Consuela, I saw this mentioned on lifehacker:
Giles ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
Buffistechnology 3: "Press Some Buttons, See What Happens."
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there is now an iPhone app that allows you to listen to a public radio station.
Stephanie, do you remember the name?
I have the Pandora app installed and I love it, but getting NPR would be pretty awesome.
search for mpr radio - I've been listening all morning. Ellie likes to watch movies on our computer and there is no local NPR so this is perfect for me.
This one [link] is for Minnesota public radio, which is an NPR station.
I haven't explored it, but it my let you choose other NPR stations.
Thanks, LeNubian. Unfortunately, CDBurnerXP doesn't appear to support burning video CDs or video dvds.
Via LH, this looks like a possibility, though: [link]
This one [link] is for Minnesota public radio, which is an NPR station.I can haz NPR News on my phone! ok, so it's MPR, but close enough. Doesn't appear you can select other NPR locals. Just between classical, current, and news.
Okay, I'm about ready to slam my iMac into a wall! I'm having two the following problem:
1. I'm unable to download and open files from iDisk. I've tried accessing them from my Mac through the Finder and the app that they should open in (Word) hangs and never opens. I then tried it from the me.com Web site and they look like they've downloaded (file on desktop) but when I try to open them, Word hangs and never opens. This is a HUGE problem as I've been saving all my schoolwork to iDisk as that seemed like the safest way to go!
2. I was working on a doc in Word that I created in Word for Mac. Word crashed. When re-opened Word and then the doc, the formatting was all stripped and some text was missing. Argh! I recreated the file and saved it but when I re-opened it, it opened that effing stripped one again with missing text! I found the file. It was saving in a different location after the crash. !@#$%## Word.
Can anyone help?
Can you see if the files will open in TextEdit? It will lose some of the formatting, but at least it's a way to check if its a file problem or a Word problem.
the only other suggestion I could make is do you have a google docs account? See if you can import the files (after download) there and see if google docs can open them.
I got's me a new computer! A mini-laptop. An Acer Aspire One. [link] It has an 8.9" display, 512 MB RAM, an 8GB solid-state drive, and it runs Linux. It was $329.99. For $20 more I could have gotten one with XP home, 1 GB RAM and a 120GB conventional hard drive. So far I like it, but it'll take some time to get used to the tiny keyboard, the trackpad seems a little wonky, and I hate the desktop that the Linux version comes with. It has some customized version of gnome that easier for newbies to use. I'm hoping I can reconfigure it to be a more conventional Linux/gnome environment.
Oh, the Wikipedia article sez:
The default Linux OS has been designed to hide advanced features from the user and to prevent modification. However, there are steps[15] that can be taken to have it modified, giving the user a series of advanced features including a "right-click" menu, the ability to install additional software, as well as a more traditional desktop.
Oh goody.