Tech Dreamer

PROBLEM: I had CK editor installed on a Drupal 6 website and one day it just stopped loading on my pages. I was stumped as to why this happened. At first I tried tweaking the settings but I kept getting an error when trying to save the settings.

After trying a few things to no avail, I found the solution!

SOLUTION:
1. Disable CK Editor
2. Uninstall CK Editor
3. Enable CK Editor

This worked like a charm and now my CK Editor is working like it used to.

By Doug Gross, CNN

(CNN) — An auto-focus camera? Not new. Not exciting.

A camera that lets you focus after you’ve already taken the photo? And lets you focus anywhere within the image you want? That’s got people talking and, according to its creator, is the start of “a picture revolution.”

Oh yeah — it can also transfer a regular photo to 3-D.

Lytro, a company launched Tuesday by 31-year-old entrepreneur Ren Ng, promises that camera will be released soon.

“I am thrilled to finally draw back the curtain and introduce our new light field camera company, one that will forever change how everyone takes and experiences pictures,” Ng wrote on the startup’s blog. “Lytro’s company launch is truly the start of a picture revolution.”

Apparently, some sharks are buying the buzz. Lytro has reportedly already raised $50 million in venture capital, an impressive feat for a company that just debuted.

Ben Horowitz of investment firm Andreessen Horowitz wrote on his blog that Ng “walked into the firm and blew my brains to bits.”

“Light field research has been going on for some time, but Ren has figured out a way to fit the technology into your pocket,” wrote Horowitz, whose company is an investor in Lytro.

The gadget, which Lytro is calling a “light field camera,” uses multiple internal lenses to capture much more light than a normal camera, at more than one angle.

That, the company says, lets a photographer concentrate on merely framing a shot, or just clicking fast and furiously. Then he or she can use software to focus later, or even create multiple images with different focuses.

Lytro calls the result “living pictures.”

Experiment with this focus software on Lytro’s site.

So far, people who have seen the product are impressed.

“A Mountain View start-up is promising that its camera, due later this year, will bring the biggest change to photography since the transition from film to digital,” writes Ina Fried for AllThingsD. “Ordinarily, I’m turned off by such hyperbole, but after having seen a demo from Lytro, that statement seems downright reasonable.”

The concept was the subject of Ng’s doctoral thesis at Stanford in 2007. He says that, since then, he’s been working to turn the concept into a practical consumer product.

“What began in a lab at Stanford University has transformed into a world-class company, forty-four people strong, sparkling with talent, energy and inspiration,” he wrote.

The Lytro site doesn’t show any images of the camera itself. The company isn’t announcing a price, its number of megapixels or other technical details yet. People interested in possibly buying one when they become available can submit their e-mail addresses to get updates and reserve one if they choose to buy.

The New York Times reports that the camera is due out later this year.

Source: CNN

For those of you who are fans of Les Paul, or just simply a fan of Google’s latest doodle, the very cool guitar. You can now find this doodle at its permanent home here: http://goo.gl/4QpMZ

As I’ve been telling my friends, this is totally AWESOME!!!

Recently I came across an instance where the SMS/MMS Icon was missing from a Blackberry Pearl 8100. After searching through the internet and trying all the various solutions, including restoring the phone to factory settings (which did restore the SMS icon), as soon as I restored the backup, the icon disappeared.

Seeing this, I decided to try fixing it without the assistance of the internet. After a few minutes of looking through the phone’s settings I tried something and it worked. Here is the solution!

SOLUTION:

1. Go into Messages

2. Click Menu (press the BB button) and select Options

3. Select General Options

4. Scroll down to SMS & Email Inboxes

5. If the value for this option is on “Separate” or “Combined” then change it to “Theme Controlled”

(NB. If this option is already on “Theme Controlled”, it means this solution will not work and you will have to backup your data and restore your phone to factory settings)

6. Save and exit back to the home screen and you should see your SMS icon showing up among your other icons.

I hope this helps others who are experiencing this problem.

Cheers!

If you get the following error when you are trying to burn a DVD using Nero Burning ROM or Nero Express,

‘File is larger than 2GB and cannot be stored in an ISO file system. Please use the UDF file system to write large files. This can be done by selecting another compilation type.’

most likely you are trying to burn an image. Here is what you need to do to solve this problem…

Click on Recorder on the top menu, then click on Burn Image, select your ISO file and then Burn It!

Recorder –> Burn Image –> Select your ISO file

Your DVD should begin burning without a hitch!

The solution to this problem is simple. If you have already enabled the Roads Layer in Google Earth and you are not seeing the street names, then you need to follow these steps.

