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Kev
15y ago
I've been using the new design for about a week and overall I think it's an improvement, but I've been griping non-stop about the chat/contact area hogging space even when you drag it down as small as possible. This comment started out as a
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Kev
16y ago
I'd suggest having a look at XFCE. It's similar enough to Gnome that you probably won't struggle to get used to it. It's also been more stable for me than recent versions of Gnome and as a bonus it's much lighter on system resources.
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Kev
16y ago
>On Android, voice dialing requires you pull out the phone and press a button That might be a quirk on your particular model of phone or headset, or maybe it was fixed with 2.2. The N1 definitely supports the headset button for voice co
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Kev
16y ago
I think that it's disingenuous to point out the many ways to call a function across half a dozen languages while completely ignoring how many ways there can be to say something just in English. Think of playing a text-based adventure game a
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Kev
16y ago
> "Draw a red circle" is enough to get a red circle. Yes, but once you have to say "Draw a circle in this shade of red, give it a black border this thick, make it this big and put it at these coordinates" things are starting to get unwi
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Kev
16y ago
You can avoid entering spaces by lifting your finger when it isn't touching the centre area. It disrupts the flow significantly when you do so but it does let you stop half way through a word without putting in an extra space. After playing
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Kev
16y ago
Yes, that reminded me of http://pomegranatephone.com/ - which is old but brilliant.
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Kev
16y ago
I agree that not including the price in the article is silly. At the same time - the price is one click away in the liliputing article linked below the video. They also tell you to visit the link to get the price, no video-watching necessar
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16y ago
I'm sure that I'm not the only one here who's seen people who should know better email encrypted files with the password in plain text in the email body. The simplest solution that I've managed to come up with so far is to send the encrypte
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Kev
16y ago
Using https just means that your connection to the server is encrypted. Your email will still be sent between mail servers unencrypted unless you encrypt it separately.
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Kev
17y ago
It would at least make extracting the bullet easier by keeping the fragments contained in fabric. Dragging the fabric along with it would probably slow the bullet down a lot faster too - meaning shallower penetration. Reminded me of the the