In other Things That Are Small And Therefore Cool news, here is a cell phone the size of a large pen.

I have a question for anybody who makes icons, especially people who use Photoshop Elements or use LJs icon management site. I noticed today that several of the icons I've made and a couple of icons other people have made have become just dark blurs on my work computer.

I know that these icons look fine on my home computer, and I took a quick survey about how they appear to other people. Some people just see the blurs, but to some people they are fine. I also think that some of the same icons that are just blurs now have been okay on my work computer before. I'm not sure about this part, but if it is true, the change has happened since I added the icons to LJ's management site [link]

Does anyone know why this happens, or what (if anything) I can do to make the icons work on all computers?

Anyone know how I get adobe reader not to try to "tag" documents for reading. I have told it to ask me first, and tell it not to, since I have no intention of having it read outloud. But I can't find anyplace to turn it off and tell it not to do so. Also I have adobe javscript turned off. Is there anyway to get it to stop asking whether I want it turned on every single time I exit Adobe Reader?

t On Edit OK, I figured out a kludge for the first. I renamed accessibility.api accessibility.bk in the plugins subdirectory of the acrobat 7.0 directory. So far this has not seemed to break anything, but I wish there was a less kludgy of uninstalling adobe plugins.

I just went to open Firefox, and it's gone. I had cleaned up my desktop, and moved the installer into the trash (now undone). But I thought it was safe to move the installer once it was installed? Any ideas? I can reinstall, but would prefer to recapture my bookmarks. I'm using Linux, Fedora core 2, but am lately pondering how smart it is for me, who is pretty non-techie, staying with it. A friend talked me into it and set it up, but he moved. I like it, except when I'm totally clueless or when I can't get plugins and peripherals to work.

Thanks for any advice!

libkitty, I'm reasonably certain you can reinstall without losing your bookmarks.

Oh, great! Thanks!

eta: Boy, do I feel stupid now. Apparently I had managed to change the default browser and erase all mention of Firefox without actually deleting it. I'm not sure how exactly I did that, but it seems to work now. Is this a sign that I should move to the evil empire, or a sign that I can muddle through with occasional and much appreciated help? Time will tell.

Don't give in to the dark side, libkitty.

I'm conflicted, Eddie. On the one side, everything is written for MS, so it's easy. On the other side, everything is written for MS, so it's easy for everyone else to get into my computer and kill it.

A question for the tech types.

A couple of months ago, we bought a new computer. Lately, the (Norton) antivirus has been acting up, including preventing us from accessing legitimate stuff.

Hubs has been trying to correct things by uninstalling and reinstalling, but the computer won't let him reinstall the antivirus. We even went out and bought a fullblown Norton Internet Security package, and the computer won't let that install.

Any ideas?

Fred Pete: yeah, Norton doesn't really uninstall itself when you tell it to uninstall. Personally, I think it's a scheme to keep novices from switching from their product.

Anyway, they have a tool to really uninstall their product:

For 2003 and prior: [link] For 2004 and later: [link]

This may help [link] and here's a google [link] and another [link]

HTH