Check if a USB Drive is bootable

When cre­at­ing a bootable USB, check­ing that it all went well is a bitch.
Unless you have a sec­ond com­puter at hand to test it with, you need to shut-down, reboot, and if it worked, than great, but if it didn’t, you’ll have to do the process again and again, and if you’re fail­ing for the 4th-5th time, it starts to get quite annoy­ing.

Well thank­fully the devel­op­ers of MobaLiveCD have cre­ated a small util­ity that allows to test a live CD directly on win­dows with just a sin­gle file.

1. Down­load: http://mobalivecd.mobatek.net/MobaLiveUSB_0.1.exe
2. Copy the file to the USB device
3. Run the file

The file is actu­ally a small vir­tual machine that allows run­ning the bootable CD/USB directly on win­dows, thus allow­ing a quick check to see if a device is bootable.

Flowplayer Dragging

I was work­ing with Flow­player today, and for some weird rea­son you “drag” the player along with your mouse when ever you’re chang­ing the vol­ume or mov­ing the time slider (progress bar), you’re prob­a­bly using Fire­fox and HTML5.

The trick is to make the con­tainer tag (I’m using <a id=“player”>, so my tag is a) un-draggable. Yea, appear­antly some tags are nat­u­rally drag­gableby default in HTML5, and I guess Anchor tags are one of them.

Any­way, just add draggable=“false” and will fix your prob­lem.

Sam­ple:

<a id="player" href="../my-video.flv" draggable="false"></a>

Befor you start the next project…

Next time you start a new project, break apart all the major com­po­nents; Iden­tify each component’s behav­ior and func­tion, and if you are plan­ing to use 3rd party tools (like plu­g­ins) first research how they work, and chose the one that suits your needs the most.

Make sure you know how they work, and what out­put are they using, and only after you’ve decided you are going to use this tool, and after you’ve decided on all tools, start work­ing on the project.

Public Gothic — Free Font

Excel­lent new font comes from a2591.com.

A bit indus­trial, a bit vin­tage, and a whole lot of style.

Down­load from here.