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I'm assuming you're just trying to capture and edit audio off a CD or something... Go grab Audacity. It's free and works pretty well. (If you're trying to capture audio out of a movie, otoh, I think Video Lan Client is your best bet.) |
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Basic GRAMMAR assistance required, please. Should it be: "The bobbing of the cameras jerked his vision mightily" or "The bobbing of the cameras jerked his vision, mightily."
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Officially I would say with comma, but if your style is to include fewer commas, then you could omit as there is little chance of someone misunderstanding your intent.
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Thanks, I'll go try it. |
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This is an electronics question, not a computer one, but:
I am trying to design a one-off book cover that lights up when you place your hand palm-down on the front cover. The idea is that the cover is fairly plain when it is at rest, but if you place your hand on it, there's a glow that shows through the paper, either that lights up in the form of the title, or as tendrils over the whole book cover. If there's a delay while the tendrils light up (rather than them all glowing at once), even better. The trigger could be either pressure (your palm pressing a button, like in kids books) or the heat of your hand. I've been looking at tiny led light strips on the web, and have ordered a few samples, but I don't really know what I'm doing. I'm not asking for anyone to take me through this step by step, but I'd really appreciate of anyone can tell me if this is even fairly easily doable, and if so, maybe point me to any internet resources they know, or suggest likely kewords so I can google possibilities myself. Thanks. ----------- Bzzzzt. Bzzzzt. Bzzzzt. |
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I would try www.instructables.com/make and www.youtube.com for tutorials.
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Without the comma. "Mightily" is the adverb for "jerked" so part of the same clause. |
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Thank you! The instructables site looks glorious. ----------- Bzzzzt. Bzzzzt. Bzzzzt. |
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I need help in locating a font:
 The Oxfam Style Guide tells me the font used in the "Unwrapped" text is Frankie, however not one font site seems to have it (did find a Frankie font, but it was very different from this). Does anyone by any chance know the font under a different name, or failing that, happens to have it? |
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So I am really pissed right now.
a few weeks back I became involved with a company called arise that hires customer service agents to work from home. The training started two weeks ago and I have been enjoying it. Now at the end of the training we are to install the softphone application avaya that we will use to take the calls. I go to install it and it errors telling em that I must be running win xp or 2000. fine I am running xp. Not working. After some digging I find there is a patch that is needed to run the app with win xp 64bit. I have a 64bit processor and 64bit os. My machine runs perfectly. I get on with support and the conversation goes something like this. me- so can you install the 64bit patch. tech support- yeah...uh...no. sorry when we say "Windows XP" is supported you are supposed to assume we mean 32-bit only. me- so you have tech requirements that are so detailed they indicate what type of phone I can use but I was supposed to divine this detail on my own? tech support- yeah...sorry dude. -- I am over the hot and sticky right now |
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I'm sure I've heard of a font called Frankie... Where's Sentinel when you need him? I tried to identify it with http://www.identifont.com, but maybe I was fooled by the eroded appearance of the logo. I ended up with nothing exact (Eroxion seemed kind of close, but still not right). Then I just gave up and googled... and there it was. |
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Colin, you are a King among men.
_____________________________ Albert's path is a strange and difficult one. |
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Thanks colin!
Since i'm just making a mock-up now for a site, i've used the "generate sample" option they have. I'll buy it when i do the final work. It always strikes me that fonts are expensive little things we just take for granted so much (seriously, fonts are probably more pirated then anything). Anyway... thanks again! Don't know how i didn't find that site before. |
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I very much doubt that. Not many people use fonts. Except for designers, and word-processor users (most of whom are glad to use the default fonts, or free ones), I can't think of any users. I, for instance, wouldn't bother with pirated fonts. _____________________________ Albert's path is a strange and difficult one. |
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Another lifesaving resource is What The Font, here you can upload an image sample of the font you're after and it recognizes it.
I'd try to rectify that situation asap, David; it can get messy when clients' liability is involved. I'm sure they can afford the $50? : ) |
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Gadget advice requested:
I'm looking for some media player-like gizmo that can show digital pictures and small videos. It must be handheld, no power cables, 5" screen at least, able to upload from computer via USB. And easy to use. Checked all kinds of digital frames but they all need to be plugged to AC. Seen several like the Cowon A3 and the like but apart from small screens, GUI navigation is perplexing. Someone lent me a PocketPC-based PDA-thing but besides a high price, it was quite awkward to use. Any ideas? |
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There're are a few options, though less with a 5" screen, if any.
Portable photo storage devices, HDD-based, are quite common, though the screens are a bit small. Most display JPEGs and common digital still camera movie files, MP3's and maybe some other audio files. The Epson P5000 has a large LCD, though only 4", not 5. Because these are aimed at niche-esque market, they tend to be quited expensive, over $600 US for a fairly capable model. These dudes have a what-features-do-you-want style buying guide. The Lithos School of Curiousity is now enrolling |
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That Epson looks nice, but yeah, the price. And the gizmo I'm after is intended for someone with no computer skills at all as an electronic photo album.
Someone just suggested me a portable DVD player. Burn the pics on a disc, that's it. Maybe some model with easy to use search/display options. |
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You might check out EL wire. Coolneon.com is one. They make some pretty small stuff with tiny little "drivers" for it, I'd think you could get that in to a book cover\binding. Dunno about the pressure switch but I couldn't be too hard. |
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Gosh. I just try to help, sometimes. 
Like Arkan, I'd have to guess they aren't, really. Most non-designers when faced with the option of downloading the right font for real money, bothering to find and pirate it, or just making do with whatever they have on their computers... use Comic Sans.
Y'r welcome. Glad to help. It was just the luck of the Google, I guess. |
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