You got all kinds of learnin' and you made me look the fool without tryin', and yet here I am with a gun to your head. That's 'cause I got people with me. People who trust each other, who do for each other, and ain't always lookin' for the advantage.

Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'


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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?


§ ita § - Jan 12, 2009 8:52:04 am PST #8799 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

all-bran:

I went the Add Network Location route, although I still want to know what broke what broke.


omnis_audis - Jan 12, 2009 11:47:43 am PST #8800 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

P-C, did you buy the camera yet? Today's Woot is a Kodak Easyshare 8.1MP Digital Camera with 12x Optical Zoom for $110. No clue how good/bad it is. But it's a lot of optical zoom for a P&S.


Sophia Brooks - Jan 12, 2009 12:51:23 pm PST #8801 of 25501
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

do you think that is a good value for someone who basically wants to take snapshots of her cat and of knitting sewing projects, as well as ebay


dcp - Jan 12, 2009 2:18:30 pm PST #8802 of 25501
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

Today's Woot is a Kodak Easyshare 8.1MP Digital Camera with 12x Optical Zoom for $110.

Link?


ita, did it make any difference which browser you had set as the default browser at the time?

I have Vista Home Premium, and IE7 is set as my default browser, even though I ususally use Chrome or Firefox for actual browsing.

I can invoke Windows Explorer with either Start->Computer or just Windows+E. When I enter an ftp address into the address bar, it comes up in the same window. When I use IE7 and enter the same ftp address, it comes up fine in that window, but there is message text at the top: "To view this FTP site in Windows Explorer, click Page, and then click Open FTP Site in Windows Explorer."

I take it you were getting a different result. Correct?