Um, not doing any soldering, thank you very much. I'll stick to knitting if I'm goign to do a craft.

Disposable digital cameras are not actually disposed of. They replace parts when they get the film out and sell it again as a new ddisposabe digital camera. So more of a camera share operation like Zipcar is for car sharing.

Anyone know of a simple on line reference for window script hosting. Not just sample files - but the a reference of the basics. It has been so long that I have forgotten how to use the file object for copying files, how to execute exes and so forth. And I'm too cheap to pay for a reference microsoft should have included in the help files.

Free Mac stuff - today only:

This is a deal worth writing home about. Inventive's iClip application, a well-known multiple clipboard utility, is rapidly approaching its 4.0 release. To draw attention and get some new users onboard, they've teamed up with MacZot to give iClip 3 away today for absolutely free. Score it while it lasts, folks.

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Ever since I installed the scheduled software updates on my PowerBook yesterday (running 10.4.7) I can't minimize any of my programs, either by double-clicking on the top tab, or by clicking on the tellow button. Nothing happens! Has anyone seen/heard of this before?

Does anyone here have a Motorola Q from Verizon? I am getting myself a new cellphone next week. I was going to get a Treo, but the Motorola Q is cheaper and it seems comparable.

Has anyone replaced their own ipod battery? I'm not worried about going into the machine itself, but whether it was relatively difficult/easy, worked okay, etc.

I got an iPod battery from here: [link]

They have videos you can watch on how to do it - I found their written instructions a little confusing but once I watched the video it made perfect sense.

aurela also asked about this a few months ago - you might want to search for those posts....

In a windows script file in XP home I cannot use appactivate sucessfully with a particular program (I'm guessing written in VB). I can use an the exec method to open the program successfully and capture a process id, but whether I use the window name (displayed in my app list) or the process id, appactivate returns false.

t OK solved the problem. For some reason trying to activate this super buggy app in a loop just hangs for ever. But if I skip the loop and just wscript.sleep 5000 before activating everything is fine. mickey mouse but it works. dunno my you can't DO while appactivate is false, but you can't - maybe constantly trying to get the window keeps the app from fully loading.

thanks tommyrot!