Posts by UnabashedGeek

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 less than the time available before bedtime. Entering the runtimes manually involved a manual search with a magnifying glass to read the text on the DVD cover! Some time into the development I added a button in my app which invokes a browser window and a google search for "movie" plus the movie title for the current database item. Better, but not as direct as a link into IMDB. (I used Delphi with an Access database.)

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 been a safety margin, and the coordinate system was a way to simplify accommodating this, which is now baked into today's interface.

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 wasn't up to seeing the patterns with all the distractions of poorly written numbers and indistinct crossings-out. (Old eyes - I graduated with my Computerscience degree in 1970.) Anyway, I never got around to writing a program for Sudoku, but I did develop a method and skills to solve ordinary puzzles (not the diabolical ones) without writing any numbers except the final ones. (I call this "Naked Sudoku" - mostly to encourage clicks on the post I wrote!) Not writing any small numbers keeps the view clean, and provides extra mental exercise - not as much as writing a program, but I had my fill of that kind of frustration, learning to write my own wordpress theme. Everything is so abstracted these days, with tools, code generators and helpers piled on top of precompilers and compilers. And then Jetpack and Wordpress interpret your intentions and Google Adsense changes content on the fly and you have to consider varying screen sizes. But that's progress. I think.

Congratulations on navigating a new tool your post. Enjoy your retirement, I do.

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 this is way too obvious, but have you tried just dragging the edge of your chrome window to the size you want? The OP was not talking about a size issue per se, he was lamenting the absence of the resize buttons in the app version. If you now have a true Window, then the normal window protocols apply.