My previous post about vista speedup has been quite popular. But it doesn’t mention defragmenting your harddrive. This is such an obvious thing to do I forgot to mention it.
A fragmented drive is a slow drive. As a daily defragmenting tool I use JkDefrag. It is fast, efficient and does the job better than the default tool. Plus it is free and open source.
An even better tool is PerfectDisk 8. It isn’t free, but it can defragments your MFT. That is worth quite a lot.
Every now and then I get someone asking me for an ftp password. Mine have always been stored in FileZilla. I don’t know them by heart. There is no problem with this except that FileZilla encrypts them. Thank God decrypting FileZilla 2 passwords is easy. Here is some as2 code to accomplish it:
I’m really looking forward to Flash on the Beach. I share these three days of excitement with my two colleagues Brik and Piet.
I recently had to transform an xml file into a scorm manifest file. I wanted it to be in UTF-8, but Microsoft.XMLDOM‘s transform method disregards the encoding setting in xsl:output. The transformNodeToObject method doesn’t. I also found out I had to use the save method on the output object instead of writing a file based on the xml property. You’ll find the function I ended up writing to assist me below:
Temporarily fixing google reader for Opera 9.5 requires following code:
#entries {
min-height: 500px;
}
To do this go to Site Preferences > Display > My style sheet.
Update: Google seems to have fixed it.
Silverlight 1.0 is released and it doesn’t work on Mac OS prior to version 10.4.8, Linux, Windows 2000 and the Opera browser.
Flash Player 9 reached 90% penetration. Maybe thanks to being truly cross platform?
The iPod touch has a multi touch interface, wifi, iTunes and Safari. I wonder if it also lets you share your music for 3 days?
Opera 9.5 alpha has been released. It is blazingly fast and has a full-text search feature of your history.
Search was added to Google Reader. This also makes it impossible to use with Opera 9.5 alpha.