Yeah, I kinda miss OnDemand--I had just gotten into using it, and it was especially nice for the HBO OnDemand. OTOH, I think my new cable company doesn't have it anyway, and is sucktastic, so...I'd be missing it anyway.
Buffistechnology 3: "Press Some Buttons, See What Happens."
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This looks like it'd be great for those with Windows but not Office.
TextMaker Viewer 2010 Opens Office Documents Quick and Easy
Windows: With Office 2010 already available to corporations, documents you can't quite open in Office 2007 are soon to appear in your inbox. If you're not upgrading, or never use Office anyways, TextMaker Viewer is a light, snappy document viewing option.
TextMaker Viewer actually opens a huge range of word processing files, including Office, OpenOffice.org, the TextMaker app this viewer derives from, and all the standard low-tech formats like HTML, TXT, and RTF. Microsoft offers its own viewers, but only the PowerPoint Viewer has made it up to 2010 compatibility so far. Beyond that, TextMaker is a very lightweight application, so opening huge files likely won't choke up your system as thoroughly.
TextMaker Viewer 2010 is a free download for Windows systems only. There does seem to be an issue with registering the free version to turn off the "nag" screen on launching, but after a few starts, a checkbox to hide that screen does appear.
Thanks, tommy. I just downloaded TextMaker Viewer and I'm using it right now AIFG. Much faster to open a doc or docx file with TMViwer.
Notepad++ question: How do I do a search-and-replace to search for a certain string and replace it with the same string but with a carriage return after it?
Also, anyone have experience with XML on SQL Server? (We're using SQL Server 2008.)
Huh. My iPod somehow had its HD frelled and it couldn't be repaired. So I had to reformat and now I'm transferring 103 GB of stuff back to it.
I wonder what happened... perhaps my cat triggered an EMP while I was at work....
eta: Bah. Reformat didn't fix the problem. Time for a new 160 GB iPod classic.
Weird - my iPod classic that died never actually ran out of disk space.
Anyone ever replace an iPod HD? I can get a 160 GB HD for $180 here: [link] Anyone know of a cheaper source?
A new 160 GB iPod is $249. Hmmm....
eta: And will a 160 GB HD fit if the iPod originally came with 120 GB?
This is getting to be like Oprah:
and YOU get an ereader, and YOU get an ereader, and EVERYBODY gets an ereader!
In flight WiFi + iPad = win.
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