Shadowbox not loading images or flash
Date: Saturday 29th August 2009
Time: 12:45
Category: Other
Views: 1,177
Comments:
An excellent alternative to the Lightbox script is Shadowbox, because it enables the display of multiple formats, including Flash. We use it on our projects page.
The trouble is, you might find that it just isn’t loading images – or Flash content. Yet again this seems to be a side-effect of Adblock Plus. It seems like avoiding ads comes at a price! Just disable Adblock Plus in Firefox and the problem will go away.
We don’t have a work-around for this yet, so if you do, please comment. 
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(1 votes, average: 3.00 out of 5)Fullscreen Flash Player on dual monitors
Date: Wednesday 12th August 2009
Time: 11:23
Category: Adobe Flash
Views: 1,934
Comments:
If you are using dual monitors, as many developers do, it might be that you sometimes want a video running, fullscreen, on one monitor while you work on the other. The trouble is, Flash Player 10 is so designed that once the former monitor loses “focus” (i.e. you click on the other one), it will exit fullscreen. Some people even consider this a bug.
Luckily, there’s a fix available. Since it is not obvious how this issue could be a security concern, perhaps Adobe will consider implementing the functionality in the next Flash Player.
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Taylor Swift plays our game
Date: Wednesday 5th August 2009
Time: 00:26
Category: Other
Views: 300
Comments:
We designed and programmed a Love Calculator for the BBC back in 2001. The algorithm inside it mimics a children’s playground game by sorting through the letters in names.
The game still pulls in traffic to the BBC’s site 8 years later, and here you can see none other than country/pop star Taylor Swift playing it live on air.
