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Red_Fred posted:Does anyone know of any software that can keep an inventory of my CD collection? Preferably free. Bonus if I can somehow use my phone to scan barcodes. Not free, but check out collectorz.com, they have software for books, movies, comics, games, and music. I use their books and movie software. If you have a large collection, go for the pro version, then you get "free" online access to the list of what you own. They do support scanneers, too, but I don't use one.
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LittleBob posted:I swear there used to be a thread for requesting small programs/apps be made, possibly for money, but now I can't find it. It's in SHSC. Request a tiny custom app again
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How can I re-size a .gif while keeping its animated..ness?
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Avocados posted:How can I re-size a .gif while keeping its animated..ness? File size or resolution? Either way: - Open it up in Photoshop - File->Save for Web & Devices From here you can set resolution (scaling) and all sorts of quality control options.
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I'm trying to think of a few songs that would be appropriate as ridiculous background "hold" style music...something along the lines of what might play over a "technical difficulties" placard used during older live TV shows. All I can think of right now is something like Henry Mancini's "Baby Elephant Walk". I feel like there was one I heard a long time ago titled "Spanish Fly" or something similar (though I'm pretty sure that's NOT the name).
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Mar 23, 2012 19:11
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Yeah spanish fly would be pretty intense. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDsa4uDM3zU
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Mar 23, 2012 19:43
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The girl from ipanema (instrumental), which is a pretty sweet song, is a classic cheesy lounge/elevator/wait room piece in lots of films. Anything by the rippingtons.
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Mar 23, 2012 19:52
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ElectricSheep posted:I'm trying to think of a few songs that would be appropriate as ridiculous background "hold" style music...something along the lines of what might play over a "technical difficulties" placard used during older live TV shows. Yakety Sax or the Liberty Bell March.
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Mar 23, 2012 20:07
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ElectricSheep posted:I'm trying to think of a few songs that would be appropriate as ridiculous background "hold" style music...something along the lines of what might play over a "technical difficulties" placard used during older live TV shows. Your search ends here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JykNUqNNQj4
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Mar 23, 2012 20:12
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ElectricSheep posted:I'm trying to think of a few songs that would be appropriate as ridiculous background "hold" style music...something along the lines of what might play over a "technical difficulties" placard used during older live TV shows. You're thinking of Spanish Flea. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mML2fPec7xU
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Mar 23, 2012 22:20
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Is there a good place to buy stickers online? I'm looking to order 500-1000 stickers of a fairly standard size (2.5 Inches-3 Inches square, 2 colors), but google really isn't helping finding a good on. Pricing, shipping, turnaround time, and quality are all over the place, and most of them look very shady. Does anyone have any experience in ordering stickers or a favorite site?
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Mar 23, 2012 22:42
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What is the trend of horse masks? I saw an SA banner ad that said HORSE MASK and thought "huh." Then yesterday I saw some people in front of the library in my city, 5 of them, with horse masks! They had a photo shoot. I'm not always up on the latest internet trends (kids these days  ), can anyone fill me in?
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Mar 23, 2012 22:55
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Carados posted:Is there a good place to buy stickers online? I'm looking to order 500-1000 stickers of a fairly standard size (2.5 Inches-3 Inches square, 2 colors), but google really isn't helping finding a good on. Pricing, shipping, turnaround time, and quality are all over the place, and most of them look very shady. Does anyone have any experience in ordering stickers or a favorite site? I used to make them for people. I could refer you to my old place of work, but if you're outside Canada, it probably wouldn't be worth the customs charges. That's all I got, sorry. I haven't ordered stickers online before, have always made them myself when need be. alnilam posted:What is the trend of horse masks? I saw an SA banner ad that said HORSE MASK and thought "huh." Then yesterday I saw some people in front of the library in my city, 5 of them, with horse masks! They had a photo shoot. They've been around for quite awhile, and were originally sold on Archie McPhee (I think). I think they've just become more of a meme now so lots of people are buying them. I don't think there's any special story behind. I remember them being in the Halloween threads from +/-2 years ago.
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Mar 23, 2012 23:36
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I forgot to take my passport out of my jeans when they went through the wash. Is it still going to be usable for travelling? Its got a small chip in. I'm in the UK if it matters
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Mar 24, 2012 00:07
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Jose posted:I forgot to take my passport out of my jeans when they went through the wash. Is it still going to be usable for travelling? Its got a small chip in. I'm in the UK if it matters What does it look like? The chip will happily survive. But if the visa pages look water-damaged, you should get a replacement. Immigration in other countries will be extremely suspicious of a passport that looks like it has been tampered with.
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Mar 24, 2012 00:32
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Everything other than the laminated ID page which has the chip on the back have really obviously been water damaged. The cover looks fine otherwise though
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Mar 24, 2012 00:41
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Jose posted:Everything other than the laminated ID page which has the chip on the back have really obviously been water damaged. The cover looks fine otherwise though Best get a new one. It will be okay as a proof of identity whilst in the UK (at the bank, etc), but immigration officers will not like it.
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My wife washed both our passports. She's Swiss and I'm American and we've traveled around the world and many times between the states and Europe in the last 5 years and the worst I've gotten is a raised-eyebrow-wtf-is-this look. All my immigration stamps for Ireland (where I was living at the time) got washed and they never gave me any trouble but that may just be Ireland.
