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Electronic Toolbox[^]. Good God is this program awesome! Anyone with an iPad with iOS 5.0 or later OR Windows 8[.1] who likes to work with electronics (including Arduino and Raspberry Pi) should take a look at it.
Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.
- Mitchell Kapor
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Awsome it is. I've had that little tool on my iPod for the last couple of years.
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I find it quite easy to use. I am really just starting to get into electronics, and I think this application will really be useful. Now I need to find a components database.
Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.
- Mitchell Kapor
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Brisingr Aerowing wrote: components database.
A reference?, or a way to keep track of components? If the later try [insert shameless link] WinHeist[^]
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Yeah, I meant a way to keep track of them.
Oh, and thanks for the link. I will look at it later when I get my 'Electronics Computer' set up (It's an old eMachines desktop I am planning to put at my electronics workshop area when I get that set up.
Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.
- Mitchell Kapor
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Looks really neat, but why a Windows Store app? I don't even mind buying it, but I don't have W8. I guess it uses W8 features? 
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: I guess it uses W8 features
My wife's laptop is a touch-enabled Windows 8 machine. I have yet to see any Win8-specific functionality that's a 'must have' or even a 'that's cool'. Most of it is a resounding 'meh'.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Marc Clifton wrote: I guess it uses W8 features
Yes. I guess it does not work on Windows Phone 7 either.
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Exploring CSS 3D transforms[^]
Cool stuff.
(While it says use the < and > keys the navigate the pages, this does not mean literally the less-than and greater-than keys. I had to use the cursor left/right keys. Ironic, for somebody who's put together a clean and interesting website, to screw up so badly on the simplest of instructions.)
Marc
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Very  indeed.
Pity most of it will be used to make websites harder to use... 
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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OriginalGriff wrote: Pity most of it will be used to make websites harder to use...
Agreed, all I see is blank white boxes and I'm on the most recent version of Chrome, what more do they want!
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The cursor keys don't seem to work in Chrome 31.0.1650.63 m. 
They do now. 
OK, so I wasn't drunk. They work sometimes.
/ravi
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Marc Clifton wrote: (While it says use the < and > keys the navigate the pages, this does not mean literally the less-than and greater-than keys. I had to use the cursor left/right keys. Ironic, for somebody who's put together a clean and interesting website, to screw up so badly on the simplest of instructions.)
They are only human after all.
It actually works correctly, as advertised, on Chrome.
You wouldn't be using IE would you? 
It actually woks correctly, as advertised, on IE for me. 
modified 27-Dec-13 14:27pm.
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Damn! I was going to get Nagy one for his birthday... 
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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Seems like a bang-up idea to me. What could go wrong?
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When the froth on you cappuccino smells of Dove? Or Imperial Leather?
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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Hi,
I am writing to inform you that I wish to cancel my subscription. I feel that the fees do not represent value for money, nor have I ever been asked about professional membership.
I tried to cancel my subscription online, but this one of the few membership services you do not provide. I also tried to phone, but your customer services is unavailable from the 23rd, until the day the membership money is taken from my account. Finally, after searching for an e-mail address to direct this message I found the best I can do is leave a "general enquiry" message here. In this day and age, this is all unacceptable in my view. I have requested that bank cancel this direct debit directly.
Yours sincerely,
Keith Barrow
I had to leave this on the general enquiries page, because there was nowhere else to send it, even then the title was a drop down, so I couldn't highlight as a membership closure. The customer services is on it's hollibobs 23rd Dec - 2nd Jan, the latter being the day the ~£100 fee is removed from my account. I pretty much don't get anything for this fee, a little legal cover, an e-mail address I don't use and the theoretical use of the WIFI in the office which is 280 miles away. Additionally, it seems to be more the British IT-Middle-Manager Society, rather than the the British Computer Society, more interested in business process than IT as discipline. The only thing I'll miss is swanking around with the the extra post-nominal letters.
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I already see their reply coming:
"We are sorry to inform you that this subscription has to be cancelled 3 months in advance. The subscription has automatically been extended for another year. The next possible cancellation date is the 01.01.2015" 
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I never quite understood what the BCS stood for apart from giving people an inflated sense of their own importance. Obviously the latter point does not apply to you. 
Veni, vidi, abiit domum
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That's the Bloody-minded Curmudgeon Society in my case.
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I've always been a member there.
Veni, vidi, abiit domum
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