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Living Room / Are "you" "your friend"?

« on: November 17, 2010, 10:30 PM »

Facebook - not without active help of bloggers themselves of course - is peppering blogosphere with millions of thumb-up buttons accompanied by the following sentence:

Be the first of your friends to like this.

Does this sentence make sense? Are "you" "your friend"?

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Unfinished Requests / UNFINISHED: One word, three dictionaries

« on: November 03, 2010, 03:24 PM »

While translating I have almost always at least three dictionaries open at the same time:



Sometimes I have to look up the same word in all of them. To this end I have to put the word into the search box of one dictionary, then of the second one, then of the third one... It would be nice to have the possibility to put the word into only one dictionary and have it automagically appear in all of them.

Edit: The dictionaries I am talking about are software ones, not on-line. Sorry for my not having been specific enough.

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Post New Requests Here / IDEA: An "Alt+Tab"-type clipboard utility

« on: January 11, 2007, 08:53 AM »

CoMiKe wrote at another forum:

What about a clipboard manager where Ctrl+V works in a similar way to the Alt+Tab dialog?
I mean, so that Ctrl+V shows a dialog that remains visible while the Ctrl key is down, and every "V" keypress cycles down a list (or stack) of previously copied elements. And the element is pasted when the Ctrl key is released.

Since this is exactly what I've been looking for without effect for a long time, I took the liberty to post it here on his and my behalf.