Vikash Gounder

While using Google Desktop, i found that Search within Google Desktop indexes & caches everything, that makes search results extremely fast. Those of you who are used to using the find command on linux or unix, would really love to use that on windows too. Well there are alternatives within Windows and some of them are really good. Well the easiest way of doing

Well the easiest and to some extend practical way of doing this would be have a cache copy of file names in a file and just searching the file. Just open the command prompt and type:

dir C:\  /b /s /on > C:\CachedFileNames.txt

The following would go through Windows C:\ drive and

dir c:\ /b /s /on > c:\Dirlist.txt

Finally got a invitation to test Google Wave and first impression of it is just awesome. It runs very smoothly via Google Chrome even on a 256KB Broadband in Fiji.

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One of my former workmates and good friend Marijke Wilhelmus had a problem with a flash file and a drop-down menu. Okay here is a problem, the website she was working on a drop-down menu and below that was a flash file, on IE the drop-down menu seems to work fine without any overlapping. On Firefox, the flash file would overlap the drop-down menu. The original HTML flash code:

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<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="570" height="200" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="quality" value="high" />
         <param name="LOOP" value="false" />
         <param name="src" value="someflash.swf" />
         <embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="570" height="200" src="someflash.swf" loop="false" quality="high"></embed>
</object>

I surfed on Google, found few solutions and recommendation, most didn’t seem to work. The solution is within the flash embedding code rather than the layout. The original html code was missing the

which actually helps and makes the drop-down menu/flash file behave the way we want. With some small tweaking, here it is:

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<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="570" height="200" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0">
	<param name="quality" value="high" />
	<param name="LOOP" value="false" />
	<param name="wmode" value="opaque" />
	<param name="src" value="someflash.swf" />
	<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="570" height="200" src="someflash.swf" wmode="opaque" loop="false" quality="high"></embed>
</object>

And another factor to note is the order which always is a problem, but with most older browsers it may be a problem. Seems to work fine on IE/Firefox/Safari.

Below is the Before:

This is after the tweaking: