, model_names, photographer_names, mua_names
        WHERE galleries.g_spec = '$spec%'
        AND gallery_spec.g_spec = galleries.g_spec
        AND model_names.model_id = galleries.g_model
        AND photographer_names.photographer_id = galleries.g_photographer
        AND mua_names.mua_id = galleries.g_mua
        ORDER BY g_id DESC ";
$result = $conn->query($sql) or die(mysqli_error());
$galSpec = $result->fetch_assoc();
*** end of code.
Anyhow, this worked wonderfully. However, as I add galleries, this list will get quite long. So, I wanted to add navigation which would break up the number of galleries into set quantities.
When I introduced parameters to LIMIT the number of queries displayed based on a variable called SHOWMAX, my displayed data got all botched. admittedly, I'm adapting code from David Powers' book PHP Solutions and am learning as I go. I gave up on displaying all of the data shown above and went the simple route, figuring I'd add more features as I learned. This necessitated restructuring my database a bit.
Here is the code I added that allows for navigation based on a limit of 3 entries per page:
// set maximum number of records per page
define('SHOWMAX', 3);
// get the number of galleries
$conn = dbConnect('query');
$getGtotal = "SELECT COUNT(*)
            FROM galleries ";
$g_total = $conn->query($getGtotal);
$row = $g_total->fetch_row();
$galTotal = $row[0];
// set the current page
$curPage = isset($_GET['curPage']) ? $_GET['curPage'] : 0;
// retrieve subset of galleries
$conn = dbConnect('query');
// calculate the start row of the subset
$startRow = $curPage * SHOWMAX;
$sql = "SELECT *
        FROM galleries
        ORDER BY g_id DESC
        LIMIT $startRow,".SHOWMAX;
$result = $conn->query($sql) or die(mysqli_error());
$galSpec = $result->fetch_assoc();
*** end of code.
Along with some navigation code in the body:
<div id="header4">
    <p>Displaying <?php echo $startRow+1;
          if ($startRow+1 < $galTotal) {
            echo ' to ';
            if ($startRow+SHOWMAX < $galTotal) {
              echo $startRow+SHOWMAX;
            else {
              echo $galTotal;
          echo " of $galTotal";
          if ($curPage > 0) {
                      echo '<a href="'.$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'].'?curPage='.($curPage-1).'"> Back </a>';
          if ($startRow+SHOWMAX < $galTotal) {
                      echo '<a href="'.$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'].'?curPage='.($curPage+1).'"> Next </a>';
          ?>
I can now display my gallery information in groups of 3 per page.
THE PROBEM IS that when I add additional queries, say to get the subject and category information, model, photograpger and or make-up artist information, it doesn't always come up, sometimes it messes up the display, and in all cases, this additional information disappears when I navigate from subset to subset. This is why I have been asking about carrying values from one page to the next.
I am absolutely stonewalled and am going to have to put the galleries into service sans navigation until I can figure it out. I'm willing to even hire someone for advice. I just can not make this work. Yes, I realize it's complex for someone of my skill level, but I have no choice, I have to make this work.
Alternate forms of navigation/showing subsets of records would be greatly appreciated. ANY help, suggestions or guidance will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you for reading through all this.
Most sincerely,
wordman

Again you are misunderstanding. I'm not suggesting hardcoding any values. I am only asking if you are/were trying to pass the actual subject and category descriptions, or the id's of category and subject so you can requery the database on each page.
> I don't think the page re-queries on navigating, I think it just loads info from the array.
I don't think so. Just look at the SQL. It's using the limit and offset values which means to me that it's only returning the rows for the current page. What array are you talking about?
>So, I added a separate query to pick this info from the DB, and it bombs the page.
I really believe you are going about this all wrong. Right now you are searching for solutions to specific problems without having a solid foundation in the technologies involved. Trying to build as you learn is a recipe for disaster and frustration. Stop what you are doing for a while. Work on some php and SQL tutorials that are unrelated to this project. Work through them until you understand what each line of code is doing.
Right now you are headed down a rat hole. You may get most of it to work, but you will be plagued by bugs and scripts that are difficult to maintain.

