You're nice, and you're funny and you don't smoke, and okay, werewolf, but that's not all the time. I mean, three days out of the month, I'm not much fun to be around, either.

Willow ,'Get It Done'


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Dana - Apr 02, 2008 7:48:48 am PDT #5419 of 25501
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Photoshop? PaintShopPro?

You might be able to do it with MS Paint, but it depends what the original graphic looks like and how good the end result needs to look.


amych - Apr 02, 2008 7:52:10 am PDT #5420 of 25501
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Photoshop express -- free, online [link]

BUT, the basic problem will apply no matter what program you use -- if you need to add type, it'll be easy. If you need to change type that's already there, you'll have to crop it out or cover it up.


sumi - Apr 02, 2008 7:53:21 am PDT #5421 of 25501
Art Crawl!!!

I could erase but then I couldn't figure out how to replace the text.


§ ita § - Apr 02, 2008 8:04:17 am PDT #5422 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

should I wait until the last year of that for a lifetime service offer

The gamble is...will they be offering one then? That's why I just closed my eyes and took the plunge.


Sue - Apr 02, 2008 8:06:57 am PDT #5423 of 25501
hip deep in pie

The gamble is...will they be offering one then? That's why I just closed my eyes and took the plunge.

Well, people have mentioned that they seem to occassionally offer a lifetime subscription.

Right now, I can't figure out how to upgrade the service alone to lifetime, so it may be a moo[t] point.


§ ita § - Apr 02, 2008 8:10:18 am PDT #5424 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

people have mentioned that they seem to occassionally offer a lifetime subscription.

They do, and when I got mine they also said they weren't going to any more. They have since then, so it's all confusing twisty speak, but I decided to bargain on nothing.


NoiseDesign - Apr 02, 2008 8:47:29 am PDT #5425 of 25501
Our wings are not tired

The trick with the Tivo lifetime is that it is for the lifetime of the machine. So if they come out with a fancy new model that you want, you have to do a lifetime service again. Occasionally they have offers to transfer your lifetime service to a new machine. I've had lifetime Tivo since 1999 back when it was only $99 and I've taken advantage of two of the machine transfer offers so I'm now on a dual tuner non-HD Tivo.


§ ita § - Apr 02, 2008 9:08:44 am PDT #5426 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I'm trying to remember if the sticking point I had with Thunderbird was the inability to selectively delete messages from the POP server using a filter. Because that doesn't seem to be an issue, currently.

But from looking at the settings I can't see how I could set it to run, poll for messages, identify spam, and delete those from the server. I keep my desktop machine up for just this functionality--it means that the web client is usable when I'm not home.


Sue - Apr 02, 2008 9:18:03 am PDT #5427 of 25501
hip deep in pie

So if they come out with a fancy new model that you want, you have to do a lifetime service again.

Right now they only offer the dual, non-HD tuner in Canada, because Cable companies in Canada are not required to offer the HD cards. And I generally lag way behind everyone else on technology (still on dial-up, no cell phone, 6 yr old computer) so that's not much of an issue for me right now.

Of course, I bought the Tivo on the first day it was available in Canada, but I never would have done that if I didn't have years of TiVo envy from listening to all y'all.


Jon B. - Apr 02, 2008 9:27:40 am PDT #5428 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

I'm trying to remember if the sticking point I had with Thunderbird was the inability to selectively delete messages from the POP server using a filter.

My problem with it, which I thought was also your problem, was that you couldn't selectively delete messages from the POP server at all. I don't remember discussing the filter bit.

Because that doesn't seem to be an issue, currently.

Really? Innerestin'.