— Shang Liang

Pixel fonts tend to get blur in Flash. Most of the time the problem can be solved by setting the textfield’s coordinates (x,y) into integers but sometimes it fails to work. I’ve found a new trick to solve this problem. If you check the option of the textfield to be selectable, the texts appear clear no matter what their x and y are.

If your computer doesn’t have a C: drive, flash player 10 installer for firefox won’t be able to run properly. It keeps giving not enough disk space error. After Googling for a while, I found the solution in Yahoo answers.

If you don’t have a C-drive, then you can also share a folder or your root drive and then add this folder as a network drive and assign the letter C to it. after the installation you can disconnect the share again and disable sharing. Worked for me. -Yahoo! Answers

* The method that uses a USB drive didn’t work for me. My system drive is named as “W”, stands for Windows. I’m weird, I know.

It’s such a low level bug and it’s really unaccetable. I’ve installed tons of stuff in my computer and had never encounter this kind of problem before.

I’ve recently finished a project. It’s a website for a wedding gown boutique. The main function of the website is to show their products, just like a of photo gallery. There are loads of photos and I tracked every photo’s page view. While I was happily looking through the numbers in Google analytics I realise the page view duration is a very good indication of how good or popular the product is. People will stare at a photo longer if they like it and if they don’t like it they’ll quickly click at the next button. I feel this is very useful information to engage the customers’ taste.

UPDATE: as @ickydime mentioned, the tracking data is not 100% accurate. There are cases that users leave the window open, go to do something else and come back to their desks again, recording a very long page view duration. And there are also users accidentally closed the page, clicked away or some other stuff, which record very short page view duration. But all these inaccuracy will be minimised when more data is collected, the errors will be averaged with a big base. Based on the tracking data, no exact figure can be given, such as 53.4% users like product A. But the data can definitely tell that a product with average 30 seconds page view duration is more popular than a product with average 5 seconds page view duration.