Category: Digital

New Nvu

March 11, 2005 /

Nvu 0.90 it out. This latest version of the standalone Linspire-backed Mozilla-based Web page editor includes an improved Link dialogue, a new default theme and printing fixes. There's also performance improvements (switching between the HTML Source view and Normal Edit Mode should now be much faster), better support for PHP code and HTML comments and several minor bug fixes. Available for Windows, Linspire 5.0, Fedora Core 3 and Mac OS X.

Get it here: Nvu - The Complete Web Authoring System

Controversial Mac Emulator Released

March 10, 2005 /

CherryOS, the controversial Macintosh emulator for Windows that some commentators have accused of being a reworked version of open-source project PearPC, has finally been released, five months after its initial announcement. Created by developer Arben Kryeziu at Hawaiian company Maui X-Stream Inc., CherryOS allows users of Intel-standard PCs to run Mac OS X by emulating a G4 processor and accompanying hardware. According to Maui X-Stream, the product supports emulation of AltiVec, sound, networking and CD/DVD drive access, and is available for download priced at $49.95.

Want to try out the Mac on an old PC? This may do just the trick. I'd wait for some reviews to come out before spending money on this though.

Word Service

March 9, 2005 /

For those of you lucky enough to be on a Mac, here is a great Mac 'service' that you can install, that gives you many new and useful text formatting options in a variety of applications, including MS Word. Features:

Reformat, Remove line endings/multiple spaces/quotes, Trim line beginnings/line endings/lines, Sort lines ascending/descending, Shift left/light, Initial caps of words/sentences, All caps & lowercase, Mac/Windows/Unix line endings, Rotate 13, Straight/Smart Quotes, Encode/Decode tabs, Insert date/date & time/time/contents of path, Speak native/german text, Statistics.

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Force IE to Properly Download Files

March 9, 2005 /

Here is a workaround for the IE problem of not properly respecting

content-type and content-dispositition HTTP headers which results in it

not being able to save attachments under certain circumstances.

A fairly good developer's writeup and discussion resides at

http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/02/01/364581.aspx. It explains

why this problem exists and Microsoft's reason for creating the

problem.

There are cases where Internet Explorer will not allow a report to save when the URL was called directly. Sometimes you could trick IE by starting the download, cancelling, and refreshing the

page, but it's an absurd workaround that doesn't work reliably.

This article (http://www.onaje.com/php/article.php4/40) shows how to placing the following lines in a

PHP file:

header("Expires: 0");

header("Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate,

post-check=0, pre-check=0");

header("Content-type: application/octet-stream");

header("Content-Disposition:

attachment;filename=\"export.csv\"");

The Content-type, Content-Disposition, Pragma: no-cache, and Expires

lines worked just fine with Firefox, but not with IE. The only new addition was the

Cache-Control line which when added seemed to do the trick. The

preexisting Pragma: no-cache directive which was made redundant and so you

combine it into the Cache-Control line with the "no-cache" part of the

string.

References:

http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/02/01/364581.aspx

http://www.onaje.com/php/article.php4/40

http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html