Is this pointless???

hey guys! Im building a page and i have a lide show. I used
XML code and the slide show is flash. When i preview it, it works
but when I upload it to the site it doesnt work.
here is were its located, click on the studio pic for the
window with the flash slide show to pop up!
http://everfoundmusic.com/media.html#

>> what do you mena not well formed?
If you open the URL Raymond suggested in a browser, you'll
see where the
XML is not well formed. For example, my browser shows me an
error with this
line ...
<description="Producer"img src="DSC_0089.jpg" />
... which looks like it wants to be an img tag but isn't. Go
ahead and
double check your XML, for sure. :)
"beliy333" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:eqr75f$b7g$[email protected]..
>> If so, are these files in the same position,
relative to the SWF,
>> as they are on your hard drive?
> _______________________________________________
>
> what do you mean same position? Ya i uplaoded everything
If the SWF thinks your XML is in the same folder as itself,
but you
upload the XML to a *different* folder on the server, then
that XML file
isn't in the same position, relative to the SWF, as it was on
your hard
drive.
David Stiller
Adobe Community Expert
Dev blog,
http://www.quip.net/blog/
"Luck is the residue of good design."

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Can I turn this pointless and distracting animation off?

In Mail, when there is more than one related message (or more than one duplicate message, as often happens with junk mail) Mail shows "threading" (not sure if that's the right word) where it displays the related messages one beneath the other in the same window.
Anyway, when this is the case, particularly when weeding through my junk mail folder, here is what happens: I click on the message in the message list and the top message displays, and this silly animation of the related message shows it rapidly sliding up below the previous message.
This happens every time I click a "threaded"(?) message, and it is very distracting and annoying. This didn't happen in previous versions of Mail under previous versions of Mac OSX, and it is NOT an improvement.
Is there a way to turn this pointless and distracting animation off? It's annoying enough to have to weed through all my junk messages periodically to confirm that they are indeed junk, and I'm trying to eliminate unnecessary annoyances.

Alex,
Or you may just Pathfinder>Divide and Ungroup.

IOS 6 w/ iphone 4 now doesn't show information on bluetooth music sync pioneer. What's the plan on this fix, buy another phone? Become a part of the commercial from Samsung bashing this pointless updates?

pioneer avh-3400bh, just got it installed, read reviews online about bluetooth music information no longer showing up after ios6 update....... any clue to when Apple will either fix this error or allow people to go back to older versions of operating systems?

FINALLY! a firmware update came out today for the 3400BH (among others) - I got an email from PIoneer and downloaded and installed the new firmware - now the radio works perfect! The only problem is, you can only install the firmware update via bluetooth PC, which is NOT as easy as the instrucions show - if you have a bluetooth dongle (like I do) there were several issues during the install - finally got it installed (not quite sure how exactly) but it works.

Please help me open itunes! This is getting ridiculous.

This is the third time I've posted this... no one has answered so far... and I've been without iTunes for over a week now!!!
When trying to open iTunes, a dialog box opens up with the caption "*iTunes Setup Assistant*", and header line "*Download Album Artwork*" which tells me how I can go to the iTunes store and get album artwork from there.
Included in this dialog box are two buttons to choose from: "Next" and "Cancel". I have tried clicking on both of these, to no avail. Nothing happens at all, and I cannot close down the box with the "x" in the top left hand corner either.
After a short while (and a whirrring noise from my frozen laptop), another smaller dialog box opens up with the caption: "*Upgrade Available*", detailing: "*A new version of the Qloud plug-in for iTunes (3.0.1090) is available. Click OK to upgrade*". I am offered two buttons: "OK" and "Cancel". Nothing happens when I click on either of these buttons, except that annoying "blink" sound that means 'nothing doing'.
The dialog box appears in front of every window, and cannot be moved out of the way. The only way to close it is to "End Task" through the Windows Task Manager.
iTunes will not open even after re-booting! Reluctantly, I removed the iTunes and the Quick Time programs from the computer, rebooted, and re-installed iTunes, but the bug is STILL there. I've repeated this, pointlessly, about three or four times. The same thing still happens. It's really upsetting not to be able to open my iTunes library, or update my iPod!
Please help!

What version of the Mac operating system is installed on your MacBook? To find this information, go to the Apple menu, select About this Mac and look where it says version.
iTunes 11.0.1 requires Mac OS X 10.6.8 or later, so if you want to use your iPhone with your MacBook, you will need to update the OS on the MacBook at least that far.
You can purchase 10.6.8 on disk from Apple for $20 (in the USA.)
If you want to get a more recent OS, let us know what the specs on your MacBook are, we'll tell you what you can get.
Best of luck.

