"Well, I guess it isn't out of beta yet then, is it? Get back to work!"

Heh.

ION,

Palm-sized USB fuel cell packs lots of juice, on sale this year

Lilliputian Systems is not a big name in portable power, but they have some big ideas, and this year, they've promised a big product: a fuel cell generator the size of a smartphone that will be able to generate enough power on one cartridge of butane to charge an iPhone up to 14 times. Goodbye batteries, hello liquid electricity.

Later this year, you'll be able to pick up Lilliputian Systems' portable USB power source from Brookstone for an undisclosed sum. It runs off of a special lighter-sized cartridge full of butane that'll cost you a couple bucks per, and will charge anything you can plug into it with a USB cable. When the cartridge runs dry, just pop in another one and you're fully recharged. It's simple, it's cheap, it's portable, it's reliable, and it's about time.

The rest of the article is a rant about how it requires proprietary butane cartridges. Dunno how much it'll cost.

Something I saw today:

Something you rarely heard during Alexander Graham Bell's time: "Dammit -- I just dropped my phone in the toilet."

Well, the very first words spoken over a phone were, "Watson, I need you!"

Maybe Bell needed Watson to retrieve his phone from the toilet.

(Or maybe Bell said, "Mr. Watson--come here--I want to see you." I've read conflicting things.)

Yeah, we figured out that QT10.1 is calculating total bitrate (bits/seconds) instead of average bitrate, which takes into account interframe compression.

I don't know why I read this thread. I'm like the dog in that Far Side cartoon. "Blah blah blah Ginger blah blah video blah blah Apple blah!"

Say i wanted to give a less-than-totally legal large mp4 to a friend and didn't want her to risk getting in trouble. This is totally theoretical, you understand....

What transfer site/system would you recommend, especially one that a less-than-technically adept friend could open and download said file?

I feel so out of it -- it's been a while since I (theoretically) did this.

Dropbox. You put it in your public folder and send your friend the URL. Use my referral link and we get extra space! :) [link]

Thanks Jon! If I were to transfer greyishly-legal materials, that would be very useful. ::looks shifty::

You're welcome!

Are there people here who are familiar with Access/visual basic. There is a weird glitch in a database that I have which is set up to send confirmation emails when a student is registered for a class. If a student has registered for more than one class, it sends ALL the emails, even if that class was over years ago. This is set up as a button, with some VB code that makes a table with the student selected and then opens up a mail merge document. I can check in the merge document before sending and choose to only send one email, but that required me to remember that the student has registered before or be observant. And it is really hard to explain to my student trainees that do this.

The code for the button makes no sense to me (probably because I do not know VB)

Private Sub cmdOpenReg_Click()
On Error GoTo Err_OpenReg_Click
Dim db As DAO.Database
Dim qry As QueryDef
Set db = CurrentDb
If Not Me.cboClassName = "" And Not Me.cboStudentName = "" Then
MsgBox "You may only choose Class or Student but not both.", vbCritical
Me.cboClassName = ""
Me.cboStudentName = ""
Exit Sub
ElseIf Me.cboClassName "" Then
Set qry = db.QueryDefs("qryStudentPayEmailClass")
qry.Parameters("Input Class ID") = [Forms]![preLetterType]![cboClassName]
qry.Execute
ElseIf Me.cboStudentName "" Then Set qry = db.QueryDefs("qryStudentPayEmail")
qry.Parameters("Input Student ID") = [Forms]![preLetterType]![cboStudentName]
qry.Execute
ElseIf Me.cboClassName = "" And Me.cboStudentName = "" Then
MsgBox ("You must select a Class or Student before opening Registration Confirmation."), vbCritical
Me.cboClassName.SetFocus
Exit Sub
End If

Exit_cmd
OpenReg_Click:
Exit Sub

Err_OpenReg_Click:
MsgBox Err.Description
Resume Exit_cmdOpenReg_Click

End Sub

This is not valid:

ElseIf Me.cboClassName "" Then

It probably should be:

ElseIf Me.cboClassName = "" Then

But I'm guessing that's just a result of posting the code here? Anyway, assuming the code is OK on your end (because it's not erroring for you, right?), it looks like the actual problem is in one of the two queries this code can run--qryStudentPayEmailClass or qryStudentPayEmail.