So. I came to work on a design for a client, and start to put together something for my launch page for my main domain, www.iantearle.com.

Upon launching Adobe Space Monkey, I waited patiently for the fonts to load, presets to be imported, hang on a minute. Adobe Space Monkey?
When the adobe comedy splash screen disappeared and presented me with the error that had happened, (invalid serial) I was a little concerned, you don't pay stupid amounts of money for a creative suite to be presented with this comedy of errors.

Immediately I was onto Google. Thank you SamBot you saved my life. The kind folks on the blog there provided me with this super information. Which I will share here for you.

Find the missing entries on the following parameters in your Adobe Registration Database, (Mac: Libary/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe Registration Database).

EPIC_ORG=
EPIC_NAME=

Enter after the equals the values as per the rest of the entries in that document. You can use TextEdit to edit and save the document.

How I came to Space Monkey, well I stupidly lost the ability to think. And forgot how to print a PDF document with a Mac, working with PC's at work disables the part of the brain to be able to come home and back to the real and proper world of a well made operating system that is OSX.

Of course when I came to look for Adobe Distiller and it was not there, I loaded up the install disc of CS2 got to the registration page and exited.

In doing so the Adobe Registration Database must have been altered and along came a comical monkey!

For those who do have their brains numbed by Mickosoft, to be able to save or print a PDF you use the link at the bottom left hand corner, there are plenty of options to create, compress and save your PDF!

Woops.

If you have ever been annoyed by the constant Orange Flashing when recieving a message from within MSN then fear not. Here is the solution to be rid of the phantom once and for all.

The issue is when Windows wants to get your attention to something when the application is out of focus. The next steps are going to guide you through RegEdit in Windows XP. Please don't proceed if you are not comfortable.

open up HKEY_CURRENT_USER/ControlPanel/Desktop

Click on the Desktop option and then look down the list on the right for the following:

foregroundlocktimeout

The right hand list is divided into three sections - Name Type and data.
Look in the Data section and check that the following is present:

0x00030d40 (200000)

If this data is present then the Prevent applications from stealing focus option is enabled.
If you have something different then proceed as follows:
Right click on the ForegroundLockTimeout option and select Modify
The Edit DWORD value box opens
Make sure there is a green dot next to the hexadecimal option in the Base box
Now in the Value data box type: 30d40 (that's thirty followed by d
then followed by 40)
Click the OK button
Your entry should now read:

ForegroundLockTimeout REG_DWORD 0x00030d40 (200000)

Now close regedit and reboot your machine.

Isn’t it strange how fast life seems to throw new events and beginning’s at you? Last year in February I was panicing at the thought of not being able to afford my mortgage only three months after purchasing a new flat and moving in. The sudden unemployment took me by surprise, but not nearly as much as this year has.

A week after losing my job in Colchester, thank the Lord I accepted a job in Chafford Hundred working as a web application designer and developer within a secondary school. Not having had much experience with application building for the web at that time, I was thrown in at the deep end. Fortunately there was a lot of work already started, and being the fast learner I am, picked up very quickly what I had to do. A year on, I have created many a useful web application for the school, all still in use today.

At that same time last year, things started to move into a serious direction with me and my then girlfriend Rachael. I knew when I first met her back in October 2006 that she was the one for me, but I still was not married to her. In April 2007 I proposed, and we started planning for our wedding. Working in Chafford Hundred has been hard this last year or so, but I have learned a lot from my experience there. This year, 2008 everything sped up.

After Christmas, with the price of petrol going up, and my car giving up, forcing me to purchase (or rather Rachael) a new one, to take me the 69 miles from my flat to work, then back to my parents for mid week stop overs, bed and breakfast accommodation, I was fed up of not living in my home, lower wages and increased cost of living. I started applying for jobs.

There were plenty around, and I had a few interviews. Not before I lost heart at having interviews, and not getting any results, a job became available in Hadleigh, near Ipswich. 10 mins door to door, it had the beginnings of a great job. Whilst advertised as a developer role, I was optimistic and looking forward to a positive result. I was offered the job late February. Exactly a year I after getting made redundant.

I started at my new place of work last week, three days after getting pelted with paint balls at my stag day, a week before I am due to get married. probably three months before I start to look for a new, bigger home with my wife, and not too long after that we may be looking to start a family of our own.

So 2008 seems like it will be a year full of change. New job, new home, wife, and family. New beginnings.

I cannot say enough how excited I am to be getting married in less than seven days time.

Well, the time is here when Microsoft finally get their act together and start listening to the web development community. Here comes IE8. CSS3 compatibility? W3C standards approach? I am yet to see.

The sole reason I have failed to take a look at my existing web sites in the eyes of IE8 is because I have spent the first hour after downloading the software trying to get rid of the default homepage.

After spending this hour searching for ways I finally found a statement from Microsoft;

Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 will add a new page to the home page set. This page will be automatically removed from the home page set two weeks after you install Internet Explorer Beta 1.

How frustrating. Two weeks i have to wait to get rid of this unsightly home page. When all I want to see is my work intranet (I only use IE whilst at work, at home I'm a MAC!). You cannot even change the order, Microsoft have made IE8 to simply insert their homepage everytime it is not found at the start of the homepage list!

Maybe once I have done some work today, ill take a look further into the face of IE8 and discover just how standardized it really is.

Upon receiving my Home Hub from BT I was very impressed with the glossy white cover, matching almost perfectly with my Apple iBook G4 (It would have been perfect if it had the Apple Logo on it).

But unfortunately I had great trouble trying to get the darn thing connected wirelessly, and even more trouble with my Airport Station!

Thankfully though I found a resolution. After some time now, I figured I should share my revelations for anyone stumbling across this Blog.

To setup your BT Home Hub to work with Apple Macs, and Apple Airport Express follow these simple instructions.

Firstly when entering your WEP pass code into your Mac, be sure to select WEP 40/128-bit Hex which is the second option on the list. Do this also when joining your Airport Express to your home network.

Done.