Can't download iCloud content - this computer is already associated with an Apple ID

Hi there,
I purchased the movie Dredd from the iTunes store today, using my Apple ID on my MacBook Air, and it downloaded to that machine fine.
When I then go to "Purchased" on the iTunes store using a different computer (my older MacBook Pro), and try and download the movie from iCloud,
I get a baffling and really unhelpful error, as follows:
"This computer is already associated with an Apple ID.
You can download past purchases on this computer with just one Apple ID every 90 days. You cannot associate this computer with a different Apple ID for 87 days."
What on earth does this mean? And why am I even seeing it?
I am logged in to iTunes on both machine using the same Apple ID. Things I've tried (to no avail):
1. Quitting and re-starting iTunes on both machines.
2. Signing out and then signing backin on both instances of iTunes
3. Deathorising all my machines and single re-authorising them
I am really ****** off about this. Isn't the whole point of iCould that your content is available on all your devices? So why - for the first time ever - do I get this pointless, unhelpful, baffling error?
Any insights gratefully received...

Hey, thanks for the suggestion.
Sadly, I'm actually using iTunes 11 (and apologies, should have specified that). Additional info: the MacBook Air is a couple of years old, the MacBook Pro probably about 3 years old. Both are running OS X 10.8.2
I understand the whole "Not all previously purchased movies are available for downloading to your other devices" thing, or at least, the rationale for it.
So I just checked if I could download the problematic movie in question, Dredd, to my iPad (to which I am also of course signed in using my Apple ID). That download is going smoothly, as is - just because I wanted to check - the download to my iPhone too.
So this weird issue seems specific to the iTunes instance running on my MacBook Pro...

Pointless warning message

When creating a new actionscript class, you get the warning:
" The use of the default package is discouraged."
Please I beg of you, remove this. There is a terrible trend
of people misusing packages, thinking they are folders, and
generally going crazy tidying things up into hundreds of
directories. A package has motivations that concern scope and
visibility, along with organization. Please don't tempt people into
using *more* packages than necessary.
For example, to avoid the warning, you might create a package
called "classes" -- but nobody in the universe is going reuse the
"classes" package outside of that project.
It's really bad if you really consider it and understand
packages -- I hope you will remove this pointless warning.

I've got the same problem. It first showed up on Parallels 2.5. I upgraded to the Parallels 3.0, latest build and basically reinstalled everything (fresh format & install of Mac OS Leopard, then new partition / install of Win XP & Boot Camp) I installed Parallels and accepted the default configuration of my Boot Camp partition as the VM. When I launch Parallels, I get the same message that you got.
I sent this message to Parallels and they gave the the following reply today. In their mind, they've closed this issue. However, I had tried this repair with the original Parallels installation. it would work once but if I rebooted, I'd have the same problem. I have yet to troubleshoot this further. So I can't vouch if this repair will work. Here is the response from Parallels:
Hello,
If you boot from the Boot Camp Windows partition and the following
error message appears: "More than one Windows partitions are found. This
is not a standard Boot Camp configuration", please follow the steps in
the article:
http://kb.parallels.com/entry/28/472/
Thank you for contacting the Parallels Support Team. We now consider
the issue resolved but will keep this request ticket open for 5 days if
you need further assistance. If you do not feel that this issue is
closed, please contact us as soon as possible so that we can proceed
with troubleshooting.
Best regards,
Arthur
Parallels Customer Service
http://www.parallels.com
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Let me know if you get any resolution on this as I'm interested!

ESata shows freeze

We have QIP 7216 dvr and western digital 1T eSata drive (I can't quickly find the model number but it was one on the Verizon recommended list).
The eSata is about 50 percent full. Some of the shows we recorded we can't seem to play. When we click on them, the screen freezes, then goes black, and after 20 seconds or so we get a menu of program options (resume play, play from start, delete, save until I delete). We can't rewind, fast forward, or skip forward or back. For the frozen shows, we can't watch any of it (ie, it freezes right at the start, not part of the way into the show). This has happened to 3 shows, two are 1 hr shows and one is half an hour. All are hd.
How do we play these frozen shows?
We haven't deleted the shows in case there's a disk problem (if there are bad parts of the disk, am thinking we will keep old shows on them instead of trying to record a new show and having the new show freeze). Is this pointless and we should just delete or should we keep the frozen shows?

They actually fast forward and don't skip. It will do everything but play in normal speed.
Tried six different TV shows - half that already work and half brand new. Tried three different movies - same result.
Upgraded to the latest iTunes and completely rebooted my Mac. Checked all cables and the network.

Why I always have to go back to Arch?

