Your opinion, what would you do different?

Visit this site
Pullher.com and let me know what
you think, its my first real project designing a site and I'm
pretty new to Dreamweaver. Any advice you have from the colours
used to anything would be helpful? Just let me know what you would
do different?
Also notice the banner and if you think its too plain and
simple?

"pullher" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:es4qni$qrl$[email protected]..
> Visit this site
http://www.pullher.com and let me
know what you think, its
> my
> first real project designing a site and I'm pretty new
to Dreamweaver. Any
> advice you have from the colours used to anything would
be helpful? Just
> let me
> know what you would do different?
> Also notice the banner and if you think its too plain
and simple?
It's a nice design, better than most! Just a couple of
thoughts:
-- The overall dimensions of the content area seem very
small. Why only 575
px wide? Even if you're trying to accommodate users with the
lowest
resolution/smallest browser windows, you could go up to about
770 px wide,
and that would be being conservative.
-- Centering a paragraph of text makes it harder to read,
since the eyes
have to keep returning to a new, different spot on the left
to begin each
line.
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Do this first...
Check that your Mac meets the System Requirements for Snow Leopard...
Snow Leopard Tech Specs
http://support.apple.com/kb/SP575
If so... Purchase a Snow Leopard Install Disc...
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC573Z/A/mac-os-x-106-snow-leopard
Other countries...
http://support.apple.com/kb/HE57
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Suggestion BOX for Premiere Pro!!! Add your suggestions. what would you like to see in CS 6.5 or CS7

1. I would appreciate if you could import and link files like in avid media composer.
Sometimes we work on bigger projects and from different computers, but if I open the project on another computer I have to relink the files, what sometimes is really annoying, and sometimes I take my work home, but can't, since the files are placed on different servers/locations I just can access at work. So, the "real" import would be very helpful.
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5. Is it already possible to choose a window via keyboard???
If the source monitor is activated and I want to activate the timeline, can I do this without using the mouse, like (alt+F4)? Jumping between the source-project monitor, project window, timeline .... This would increase my work SPEED also if you in the source monitor and want to jump into the effects panel should be possible without mouse (tab).
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7. Multicam
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Editing in MULTICAM MODUS is sometimes still a pain. We want edit sometimes in Multicam - Monitor, but every time I stop recording and press play and just want to change the camera, I get an new edit I don't want (and rec turns automatically on) Then when th rec is on and I go frame by frame and click in the multicam monitor on the camera I want, it doesn't add an edit. This all is so weird and makes multicam uncomfortable to work.
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Thx for this input and information!
I'll try it.
1&2. Most of the time, the files get moved from one server to another where I have no influence on it. That's why import is so important to me, and still have to work on avid media composer.
4. I knew that it'll work like this this , but I still hope it's going to be easier in future, so I can avoid an extra sequenz
5. Thx a lot, because I couldn't find out, and this will speed up my work speed
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Tic-Tac-Toe [ What would you do different? ]

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import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
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               displayBoard();
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Thanks.

1. disassociate any program logic from UI so that it
can easily be ported to a GUI such as swing>
As for 1, are you talking about the getInput method?
Thats the only method that associates logic with UI
as far as I'm concerned and when it is ported into a
GUI, the user wont have the ability to select a
square out of range so that logic wont even exist. Is
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Admittedly w/ 2-D tictactoe, this may not be quite so relevant.
addendum: check out Model-view-controller on wikipedia.
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As to woodmeister50 comment of : Also, with Win8, many third party add on companies have dropped support etc. is that not the same for Mavericks ?!
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HT4061 I lost my iPad and am concerned about privacy. What would you do if you lost your iPad to ensure privacy?

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Hello MyFico Community,
I am trying to build a decent credit profile. Is there anything I should be doing or not doing to improve my Credit Profile? Currently I have one foot in the Garden-LOL!For the last coupe monthsI have been receiving a lot of mailers, Citi, BoA, US Bank, AARP and a few others, so its sort of tempting.  My Fico Scores are:
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Discover $2000 $0
Target $200 $0
Wells Fargo $1700 $0  I've begun using QS and Amex (0%APR) as main go-to cards.
Was also thinking i’d put everything I can on cards and PIF each month to take advantage of the 0% and rewards.
Is this a good plan? I'm still learning how to best utilize my portfolio. Are there other cards I should look at acquiring?  I appreciate any input.

