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Living Room / Re: Obama staffers find no Mac love among White House computers

« on: January 22, 2009, 06:57 PM »

I certainly wasn't suggesting a free for all, or that there should not be accountability for the actions people take.  My point was, and is, that there can be legitimate uses for these services.

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Living Room / Re: Obama staffers find no Mac love among White House computers

« on: January 22, 2009, 04:09 PM »

seems to me that it all depends on what your job is if being on facebook and other social sites is not allowed.  The university I attend keeps at least one page on facebook, possibly more, I haven't looked, but a part of what governments do (or should do) is communicate to the people.  Sure you don't want secrets let lose, and you don't want the filing clerk throwing shoes at friends, but there are legitimate business/government uses for these sites.

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Living Room / Re: DonationCoder.com - Complaints, Problems, and Rooms for Improvement

« on: January 18, 2009, 08:41 PM »

Using tab mix plus double clicking on the tab bar is the default to open a new tab, so lots of options really

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Living Room / Re: What may you be missing?

« on: January 15, 2009, 03:46 AM »

I thought the point of the piece was more  that the things around us need to be cherished more, sure they focus on music, but they are I think focusing on the idea that we rush here and there, we don't take the time to stop and listen to the music, or to look at the art or the trees.  There are a lot of bad street musicians, lot of bad ones in concert halls to in my opinion, and the same for artists authors and so on,  but if we take the time to look and listen we might find some real gems just in our daily lives.

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009 Wrap Up

« on: January 03, 2009, 03:31 AM »

Yep, a great job done by all concerned, well done everyone 

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is the currently best Desktop Search software?

« on: December 22, 2008, 12:46 AM »

Perhaps the main reason i use both locate32 and a full text search like x1 or archivarious is that locate32 and similar search programs will easily search your whole computer. Copernic and the others need to do a full and time consuming indexing which means i limit the folders it looks at.

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Living Room / Re: What's the best way to sell old electronics?

« on: December 21, 2008, 12:10 AM »

some local youth club may be able to use the stuff, or some other charity if you are prepared to give it away

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General Software Discussion / Re: HowTo find ALMOST empty audio files?

« on: December 20, 2008, 01:07 PM »

you could do it with something like Locate, tell it to search for all mp3 (or whatever) and choose the maximum size, it will return a list for you.

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Living Room / Re: On photography

« on: December 19, 2008, 07:23 PM »

Thanks Lashiec, interesting, disturbing and also some fun stuff in that lot.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: And... The Ultimate Steal makes a comeback

« on: December 18, 2008, 12:38 AM »

ahhh Jim, its doing that because the link in the first post is to the US site, each country has its own, so yes on the US site you do have to be a student (staff?) at a US college, but in other countries then its in colleges in their countries

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Living Room / Re: Sick of cute animal sites? Try this one...

« on: December 17, 2008, 06:08 PM »

   Thanks for that Edvard, that is great lol

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General Software Discussion / Re: Microsoft updates - annoying folder proliferation

« on: December 09, 2008, 02:03 PM »

I see them too Carol, last one was when I installed windows desktop search for another trial run with it, the installation process seemed to just pick the emptiest drive i had, which was an external USB drive at the time, to use.  I had thought they were coming from some installation but wasnt sure what, this day I hapenned to have a file manager open and watched it appear lol.  I just delete them, has never caused me any trouble, windows search uninstalled ok after the files were gone.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Editor for PDFs: recommendations, please?

« on: December 04, 2008, 10:36 AM »

Yeah I agree, it does all seem a bit weird, I've only ever played with a bit of their software I've got off magazine cover disks, always seems ok but I've not used any of it long term.  But I am interested in this PDF editing ability, sounds particularly useful.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Editor for PDFs: recommendations, please?

« on: December 04, 2008, 05:16 AM »

http://www.freeserif...om/store/default.asp

No, they didn't make a mention of it, they aren't particularly forthcoming about their free and cheap stuff, anyway its in the value store, the link is above, v10 is $29.99.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Editor for PDFs: recommendations, please?

« on: December 03, 2008, 02:38 PM »

Not sure how easy it is to find their free and cheap site so here it is if you haven't got it, http://www.freeserif...PagePlus/default.asp   

Looks like the free one won't do PDF but version 9 will which is under 10 dollars (or pounds) and version 10 is also very cheap compared to the new one.

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Living Room / Re: Where the hell is Ralf Maximus?

« on: November 27, 2008, 09:30 AM »

Welcome back Ralf, you were indeed missed.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Free License for Photo Pos Pro

« on: November 23, 2008, 08:20 PM »

thanks for the link edbro, looks good and the price sure is right  

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Living Room / Re: Gmail launches themes

« on: November 21, 2008, 01:10 PM »

Google is making some effort in regard to solving some of the problems in the world,

Searching for solutions

Google.org aspires to use the power of information and technology to address the global challenges of our age: climate change, poverty and emerging disease. In collaboration with experienced partners working in each of these fields, we will invest our resources and tap the strengths of Google's employees and global operations to advance five major initiatives

http://www.google.org/index.html

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Circle Dock / Re: Issue with Rocket Docket.... =[ (FIXED - TOTALLY missed the option)

« on: November 17, 2008, 03:29 PM »

A wry chuckle perhaps, that sort of thing happens to me way too much lol

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Living Room / Re: DC first! A work of collaborative poetry!

« on: November 13, 2008, 05:56 PM »

I bet Shakespeare is squirming in his grave just wishing to live to join in lol

But well done folks, mine all ended up unpublishable 

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Living Room / Re: "What is Cody's breed?" Contest

« on: November 11, 2008, 04:21 PM »

even the coin in the mouth is sort of appropriate (as a proxy for an olive branch!).

Now there's a new twist, greed is good meets world peace.

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Official Announcements / Re: New links at top of forum page

« on: November 10, 2008, 07:56 PM »

thank you mouser 

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Official Announcements / Re: New links at top of forum page

« on: November 10, 2008, 02:35 PM »

yeah its my preferred way to look at the forum as well, threw me right off it did lol

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General Software Discussion / Re: Transmute Bookmark converter - free & works with most browsers

« on: November 10, 2008, 01:53 AM »

http://www.gettransmute.com/  for those not wanting to google it themselves 

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is the currently best Desktop Search software?

« on: November 09, 2008, 07:06 PM »

looks interesting qforce, do you, or do you intend to support the docx and other formats from MS Office 2007?