Hi there!
A little story about me. I discovered Linux a long ago (6-7 years ago) while I was interested in computer security and hacking, and got a hint the 1337s uses Linux (or any other unix based system), so I decided to try it (I choose for Linux because it was the most popular *nix based system atm).
My romance with Linux started with Mandrake (today Mandriva) and included distributions like Red hat (it wasn't enterprise oriented that time and AFAIK there were no Fedora yet), and the lovely Gentoo. Its funny tough, Ubuntu wasn't that popular at the time (I even remember how I was on an open lecture in University about open source and Linux, and I got a free CD of Ubuntu and no body heard about it before )
Anyway its stopped there for few years and I got back to Linux about 2 years ago, with Ubuntu on my desktop machine.
My nature is to discover and be different. If everybody uses Ubuntu, I must use something else (even now, I'm on Xubuntu).
This nature lead me to replace Ubuntu with Arch. This was the first time I encountered a very similar distribution to Gentoo, that were optimized to i686 and did not require you to compile every package (for instance I installed Gentoo like 2-3 times from scratch [those were beautiful Friday evenings-nights :romantic-smiley:]) and I remember how compiling Xorg took me hours (and when I say hours I mean hours, something like 6-8 hours).
Then I got back to windows since my old PC died and I got a new one and a laptop.
This leads us to nearly today. Right now I'm using my laptop as my main computer at home and at work (the desktop PC had a motherboard issue that was replaced under warranty. While they were fixing it, I switched to use my laptop).
I started with Ubuntu, simply because it works! But I hated Untiy and I switched to Xubuntu. But you do remember my nature right? This lead me to switching to Arch.
A few days of configurations and I got stable up and running system. Then I came to work and had some issues (especially with keyring) and they blocked me from working, instead I needed to fix them. Then I said "This is it! I need a machine that works!".
I removed Arch, installed Xubuntu and promised my self never to do this pointless Distro_name->Arch->Distro_name path, because well, it ends the same way always.
But you do remember my nature right? So right now I'm standing in front of a decision whether to go back to Arch or not. I must say I really like the rolling release scheme, I'm in love with pacman (its a lot more superior than apt-get or yum IMHO), I like the way you can customize Arch.
But Archs customization is also its weak point, you have to devote hours or reading and configuring to get a stable and running system. And sometimes (especially if you use your laptop for work or for studies or both) you need to have a running system and you don't want to mess with cups just because its 2 A.M. and you need to print your project to submit it in 5 hours (yes you must take care of it at a lot earlier point than 5 hours before deadline )
Ubuntu is nice, but its bloated. It doesn't even give you the option to select what packages you want to install (unlike Fedora for example). Its comes with (IMHO) stupid meta packages like ubuntu-desktop, xubuntu-desktop so its nearly impossible to try gnome3, xfce, openbox on the same system without breaking something.
Ubuntu simply works, but as soon as you need something deeper, you are screwed.
I don't really ask sort of a question here, but I know many of you use Arch (I'm on bbs.archlinux.org doh -.-' ) as your everyday system, so I would like to know how do you handle its configuration, what you do when something breaks and you don't have the time to fix it (you are at work, hitting the deadline of your university project or whatever). Maybe you will be able to convince me why I always want to get back to Arch and what I need to do to choose it as my the one and only distribution. Maybe you will be able to suggest me another distro that fits my needs. Or maybe you want to tell me how sucky I'm.
So simply go on and post, this is why I created this topic.
Thanks you for your time

