May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one.

Mal ,'Bushwhacked'


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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.


Gris - Oct 14, 2012 11:01:51 am PDT #21204 of 25501
Hey. New board.

Hmm. The HTC stock browser has a built-in readability-like thing. If you open an article/recipe in that, then use Share, it shares the entire page, not just the URL. It appears to essentially be a printout that's being shared, but it includes images and whatnot. I don't know if the non-HTC stock browser has anything similar. Chrome doesn't appear to.