Applications

I recently needed to test what some web pages looked like when Flash was disabled to show a prompt to install Flash, and discovered how to disable Flash temporarily in Firefox.

Tools -> Add-ons -> Plugins

To disable Flash in Firefox open up the Add-ons dialog. In the Windows versions of Firefox this done by selecting “Tools” then “Add-ons” from the menus, and then clicking the “Plugins” button.

In the Debian version (and probably other Linux distros) of Icemonkey (the equivilent of Firefox) it’s also under Tools -> Add-ons. I assume it’s the same for the OSX version but don’t know for sure.

The “Plugins” button is highlighted with a red circle in the screenshot below.

Now scroll down through the list of plugins until you find “Shockwave Flash”. Then click the “Disable” button (highlighted with the red box in the above screenshot) and it will then disable Flash. The button label will then change to “Enable” and it’s simply a matter of clicking it again to enable Flash again.

Save for Web in Adobe Photoshop CC 2015 was moved on the menus from File -> Save for Web to File -> Export -> Save for Web (Legacy).

This post looks at the error "fatal: https://domain/project/filename-plates.git/info/refs not found: did you run git update-server-info on the server?" when trying to access a git repository.

If you’ve moved a git repository from one git hosting service to another, transferred from one account to another at the same service, or moved your own repository servers around the place, you’ll need to change the remote url for you local repository to be able to continue pushing and pulling changes, etc.

The Vudu To Go app allows you to download movies you have purchased from Vudu and stores them on your computer to watch using the app. But where are the files stored?

If you have the RSS Subscription Extension (by Google) installed in Google Chrome, you can add additional services to the "subscribe to this feed using" drop down box. This post shows how to do this for Feedly.