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I'm a retired IT Manager who still maintains a number of WordPress sites using my own custom theme. Very occasionally I do some Windows development using Delphi, and have several home-built apps that I use to organize my life.

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Nice work! I wish I'd known about the IMDB API. I wrote a database application to keep track of my movie DVDs and one of the fields is runtime, so I can search for a video which I rated well, haven't seen in a few years, and has a runtime …

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Stupidly, I clicked on an email attachment with an htlm extension to see what the scam was. I think I was expecting it to open in a text editor, but it ran. (Dumb, dumb, dumb!) Anyway, I've paid my dues by restoring over a terabyte of backup onto two disks. …

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I certainly don't know, but I wonder if the origin of this is something to do with the over-scan technology on cathode ray tubes (CRTs) where you can never be sure exactly which parts of the tube would be visible on a specific monitor. The 7 pixels may have originally …

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Who's up for a puzzle? About two months ago, I began to have troubles using the Town of Oakville's web site where I book fitness class spots. In places where there should be text, it's blank. My feeling is that this began intermittently, but I may be wrong. Today it …

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Just came across this post. My wife (ex-IT type as well) is a Sudoku fanatic, and I always used to tell her I'd prefer to beat my brains out writing a program to solve the puzzles than slogging through the mechanics of traditional "pencilling" methods. I also found my eyesight …

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I don't remember having any problems putting Chrome on Win 8.1. I do hate the "apps" though, they take over an entire screen and can't be minimised or resized (except to a half screen option). They just don't "play nice" with desktop windows. Solution: don't use them. @MsLeannInnocent-excuse me if …

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[QUOTE=Nandomo;1474303]Tomorrow I have to recover some information for someone on a non-working computer running windows 7. I can't get to safe mode, get it to boot normally or do a working startup repair, but I can get to the command prompt using a program I have. How would I use …

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