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Comment Drupal Image Gallery (Score 0) 130

I have prefer to use Drupal when developing sites for clients who's requirements align with what a CMS can provide. I recently received a contract to build a website with an intuitive slick image gallery, and I decided to explore Drupals image capabilities more than I had before. I have used the Gallery module before and found it suitable for for home photos, but I have not found an image gallery that would be useful for displaying images/slideshows (such as lightbox2) for a business-oriented website, and that the average user would find it intuitive to manage themselves. I have been attempting to modify the image_gallery module in order to make it as straight forward as possible, but it is still confusing to me. I'm curious as to what other drupal developers use, or if there is just a lack of drupal modules and features that make images easy to use.

Comment nLite (Score 2, Informative) 823

I would recommend creating a custom XP install disc using nLite. With nLite you can pick and choose which components of Windows you want to be installed. You can also add patches, service packs, drivers, accessibility options, and custom programs to be included in the DVD like Firefox and AVG.

This is what I've done for my grandmother. After creating a disk that comes with all the software she'll need, all the drivers, I've got a restore disk that I can just throw in the drive if it ever needs a reformat, and it's an unattended install.

I keep a copy of the nLite image I used for her on my local machine, so for this christmas, I'll load it back up with some updated patches, and throw it in her DVD drive when I get there (after backing her bookmarks up on a USB drive of course).

nLite has a learning curve, but it is small. I would recommend trying a VPC install once or twice before getting your disc "set".

Comment DRM Removal necessary for play (Score 1) 443

I purchased a Blu-Ray player for my new HTPC which has built in hardware decoding and an AMD 5000+ x2 processor, more than enough power to play and decode bluray...or so I thought. After struggling through a slightly "skippy" planet earth to a completely unwatchable Casino, I installed Slysoft's AnyDVD HD demo, and everything worked flawlessly. It shouldn't be this hard to just watch a movie that I legitimately own (or in this case, rented from netflix)
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Amazon Kindle 2 Leaked, Sony Reader To Get Touch Screen 143

suraj.sun writes with news that the e-book reader market is getting more competitive. The Boy Genius Report got its hands on pictures of the Kindle 2, successor to Amazon's first e-book gadget. The new version is a bit bigger, with edges that are less awkward, and it has a revamped key layout. On the same day these pictures were found, Sony announced that a new model of its Reader would be getting a touchscreen, allowing users to "turn the page by swiping their finger across the screen" and "annotate text using a touchscreen keyboard." The advances for each gadget may help them regain market share against the iPhone, which, according to Forbes, has eclipsed both in popularity as a reading device. Hopefully the competition for sales and the work being done by the OLPC Project will help to drop prices as well.

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