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Living Room / Re: I figured something out about Apple's device restrictions: file management.

« on: June 07, 2011, 09:44 PM »

iCloud:  The real reason behind Apple's device restrictions emerges.

Think "my way or the highway, highway: unavailable".

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Living Room / Re: 26 Terabits Per Second... WHOOSH~!

« on: May 27, 2011, 10:55 PM »

I'm still on 1 mbps!

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General Software Discussion / Short rant on Youtube

« on: May 20, 2011, 10:10 AM »

A friend of mine, who's bad with computers, managed to upload a video about a very personal matter to Youtube some months back. He later regretted doing it and wanted the thing off. I guided him through the process... basically just read out the instructions I Googled and he said it was done. End of story. Or maybe not.

Today I get a call from him telling me the video isn't deleted after all and could I just do it for him. He mails me the link and his login credentials. Youtube tells me I can't login unless I link the Youtube account with his existing email account, something I am loath to do coz who knows if Youtube will decide to let all his contacts know about his "new" Youtube account. I have no option, however, since that's the only way I can get into the account. Once I'm in I see that my friend has set the video public. I scramble to make it private. And then delete it. I then close his youtube account and get automatically signed out.

Just to make sure it's done I search for the video on Youtube and bingo! - it shows up. He's got his name in the user id, his face in the thumbnail and the video title is completely revelatory. The video can't be viewed but everything that he was trying to cover up is right there.

Youtube claims deleted videos show up in "non-Youtube search results" for a while, which is perfectly understandable. But I'd searched from Youtube. I read a post by someone who claimed the video he deleted was showing up in search results four months later.

I admit it was a stupid decision on my friends part to upload the video in the first place, but it still seems wrong that the guy has to live with the consequences even after it's been deleted and the account closed. And I'm assuming that setting a video public and making it private later would have the same effect?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Google Music Beta Now Live

« on: May 10, 2011, 11:14 AM »

****US only!****
Very well then, I'll just use "other means"... 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Add tabbed documents to MS Office

« on: May 08, 2011, 02:02 AM »

Freewaregenius has reviewed Office Tabs [website].
Made by another company, free for personal use.

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Living Room / Re: Post Your Funny Videos Here [NSFW]

« on: May 05, 2011, 11:17 PM »

This one was from app103 in the DC channel on IRC.

-Deozaan (May 05, 2011, 09:44 PM)

That was AWESOME! 

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Living Room / Re: Daily Autohotkey

« on: May 05, 2011, 06:44 AM »

There's a numlock always on script posted by lanux that I have in my startup.

Here.

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Living Room / Re: Five Reasons Why People Hate Apple

« on: May 04, 2011, 11:33 AM »

Doing the rounds on Digg today...

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Living Room / Re: Congratz to the US Military Forces!

« on: May 03, 2011, 11:48 PM »

You're really going for that clown badge, aren't you?   

Funny tho! 

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Living Room / Re: Congratz to the US Military Forces!

« on: May 03, 2011, 11:18 PM »

A possibility just crossed my mind - what if they have him alive in a dungeon somewhere? Would make perfect sense from a counter-terrorism POV. No accusations of torture, easy to produce and verify DNA evidence and show the world it was indeed him, even easy to fake death images or video if you have the guy alive.

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Living Room / Re: Congratz to the US Military Forces!

« on: May 03, 2011, 06:26 AM »

I'm not vouching for the wiki article but I do believe they have a general strategy or direction, even if it's something as simplistic as "kill the kafir!" (it's probably a little more complex than that)  

US agents have discovered a lot of info from OBL's villa, let's hope it's more than mere training manuals and leads to something good.

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Living Room / Re: Congratz to the US Military Forces!

« on: May 03, 2011, 04:54 AM »

I don't know how legit this is, but if true, AQ have been remarkably successful so far.
Al Qaeda Strategy to the year 2020

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Living Room / Re: Sony Playstation Network hacked - All your infos are belong to hackers.

« on: May 02, 2011, 11:29 PM »

There's been a second data breach. But DON'T PANIC!! (It only affects 25 million users.)

http://www.reuters.c...dUSN0224988320110503

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Living Room / Re: should I ragequit?

