Photoshop Videos Search Results at macromedia.com

Search results for Photoshop videos. Lots of good Photoshop information, tips, tricks and techniques.

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Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of

An overview of professional step-by-step tutorials which can enrich your design skills and improve the quality of your works.

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Excel to Word mailmerge problem

Today there was this small thing that took my time. A date field in excel was formatted correctly but when the field was used in the mailmerge with Word. The format in the excel was not being reflected in word.

So I used the following steps to correct this in Word.

Step 1. Right click on the field name
Step 2. Click on the ‘Toggle Field Codes’ option For eg., { MERGEFIELD “AFinish” }
Step 3. Edit the field to include \@ “dd-MM-yyyy” e.g. { MERGEFIELD “AFinish” \@ “dd-MM-yyyy” }
Step 4. Right click and click update field.


You can see the date format as 17-08-2008

Viewing DTS scheduled jobs

I wanted to view the scheduled DTS jobs. So obvious way I thought was to do view it where I created. But for some reason, the schedule has been reset. So there is no way we can view the scheduled jobs of DTS here.

If you want to view these jobs, you have to access the SQL SERver Agent as these jobs are run by SQL SERVER Agent. So follow these steps to ciew your scheduled jobs on SQL server.

Go to SQL SERVER Enterprise Manager -- Management folder
Then click on SQL SERVER AGENT -- Jobs

Here you can see the job name status etc.

Automatic processing of SSAS cubes

I needed to automate the process of refreshing my Sql Server Analysis Services Cubes. My SQL server is 2000 and Analysis Services is SP4.

The approach I followed today is as follows:

I created a package in DTS of SQL Server 2000

Step 1 Created a SSAS task and pointed the Dimension (Rebuild the dimension) that needs to be updated.

Step 2 Then I created another task to refreshh all cubes.

Step 3 I created a On Success workflow between the above two tasks.

I saved this package and scheduled it to run monthly.

Displaying Temporary Internet Files folder in Windows Explorer

I am so used to browse the temporary internet files folder for internet exploer but I was not able to do this since I upgraded my Internet Exploer to 7. I finally found a way to do this. Microsoft has made the temporary internet files folder a 'Protected operating system folder'. That is the reason we cannot view that folder even when we check on the option 'Show hidden files and folders'.

All we have to do is Go to Windows Explorer -- Tools -- Folder options -- View tab
Untick the 'Hide protected system files and folders'

And you can see the Temporary internet files' folder in C:\Documents and Settings\User\Local Settings\ folder.

Java based math course includes problem-solving lessons and tests

Visual and interactive way to thorough understanding and mastering Trigonometry without getting wearied on the very first chapter! Java- and web-based math course includes theoretical

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Concatenate values from two text box and populate the value in another text box

Today I had to create a function to concatenate two values from a text box and populate the output in another text box. This I did to inmprove the usability of the form for inputing the credit card data.

This is what I wrote



function conc()
{
var mon;
var yy;

yy=document.getElementById("Texty").value;
mon=document.getElementById("Textm").value;
document.getElementById("Texte").value=yy+mon;
}

Web Photo Gallery with Photoshop

Today I was googling for some CSS photo gallery that I want to use for my website. I found quite interesting ones as follows:

Library of CSS Stylesheets
Joshuaink Photo Gallery Template
http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menu/lightbox.html

The one that suited me was described in this chapter on Techrepublic.

As I was about to call off my search, I found this easy way of creating a photogallery using Photoshop CS2 which is really handy if you have to create a photo gallery out of many photos.

How to Create an "Invisible" Folder for Your, um, "Private" Files

You ever have a folder on your computer that you really dont want any one to find? You can make this folder hidden but then you have to un-hide all the folders when ever you want to find it. So how can you make a folder truly invisible? Follow these simple steps and your unmentionables will stay that way

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My first project in c# ASP.net

Today for the first time I created a project in ASP.net. All this while I was doing some modifications for SQL code and reports for existing .NET projects. I wanted to recreate the functionality described here

When I did exactly what was said and tried to access the webpage, I got the error "Code not parsed...." When I googled for this error, then only I realised that I did not build the solution. So the error was fixed when I compiled the project.

Problems with connecting to proxy

Wayne, our systems Administrator contributed this:

Having problems with a user who cannot connect to our proxy server because their Internet Explorer keeps using a manually entered username and password, instead of their domain username and password. Even typing in the correct username and password doesn't work. Tried resetting IE settings, changing authentication options, with no success. Finally found instructions on removing the saved passwords, and that fixed the problem.

Windows XP does not offer a very easy way to review or remove the saved passwords though. If you follow the steps below though you can access a graphical interface to add, remove or edit the saved passwords on a given system.

1. Click Start and select Run

2. In the Open field type "rundll32.exe keymgr.dll, KRShowKeyMgr"

3. Once the Stored Usernames and Passwords interface opens you can select any of the entries and select Properties to view the existing information

4. To remove a saved password you can select one of the entries and select Remove. A confirmation screen will appear. Click on OK and the account will be removed

5. You can add additional saved passwords as well by clicking on the Add button and entering the appropriate information

6. Repeat the steps above as needed to add, remove or edit saved passwords

7. When you are done using the interface click the Close button

Thanks Wayne, for your contribution.

12 Ways to Make Better Use of Your Footer

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Use SQL subselects to consolidate queries

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Messy Code? Stumped? Submit it to be refactored @ refactormycode.com

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The Flash Blog - Some great examples of Flash UI development

It seems as though Lee Brimelow is from Adobe. He is somehow connected to gotoandlearn.com, which has a lot of awesome tutorials on how these sites are made. Good site to check out if you're into flash UI dev. Cool stuff, check it out.