skwo wrote:
Hi there!
A little story about me. I discovered Linux a long ago (6-7 years ago) while I was interested in computer security and hacking, and got a hint the 1337s uses Linux (or any other unix based system), so I decided to try it (I choose for Linux because it was the most popular *nix based system atm).
My romance with Linux started with Mandrake (today Mandriva) and included distributions like Red hat (it wasn't enterprise oriented that time and AFAIK there were no Fedora yet), and the lovely Gentoo. Its funny tough, Ubuntu wasn't that popular at the time (I even remember how I was on an open lecture in University about open source and Linux, and I got a free CD of Ubuntu and no body heard about it before )
Anyway its stopped there for few years and I got back to Linux about 2 years ago, with Ubuntu on my desktop machine.
My nature is to discover and be different. If everybody uses Ubuntu, I must use something else (even now, I'm on Xubuntu).
This nature lead me to replace Ubuntu with Arch. This was the first time I encountered a very similar distribution to Gentoo, that were optimized to i686 and did not require you to compile every package (for instance I installed Gentoo like 2-3 times from scratch [those were beautiful Friday evenings-nights :romantic-smiley:]) and I remember how compiling Xorg took me hours (and when I say hours I mean hours, something like 6-8 hours).
Then I got back to windows since my old PC died and I got a new one and a laptop.
This leads us to nearly today. Right now I'm using my laptop as my main computer at home and at work (the desktop PC had a motherboard issue that was replaced under warranty. While they were fixing it, I switched to use my laptop).
I started with Ubuntu, simply because it works! But I hated Untiy and I switched to Xubuntu. But you do remember my nature right? This lead me to switching to Arch.
A few days of configurations and I got stable up and running system. Then I came to work and had some issues (especially with keyring) and they blocked me from working, instead I needed to fix them. Then I said "This is it! I need a machine that works!".
I removed Arch, installed Xubuntu and promised my self never to do this pointless Distro_name->Arch->Distro_name path, because well, it ends the same way always.
But you do remember my nature right? So right now I'm standing in front of a decision whether to go back to Arch or not. I must say I really like the rolling release scheme, I'm in love with pacman (its a lot more superior than apt-get or yum IMHO), I like the way you can customize Arch.
tl;dr
But Archs customization is also its weak point, you have to devote hours or reading and configuring to get a stable and running system. And sometimes (especially if you use your laptop for work or for studies or both) you need to have a running system and you don't want to mess with cups just because its 2 A.M. and you need to print your project to submit it in 5 hours (yes you must take care of it at a lot earlier point than 5 hours before deadline )
That is the strong point. Arch's customisation allows me to use it on the craptop and on the desktop. I prefer to see it as an investment of time to get a system I want instead of one a developer thinks I want (don't get me wrong open source devs do an amazing job!)
Ubuntu is nice, but its bloated. It doesn't even give you the option to select what packages you want to install (unlike Fedora for example). Its comes with (IMHO) stupid meta packages like ubuntu-desktop, xubuntu-desktop so its nearly impossible to try gnome3, xfce, openbox on the same system without breaking something.
Ubuntu simply works, but as soon as you need something deeper, you are screwed.
Bloat is the price you pay to have a distro that works out of the box.
I don't really ask sort of a question here, but I know many of you use Arch (I'm on bbs.archlinux.org doh -.-' ) as your everyday system, so I would like to know how do you handle its configuration, what you do when something breaks and you don't have the time to fix it (you are at work, hitting the deadline of your university project or whatever). Maybe you will be able to convince me why I always want to get back to Arch and what I need to do to choose it as my the one and only distribution. Maybe you will be able to suggest me another distro that fits my needs. Or maybe you want to tell me how sucky I'm.
So simply go on and post, this is why I created this topic.
Thanks you for your time
My arch setup is relatively simple, I set cron jobs to back up files with rsync and keep important config files backed up too. I am lucky by the fact I have a laptop I can use if the desktop breaks and vice versa but the sensible solution is to upgrade after work is done.
I keep coming back to arch because of pacman and the AUR. No package manager comes close.

Adobe Lightroom 4 - Some Questions / Help Needed

Hi everyone.
After advice from several experts, I've just purchased Adobe Lightroom 4. I've already got Photoshop CS5, but I was looking for something proper to organise my photos, plus I found Lightroom easier to do the sort of editing I am wanting to do. Now, I only really use photoshop for things like colour pops, or really in-depth editing. Anyway, I'm loving Lightroom so far, but there is some stuff I'm not very sure of, so I'd appreciate some help
1. Organising
Firstly, I'm not really sure how to organise. At the moment, I've just got lots of folders with random events in My Pictures on W7, so I might have a folder called April 11, which contains photos from that month but that might have been a wedding or an easter holiday or both. So it doesn't really work. \
I understand in Lightroom what catalogs are. But I know enough to know that I don't want to group mine into those, its getting too complicated. What I don't know though is the difference between a collection and a folder. Basically, I'm wanting to reimport and reorganise all my photos, so I want to put them into "events" as such like you can do on iPhoto on a mac, so I would have "France Summer Holiday 11" for example, or "Mia's Wedding". I'm not really sure on the best way to do this ...?
2. Editing
I've played around quite a bit so far, and I really like what I've seen. On a lot of photos, I've made a lot of changes. But from what I can see, these changes are stored merely in Lightroom itself. For example, at the moment I'm importing photos from my external disk into Lightroom, which then saves them in C://My Pictures/Lightroom/Pictures . When I go look at these photos in windows explorer which I know I have edited, it doesn't show any of the changes or editing I've done on them. Now I realise this is me being stupid, but why doesn't it? Supposing I then want to email that photo to a friend that I have edited? How would I do that? I don't want to have to open lightroom and export every single photo I edit? There must be a simpler way?
Likewise for backing up, because all my files are in subfolders within C:// My pictures / Lightroom / Pictures, to back up I was simply going to set up windows to copy that latter folder onto my external HDD everytime I plugged it in. This would be pointless however if it isn't physically overwriting the original photo with my edited version?
3. Editing 2
Something else I like to do is make lots of different edits to the same photo. For example, at the moment I'm editing a photo of a pier at night. I spent ages adjusting colours and lighting and so on, and now it looks great. But I would also like to save a copy of that photo with the "old age photo" effect preset on. Is this possible? and how do I do it? Other than obviously importing a duplicate?
4. & 5. & 6 - Misc:
4. Simple question - how do I add tags, keywords or comments if I haven't done it on import?
5. My camera doesn't have built in GPS. Is it possible for me to manually geotag photos (in a batch, say for a Summer Holiday to NY), could I manually add a geotag for all these photos?
6. I also forgot to add copyright information on import for some, is it possible to do this after import and how?
7. I normally shoot in JPEG. I probably shoot shoot in RAW as everyone tells me to do so. Are there any significant advantages in terms of quality, and for editing with?
Thanks for any help given. I appreciate this is a lot of questions, but I could really use the advice.

