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Sound stops in Flash videos (e.g. YouTube)
Lately I couldn’t watch any flash videos, for example on YouTube, neither on my Windows 7 computer nor on my old Windows XP laptop. Well, I could watch them – but every few seconds the sound would stop playing. I found out that several other people had this problem, too, and apparently it was caused…
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Extremely choppy playback in Flash player
It is truly amazing how a computer can still surprize you and make you shake your head in wonderment, even after twenty years of computer experience. Since weeks I’ve had the problem that Flash movies were stuttering on my computer so much that I couldn’t even watch ordinary YouTube videos anymore. And I don’t mean…
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Dual monitor Flash player fullscreen hack
Wow, actually I thought I couldn’t top my five-noun post title “Live Ajax PHP regex tester, but now it happened. Looks a bit weird indeed. But let’s get on topic: If you have two monitors connected to your PC, you will probably have a movie run on one of them sometimes while keeping on working…
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Object not showing up in Firefox?
When converting my site to XHTML, the WordPress plugin “WP GuestMap” posed another little obstacle. It is the plugin that I use on the “Visitors” page to display the world map with the hometowns of all visitors. Until now, I had implemented the map via IFrame. Although the plugin does offer a code snippet for…
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Resizing images in Flash
Lately, I was working on a website which should have a neat Flash menu with funny jumping graphics. Now, they should be real bitmaps, not vectors. So when I wanted to let my images jump, whereby they should also change in size a little, I encountered a problem: The images only looked well at a…