I am always a fan of new software and technology. I often get made fun of for anxiously awaiting Windows Vista too. Well, in the spirit of Vista I thought I’d share this link I came upon on digg. This little shell extension for Windows XP will give you tool tips on your task bar sorta like Vista uses. You will get a better idea of what I mean from the image above. Check it out. Pretty neat.

Visual Task Tips

I recently stumbled upon an error on a website that a friend of mine had been working on. It looked like this:

I don’t think I have ever seen a “Flash.ocx – Add-on Error” before. Some searching around brought us to this post over at deconcept:
http://blog.deconcept.com/2006/01/11/getvariable…
That didn’t seem to help – the error was the same but we have no scripting in the swf other than a stop() action. DesDev said he got the error after installing Flash 8.5b player… There is no way the player on my machine would alter an swf exported from Flash though right… Unless I totally misunderstand the architecture…

The weird thing is – we can’t duplicate this error (the client is getting it on multiple machines). EVEN on the default .html file that is pushed out without any bells or whistles causes the problem. Of course this seems to be related to IE in some way. Does anyone have any more light to shed on the subject? Thanks.