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Living Room / Re: Free Nationwide WiFi

« on: February 07, 2013, 09:39 AM »

If free wifi appears where I live, I'm not going anywhere near it with any of my hardware. Not after watching hak5! Who knows how many "pineapples" I might run into.

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Living Room / Re: One of the most interesting, and fun websites ever.

« on: February 07, 2013, 09:34 AM »

I feel like I just won the lottery all because I touched a cup!

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Living Room / Re: In Need of Searchable Database For a Card Shop

« on: February 05, 2013, 11:53 AM »

I think I am going to go with wordpress, because I already know how to use it, so I won't have to learn anything new, which will make things so much easier when I go to explain to the shop owner how to use it. Each card will be a blog post. And each blog post will have a category tied to it. (creature, enchantment, artifact, etc.) And then to further make it easier to search for a card, each blog post will also have tags tied to it. (eg. a green elf shaman would have the tags: green,forest,elf,shaman) then to make it look less like a wordpress blog, and more like a card database website, I disabled the pages tab at the top of the theme (there is only one page anyways, the news/anouncments page), and then added to the sidebar the categories widget, and named it card database, so that people can get a list of cards based on card type. (creature, enchantment, etc.)

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Living Room / In Need of Searchable Database For a Card Shop

« on: February 05, 2013, 12:43 AM »

There is this local trading card shop that my friend and I are helping the owner out with. We wanted to create a website that would let people easily type in the name of a card that they are looking for (or just do a search of several cards based on various search terms).
If the card is in the database (the shop has that card) then it would show a page that lists the card's name, a link to a website that shows more info about the card, how many the shop has, and how much it costs.
I don't know how to code php or mysql, so I can't really build this from scratch.

I could just create a table that would have all the information, but that has a few issues.
1. the owner of the store would have to manually edit the source code of the webpage to add/remove/update cards. (I could use wordpress and he could just edit a page as a workaround for this.)
2. The only way you could search for cards is by using your web browser's search feature. (you could only search for specific card names, not things like card type(eg. land, creature, instant, etc.).)
3. This wouldn't really be very organised, and the average user could be overwhelmed by this and not want to use it.

Does anyone know of something simple and easy to use that could accomplish this?

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Living Room / Re: Possible to send sms over seas via email gateway?

« on: December 19, 2012, 04:54 AM »

Sounds like it might work then.
I know for me at least, it doesn't cost extra. It's just counted as a regular message even if its an email address. I'll have to ask my sister, but I would assume she also has unlimited texting (back in high school and college, she would pretty much text from the second she woke up, to the second she went to bed) and unless vodafone is different from AT&T or Verizon, it probably won't cost extra to send a message to an email address.

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Living Room / Possible to send sms over seas via email gateway?

« on: December 19, 2012, 12:08 AM »

So I live in the USA, and have a phone with Verizon. My sister's husband is stationed at the air force base in the UK, and she has a phone with Vodafone.
Would it be possible for me to add 0n(at)vodafone(dot)net to my phone as a contact, and her add n(at)vtext(dot)com to her phone as a contact, and we be able to text each other back and forth without getting hammered with long distance messaging fees?

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Free METRO 2033 giveaway

« on: December 12, 2012, 01:29 AM »

Looks like an interesting game. Installing it right now. It must have some decent graphics or something, since it requires a decent amount of system resources.

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General Software Discussion / chrome won't play mp4 files anymore

« on: November 21, 2012, 11:23 PM »

Not sure when it started, but for some reason on my primary computer (win 7 x64), chrome will no longer play mp4 files. There is times where it will play an mp4 file, but only audio plays, no video. It used to play them just fine. My Home theater PC (also win 7 x64) has chrome installed (same version as my primary pc, with same profile logged in), and it plays them just fine. I know that it isn't a conflict with my extensions, because both computers have the exact same extensions installed, and I have also tried disabling all of them with no success. I have tried playing mp4 files in IE10, and Firefox. Firefox plays them using quicktime, but the video is kind of laggy, and IE just sits there and pretends to be loading a webpage, but never does anything else.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Any program to manually run startup programs?

« on: November 05, 2012, 10:07 PM »

I use StartupManager.  There was some dustup over OpenCandy, but as they release a portable version and the source, I never dealt with that problem.  With the portable one you just extract and run.

-wraith808 (November 05, 2012, 09:44 PM)

so much better looking than what I ran across!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Any program to manually run startup programs?

« on: November 05, 2012, 09:21 PM »

I think I am just going to do it manually. I ran across a program that reads what runs at startup, and I'm just manually adding a shortcut to a folder, and then going to the program and telling it to not run at startup. I think I might prefer this method anyways, I have more control over what happens.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Any program to manually run startup programs?

« on: November 05, 2012, 09:05 PM »

Keeping a folder of shortcuts to your startup items is handy.
Not only if you want to start them manually but also to check to see if they are all running.
Sometimes I forget what I have enabled to run at startup.

-cmpm (November 05, 2012, 08:50 PM)

Thats actually not a bad idea. Is there a program that can read what runs a startup, and add a shortcut to a folder, and then remove it from startup?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Any program to manually run startup programs?

