I’ve been very frustrated trying to disable Acrobat’s Outlook plugin (toolbars, additional menu) and since google found no solution I’m posting what worked for me.

1. Find the location of your PDFMOutlook.dll library. This will be presumably “C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 9.0\PDFMaker\Mail\Outlook\”.
2. Unregister the DLL from the system–run the following command:

   regsvr32 /u "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 9.0\
PDFMaker\Mail\Outlook\PDFMOutlook.dll"

3. Rename the file to “PDFMOutlook.dll.old” for instance
4. Restart your now clean Outlook.

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Adobe Media Encoder has a preset for YouTube which encodes to the typical and should I say traditional 320 x 240 pixels. YouTube has since moved into the “HD” category (no, nothing like Vimeo just yet) and supports a bit higher quality uploads. Uploads are limited to 10 minutes, file size limit is not set. H.264 MP4 is a good codec format to use (x.264 will do), but others are just as well supported.

And now for the promised ideal dimensions (as of today) and according to my testing:

640 x 360 px

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MD5 checksum is a number used to verify integrity of files. Let’s say you download a file from the internet and want to make sure it is the same file as the one you intended to download (i.e. there was no man-in-the-middle attack, or no integrity corruption happened during the data transfer).

I found the easiest way to check this number in Windows is to download Nero MD5 Verifier from http://www.nero.com/enu/tools-utilities.html then 1. copy paste the number from the issuer, 2. browse for the file to be checked. Done. If the number in “Step 1″ appears green and is identical to the number the last text box you’re on.

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Today is the time for SeaMonkey advocacy again. Just kidding… I don’t care which browser you use. For me, SeaMonkey has been an extremely stable and usable companion for many years so I want to share my positive experience with a few tips and tricks once in a while.

Horde IMP, often referred to as just Horde, is a web mail client you’ll find installed on just about every ISP’s webmail interface, in cPanel installations, schools, universities, etc. Horde can make a good use of the browser’s sidebar and that’s what today’s post is about.

So where is that hidden setting? In order to install the sidebar you’ll need to log in to your Horde interface, go to Global Options, then Display Options (first item in the right column in the screenshot above).

You’ll be presented with a screen with a link to add Horde as a sidebar. After clicking the link you will be presented with a dialog to confirm your choice. That’s it!

If you’re battling with the text display in jEdit, like I did the first time around, and you’re not a big fan of the omnipresent Courier in the developers’ editors, I suggest you search for “Bitstream Vera Mono”, a nice monospaced TTF font.

After you install the font you should, in Windows at least, tweak the font smoothing to make it look good. See the screenshot below for my settings:

Update: I recommend installing BufferTabs plugin and in preferences deactivating the BufferSwitcher.

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Many people still ask me what I use for website design on the coding side with a thought that “Dreamweaver is better than Frontpage” on the tip of their tongue. Since they are usually quite new to the world of Web from the developers’ perspective they end up baffled, because I argue that they invested unwisely: into tools, rather than skills.

I’m not going to waste time laying down the pros and cons of using this or that. I will rather just put down my recommendation. First, use a simple text editor, rather than the all-knowing tools. It may appear slower and harder at the beginning, but will pay off in the end. Secondly, the best such editor is, in my opinion, Slava Pestov’s open source jEdit. You can download it on their page and once installed head on to selecting the plugins you’ll need. Here is a screenshot of the ones I recommend for PHP and HTML.

If you do give jEdit a try, then read the jEdit 4.3 User’s Guide first. It’s in PDF and can be printed out for handy reference.

Gmail reserves some words e.g. “voicemail”, which cannot be used to name users’ custom labels. They actually may internally use these labels to indentify such emails, because searching for “label:voicemail” will, in fact, list all emails that contain a voicemail.

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Just thought I’d share my accidental finding out of a few image dimensions in my E61 (haven’t found any information on this on the net, yet). Notice that all image thumbnails in the cache found in the device use either 54×54 or 47×40 pixels.

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Let’s continue our polishing of SeaMonkey, the best browser the Windows platform has ever seen.

Intro
When installed the SeaMonkey browser, like many others, shows the word SeaMonkey on each browser window. This may be a good practice for some apps, but for a browser, where the title bar can be quite useful and very often read, it just means you’ll be xeroxing that word onto your brain day after day.

Also, instead of using Gmail notifiers and other memory baggage to inform you of new email, you might just keep a minimised browser window in your taskbar and watch out when the message count changes.

How to remove the word “SeaMonkey” from the browser window
Now let’s get down to business and remove that last unnecessary piece of UI in this nice and fast little app.

First navigate to the directory “C:\Program Files\mozilla.org\SeaMonkey\chrome” and find the file en-US.jar. This is a .jar file and its structure is virtually that of a .zip file, so go ahead an open it in 7-zip or similar. (If you’re having trouble opening the .jar file with your ZIP file manager, you can rename it to .zip, go through the procedure below, then back to .jar when finished).

Once inside the “en-US.jar” go down the directory structure to “\locale\en-US\navigator\” where you’ll find navigator.dtd. This is your file. If you’re using 7-zip (recommended) and a reasonable editor (like jEdit or PSPad) just hit F4 and edit this file.

Just remove “&brandShortName;” twice, then remove the dash below in the line marked “…separator”, save and you’re done.

That’s it. You can now restart your browser and enjoy.

Screenshot above shows the title bar showing gmail and the number of unread messages without the additional and unhelpful ” – SeaMonkey” text.