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I'm offloading a ton o stuff and have rounded up a bunch of obsolete software.
Are there any good things one can do with:
I've also got a Sharon Stever Step-by-Step book with cd for Illustrator 6.
No local schools are interested, sadly.
eta: I should also mention that I have all the manuals and, in the case of Freehand, Pagemaker and Toast are in original packaging.
Are these windows versions?
I geuss given the lower case i, no.
Gud, quick question about the Nexus 7. The specs say it doesn't support Adobe Flash, does that mean that I can't play games on it that require flash?
So it looks like my much loved dvr/dvd player/burner (from Omnis, thanks Omnis!) will pass through but no longer pick-up the Comcast video signal for broadcast. (I gave up cable.)
Am I right in thinking that one can't find the same in HD/blu ray in the US? I can live without the burner, but I'd like to record broadcast, even in SD.
Or, is there some sort of "component out" on my Smart TV that I'm not seeing (it seems to have out connections for audio only)?
Hmm, that's curious. Just stopped doing it? Has anything changed? Did you add anything to the chain? I wonder if the signal got split, and it's not enough video signal to record? I can't recall if that unit has copy protection. I believe it does. And that might be the problem, in some way.
Sorry Typo, I should have said. I'm all Mac, all the time. So, no Windows versions of anything.
Recorded fine yesterday. But now there's a message from Comcast permanently on screen that says something to the effect "If you can see this message, your TV isn't ready for the Comcast digital upgrade. I have the cable wire going in to the dvr, then the tv. The TV channels are fine. And the audio comes through on the dvr, just not video.
I have a Smart TV with wifi, Netflix, Hulu Plus, etc., but I would like to record PBS and broadcast and now I can't.
I was thinking if I could run the cable straight into the tv and out to the dvr, that might work, but there don't seem to be "out" components for the TV.
I wouldn't mind paying to upgrade the box, but it's annoying that the technology exists to do what I could do (record, edit, burn), but they just refuse to sell it in the US. (Although I love the people on the interwebs who seem to think it's because "there's no market for it".) Arrgh.
The specs say it doesn't support Adobe Flash, does that mean that I can't play games on it that require flash?
You're going to have to buy an old device to get Flash. It hasn't shipped with Android since Jellybean. I assume you can sideload it, but I don't miss it at all, so I've not tried.
Recorded fine yesterday. But now there's a message from Comcast permanently on screen that says something to the effect "If you can see this message, your TV isn't ready for the Comcast digital upgrade. I have the cable wire going in to the dvr, then the tv. The TV channels are fine. And the audio comes through on the dvr, just not video.
Ah. That's curious. Hmm. I wonder if that's something to do with HDTV improvements. I believe that unit is SD only. Not sure what your options are to continue to use that unit.
So my computer is acting normally. I finally did a reinstall, although there was a problem with the disc for Windows 7 64 bit so I installed the 32 bit version, I'm not sure how big of a difference is between the two.
Now I have some questions about tablets. I know they have been discussed recently. Mom is planning on getting a tablet, she says she wants an iPad because she's familiar with Apple products and trusts them and also she likes the size of the iPad.
She'd be using the tablet in addition to her lap top, to read books, and also for educational apps/games and books for my nephew.
Size is pretty important to her - she wants something that she'll feel is easy on her eyes.
With that information in mind is there another tablet anyone would recommend besides an iPad? I'm not trying to steer her away from an iPad, I'm just trying to compare a few and give her the best advice about what to buy.