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Prompt for downloading word documents

I have created a functionality that will allow the users to download a pdf or a word document. The download was working fine when I used it, but on another machine I noticed that the prompt for download that asks the user whether to open or save the word file was not appearing.

These are the steps you need to follow when you are faced with this problem.

Go to the windows explorer,
Choose Tools-- Folder options
Click on File Types tab
Choose file type 'DOC' for word, 'PPT' for Powerpoint etc.
Click on the Advanced botton
Make sure that the "confirm open to download" checkbox is ticked.

Hope you enjoy it.

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Unable to enlist in the transaction

Today after about a month again I was facing a similar problem of unable to enlist a transaction. I took half a day, to realise that this is the problem as there was no error when I was using the web interface but the results were not coming up. Then I slowly started looking at the event viewer and only then I noticed the "Unable to enlist a transaction error". I didnot expect the reason for this until I read this article, When I disconnected the firewall everything seems working well. I have now switched the firewall back on by allowing the port for MSDTC as 3372.

document.getElementId() has no properties

Today I was getting this error, in Firefox even though the Javascript code that I wrote was working fine.

I had a feeling that my javascript code was not working, and concentrated to work on that.

But the error was not in the javascript code but in the xsl code.

To solve these kind of errors in FF give your elements IDs instead of names and reference them with

document.getElementById("id")

IE seems to be a bit relaxed even though you have a name defined and not the Id.

Adding lines on a stacked column chart

Today I had a need to do a graph in Excel where it need to display a stacked column chart and also a line in the same graph.

The data for this is as follows for three years

2008 2009 2010
12000 14000 16000
1000 1000 1000
170000 180000 200000

I wanted a stacked column with the first two rows and a line with the last row. But when I chose the normal 2d column chart, it was showing all three rows as one stacked column.

To get the desired results, I followed the following steps

First, include all three rows in the series part of the chart data and choose the 2d stacked column chart

Next, right-click on the colored part of the bar that corresponds to the year and choose "Chart Type". Then select the first Line graph. Click Ok

Finally, right click on the graph and choose chart options and tick the 'Value Y Axis' tick box under the secondary axis lable of the 'Axes' tab

You should now have the first two rows displayed as a stacked column chart and the third row displayed as a line graph above your columns.

Convert VBscript to Javascript

I needed to convert some vbscript to javascript as firefox doesn't support vbscript. I found this online tool very helpful

Beware that this tool does not work in firefox though.

New transaction cannot enlist in the specified transaction coordinator

I was faced with this error when I was trying to configure a web application and trying enter a transaction through the virtual website. Thanks to the internet, I found a lot of information on the internet.

Here are the steps I followed to correct this:

Start the Component Services administrative tool. To do this, click Start, click Run, type dcomcnfg.exe, and then click OK.
In the console tree of the Component Services administrative tool, expand Component Services, expand Computers, right-click My Computer, and then click Properties.
Click the MSDTC tab, and then click Security Configuration.

Turn on the Network DTC Access
Allow Inbound
Allow Outbound
Enable XA Transactions
Choose No Authentication required

Save these settings and reboot your system.

The error is fixed.

In Windows Server 2003 SP1 and in Windows XP SP2, the Distributed Transaction Coordinator service gives you more control over the network communication between computers. By default, all network communication is disabled. The Distributed Transaction Coordinator Security Configuration dialog box has been enhanced so that you can manage these communication settings.

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DTS -- My learnings today

Today I wanted to schedule a data update process to be processed every month for the table I created using DTS last month.

I wanted to populate a brand new database from an exisitng database. I thought I would just schedule a package with a few SQL queries to populate the different tables in the new database. But before I proceededI wantedto find out an efficient and best way to do it.

So I posted my questions in two forums. This is what I found out from the experts:

Before you decide on setting up the DTS package there are several aspects to consider.

Do you want to recover the database from a backup when something goes wrong?
Do you want to just reload everything when something fails?
Do you want to save logging information so that you can recover the database?

Based on the answers to these questions, the best way to create a DTS package for my scenario is to create the tables with the structure and then create the DTS package using many Data Driven Query Tasks that contains the SQL statemetns of select, Insert and Update depending on whatever the case may be.

DTS is an excellent tool to schedule population of data into a database.

SQL query to get Month Name for today

I wanted to insert the month name of the current date into a table using a SQL query.

I first thought that I could achieve this by simply using the monthname function. But when I typed that in the SQL Query analyser, the error made me realise that it is not that easy to get the result I want.

So in the end here is what I came up with:


select datename(month, getdate())+'-'+ convert(varchar,year(getdate())) as Month_

Automating the .NET Framework download and installation

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10 CSS Tips to Make Your Life Easier

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Data Transformation Services -- SQL Server

Today I used Data Transformation Services (DTS) of SQL Server 2000 to populate a table in the SQl Server database from an excel file. This was an easy way of creating a table on the fly without bothering to create the table structure first and then populate the table with the data.


Procedure I followed was as follows:

Right click on a table or a database in the SQL Server Enterprise manager.
select Import data
Select the source as an Excel driver
select the destination as the table to be created inthe database.
Click finish and your table is ready with the data populated

Yes, it is that simple.

15 Javascript Snippets You Can't Live Without

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FindThatFile.com is a specialized search engine geared towards finding files instead of web pages, with a slick AJAX interface. The search engine is a crawler which looks for links to files over the web, saving you the effort of finding the file you are looking for by yourself.

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