Re: [CGUYS] combining PDFs

2010-03-10 Thread chad evans wyatt
Betts, I do this constantly with Acrobat, but you appear not to have that, and I salute your rejection.  An irritating program (no easy insertion of the international characters essential to my activity, and do not even bring up Illustrator).  Tried to find a way to do your task with Preview, gu

Re: [CGUYS] combining PDFs

2010-03-10 Thread t.piwowar
On Mar 10, 2010, at 11:21 PM, b_s-wilk wrote: I have 11 1-page pdfs that I'd like to combine into one file. I'm tired. I know I can do this with simple tools, but don't remember which ones. I don't have Adobe Acrobat that runs in OS X. I do have InDesign and a collection of freeware and shar

Re: [CGUYS] All Your Apps Are Belong to Apple

2010-03-10 Thread chad evans wyatt
Speaking in support of Mike's sentiment ,  shouldn't we be looking at the current norm of hack as reason for Apple's conservatism?  An open web has proven unsustainable, too many bad actors.  We read everywhere accounts of those responsible for highly sensitive data not taking care of

Re: [CGUYS] Twist in school spying scandal

2010-03-10 Thread MrMike6by9
I read this at TUAW this morning: Remote webcam activation now disabled in software that led to controversy at Pennsylvania school by Mel Martin (RSS feed) on Mar 8th, 2010 The suburban Philadelphia school being investigated for spying on students using MacBook laptops will lose the ability to tu

Re: [CGUYS] combining PDFs

2010-03-10 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
There is a program from software 995 but I am not sure if it runs on the Mac. Stewart At 10:21 PM 3/10/2010, you wrote: I have 11 1-page pdfs that I'd like to combine into one file. I'm tired. I know I can do this with simple tools, but don't remember which ones. I don't have Adobe Acrobat th

[CGUYS] combining PDFs

2010-03-10 Thread b_s-wilk
I have 11 1-page pdfs that I'd like to combine into one file. I'm tired. I know I can do this with simple tools, but don't remember which ones. I don't have Adobe Acrobat that runs in OS X. I do have InDesign and a collection of freeware and shareware. [Mac OS X v.10.5.8]

Re: [CGUYS] A Multigenerational Look at the iPad

2010-03-10 Thread Paula Minor
"The second market of aging baby boomers and the greatest generation may be even more significant in that it is mostly untapped. This market has been largely bypassed by the information age. The majority is off the grid and many are computer phobic. The PC or smart phone is not intuitive to

Re: [CGUYS] All Your Apps Are Belong to Apple

2010-03-10 Thread t.piwowar
On Mar 10, 2010, at 9:50 PM, John Duncan Yoyo wrote: I wonder if Apple will allow any more federal apps since the agreement was gotten out of NASA with a FOA request. Of course they will. Just like they declined to censor Playboy.

Re: [CGUYS] A Multigenerational Look at the iPad

2010-03-10 Thread Chris Dunford
> > To be fair there are a few surface' platforms out there but not many.  Has > > anyone ever seen one in use? > > Yeah, on TV shows and in movies, thanks to CGI and animation. > > Steve Well, it's not quite THAT bad. They do exist, and they are in use. I know that some hotels use them (Sh

Re: [CGUYS] Off Topic, But Really Interesting

2010-03-10 Thread John Duncan Yoyo
I like the fact that the put seven circles below the crust of the earth. Somebody must like Dante. On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 9:22 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshall < revsamarsh...@earthlink.net> wrote: > Chart is pretty accurate. > > Stewart > > > > At 06:47 PM 3/10/2010, you wrote: > > I don't thing the

Re: [CGUYS] All Your Apps Are Belong to Apple

2010-03-10 Thread John Duncan Yoyo
I wonder if Apple will allow any more federal apps since the agreement was gotten out of NASA with a FOA request. On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 8:31 PM, tjpa wrote: > On Mar 10, 2010, at 4:12 PM, mike wrote: > >> A short editorial from EFF about the app situation at Apple. Someone else >> on the list

Re: [CGUYS] Off Topic, But Really Interesting

2010-03-10 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
Chart is pretty accurate. Stewart At 06:47 PM 3/10/2010, you wrote: I don't thing the Rev. is a Scientologist. Should have checked the chart before picking a flock. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules,

Re: [CGUYS] All Your Apps Are Belong to Apple

2010-03-10 Thread tjpa
On Mar 10, 2010, at 4:12 PM, mike wrote: A short editorial from EFF about the app situation at Apple. Someone else on the list brought up Apple's new contract with developers believing this would help developers..I don't think so because Apple has been telling developers the rules all along,

Re: [CGUYS] Off Topic, But Really Interesting

2010-03-10 Thread tjpa
On Mar 10, 2010, at 6:37 PM, phartz...@gmail.com wrote: Eh, they left out the Scientologists. That group would likely blow all the others away as far as upper levels of income. I don't thing the Rev. is a Scientologist. Should have checked the chart before picking a flock. ***

Re: [CGUYS] Off Topic, But Really Interesting

2010-03-10 Thread phartz...@gmail.com
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 6:20 PM, tjp wrote: > http://awesome.good.is/transparency/web/1002/almighty-dollar/transparency.jpg Eh, they left out the Scientologists. That group would likely blow all the others away as far as upper levels of income. Steve *

[CGUYS] Off Topic, But Really Interesting

2010-03-10 Thread tjp
http://awesome.good.is/transparency/web/1002/almighty-dollar/transparency.jpg I want to see one like this divided up by operating system. I guess this one is about operating systems of a different kind. * ** List info,

Re: [CGUYS] Twist in school spying scandal

2010-03-10 Thread Jeff Miles
You guys seem to have a whole lot of information the rest of us don't. He was a troubled kid? Where'd this come from? And what's your definition? Was he killing cats? Also, from what's been written here, the school only looked when it was discovered the insurance hadn't been paid. So I a

Re: [CGUYS] Sue Me Sue You

2010-03-10 Thread chad evans wyatt
Sobering insight, Tom.  Better to know this, than to jaunt down the road unaware... --- On Wed, 3/10/10, tjpa wrote: From: tjpa Subject: Re: [CGUYS] Sue Me Sue You To: COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM Date: Wednesday, March 10, 2010, 3:54 PM On Mar 10, 2010, at 9:04 AM, Michael Fernando wrote:

[CGUYS] All Your Apps Are Belong to Apple

2010-03-10 Thread mike
A short editorial from EFF about the app situation at Apple. Someone else on the list brought up Apple's new contract with developers believing this would help developers..I don't think so because Apple has been telling developers the rules all along, the problem is Apple keeps moving the goal pos

Re: [CGUYS] Sue Me Sue You

2010-03-10 Thread tjpa
On Mar 10, 2010, at 9:04 AM, Michael Fernando wrote: (specially ...er... nice __how__ Sun fended off both Apple and Microsoft.) No nice at all. All these huge companies pretend to sue each other and then settle by swapping patent portfolios. So all of them get access to a huge pool of pate

[CGUYS] Sue Me Sue You

2010-03-10 Thread Michael Fernando
Very interesting ... this is why software patents are evil. Jobs delivered his threat to Sun personally, Schwartz said, calling his office to say the graphics in Sun's operating system 3D interface, Project Looking Glass, were "stepping all over Apple's IP," and that if Sun commercialized it, "I

Re: [CGUYS] Twist in school spying scandal

2010-03-10 Thread phartz...@gmail.com
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 7:10 PM, Art Clemons wrote: > Suspecting someone has something and having proof that same individual > has it are two different things and usually two different sets of > circumstances too. This is true, and it is too bad that the school apparently forgot about that fact