Aspies For Freedom

Recently I've discovered the phenomena of Google Desktop. With Google Desktop you can display loads of different things by choice from a sidebar.

I wanted Google Desktop to show my last e-mails...

When I installed the e-mail thing into the sidebar it said I had to do something from my G-mail account to make it work.

So I clicked the link to the G-mail account I had and this was what that came up:

http://s120.photobucket.com/albums/o195/...trick1.jpg

Note that there's some kind of transparent white layer over the text which makes the checkboxes unclickable. It still seemed as if I had to click the check boxes to make the mail-notifications work. I didn't figure out why there was a white curtain there that made the check buttons unclickable. But anyway, I started FireBug, the Mozilla Firefox browser addon that lets you view and edit the HTML code for pages and see immediate changes to the document.

http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o195/...trick2.jpg

So I found this HTML element that made the white curtain highlightened blue when I moused over it (isn't visible in this screenshot however) and deleted it.

http://s120.photobucket.com/albums/o195/...trick3.jpg

After that the white curtain disappeared, I clicked the checkbox and wrote my g-mail address (which I've deleted from the screenshots) and I finally got my e-mail notifications from the sidebar.

I bet alot of you didn't understand what I was on about now, but anyway, I'm just proud of having found a way to solve a problem in an untraditional way with knowledge that I've picked up here and there.

You are right. I didn't understand a word , so.....

*Applause for Erkolos for being clever!!*

That's pretty awesome, Erkolos. I wonder why it wouldn't let you do it in the first place, though...

I remember one time back when I was a freshman in high school I had my internet access blocked because someone was looking at inappropriate flash cartoons on my account... Whenever I clicked on Internet Explorer, a window would pop up saying it was blocked. Then somehow I figured out a way to get the computer to display web pages in a folder instead of the internet browser, so I could go on the internet again (I can't figure out how to do it now). I felt pretty clever that day.

You can do that In windows 98. But for windows xp and any later version it won't work.


As for Erkolos' achievement: congratulations! I have no idea why they would have a transparent field of white over the table. They probably wanted to ad an effect, and didn't notice the unclickability. But good work with using your HTML knowledge. I don't even know if I would have been able to think of that o.o

Congratulations... again ^-^

Thanks!

I've been learning abit of HTML lately, and have found FireBug usefull now and then to view and see the effect of codes of existing web pages.