Hi William,
1. Organising
Firstly, I'm not really sure how to organise. At the moment, I've just got lots of folders with random events in My Pictures on W7, so I might have a folder called April 11, which contains photos from that month but that might have been a wedding or an easter holiday or both. So it doesn't really work. \
I understand in Lightroom what catalogs are. But I know enough to know that I don't want to group mine into those, its getting too complicated. What I don't know though is the difference between a collection and a folder. Basically, I'm wanting to reimport and reorganise all my photos, so I want to put them into "events" as such like you can do on iPhoto on a mac, so I would have "France Summer Holiday 11" for example, or "Mia's Wedding". I'm not really sure on the best way to do this ...?
I am not so sure if you understand *catalogs*.
You need a catalog, exactly 1 in my opinion. A catalog is a database. The Lightroom database, where records about your images are stored, including the pointers to your images, which are not inside a catalog! LR backups just does the backup of the catalog (i.e. a file ending .lrcat). You need to take care separately that your real images are backed up !
Inside your LR database the best way to organize is via collections - this will give you what you want with "France summer holiday 11" etc.
Folders are relatively unimportant, just storage buckets. They should be *handy portions*, I would prefer them with below 3000 images each, as there currently some bugs to those bigger ones.
Before you start with LR, you can organize your pictures in Mac Finder / WindowsExplorer.
Or you could do it with the help of LR, by copying your images over during import into the destination folders (and deleting today's folders afterwards after having verified that everything is fine).
A simple date-based structure will do, I'd recommend a root parent folder like "LR images", underneath one folder per year (\2010\, \2011\, \2012\...) and underneath them either
just one folder per month (LR can auto-create them for you)
or you create the folders in import dialog as e.g. "YYYY-MM-DD description of shoot", to have a mini-diary overview also in your OS.
Apart from that you create collections, either *dumb ones*, where you drag images into, or smart ones, where you specify criteria according to which they get auto-filled.
2. Editing
I've played around quite a bit so far, and I really like what I've seen. On a lot of photos, I've made a lot of changes. But from what I can see, these changes are stored merely in Lightroom itself. For example, at the moment I'm importing photos from my external disk into Lightroom, which then saves them in C://My Pictures/Lightroom/Pictures . When I go look at these photos in windows explorer which I know I have edited, it doesn't show any of the changes or editing I've done on them. Now I realise this is me being stupid, but why doesn't it? Supposing I then want to email that photo to a friend that I have edited? How would I do that? I don't want to have to open lightroom and export every single photo I edit? There must be a simpler way?
Likewise for backing up, because all my files are in subfolders within C:// My pictures / Lightroom / Pictures, to back up I was simply going to set up windows to copy that latter folder onto my external HDD everytime I plugged it in. This would be pointless however if it isn't physically overwriting the original photo with my edited version?
LR will never overwrite your original photos.
You can save most of the catalog content into the xmp-part of the original photo, which is either a sidecar-file (.xmp) or part of the file format, like for DNG, TIFF, PSD, JPG. To do so you select the image in LR and hit <ctrl> s. Or you set it up for continuous update, which creates a lot of operations while you play back and forth in develop.
I do that on my own, typically twice per file: once I am done with develop, once I am done with keywording and other metadata update.
LR contains records about your images, i.e. a set of instructions how they are to be interpreted. That is all.
So of course you need LR to export the result of these instructions, which is actually pretty quick.
To backup your images you need to do that just once, plus you backup your LR catalog. Or if you save xmp to the files, you can do another backup once xmp is ready.
I would not consider this pointless. You just have to think that there are 2 places with data for your images: the images themselves and a database with interpretation instructions.
3. Editing 2
Something else I like to do is make lots of different edits to the same photo. For example, at the moment I'm editing a photo of a pier at night. I spent ages adjusting colours and lighting and so on, and now it looks great. But I would also like to save a copy of that photo with the "old age photo" effect preset on. Is this possible? and how do I do it? Other than obviously importing a duplicate?
Yes, this is one of LR's beauties: you create a so-called *virtual copy*, which is just a 2nd record for the same original image file with different interpretation settings, like black-and-white, a different crop size, different development etc. You can have as many virtual copies as you like, and you'll see them as additional thumbnails.
Virtual copies are not saveable into xmp, though. There is another concept which is saveable into xmp: snapshots. but these are different states in develop history, and you do not see outside develop module that you have several.
If you export virtual copies e.g. to jpg one file per virutal copy will be created.
4. & 5. & 6 - Misc:
4. Simple question - how do I add tags, keywords or comments if I haven't done it on import?
5. My camera doesn't have built in GPS. Is it possible for me to manually geotag photos (in a batch, say for a Summer Holiday to NY), could I manually add a geotag for all these photos?
6. I also forgot to add copyright information on import for some, is it possible to do this after import and how?
7. I normally shoot in JPEG. I probably shoot shoot in RAW as everyone tells me to do so. Are there any significant advantages in terms of quality, and for editing with?
Thanks for any help given. I appreciate this is a lot of questions, but I could really use the advice.
ad 4: you use the library module, metadata panel to enter.
ad 5: you use the map module. Either you manually drop your images on a map, or you have a separate GPS track to load and have LR assign via matching time-stamps.
ad 6: like 4
ad 7: You don't need JPG from your camera, you can achieve better results viy LR from RAW. Yes, there are significant advantages as to editing headroom.
Overall, may I suggest my favorite learning material for LR? First watch Julieanne's Tutorial Videos.
Then go play and use Victoria Bampton's eBook or paper copy of her "Missing FAQs to LR4": http://www.lightroomqueen.com/books/adobe-lightroom-4-missing-faq/
Have fun,
Cornelia

