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Ben Soundczech

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  1. I'd love the blade stealth for that gorgeous screen. I regularly run into issues with poor color representation on my laptop while designing websites. Colors are way off and there's often no way to tell light greys from white without throwing the color picker at it and double checking the actual RGB values (which drives me hella mad). Also, troubleshooting websites with developer tools is a truly joyful experience (beware! sarcasm!) as my current 1366x768px screen does not provide enough horizontal real estate to display the developer tools in the sidebar without shrinking the remaining viewport enough to cross at least one media query breaking point. So that 4k resolution would certainly come in handy (no sarcasm). *fingers crossed*
  2. I'd like one because I've had one of those grey mid-tower things sit next to my desk for more than a decade now (with varying hardware of course) and I've been looking to get something that is both more fancy and less bulky to match my increasingly sleek peripherals. I also move around quite a bit but barely use my computer on the road and since pretty much every place I go has at least some sort of spare display with a digital input I feel like I could almost retire my laptop if my desktop were more mobile. It would also be quite enjoyable to just throw the thing into a backpack and hop over to a friend's place to play a game or two without having to either go through the whole LAN-party throw-half-of-my-appartement-into-the-trunk-and-hope-nothing-breaks move or having to buy a gaming console that can only do half as much and only half as well. So yeah, I quite fancy the magnus. *fingers crossed*
  3. The Focusrite actually is an external USB audio interface whose ASIO drivers also hit the fan once I switched to Windows 10. They may or may not decide to update the drivers at some point but since the last driver update for that device occurred in 2012 I don't have a lot of faith. I will buy a new high(er) quality interface at some point but the purpose of this thread was to find a backup/workhorse alternative that I can just slam into the case and be sure that the bloody thing works.
  4. Hi there, upgrading to Windows 10, I am now for the second time in the situation of having a sound card with a three-digit price tag bail on me due to poor driver support. Since I find this situation frustrating to say the least, I am now looking for manufacturers that are known to provide excellent driver support. Can anyone help me out? I've had this experience with Creative and Focusrite thus far. Thanks! Ben
  5. Dear LTT community, I've spent a significant part of the past two days trying to find software that can do this for me and the fact that I've still not come across a proper solution is driving me a little nuts. I need a tool that extracts highlighted text from a PDF that I've annotated on my iPad into plain text to use for citations and creating the outline for the sub-chapters of my thesis. I know of two programs ("Skim" and "Highlights") that apparently do this very well on Mac. However, I do not own a Mac and have no intention of buying one in the near future. The "solutions" I've come across for Windows so far and found unsatisfactory are: PDF Highlights (extracts are provided in an image format and contain a lot more than the highlighted text) Sumnotes (Seems to work well but is Web-based and rather costly for something I consider to be an extremely basic use case) Adjusting Adobe Reader settings to copy highlighted text into comments (Suggested in a YouTube video and in various other places; This option seems to have been removed from the desktop version and doesnt strike me as something that would've ever been available for the mobile version (which it would need to be as I create my annotations on mobile devices)) I'm open to anything that runs on Windows, Linux, Android or iOS and gets the job done. If someone could save me from having to scroll through PDFs having to select-copy-paste every highlight manually that would be super awesome! <3 Thanks! Ben
  6. You do not pay for the actual app. You exclusively pay for each twitter account connected to through the app. I'll correct the wording to make it more clear.
  7. The rewrite of the popular android twitter client Falcon Pro has made it to release status and is now available in the play store. The rewrite was announced by developer Joaquim Vergès as an X-Mas project via his personal twitter account (original source) on christmas eve 2014 before releasing it to the public last sunday. (1/11/2015) The application is priced on a per-connected-account basis, starting out at $3.99/3,38€ for the initial and $1.99/1,69€ for each additional twitter account connected to the app through the twitter API. The application itself can be downloaded free of charge from the play store but will run in demo mode until connected to a twitter account through an in-app-purchase. Reputable Source: The release was picked up (amongst others) by Android Central Background: Falcon used to be one of, if not the most popular twitter client for android phones. However, the introduction of API limitations aimed at third party clients (max 100,000 accounts per app) hindered further growth of the userbase and continued to be a source of major frustration, leading to the applications eventual removal from the play store. (Background Story, Audio Interview with the developer on the issue of twitter token limitations, both published by Android Central). Personal Opinion: While reviews tell a story of limited features and lack of options it must be considered that this is a complete rewrite of an application and should be treated as such. It is - in my eyes - a very good first shot at what I believe is going to be the return to its former glory in relatively little time. As of writing this, the number of installations is listed as 5,000-10,000 so there is no reason to panic about the app running out of API tokens yet.* However, for hardcore Falcon-Pro-fans it's probably better to be safe than sorry. * Please consider that the the number of used tokens may exceed the number of installations due to multi-account usage. However, the number of installations may also vastly overestimate the amount of tokens in use as tokens are acquired through in-app-purchases while the number of installations also includes those running in demo-mode only, using no API token whatsoever.
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