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   FreewareFan
   Member

   Or so they say.... See for yourself, it's right there in black and white.. :-)

   http://www.cogniview.com/convert-pdf-to-excel/post/the-freelancers-toolset-100-web-apps-for-everything-you-will-possibly-need/

   Posted 16 years ago #
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   qb7894
   Member

   Cool post Thanks.....I respect you and whiterabbit and rely upon your posts to steer me in proper directions...Have many questions to ask but do not know proper forum to post to.....Please advise...will post email address if I can develop workable help data info....Just trying to learn....

   Posted 16 years ago #
3. 

   RunesageMagik
   Member

   qb7894,

   I'd suggest you go to- http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/
   The top left grey header column has a very understated link -
   Topic — Add New »
   http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/?new=1

   This is where you create your own message. HOWEVER, if you're not sure and just want to experiment, you can go all the way to the bottom of the page and click on -
   Your test forum — – Practice forum, post your test messages and topics here
   http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/forum/2

   As you're scrolling down, you'll see the various options for message "themes"(topics).
   I'd steer clear of the foreign language ones unless you're really proficient or LeKanaw helps you translate. :-) Me, I tend to post in TALKS because most of my stuff is off topic and useless and probably violates most of BubbyCo's TOS.

   Since this site is being scanned by blog search engines and Google, I'd avoid posting your email addie unless you want the world's entire retinue of scam artists, spammers and mail order bride sites knocking at your door!

   Posted 16 years ago #
4. 

   BuBBy
   Teh adnim

   To prevent the above - we ask anything resembling contact details or an email address doesn't get posted - (depending on the message) the email address will get zapped, or perhaps the entire message.

   Most of the rules are just to make the forums easier to use for everyone.

   Have a read @ http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2030

   There is no death penalty for making a mistake - everyone was a beginner at some stage, and we ALL are still learning. If you have a question - just ask. If you have a silly question and don't want to ask publicly, send me a PM. I've probably heard the same question asked a dozen times by RM, FF, WR or HG before. ;)

   Posted 16 years ago #
5. 

   FreewareFan
   Member

   HEY!!!! I resemble that remark!

   Posted 16 years ago #
6. 

   LeKanaw
   Member

   Hello qb7894,
   Nice to see you here too. We have almost the same age, and I'm a newbie too, so u are not alone around here, trying to figure out what these youngsters are talking about.
   So lets stick together... :-)
   I have been visiting a lot of forums for several years now, I read a lot, trying to learn by myself, but never posted before anywhere, ppl are way too hostile to "old newbies", never felt comfortable.
   It was WhiteRabbit's kindness that gave me the confidence to come up to the forums and post. I've been lurking around since August, trying to know the people and figuring out if it was safe to come out... LOL

   Glad to say, (almost) everybody around here has been very nice and patient w my newbie questions. Sometimes I don't even know enough, to know how to ask the right question... I know, it's sad!! ;-)

   About starting new posts: same here! Why do you think I've been Highjacking RM threads?
   He is kind enough that he (and Bubby too) has been letting me get away w it...

   As RM said, if you need a little help w translations, I'm your gal.
   Merry Xmas, Talk to you soon, Manu

   Posted 16 years ago #
7. 

   RunesageMagik
   Member

   FreewareFan... which came first, the GAOTD chicken or the GameDuJour egg?
   http://www.gamedujour.com/category/pc-games

   Don't know if any are "free" games over there, but I see they do offer free trials. If nothing's free, maybe it'll give Wabbit another place to spend all his money. :-) Heck, maybe all those games will provide new vendor leads for the GAOTD negotiations squad. Hellooooo, Bubby, that's your cue.

   Now for something that has me stumped. I know there are numbers guessing games that on the surface look "amazing" but in reality rely on basic mathematical formulae. However, this flash game is just spooky. It requires NO INPUT. If I understand probability correctly, the chart they use equates to a 1 in 10 chance of the software randomly guessing the correct symbol, BUT it's been CORRECT EVERY FREAKING TIME I've played. Anyone care to offer an explanation? Anyone else suddenly start believing in mindreading??? - http://milaadesign.com/wizardy.html
   (they offer a couple other games there, including a wizardry2, but that game requires input and relies on basic math.)