Can't access store. So go back to v4.? but even that ain't easy.

Given I am still unable to find the needle in the haystack that is the problem that prevents me from accessing the music store under version 6, I tried to re-install ver 4, but the library file (.itl) has been altered by the upgrade and itunes throws up the message that it is a newer version, so itunes does not work.. Is there anyway to change this file back so that ;
a) i can use ver 4, and thus
b) access the music store
or has it been changed forever, and i'm now sunk.
Also; what about if i completely dis-installed Norton..? or is this pointless if I cannot access the store even with everything in norton turned off...?
Dazed and Confused..
FYG Have tried following to solve problem
- Permitting all on Norton Firewall (and disabled firewall)
- Have checked/unchecked proxy server settings
- Pasted the URL phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/storeFront (with no www or http) into IE and still get same error
- am not running a web accelerator
- have checked/unchecked/checked 'Use SSL 3.0' in Internet Options
- am running XP serv pack 2
- have uninstalled and reinstalled ver 6.
pfftt!
Any other clues?/ideas?
Dell 700m Windows XP

Well, I won't have that cruddysoftware on my PC, but I know it's popular.
It IS possible to set up Norton to allow iTunes, but isn't it stupid how it just blocked iTunes without asking you? Norton doesn't just silently block iTunes, by the way, it messes with all sorts of programs. I don't consider it an Apple problem AT ALL.
Here is a post from user Lorraine that helped lots of folks
I too was having a problem with iTunes 6 not starting after upgrading. It just sat there doing nothing (no error messages, nothing) when I tried to open it. I am also running Norton's Internet Security 2005. Norton Internet Security 2005 is defiantly "silently blocking" the iTunes processes
I'll detail the steps that resolved my problem hopefully it'll work for you.
I'll mention this but I don't think it had any bearing on the fix.
First off I did read thru some of the posts and started by downloading and installing the Quicktime 7 Standalone player found at this URL:
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/standalone.html
I ran it twice, the first time it uninstalled the Quicktime version packaged with iTunes 6. I'm pretty sure there both the same versions. On the next
run it installed it. After that with NIS 2005's Personal Firewall ON it still didn't start. If I turned OFF NIS 2005's Personal Firewall iTunes started no problem,
Library intact and all.
Turn NIS 2005's Personal Firewall OFF, (turn it OFF Permanently until your ready to turn it back on) then click CONFIGURE.
Under the PROGRAMS tab remove any reference to Apple iTunes or iTunes or iTunes Helper Module or anything related. and reboot.
After coming back go back to NIS 2005's Personal Firewall, click CONFIGURE. Under the PROGRAMS tab click ADD at the bottom, a SELECT A PROGRAM
window will pop up. Add the following files one at a time, iTunes.exe, iTunesHelper.exe, QuickTimePlayer.exe, qttask.exe, QTInfo.exe. The last 3 are found
in your Quicktime folder where that is in your system. Click OK. Turn NIS 2005's Personal Firewall ON, and try starting iTunes again.
This worked for me. It seems the Quicktime files were never automatically entered into my NIS 2005's Personal Firewall allowable programs listing. Adding them
manually should help. I also noticed that from my previous version of iTunes the program listed in the Firewall was named Apple iTunes and not iTunes after I upgraded to 6.
Let me know if this works out.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=810249

