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AVI to Flash conversion and taking still images from video files

AVI to Flash

Apparently, converting to Flash is pretty easy with open source tools:
http://www.swftools.org/

AVI to PNG or JPEG screenshots

And getting screenshots directly from AVI is not so easy...

GNU but Windows only:
http://virtualdub.org/

A commercial option:
http://www.avlandesign.com/vp.htm

Ask Agaric: Copying webforms

Is it currently possible to clone webforms? This would save a lot of time. If it is possible right now, please let me know how to do it.

The node clone module should do it (see http://drupal.org/node/279135 )

http://drupal.org/project/node_clone

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Set higher minimum server environment requirements for a Drupal installation profile

There's a hook for that! The logically named hook_requirements lets you set requirements for each module.

To make these requirements apply to an installation profile, simply put your implementation of hook_requirements in the .install file of a module that is required by that installation profile.

Skip down to the resolution for the code that worked– doing it this Drupal way.

Keep reading for the various wrong turns on the path to the right direction.

Commercial online auction costs

CMarket was the best there was when I looked a couple years ago, and it looks like it's gotten financially worse. Before, they stated the up-front and percentage fees, and all I remember is that we could theoretically turn a profit doing it cheaper.

Now, that's hidden in the application process, except for this ill-advised boast:

"Customers earn an average of $5 for every $1 they invest - an astounding 400% return on their investment which is why cMarket has become the preferred online auction provider for schools and nonprofits nationwide." (cmarket.com/run-auction.htm)

Drupal's collapsed fieldset labels disappeared in Firefox due to unclosed tag

If you have problems with collapsible fieldsets staying permanently collapsed because you cannot click on their titles (because the titles do not show), I frankly have no idea what the odds are that your problem is the same as mine.

But here is what my problem was:

Where is my Drupal? How to find a lost Drupal site on a server if you can still get to the site

Agaric Design Collective would like to stress that this note was written while working on an existing site of a client, on the client's server, before we started working with it. We at Agaric are not in the habit of using web sites.

The formalities dispensed with, I've had reason enough to wish to know where a site's codebase actually lives that I threw it into Agaric's Enabled Modules module as a little bonus.

Provide an 'Add New' link on a simple view for easily creating more content to list

It's a common situation– you create a simple view that may do little more than filter on one content type in order to get a listing of press releases or links or recipes.

Sure, you can explain to your client and users that going to "Create content" and clicking press release or link or recipe will, when the post is submitted, get it automatically listed on this Views page. And that's pretty nice. But it's a lot more intuitive if the link to create relevant content were right on the view itself.

Theme the Search Form in Drupal 6

So it's 1am and you want to theme the search form output of your brand new drupal 6 theme, here's the quick and easy one step guide that will get you though it. Yep, that's right, 1 step, because that's how we do it the agaric way...

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STEP 1 of 1
Paste the code below into into your trusty template.php file and customize to your heart's desire... (leave out the php open and closing tags, we use em to make the output look nice, with pretty colors and stuff...)

Burn a disk image in Mac OS X

To burn a Mac disk image to CD, you can simply open Disk Utility (or have the icon in the dock or in an open directory) and drag the folder of stuff you want to burn into Disk Utility. Then you can insert a blank CD or DVD and click the burn button (the one that looks like a nuclear fallout shelter circle).

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Community organizer, Statistician, Freelancer manager: roles at Agaric?

Who/how can we put in / create these roles at Agaric Design Collective?

Seth Godin suggests three jobs for amazing people for any company that works online:

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