It's good to have cargo. Makes us a target for every other scavenger out there, though, but sometimes that's fun too.

Mal ,'Shindig'


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omnis_audis - Sep 07, 2012 10:37:58 am PDT #20846 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

Ooo! That one looks nicer. Go for that one!


Gris - Sep 07, 2012 11:06:47 am PDT #20847 of 25501
Hey. New board.

I know, but the carrying-a-separate-thing-around annoyance is bigger than the keyboard annoyance. And SwiftKey helps a LOT. I hated the onscreen keyboard much more on iOS than I do on my Android.


omnis_audis - Sep 07, 2012 11:08:30 am PDT #20848 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

It attaches to the phone, I thought... So, carry as one slightly larger thing. Easy cheesey!

(Yes, sometimes I am the little devil on peoples shoulders)


tiggy - Sep 07, 2012 11:20:30 am PDT #20849 of 25501
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore

yeah...it's a case. i got one for my brother's gf for Christmas because she had just gotten an iphone and wasn't thrilled with the touchscreen keypad.


beekaytee - Sep 07, 2012 1:04:58 pm PDT #20850 of 25501
Compassionately intolerant

Sound is really important. I found Producing Great Sound for Digital Video very helpful.

I've ordered it Rob! Thanks so much. I'm investing so much in this process, there is no point in doing it anything less that the best I can.


Connie Neil - Sep 07, 2012 7:58:51 pm PDT #20851 of 25501
brillig

How do I tell if my laptop has Bluetooth? I'm assuming that's different from the wireless capability. I want something to integrate with my phone, but I suspect I need a widget to plug into my laptop to actually utilize the Bluetooth capabilities.

If I do need a widget, technically called a dongle, I believe (which sounds obscene), what kind should I get?


Theodosia - Sep 08, 2012 5:00:32 am PDT #20852 of 25501
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

Google Desktop has gone away -- it's been a while since I checked anything about it, so the fact that it's been gone for almost a year is par for the course.

Of course, I have desktop widgets I'm still using every day, which I'd be very sad to lose entirely.

Is there any successor to this group of widgets and a store-like place to acquire them?


Jessica - Sep 08, 2012 8:37:03 am PDT #20853 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Argh. Cablevision pushed through some kind of update to my modem last night that broke my internets and I finally got it working again, but now about every third URL I go to is coming up with the Cablevision "domain not found" search page. This was not happening before and I do not want it to happen now. What router setting do I need to tweak to make the Omnibar work again?

[eta: Ok, got it. "Opt out of DNS assistance" my ASS.]


Liese S. - Sep 08, 2012 11:10:00 am PDT #20854 of 25501
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Hmph.

Sony says I have to have at least ten dead pixels before my warranty coverage kicks in. Somebody remind me in February to see if it looks any worse, or I should buy extended coverage, maybe.

Admittedly it's only a little smudge, but I don't like the idea that it's broken and unfixable.


tommyrot - Sep 08, 2012 11:27:23 am PDT #20855 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 last week I bought an Apple TV and found it pretty much unusable. Mostly the problem is with the sound--even with nothing playing, there's pops coming from the speakers while my TV is using the Apple TV as its source. While playing music the sound cuts out for a fraction of a second about every 10 seconds. Also, there is a small amount of snow on the screen.

I tried using a different HDMI port on my TV and tried a different HDMI cable, but no nothing changed. So today I exchanged the Apple TV for a new one. It has the same problems.

Any ideas? My BlueRay drive is connected to my TV via HDMI cable and it sounds fine.