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Yes,I agree with Michael, I am very disappointed in a company like adobe putting up such low resolution videos. They should all be available in at least 720. It makes a video like this pointless because you cant even see what he is talking about.

Working Color type always CMYK? Issue opening files in flash

I have illustrator CS3. The problem is I create a web document, set to rgb colour, I can view proof colours on monitor to see how it looks as jpeg, thats fine. The issue is when importing an AI file into flash it uses cmyk colours? Why is this? Is illustrator stuck in CMYK mode no matter what for AI Files? I notice in view > proof setup > working cmyk is ALWAYS shown here, whether you tick it or not.
Is there no way to import AI files as rgb for flash web use then?

> Its not an image im importing into flash.
Really?
> The issue is when importing an AI file into flash...
Okay. Perhaps then, in the future, you should be more clear about exactly what it is you're trying to do versus what you've done and what exactly the problem is.
> It changes the colour a lot, to more like cmyk,
So is it
like CMYK or
is it CMYK?
> Obviously not a lot of people importing AI files into flash...
Absolutely correct. Three, maybe four people import AI files into Flash. Since so few people do that, the likelihood of finding one of those very few people would increase significantly if you went to the Flash forum.
> this pointless post
Turned out that way, didn't it?

IWeb Improvement Suggestions

Thought I'd post this here to see what everyone else thinks. I originally sent the email to the iWeb Feedback address. (BTW, I know that you can upload only updated pages to a third-party host, but, let's face it, it's a needlessly real pain in the neck.)
"Hi,
I've been using iWeb since about a week after it first came out in '06. I've been very happy with it -- despite some issues, some of which were fixed in the '08 version (like knowing when text is being converted into an image) -- and have stuck with it, despite investigating RapidWeaver and SandVox. Basically, I know the app pretty well by now but lately I've noticed a few things that are missing or could be improved.
a) You have got --simply got to -- allow people FTPing to outside hosts to publish only updated pages. This is the Number One complaint among experienced users, I think. I understand that you're trying to push people in the direction of .Mac hosting, but you're not persuading anyone (I have a .mac account, by the way). Your servers are way too slow to handle real websites and all you're doing is seriously irritating users. I came pretty close to switching to RapidWeaver SOLELY because of this pointless bit of aggravation. I saw a couple of other guys a few days ago on your forums writing that they had in fact gone to RapidWeaver for this reason and were dropping iWeb as a result. In short, in this respect, RapidWeaver (or any web-design app) beats the pants off you.
b) The Zoom facility needs major attention. When I'm working with iWeb I find myself leaning in to the screen to focus on one small part of the page. You need to integrate a magnifying tool of some sort. This would make things a lot easier for a lot of people.
c) Along the same lines, I'm hankering for a quick-and-easy "ruler." The blue guidelines you have are fantastic, but when I'm trying to line up things or measure exact distances between objects/text, I really need a ruler to judge pixel distance, etc. When I'm doing at the moment is drawing a line, moving it to the right spot, cutting it to length, and judging from there whether the distance between, say, two text boxes is appropriate. This is an unnecessarily onerous and time-consuming process -- and it's not even that accurate.
d) I'm a journalist and author, and I'd really appreciate some templates/themes that captured "writing" stuff: typewriters, pens, quills, paper, gold-embossed letters, and NEWSPAPER-TYPE COLUMNS.
e) You need clearer and more obvious instructions to help people learn about web-safe fonts. The flood of queries and comments in the Forums from people wanting to know why their website looks different in Explorer is neverending. The problem is that they blame iWeb, not Explorer, which is an admittedly atrocious browser. What I would really like is some ability to "see" the iWeb website in various browsers BEFORE I publish it to a folder or .mac. There must be some way of replicating a browser-shot within iWeb so that people's frustration would be immensely reduced at the outset. What's happening now is that I have to publish to a folder, upload it via CyberDuck to GoDaddy, then check out what the site looks like in PC Explorer and Firefox. If something small needs to be changed, I have to do it all over again -- and since you refuse to allow us to publish only altered pages, this whole process of changing one tiny thing can take up close to an hour. And my website's only about six pages long! I don't even want to think about what happens if you have 36 or 56 pages.
f) Please oh please oh please introduce expanding menus, accordions, and the like . . .
g) What is up with the inability to handle more than a single Site at a time and being unable to split them up before publishing? Thank goodness for the third-party developers who have come up with ways to get around this, but to tell you truth, they shouldn't need to. Fix this asap.
h) The Blog pages need work. I tried to start a blog for the website using iWeb and, though it looks OK, I've edging heavily towards only providing a link to WordPress or Blogger and keeping it there instead. Why? Because, I'm using the Darkroom template (which comes with Futura font) with Trebuchet (because Futura is not web-safe, thanks to Mr. Bill Gates, meaning that I have to change everything to an image). Now, on the Entries page, Trebuchet works fine, but on the landing Blog page, no matter how many times I change the font to Trebuchet and save, it always reverts to the Futura default as soon as I leave it in IWeb and come back -- which of course will lead to problems with Explorer. On top of that, if I have to update the blog, say, twice a day, your rule on publishing and uploading every single page again makes the whole blogging thing a real chore. I'd vastly prefer keeping the blog on my own website, but you're kind of forcing my hand.
i) OK, that's about it."

