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    Wordpress Richtext editor problems

    June 6th, 2007

    Every since installing WordPress I’ve been having problems with its rich text editor.

    Basically it didn’t work.

    After checking it on a friends machine and finding it not working, i thought somehow it must be something to do with the installation. After upgrading my version of WordPress it still happend so I began to doubt it was the installation.

    I did a little research on the net to find out if anybody else was having the same problem. As it turns out it is quite a common problem, though from reading the mails it seems not that easy to tie down.

    Doing a little testing, I tried the text editor in IE7 and found that it worked. Thus proving that it was something to do with Firefox.

    So to start off cleanly, i started Firefox without any plugins. And voilĂ  the problems was solved.

    Thus proving it was one of my very many plugins.

    Not wanting to enable a plugin then test for every plugin i had, and considering my friend had the same problem, i emailed all but the most common plugins. Everything worked fine.

    To bring the story to a quick conclusion, it was the adblock plus plugin, it would seem that TinyMCE ( the text editor that WordPress uses ) require scripts be enable, and adblock plus, for my site at least stops scripts.

    Simple adding my sight to the allowable sights solved the problem permanently.

    So if you are having the same problem, consider any plugin you might have that blocks scripts.

    I hope that this solves your problem.

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    Tip : Formatting USB Flash Drives and Memory Cards with NTFS

    June 1st, 2007

    Do you have to transfer important information around on your Flash drive?

    Are you worried about data security?
    Does you flash device have no in built security?
    Well if that is the case, you could try using NTFS.

    However when you first plug in your drive NTFS is not an option, but it can be
    added with a few clicks

    Enter Explorer and select ‘Properties’ by right
    clicking on any drive.
    Select the ‘Hardware’ tab, select your drive
    and click the ‘Properties’ button.
    Select ‘Optimize for performance’ and click
    ‘OK’

    Your drive can now be formatted with NTFS.

    You must understand that there is a reason that NTFS is not available by
    default, this is that should you not safely remove you device you may corrupt
    the disk.

    To remove a device safely you will need to use the tray
    icon. but this is good practice anyway.

    Whilst formatting some drives you might discover that the format will fail. If
    this is the case simply increase the ‘Allocation unit size’ and try again.

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    Tip: Removing permanent marker.

    June 1st, 2007

    To remove permanent marker for any non porous surface such as a white board, desk or window, simply go over the marker using a dry wipe pen. Then wipe with a soft cloth removing the dry wipe, you will find the permanent marker comes of with it too.

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