Re: What would you do with this credit profile? I need your expertise.
Options06-15-2015 05:49 AM - edited 06-15-2015 06:03 AM
What I'd do doesn't really matter. These are not one-size-fits-all matters so each needs to determine his/her own strategy and tactics based on the individual's situation, goals, priorities, preferences, etc. IMO you don't know what to do because you're not clear on these matters. Very True, I am not clear but with the help of the community giving me things to consider I am getting there.
You need to define what you needs/want and then prioritize that list. That will give you a list of critiera that you then use to select cards that suit you. Thanks. Good way to focus my thinking about it.
Rewards is a common criteria and if rewards matter to you then you need to look at your spend and where your money is going to select rewards with the most benefit to you. Since i’m going to be using a main CC, I’d rather have cash rewards first or rewards that are versatile for gift cards. I already have a travel card that works well for me so thats not that important.
RandomSpirit wrote:
AAof Credit: Not sure about this Experian/Credit.com- 6.7 years. Credit Sesame says 1.8 months? Thanks. Was wondering where they figured this. AAoA is just an average like any other average. Add up the ages of the accounts and divide by the number of accounts. Many find it easier to convert into months, calculate and then convert back into years. You can use Excel and its date formulas if you don't want to do this manually. There are also online AAoA calculators. Experian is more likely to be correct. CS is probably providing AAoOA.
RandomSpirit wrote:
Was also thinking i’d put everything I can on cards and PIF each month to take advantage of the 0% and rewards. Is this a good plan? You're really not leveraging a 0% offer if you're PIF'ing each month. However, if you're not PIF'ing each month on cards without 0% offers then you're killing rewards.Okay this is confusing, would you mind clarifying? The Amex and QS have 0% interest for well into next year (not sure of exact date, I will look up again) so it would seem that it would not matter if i carry balance or pay in full until the real APR begins next year.
So whats the best way to utilize these as my main cards to get as much cash back(QS) and MR point as possible. Carry balance or pif, or does it not matter in this case for now?
RandomSpirit wrote:
Are there other cards I should look at acquiring?  As with all other request you need to tell us what you need/want so we have something to use to narrow down the options for you.
Now, I am leaning towards low interest being the most important to me, secondly would be cash back.
RandomSpirit wrote:
Was thinking about BoA Cash Rewards offer for 12.99 because of the lower interest rateHere's an example of why a prioritized list of criteria matters. If the lowest possible interest is a priority above all else then you shouldn't be looking at rewards cards as they typically come with higher interest rates. If you want the lowest possible APR you need to fins a barebones card. They're offered with rates as low as 6.x% depending on what you qualify for. This is most important to me
That said, rewards and a low APR aren't mutually exclusive but typically rewards cards will come with a higher APR as you aren't getting something for nothing. While I do try to get my APR's as low as possible you might want to consider why APR is a concern if you're paying in full. In case I ever have to carry a real balance.Not telling you what to do here but consdier such things when prioritizing your list. For example: is a lower APR more important than the biggest rewards for your spend?
RandomSpirit wrote:
Citi Dble Cash and, perhaps
Chase Freedom for sign-up bonus?
Honestly, I was thinking to have a more diversified portfolio. I don;t have any Chase or City cards.So far we have:
• 1 Low APR
• 2-High rewards rate on non-category spend (Double Cash)
• 4-Sign up bonus
• 3-Diversity
Which is most important? Which is least? Where do the rest fall? We can't tell you this. You need to tell us.
Again, I'd recommend looking at your spend and ensuring that your card lineup maxmizes rewards on your spend. The Double Cash is a good option for non category spend but if you haven't found higher rewards for a major spend category that you have then you might want to look into finding something for that category. Thanks for taking the time to offer your suggestions Tekeshi74. If gives me a lot consider.

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Hi,
I started a thread before asking whether I could replace a 256MB card with a 128MB card, even though the interface was a different shape.
But, as I know so little about Macs and graphics card, it seems wiser to ask
What would you replace an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro (256MB) with?
The computer is user for photo editing and normal internet/email use. The photo editing is done on Adobe Photoshop for professional treatment of photographs.
The computer is a Power Mac G5 (1.6GHz) and budge is £80 / $120.
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Hi-
Please check my recommendations in your other thread.
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Graphics Cards- ATI and Nvidia
See my testing pages starting here:
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What would you advise....

