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meara - Oct 11, 2012 5:21:40 pm PDT #21194 of 25501

I haven't updated to iOS 6 because I'm waiting for all the kinks to get worked out.

I'm annoyed as hell that I have to use some ancient programs that only work in IE6 (the MAIN program I use every day to do things, actually!), but we've now updated, which means I have to go through some sort of emulator that takes forever to work. Got to start using it today...gee fun. Apparently it only really likes to work when nothing else is running.


Typo Boy - Oct 11, 2012 5:41:46 pm PDT #21195 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.

Can get the following [link] for $479. Trying to take advantages of the switch from Window 7 to Windows 8 to get a win 7 machine at a bargain:

For $479. HP Pavilion P7 : AMD Quad Core A8-5500 processor, 8 Gb DDR3 Ram, 1 Tb 7200 Sata hard drive A - seems like a bargain to me. Have not shopped computers in while. Seem like a good buy to you?


Gudanov - Oct 11, 2012 6:50:44 pm PDT #21196 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping

Seems reasonable. I generally build my own for desktops so I'm not real up on prices for complete systems. What are you planning to do with your computer?

You could get a decent laptop plus extra monitor, keyboard, and mouse for that much if you wanted portability though you'd sacrifice some speed and storage.


Typo Boy - Oct 11, 2012 9:40:57 pm PDT #21197 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.

desktop publishing, photo editing, word processing. I'm really tired of slow machines. If I'm in a large DTP publication, I want to be able to navigate without having to pause and wait two minutes while it refreshes and catches up.


Gudanov - Oct 12, 2012 1:08:52 pm PDT #21198 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping

Desktop publishing and photo editing does seems like the sort of stuff where the power and storage of a desktop computer would be nice.


§ ita § - Oct 13, 2012 10:45:28 am PDT #21199 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Am I missing something? Can I clip web pages to Evernote in Android? I'd thought that I could save to Pocket and share from there, but it sends the text version, and those do not have the content in any of the examples I tried. They were remarkably useless, in fact.


§ ita § - Oct 14, 2012 9:59:16 am PDT #21200 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Question: where are the best places to find good deals on electronics and computer stuff? I don't mean like tigerdirect.com, has low prices, but rather "Here is a short term deal on refurbished blahblahs". Woots and the like. Is there a consolidated source you like? II used to take a gander at the gizmodo daily post, but I've stopped reading there so much recently, and there's a lot of clickbaity junk to scroll through to get to the mother lode. Any good pages to bookmark?.


NoiseDesign - Oct 14, 2012 10:19:56 am PDT #21201 of 25501
Our wings are not tired

I check dealmac.com and dealnews.com.


Gris - Oct 14, 2012 10:38:23 am PDT #21202 of 25501
Hey. New board.

Can I clip web pages to Evernote in Android

I do not think so. Drive me nuts, since I do all of my recipe-reading and a lot of my recipe-searching on my phone/Fire. I clip the link using the normal share function, then later go back through and re-clip the full page on my computer. The bookmarklets don't work either.

Dolphin has a plugin that SOMETIMES works, but it doesn't always clip any content at all and sometimes the content is super ugly, and I find I'm better off just doing the link.


Gris - Oct 14, 2012 10:43:50 am PDT #21203 of 25501
Hey. New board.

Cereal:

I searched again and found this: [link]

If it works well, it would be worth $2.99 but there's no way to test it! Annoying.