   EDIT - durn, haste makes waste. Mea culpa I meant this for a game thread but grabbed the wrong one. FwF, didn't you post a long list of just games? (not the PDAMill thread)

   Posted 16 years ago #
8. 

   FreewareFan
   Member

   Elementary, my dear Magi friend!!

   If you'll notice, all your answers will add up to 9. No matter what 2 numbers you start out with, and then do the subtraction, the answer will always add up to the value of 9.

   Now, for the amazement of the thing... The screen that is displayed just has to have the symbols placed so that the same exact symbol is placed at intervals of 9. So, a O at spot 9, and a O at spot 18, and a O at spot 27, so on and so forth.

   Your answer for that round will always come out to be a O.

   The next time you want to play the round, they just change the symbol, but still keep it placed at intervals of 9.

   See.... ?? :-)

   /me Looking mysterious, and walking off stage......... LOL

   Posted 16 years ago #
9. 

   RunesageMagik
   Member

   Thanks, FwF,
   As you know from a previous admission, I've but a passing familiarity with numbers. (right brain/left brain/dyscalculia) Best when counting arthritic digits verrrry slowly, but musta missed one of my thumbs. Thought the cycle was 10. I knew the danged thing wasn't mindreading, but its methodology eluded feeble mathematical acumen. Had to cogitate on that symbols tableau awhile after posting my message before it made sense. Tricky little devils.

   Any of those games du jour of interest?

   Posted 16 years ago #
10. 

    FreewareFan
    Member

    I shall be brutally honest with you, RM. That is the first time I've seen that 'trick', and I was as mesmerized by it as you were!! I sat here and thought, "NO WAY!!" I did it over and over, because I just couldn't believe my eyes, and couldn't think of any way possible that it was doing what it was doing.

    And that's how I discovered the secret. I had so many answers on my sheet of paper, that after I looked at them a while, it dawned on me that all the answers had one thing in common, that they added up to 9.

    From there on out, it was pretty easy to figure out. But, for effect, I give you a 10 out of 10 for effect and originality in finding that one!! It is GREAT!! :-)

    I had a look-see at that game site, and the games certainly look tantalizing, I will say that. But for a freewarefan, none of them were free, all pay games. Yes, trials were available, but to only be able to play one or two levels, is a huge tease to me. So, all in all, in the realm of freeware land, it just didn't send me.. But thanks very much for playing, and keep sending those postcards!! LOL LOL

    Posted 16 years ago #
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    RunesageMagik
    Member

    The danged thing still perplexes me. In a typical guessing game, the "psychic" places constraints on your calculations to give the appearance of randomness, yet the math actually ensures that all roads lead to 1 answer. It was clear from the tableau that the symbols repeated themselves every 9th (or 10th) cell. In effect, it "seems" to be a 9 (or 10) symbol multiple choice. However, the player does not provide any input upon which the applet can base its process of elimination. How the bloody H does the applet determine which of the symbols on that tableau it should blink white? When I've pulled numbers out of thin air to run a series of games, the correct symbol on each round is usually NOT the same symbol; but, even when I used 2-digit numbers that intentionally resulted in the same symbol, the appl would repeatedly select that symbol.

    The old KISS ("keep it simple, stupid") rule suggests the answer is sitting right under my nose. Hah, so it'd be cool if some sort of steganography was involved, making me cross-eyed trying to see it. http://www.dirfile.com/krypt_x.htm
    And, no, I don't "stare" for 10 seconds. That's a ruse.

    About the games, sorry, I forgot about the tease factor.

    Posted 16 years ago #
12. 

    FreewareFan
    Member

    Um, RM, I thought you got the trick of it.... Let me try again. Forget about even choosing any numbers, OK? Just go through all the clicking, until you get to the end screen with all the symbols on it.

