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Living Room / Re: unboxing videos

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 06, 2011, 01:48 PM »

like it mat-ters

-Target (April 05, 2011, 11:49 PM)

As ever, you put the xing back into boring!

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: (another) Linkman Review

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 06, 2011, 07:26 AM »

We wanted to thank all users who promote Linkman here, and on other websites! It really makes a difference and ensures that new versions keep coming!

-Outertech Support (April 06, 2011, 05:09 AM)

I was very impresed to find that updating to 8.x cost nothing.

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Living Room / Re: Please kill me now - just bought an iPad off of eBay

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 06, 2011, 07:20 AM »

Navigation is crap, Safari is crap, iTunes is crap, the "intelligent" keyboard is crap, it's all crap. I know it's all crap because a team of designers, developers and engineers at Apple spent a long time on this device, but eventually made a machine that has so many flaws it resembles a first time project that a 16 year old design student would create - something their Lecturer would quickly browse over and then highlight all the fundamental flaws on its first use.

-nudone (April 06, 2011, 02:54 AM)

So you don't like it? More like pie in the sky pad?

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Living Room / Re: unboxing videos

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 05, 2011, 09:53 PM »

unboxing-videos

-Target (April 05, 2011, 05:47 PM)

Better than having to unwrestle with stuff…

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General Software Discussion / Re: "Search Everything" with saved searches would be cool.

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 05, 2011, 09:50 PM »

Took me awhile to figure out where to make the substitution. Almost like a secret handshake.  Looks like they need a, er, search engine, for the web site.

-MilesAhead (April 05, 2011, 04:29 PM)

Well, you can't have everything 

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General Software Discussion / Re: "Search Everything" with saved searches would be cool.

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 05, 2011, 04:18 PM »

I took the 1.21.451 download link provided here and substituted .452 in place of .451.

-sajman99 (April 05, 2011, 02:24 PM)

Thanks for sharing that thought 

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Living Room / Re: Please kill me now - just bought an iPad off of eBay

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 05, 2011, 01:53 PM »

i've just pulled the muscles in my back by reaching to plug the iPad into the mains power.

-nudone (April 05, 2011, 05:49 AM)

There you go! Proof positive that all of its detractors are wrong; they all say that it's a pain in the arse.

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Official Announcements / Re: 2011 Fundraiser Giveaway Extravaganza - WINNERS POSTED

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 04, 2011, 11:58 AM »

cranioscopical informed me

-fenixproductions (April 04, 2011, 11:52 AM)

Yeah, but that information doesn't come cheaply!
I expect monthly updates to BBCEd                      

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Official Announcements / Re: April 2011 Discounts

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 03, 2011, 10:35 PM »

I'm glad to be back working on getting discounts and giveaways for DonationCoder.com.

-cthorpe (April 03, 2011, 05:18 PM)

And, boy, we're glad to have you back! You have a real talent for this; it's not an easy thing to do. Much appreciated 

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Living Room / Re: Please kill me now - just bought an iPad off of eBay

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 03, 2011, 04:52 PM »

buying an iPad

-Nudone

This one? I think this was a prototype…

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Living Room / Re: Please kill me now - just bought an iPad off of eBay

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 03, 2011, 12:11 PM »

I have now digitally soiled myself by buying an iPad

-nudone (April 03, 2011, 09:22 AM)

Rotten to the core!

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Official Announcements / Re: 2011 Fundraiser Giveaway Extravaganza - WINNERS POSTED

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 03, 2011, 12:06 PM »

And this exactly on the day of my birthday.

-JoTo (April 03, 2011, 10:20 AM)

I guess this prize is

The icing on the cake

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Official Announcements / Re: 2011 Fundraiser Giveaway Extravaganza - WINNERS POSTED

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 03, 2011, 11:38 AM »

A *huge* thanks to our own DC member Carl Thorpe (cthorpe), who arranged all of the software giveaways

-mouser (April 03, 2011, 09:44 AM)

Incredible! Thank you very much Carl, what a tour de force 

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Official Announcements / Re: 2011 Fundraiser Giveaway Extravaganza - WINNERS POSTED

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 03, 2011, 09:07 AM »

Fabulous!

