Apparently an April fools joke by the makers of the Opera web browser. You can see that it’s not a real feature when you read the Know Issues section here. Interesting idea nonetheless and funny “demo” video…
More information at labs.opera.com
Found at cnettv.cnet.com
So, I’m actually working on a redesign of my main blog, currently at http://www.ivied.at.tt. For this purpose I have XAMPP installed on my laptop computer. XAMPP is a great piece of software which installs (amongst others) an Apache as well as a MySQL Server locally on your computer. Therefore you don’t always have to ftp-upload your php-files to the web after every change in order to test it.
So far this always worked fine. But today when I started Apache & MySQL through the XAMPP Control Panel I didn’t get a connection to localhost in the browser. After this I searched the internet with no real results. At one stage when I was rather desperate already I tried calling 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost in the browser and this worked (!) somehow.
So the problem finally was in the file “C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts” (that’s the file path in Vista). For some reason the following line was missing from this file:
127.0.0.1 localhost
This actually translates localhost to the IP-address 127.0.0.1. I don’t know why this was missing and if it had ever been there before but now it works again and I can keep developing…
Today I wanted to put the title of the current chapter in the header/footer (Kopfzeile/Fußzeile) of a Microsoft Word document. First thing I found out was to work with section breaks, which is rather dificult and quite a lot of work. But there is a much easier way as I found out by searching the web.
At WinTotal I found this short description of how this works (in German):
Bei längeren Dokumenten wäre es wünschenswert, wenn die Überschriften der aktuellen Seite in der Kopfzeile erscheinen würden.
Sofern man die Formatvorlagen von Word zur Gliederung benutzt (Überschrift 1..), kann man wie folgt vorgehen:
- Gehen Sie auf Ansicht -> Kopf- und Fußzeile.
- Drücken Sie nun [STRG] + [F9], wodurch eine geschwungene Klammer für Feldfunktionen erscheint.
- Hier geben Sie STYLEREF “Überschrift 1″ ein, damit die aktuelle Überschrift 1 in der Kopfzeile erscheint.
- Verlassen Sie die Kopfzeilenansicht und drücken Sie dann [ALT] + [F9], damit die Felder aktualisiert werden.
Sie sehen nun auf jeder Seite den Text der “Überschrift 1″. Wenn die Überschrift 1 z.B. im nächsten Kapitel wechselt, wird dies ab dieser Stelle im Dokument berücksichtigt. Auf diese Weise können Sie auch Überschrift 2 etc. in die Kopf- bzw. Fußzeile mit aufnehmen.
I think this is a very useful tip. If you google for “STYLEREF” I’m sure you find more information on that function, also in English if you prefer.
Found at http://www.wintotal.de
Well I have been using the new Firefox version 3.0 for just over a week now and I think it’s quite good. But from the very beginning (when I upgraded) the alert message that should warn me if I close a window with multiple tabs didn’t work although I had enabled it in the preferences.
Now about 10 minutes ago my Firefox crashed and now this alert message works again!! Strange…
Earlier this week I mentioned Mozilla’s trial to set a Guinness Book record for the most downloaded software with their new Firefox Version 3. And of course they made it. Actually it was downloaded 8 million times within the initial 24-hours period, I was one of them.
More information at news.com
Tomorrow the latest version of Mozilla’s Firefox browser – Version 3 – will be released. I’m really excited to try out all the new features. Mozilla is also trying to reach an entry in the Guinness Book Of World Records for the software most downloaded on a single day. Get more information on this by clicking the following image…
By the way, Lifehacker just posted this History of Firefox in screenshots, really interesting. I will share my experience with the new browser here on the blog soon..
