We die horribly and painfully, you go to hell and I spend eternity in the arms of baby Jesus.

Gunn ,'Not Fade Away'


Buffistechnology 3: "Press Some Buttons, See What Happens."

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§ ita § - May 30, 2014 6:48:07 am PDT #23856 of 25496
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

When I choose "add to existing contact" for an email address within an email in OS X, what's the logic behind what contact it chooses? Because it's giving me a choice of five apparently unrelated contacts, none with any contact info similar to the one in questions (he's changing nothing but from hotmail to gmail, so if you were going to apply intelligence to it...).


§ ita § - Jun 01, 2014 6:28:36 am PDT #23857 of 25496
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Does anyone have a recommendation for an Android video viewer that supports mp4 and mkz and subtitle files. I'd go to VLC with open arms, but their Android app is not the same.


DCJensen - Jun 01, 2014 12:41:59 pm PDT #23858 of 25496
All is well that ends in pizza.

I was also disappointed with Android VLC. I found MX Player [link] to work for everything so far.

I have not tried Matroska video due to the age of my device.


Gris - Jun 01, 2014 3:59:08 pm PDT #23859 of 25496
Hey. New board.

I have watched mkv files with mxplayer. Bsplayer is fine too. I keep both just in case.


§ ita § - Jun 01, 2014 4:07:33 pm PDT #23860 of 25496
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Oh, thanks! Subtitles are right there in the screencaps. I found it's easier for me to watch video on the tablet with the TV's sound bar than on the laptop with same. But then kept switching back to laptop to check and see what the Korean was communicating.

I have no idea what all that Android VLC shit is about. I don't need to remote control video on my laptop from my tablet. I want the superior cross-platform does everything video player that dominates Mac and PC. I ended up using the Joe VLC with the sideways traffic cone (which drives my slightly OCD VLC-loving sister bananas in a way I can laugh at).

Is that too much to ask for? I think I deserve it.

I swear I owned Infinite Design paid (vector art program, only decent one I see out there), but the version I can find doesn't have my old pictures and doesn't export to infinite size. Did they gut my free version? Or did I lose my paid version? Now I have to run through all my Android accounts to see if the price disappears on all of them.

I'm not deft with stylus vector drawing, and the developer appears spread very thin--the featuresets look marvellous but both the vector and raster products are laggy as hell--Infinite Painter enough to be useless for me, sadly--I love how it blended colour on colour. But that one I didn't/couldn't return. Iz confuse.


DCJensen - Jun 01, 2014 11:07:43 pm PDT #23861 of 25496
All is well that ends in pizza.

I picked up (for free) a dead Viewsonic VX2245WM 22 inch LCD monitor on Craigslist today, took it home and pulled it apart. It had one bulging capacitor on the power supply. I rummaged around in my basement, found an old power supply, and scavenged the exact replacement using my soldering iron. Bob's your uncle, I replaced it in the monitor and closed it up.

Working now. Not bad for $8 gas.


Typo Boy - Jun 01, 2014 11:57:19 pm PDT #23862 of 25496
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.

You saved whoever you got it from the trouble of dragging it to the nearest place that accepts dead electronics. So I'm sure they were happy with the deal too.


Steph L. - Jun 02, 2014 5:58:26 am PDT #23863 of 25496
I look more rad than Lutheranism

Folks with Chromebooks: is there a mail management app like Thunderbird? Tim is switching his dad to a Chromebox (because his PC is a horror full of viruses and spyware because he clicks on EVERYTHING), and his dad has been using Thunderbird for his mail and is having a hard time accessing his mail through a web browser. (Hard time as in, he doesn't like it and doesn't want to do it and wants Thunderbird. Actually, he just wants his current computer, but with no problems ever. And since he clicks on every pop-up, that's impossible. It's really hard to switch the computer system of someone who is developing dementia.)


Tom Scola - Jun 02, 2014 7:42:34 am PDT #23864 of 25496
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Remember the dark times? Remember how horrible everything was? How horrible people were? The time before everything changed, the time before the Apple WWDC 2014 Keynote.


Gris - Jun 02, 2014 9:51:39 am PDT #23865 of 25496
Hey. New board.

Folks with Chromebooks: is there a mail management app like Thunderbird?

I doubt it rather highly. Not that I've really checked. Thus making me useless. A quick google doesn't turn up much. Some people apparently prefer the Gmail Offline extension (which changes the interface to something more tablet-like) to regular gmail. But that's about all I could find. Maybe he'd prefer the Outlook.com interface? It's more like a traditional e-mail client in appearance.