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Mar 24, 2012 01:05
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alnilam posted:What is the trend of horse masks? I saw an SA banner ad that said HORSE MASK and thought "huh." Then yesterday I saw some people in front of the library in my city, 5 of them, with horse masks! They had a photo shoot. It's an old meme that seems to periodically come back. As far as the surge on SA, there's a thread in Coupons, where someone discovered that horse masks on Amazon were going for the low, low price of $20. I can't test it until I get a mask, but I heard that if you put the horse mask on your dog while he's wearing a jockey rider and then you put on a dog face shirt, confused fairies will suddenly appear and give you awkward smooches. Let me tell you, man, I am all about the awkward smooches.
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Mar 24, 2012 01:38
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What are the quickest/best free .pdf readers these days?
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Mar 24, 2012 02:35
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TheAngryDrunk posted:What are the quickest/best free .pdf readers these days? I like one called SumatraPDF http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/free-pdf-reader.html There's Foxit, but I understand it has nearly as many bugs/exploit as regular Adobe Reader.
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Mar 24, 2012 04:09
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E: This is the wrong thread entirely. Oops.
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I'm confused about genre fiction, I always thought books were written first, then the genre is retroactively applied? Like, "Hey, you wrote this book, let me see it! Oh, I see it has spaceships and wormholes, its probably science fiction."
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I mean sort of, but people generally set out to write a book in a specific genre and it's not like the result is all that unpredictable. A book doesn't need to be written first to figure out what genre it's in.
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Mar 24, 2012 08:04
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Horse masks really became popular when they showed up in one of the Jackass movies.
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Farecoal posted:I'm confused about genre fiction, I always thought books were written first, then the genre is retroactively applied? Like, "Hey, you wrote this book, let me see it! Oh, I see it has spaceships and wormholes, its probably science fiction." That'd really only be the case if the author hadn't really read books before. I mean, if you set out to write a book where the setting is A SPACESHIP IN OUTER SPACE, you can bet that it's going to be strongly influenced by other science fiction novels that you've read. If an author's any good, they're going to be very conscious of the tropes of their genre, and can do interesting things to play off of their readers' assumptions. China Mieville is an example of an author who's keenly aware of genre. He's stated that he plans to write a book in "every genre." Many of his books has a fantasy element to them, but he very intentionally moves away from Tolken's influences, who he describes as "the wen on the arse of fantasy literature".
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Is there any way of getting a history of topics for an IRC channel? If you double-click a channel window in mIRC you can view the last 5 or so topics (at least in my channel), but I'd like to go further back... I don't know if they're stored anywhere though...
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Mar 24, 2012 17:06
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Crankit posted:I like one called SumatraPDF Thanks. This looks good.
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Has there been any scholarly articles produced regarding "Let's Plays"? Is there a better place to ask this question?
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JDanielS posted:Has there been any scholarly articles produced regarding "Let's Plays"? Is there a better place to ask this question?
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Hoops posted:I really have no idea (seriously doubt it though), but what exactly would the focus of the article be anyway? What about Let's Plays is there to write about? I was wondering if anyone had produced writing about what sort of art experience is derived from watching somebody play a videogame. Like, immediately it would seem like a form of cinema, but when you take into account the social interaction that happens it seems like 'cinema' is not the best answer. Also seems like it's a good field for sociology research.
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Crankit posted:There's Foxit, but I understand it has nearly as many bugs/exploit as regular Adobe Reader. Any more info on this? Foxit is the de facto alternative that usually gets recommended in shsc. The only complaint I've got is that it wants to install the ask toolbar as well, but it's not required.
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JDanielS posted:Has there been any scholarly articles produced regarding "Let's Plays"? Is there a better place to ask this question? Here's one: via Wayback Machine And her expanded version here, part 1 of 4, I think. There was also a very silly Linguistics paper some guy wrote about KFJ's Godhand LP. They show up sometimes in the LP sandcastle, cause a massive [stupid] derail, and then buzz off.
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Thanks!
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If I'm reading a loving long .pdf in acrobat, is there any way I can bookmark where I am? I looked around the tools and nothing was terribly evident.
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Speaking of bookmarks, what's the best private web-based bookmark tool to use? I've got a few computers that I use and I would like a good place to store articles I can see myself searching for in the future.
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greazeball posted:Speaking of bookmarks, what's the best private web-based bookmark tool to use? I think Chrome has something like this built in, but I don't really know a lot about it. http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=165139
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ElectricSheep posted:I'm trying to think of a few songs that would be appropriate as ridiculous background "hold" style music...something along the lines of what might play over a "technical difficulties" placard used during older live TV shows. You might also be interested in an instrumental version of Corcovado.
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I have two weeks of vacation coming up in June and wanted to book a plane, but I don't know the exact dates of when I'll be on vacation and probably won't until sometime middle to late next month. What are my options to circumvent the rising cost of plane tickets? Do any airlines offer something that can help me buy my ticket now, but keep the dates a little flexible? If it helps any, I'm in the military and they are pretty generous with people who are on orders, but I was wondering if there's an official way I can handle this now instead of having to wait for my leave orders to come down the week before I go on leave.
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greazeball posted:Speaking of bookmarks, what's the best private web-based bookmark tool to use?
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