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Draheid
Moderator

09-09-2001

Saturday, June 19, 2004 - 10:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Twinkie: You should be able to use Irfanview's screen capture to grab the single image you want while playing in QuickTime.

Resortgirl
Member

09-23-2000

Sunday, June 20, 2004 - 7:28 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Hi Dra,
I use the program Weather Bug to get local weather but since I've downloaded a internet accelerator through my local internet provider I can no longer access it. It says I need to allow Weather Bug access through my firewall. I don't know what that is, or how to allow access. Can you help? Thanks Dra!!!

Draheid
Moderator

09-09-2001

Sunday, June 20, 2004 - 10:42 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Resortgirl: Your firewall program should prompt you to allow Weatherbug to access the internet. If you were prompted and inadvertantly denied access, you will need to open the firewall control panel and locate the program settings for what is allowed and change Weatherbug's permission there. I presume the accelerator program has some integral firewall setup that is causing this. I'm not familiar with this type of program, unfortunately. You may need to check with your ISP's support pages and see if they address the issue if you aren't able to locate the control panel yourself.

Let me know if I can help.

Bigd
Member

09-13-2001

Sunday, June 20, 2004 - 10:55 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I had very bad experiences with Weatherbug - lots of adware attached to it. So I stopped using it and just subscribed to mycast.com. I can get 3-4 weather updates in my email plus quick links to their site for more in-depth forcast. It also has a great feature for other areas of the country that you make you personalized favorites.
http://www.my-cast.com/index.jsp

Resortgirl
Member

09-23-2000

Sunday, June 20, 2004 - 11:02 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks Dra and BigD... I'll try the my-cast! So I can keep you informed on the weather while you're sunning yourself here!

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Sunday, June 20, 2004 - 11:11 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Had the same problem with Weatherbug too.

Whoami
Member

08-03-2001

Sunday, June 20, 2004 - 3:38 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Do antenna boosters on cell phones really help at all? Or are they just a fad thing to sell to gullable folk like me? Same goes for those "wave blockers" or whatever it is that is supposed to keep you from getting a brain tumor (or whatever it is) from using a cell phone.

Draheid
Moderator

09-09-2001

Sunday, June 20, 2004 - 5:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Whoami: I tried one of the 'As Seen On TV' cellular antenna boosters on one of my cellphones and could not tell any difference in signal strength or reliability of getting a signal with or without this installed.

As far as the 'wave blockers', I never installed one on my cellphone and after having a tumor removed, while continuing to use the cellphone frequently, followup MRIs at 6 month intervals for almost 2 years after my surgery, came back 'clean' according to my neurosurgeon. I presume this means the cellphone didn't cause any problems?

You're not the only 'gullable' one as I did make this $20 purchase and had no luck with improved service or protection of my health.

Whoami
Member

08-03-2001

Friday, June 25, 2004 - 2:37 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks for the answers Dra. Sorry for my insensitive remark about cell phones and brain tumors. I should have remembered your ordeal. But I am glad to hear you've had good results since your surgery.

Draheid
Moderator

09-09-2001

Friday, June 25, 2004 - 10:18 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Ah, Whoami: I don't think your remark was insensitive at all - I just couldn't imagine too many people who could state factually the results of testing under the conditions you were justifiably concerned about. {{{{{Whoami}}}}}

Twinkie
Member

09-24-2002

Monday, June 28, 2004 - 8:46 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
The Weather Channel has a free download that will give you a forecast AND give you the outside temp in a little box down in the taskbar.

Urgrace
Member

08-19-2000

Friday, July 02, 2004 - 8:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Question: I have a DVD Player. I hooked up the red/yellow/white cord - OUT- from the dvd player to - IN - on my set top cable box and plugged in the power. The dvd player works but I'm not getting the picture/sound on my tv.
My tv doesn't have the red/white/yellow plug ins on it.

(Do I have to have the S power cord too? Isn't it the same as the red/white/yellow, just a little better pic for digital?)



