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Living Room / Re: My fiancés version of: "The Female Dr. Who" - Thought I would share :)
« on: November 29, 2012, 01:24 AM »
Wow! Some real talent there. I love the little vampire thingie! :)

BTW, 'fiancee' - two e's... unless you're engaged to a dude. :P
/JustifiableGrammarNazi

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General Software Discussion / Re: Strategies to stay with Windows 7 as long as possible
« on: November 09, 2012, 12:13 AM »
The first version is inevitably a kick in the teeth. [this joke will self-destruct in 3.. 2.. 1..]

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Living Room / Re: Remember to make full drive image backups
« on: October 15, 2012, 12:36 PM »
You know what thing we need to add to our "kit" of tools recommended for dealing with data loss situations is: A second PC.

+1

I added a Mac Mini to my home setup a couple of weeks back. It basically serves as an HTPC, and could serve as a backup computer if the main machine goes on the fritz. It's nice to be able to shut down the beast (noisy, hot...) at night. I'm sure my power bill's going to be considerably less since the AC and the main machine both run in the same room nearly 24x7.

OT:
Spoiler
A side benefit: running OSX has made me appreciate my current (XP) setup a lot more. OK, 15 years vs. 15 days of exposure to an OS is probably a contributing factor. ;D

I like some ways in which it's different from Windows (no registry!  :-* ) but the "it just works" thing is sooo much baloney. It just... wouldn't let me login after I changed my username (this happened in the first 5 minutes of running the new machine, hilarious  :Thmbsup:) - had to restart a couple of times to fix that, it just... couldn't repartition a 3 TB external drive that it had formatted and partitioned earlier (a confirmed bug) and it just... froze the f*** up on more than one occasion when third party apps raised some hell. D-oh!


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General Software Discussion / Re: How to prevent browser tab clutter for Firefox and Chrome?
« on: October 03, 2012, 03:47 AM »
There's Pocket (previously ReadItLater) and Instapaper.

Pocket has a Firefox plugin that lets you add tags to bookmarks.

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General Software Discussion / Re: The Demise of the Desktop (Free ALTools licenses too!)
« on: September 28, 2012, 01:24 AM »
I spent the last several days looking for the best tools to get my data off my trusty organizer app (<- seems wrong to call a desktop program that now, though I've been using that word for years.)

A program that doesn't 'sync' & share data does look stagnant and unappealing compared to competing products that do. But a cloud only solution? Fxxx that! The scales are tipping in favor of mobile devices, but I don't see the desktop going out of the picture.

I'll just say it here, all SAAS services strike me as that scene in Total Recall where some guy charged for air and turned it off when he didn't get what he wanted.

I know Total Recall isn't a comedy but that description made me laugh. I can totally see a similar plot line with Mel Brooks playing the bad guy! :D

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