If you’re on a Mac and have been finding that Chrome’s two finger back and forward gestures keep triggering at really inappropriate times (for years), you can disable them without disabling for every app on your Mac.
Just close Chrome, open up Terminal, copy the command below, and press enter!
defaults write com.google.Chrome.plist AppleEnableSwipeNavigateWithScrolls -bool FALSE
I used to use springpad.com to take notes on my iPad and Android phone, but ended up switching to just using plain text files, synced with Dropbox for speed and simplicity. However this left me with a few hundred notes tied into Springpad’s ecosystem that I wanted to suck out…
Thankfully Springpad lets you create backups (in settings->services) and download them as on big html file, which with a little magic can be converted into a series of plain text files, and with a little more magic can even be put into folders corresponding to the notebook they were stored in with Springpad!
I’m glad you asked! I’ve written a litte ruby script which you can download from gist and run from the command line.
It only exports text notes and books, and there are sometimes some funky characters that invade notes that are rich text, but minor issues…
Just got caught out by this little mistake for a few minutes. If you call the DbxAccountManager startLink method in your onCreate, onStart or onResume methods for your Activity then the your app will crash after you’ve authenticated.
Solution: Don’t try and link before the activity is fully running. See the Activity API reference for details about the activity lifecycle.
Update: Turns out this has nothing to do with when you start the authentication. After an email exchange with a developer at Dropbox (they contacted me!) we deduced that this was due to a low memory situation, and it just happened by chance that waiting until the activity had fully started fixed the issue. Apparently a fix will be coming for this in a future update…
Here’s the error from the logcat:
E/AndroidRuntime(23572): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to resume activity {your.namespace/com.dropbox.sync.android.DbxAuthActivity}: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Dropbox isn't initialized.
E/AndroidRuntime(23572): at android.app.ActivityThread.performResumeActivity(ActivityThread.java:2567)
E/AndroidRuntime(23572): at android.app.ActivityThread.handleResumeActivity(ActivityThread.java:2595)
E/AndroidRuntime(23572): at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2109)
E/AndroidRuntime(23572): at android.app.ActivityThread.access$600(ActivityThread.java:132)
E/AndroidRuntime(23572): at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1157)
E/AndroidRuntime(23572): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
E/AndroidRuntime(23572): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
E/AndroidRuntime(23572): at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4575)
E/AndroidRuntime(23572): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
E/AndroidRuntime(23572): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
E/AndroidRuntime(23572): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:789)
E/AndroidRuntime(23572): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:556)
E/AndroidRuntime(23572): at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
E/AndroidRuntime(23572): Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Dropbox isn't initialized.
E/AndroidRuntime(23572): at com.dropbox.sync.android.DbxAccountManager.getInstance(DbxAccountManager.java:144)
E/AndroidRuntime(23572): at com.dropbox.sync.android.DbxAuthActivity.finishAuth(DbxAuthActivity.java:72)
E/AndroidRuntime(23572): at com.dropbox.sync.android.DbxAuthActivity.onResume(DbxAuthActivity.java:51)
E/AndroidRuntime(23572): at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnResume(Instrumentation.java:1154)
E/AndroidRuntime(23572): at android.app.Activity.performResume(Activity.java:4539)
E/AndroidRuntime(23572): at android.app.ActivityThread.performResumeActivity(ActivityThread.java:2557)
E/AndroidRuntime(23572): ... 12 more
I was given the great privilege of speaking again on Sunday evening at Holland Road Baptist Church at one of our encounter services.
I spoke on the topic of “Reaching Out” and spoke from 1 Peter 3:15.
You can listen online or download it!
Here’s my next card to help me remember scripture. We have assurance of forgiveness!
