purplerabbits

A few geeky queries, possibly stupid:-

Does anyone know of a good application for separating the bits of an animated Gif. Or is there some feature in Photoshop for doing it that I'm stupidly missing? I want to make my jumping rabbits icon into mood icons, but I need to get at all the frames first!

What do I need apart from a CD writer and a sound card to burn my vinyl onto CD under Windows. I have successfully copied and compiled CDs but the software that comes with my burner is only for burning/compiling files that already exist digitally. (My hi-fi is near my computer and I have the lead to get sound from one to the other.)

Where can I buy a USB to serial converter so I can back my Palm up without having to fix the serial ports on this bloody machine. Will this work? If so could I use the same thing to sync it to the pretty new iMac at work?

Does anyone have an easy way for me to turn the pics from my snazzy new digital camera into an online gallery? Paul does his in a totally arcane and Paul-specific way that we both know it would be futile for him to try to share with me. So far I've just managed to get them in a folder and turn them the right way up...

Am I so crap at being a geek that I should give up altogether? And if so how will I cope with the 21st century. Answers on the back of a five and a quarter inch floppy disc to the usual address...

Apologies for saying all this is baby talk - it's the only way I know to be sure I understand..

Well, here I am not going to Prometheus [1] on account of I'm lazy and broke. Similarly I didn't go to Dogma or to the Royal Museum today [2]. I did make it to The Haunt last night, but only just, and felt a bit blah for most of it. Probably wouldn't have made it at all if I hadn't promised Nik a birthday drink. Still, got to meet gothtart's Hello Cthulu, which was worth the price of a couple of pints, even at Eerie pub prices. Also managed to resist the cocktail they call a Sloth, which seems to be made of cream and chocolate with various liqueurs waved at it and looked momentarily appealing. This was only partly due to great virtue, though, and mostly due to the feeling that half a pint of cream would make me barf given my general blahness and the crowdedness of the room.

[1] A fringe show with fire and stilts and big masks that Kaela's going to, but it's £12 and I was dithering too much.
[2] I optimistically suggested me and Nik go to the Forbidden City exhibition as he has time off work. I still want to see it, though.

So, I have been doing minor useful things and having a bit of a stocktake of my life, instead. ( Read more... )