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Firefox ProQuest PDF Bug?

Site: http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=0&did=12033281&SrchMode=1&sid=3&Fmt=6&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1205792003&clientId=28381

Problem Type: Plugin not shown

Description:
Not sure exactly what’s going on here… but when I try to view a “formatted document” from ProQuest in Firefox, it shows a page with two frames. A small frame at the top with a header, and a blank white frame below, which seems to be linked directly to a pdf or something (since I can’t even right click on it). The page views fine in IE, and I can open PDF’s in Firefox w/out incident (except for in this case). Now it says in the status bar “The document has been closed by Acrobat - press the Refresh button to reload”. Also, I installed the “pdf download” plugin that intercepts pdf’s before they are handled by the adobe viewer (hoping this might somehow solve my problem) and the plugin doesn’t even intercept the pdf.

Platform: Win32

Product: Firefox/2.0.0.12

OS: Windows NT 5.1

Gecko: 2008020121

Build Config:
–enable-application=browser –enable-update-channel=release –enable-official-branding –enable-optimize –disable-debug –disable-tests –enable-static –disable-shared –enable-svg –enable-canvas –enable-update-packaging

Useragent:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080201 Firefox/2.0.0.12

Language:
en-US

Advancing Synergy “Classic” and the Stagnancy of Synergy Advance

Synergy Advance is still in the early stages of its roll out so it does not yet feature all the features of Synergy (although it does feature some things that Synergy does not and never will have because of its architecture). By the time the roll out is complete Synergy Advance will do everything that Synergy can do and much more (see the road map).

[From Synergy Advance]

and yet it hasn’t been updated since MARCH 2007?! (And that was a beta!!!!)

and yet Synergy “Classic” is constantly updated…

3.5a (27 November 2007)

Rewrite in Objective-C 2.0.
This release is the first Leopard-only release of Synergy; for users of older versions of Mac OS X the 3.2 series is still available for download here.

[From Synergy: history]

It’s updated every few weeks, and was completely rewritten… for Leopard only!? How is this a “successor” app?

I guess they say that Synergy Advance is a “preview”, and maybe that’s why it doesn’t have the urgency of keeping the ‘mature’ Synergy Classic polished and running… but I was hoping to be getting in on a cutting-edge product that would grow over time, yet it has remained pretty stagnant since I bought my license months ago…

Jeffrey Friedl’s Blog » Lightroom Export Plugin for Flickr

Jeffrey Friedl’s Blog » Lightroom Export Plugin for Flickr]
And of course I find this 2 hours after dropping $15 for a PictureSync license :-\

Update: Well, after only giving it about 2 seconds worth of effort, the flickr plugin didn’t seem to show up where I expect it to (export menu, etc…) so I’ll just use picturesync for now. And it uploads to both flickr and facebook simultaneously… :-)

Migrating an iTunes Library

Note: I’m pretty sure some of the steps below are either redundant, or at least unnecessary (such as moving to the desktop, but I kept that since it helps keep things organized). So do comment on improvements to the process. This is just what I’ve been using.
SUMMARY/ALTERNATE PROCESS:
Just select the songs you want to move in the finder, and double click (or drag into iTunes). They’ll be copied, but not “re-added” as they once were (in previous versions).

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