« on: May 02, 2011, 11:09 PM »

It's EVAAAAR!!! mouser's always had trouble with his spellings!

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Living Room / Re: should I ragequit?

« on: May 02, 2011, 11:16 AM »

Ugh... I think there might be some misunderstanding here.

Tomos, I think housetier meant to say time... (the end of your post) ...off and you took it to mean f*** off?

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Living Room / Re: Congratz to the US Military Forces!

« on: May 02, 2011, 10:55 AM »

It's a symbolic victory but it means a lot to people who lost their loved ones and I'm happy for them.

As for retaliatory attacks... meh! these guys never needed an excuse to take lives anyway, if anything they'll get all worked up and act unprepared now.

I think there would have been a concerted effort to get him alive if he had more than purely symbolic worth. The guy was out of the loop, holed up without telephones or internet. Just an a-hole who was better off dead and the world's a better place without him.  

The Indian media has got a bone to chew on - OBL "hiding out" a few hundred yards from a Pakistani military academy in a disproportionately large house for that area with 12 foot walls. Move along, nothing to see here.  

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Living Room / Re: Congratz to the US Military Forces!

« on: May 02, 2011, 04:23 AM »

Twitter is really delivering today 
https://twitter.com/...us/64975980493668352

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Living Room / Re: Congratz to the US Military Forces!

« on: May 02, 2011, 12:52 AM »

Hey... Just wondering... But did Osama Bin Laden have an iPhone by any chance?

-Renegade (May 02, 2011, 12:18 AM)

Steve Jobs for President!  

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Living Room / Re: Five Reasons Why People Hate Apple

« on: May 01, 2011, 01:38 AM »

My new email sig on the iPad (in an attempt to play both sides) 

Spoiler

Sent from my iPad
( Erase above line to stop sounding like a pretentious prick.
Love, Apple Inc. )

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Post New Requests Here / Re: PlayDead

« on: April 25, 2011, 09:03 PM »

In your specific circumstances I would think that a screensaver or tool that makes the computer look very busy might be a better scenario.

+1 - an ultra geeky screensaver with a mash up of real+fake data might actually be fun to make/watch.

A regular trick I've used with pesky kids: Start defrag, set the visualization to go fullscreen on both monitors so it looks really hardcore and industrial. "Games?!! Ha ha! You have NO idea how much data I'll lose if I stop this thing right now!"

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Site/Forum Features / Re: I think we should close the Company Complaints and Compliments Section

« on: April 21, 2011, 01:23 PM »

Or limit it to Compliments and Recommendations? Just a passing thought...

-Renegade (April 21, 2011, 01:15 PM)

I'm going to post an Apple related thread there and try your patience.  
Good night, everyone!

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Site/Forum Features / Re: I think we should close the Company Complaints and Compliments Section

« on: April 21, 2011, 01:01 PM »

$0.02 -> Keep the section (there must have been a rationale for creating it in the first place) but have some strong guidelines that people must view and adhere to before posting. No personal attacks, etc, etc. That way it's all confined to one place and people are well aware of what they should/shouldn't be doing before they post.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Complaint about Bartels Media \ the PhraseExpress people

« on: April 21, 2011, 10:26 AM »

Indeed, this thread, if not this whole forum section serves no constructive purpose.

-BartelsMedia (April 21, 2011, 10:02 AM)

Don't just stop there! Are there any other sections you find offensive and want deleted? Maybe you just haven't looked hard enough... give it some time.

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« on: April 21, 2011, 09:36 AM »

Hope 4's a lucky number for you, tomos. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Complaint about Bartels Media \ the PhraseExpress people

« on: April 21, 2011, 09:16 AM »

BartelsMedia ->

In this context, you have to be aware, that competitors have set Google Alerts for our product as well. ;-)

Mattphoes

No I am not. Would I've asked then? ;-)

Merida

I cannot imagine that you did not know that you can switch off the features you don't want/need. ;-)

Just curious, does PhraseExpress expand the usual wink smiley into the rather unusual ;-) ?

But seriously, someone needs to break convention and delete this thread. It's proving way too embarrassing.