And remember, if you hurt her, I will beat you to death with a shovel.

Willow ,'Conversations with Dead People'


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Strix - Nov 08, 2011 7:34:43 am PST #18360 of 25501
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

Nook Color has the Dropbox app available now, for free. WOO and Hoo.


Barb - Nov 08, 2011 10:10:40 am PST #18361 of 25501
“Not dead yet!”

Poking head in to ask for help in extracting video from a disc so it can be saved as a file for uploading. This isn't a commercial disc-- it's just the disc I had recorded at my ballroom dance competition. I've been trying to use VLC, but none of the streaming/saving formats are allowing me to open it. (I'm on a Mac, btw) Any suggestions?


Jessica - Nov 08, 2011 10:12:32 am PST #18362 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Barb, download Handbrake.


Tom Scola - Nov 08, 2011 10:12:55 am PST #18363 of 25501
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Handbrake.


le nubian - Nov 08, 2011 10:25:28 am PST #18364 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

If you need help with settings, we can help you out.


Barb - Nov 08, 2011 10:54:45 am PST #18365 of 25501
“Not dead yet!”

Yeah, I'm at a complete loss. I'm so non-intuitive when it comes to this stuff. I've downloaded Handbrake- I'm flailing a bit, trying to figure out what next.

::headdesk::

ETA Nebber mind. I somehow figured it out.


le nubian - Nov 08, 2011 3:27:36 pm PST #18366 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

okay, I'm here to help if you need it.


Gudanov - Nov 09, 2011 4:34:57 am PST #18367 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping

My mom is apparently looking for one with all the bells and whistles on it--she actually thought that tablets also did phone stuff

The Motorola Xoom 2 will be out soon, and it's supposed to be upgradeable to Android 4 (Ice Cream Sandwich) at some point. I've seen one in person and they look pretty nice.

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Disclaimer: I work for Motorola, though not in that part of the business. It does look really nice though, honestly.


§ ita § - Nov 09, 2011 4:40:06 am PST #18368 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I can use my tablet as a phone on Wifi with a Google voice phone number. It's kind of creepy, and I don't do it much, because lots of other phone shaped things ring at the same time too.

Edit--wait, what does ICS mean about phone functions? I thought it was a blended OS for both tablets and phones, not that it would make tablets phones.


le nubian - Nov 09, 2011 4:40:15 am PST #18369 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

apparently, adobe will stop development of mobile flash. I don't know what this means for tablets and phones, but sounds like flash is on its way out on mobile devices in general.