Upgrade time is here and I have been lurking on this forum watching for issues etc with the N97
Firstly, would you advise against me getting the phone? If so, what would you advise I replace my N95 8gb with?
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Cheers in advance
PP

There is a lot of confusion about this unwanted software issue on the N97. There is essentially 3 types of storage on the device:
The most obvious is the 32Gig of flash.. this is treated a bit like a USB disk.. Nokia don't put much on there and in some cases installing certain applications to this drive is not possbile. Further to this, when you use the phone in USB storage mode, the "drive" is disconnected from the phone and attached to the PC.. this means the phone has to close any applications that are running on the "e:" and looses its ability to read/write from there. This is a serious problem if you store your message repository on the e: as the phone will revert back to C: and you *may* loose all your messages
Then there is the z:. This is the ROM. and it is just that.. read-only.. If an application is installed there, you won't be able to remove it.. this goes for Quick Office and that boingo thing.. both are terrible apps.. You won't gain anything by removing them BUT there's the problem.. The boingo app is running all the time using RAM in the phone.. Since you can't disable it, it uses RAM rather than storage..
Lastly there's the c:.. this is flash that is always available to the phone. It is where your contacts, message, config, internet/browser cache and most things are stored by default. A bit like c:\windows on a PC.. So, Nokia in their infinite wisdom made it 70meg or so.. Brilliant.. I cannot stress how mind-blowing stupid that decision is and how it continues to ruin everyone's lives.
Many applications are installed on the c: by default. Why? because the 32Gig e: is not always available (see above about USB storage mode). When I transfered all my messages from my previous handset (using the sync thing) I was left with less than 5meg free..
This problem is NEVER going to be fixed.. there simply isn't enough storage on the phone to do this..
This is not the same as the low RAM problem.. the fact that, for example, you receive a text message or email with a hyper-link. you click open.. the web browser opens.. the phone runs out of memory and closes the messages app.. so now when you close the browser, the message app is also closed.. **bleep**?!?!?!?!?!?!
Nokia never fix their products.. ever.. anyone who claims they do is lying! Ok, that's harsh.. but..
In my experience (and I've owned many first gen Nokia products (7110, 7650, 770, 7710, 5800, N97) when Nokia sell a broken product, particularly if it is broken by design, they may release firmware fixes that update SOME stuff.. but they'll never fix most of them.. Instead they'll wait a few months and release a new product that doesn't suffer the same problems..
You'd think the N97 was fixing the problems with the 5800.. but the N97 is a very different beast.. It runs a different not entirely compatible version of S60.. They must know it was flawed from the start, though.. they introduced a Low memory set of features into S60 especially for N97.. Riiiight, Nokia.. you spent time and effort developing a way to handle low memory that actually isn't that good rather than just doubling the RAM in the phone.. how much is a 1Gig dimm these days?
This phone is terribly beta.. Even after v11 has been released it has a truely inconsistent look and feel.. You could get an N97, or you could wait for this fabled n97-mini there's recently been talk of.. or you could opt for a vendor that is trying to compete with Nokia in the smart phone market and so is actually making an effort to produce a phone that doesn't make their quality-assurance department look like kinder-garten nap time..
I've been disappointed with Nokia products before.. but NEVER so much as with the N97.. And in todays market are you going to pick a poor product in the hope that software may fix it later (bearing in mind it took over 3 weeks for Nokia to release the v11 firmware to all the phone versions.. that's right there are 100s of different versions of the N97) or are you going to opt for something the industry already accepts as a stable handset..
It's a shame.. I want to love it.. I've loved Symbian since its EPOC days.. but this phone is terrible in every aspect..
Quick office and Boingo.. that's a bit like bundling AOL and compuserv CD's with windows 95.. It feels that old!

Random kernel panics on iPhone 4 GSM: what would you do?

