31 January, 2007

Linn Records

Filed under: Uncategorized — Roman @ 13:52

Surely I’m a big fan of iTunes and was among the first to support it by purchases. As an audiophile I’m not buying everything there, since it does use compression after all and it does have DRM applied.

Check out Linn Records. They offer lossless and DRM free music. I’ll be returning there frequently it seems. :)

23 January, 2007

Disable default folders on Nokia E-61

Filed under: Hardware, Software — Roman @ 12:53

The folders “Sheets”, “Others”, “Preesentations”, which Symbian S60 3rd on the Nokia E-61 and other such “Smart”phones creates and irritatingly prevents their deletion can be removed by going into “Connections”, “Data cable”, selecting “Data transfer”.

Connect to PC or whatever and change attributes to SYSTEM, HIDDEN (use for instance Total Commander to do this).

Done. Enjoy less clutter and Nokia imposed folders on your Symbian! :)

17 January, 2007

Adobe Acrobat Hand tool text selection preference grayed out

Filed under: Software — Roman @ 10:02

ScreenShot0011.pngFinally at Adobe forums a guy with an alias WRFan posted a solution to this long pending bug in Adobe Acrobat 7.

Description of the problem: Running Adobe Acrobat 7.0.0 and the Edit/Preferences/General/Enable text selection for the Hand Tool is selected grayed out. The consequence of this is that instead of effectively using the hand tool users end up accidentaly entering the text edit mode and altering text of the PDF. This is a huge problems for electronic publishing and electronic proofing of publications before print as it can introduce last stage errors in addition to making life miserable for those working with Acrobat 7 for hours on a daily basis.

Solution: Start registry editor. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat\7.0\Selection and set the value of bShowKeyboardSelectionCursor and bHandSelects to 0 as shown in the screenshot. Restart Acrobat.