I've had the laptop over a year-- and I'm constantly burning to back up documents, so I've probably gone through three or four different packages of CD-Rs. The biggest problem is that it's not a consistent issue. It'll spark up, then quit for a long time, then spark up again. No rhyme or reason to it. I bought a Time Capsule so I could start using Time Machine, but syncing it to the house network has been a pain and Lewis just hasn't had time to mess with it while he was working so much over the holidays.
The King of Cups expects a picnic. But this is not his birthday!
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Buffistechnology 3: "Press Some Buttons, See What Happens."
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Barb - Jan 07, 2009 2:53:20 pm PST #8676 of 25501
“Not dead yet!”
Jon B. - Jan 07, 2009 3:44:17 pm PST #8677 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
The DVI/HDMI connection works when I attach the monitor to another computer. And I just noticed that the rear panel of the computer that it's not working with has a separate HDMI input connection. Perhaps the mobo of this machine requires HDMI/HDMI? Not sure why HDMI/DVI wouldn't work. Off to search around for a HDMI/HDMI cable...
Jessica - Jan 07, 2009 4:33:02 pm PST #8678 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
There used to be a Firefox extension called TabBrowser Preferences, which hasn't been updated for Firefox 3. Most of the features have been integrated into the default tab options *except* the option to have URLs typed into the address bar automatically open in a new tab.
Is there another (current) extension that will do this? Remembering to Ctl-T every time I want a new tab is a PITA.
Jessica - Jan 07, 2009 4:56:42 pm PST #8679 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I found Tab Mix Plus, but I kind of hate its execution. Oh well.
le nubian - Jan 07, 2009 5:10:19 pm PST #8680 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
wow, that's a handy option. I have never heard of that, Jessica.
and guess what? one of my favorite extensions does this if you enable the option ----> tabkit
Cashmere - Jan 07, 2009 5:41:56 pm PST #8681 of 25501
Now tagless for your comfort.
If one wanted to download a video from YouTube to use in a PowerPoint presentation, how would one go about doing it?
le nubian - Jan 07, 2009 5:49:47 pm PST #8682 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Cashmere, what kind of computer are you on?
Cashmere - Jan 07, 2009 5:50:38 pm PST #8683 of 25501
Now tagless for your comfort.
Dell laptop.
le nubian - Jan 07, 2009 5:59:58 pm PST #8684 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Cashmere - Jan 07, 2009 6:20:59 pm PST #8685 of 25501
Now tagless for your comfort.
I tried that but got a very strange result--just a loud blip and a streak of light.
However, turns out I had downloaded a program called Any Video Converter to get some clips off of my motorola Q and I could use that to pull stuff off of YouTube and convert it to an mpeg or wmv.
Then I just insert the file into the PP presentation.
So I guess I should have pressed some buttons and then saw what happened.