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Lazy Eye App

May 2, 2019 by Tom Bristol Leave a Comment

Very excited to announce that an iPad app that I’ve been working on for several years just launched in the App Store.

It’s specific for treating a condition called Amblyopia where an eye is functional, but the brain is not tuned to look through it and thus, the person is not able to see with both eyes together and often the eye turns (in or out). Even when it turns in, it’s called “lazy eye”.

Using colored 3D glasses with red & blue lenses (or red & green), we color certain shapes & letters in the app exactly so as to make them invisible to certain eyes. This forces the brain to look through the eye that is normally not used and trains it to think with the information coming from that eye.

The activities look simple, but a lot of thought went into them to ensure they forced the eyes to activate and were still fun for little kids. Some of the other apps that did similar things to this were too complicated or fast (little guys have a slower reaction time).

The app is not intended to be used by itself, but as an assist to home therapy under a doctor. It was created for my daughter (who has lazy eye) and it’s been a great way of getting in home exercises on an ongoing basis.

Lazy Eye App: Lazy Eye Training, HVT

Photoshop Save for Web no longer working on Windows 10

February 27, 2019 by Tom Leave a Comment

Photoshop Save for Web Command results in:

The operation could not be completed. The system cannot find the path specified.

Extremely frustrating. Wasted several hours trying to get this function to work again on the latest version of Photoshop CC 2019. All help documents and forums pointed to the fact that Photoshop was unable to access the Users\[username]\documents\ folder.

Either, the registry was set so the User’s document folder was on an unaccessible drive, or it was set to read only. Solution was to edit the registry to set the users document directory correctly, or remove the read only status of the documents folder. If you search the error message, you’ll find this solution in several places.

Nevertheless, this didn’t solve my problem, and it just randomly started happening recently. I uninstalled/reinstalled Photoshop, edited the registry, cleared off external hard drives, checked the document directory – no luck.

Then, I found cau.trindade’s reply on Photoshop forums. It solved it! Windows was at fault again. They recently did an automatic update and added more Ransomwear protection. Which, I’m all in favor of if it doesn’t kill other things without letting us know.

His post in full:

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/error—there-is-a-problem-with-generator–occurs-when-launching.html
After trying many options, I’ve solved this issue on Windows 10 Windows Defender Security Center.
In my case, the “Controlled folder access” was ON and for some reason it was denying access to a PS folder.

Try following the instructions below:

Open Windows Defender Security Center
Click Virus & threat protection
Click Virus & threat protection settings and click on “Manage Settings”
Scroll down to Controlled folder access and click on “Manage Controlled folder access”
Toggle it off

Good ol’ Windows Defender.

BB Page Builder Not Saving with Script on Closte

January 24, 2018 by Tom Leave a Comment

Closte.com is a great WP hosting solution that hits the mark in terms of price & service, while not going overboard with features.

I’ve run into a problem when running a few Beaver Builder sites on it, however. If an HTML module has a script tag in it, the page builder hangs and gives a white screen.

The solution is to add the following in the wp_config section of the Closte (Closte doesn’t allow for direct editing of the wp-config file.)

define( 'FL_BUILDER_MODSEC_FIX', true );