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Invoke the scanner

brad — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:00:13 -0700

Usually web apps can’t access hardware. Only signed java/activex apps can. It may be possible to treat the scanner as a camera in a limited way from Flash or Java, but I have never tried.

Scan a document from a web application

tvarano — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:08:05 -0700

Hi Brad, nice blog.

I support a web application and we want to scan docs from the web application. Basically we want to select the scan icon from within the web application, activate the scanner (scan the document), and upload the document within the web application. Would you know how to do this or know someone that does?

Thanks,
Tony

Oh how I hate when people stretch it

Anonymous — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 06:18:56 -0700

I can't stand it, but you know what. Most people don't even notice that it is stretched. They don't know, and can't see it, and even if you tell them, they can't see it. This is weird, coz I notice imediately and can't watch it.

What is even worse is that tv-stations do it too. It usually happens when they are sending a program in 16:9, in which they show clips (like in the news) from programs in 4:3, and then stretch those 4:3 pictures to 16:9.

Sometimes they will even send a 16:9 program, letterboxed into 4:3, and then again letterboxed into 16:9, so you on a 4:3 tv will have black borders on all 4 sides.

Geography

mendel — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 08:10:09 -0700

Tomatoes and potatoes can be grown almost anywhere, making them "native" vegetables once they're discovered. A vegetable needs to be available in quantity at low prices for cooks to be experimenting with them and for recipes to enter the public domain. This explains why there are more cocoa recipes in countries where cocoa is grown and less where it must be imported. Candy sells for a higher profit than other food, making production of candies from expensive ingredients economically viable, which leads to more experimentation with candy recipes. There are far more peanut and banana recipes in areas where those are grown than in Europe, for example, so it's not just cocoa.

AT&T messed up badly! Worst company I ever dealt with! Att suck

Anonymous — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 17:58:13 -0800

Today I got a call from a california collection agency regarding an ATT bill for 14.14, it's very funny that I got the refund check today in my mail box from ATT for 14.14. Here I will repeat the same question as last 10 times to ATT: What the hell is going on? This is a joke, right? U guys send me to a collection agency while send me a refund check for 14.14? This is freaking unbeliable. This is the reason why I cancelled all my ATT services, including iphone cellphone plan and DSL internet. You guys are messed up! I got to put that on my blog and put it on the web to let other people hear about this joke.
The reason I cancelled all my services with At&T is that they messed up my bill many times, they were sending my charge of my cellphone to the DSL and send the DSL charge to my iphone cellphone bill, and when i called back, they just transfer me from one dept to another dept, took hours to figure out it was their mistake. After I cancelled all the services and paid all my final bills, now they send me this! At&T really messed up and it is the worst company I ever dealt with!

AT&T Cutting Internet

Andrew — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 05:52:00 -0800

I called AT&T a while back because my internet connection was not as fast as I’d contracted for. It turns out that even though I contracted for the highest speed they advertised, someone at AT&T had bumped me down to a lower, cheaper speed! If you have AT&T, check your bill!!!

Has AT&T done this to you?

Skype?

Anonymous — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 19:29:12 -0800

I agree with Peter. I think something that allows face-to-face chat online would be good, something like Skype.

AT&T nighmares

Anonymous — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:21:31 -0800

I recently had a client in Chicago complaining of the internet dropping, knowing that AT&T would try to push this off as a internal issue, I ran virus & spyware scans. I updated all MS progs and updated the firmware on my firewall. After 2 weeeks of contacting AT&T support they finnaly admited to a problem w/ the line or their router. Their support suggested I change their router to a bridge and authenticate w/ my firewall. I acomplished this which did not resolve. They told me they would send a tech out before 5:00. At 4:30 I got a call from the tech saying he may not make it and he needed a user name and password for AT&T. I told him to call my client to arange his arrival time and he did not need a password as he would be seting up the router as a bridge. He became irate that I was telling him how to do his job. At 6:15 I recived a call from my client that he never recieved a call. After calling back AT&T and waiting on hold for 1 hr, I spoke w/ a rep who assured me he would call the client and would add notes to not change any passwords and to set bridge mode. 9:30 the next day, still no call or show from AT&T. At 10:30 the tech arrived on site telling me he had installed the router and needed me to change the password on my firewall!!!! I walked my client through this and then had to reexplain to the AT&T tech that the reason the internet was down was that he had not set the router into bridge mode. After explaining again to him how to make these changes my internet came back up. however 2 hours later the internet drops began again! I called AT&T to vent and setup another visit. Here we go again. I service over 50 businnesses in the Chicago and NW IL area and am going to switch every one of my clients off of this horrible service.