Draheid
Moderator

09-09-2001

Friday, July 02, 2004 - 9:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Urgrace: I don't recall there being any IN connections on the back of any cable boxes. There are usually two sets of OUT connections of the red/yellow/white plus the S-video OUT. If your televisions doesn't have these inputs, you'll need either a VCR or a stand-alone RF Modulator to connect the DVD to your TV.

You know how to reach me if you'd like to talk about this.

Hope this helps.

Urgrace
Member

08-19-2000

Friday, July 02, 2004 - 9:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thank you Dra. I will get in touch.

Starshine40
Member

07-30-2002

Tuesday, July 06, 2004 - 5:47 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Back on Sat. June 5th Draheid typed:
"Saturday, June 05, 2004 - 10:48 am
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While researching an answer for Jan, I discovered another really cool 'feature' of Netscape 7 (I don't know if these apply to IE or older versions of NS though). While viewing a page, if you type the apostrophe (') and begin typing a word, Netscape searches the page for a link containg what you type, as you type. If you type a forward slash (/) and type, it searches for the text you type. After you've entered the word, to search for more instances of that word, press the F3 key to search the rest of the page. Give this a try, go to the General Discussions Archives where you will find 200+ threads and tap the ' or / key and start typing a word to see if there is a thread title with that word in it.

Ok, I just checked Internet Explorer 6 and could not find a similar feature. Pretty cool, huh?"

In IE if you click on "edit" at the top of the browser then click on "find" it will bring up a box and you just type in a word and it will find that word (every occurrence) on that page.



Starshine40
Member

07-30-2002

Tuesday, July 06, 2004 - 6:01 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Draheid, ignore my above post, I found I had posted this info. earlier last month, duh!

On IE you can set the browser to dump the cache (temporary files) whenever the browser is closed. Just click on "tools" on the browser, then click on "internet options" and click on the "advanced" tab. Scroll way down to the
"Security" section and make sure there is a check mark in the box "empty temporary internet files folder when browser is closed". Once you have rebooted the computer it will take effect.

Dahli
Member

11-27-2000

Tuesday, July 06, 2004 - 8:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
This is such a silly question I had no idea where to ask.... but since my hard drive turned to mush over the weekend and I've had to reload everything to a new one
I downloaded and am using Netscape 7.1 for this site. I keep getting a "Select User Box" everytime I move into a new area on the board... it asks me to 'select a username to be entered on this form' and lists my name twice. I've checked in profiles and preferences and can't find anything that gets rid of this little annoyance. Can anyone help? Thanks!

Draheid
Moderator

09-09-2001

Tuesday, July 06, 2004 - 8:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Dahli: Click on 'Edit - Preferences' then expand 'Privacy & Security' and click on 'Passwords'. Now click on 'Manage Passwords' and delete anything you find in there for TVCH (tvclubhouse.bomis.com) and try again. I personally recommend not using the remember password feature for most people, you might consider this too.

Hope this helps.

Dahli
Member

11-27-2000

Wednesday, July 07, 2004 - 8:38 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks Dra! I will try that

Dahli
Member

11-27-2000

Wednesday, July 07, 2004 - 8:45 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
OK it worked and now I will try to figure out how to get it to stop asking me if I want it to remember my password... ;-)

Dahli
Member

11-27-2000

Wednesday, July 07, 2004 - 8:45 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
ok figured that out too... you're swell Dra

Starshine40
Member

07-30-2002

Sunday, July 11, 2004 - 11:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Does anyone have an older computer with a 5 1/2 in disk drive who could copy a 5 1/2 in disk to a 3 1/4 inch disk or to a CD????? It's the software for a printer I was going to give my son. But need the disk copied to be able to use it. Will pay for it plus postage. Please email me starshine40@excite.com


Draheid
Moderator

09-09-2001

Sunday, July 11, 2004 - 11:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Starshine40: If you will give me the brand and model of the printer, I can probably locate the software for you online to download and save onto a diskette yourself. That would probably be much easier then trying to find a way to transfer from 5¼" diskette.

Hope this helps™

Whoami
Member

08-03-2001

Monday, July 12, 2004 - 1:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Oh gosh, he's trademarked his sig line!

Jmm
Member

08-16-2002

Monday, July 12, 2004 - 1:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
What can I say Who, he's a goofball. :-)