Open the Tools menu, select Options and in the 3D View Tab under Graphics Mode, – (Tools > Options > 3D View tab > Graphics Mode) – switch whatever to you have to the other option which would be either OpenGL or DirectX.

If this does not work, you may need to upgrade your graphics card driver.

WARNING: The battery cannot be identified. This system will be unable to charge this battery.

If you have gotten that message on your Dell laptop and you are wondering how to fix it then you are in the right place.

Some users with Dell laptops like the Dell Inspiron 1501 and the Dell Vostro 1000 have been seeing the above error message at boot up.

THE FIX: The easiest way that I have found to fix this problem is by downloading the BIOS driver for you system from the Dell website. There is an option to add/edit your service tag. I recommend that you use that feature, as it will help you to locate the correct BIOS driver for your laptop.

DOESN’T WORK: I’ve seen some sites that advise users to replace the battery, but that will not fix the problem. Running down the battery and then restarting the system also does not fix this issue.

I hope that this information helps anyone with this problem. Feel free to leave a comment if you have tried it and it worked (or didn’t work as the case may be).

One of the most talked about laptops of 2009 has finally been released to the public today (March 17th, 2009) and is currently available for purchase online. The laptop in question is the Dell Adamo. Billed as the thinnest laptop, it now competes directly with Apple’s Macbook Air and HP’s Voodoo Envy 133 for thinnest laptop honors.

The Adamo comes in two colors, Pearl and Onyx. It boasts an ultra-slim .65 inch (16.51mm) profile, 13.4-inch widescreen, HD display, with edge to edge glass. The keyboard is backlit and the hard drive is the very cool and quiet solid-state type. They are equipped with Intel Core 2 Duo processors with Centrino technology and DDR3 RAM. It also comes with built in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.

By now I am sure you are wondering what is the price of this fine machine. Well they start off at US$1,999 for the ADMIRE version that comes with a 1.2 GHz Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM and a 128GB solid state hard drive. The higher end of the spectrum is called the DESIRE, and that boasts a 1.4 GHz Core 2 Duo, 4GB RAM and a 128 GB solid state hard drive, all for US$2699. These are the starting prices and you can end up paying a lot more depending on what additional features you may want add.

Not wanting to sound critical, but at that price, it will be hard to compete. Especially with the general economic downturn that most countries have been experiencing and with the popularity of the cheaper mini-laptops. I would appreciate your comments seeing as how the current economic downturn in my budget doesn’t allow me to purchase one.

Google has launched a new service that will allow you to track the location of friends and family via their mobile phone.

Dubbed Latitude, the service is an add-on to the latest version of the Google Maps mobile software.

Video available here.

The service automatically detects your location – either via mobile base station triangulation or the vastly more accurate GPS (if available on your smartphone) – and then broadcasts your position to people on your Google contacts list.

In a careful attempt to avoid the mother of all privacy rows, Latitude is opt-in and you can chooose which friends you wish to share your location with.

It’s also possible to tell a little white lie and manually set your location to elsewhere: handy if a spouse decides to check whether you’re actually stuck on the train or getting stuck in at the bar.

Latitude works with a decent range of smartphones, including Blackberry, Symbian S60, and Windows Mobile devices, although the Apple iPhone and Google’s own Android OS are notable absentees – Google says both will be supported soon.

Latitude is also available as an iGoogle Gadget on the PC, so you can set your location from your computer as well as keep an eye on the location of your friends.

Source: http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/246613/google-launches-mobile-tracking-service.html

Most webmasters looking to make some cash through their websites have probably heard of Google AdSense. According to Google Adsense:

It offers a contextual advertising solution to web publishers and delivers text-based Google AdWords ads that are relevant to site content pages.

It’s not an easy task to make it as one of the top earners, but for those who have made it, let’s just say they don’t really have to think about ever going to work in the morning again. The top earners make more than enough “dough” for a decent living. And now, without further delay, I give you, the top Google AdSense earners:

1: Markus Frind: PlentyOfFish.com – $300,000 per month

2: Kevin Rose: Digg.com – $250,000 per month

3: Jeremy Schoemaker aka ShoeMoney – $140,000 per month

4: Jason Calacanis: Weblogs, Inc. – $120,000 per month

5: David Miles Jr. & Kato Leonard: FreeWebLayouts.net – $100,000 per month

6: Tim Carter: AskTheBuilder.com – $30,000 per month

7: Joel Comm – $24,000 per month

8: Shawn Hogan – DigitalPoint.com $10,000 per month

Thanks for reading. I will expand on the details later on. Please feel free to let us know if you are one of the internet’s top Google AdSense Whores.