Cocoa

Keith Powers — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:54:00 -0800

Great observation. Never thought about it this way. Will have to do some exploring on this history.

Besides flavor, I have been following the health benefits from raw cacoa and found some cocoa straight from Ecuador that is still in the skin... not roasted.

http://www.beonliving.com/shop/index.php?page=shop.browse&category_id=99...
(I removed a tinyurl. I don't allow those, they hide where a link goes.)

A bit bitter but when you bite into a cocao "bean" it is a rush of pure potency. :) The chocolate nibs and chocolate covered golden berries are also wonderful.

KAP

Sorry if I wasn't clear

brad — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:46:27 -0800

But I talked about cacao based mole such as mole poblano in the note. That was created at the origin of chocolate. What I am curious about is why, when chocolate was introduced to the rest of the world, with all its clever chefs and new potential ingredient combinations, the rest of the world never made a hit outside of the confection realm.

Mole is the ingredient you are looking for

Peter Boothe — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:01:19 -0800

Mole chicken and other things with mole (moe-LAY) sauce do exist. The problem is that it is one of those things that can never be mediocre - it's only either fantastic or awful.

ATT SUCKS!!!

Anonymous — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 16:23:33 -0800

I have spent a month trying to setup my ATT land line for DSL internet. The only reason I got a land line is because they could not get my pre-existing tether internet hooked back up on my new computer. After wasting hours and days on tech support, ATT said its my computer,(the typical response when they cant fix, its your fault). Only solution to get me internet was the land line. This has now taken almost 2 weeks and still does not work. As well they attached my new att.yahoo.dsl to my existing yahoo email account, and totally screwed that up! Now att and my yahoo dont recognized pw and login I have used for the last 8 years. I had to have them cancel my never working dsl line to fix my yahoo address. This is still my on going problem as of this morning Fed. 8, 2008. I have told att if is is not fixed tonight by 6pm I will cancel all services and expect full refund of charges and a credit for my loss of money because of their obvious inefficiency's. Why do they offer services that dont work! and cant seem to fix. We all pay way to much for this huge corporate company not to have its shit together. As well I did not choose ATT, I was a Cingular customer, I never had problems with them. As soon as it became ATT went to shit! So anyway I agree with FUCK YOU ATT! All million of the 800 numbers are no help at all complete waste of everyones time.

ATT/Yahoo email help (via

Anonymous — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 09:10:26 -0800

ATT/Yahoo email help (via email) originates from servers in East Timor. There are no people involved whatsoever, and the replies are all autoresponds generated by keyword recognition software developed in China. In fact, the upper management of ATT/Yahoo is composed of actual clones who trace their origins to a basement laboratory at the University of Chicago which was previously used for fission radiation experiments which ultimately resulted in the development the atomic bomb. Their present plans include selling the entire ATT/Yahoo infrastructure to the Chinese who intend to use it to destroy western society as we know it.

wow. this blogger (for one

Anonymous — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 14:23:43 -0800

wow. this blogger (for one of the telecom trade mags) just sent AT&T to the dog house. "Why I'm Finished Doing Business w/ AT&T"

http://www.multichannel.com/blog/1300000330/post/400020840.html

This is a brilliant idea but

gordman — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:46:20 -0800

This is a brilliant idea but we have to think about the fact that these are just fantasies and they can't last too long nor can make the user "forget" about it's infirmity. I think challenging online games can make them feel just as good as their opponents and this could bring them personal satisfaction. In my case backgammon works best.