    Now, look to see what symbol is on top of #9. Look at what symbol is on top of #18. Look at what symbol is on top of #27. See, they are all the same. Now, when the program flashes the big symbol at the end, guess what symbol it will be?? Yep, the same one.

    That same exact thing will happen each and every time you run the program. The only thing that changes is the actual symbol used. It is a different symbol each time, so that you don't catch on too fast. You don't have to even use the numbers in the beginning. At the very end of the program, it will ALWAYS flash the symbol that is number 9, or 18, or 27, or 36, etc on down the line. Numbers that have a multiple of 9.

    So, are you with me so far? IF so, then we'll take the next part..... :-)

    Posted 16 years ago #
13. 

    RunesageMagik
    Member

    FwF, I've known since the beginning that the key was the repetitive cycle of symbols. I suspected the answer was right under my nose and it was. Like any "mark" watching a good shill, I was fixating on the selection process, oblivious to the sleight of hand... it's the freaking tableau layout itself that changes each time. I hadn't noticed that until a few minutes ago. doh!
    [BTW- my great great great great granddad was a guard at the Gates of Troy]

    Now it's likely you've been trying to point that out, but the way you phrased it ("it's a different symbol each time") just didn't register in my brain pan.

    I have to go rest now. Answer the bell, will ya? We're expecting a large package from some clown calling himself Odysseus.

    Posted 16 years ago #
14. 

    FreewareFan
    Member

    I just hope you have a big enough saddle, when it gets there! :-)

    Posted 16 years ago #
15. 

    LeKanaw
    Member

    Indeed Tricky little devils!!!
    I tried it, without reading ur explanations, FF
    Was as mesmerized as u were RM.
    Had to read all FF posts to get it.

    Then, called the husband to play it, trying to make him believe it was for real.
    Well, he played twice and told me it was a simple multiple of 9.
    Then said that by adding the numbers of the answer, any answer, u'll always get "9"
    54:5+4=9 / 81:8+1=9 / 27:2+7=9 / ...
    Now u know why I Hate Him!!! Grrrr The guy is not "normal", or maybe not human... :-)

    I'm w u RM, Left Brain/Right Brain
    But for him, numbers are his best friends. He gets everything all the time!! (Me rolling eyes!)

    Later, Manu

    Posted 16 years ago #
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    LeKanaw
    Member

    I found this game some time ago, it's played online too.
    But maybe around here everybody already has it..., not sure where I got it from.

    Le Chat Noir: http://www.gamedesign.jp/flash/chatnoir/chatnoir.html
    It's a silly little game, btwn you and a silly little cat, but not so silly after all...
    It looks super easy, but... :-D
    Rules:
    -When u click on a dot, it becomes dark. It blocks the cat
    -You can't let the cat get out of the board
    -Each time you make a move, he does too, like checkers

    Super easy... Riiiiiight?
    Manu

    Posted 16 years ago #
17. 

    FreewareFan
    Member

    There is just NO WAY to win that cat game, and you know it!! LOL

    The cat has too many moves it can make... Just no way to beat that game!

    Posted 16 years ago #
18. 

    LeKanaw
    Member

    @FF: Racking my brain trying to remember where I got that cat.
    It was on a French site! Duhh! Chat Noir being French... «:)
    Well, I found it hard to do, cause there is NO way to predict where the cat first jumps to!! But the thing is, everybody in that thread was bragging they did on the 5°try, on the 2°try, ..., on the 7°try, some on the first try!

    I've tried and tried, only got it once, but only w my husband help, 2 brains being better and all.
    But I think it all depends if, when u start, the position of dark dots help.
    What do u think? M.

    Posted 16 years ago #
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    RunesageMagik
    Member

    LeKanaw, glad the YT link put a smile on your face. FYI- There's another version of that segment on YT using animated Legos. You might find it amusing. Appreciated the Chatnoir Cat game. I won on the 4th(?) try, but only because the initial placement offered a chance to herd the unsuspecting feline into a dead end. Will pass it on to a couple of fellow cat fanciers.

    BFN

    Posted 16 years ago #

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