Full screen caller image display

Full Screen Caller image was one of the best feature of an iPhone that made look iPhone simpler and fantastic to use..
This particular feature seems to have been last with the upgrade to iOS 7.1..
Please fix this issue..
Full screen caller image display makes the phone look beautiful and wonderful when a known person is calling

I agree with you on the full screen view for when a users contacts call them. I hesitated upgrading, Apple has now joined the ranks for screw-ups! Since the late Steve Jobs left this earth, Tim Cook has royally screwed-up this company! Customers here in th U.S and arouund the world are the ones shelling out hundreds of dollars for a product that is the best next thing to revoluntionize the way we communicate with others. But it seems that $600+ dollars gets us junk and a device not tailored to us, the users. I want to call them "M!cr0$oft Apples!" Give us the ability to go back to iOS6. Let us choose! We the customers have made this company rich, full of wealth beyond their greedy little hands. Give us the ability to choose what OS we want to install. Their should be a transparency relationship between the customer with the money, and worker who will work for us to render a product that we "the users," want" and not want a senior desinger assumes we think is good. Remember, this is all thanks to a legend who we all know and respect as ("in my own opinion), the father of modern communication Steve Jobs. SJ worked till his last days here to creat a masterpiece, T.C came on board and took a huge "memoryDUMP," and disregarded his visions. If your passionate like me about Apple and what Steve Jobs stood for, then help me create a petition to make this company see that we "The customers are ALWAYS right!"
Missing and need back:
Transparency on the dock and icons
Working Wifi, and imessage
Better Battery life!!!
Reverse the icons back to iOS7.06
Fix maps
Unless the designers are gothic in nature (I love Goth!!); dont make our phone dark and heavy on the fonts.
I dont know about you, but I' am tired of hearing excuses from Apple and its CEO!
PRETTY MUCH, REVERSE THE UPDATE OR WE WANT OUR MONEY BACK!
As th general public alredy knows, Apple will never listen or read these suggestions" They sleep soundly in thier 2.5millon homes, and respectively. Why care about those people that are paying thier salary pretty much! Listen up board of directors.....Fire Tim Cook, Hire a go-getter, Micromanage manic that will continue Mr. Jobs legacy and nip this disaster in the bud! Tweet this, FB this! Let make the world realize we will not take it anymore! Fix the dam problems!

FF 29 a disaster. how do I recover unpinned tabs after FF reset?

Disaster:
Takes too long to load (even if FF opened first, any other browser opens before FF)
everything slows, even the other browser
session won't restore
can't select windows, tabs or links
spinning beach ball of death, but only in FF - not any other programs; force quit application says FF "not responding"
Mac top line (, running program, file, edit, view …) doesn't display FF even if that is the program I'm using
I set network.seer.enabled to false.
I went to (work box, top right corner) > ? > troubleshooting info > reset FF
and lost all of my unpinned tabs. How do I get them back?

[Bug 1005958 - Disable seer until new backend is rewritten ]
You can try [about:sessionrestore] otherwise you may have to find them in the History.
I hope this helps.

How can I get iTUNES library to display renamed files and folders (renamed with Windows Explorer)?

How can I get iTunes library to display the new names and organisation of tracks and albums (ie files and folders) that I have renamed and reorganised (using Windows Explorer) having previously imported them using iTunes?
(Even when I relocate "lost" tracks in iTunes (using the drop down menu facility to view in Windows explorer), although iTunes will then play the track, and knows where to find it, it refuses to display the track with its correct (new) name, or show it the correct (new) album. That means I have lots of things called "Untitled" and "Track 01" etc, all of which have actually been renamed, but iTunes does not seem to have the capability to recognise the changes and update its library listing. Another example - a Tchaikovsky CD with 3 major works in 13 tracks insists on displaying in iTunes as 13 tracks in one album, despite the fact that I have reorganised the tracks into 3 albums - two being Swan Lake and The Nutcracker - and renamed the individual tracks to a more useable format.)

Thanks for your replies ckuan
I agree with Tgod that your first solution does not work. It appears unpredictable whether the old or new file names are listed when you drag the folders into iTunes from Windows Explorer. The folder structure is completely missing. I reckon if you have to muck around spending days/weeks/months finding out how to fix links to a secret meta-file (obviously designed by some deep-cover microsoft worm working in the Apple!), then it's pretty obvious that almost any alternate way of doing this would be better. Bye bye iTunes!!
Incidentally, I tried several other things that (if the software was designed intuitively) should work, but give disastrous results:
1) when deleting the library listing in iTunes, it gives you two options - one is to remove the listings to the Recycler. Be aware that IF you select that option, it removes not only your library listing, but also your ACTUAL MUSIC FILES to the Recycler. Moreover, it does NOT remove the insidious secret meta-file that is what apparently keeps rewriting old names over your carefully renamed file names, and keeps totally ignoring your carefully designed folder (album) structure. OK - not a complete disaster, as I realised and went hunting through the chaos in the Recycler to recover all my files. No thanks to the genius who designed this brilliant feature!
2) after deleting the library listing in iTunes, I attempted to import just the folders that I wanted. iTunes refused to allow me to do that, and proceeded to try to import every frigging music file it could find on my whole hard drive, in apparently random fashion into the library. Whoever thought up that doozy either never ever tried to use or market test it, or has modified their mind rather too many times with artificial substances so their brain is like muesli chop suey.
3) oh why go on, it's too depressing ...

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