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Seven's Second Channel To Launch November 1
October 26th, 2009 at 2:50 PM7 might be the most user unfriendly channel of the lot. Their track record of changing timeslots for major programs, seemingly at a whim (probably some mistaken commercial based decision) is simply epic.
Their treatment of The Sopranos and recently, Lost are cases in point. I for one was driven away and reluctantly just downloaded the episodes, had my (small) house parties at a regular, reliable and sensible time and got on with things. 7 missed me and my friends watching their ads and generally commercial TV lost friends.
Looks like their absurdly late entry into this market will partly be aimed at showing SF they’ve bought (including the still outstanding Lost). Remains to be seen whether they’ll show things which are current and stick with their programming coz as it is I try and avoid 7 as much as pos.
I reckon the targeting Go (9) has done may work – I’m not young but I know and appreciate what they are programming and I guess being a season late with the venerable and still best of class Survivor is tolerable.
Best Tools For Reading And Creating PDFs
October 14th, 2009 at 10:07 PMShould say – I have no, zilch connection with Adobe – I owe them nothing, if anything, after this, they owe me!
Best Tools For Reading And Creating PDFs
October 14th, 2009 at 10:04 PMHave to be seriously boring here – but having tried a lot of non Adobe apps there is just no real competition to Acrobat!
Any of the free printer drivers do the job fine for everyday jobs which lack complexity or the need for signing or locking but for anything beyond that the competition is badly lacking in sophistication and reliability.
For reading Acrobat is, again, outstanding (if not perfect). I often use Google Docs (esp for pdfs in gmail).
Having said that, wild horses and a their 7 riders would never force me to install Adobe Reader – the bastard overweight and wayward son of the reputable father.
So after all that I don’t have much to offer – except – throw the baby out but keep the bathwater – Acrobat is great software for serious work.
Check Firefox Extension Settings After Upgrading
September 15th, 2009 at 10:49 PMI haven’t seen any “glitches” at all. Maybe for a full version change but the security updates and so have been seamless – and I run a LOT of extensions.
Anyway Firefox by default informs me (one) of any extension incompatibility and turns the offending extension off – so exactly what is the advice you are proffering – coz I don’t see the point of it.
Understand 'Best Before' And 'Use By' Dates
September 9th, 2009 at 10:32 PMFor some soft cheeses I look for the ones past their “best by” dates because whoever sets these dates has no understanding of glories of a mature cheese and until they reach the date they are mostly tasteless Philly.
Most bottles of sauces and the like are so packed with preservatives, sugar and salt that they will last till hell freezes over whatever it says on the label.
Making The Best Of Airline Food
September 7th, 2009 at 12:30 PMHa! Eat and enjoy is my tactic. Passes the time, makes you feel at one with the community, gives me something to practice my critical faculties on, stories to tell after the event, be amazed at what they can do with everyday items of food, allow reflection on what they are getting in first-class, practice organisational skills (the bread roll goes here, the wrapping peels off this way etc).
Use Google Calendar To Send Free SMS
August 27th, 2009 at 1:32 AMBeen doing on occasion for a while but its a hassle, best left to those who are truly broke, and whose prepaid has run out.
But the gCal SMS reminders are a treat, I couldn’t believe it when I saw them a couple of years ago. Save my forgetful skin more than once!
Are On-Screen Keyboards Really More Secure?
August 27th, 2009 at 1:23 AMI’m using KeyScrambler a piece of software that encrypts key strokes within browsers and other software (in particular there is a Firefox add-on). Who knows, it claims to defeat Key loggers by allowing the logging but providing scrambled (encrypted) results. http://www.qfxsoftware.com/.
In my experience Key Loggers inserted by rootkits are the serious baddy in all of this. Not detected by most AVs, nor your malware checkers (which renders all that security useless – but we know that already, don’t we?
Make Better Black And White Conversions In Photoshop
August 25th, 2009 at 7:32 PMThe whole process of converting color to b&w is so arcane and complex that it should challenge the most serious amateur.
Certainly the old desaturate technique is pretty passe for good reason.
However if you are running Photoshop CS4 the adjustment “b&w” will be more than adequate for most purposes (allowing for many fine adjustments and including presets) – Helen Bradley’s suggestion really is only one of many – I mean MANY – and one I had minimal success with it.
