Oh man, I'm not quite qualified for that, but it sure would be fun.
Ah, the pitter patter of tiny feet in huge combat boots. Shut up!
Mal ,'War Stories'
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Liese S. - Jan 16, 2016 10:28:48 am PST #24741 of 25496
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
DCJensen - Jan 22, 2016 8:23:48 am PST #24742 of 25496
All is well that ends in pizza.
How to speed up TouchID, clear RAM, and more.
25 hidden iPhone features that are really, truly hidden [link]
omnis_audis - Jan 23, 2016 3:04:39 pm PST #24743 of 25496
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
If you are in the gaming thread, you can see we've discovered the Steam Tabletop Simulator game. On my new MacBook Air, it heats it up something fierce! Would it be bad to grab an ice pack, and sit my laptop on that, to help cool it down?
Gudanov - Feb 10, 2016 4:35:17 am PST #24744 of 25496
Coding and Sleeping
I'm working on fixing a computer for a friend of my MIL. It's an Atom-based HP Mini and OMG is it slow. Anyhow the hard drive was shot, but I'm taking it as an opportunity to replace my laptop's drive with a SSD (I don't need a big drive in my laptop so it doesn't actually cost much) and give them that hard drive which is bigger than the one they had. But holy crap does it forever to restore the system to Windows 7. I've been really spoiled by my home desktop and work computer.
Toddson - Feb 10, 2016 6:51:29 am PST #24745 of 25496
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Well, I broke down and bought a smart phone (the old flip phone having broken down to the point of being unusable).
Now I have to figure out how to use the damn thing. It's a Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime (I went up a step from the cheapest/most basic model). I tried Samsung's website ... they'd help me BUY a phone (redundant, since I already had it in my hot little hands), but when I tried to find out how to USE it ... they produced a 24-page PDF that consisted of legal terminology, health and safety warnings, and ... well, not much else.
Right now, it makes a pretty good paperweight.
Steph L. - Feb 10, 2016 6:56:35 am PST #24746 of 25496
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
A lot of stores where you bought the phone (Best Buy, etc.) have classes on how to use it. Your local library might, too.
Toddson - Feb 10, 2016 6:59:19 am PST #24747 of 25496
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I'm thinking of hitting YouTube ... in my copious spare time. If I could figure out how to get to the internet from the (current paperweight), I could do it from home.
-t - Feb 10, 2016 8:14:54 am PST #24748 of 25496
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
What service do you have on it, Todd? I'm finding User Guides and Quick Starts that are specific to service providers.
Toddson - Feb 10, 2016 1:03:24 pm PST #24749 of 25496
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I'm on T-Mobile (yes, probably not the best, but I've been with them for a good long while). I think it's going to be a long process ... I did manage to make a phone call; got a text and responded to it; added a contact (since almost all mine were wiped out).
-t - Feb 10, 2016 1:21:02 pm PST #24750 of 25496
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
T-mobile has a link to a User Guid that looks actually useful, if that helps at all [link]
If you can't look at that and have something specific in the setup I could look up for you and copy and paste into here, I'd be happy to do that.