11.19.07

NoteTab Light Mini-review

Posted in Software, Windows at 11:20 pm by RedFlameOut

Over the years, I have used many a program on Windows. NoteTab Light is one such beastie.

NoteTab Light is a free text editor with a tabbed interface. Each tab represents one open text file. It can also be configured to open all files opened at the time of applications closure. The application has a myriad of settings.

At work, I use it to keep various common pieces of text for email in a convenient location. It is configured to minimize and close to the notification area of the task bar so it is only a click away.

Over all, I give NoteTab Light 4 our of 5.

System Requirements (as taken from their web site):

  • Windows 95/98/2000/2003/NT4/ME/XP/XP64/Vista
  • 32 MB of RAM, 4 MB disk space
  • Intel® Pentium processor

    • Site: http://www.notetab.com

    NoteTab Light main screenNoteTab Light Options screen

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    08.19.07

    Problems with Adobe Flash player

    Posted in Adobe, Fixes, Flash, Software, Windows at 4:25 pm by RedFlameOut

    I ran into an interesting issue with the Adobe Flash player in both Internet Explorer 7 (IE) and FireFox 2.0.5.

    When I would navigate to YouTube.com to look at videos, an error popped up saying I did not have the latest Flash player with a link to install in IE. If I clicked the link, the install failed and the example Flash jobject would display a red X. FireFox popped up the yellow attention bar at the top. Installing the plugin from there did not correct the problem.

    Adobe’s web site worked flawlessly but other sites with Flash either complained about needing the latest Flash player or the Flash objects on the page failed.

    After investigating through Google searches, I was not any closer to fixing the issue than when I started. Even after uninstalling and reinstalling the Flash player, the issue continued. Frustrating!

    I noticed that in Internet Explorer, a particular path listed the files in some of the pop up errors:

    C:\Windows\System32\Macomed\Flash

    Navigating to this location, I found two Flash utilities — one for Internet Explorer and one for Mozilla/Netscape browsers like FireFox.

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    Screen shot of location of Flash player on Windows

    NPSWF32_FlashUtil.exe is for FireFox and FlashUtil9d.exe is for Internet Explorer. I ran each and they indicated an update was available. I let them update and Flash player begain working in both browsers. The utilities indicated a reboot was necessary but it worked without the reboot for me.

    I hope this helps others as it took me a couple of hours to figure this one out.

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