Ah, the pitter patter of tiny feet in huge combat boots. Shut up!

Mal ,'War Stories'


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Jon B. - Oct 25, 2012 4:12:49 pm PDT #21342 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Is there a way to customize the Google services that appear in the top bar thingy?

Apparently (I haven't tried it), there's a Chrome extension:

[link]


Jon B. - Oct 25, 2012 4:25:38 pm PDT #21343 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Scratch that. This one -- [link] -- is also Chrome only, but it works great! You just drag & drop!


megan walker - Oct 26, 2012 11:07:44 am PDT #21344 of 25501
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Since my Smart TV has built-in wifi, is there a simple way to make it an external monitor, or would I still need to attach a cable or adapter? This is to use it as a second screen for working on documents, so I'd rather not use a cable.


Jessica - Oct 26, 2012 11:15:46 am PDT #21345 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

t it works great! You just drag & drop!

PERFECT! Thanks.


§ ita § - Oct 27, 2012 7:15:53 am PDT #21346 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

So I hear people saying that unless you use Windows 8 on a touchscreen device like this: [link] it's a bit of a bust. Is it possible that they're all just not configuring it right?


§ ita § - Oct 27, 2012 8:08:00 am PDT #21347 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Has anyone here downloaded Acrobat reader for OS X? Or do you just use Preview? It's being hinky for me recently, and I've had to force quit more than once, but I feel that I should be able to get along without it...


le nubian - Oct 27, 2012 8:11:20 am PDT #21348 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

preview is great.

if it has been hinky, you might have delete a wonky system file.


§ ita § - Oct 27, 2012 8:27:42 am PDT #21349 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Give me more deets--I do like its spread of file types, but it took me almost ten minutes to get a form open from a website this morning, and I had to close all the other open files, and download it to my disk and open it from the HD, instead of letting it open from the web browser.

That is *so* not 2012. That's not even 2008.


le nubian - Oct 27, 2012 8:47:50 am PDT #21350 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

after googling here is one rec:

Try closing Preview with option-command-q and try opening Preview again


§ ita § - Oct 27, 2012 9:27:52 am PDT #21351 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

The bulk of my problem was that it wouldn't start in the first place.

Third time round it did, but was unresponsive, so I force quit, and then started it manually and opened the PDF off the hard drive.