« on: November 05, 2012, 08:13 PM »

I want it to manually start each one when I click on it in the list

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General Software Discussion / Any program to manually run startup programs?

« on: November 05, 2012, 07:52 PM »

Basically what I want is a program kind of like a startup delayer, but instead of just delaying everything by a set time, I would like this program to be the only thing to run at startup, and it would show a list of everything that would normally run at startup, and then allow me to manually run the program. (in which case it would then move it from the unstarted list to the started list or something like that) Of course, I would like all of windows' junk to startup automatically.

Is there a program that exists to do this?

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General Software Discussion / Re: advanced paste program

« on: October 28, 2012, 09:32 AM »

On my copy of windows 7, it warns me that there is already a folder with the same name. It then says if there are any files in there with the same name it will ask if I want to replace those files. By replace, what it actually means though is it will ask if I want to replace the file, or leave both files and add (1) to the end of the new file, or skip that file.

Back in windows xp, the only option was to either replace the duplicate file, or skip that file and the rest of the files.

As far as I know, there has never been a windows OS that would simply delete all the files in a destination folder with the same name as the source folder before copying the new files to it.

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Living Room / Re: Self-Portrait Camera - Casio EX-TR150

« on: September 21, 2012, 11:34 PM »

I could see this being useful for vlogers.

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Living Room / Re: In Search Of Good Web Based RSS Reader

« on: September 18, 2012, 02:58 AM »

I guess it isn't that big of a deal. I'm just glad the auto mark as read feature has been fixed.

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Living Room / Re: In Search Of Good Web Based RSS Reader

« on: September 18, 2012, 02:47 AM »

Turn off the "In expanded view, mark items as read when you scroll past them." option in google reader.

-eleman (September 18, 2012, 02:38 AM)

  That must be a relatively new feature. It was not there when I abandoned google reader for netvibes.
I might have to switch back to google reader.
I guess then the only question I have left then is I heard that google reader automatically marks an item as read if it is older than 30 days, Does it still do this? (I guess it isn't too bad if it does, I'll just have to read my items faster.)

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Living Room / In Search Of Good Web Based RSS Reader

« on: September 18, 2012, 02:00 AM »

For the longest time I have been using Google Reader as my RSS reader. While I kind of like it, I don't like how it auto marks things as read as I scroll through them.
Recently I switched to netvibes, because it requires you to click on the feed item to mark it as read. I really enjoy it, but it randomly marks items as unread, sometimes multiple times.

So what I am looking for is a good RSS reader that is web based so that I don't have to download anything and can for example go over to my friend's house and read/watch some of the items.
It has to be able to mark items as read/unread (I have ran across a few web readers that don't have this option.)
It shouldn't randomly make read items unread again (I'm talking about you netvibes!)
It would be nice if it would have nice organization features, or at least not implode on itself if I have TONS of feed that each have TONS of unread items (I use rss to keep track of all my youtube subs since the homepage is utter crap, and some of the youtubers I am subscribed to upload several videos every day, and I don't watch all of them each day.)
Don't go out of your way for this feature, but it would also be nice if there were either a bookmarklet/extension for chrome that would let me add new feeds.

If there is a better alternative to rss (and Youtube's terrible homepage) feel free to include that too.

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Living Room / Re: Typing Speed Competition!

« on: August 05, 2012, 05:38 PM »

This is what it would look like if someone used a macro to cheat.
My real score is 51WPM

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General Software Discussion / Re: Immersive Explorer: Oh God why?

« on: August 01, 2012, 01:33 PM »

Just tested it out. (and by tested it out, I download it and ran it for about a minute or two, and messed with a few folders and some pictures.) My overall impression of it was meh... It's kind of cool to look at, but the regular windows explorer is perfectly fine for me.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Launchy portables alternatives

« on: July 26, 2012, 12:49 AM »

Ironically, I was using launchy, but for some reason, the hotkey I set for it would randomly stop working, so I just switched to FARR. Not sure why I didn't use it in the first place back when I chose launchy...

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Living Room / Re: Leap - touch control: makes Minority Report look prehistoric

« on: July 17, 2012, 05:59 PM »

  Amazing! DO WANT!

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General Software Discussion / Re: How can a b/w photo's thumbnail be in colours?

« on: July 15, 2012, 07:05 PM »

The file was never originality saved on my computer though. It was basically a fresh image from Photoshop.

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General Software Discussion / Re: How can a b/w photo's thumbnail be in colours?

« on: July 15, 2012, 06:58 PM »

I actually have a picture on my computer that is the exact opposite. It was a black and white photo, and if I remember right, the exact steps I took were, 1. right click on the image in my browser and click copy, 2. paste into Photoshop and colorize it, and 3. save the image. Now the thumbnail in windows explorer is black and white, while the actual image is in color. I have never had this happen any other time.

(on a side note, your computer spells October weird. I'm from America, and only speak english, so if it is a foreign thing, that would explain it.)

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Living Room / Re: Phone scam - pretending to be Microsoft Engineer

« on: July 09, 2012, 04:27 AM »

It would be funny to make a linux box look as close a possible to a windows distro, and give them access to that, and see what happens from there...