Adobe has a web-based service in Beta stage that allows you to share documents. It is based on Flex technology. You upload your files, choose with whom you what to share them, and if you want them to be public (to everyone you give the direct URL).
Your files will be available in your library. You can preview your files, download them, share them or delete them.
If you want you can share your public files by adding a link to the URL or by embedding the given code into your webpages (which shows a flash-enabled preview of the shared file).
The preview pane only works with images and PDF documents.
I just love the User Interface. It has the usual Adobe clean look&feel. According to this webpage the maximum space available to each user is 1Gb. A REST-based API is also available.
The current file formats which are supported are:
- Microsoft Office 2003 and 2007 formats, Rich Text Format (RTF), Open Office formats, text, and PDF.
- HTML
- Adobe supported image formats: GIF, JPEG, BMP, PNG
- Creative Suite file formats
- SWF and Captivate formats
- ZIP
Formats which were banned are:
- Media: MP3, AAC, MOV, WMV, OGG, FLV, XVID, DIVX.
- Fonts: TTF, DFONT, OTF
- Archive: TGZ, 7Z, SIT
- Executable files or script code: EXE, DLL, JAR, WAR, CAB, JS, VB
Today I found about IExpress Wizard utility. It is built-in in Windows and allows to create self-extracting/installing packages.
I won’t write down a tutorial. Since I learned how to use it by running it just one time, it is pretty easy. Choose your package name, include a prompt before install (if you want to), choose files, include a license agreement file (if wanted), choose a command to run after the extraction and enable a restart request if needed. A finished message can be customized.
To open the program, go to Start-Run and enter iexpress
Really useful to distribute small software packages and applications add-ons, and … well just use your imagination.
Source: Alfred’s Tech Blog
In Internet Explorer make sure that you don’t have any important page open. Then open this web page in Internet Explorer. It will crash.
Just in case you don’t have Firefox, here’s the explanation that is written in the web page.
“This page crashes Internet Explorer. Why? Well a simple <span> element crashes Internet Explorer7, and an invalid onload property of <body> in IE6 is sufficient to crash it. “
Pretty scary… Imagine what you can do if you inject the right HTML into an important website… (e.g. in a article comment) Since the required markup to crash IE7 doesn’t even have script on it, it is pretty feasible.
#develop (short for SharpDevelop) is a free and open-source IDE for C#, VB.NET and Boo programming language projects on Microsoft’s .NET platform. Of course that Microsoft Visual Studio Express Editions are freeware and are better that this IDE, but with #develop you get a chance to take a look a the source code and who knows, adapt it to develop in another language. #develop in written in C#.
The list of main features can be found in the project’s community website.
Since I’ve created this blog I’ve been using a nice Wordpress plugin to allow a nice user experience while visiting this website with a mobile device. It is called Wordpress PDA Plugin and it’s installation is plug-and-play. Since this is a blog, and probably most of the readers just subscribe my RSS feed into some reader or aggregator, this plugin isn’t essential, but is still pretty nice.
These are some screenshots from my website mobile version.
As you can see, in the homepage it removes all the images and shows only part of the text, to optimize performance. By entering into a entry details you can read the whole content, including images.
