NBC Universal and CNBC Inc are in some legal hot water with the type foundry The Font Bureau. A lawsuit claims both companies bought a single-seat license for some popular fonts, but later copied them to multiple computers and even sent copies to third parties.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/10/font-bureau-clashes-with-nbc-over-font-licensing.ars
Monday, October 12, 2009
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Stop Quicktime from loading PNG's in IE
1: Open up Regedit
2: Navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Mime\Database\Content Type\image/png
3: remove CLSID value completely - don't just set it to empty
4: Navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Mime\Database\Content Type\image/x-png
5: Repeat step 3.
Restart all Instances of IE.
Just another reason Apple should be banned from making PC software.Sunday, June 21, 2009
Add rounded corners to rectangles in Flash using the keyboard
Awesome tip: Way back when, I had an issue with having to double-click the rectangle tool to add rounded corners to a rectangle object in Flash. Not sure who told me at MM at the time, but you can simply hold the mouse button when inserting a rectangle on the stage and hold down the up or down arrow keys to adjust the rounded corners *real-time*!
Source: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/amusselman/archives/2005/09/add_rounded_cor.html
Source: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/amusselman/archives/2005/09/add_rounded_cor.html
Sunday, June 7, 2009
Friday, May 1, 2009
Monday, April 13, 2009
Dreamweaver Phone Home
I had Fiddler open today when I was trying to get some images from a provider's site for something I'm working on. Well, look who's phoning home to Adobe with my OS, version number, app name, etc... Flash and Dreamweaver!
It even phones this directly into Omniture's website, which is the scary part. If you don't know, Omniture is a web analytics (reporting) tool that the big boys use. The info Omniture can snag is super detailed, from knowing where your mouse's positioning is within a site, the complete trail of where you're coming from and much much more, broken up into beautiful real-time graphs. I know, I've used their tools for sites in the past.
Photoshop and Fireworks don't seem to, except for Fireworks' annoying "Register" window that pops up daily.
JUST IN: It seems both Adobe and Apple use this in their products and it can be a pain to opt-out of. So it's not a new thing, but the fact I never knew about it even though I'm in these products daily means it's not quite as transparent as it should be.
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