Hello all,
I'm posting here in hopes that someone could help shed some light on the matter before I give up and send my phone in for repair, provided it will be repaired/replaced given how random this issue is.
I've had an iPhone 4 since November 2010, a GSM unit as I'm in Europe. Jailbroke it on a dull day just to see if I'd have any use for that, restored it to stock firmware (using the backup I had created before applying the jb) about 24 hours later. No trace of jb on it at all nowadays, basically. The phone and the system are as vanilla as they can be. The only customization, so to speak, is the provisioning profiles in my name as I'm an iOS developer.
Ever since March, the phone will sometimes randomly reboot. There is no pattern whatsoever: I may be fiddling with it, I may be keeping it in my pocket, it may be charging, it may be placidly sitting on a table undisturbed. Out of the blue, the Apple logo will show up and the thing will reboot, and won't ask for the PIN either. I hadn't thought much of it as it was very rare, but lately it's become more apparent and I decided to look for some logs.
To my horror, I found that ~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/MobileDevice/Jolliphone/Panics on my Mac was way overpopulated. The weirdest thing is that all the logs look virtually the same, although they all end abruptly in different points (which suggests that they were so brutal that there was no "time" to write the whole thing down.)
Here is an example:
Incident Identifier: [...]
CrashReporter Key:   [...]
Hardware Model:      iPhone3,1
Date/Time:       2011-05-28 10:20:51.833 +0200
OS Version:      iPhone OS 4.3.3 (8J2)
panic(cpu 0 caller 0x8007f3e5): "buf_brelse: bad buffer = 0xd0705fc8\n"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-1735.46/bsd/vfs/vfs_bio.c:2348
Debugger message: panic
OS version: 8J2
Kernel version: Darwin Kernel Version 11.0.0: Wed Mar 30 18:51:10 PDT 2011; root:xnu-1735.46~10/RELEASE_ARM_S5L8930X
iBoot version: iBoot-1072.61
secure boot?: YES
Paniclog version: 1
Epoch Time:        sec       usec
Boot    : 0x4de0afb5 0x00000000
Sleep   : 0x00000000 0x00000000
Wake    : 0x00000000 0x00000000
Calendar: 0x4de0b02c 0x0007b411
Task 0x812e7c60: 10957 pages, 100 threads: pid 0: kernel_task
Task 0x812e7a50: 187 pages, 3 threads: pid 1: launchd
Task 0x812e7210: 152 pages, 2 threads: pid 13: usbethernetshari
Task 0x812e7000: 134 pages, 4 threads: pid 14: syslogd
Task 0x839be840: 543 pages, 2 threads: pid 17: lockdownd
Task 0x839be420: 1068 pages, 23 threads: pid 19: mediaserverd
Task 0x839be210: 383 pages, 3 threads: pid 20: mediaremoted
Task 0x839be000: 342 pages, 3 threads: pid 21: mDNSResponder
Task 0x83ad2c60: 1593 pages, 12 threads: pid 22: locationd
Task 0x83ad2a50: 588 pages, 4 threads: pid 23: imagent
Task 0x83ad2840: 586 pages, 1 threads: pid 24: fairplayd.N90
Task 0x83ad2630: 764 pages, 15 threads: pid 25: configd
Task 0x83ad2420: 407 pages, 4 threads: pid 26: awd_ice3
Task 0x83ad2210: 411 pages, 3 threads: pid 27: apsd
Task 0x83ad2000: 225 pages, 2 threads: pid 28: accessoryd
Task 0x83b8ac60: 6689 pages, 18 threads: pid 29: SpringBoard
          thread 0xc0a780d0
                    kernel backtrace: d2663ac8
                      lr: 0x8006de75 fp: 0xd2663af4
                      lr: 0x8006e085 fp: 0xd2663b14
                      lr: 0x8006e19f fp: 0xd2663b1c
                      lr: 0x80015fed fp: 0xd2663b34
                      lr: 0x8007f3e5 fp: 0xd2663b74
                      lr: 0x8007fec5 fp: 0xd2663b8c
                      lr: 0x8007fedf fp: 0xd2663b94
                      lr: 0x800a256f fp: 0xd2663bd0
                      lr: 0x80132735 fp: 0xd2663bd8
                      lr: 0x80132cd3 fp: 0xd2663c00
                      lr: 0x80158d45 fp: 0xd2663c10
                      lr: 0x80156dab fp: 0xd2663ce0
                      lr: 0x8013393f fp: 0xd2663d08
                      lr: 0x8013399f fp: 0xd2663d18
They are all like that. The only thing that's different is the OS system, which ranges from 4.3 to 4.3.3, and the location that generated the panic:
panic(cpu 0 caller 0x8007f3e5): "buf_brelse: bad buffer = 0xd0704640\n"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-1735.46/bsd/vfs/vfs_bio.c:2348
panic(cpu 0 caller 0x8007f3e5): "buf_brelse: bad buffer = 0xd070aa98\n"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-1735.46/bsd/vfs/vfs_bio.c:2348
panic(cpu 0 caller 0x8007f3e5): "buf_brelse: bad buffer = 0xd06fdf88\n"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-1735.46/bsd/vfs/vfs_bio.c:2348
…and so on. The caller is always 0x8007f3e5, and the buffer location is always in 0x0d6…–0x0d7… range. This is what leads me to think that it may be some memory problem.
As I said there is absolutely no pattern in this. Sometimes it will stay a month without panicking – after a few panics on April 1st, it happened again on May 2nd – yet in other occasions it will panic 4 times within 8 minutes as it happened yesterday morning.
Lately it's been happening more often when I charge it using the wall adapter, but then again it's fairly inconsistent: I have kept it connected since last evening on purpose, and it hasn't panicked once.
I have tried restoring it as a new phone, just to make sure that it wasn't a software problem, and the very same thing happened as soon as I connected to my father's iPad 2 adapter.
If you have read so far, I want to thank you very much for your patience. I'll get to the point: what should I do?
I spent 35 minutes on the phone with AppleCare this morning and was about to give the green light to have it picked up, but the woman told me that I couldn't provide the logs to tech support, and that they'd run some tests on their own and, if they could reproduce the problem, I would get a refurbished phone in place of this one, otherwise they'd send the same unit back. Considering that it's impossible to reproduce it on purpose, I'm afraid that I will just end up being phoneless for two weeks (with the added issue of finding a way to stick this micro-sim into a phone that takes regular-sized sims), and ultimately be sent back the faulty phone.
I told the woman I'd consider going to the Apple Store in Rome, so I could at least speak with a human person and expose the problem in more detail. I do have a repair ID and apparently I can just book a slot at the genius bar and have them access the repair ID data.
The problem is that I live 200 km from Rome, and it would take the better part of a day and it would be more money spent on this issue to get there and back. And I wouldn't even be certain that they'd replace it: even if they agree to replace it, what if they're out of stock on 32 GB units, for instance?
So here is the dilemma: I have a phone that feels very unstable given the 18 (eighteen) panics I've had in the last three days, and I'm facing either wasting time and money to go to an Apple Store, or being without the phone for the better part of two weeks, again without any certainty.
Going to my carrier (Vodafone) is pointless: they referred me to Apple; at most they will ship it for me, but at that point I'd rather do it myself.
As for the local Apple Premium Reseller, they are an authorized support center for Macs, but they don't offer any support for iPhones at all.
What would you do?
Thanks.