The place to send this is...
http://www.apple.com/feedback/iweb.html
For publishing issues see my post ....
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1537790&tstart=0
Have you tried Free Ruler?
http://www.pascal.com/software/freeruler/
Drop down menus etc can be created and separate websites can easily be handled without using third party software. See this topic....
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1535265&tstart=100
If you want to learn about iWeb you will find a lot of the pieces that are missing from the manual here.......
http://alyeska.altervista.org/en/iWeb_FAQ.html

How to restart from disk when Diskwarrior 4.2 wont quit and the option

I routinely defragmented my Mac Pro after setting the startup disk to Diskwarrior, now it won't quit and keeps rebooting. I cannot fint the eject hole on the disk platter so am stuck with it in mys machine. Have tried rebooting using Pram reset, option, shiftand the eject keys.
Are there any other keys that cancel the startup disk options and reset back to my boot disk?

I routinely defragmented my Mac Pro after setting the startup disk to Diskwarrior...
Disk Warrior doesn't defragment drives. Please don't waste any more time on this pointless action, which will either have no effect at all (apart from hours of lost productivity) or will cause problems like the one you have now.
Restart and hold down the mouse or trackpad button until the disc ejects. You might need to use a wired mouse to do this. If it doesn't work, the disc is physically stuck in the drive.

How to set default new tab behaviour

I dare say I could have found the answer to this by trawling the web as it seems to be a problem that has been going on since the invention of tabbed browsing in firefox version 2. I just thought i'd go to the trouble of registering and re iterating it one more time to vent my frustration.
You'd think that setting what page (if any) to use when you open a new tab would be the easiest thing in the world! - like the first thing you see when you go to settings - second only to the homepage to use when you start firefox . But no , Mozilla seem to have made this simple issue into one of the most difficult problems your average user is likely to come across!
I cant even see why it is not just "the home page". If the homepage opens with a new window - whats the difference if its a new tab? This is a non problem that mozilla have invented! "avoidable" dosent even cover it - this has required a lot of extra coding to create this problem!
This has probably come up a lot more recently with some new feature of AVG barging in in hijacking this setting. I found question 983923 on this site addressing this issue for that reason.
The 'chosen solution' ? REINSTALL FIREFOX !!! (and thats with manual cleanup too)
Unbelievable! thats only one stop short of "wipe the pc and reinstall windows" for chris's sake.
Presumably the victim chose this because more sensible methods have failed - as they have for me.
other "solutions" i have seen suggested while researching this insurmountable problem are :
- Go to about:config page, search for "browser.newtab.url" change its value to "about:newtab"
- create a "new profile" whatever that is! surely they dont mean windows profile?
- use the addon that someone has created to fix this pointless glaring issuer that mozilla havent
- start in safe mode to see if an extension is causing the issue.
well I'm going to take a break now from flogging this dead horse and see if I can do something more productive with my time. This has got to be one of the stupidest problems I have encountered with a computer, and I have been working in IT (in this exact area 'user / desktop') for nearly 20 years.

thanks for that, the "reset preferences" option returned it to displaying recent windows on a new tab, which is close enough!

Is this pointless???

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