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permalink.gif I've always liked waterfront properties

Sun Dec 19 20:48:49 GMT 2004  Permalink 

Visual Settlements in Weblogs. One the things I'm struggling with is compressing weblog data, in particular links between posts. The ideal solution would be a graphical overview that is crisp and small enough to fit on the screen. An idea that I have seen... [Anjo Anjewierden]

Anjo's thinking about visual metaphors for blogging communities.  His example is an architectural one, mixed with colours.  It sounds  interesting.although I have trouble visualizing what it would look like.  A picture would have been good.

permalink.gif Trillian 3 goes final

Sun Dec 19 20:39:40 GMT 2004  Permalink 

Much quicker than I anticipated Trillian 3 has been released and work on version 3.1 is already underway. Slated for that release are HTML profiles and UPnP support to improve filesharing behind firewalls. Neither feature sets my heart alight I have to say, but progress is progress. I just hope a little time may be found to continue work on the IRC plugin, at least enough to bring it up to the v2 level of functionality. Nevertheless I'm very happy with the new Trillian and didn't hesitate to fork over another $25 to get it. A fair price for an app I use every day.

permalink.gif Acrobatastic

Sun Dec 19 20:18:44 GMT 2004  Permalink 

After my last post about Acrobat Julien Couvreur got in touch to say that he too was having issues with the reader plugin and Firefox.  For myself I don't remember having these problems in Mozilla but FF is so nice that this type of niggle is easy to overlook.  Shortly after Erick Herring got in touch again and gave me the correct way to unhook Firefox and Adobe Acrobat reader:
To disable in-browser viewing in FireFox, you have to do:

Tools -> Options -> Downloads -> Plug-Ins -> PDF (Uncheck)
His previous instructions work fine for IE.  Erick also gave me pointers to PDF SpeedUp and Adobe Reader Speed-Up both of which can  help the monolithic Acrobat Reader lumber into being a little quicker.  Given Adobe's track record in this matter my hopes for Acrobat Reader version 7 aren't high.

permalink.gif Damn you Adobe!

Sun Dec 19 00:37:44 GMT 2004  Permalink 

According to Erick Herring (who left a comment, but no link or email) I should be able to deactivate in-browser Acrobat by opening Acrobat and unchecking "Preferences | Interenet | Display PDF in Browser."  Unfortunately I already have this setting unchecked and yet it does it anway!  Rats! Rats! Rats!

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