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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.)

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.

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.

A quick google doesn't turn up much.

I did actually search Google first, and I, too, didn't find much. But thanks for the backup googling! I figured when my first approach (ye olde Google) didn't turn up anything, I'd check and see if any Buffistas -- because I know some have mentioned owning and using Chromebooks -- might be aware of something that I, as a non-Chromebook user, wouldn't have known existed.

Maybe he'd prefer the Outlook.com interface? It's more like a traditional e-mail client in appearance.

I'll point Tim that way. I've never seen/used it, but it might meet his dad's needs.

Some of you may have noticed that I like small computers (even as I try to find uses for them).

This computer is very tiny: Teeny tiny PC fits on the head of an Ethernet port | DVICE

If you like tiny things and being online thanks to them, then there's a new mini PC that you really should take a gander at. It's called the AsiaRF, and as PCs go it's pretty adorable. Supporting both Wi-Fi and Ethernet connectivity, this teeny little sucker measures just 1.06 x 1.38 inches and somehow still manages to run full Linux.

The creators are trying to secure funding on Indiegogo. Only $20.