If you were to put your hand on your screen, grab the document/page/file you’re viewing, and try to push it down to see the content below. It simply won’t work.

Here’s a more real-world example: Imagine that you can’t move your eyes; they are permanently fixed viewing a specific location on your desk. When you grab a piece of paper on your desk and move your hand downward, the page moves down, changing your focus to an area higher up on the page. If you move the page up, your focus changes to a location further down the page.

This is how tablet scrolling is designed.

This is something that I’ve found myself having trouble with lately on my desktop computer. I browse to a web page, open an email, edit a document, and I find myself pushing my mouse wheel upwards to scroll down a page rather than rolling it downward. Apple’s Mac OS X Lion has inverted the scroll direction, making for a more uniform experience across a myriad of different devices.

I began thinking, “I wonder if I can do that with my Windows 7 machine in the office.” Turns out, it can be done, and it takes changing a registry value in several places.

Here’s how I did it:

First, open the registry editor. If you’re unfamiliar with how to do that, just click on your Start Orb and type “regedit” and hit enter. You will have to authenticate/grant permissions as a system administrator before you can continue.

From here, you’re searching for the keys named FlipFlopWheel:

They are located in the folders along this path: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Enum/HID/VID_???/???/Device Parameters. The ??? denote what seems to be folder names that begin with random strings of numbers. These are hexadecimal strings representing specific pieces of hardware, or hardware locations on your machine.

The default value for these keys is set to 0. 0 lets the mouse move the viewport rather than the content you’re viewing. To change this, simply double click the FlipFlopWheel key and change its value from 0 to 1. You may have to do this several times based on how many VID_??? folders you have in your HID folder, but it shouldn’t be too many.

Once you’re done, you will need to restart your computer to reload the registry with the new values. Once you’ve restarted, your mouse scroll wheel will be inverted!

I have not tested this on other versions of Windows, but I do know that it works beautifully on Windows 7.

If you’re like me, you’ve used a passcode sometimes, removed it other times, forgotten it on occasion, etc. This article will detail how I’ve set up my iOS devices to not use a passcode, but for me to still be able to track them down using Find My iPhone as well as preventing them from being wiped and restored should they be stolen.

A quick note before we continue: I am not suggesting that the data on iOS devices is more secure without a passcode. In fact, the opposite is true. All this article is offering is a way to keep your device unlocked while still allowing you to track it down using Find My iPhone should it get lost or stolen.

I’ll be using screenshots from an iPhone, but the iPod Touch and iPad follow an identical process to setting up this kind of protection.

One of the lesser known features in iOS is the Restrictions section of the settings. Restrictions is intended to be used by parents to keep their children from getting into trouble on the device. They can restrict the iTunes and App Stores, prevent in-app purchases, restrict content based on the Explicit tag, etc. There are a couple of options that make a phone impossible to restore and prevent a thief from turning off Find My iPhone.

Let’s take a look at how to do this now. These steps assume your settings app will launch to the main settings screen.

1. Launch your Settings app.

   When the settings app loads, you will see the following screen:
   

   From here, we will be diving into the General category to find Restrictions.

2. To see the General settings, Tap General.The General settings will appear. Scroll down the screen until you find the section with Auto Lock, Passcode Lock, and Restrictions:
   
3. To see the Restrictions options, Tap Restrictions.When the Restrictions options load, they will all be disabled by default:
   
4. To be able to set Restriction options, Tap the Enable Restrictions button.You will see the Set Passcode screen:
   

   You will be asked to enter a passcode twice. After the second time, it will be permanent. I cannot stress the importance of this next phrase. Do not forget your passcode. If your passcode is forgotten, the only way to recover it is to put your device in DFU mode and restore. Again, do not forget your passcode.Once you enter the passcode twice, you will see the restrictions screen become active (not greyed out). Scroll down until you find Location, Accounts, and Find My Friends (assuming you have Find My Friends installed):
   

   The next set of instructions can be done for Accounts and Find My Friends. We’re going to set up both of these sections to disallow changes. Once changes are disallowed, if you have to edit an account, you’ll have to come into Restrictions, disable the restriction, then make your edit. Disabling changes for Accounts and Find My Friends does two things: 1) it keeps your Find My iPhone email address associated with your phone so that, until it’s restored, you can track your device, and 2) it allows your friends to still see where your device is using Find My Friends.

5. To disable editing for Accounts, Tap Accounts.You’ll see the following:
   
6. To disable changes for your accounts, Tap Don’t Allow Changes.Changes are now prevented for your email accounts.
7. Repeat steps 5 & 6 for Find My Friends.The last thing we’re going to disable is the ability to make changes to Location Services. This keeps Find My iPhone working as well as keeping all other location services active. If you’re tagging your photos with geolocation and using iCloud and Photo Stream, you’ll be able to see where the photos that are taken on your device have been taken when they’re uploaded (automatically) to Photo Stream. Of course, this requires another iOS device or a desktop computer running Mac OS X Lion.
8. To view the Location options, from the Restrictions menu, Tap Location.The first thing we want to do is scroll down and make sure Find My iPhone is turned on:
   

   Once we are sure Find My iPhone is turned on, we can scroll back up and disable changes to Location Services:
   

9. To disable changes to Location Services Options, Tap Don’t Allow Changes.That pretty much ends our task as described at the beginning of this article. You can modify other changes in the Restrictions menu, but the important sections should look like this when finished:
   

Remember, these changes do not protect the data on your phone; however, they do protect the device itself and keep it able to be found, should it be stolen. That’s all there is to it!

• creating web pages to be viewed on multiple devices
• creating mobile applications for Android and/or iOS
• working with HTML 5 and CSS3

Scott Fegette, the Senior Product Manager for Dreamweaver, gives an overview of the new and improved features:

Videos about the specific features can be viewed at:
http://tv.adobe.com/watch/cs-55-web-premium-feature-tour-/enhanced-html5-capabilities-in-cs55/

You can read more about the specific features at:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/whats-new-dwcs55.html

The lynda.com app [free!] available in the iTunes Store now works with the IU login method.

Using it is very easy:
1. Install the free lynda.com app on your iOS device.
2. Open the free lynda.com app, and push the “login” button.
3. In the login screen, flick toward the bottom, so you see the “web portal access” button, and push it.
4. In the URL field, enter the URL for the IU lynda.com training portal:
https://shib.lynda.com/Shibboleth.sso/InCommon?providerId=urn:mace:incommon:iu.edu&target=https://shib.lynda.com/InCommon
and be certain the “Remember this URL” switch is ON, then push the blue Go button.

You’ll be prompted for your CAS Authentication information (your IU username and passphrase), and once you type that in properly, you’ll be whisked away into the lynda.com training library!