Just a small script for getting a browsers flash version:
Function VBGetSwfVer(i)
on error resume next
Dim swControl, swVersion
swVersion = 0
set swControl = CreateObject(“ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash.” + CStr(i))
if (IsObject(swControl)) then
swVersion = swControl.GetVariable(“$version”)
end if
VBGetSwfVer = swVersion
End Function
Apparently the most popular OS X bitTorrent clients on Intel-based Macs don’t really work all that well… or not at all. Luckily there’s a truley universal bitTorrent client available, Transmission. Give it a shot!
Every seen a type-face in a graphic and wonder what font name is?
Well here’s some good news for you. MyFonts.com has built a web-application that can decipher a font, from a graphic.
It’s well-worth book-marking:
Having trouble opening and playing files in Quicktime? Quicktime doesn’t, by default, support that many codec
There are some very good alternative media players available:
VLC media player
MPlayer
These players support a vast-number of codecs. VLC also has amazing support for dumping streaming video, loading video over LAN and several other high-end networked video operations.
This is just too easy, you’ll be suprised, or maybe not. Whatever.
Let’s start by grabbing a widget. We’ll go here:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/
And grab… iStat nano. Now don’t install it just yet. Click on the widget file and rename it to “iStat nano.a”. Finder will prompt you about the name change, just click “Use .a”. Now, once was a widget is now a folder. Inside the folder is all the files that make-up the widget, in fully-editable form!
After you’re done, to repackage the widget, just change the “.a” at the end of the folder name, to “.wdgt”. Finder will prompt you if you wish to change the extension, just click “Use .wdgt”. And you’re widget is now ready to be installed into dashboard. Just double click “iStat nano.wdgt” to install.