Re: [FRIAM] an Android and a 5 lobe screwdriver?

2012-07-31 Thread Douglas Roberts
Steve, one thing you could try, absent the proprietary screwdriver, is to use your hair dryer on low setting to gently heat the phone and drive the water out. Ok, maybe you should use Suzane's hair dryer. Or, you could put the phone in a bag of (uncooked) rice for three days, which will draw the

[FRIAM] where to get adobe cheep?

2012-07-31 Thread Gillian Densmore
Hi all SFCC in it's devign wisdome is teaching Adobe CS products. Suficed to say It'd be handy to have at home-for eas of completing classes-and might be handy later. However I am wincing at the 600 Adobe is asking for there latest software sweet (CS6) Any ideas where to get it a bit less?

Re: [FRIAM] where to get adobe cheep?

2012-07-31 Thread Steve Smith
Gil - Hi all SFCC in it's devign wisdome is teaching Adobe CS products. Suficed to say It'd be handy to have at home-for eas of completing classes-and might be handy later. However I am wincing at the 600 Adobe is asking for there latest software sweet (CS6) Any ideas where to get it a bit

Re: [FRIAM] an Android and a 5 lobe screwdriver?

2012-07-31 Thread Owen Densmore
I've got the tools I used to fix my screen .. it has a pentalobe as I think they're called. Also the head magnifier etc. -- Owen On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 11:14 PM, Steve Smith sasm...@swcp.com wrote: I dropped my iPhone in my pond while cleaning the pump filter... fished it out within 10

Re: [FRIAM] where to get adobe cheep?

2012-07-31 Thread Tom Johnson
Adobe does offer educator and student prices, which are relatively affordable. But about a year ago I ponied up $140 for Acrobat X, via an educational reseller, and never could get the damn thing installed because of the Adobe Paranoia (trademark pending) in terms of all the often-conflicting

Re: [FRIAM] where to get adobe cheep?

2012-07-31 Thread Douglas Roberts
http://www.gimp.org/windows/ On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Douglas Roberts d...@parrot-farm.netwrote: No one has mentioned the GIMP (Gnu Image Manipulation Program) as a free alternative. Functionally equivalent, +/- to Photoshop according to lots of reviews. --Doug On Tue, Jul 31,

Re: [FRIAM] where to get adobe cheep?

2012-07-31 Thread Douglas Roberts
No one has mentioned the GIMP (Gnu Image Manipulation Program) as a free alternative. Functionally equivalent, +/- to Photoshop according to lots of reviews. --Doug On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 12:07 PM, Tom Johnson t...@jtjohnson.com wrote: Adobe does offer educator and student prices, which are

Re: [FRIAM] an Android and a 5 lobe screwdriver?

2012-07-31 Thread Steve Smith
I've got the tools I used to fix my screen .. it has a pentalobe as I think they're called. Also the head magnifier etc. -- Owen Thanks! Between you and Guerin I'm set All Doug offered me was a bag of rice and a hair dryer to cook it with! Do you know he roasts his own coffee

Re: [FRIAM] an Android and a 5 lobe screwdriver?

2012-07-31 Thread Douglas Roberts
Apple is the next Micro$oft; reason enough for me to stay with Linux, Android, Google. At least until Google turns into the next Micro$oft. I like saying Micro$oft. --Doug On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Steve Smith sasm...@swcp.com wrote: I've got the tools I used to fix my screen .. it

Re: [FRIAM] where to get adobe cheep?

2012-07-31 Thread Steve Smith
http://www.gimp.org/windows/ On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Douglas Roberts d...@parrot-farm.net mailto:d...@parrot-farm.net wrote: No one has mentioned the GIMP (Gnu Image Manipulation Program) as a free alternative. Functionally equivalent, +/- to Photoshop according to

Re: [FRIAM] where to get adobe cheep?

2012-07-31 Thread Douglas Roberts
GaDOING! This interesting little nugget right towards the end got my undivided attention. Pick a convenient time we're there! On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Steve Smith sasm...@swcp.com wrote: PPS and as a reward for Doug (and anyone else) for reading the whole diatribe (or cutting to

Re: [FRIAM] where to get adobe cheep?

2012-07-31 Thread Gillian Densmore
at SFCC there's a cource called 'digital basics' that I'm taking this fall that at least from what I've been told by the prof that teaches the class covers the basics of quite a bit of the adobe ecology (nonspecific to which bits of tools).At some point I had some interest in learning about the

Re: [FRIAM] Let the gun-control vs information-wants-to-be-free wars begin!

2012-07-31 Thread bandit
http://www.ted.com/talks/marc_goodman_a_vision_of_crimes_in_the_future.html The problem is - he is a cop, and sees life thru the lenses of a cop. and cops want control. Of course, one example he gives is the drug war - but does not examine root cause. ... bandit Hmmm I suppose this is a bit

[FRIAM] Fwd: iClarified - Apple News - Hulu Plus is Now Available on the Apple TV

2012-07-31 Thread Owen Densmore
Hulu+ is now in the iDevice (phone, tv, pad, pod) ecology. http://www.iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=23582 Question: Is Hulu+ better than or complementary to Amazon prime or NetFlix streaming or iTunes? I've looked before but they didn't seem to have distinguished themselves from everyone