Wesley: We're going to bring Angelus in alive. Connor: No we're not. Gunn: I thought you said capturing him wasn't an option. Wesley: Changed my mind. Connor: Change it back.

'Why We Fight'


Buffistechnology 3: "Press Some Buttons, See What Happens."

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tommyrot - May 04, 2012 9:28:45 am PDT #19985 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

OK, it's an actual app: [link]

The current version has 3 1/2 stars. Previous version only had 3 stars.


meara - May 04, 2012 9:37:14 am PDT #19986 of 25501

Good to know. Though I don't really use my gmail a ton (mostly just when I'm job hunting or need to look way more professional than my yahoo address. :)

And rebooting my phone seemed to do the trick. SO WEIRD.


le nubian - May 04, 2012 10:14:42 am PDT #19987 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

It took a bit of getting used to but I like the iPhone gmail app. I use it about 80% of the time to answer mail.


Jon B. - May 04, 2012 10:59:07 am PDT #19988 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

I used the gMail app briefly a couple of months ago, but decided the built in mail app was better. Unfortunately, I can't remember why. So, this wasn't a particularly useful post, was it?


tommyrot - May 04, 2012 11:17:35 am PDT #19989 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

So, this wasn't a particularly useful post, was it?

I was going to say something, but I forgot what it was.


Jessica - May 04, 2012 11:25:06 am PDT #19990 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Great story, Jon!


Toddson - May 04, 2012 11:27:49 am PDT #19991 of 25501
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

Anybody used to working with PDFs that you make into forms people can fill in? We have one and there's a limit on the number of words (or there's supposed to be). We tried averaging the number of characters per word and using that, with an increase to try to get it to work. People complained they still couldn't get all their information in, we increased it again, and it STILL doesn't work.

Admittedly, I haven't done this much and most of the time it's things like registration forms, where you have text that's limited and a bunch of checkboxes.

Anyone have any guidance as to how to make the @#$# form work? I think we're also having problems that people are doing extensive formatting and trying to make it "look pretty".


meara - May 04, 2012 11:32:48 am PDT #19992 of 25501

I used the gMail app briefly a couple of months ago, but decided the built in mail app was better. Unfortunately, I can't remember why. So, this wasn't a particularly useful post, was it?

Jon, it might've been the thing I was vaguely remembering, where it was buggy and they took it down and brought it back.

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amych - May 04, 2012 2:06:28 pm PDT #19993 of 25501
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

I unexpectedly sorta obtained* a kindle fire. Any good hints on what to get/do with it?

* S. got it as a conference door prize. I said "so does this mean I can have your ipad....?"


Consuela - May 04, 2012 4:16:25 pm PDT #19994 of 25501
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Amych, if you have Amazon Prime, it's a great way to watch entire seasons of television for free.

Otherwise, it's kind of a low-rent iPad: if you have wifi, you can surf the net and download books from Amazon on it. Amazon's comics reader is pretty good--the screen is quite crisp & bright.

I found it useful for traveling, but as an e-reader it's not that awesome: the backlit screen drains the battery pretty fast, and you can't read outside. And Amazon is kind of demonic about DRM, which is annoying. It will only read MOBI files, so if you want to read public domain work, you have to buy it from Amazon (although some of that is free) or download it from Project Gutenberg and convert it and then sideload it (or email it through Amazon for download). Oh, it will read PDF, but it doesn't treat them as books, and they show up in the Documents folder instead.

I haven't had much luck using it to watch non-Amazon video, since the system is intentionally hobbled and there's only a limited number of apps Amazon allows you to install.

The site I've found most useful is the mobileread forums, where there's a lot of guidance and tips.

I got mine as a gift: now that I've had it a while, I'm still pretty dissatisfied with its inflexibility, although it was useful for reading my mail and B.org when I was traveling. Not useful for typing on, though: I haven't yet been able to install Swype on it.