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Gunn ,'Not Fade Away'


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Lee - Jul 30, 2006 4:31:01 pm PDT #8591 of 10003
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Does anyone around who knows about Photoshop elements? For the past week or so, all of the images I open are locked, so that I can't add text or anything like that. This didn't used to happen. I've checked all of the preferences, but can't figure out how to change it.


Jessica - Jul 31, 2006 6:24:28 am PDT #8592 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Lee, I use Elements, but I've never had that happen to me. Sorry!

Anyone know how to do a screen grab in Windown 2000? The MS knowledgebase is being unhelpful.


Tom Scola - Jul 31, 2006 6:28:45 am PDT #8593 of 10003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Control-Print Screen will copy the screen to the clipboard.


Jessica - Jul 31, 2006 6:33:50 am PDT #8594 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Cool, thanks.


Gudanov - Jul 31, 2006 6:33:57 am PDT #8595 of 10003
Coding and Sleeping

For the past week or so, all of the images I open are locked, so that I can't add text or anything like that. This didn't used to happen. I've checked all of the preferences, but can't figure out how to change it.

Could it maybe be that the files are read-only? That's what it sounds like.


Lee - Jul 31, 2006 9:46:31 am PDT #8596 of 10003
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Nope. I tried to open up images that I had previously used sucessfully to make icons, but that are now locked.


Gris - Jul 31, 2006 12:38:42 pm PDT #8597 of 10003
Hey. New board.

Sarah Silverman advertises a Sidekick 3.

It almost makes me want one. Or a puppy. Or Sarah Silverman.


Liese S. - Aug 01, 2006 8:57:24 pm PDT #8598 of 10003
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Okay. This is what I want. I want to be able to open a set of tabs. Then from the first tab, I want to be able to right-click on a link and say "open, not in a new tab, but in this specific already-open tab." Is there a way to do that? I want to do that. Someone tell a developer I want that.

I'm currently using firefox, but I'm open to suggestions.


le nubian - Aug 02, 2006 4:40:24 am PDT #8599 of 10003
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

I'm not sure what you want, but I think all you need is an extension. Try Tab Mix Plus.

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Nutty - Aug 02, 2006 6:10:00 am PDT #8600 of 10003
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

So hey, mild query. I had a power outage last night (1:30am!!) while my computer was on, and it went off like everything else. It's on a power strip though, so I don't expect it to have any problems. I turn it on this morning, and it makes its usual noise, blip! followed immediately by an additional blop!, and seems to start up OK. It goes through the standard setup, and even does its little word-bubble warnings "You turned off the virus software! Click here to spend money for it!!" The only trouble? No input.

I can't get the keyboard or the mouse to register any input, even the 3-finger salute. I turned off the tower and turned it on again (same noises, the normal blip! and the additional blop! ) and still no input, but this second time I got a "we'd like to call up Microsoft and report this Win32 error" window. Which of course I couldn't click yes on, because, no input.

Panic or no panic? I had to head in to work, so I just turned it off again and will deal with it later, but -- I'm stumped. My only thoughts are to pull out the plugs for the keyboard and mouse and plug them back in again. After that, it gets to screwdrivers and recognizing something fried when I see it, about which some doubt. I believe I am still covered by a year's automatic warranty (I bought the thing last September), but, this sudden a failure seems like it might just be something that needs a good smack upside the head and then it'll be fine.