Browsing the blog archives for June, 2009

Google maps – highlight sidebar text on marker mouseover

Sometimes when integrating a Google map on a site it is useful to give feedback to the user when hovering the mouse over a map marker. While not very difficult to achieve, it may not be completely straight forward to beginners, so I just wanted to post my solution here.
The trick is to add a [...]

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Smart CSS trick to add icon to all outgoing links

Use this piece of CSS to add an icon to all links that is not to mydomain
a:not([href*="mydomain"]) {

 padding-right: 10px;

 background: transparent url(”images/aoutside.gif”) center right no-repeat;

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Component could not be upgraded – error with Media Player 11 and Vista

When trying to view some digital rights managed content I was instructed to upgrade Media Player, but the upgrade halted and I got the “Component could not be upgraded” message. No matter what I tried I could not get around this.
After some hours of searching on Google however, I came across this solution.
1. Click the [...]

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