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2008 / Sun lays off 6000 workers - 18% of staff

« on: November 14, 2008, 04:04:20 PM »

I suppose Rev. Moon and Dancing with the Stars on Ice will be next...

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Community / Week #12 College Football

« on: November 14, 2008, 04:02:43 PM »

Well Roy, there is a bit of a personal rivalry for us this week. But, no matter the outcome, we'll stay friends. I'll just say.... May the home team win!

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Community / Congratulations America!!

« on: November 14, 2008, 08:41:11 AM »

QUOTE(krissel @ Nov 14 2008, 06:53 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Judging which criticism was 'sharper' or more 'partisan' would be a guessing game at best. Let's let that be.

I disagree with the first statement, and agree with the second. Apology accepted, however, the posts in question do violate our rules. The inaction violates policy, and does not conform to precedent. I've seen threads locked for far less. I kept being shocked when I came back to this forum and saw this thread still open.

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2008 / The top 10 greatest geeks of all time

« on: November 14, 2008, 06:57:18 AM »

Though not mentioned, at least two of them have ties to my alma mater. blows on knuckles and rubs on chest (now kris will find a smilie for that)

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2008 / Services Menu I

« on: November 14, 2008, 06:52:55 AM »

QUOTE(krissel @ Nov 14 2008, 05:12 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I found a whole bunch of applications I didn't even know I had installed.

Sorry. or... You're welcome! (depending on your point of view)

I, OTOH, have an application installed that I cannot find.

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2008 / Services Menu II

« on: November 14, 2008, 06:47:14 AM »

QUOTE(krissel @ Nov 14 2008, 05:17 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

You did try Spotlight?

Of course. What I can't find is the application itself. Spotlight's "Top Hit" is Bean: an OSX Word Processor it is found in Safari's History folder (with a strange http/%2... filename) but when I accepted the risk of opening an "application downloaded from the internet" (via Spotlight) it opened the web page where you can, um, download the application from the internet. Interestingly, the date and time given for when it was downloaded coincides with when I invoked the above Bean option from the Services menu. It just didn't place an application icon in the, uh, Applications folder, or anywhere else that I can find.

QUOTE(rongold @ Nov 14 2008, 05:41 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

If you like the Services Menu and want to make it more efficient to use, download Service Scrubber... This handy program allows you to delete items from the Services Menu (Third Party applications only) to shorten the list. It also allows you to add keyboard shortcuts to items in the Services Menu. Works with both Tiger and Leopard.

I think to delete items, you just go to the Services Menu folder and drag them out. But I don't think adding shortcuts would be possible with just the OS's tools.

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Community / I didn't have my camera with me...

« on: November 14, 2008, 06:33:41 AM »

QUOTE(krissel @ Nov 14 2008, 03:31 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

The most I ever saw before was the family of 9 that crisscrossed my yard a couple years ago.

I hope you've got a Deere! :mowing:

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Community / Congratulations America!!

« on: November 14, 2008, 06:28:58 AM »

QUOTE(krissel @ Nov 14 2008, 02:56 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Which brings me to a question to anyone who has bothered to follow this thread...(probably scared away everyone

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Nah! But I bet had the sharper partisan criticisms been leveled at the other side, it would have been locked.

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2008 / Safari 3.2 available through the usual means..

« on: November 13, 2008, 08:31:08 PM »

Thanks for tasting it for us!

SU will notify me tomorrow...

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2008 / Services Menu I

« on: November 13, 2008, 08:28:07 PM »

QUOTE(Xairbusdriver @ Nov 13 2008, 05:26 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

In most any app, just place the cusor I over a word at press cntrl-d. That should automatically open Dictionery with you word inserted.

That didn't work in Safari, Word, or Excel.
However, Command-D in Word opens the Format/Font dialog box. That does not work in Excel, as I wish it would.

Apparently the Services menu isn't as big of a secret as Macworld makes it out to be. I had never explored it before.... in case that wasn't obvious.

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2008 / Copy, Paste from Office 2004 to browser..

« on: November 13, 2008, 08:16:53 PM »

QUOTE(tacit @ Nov 13 2008, 06:25 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

More likely, the problem is formatting information on the Clipboard. There's an option in Preferences to tell Word not to include formatting information on the Clipboard; does that help?

I found that Include formatted text in Clipboard was not checked.