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Archive for May 5th, 2008


Example of Revver Multiple Widget 404 Page Error

05.05.2008 by BrettBum Category podcasting


I had a bit of a bug showing up on my site at http://www.MavenMappersinformation.com/. I had Revver Widgets installed on the sidebar of the site and the videos from the first widget were not playing. They in fact were creating a 404 page error. This video shows an example of the error. The fix for the error is quickly detailed in a short article here at http://www.top10tech.com/…age-error/

I really like this widget functionality that Revver offers. It enables you to put videos into a play and then run them in a sidebar or other location. But I didn’t even know myself that there was an error until I was trying to show someone an example of one of the videos.
I could see the thumbnails, but was not aware that the videos weren’t playing. When I initially installed them, I installed the widgets one at a time, testing the videos after the install. So the videos initially worked on the first widget, and only broke or stopped working after I installed the second widget.

Fortunately they are all working now. Hopefully the article above will help other people avoid this issue on their own sites. It might even offer up a benchmark for other services like Utterz to benchmark off of this type of thing.
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Backup Your Bookmarks in Firefox

05.05.2008 by BrettBum Category Broken Technology, Browsers, Firefox, Internet Explorer, MindManager, mindmapping

Last week I was in a hurry and made a rookie mistake.  I was working on a project and needed for some weird reason (using a software program that is not compatible with Firefox - . . . MindManager. .   aahemm. ..  ) to get a copy of all my Firefox bookmarks into some strange and weird program called Internet Explorer 7. 

I had not heard of this program which devotees sometimes call IE7, but I needed to find a way to import in a copy of my Firefox bookmarks, so that I could then use some special function in the desktop software program that I was working with on this special project.

The Problem - I lost my Firefox Bookmarks!

So after I imported bookmarks into this IE7 beast, I noticed about a day later, that I had lost about 80 percent of my bookmarks in Firefox.

Why 80 percent and not 100 percent?

I have no idea.  For some reason the bookmarks in about 100 folders that I had were deleted from Firefox.  They still exist in Internet Explorer which imported them but they were stripped out of Firefox.

So the quick lesson I learned from this, is actually one that I learned a long time ago with IE 6 (yeah I actually had used this beast before, but tried to block it from my memory).  You need to back up your Favorites and Bookmarks to separate special files and folders on a regular basis.  If you add lots of bookmarks often, then you may want to back up more often, if not, maybe quarterly is good enough.

How to back up Firefox Bookmarks

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This is pretty easy.  Just go to the Bookmarks button on the Firefox menu, click on the Bookmarks manager.  This will open up a new window and you can now select the export option under the file menu of the Firefox bookmarks menu.  Make sure you send it to a safe place!

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Back to Mind Mapping

05.05.2008 by BrettBum Category MindManager, mindmapping

This week I have gotten back from my trip to Nevada and simultaneously gotten back to some relatively heavy mindmapping work.  In the process, I found what appears to be a possible bug with MindManager 7 that was not previously present in MindManager 6.  Either that, or my installation of MindManager 7 has become corrupted somehow while my installation of MindManager 6 has remained OK.

The problem takes place when I attempt to export a mind map to Word.  I choose a template from Words standard templates.  The problem is two fold.

  1. No matter what template I select, the formatting fails to apply correctly a large portion of the time.
  2. Sometimes even when the formatting looks correct, the paragraph styles that show up in word are still listed as MMtopic 1, mmtopic 2 etc. as opposed to Heading 1, Heading 2, Heading 3 or Normal as I set it up to export.

Something seems to be breaking down, but when I open up MindManager version 6, and export the same exact file, it works just fine.

I’ve been experiencing this for a while now (a month or two), but it wasn’t until I got into a mind map intensive amount of work that I was able to confirm that there really was a problem.  As I confirmed it, I was not able to get any screen capture video yet.

This week, I hope to do just that.  Once I have it, I will then begin the troubleshooting process and see if I can eliminate the problem by running a repair or just reinstalling the program all together.

I’m hoping to get to this either tomorrow or by Thursday.  I’ve got some mundane things to take care of first, running some errands to get a camera lens repaired, and pick up some pet and dog supplies.  Plus, Tuesday I have to cover the local election here in North Carolina for my other work.

If you have experienced similar problems, I’d be interested to here what you have run into, and whether or not you were able to solve the problem, and or how. 

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