As a lucky winner I have to admire the selection formulae 

I'm bowled over by the number of prizes, and the generosity of those who donated them, and the efforts of those who coordinated it all. Profound thanks for all of this! 

To be honest, just being a member of DonationCoder is prize enough, in and of itself. Surely all who enjoy this place can consider themselves winners.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is the Windows Helvetica equivalent (original Helvetica from a Mac)

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 02, 2011, 07:42 AM »

For an interesting side trip, smash!ng apps has gathered some fun with typography here.

    

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Official Announcements / Re: I regret to inform that Cody has wasted all of our fundraiser money

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 01, 2011, 04:43 PM »

That must be some heavy chocolate judging by the grimaces on their faces.

-edbro (April 01, 2011, 11:02 AM)

Specially struck for him by the chocolate mint!

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Official Announcements / Re: I regret to inform that Cody has wasted all of our fundraiser money

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 01, 2011, 04:41 PM »

Probably trying to weigh himself down so he won't fly off the windshield wiper while Mouser's tooling around town.

-mwb1100 (April 01, 2011, 02:29 PM)

 

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Living Room / Re: The March 2011 6th Anniversary Fundraiser Has Begun! Cheer for Victory Thread

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 01, 2011, 08:22 AM »

This an extremely gratifying result.

The astonishing amount raised, almost three times the stated target, is the more remarkable because of the prevailing, harsh economic climate.

I take it to be an incandescent endorsement of DonationCoder as it stands.

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Living Room / Re: The "Cloud" Goes Up in Smoke

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 01, 2011, 08:11 AM »

Then they got bought-up by another bigger company

-Stoic Joker (April 01, 2011, 07:04 AM)

And there's the big problem! At that point probably all commitments will fly out of the window and pre-existing business ethics become irrelevant.
The big losers are MSB's without the time or financial resources to seek reasonable recompense, even supposing the perpetrator were susceptible to law.

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Living Room / Re: The "Cloud" Goes Up in Smoke

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 01, 2011, 07:59 AM »

He started the second dry wall company to pay back the IRS for misusing withholding tax from the first dry wall company, and on with the third.  He was a friendly upbeat guy.  Sometimes I wonder what number dry wall company he's on now, if he's still avoiding prison.

-MilesAhead (March 31, 2011, 11:20 PM)

I guess he felt he'd gyp some...

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Floating Point Overflow

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 01, 2011, 07:56 AM »

It's good to see that your printing issues are resolved, and thank you for posting here about the solution.
Thanks, too, for clarifying that it was NOT the fault of mouser's excellent Screenshot Captor.

Happy printing!

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Skwire Empire / Re: Release: sWeather (tray-based weather app)

« Last post by cranioscopical on March 31, 2011, 06:41 PM »

I need to hire one of my unwashed minions.  Cranio??

-skwire (March 31, 2011, 06:00 PM)

You can't soft-soap me!

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Living Room / Re: The Official DonationCoder.com card game: CodyCards

« Last post by cranioscopical on March 30, 2011, 08:45 AM »

Nudone is a genius, what more needs to be said?

-mouser (March 30, 2011, 08:22 AM)

Thank you, Mr Genius, for this and all the other DC-related brilliance!

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Not-so-mini review of CrashPlan backup software

« Last post by cranioscopical on March 29, 2011, 09:12 PM »

Thanks JavaJones, useful information there.

It's always useful to be reminded that another look at one's own backup strategy would be a good idea!

Useful information there.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Advice on a [learning] JavaScript IDE?

« Last post by cranioscopical on March 29, 2011, 01:49 PM »

Speaking as a neophyte, I find Jetbrains' PyCharm quite helpful.