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LibreOffice restricting spaces between words to 1

November 22, 2012
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LibreOffice restricting multiple spaces between words LibreOffice restricting multiple spaces in text LibreOffice restricting spaces in text I did google searches on all these things and got nowhere! For no known reason, LibreOffice had started not letting me type a second space after a word … unless I backed the cursor up before the one space I had entered and then I could enter...

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Aerial Photos of Fort Lauderdale

June 26, 2012
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Aerial Photos of Fort Lauderdale

April 16th 2012 flight along the Gold Coast – Fort Lauderdale. Updated 2012-06-26. Fort Lauderdale beach Beach Place Mall, Ft Lauderdale beach Fort Lauderdale Fort Lauderdale beach at A1A and Las Olas Pompano Beach (looking south)   Homes and waterways over Fort Lauderdale video   Lighthouse Point Lighthouse Point Pompano Beach Deerfield Beach Boca Raton beach 4 pilots and the photographer After the late...

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A Few Puzzles for Thought and a Challenge

April 30, 2012
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A Few Puzzles for Thought and a Challenge

What was the biggest ocean in the world before Balboa discovered the Pacific Ocean? How many cookies could you eat on an empty stomach? It occurs once in a minute, twice in a week, and once in a year. What is it? Here are a few “level 1″ puzzles from a book called Brain Training Puzzles, 450 Mind Bending Challenges published by Metro Books,...

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How to save all Power Point (.ppt) slides as .jpg’s in Open Office

April 9, 2012
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How to save, export, all Libre Office Impress slides to images How to save, export, all Open Office Impress slides to images, all at once www.OpenOffice.org “I would like to save my presentation (.ppt) as all .jpg or .gif or .png files. (which is a feature available in Microsoft Powerpoint) Is there any option comparable to this in Open Office Impress?” YES, in a...

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Armitron watch 40/8246, M0935 (WR330FT) instructions, and the MD-365

December 28, 2011
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Armitron watch 40/8246, M0935 (WR330FT) instructions, and the MD-365

2011-12-28 Armitron watch WR330FT owner’s manual. Armitron Digital Sport watch 40/8246, MO935, owner’s manual.   How to set an Armitron WR330FT, MO935, All-Sport Watch. How do you set the time on an Armitron 40/8246 WR330FT? Armitron Men’s 40/8246 metal gray, or any of the other colors, Chronograph Digital Sport Watch. I bought a 2nd Armitron watch, the M0935, and I see that Armitron does...

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Programming and or Photography Around the Beach

November 27, 2011
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Programming and or Photography Around the Beach

With a Laptop and a wireless internet connection you can program on the beach – but take your camera. Most of these pictures can be clicked on to see them enlarged. Fort Lauderdale beach from in front of Beach Place Mall (3264×1200, Oly) On Fort Lauderdale beach; 2 pics hand stitched into a short pan from my old (2007) Oly. sp-560uz (4900×2250) on Fort...

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On and around The Beach in 2011

May 22, 2011
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On and around The Beach in 2011

With a Laptop and a wireless internet connection you can work on the beach – but take your camera.         I saw my first Tesla Roadster today, 4-7-2011, on Fort Lauderdale beach. A few feet further on, he turned onto Las Olas Blvd, heading West. I tried to get a second shot as he came out of the curve, but just...

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On The Beach, with a laptop and a camera

May 2, 2011
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On The Beach, with a laptop and a camera

With a Laptop and a wireless internet connection (from restaurants on the beach?) you can program on the beach – but take a camera.   (smile!) Fort Lauderdale beach & sail boat. (full size, 3264×2448, 8mp Olympus 560uz)   Sat. Feb. 5th, 2011 – on Fort Lauderdale beach (click to see full size) (the H55 Sony pocket Cyber-Shot) Deerfield beach (click to see full...

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Armitron watch WR330 instructions manual

March 26, 2011
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Armitron watch WR330 instructions manual

Armitron watch WR330 owner’s manual. Armitron watch 40/8177 Red, owner’s manual (M807). How to set an Armitron WR330 Watch. How do you set the time on an Armitron 408177red WR330? Armitron Men’s 408177RED Chronograph Black and Red Digital Sport Watch. The name, model, of this watch is confusing. On the front, it says WR330, but on the back, it says M807 and 40/8177. The...

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hints to a few 2 and 3-dimentional puzzles

October 2, 2010
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hints to a few 2 and 3-dimentional puzzles

For those who don’t want the answer handed to them, but do want a hint. “Block By Block” ThinkFun games – thinkFun.com Block by Block 3D Puzzle a 7-piece stacking puzzle that asks you to match 60 different three-dimensional patterns! Block by Block helps players sharpen their spatial thinking skills and have fun at the same time The puzzle pieces are the same as...

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a few Puzzles, Mazes, and Sudoku

October 1, 2010
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a few Puzzles, Mazes, and Sudoku

1. what is the minimum height of a mirror that lets you see a full head-to-toe view of yourself? (“relatively speaking”) 2. Two identical wooden wheels carry a 10 lb weight. One weight is a disk at the center of the wheel; the other weight is a ring attached near the rim of the other wheel. If the wheels are released at the same...

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computer cartoons

May 25, 2010
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computer cartoons

Just for the fun of it: from www.userfriendly.org see www.calvinandhobbes.me this is so old, I don’t remember where it came from:

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Original Technology terms translated

February 25, 2010
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Original Technology terms translated

Just for the fun of it: (found this a long time ago) Hope you enjoy it also!

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