If you have hundreds of software developers on a project it's going to keep getting new features and with new features comes a new version number.

I hadn't paid much attention to that Solid to PDF app because it seemed pricey. Now that I've downloaded the demo, I'm really impressed. It seems to be retaining most of the original formatting. The Wondershare app isn't nearly as good. While the documents may look the same on the surface, when you go to 'view invisibles', you immediately see the difference. Considering the time it will save me, it will be $80 well spent. Thanks so much for persisting! I am very grateful for your help.

I'm glad that worked!

I might be the second to last person to see Firefox's 3D page visualisation tool (our business users *really* proved their point--there's hearing your app goes 15 tables deep, and then there's seeing it does). I will be showing that tool around Monday like no one's business.

Strix, I know nothing about the Nook, but your friend may want to check into the availability of titles in Canada. I have a Kindle and I have found some books at the Kindle store unavailable for purchase because of licensing issues in Canada. I end up having to buy e-books from Kobo and breaking the DRM.

(Don't get me started on being unable to subscribe to the New Yorker.)

Will do. Thanks, Sue!

Hey, who knew that using System Restore on Windows 7 triggers a message saying "This copy of Windows is not genuine"?

Because now I do.

I am trying to work out best practices for Tasker, and it's lopsided enough that I'm just confused.

What I want to do, is to set up my phone so that if I place it face down at night, calls, texts, and voicemails don't make any perceptible sounds. Alarms, on the other hand, should be left alone.

It seems to be designed so that you have a context of 1 item (as in, either the time period or the phone orientation) that triggers certain results. The lopsidedness to which I refer means that I have to detect the face down status in the context, because I don't see how to pick that up later with vanilla Tasker.

So, basically--that part I can do, but I need to make sure that if the phone is face up, or if it's not in that time period, the volumes are unfucked with. Should I achieve this entirely with exit tasks? Or should some/any of that be in the elses of the if statements that parse the time period?

You can add multiple contexts, I'm pretty sure. Long press on the existing context and it should come up with a menu including "add."

I haven't set it back up since I got this (third!) replacement phone, but the way I had it was, if it's night, and plugged in, and at home, then shush everything except alarms and calls.

You can do two contexts at once. The task will only happen when both contexts occur simultaneously. Add one of the contexts, then add the action. Then go back to the main screen, click the profile to expand it, then press (don't long-press) on the context you already added. A menu pops up with the ability to add a new context.

So you would make a new profile with the context "face-down" and the task "make things different loudnesses" and then go back, press on the "face-down" context and add a new context for "nighttime".

It is a REALLY poorly designed interface element, but once you discover it, it's very useful!