It had to happen I guess. The color wheel on our TV was having problems and creating an irritating buzz. Housemate decided to fix it himself to avoid the $800 or so repair job. Result? We now have a brand-new, shiny, even more ridiculous, 52" LCD TV. I would so love to be in a place where, when I break my TV, I can just go out and spend $2000 on a new one.
...burning baby fish swimming all round your head.
Drusilla ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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megan walker - Jan 11, 2009 7:17:30 am PST #8789 of 25501
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
askye - Jan 11, 2009 11:17:54 am PST #8790 of 25501
Thrive to spite them
Does any one have advice on wireless headsets for the pc?
Today I ruined my second headset and I've had it. I'm willing to spend some money on this considering how often I use my headset and how frustrated I am by constantly rolling over the cords and yanking out the cords.
Jessica - Jan 11, 2009 11:21:54 am PST #8791 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I had no such luck this weekend - DH and I went to 4 electronics stores (2 Targets, Circuit City and PC Richards) and nobody had anything decent in stock. The guy at Target apologetically said "We have the Magnavox!" Um, thanks, but...no.
So next stop is to call J&R and see what they have in stock. If that doesn't pan out, I call my guy at B&H and see if he can extend our corporate rate to me as a personal favor.
omnis_audis - Jan 11, 2009 11:36:19 am PST #8792 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
Askye, does your computer have Bluetooth? I've used my old BT ear thingie to Skype talk.
askye - Jan 11, 2009 11:56:05 am PST #8793 of 25501
Thrive to spite them
I was going to say I don't think it does, but I searched for bluetooth and it seems it does.
So I could just use a BT ear thing to talk via skype?
omnis_audis - Jan 11, 2009 12:44:55 pm PST #8794 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
I have done that with my Mac. You need to pair the computer with the headset, then in Skype, select it as your mic & speaker of choice.
askye - Jan 11, 2009 1:18:53 pm PST #8795 of 25501
Thrive to spite them
How does that work with listening to music while using the headset for chatting?
omnis_audis - Jan 11, 2009 4:33:14 pm PST #8796 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
If it's a mac, your music should play out your default audio output. If it's Windows, I am not sure.
aurelia - Jan 11, 2009 7:11:01 pm PST #8797 of 25501
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Does anyone know if it's possible to use a VCR with a digital converter? So far I've only gotten the converter to work when connected directly to the tv.
Yes, I'm using ancient electronics, but I'm disinclined to replace things that still work.
§ ita § - Jan 12, 2009 8:34:51 am PST #8798 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
In Vista I used to use Windows Explorer for my FTP client. Suddenly (you know) typing an FTP URL into the address bar opens Firefox. So I go into Associations and change it--I hav the choice of Opera, IE, and Firefox. I choose IE. Now typing the URL into the bar opens Opera. If I go into IE it doesn't help much--it's still treating the directories like web pages, as I had feared.
How do I get Windows Explorer back on the job?