Picasa’s results were OK with a couple of photos so I tried my favorite viewer/quick editor FastStone Image Viewer (http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDownload.htm)(also free) and got very good results. (Just a user).
Four Corners Investigates Online Crime
August 18th, 2009 at 1:25 AMIt was simplistic and rather observational rather than probing or offering either any solutions (oh, except the “secure your wireless network”). Whilst it talked about bots and zombies it actually gave no hint about detection or protection or recovery.
It was also hard to grasp the quality of the police work.
Their inability to use the Criminal bulletin board (they were “shocked” by the extent of criminality on offer – that alone worried me a bit) that they’d accessed and their big bust which appeared to result in nothing more than “uncertainty” that the hacker would be charged gave me further cause for concern.
The Feds outrage at the magistrates sentencing in a successful prosecution also left me non-plussed as it is clearly the responsibility – no duty – of the prosecutor to ensure that the court is provided with the information which will leave the court properly informed and therefore able to sentence appropriately.
There seemed to be a big attack coming on Telstra but 4Corners pulled that punch at the last moment.
All-in-all a very unsatisfying report.
Trillian Astra Leaves Beta, Rolls Out Bug-Fixes And Features Galore
August 15th, 2009 at 10:28 PMI feel discomfort as well, possibly exacerbated by Angus’s rather defensive tone and his disingenuous claim regarding tagging advertising.
Truth is that Digsby is as good a piece of software today as it was yesterday – and that means it’s excellent and highly regarded by Lifehacker readers (see recent Hive-Fives). To keep going they are trying to make some money. All of those techniques WERE flagged but also were probably excessive and not well explained. Digsby have made an explanation, even an apology and all of us can easily opt out of all their money raising. Reading the responses to their explanation it would seem many users are perfectly happy with the distributed computing “functionality” realizing that it is unobtrusive and “necessary”.
At best your “Contributing-Editor’s” article was rather a rant and given Lifehacker’s influence even unbalanced.
Lifehacker’s value was always that it made interesting recommendations and suggestions not that it indulged in software “politics”. It is a slippery slope you stand on. Besides the commenters can hold unbalanced views quite legitimately.
Aussies Addicted To External Hard Drives
June 17th, 2009 at 6:49 PMBandwidth charges are a joke – how did we ever get to this place.
But external hard drives are indeed great. Jeez $160 for a brand name package with 1Tb (hint: NOT at HarveyNorman). Sure not the greatest transfer speeds (it is USB2 after-all) but plenty good enough to watch a HD fillum and great for partition images. It doesn’t have to last forever coz, well nothing lasts forever!
Windows 7 Reality Check: It Can Still Suck Big Time
June 12th, 2009 at 4:05 PMFirstly, its unclear to me how this fits being a Lifehacker post. Its not helpful to anyone, offers no solution or even a course to a solution.
Secondly, who knows what your problem is? you’ve posted a bare minimum on your rigs set-up so no-one reading this can actually suggest much to help (look above – no-one has!).
Thirdly – your’e right – one swallow does not a summer make – and this is a pretty lonely swallow indeed. The positive reviews and posts by experts and users pretty well everywhere do not come from nowhere. There isn’t software on the planet which never fails, maybe this was just bad luck.
Suggestions: Try the SevenForums http://www.sevenforums.com/
Try the latest build: Windows 7 Build 7229, RC keys work fine with the build
7229.0.090604-1901_x86fre_client_en-us_OEM_Ultimate-GRMCULFREO_EN_DVD.iso
Good luck
Google Maps To Add Public Transport For Canberra, (Sydney)
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:56 AMAdelaidian: I’ve used this quite a bit – it does need a bit of fiddling sometimes but both the routes and times seem pretty good (pity the actual services are hardly ever on time).
Great for discovering which bus to connect to and how long the trips will take.
The Bing Features Australia Won't Be Getting
May 29th, 2009 at 8:41 PMLooks like its got some skills, if it’s hard to use or if the features are hidden it will fail. At least some of what it seems to offer can be pulled out of google, and much of its power is very commercially oriented, so I’m feeling that when I actually want to search Google will be it.