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! 
Finally 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.
There are many tricks for the iPod Shuffle on the net so I’ll just add my ‘five cents’.
Usage
I use the Shuffle for books, podcasts, and music. Since it doesn’t have a display, podcasts come first, then the books, and music last. Since I don’t listen to 5 books at once I usually have 3 podcasts and 1 book there. I switch to ordered play, press the play/pause button three times and I’m at the beginning of the list. Playback position of the book and podcast is remembered so it’s very easy. When I’m tired of the spoken word I flip the switch to shuffle. Since the podcasts and books are skipped in the shuffle mode, I only get music. Shuffled. The way I like it. I find that the shuffle has a special position among MP3 players in its size, usability, and now wearability.
Tips & tricks
I read the apple manual for the new shuffle, which sets a few unclarities and rumours on the net straight. Here they are:
The loudness of songs and other audio may vary depending on how the audio was recorded or encoded. iTunes can automatically adjust the volume of songs, so they play at the same relative volume level. You can set iPod shuffle to use the iTunes volume settings.
When you turn iPod shuffle on, or disconnect it from your computer or power adapter, the status light tells you approximately how much charge is in the battery. See the table in the following section. If iPod shuffle is already on, you can check the battery status without interrupting playback by quickly switching iPod shuffle off and then on again.
My favorite one:
Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious,
and adding the meaningful.
from The Laws of Simplicity » Blog Archive » Law 10: The One
There is a nice gallery over at Olympus Pursuit Magazine called Global Warming Witness presenting Mitsuaki Iwago’s photographs from ‘almost’ the Arctic Circle.
As firefox keeps crashing more often and demands more resources, it’s time to move back and simplify by reverting to SeaMonkey, the old-new Netscape-Mozilla Suite branch. Less extensions cause less clutter and installer properly presents an option to install just the browser, or as it’s called, the navigator. Then it’s time for some house-keeping (see below) and the browser is clean and simple and above all just works!
Go to Edit :: Preferences, select Appearance and deactivate Print, Bookmarks, etc…
How to get rid of the irritating SeaMonkey icon to the left of the address bar? Quite easy, too. Go to your profile directory (e.g. C:\Documents and Settings\**UserName**\Application Data\ Mozilla or SeaMonkey) or you know what, just search for the file “userChrome-example.css” on your computer, yeah, that’s easier. Now edit this file and exchange
/*
* Eliminate the throbber and its annoying movement:
*
* #throbber-box {
* display: none !important;
* }
*/
with
/*
* Eliminate the throbber and its annoying movement:
*/
#throbber-box {
display: none !important;
}
hence undocumenting the part of CSS responsible for the throbber. Now save the file into your chrome directory with the name “userChrome.css”. That’s all. Enjoy a clean and simple app (screenshot of a clean browser interface with the throbber button missing included). Hopefully future versions come like this by default.
By the way, installing a browser-only version will still leave the address book tab in the sidebar (F9). To remove it search for “panels.rdf” in your profile and delete
<RDF:li RDF:resource="urn:sidebar:panel:addressbook"/>
and
<RDF:Description RDF:about="urn:sidebar:panel:addressbook"
NC:title="Address Book"
NC:content="chrome://messenger/content/addressbook/
addressbook-panel.xul"
NC:exclude="navigator:browser" />
to take care of that.
Note: don’t you love the fact that there is no need for a second ‘google search’ box in the right hand corner? All is nicely integrated into the address input box.
Keywords: remove button, animated button, animation, seamonkey, loading button, loading animation, get rid of loading button, put away, hide button, hide logo
Canon’s Digital Photo Professional has a few unpublished shortcuts, I’ve recently found out, which are very handy. I’ll list a few below.
In the quick check tool hit the SPACE key to switch between the fit to screen and the 50% views. Excellent, no need to use the mouse! By the way double-clicking the photo will also do this, in case you insist on using the mouse, but would rather not move over to the button area each time or preview the photo in full screen mode.
Also, in the quick check tool you can rate photos by repeatedly hitting the V key. It will cycle through rating 1, 2, 3, and clear.
If you select photos you’re about to ‘quick-check’, use the left and right arrow key to jump from one photo to the next.
I’m still desperately looking for a shortcut to the view before and after in the edit mode. I’ll update this blog entry as I find new useful undocumented shortcuts.
Update on Mac OS X: DPP ver. 2.2.2.3 does not support such shortcuts and one has to use the mouse. Moving in quick check tool is possible by using the arrow keys while holding the Option key–so one needs two hands (!). Sorry to find that although DPP 2.2 for Mac OS X is a fast universal binary, it still has shortcomings compared to the Windows version.
Multi-billion dollar company creates their ‘blackberry killer’, Nokia E61 business phone/PDA hybrid. It builds upon decades of EPOC/Symbian OS development and probably many millions of R&D on this particular model. Yet the phone started collecting dust particles under the screen in merely a week’s time of business (carrying in the suite pocket) use. Infuriating!
E61 is a potential bear in today’s fast expanding mobile market. Calling a product of this potential ‘E61′ throws me off the chair for a start. How about calling iPod something like “Apple Xi-M145″?
Nokia is not your backyard garage, where a group of geeks are hacking for fun. It’s rather a mammoth with over 60,000 employees reaching EUR 9 813 million in net sales just in the last quarter (EUR 1 140 million net profit). There have to be a few dollars left to create a dust-resistant screen?!?
–end of rant–
Nokia’s vision, Nokia as a company.
Some interesting links for E61 owners among you:
e-series.org blog
e61addicted.de
nokme.com
s60.com
Roman Keller’s themes
Kona always had a special place in my heart. Cr-Mo is no longer used, but what the heck. Joe Murray is with Voodoo I hear. Below are some specs of the Cinder Cone, my favorite ever!
| Frame tubing | Kona 7005 Aluminum Butted All Mountain |
| Fork | Marzocchi MZ-3 100mm |
| Headset | Aheadset STS |
| Crankarms | TruVativ FiveD |
| Chainrings | 44/32/22 |
| B/B | TruVativ Square LE |
| Pedals | Wellgo LU-A9 w/clips & straps |
| Chain | Shimano HG53 |
| Freewheel | Shimano Deore CS-HG50 11-32 9 speed |
| F/D, R/D | Shimano Deore |
| Shifters | Shimano Deore |
| Handlebar | Kona Aluminum Riser |
| Stem | Kona Control |
| Grips | Kona Mooseknuckle |
| Brakes | Hayes Sole Hydraulic |
| Brake Levers | Hayes Sole |
| Front hub | KK Disc |
| Rear hub | Shimano FH-M475 disc |
| Tires | Nokian NBT 26 x 2.1 |
| Rims | Sun Black Eye |
| Saddle | WTB Pure V Sport |
| Seatpost | Kona Thumb |
| Seat clamp | Kona QR |
