Archive for August, 2007

FlashPaper Rotate Landscape

Posted on August 31st, 2007 by Elliot

I have a couple of Word Docs that I want to put up on a website. Not everyone has Word, and it’s not fully compatible across operating systems and different versions of Office. Plus, you actually have to download the document to view it. This is less-than-optimal, so I thought about alternatives. Certainly I could [...]

document.postform has no properties

Posted on August 30th, 2007 by Elliot

So I was playing around with phpBB3 RC5, the latest version of the popular phpBB forum software, when I ran into this error. It’s not a PHP error, actually, but a JavaScript one. I’m working on heavily modifying a phpBB install, and in this case I wanted it to submit a new topic automatically.
The form’s [...]

Hacked iPhone Traded for Nissan 350Z Car

Posted on August 30th, 2007 by Elliot

via Slashdot, story on The Register
This story is interesting to me because it’s something of a small inspiration. This 17-year-old teen spent the summer unlocking the iPhone. From what I’ve read, he didn’t do it himself– it took help from others. But he deserves credit, and he’s getting a lot of publicity from it.
Now he’s [...]

Welcome to intelliot on tech

Posted on August 30th, 2007 by Elliot

This is my technology blog. I debated several names, such as “Elliot’s Tech Blog” and others, but I didn’t want to make this feel like a personal blog. This is where I document technical and computer-related stuff. Such posts on my personal blog have been among the most popular:

Microsoft Word: Remove Email Toolbar, with over [...]