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While posting amazing videos I’ve found on Vimeo to Twitter I’ve come across a very strange bug.

Somehow text rendering in safari can be affected by flash plugin running on the site. I do not say it always does, in fact it almost never does. But compare the two images:

This is standard Twitter stream:

And this is the very same stream but with Vimeo plugin running in 2nd pane.

When the flash player loades all rendering of text is affected. Looks like antialiasing is thinking text is rendered on a darker background and messes with edges. Particularly damaging to small sizes.

I know I should check other browsers and other flash plugins, but it’s late and tomorrow’s a work day.

If you have a Mac and don’t use 1Password, you’re missing a lot. If you have a computer and don’t use Dropbox — see previous sentence. If you think you have a mobile and it’s not an iPhone…

Anyway, for some time now 1Password was touting new feature — Dropbox sync. All should be working in an Apple-way — just turn it on and voilà. Unfortunately 1Password has problems if it’s password repository is located in a directory that in not directly under Dropbox folder. For example in a directory that is sym-linked to Dropbox folder.

For example my Dropbox folder looks like this:

Kuba$ ls -la Dropbox
total 736
drwxr-xr-x@ 11 Kuba  staff    374 20 wrz 23:03 . 
drwxr-xr-x+ 51 Kuba  staff   1734 20 wrz 22:44 ..
-rw-r--r--@  1 Kuba  staff  15364 20 wrz 22:57 .DS_Store
lrwxr-xr-x   1 Kuba  staff     13  6 wrz  2009 Documents -> ../Documents/
-rw-r--r--@  1 Kuba  staff      0 19 wrz 11:14 Icon?
lrwxr-xr-x   1 Kuba  staff     12  6 wrz  2009 Projects -> ../Projects/
drwxr-xr-x@  3 Kuba  staff    102 19 wrz 11:14 Public

And inside Dropbox/Documents you can find 1Password.agilekeychain. In such a setting iPhone will never locate your file. But fear not, all you need is a small text file .ws.agile.1Password.settings located inside your Dropbox main folder. This file should have path to agilekeychain.

Kuba$ ls -la Dropbox/
total 736
drwxr-xr-x@ 11 Kuba  staff    374 20 wrz 23:03 .
drwxr-xr-x+ 51 Kuba  staff   1734 20 wrz 22:44 ..
-rw-r--r--@  1 Kuba  staff  15364 20 wrz 22:57 .DS_Store
-rw-r--r--@  1 Kuba  staff     33 20 wrz 22:58 .ws.agile.1Password.settings
drwxr-xr-x   2 Kuba  staff     68 20 wrz 22:59 Document
lrwxr-xr-x   1 Kuba  staff     13  6 wrz  2009 Documents -> ../Documents/
-rw-r--r--@  1 Kuba  staff      0 19 wrz 11:14 Icon?
lrwxr-xr-x   1 Kuba  staff     12  6 wrz  2009 Projects -> ../Projects/
drwxr-xr-x@  3 Kuba  staff    102 19 wrz 11:14 Public

And what’s inside the file:

Kuba$ cat Dropbox/.ws.agile.1Password.settings 
Documents/1Password.agilekeychainKuba$

Notice lack of newline at the end of the file. Now all should be working.