It's a real burden being right so often.

Mal ,'Bushwhacked'


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amych - Oct 19, 2007 10:40:56 am PDT #3099 of 25497
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

If you just need to back up/free up some space, you'll be able to fit a lot more on a DVD if you use it as a data disk. If you want DVD's that you can watch with a DVD player, ffmpegX has converted just about anything I've ever thrown at it -- I'm not sure what formats your copy of toast will handle, but ffmpegX can probably produce them.


omnis_audis - Oct 19, 2007 12:06:08 pm PDT #3100 of 25497
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

iPhone question. How do you highlight to read the white font in b.org?


tommyrot - Oct 19, 2007 12:08:23 pm PDT #3101 of 25497
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

I thought I recalled someone saying it couldn't be done. But maybe I'm thinking of some other web phone.


NoiseDesign - Oct 19, 2007 12:12:40 pm PDT #3102 of 25497
Our wings are not tired

iPhone question. How do you highlight to read the white font in b.org?

You don't.

Along with copy and paste not being possible.


omnis_audis - Oct 19, 2007 12:13:16 pm PDT #3103 of 25497
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

that is what I was suspecting, but I've only had it for less than one day, so I don't know everything about it yet.

Eta: ya the no copy/paste makes it harder to quote


beekaytee - Oct 19, 2007 12:52:28 pm PDT #3104 of 25497
Compassionately intolerant

If you just need to back up/free up some space, you'll be able to fit a lot more on a DVD if you use it as a data disk.

I'm creating the data disk right now, but downloaded ffmpegx for future use.

I see a lot of backing up in my future.

Thanks so much amych.


Gris - Oct 19, 2007 1:47:03 pm PDT #3105 of 25497
Hey. New board.

Along with copy and paste not being possible.

This was one of several features that made me "WTF?" when I was playing with one. It's still the best web-browsing phone interface out there by far, but the lack of selectability is so confusing. I'm hoping they add it to the interface (double-tap drag maybe?) for the second version.


DCJensen - Oct 19, 2007 1:58:10 pm PDT #3106 of 25497
All is well that ends in pizza.

Somehow I suspect Apple programmers are working at copy/paste and it something about it isn't ready for prime time.

Or they are waiting on someone to hack it, and then buy them out.

Not that any of the major players would do that...


Stephanie - Oct 20, 2007 12:04:14 am PDT #3107 of 25497
Trust my rage

I'm trying to cut the last 4 minutes off of a .avi file (using my Mac). Anyone know free software that will do that?


Theodosia - Oct 20, 2007 2:03:07 am PDT #3108 of 25497
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

iMovie, maybe? Sorry, I haven't played around enough to have any better idea, I just paid up for Quicktime Pro....