DaVBMan wrote:
Not saying you are complaining, I know it isn't what one likes, but just the way it is and quite normal.
You can buy a used one from somewhere and just continue on your same contract (if same type of phone, eg: You didn't have original one before and go buy a used 3G now..then you need to change plans). But if you had 3G before and buy a used 3G now, you can activate it and your contract shouldn't restart.
A used one you buy shouldn't have a SIM card in it but even if it does, you don't want to use it. You need to go to AT&T store and request a new SIM. They will give you one set for your account and you just go home and activate using same account (thus no contract changing). If you try to use another SIM without getting one from AT&T it could mess with your contract so best to deal with them first to get one coded for you. There is nothing wrong with buying a used iPhone and saying you want to put it on your existing account. You can do that with any phone. You already have the data plan etc required so they don't care.
That was useful info, and I'm not complaining (well, I am, but it does no good, so it's a rhetorical complaint)...
What I'm really looking for is opinions about what would be the most sensible/cost effective way to go right now, given the available options.
Thanks,
Lorraine

This is just to report a problem with Apple updates. I updated recently and the computer brought up my 2012 desktop with all my 2014 files and data including stickies missing! Now I hesitate to do another Apple update. What would you do?

Apple Updates: This is just to report a problem. I updated recently and on restart the computer restored up my 2012 desktop with all my 2014 files and data including stickies missing!!! Now I hesitate to do another Apple update. What would you do?

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What would you do if you are a programmer and have an ipad 2 ?

The question is clear I think;
What would you do if you are a programmer and have ipad 2
You can read programming books( pdf-s etc. )
Search a topic/code/something without sitting infront of any computer( 3G-wifi )
You can try/test your apps that you developed with ObjectiveC, html5 etc.
Just tell me your things, I think this article will be a "guide" for - programmers which have ipad
-Regards,
Orkan

Hello Dave,
Thank you very much for your reply. I tried to edit my question, but I think( or I can't find ) there is no post editing feature on this forum. Anyway; I'm a software developer and I don't know very well apple's platforms.
I used an ipod and now I'm using an ipad 2 - But I'm a .net( C# ) developer. [ and I hate object-c ]
I bought this ipad 2 because I want to view my pdf files all the time.
Besides that, What can I do with this ipad 2 as a sofware developer?
-Viewing computer/programming magazines with itunesU etc.
-Surfing webpages which are related on programming,
and then what ?
I want to explore the possibilities what can I do more with an ipad 2! ( based on programming )
An example: I discovered today;
There is a nice app ide which is working on ipad 2 > http://twolivesleft.com/Codea/
We (ms users) didn't see any ide like that before... This is different and nice to learn.
I'm asking these kind of possibilities...

Your opinion, what would you do different?

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