When searching for new Add-ons, you are by default shown five results. You might find it more efficient to increase this number.
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Firefox: View code in an external editor
When you want to view the source of a page, it opens up in browser popup. However, if you want, you can make it open in your favorite editor, instead of having to cut and paste. To achieve this: do the following:
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Firefox: Auto export bookmarks
In Firefox 3, bookmarks are automatically saved. The only problem is the way they are stored, as they are stored as places.sqlite, as opposed to saving them in HTML. You can change this easily however, by doing the following:
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Resolving "The linked document cannot be found in the view" errors
As I have mentioned countless times before, Lotus Notes’ error messages are not always the easiest to understand. So, too with this one. A user called me over, complaining that she’d get this error whenever she opened any documents in her own mailfile.
After a lot of trial and error, I found that the error lay with the mailfile design. However, replacing it was not enough; you actually have to replace it with a different design, close the mailfile, open ot, then replace it with the correct one again. -
Lotus Notes: Collection Container is NULL
I had a user call in telling me she was getting a bizarre error message when trying to send an email in Lotus Notes. The error message said “Collection Container is NULL”.
As informative as many of Lotus Notes’ error messages, this one, at least was displayed in English. Believe me, trying to translate error messages back from Norwegian to English is not as simple as it may sound…
Browsing the web, I found other people who had had the same problem, related to Category fields, as well as ODBC connections. The suggested solution was as simple as it was effective; restart Lotus Notes. -
More model-specific errors
Over a year ago, I wrote about uncovering model-specific errors. True to form, all of the models I have seen lately have had some sort of standardized error.
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Fatal Error when starting Microsoft Word 2007
My employer is slowly but surely implementing Microsoft Office 2007. One of the errors we’ve encountered has been a fatal error. It seems to be caused by one of the following two things:
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Exporting iTunes and Windows Media Player playlists to .m3u-format.
Windows Media Player and iTunes do not use standard formats, such as .m3u, to store the playlists that users create. This can be a problem for users migrating to other players such as MediaMonkey, WinAmp etc. Luckily, all is not lost; Windows Media Player has functionality for exporting playlists built in, and there are tools that will convert iTunes playlists to .m3u format for you.
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Resolve "Illegal Circular USE:DocumentConversions" errors
After upgrading a user to Notes 6.5.4, she got an error saying “Illegal Circular USE:DocumentConversions” when opening her mailfile. She reported that she’d get this problem when opening folders.
The key to solving this problem, is knowing that the user has been upgraded from Notes version 5 to Notes version 6.5.4. From one version of Notes to the next, new functionality is implemented using design changes to the mailfile. When a user upgrades from one version to the next, the design need to be upgraded as well.
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Outlook "disappears" when minimized
A user called me up, telling me that whenever she’d minimize Outlook, it would shut down in stead of minimizing. Accessing her computer remotely, I easily saw that Outlook wasn’t closed, it was minimized to tray.
To avoid this problem reappearing, I did the following:
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Taking MailTo to the next level
If you’ve ever written a website in HTML, you are probably familiar with the MailTo-command, used to automatically start a new email message when the link is clicked. However, you can do so much more with the command. Here are some examples:
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