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Adobe Flash player 10 Beta

Thu, 15 May 2008 11:17:00 -0400

Adobe this morning released Flash player 10 Beta "Astro" on labs.

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Segway tour Atlanta

Wed, 14 May 2008 23:48:00 -0400

Had a great time this evening Segwaying around downtown Atlanta. About a week ago in an effort to find something different to do, I was poking around Holiday inn's Ultimate Experiences section. I discovered Atlanta Segway tours. Decided to give it a try, this was my second time on a segway, rode one for less than 15 minutes at a company I was doing training for a few years back. Like Lisa (our tour guide) it is a lot like riding a bike. In less than 5 minutes I was up and going again. The video they make you watch ahead of time is a little unnerving, but in my opinion it is pretty easy and just takes a little common sense to ride. The weather was beautiful, and the price to play ($60 bucks) is well worth it. In truth it really could not have been a bad experience seeing as I had the best company in the world to enjoy this with ;-) I will put up a few pictures I snapped later, I am off to bed work in the morning.

Send your name to the moon

Sun, 04 May 2008 13:44:00 -0400

NASA is allowing anyone to send their name to the moon aboard the next lunar mission. A little geeky I know but kind of cool as well. Check it out at http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/main/index.html

Sent my name:

Adobe TV

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:53:00 -0400

Adobe announced Adobe TV (http://tv.adobe.com) No matter what your adobe vice is, you should be able to find something of interest. I poked around a little pretty cool stuff. Surely worth a visit.

Coldfusion 8.0.1

Sat, 05 Apr 2008 11:32:00 -0400

Adobe released Coldfusion 8.0.1. I am a little late on this one as I was flying back from Chicago on the day it was released and missed it. I just updated my box and it seems to be working great. If you are going to run this update make sure you get the new extensions for Dreamweaver or Eclipse, as they have introduced a lot of new tag attributes, like an alt attribute for cfimage.

Adobe Lightroom Beta 2

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 05:04:00 -0400

Adobe Lightroom 2.0 beta is now available on labs. Read the release notes for details on whats new.

Adobe launches Photoshop Express Public Beta

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:47:00 -0400

Adobe launched Photoshop Express public beta. I have not checked it out much yet, but it looks very interesting.

CSS link color question

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:59:00 -0400

From time to time I get questions from former students or people that just so happen to stumble upon my website. I decided to start logging these questions on my blog in a new category called questions.

Earlier today Dan worte: "HI I’m in the process of creating a new web site, my template contains different colors in different areas on the page. Some of my links are located on a blue background and some are on a white background. I set the page properties links to FFFFFF (link color and visited links to FFFFFF); the problem I’m having is that the links on the white background are not showing. Is there any way to change specific link color? Thanks for your help. E.D"

Check out http://www.damonledet.com/tutorial/index.cfm/name/CSS_Links the code is below. Instead of color: blue you can use hexadecimal colors like #FFFFFF When you create the link make sure you add a class="linkset2" in the < a href > tag of course you can change the "linkset2" name, if you would like but be sure you also change it in the a.linkset2:link and so on. Using this trick will allow you to have as many link colors as you would like ie a.linkset3:link, a.linkset4:link ... If you really want to use best practices you should attach an external css file so all the pages in your site can use your linkset. The way I did it below is page specific.





CSS two color link page



Link 1

Link 2

Adobe Director 11

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:06:00 -0400

Adobe announced Director 11 today. It should be available soon it currently is still preorder. I have always been a Director fan, and have enjoyed training it in the past. It will be interesting to see the update that has been almost 4 years in the making. [More]

Filemaker ODBC/JDBC to Coldfusion

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:11:00 -0400

I have successfully got coldfusion talking to a Filemaker 9 database. It turned out to be pretty simple really. I enabled ODBC/JDBC in Filemaker server. Installed the latest SequeLink on the coldfusion server. Setup a System DNS and pointed to it in the coldfusion admin. The only odd thing I ran into is in Filemaker field names can have spaces so when I do an insert into a field I have to put double quotes on the field name.

Mac OS 10.5.2

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:17:00 -0400

Apple released a new update for Leopard 10.5.2. This update is a heavy one weighing in at 384 megs. 10.5.2 download.

Adobe Acrobat 8.1.2

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 19:45:00 -0400

Adobe released Acrobat 8.1.2. As of right now it seems this update is only available via the Adobe software update utility. Updateing Acrobat to full Leopard compatibility. I am now prepared to update our classroom iMacs to 10.5. Adobe Acrobat training. Update: You can now download the updaters for both Mac and Win.

Gravatar

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:43:00 -0400

Add your photo next to your blog comments. Not all blogs are using it but it is built into blogcfc. Head over to http://site.gravatar.com/ to create your "globally recognized avatar" and have your photo displayed next to your blog comments.

More time with Windows Mobile 6 and Blackjack

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:21:00 -0400

Now that I have had the evening to play around with Windows Mobile 6 on my Samsung Blackjack I have a few impressions. First off the "My Location" feature now works with google maps, it took awhile the first time but it started working and has been working all evening. Second I am really excited about it now works with handsfree link in my RDX, I missed this feature as I had it with my razr in my TSX. Lastly the ability to search the company directory under contacts is kind of cool. I will not get a ton of use out of this as we are a small company, but in a large company I can see how this would be very useful. I have not tried them out yet but you do get the mobile office apps as well. All in all it is a pretty good free update.

Windows Mobile 6

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 04:26:00 -0400

About 7 months after the promised release by numerous at&t sales associates the Blackjack finally got Windows mobile 6. I upgraded my phone last night but really have not played with it much. You can get the download here.