Okay, apparently my phone charger, which is a micro USB/USB cable plugged into a converter, works on my Fire. Woot.
Oh, cool! Then my phone charger should work as well. Nice.
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Polter-Cow - Dec 30, 2011 3:37:49 pm PST #19046 of 25501
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Jessica - Jan 01, 2012 2:26:55 pm PST #19047 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
So for Hanukkah my Dad got me and my mom matching Logitech C910 webcams so we can Skype in HD. The camera is great, except that the Pan & Zoom functions don't exist on the Mac, and the lens is so wide that putting it on top of the TV (hooked up to the Mac Mini) means I'm a tiny speck on the couch about 6 feet away. There's a 3rd party utility called iGlasses which fixes this, but is $20. Anyone know of a free driver I can install that will do the same thing?
Typo Boy - Jan 01, 2012 7:03:43 pm PST #19048 of 25501
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
I always knew pdf was not an efficient information storage means, but did not realize how much. I am making a screen res pdf mockup - 79 pages, 8.5 X 11 72 dpi. As a pure bit map, 1 byte per dot, that would be less than 600K. Now I know a pdf has fonts and all sorts of info. But that pdf comes out to almost 33 meg! Do I need to use different pdf creation software, or does that sound about right?
Ginger - Jan 01, 2012 7:05:09 pm PST #19049 of 25501
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
What are you using?
Liese S. - Jan 01, 2012 7:54:30 pm PST #19050 of 25501
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Are you using a bunch of image files that are getting included?
Typo Boy - Jan 01, 2012 9:10:45 pm PST #19051 of 25501
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Yeah - tons of image files. But aren't they included at 72 dpi?
javachik - Jan 01, 2012 9:27:55 pm PST #19052 of 25501
Our wings are not tired.
Typo, have you tried doing a "save as" without renaming the file? It will replace the current file with an "optimized" version. Should decrease memory quite a bit.
NoiseDesign - Jan 01, 2012 10:00:40 pm PST #19053 of 25501
Our wings are not tired
The full version of Acrobat has a number of tools for reducing file size. It's the large number of image files that's making your file so large. Be default I don't believe that they pulled down to screen resolution. The PDF format has a bias towards print quality, not screen quality as a default.
Typo Boy - Jan 01, 2012 11:29:34 pm PST #19054 of 25501
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
My fundamental problem that I was trying to use the Acrobat print driver to create the pdf directly from my dtp. Instead, I used the native dtp export to pdf, then pulled that pdf into the full version of acrobat, and used the settings suggested, and then did a bit more tweaking. Thanks so much for the suggestions - they helped a great deal.
§ ita § - Jan 02, 2012 2:20:07 am PST #19055 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm looking to find a not so expensive tablet for my sister. I want it to be full sized, not seven inches, if possible. Colour, Android Market access, etc.
So far, I think her main usage would be note taking as she does research, as well as standard internet functionality. I figure cell access is too complicated, since she's in a foreign market and a Blackberry user to boot (no SIM to use, or whatever).
I've really only been paying attention to the Galaxy Tab/Transformer side of the world. I did try to get her a WebPad, but missed the window by minutes.
Is there a decent tablet south of the $500 price point? I haven't been looking at Kindles et al, since convincing her to go ebook will be a complex second step.