Unable to play flash media IE8 + win7(32 bit)

For some reason my flash player on IE seemed corrupted. I have tried to remove IE8 completely, reinstall the software without any success. Then I realized that i could not even download any file with IE8.  So after all, the issue had nothing to do to flash but with IE8.

Here are the steps that resolved the issue for me:

1. Download http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/141/tn_14157.html and launch the software to uninstall flash

2. Then reboot the machine

3.  The next step is to reset IE (tools -> internet options  –> advanced (tab) –> reset)


4. Once you reset IE8 (tell me why uninstalling IE8 did not reset it in the process?  Anybody, Microsoft were are you?).  You can now go to adobe download and install the flash player (http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/)

5. Go yo www.youtube.com to test your achievement.

Negative Z-Index FireFox and Chrome and possibly others

First Chrome and Firefox do not play nice with negative z-index.

IE picks up my negative z-index without a glitch but Firefox and Chrome ignore it completely.

I am going to stay away from negative z-index for now since it is not really supported across the board.

FYI: The page z-index default value is zero and the default z-index of any layers is 1.

Useful Websites

http://www.webdevout.net/browser-support-css

http://www.quirksmode.org/css/contents.html

http://codepunk.hardwar.org.uk/acss07.htm

http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/

Installing Fonts Photoshop windows XP

Installing fonts for Photoshop on windows XP is primarily done via the control panel.

1. First download your font;  you can try this link for some free fonts

2. Go to your control panel and locate Fonts:

3. Then Go to the File menu and click on install new Font…

4. Browse to the location of your fonts and follow the Wizard

WordPress Categories Mysteriously Disappeared

If your “WordPress Categories Mysteriously Disappeared”  the problem is most likely related to permissions to the “/tmp” directory.

Here are the steps to fix the issue:

1. Try to access your mysql server with phpmyadmin ( or you can Shell into your server, if you do not have phpmyadmin installed)

2.  With phpmyadmin, if you try to access the “wp_postdata” or the “wp_term_taxonomy” you will likely get an error message such as :

 MySQL said: Documentation
 #1 - Can't create/write to file '/tmp/#sql_67e9_0.MYI' (Errcode: 13)

4. If you attempt to access the “/tmp” folder using shell or ftp  you will get a permission denied.

Unable to access the tmp folder (permission denied)

5.  If you have control over your server you can fix this yourself (chmod, flush tmp folder …) otherwise You will need to contact your Hosting provider ASAP and have them fix the  permissions to the “/tmp” directory.

(you can use chmod and other linux tools to help resolve you this issue, but i found out that most of them do not work in hosting environment since they may not allow you to tamper the permission on the “tmp folder” for security reasons)

Also if your /tmp Folder is hosted on a different partition you may need to double check to see if you are not running out of space on that partition. In such case you will need to empty out the /tmp folder.