Ha, having just burnt off a bunch of my spare bandwidth on downloading ALL THE UPDATES for my umpteen billion Adobe products yesterday for the new laptop, this is deeply funny to me.
Bester: Mal. Whaddya need two mechanics for? Mal: I really don't.
'Out Of Gas'
Buffistechnology 3: "Press Some Buttons, See What Happens."
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Liese S. - Apr 11, 2013 6:53:00 am PDT #22278 of 25497
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Jessica - Apr 12, 2013 10:53:59 am PDT #22279 of 25497
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Can anyone recommend a free OCR tool that can convert a handwritten scanned-to-PDF document into editable text? (Preferably a spreadsheet but just text would be fine.)
The few free online tools I've tried so far have all been total fails.
le nubian - Apr 12, 2013 11:04:23 am PDT #22280 of 25497
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Google docs?
Jon B. - Apr 13, 2013 4:52:09 am PDT #22281 of 25497
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Major WordPress attack is underway [link]
Moral: Make sure you don't have a user named "admin" and pick strong passwords!
Toddson - Apr 17, 2013 11:07:18 am PDT #22282 of 25497
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Is there ANYPLACE on the web where I can find tutorials on who to use this (very expensive, unusable) iPad mini? Apple seems to have nothing but sales pitches for how wonderful it is.
The only plan seems to be to make an appointment at one of their stores ... and I'm not going to have any time I can until May 3. At least, not a time when I'm free and they're open.
If this thing hadn't been a gift I'd send it back and pretend I never even thought of it.
le nubian - Apr 17, 2013 11:13:09 am PDT #22283 of 25497
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Macworld tends to have good guides. It might help if you thought about what you want to do with it. Safari is a good web browser but I also use Chrome. Flipboard is also good for browsing the web.
What problems are you having?
Toddson - Apr 17, 2013 11:27:05 am PDT #22284 of 25497
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
So far the hunk of junk is ... well, it's not heavy enough for a paperweight ....
Seriously - I can't get it to do much of anything. I'd HOPED to use it to read books and play games. I hit the app store and managed to get iBooks installed. yay. Then I tried for Kindle and Nook and it wouldn't let me install either. Went back today and it let me install Kindle, but not Nook. And now the Nook app doesn't show up at all.
I open Safari and get a message that it can't display the page.
I managed to get it set up so it isn't sitting there requiring me to go through set-up. yay. And managed to change the wallpaper for the home page. big whoop.
I pull up the App Store and it shows ... two screens of stuff. Go to games and it pulls up two screens of stuff. Not anything I'm interested in. I got some emails from Apple welcoming me. I managed to take a picture of my desk; got someone in the office to show me how to delete it, although I'd hit the garbage can a bunch of times and it didn't get rid of the picture.
le nubian - Apr 17, 2013 1:57:00 pm PDT #22285 of 25497
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
are you syncing it with your computer? sounds like you have a syncing problem.
le nubian - Apr 17, 2013 1:57:45 pm PDT #22286 of 25497
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
can you get kindle books now? note: you cannot buy kindle books with the app. You have to get the free web app through safari to buy books. let me know if you want help with that.
Toddson - Apr 17, 2013 2:08:27 pm PDT #22287 of 25497
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Not syncing with anything. Trying to get it to do something.
I understand I'd have to download ebooks from Amazon to read with the Kindle app. I kind of wanted the Nook app, since I have a Barnes & Noble membership card, but now it's disappeared completely from the App Store.
Progress: I managed to get Safari to find a web page, an actual one, that didn't display the "can't display" message. Then I managed to close the web page. I've managed to download a solitaire game and I'm recharging the thing. yay?