Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Magic Safari Disappearing Trick

Maybe its an old developer bug/Easter egg, or a iPhone 2G jailbreak shadow hanging on, but since I can remember (iPhone 3G iOS3, iPhone 3GS iOS4, iPhone 4S iOS5) triple tapping my Safari icon will make it disappear and the only way to bring it back is to move the icons around which makes it pop back, but it still won't work anymore.  I have to restart the phone to make it work, otherwise I need to use the taskbar or search in Spotlight to open the app.  None of my co-workers or family have the phenomenon.  Anyone else?

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Shortcuts to WiFi and Other Settings on iPhone Homescreen

Finally! One click access to the WiFi switch without having to jailbreak.

http://iphoneza.co.za/IconSettings/

Thx u for the WiFiz.

Friday, November 11, 2011

Broken Visual Studio 2008/2010 Wizards?

On multiple computers at various times I have run into this INSANELY frustrating issue where creating a new project in Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 or 2010 will fail when the created project type brings up one of those Application Wizard screens.  The symptom is that instead of the Wizard showing its content a File Download window pops up asking if you want to save, open, or cancel the download of Default.htm.  Microsoft is surprisingly quiet on the issue, but its gone on a for a long time, since the IE7 days and VS2005, judging from the forums. I searched for "Visual Studio Wizard Navigation to this webpage cancelled" and every variant I could think of and tried multiple solutions until I found this: Microsoft Forum that at the very bottom linked to this: Registry Keys to Fix the Problem in which you can find the ".htm" fixer.  The registry keys that it defines are extensive, and I haven't gone through all of the file to see what exactly it does, but it does work.  Disclaimer is that I've only used this on Windows 7 32-bit.

Here is a listing of the registry keys from the second link, for posterity:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.htm]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.htm]"PerceivedType"="text"@="htmlfile""Content Type"="text/html"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.htm\OpenWithList]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.htm\OpenWithList\notepad.exe]@=""
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.htm\PersistentHandler]@="{eec97550-47a9-11cf-b952-00aa0051fe20}"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile]"AppUserModelID"="Microsoft.InternetExplorer.Default"@="HTML Document""FriendlyTypeName"="@C:\\Windows\\System32\\ieframe.dll,-912"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\CLSID]@="{25336920-03F9-11cf-8FD0-00AA00686F13}"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\DefaultIcon]@=hex(2):25,00,50,00,72,00,6f,00,67,00,72,00,61,00,6d,00,46,00,69,00,6c,00,65,\  00,73,00,25,00,5c,00,49,00,6e,00,74,00,65,00,72,00,6e,00,65,00,74,00,20,00,\  45,00,78,00,70,00,6c,00,6f,00,72,00,65,00,72,00,5c,00,69,00,65,00,78,00,70,\  00,6c,00,6f,00,72,00,65,00,2e,00,65,00,78,00,65,00,2c,00,2d,00,31,00,37,00,\  00,00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\ScriptHostEncode]@="{0CF774D0-F077-11D1-B1BC-00C04F86C324}"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\shell]@="opennew"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\shell\open]@="Open in S&ame Window""MUIVerb"="@C:\\Windows\\System32\\ieframe.dll,-5732"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\shell\open\command]@="\"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Internet Explorer\\iexplore.exe\" -nohome"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\shell\open\ddeexec]@="\"file://%1\",,-1,,,,,""NoActivateHandler"=""
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\shell\open\ddeexec\Application]@="IExplore"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\shell\open\ddeexec\Topic]@="WWW_OpenURL"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\shell\opennew]@="&Open""MUIVerb"="@C:\\Windows\\System32\\ieframe.dll,-5731"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\shell\opennew\command]@="\"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Internet Explorer\\iexplore.exe\" %1"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\shell\opennew\ddeexec]@="\"%1\",,-1,0,,,,""NoActivateHandler"=""
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\shell\opennew\ddeexec\Application]@="IExplore"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\shell\opennew\ddeexec\IfExec]@="*"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\shell\opennew\ddeexec\Topic]@="WWW_OpenURLNewWindow"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\shell\print]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\shell\print\command]@=hex(2):72,00,75,00,6e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,33,00,32,00,2e,00,65,00,78,00,65,\  00,20,00,25,00,77,00,69,00,6e,00,64,00,69,00,72,00,25,00,5c,00,73,00,79,00,\  73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,6d,00,73,00,68,00,74,00,6d,00,6c,\  00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,2c,00,50,00,72,00,69,00,6e,00,74,00,48,00,54,00,\  4d,00,4c,00,20,00,22,00,25,00,31,00,22,00,00,00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\shell\printto]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\shell\printto\command]@=hex(2):72,00,75,00,6e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,33,00,32,00,2e,00,65,00,78,00,65,\  00,20,00,25,00,77,00,69,00,6e,00,64,00,69,00,72,00,25,00,5c,00,73,00,79,00,\  73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,6d,00,73,00,68,00,74,00,6d,00,6c,\  00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,2c,00,50,00,72,00,69,00,6e,00,74,00,48,00,54,00,\  4d,00,4c,00,20,00,22,00,25,00,31,00,22,00,20,00,22,00,25,00,32,00,22,00,20,\  00,22,00,25,00,33,00,22,00,20,00,22,00,25,00,34,00,22,00,00,00
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile_FullWindowEmbed]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile_FullWindowEmbed]@="HTML Plugin Document""AppUserModelID"="Microsoft.InternetExplorer.Default"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile_FullWindowEmbed\CLSID]@="{25336921-03F9-11CF-8FD0-00AA00686F13}"
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.htm]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.htm]"PerceivedType"="document"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.htm\ShellEx]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.htm\ShellEx\{8895b1c6-b41f-4c1c-a562-0d564250836f}]@="{f8b8412b-dea3-4130-b36c-5e8be73106ac}"
[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.htm]
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.htm]
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.htm\OpenWithProgids]"htmlfile"=hex(0):