Re: [Semi-OT] Incredibly useful Firefox addon: Hyperwords

2010-03-15 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:31:53 -0600 Ron Johnson wrote: > Since I stumbled onto this a couple of months ago, it's become > indispensable! Highlight some text, right-click and a little b/w > bull's eye appears. Mouse onto the bull's eye and a pop-up menu > appears which lets you perform a multi

Re: [Semi-OT] Incredibly useful Firefox addon: Hyperwords

2010-03-14 Thread S.D.A.
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 07:27:17AM -0600, Ron Johnson uttered: > On 2010-03-13 04:20, Paul Cartwright wrote: > >On Sat March 13 2010, Ron Johnson wrote: > >>Apparently, it's based upon the ideas of Douglas Engelbart back in > >>the 1960s. > >> > >>http://www.hyperwords.net/ > > > >it doesn't like i

Re: [Semi-OT] Incredibly useful Firefox addon: Hyperwords

2010-03-14 Thread owens
> > > > Original Message >From: ron.l.john...@cox.net >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: [Semi-OT] Incredibly useful Firefox addon: Hyperwords >Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:14:29 -0600 > >>On 2010-03-13 19:21, Celejar wrote: >>> On Fri,

Re: [Semi-OT] Incredibly useful Firefox addon: Hyperwords

2010-03-13 Thread Kelly Harding
On 13 March 2010 10:20, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Sat March 13 2010, Ron Johnson wrote: >> Apparently, it's based upon the ideas of Douglas Engelbart back in >> the 1960s. >> >> http://www.hyperwords.net/ > > it doesn't like iceweasel.. > latest version requires v3.5/v3.6 or above, so maybe tha

Re: [Semi-OT] Incredibly useful Firefox addon: Hyperwords

2010-03-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-13 19:21, Celejar wrote: On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:31:53 -0600 Ron Johnson wrote: ... Apparently, it's based upon the ideas of Douglas Engelbart back in the 1960s. Apparently, it can be argued * that much of the standard modern computer UI paradigm is "based on the ideas of Douglas

Re: [Semi-OT] Incredibly useful Firefox addon: Hyperwords

2010-03-13 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:31:53 -0600 Ron Johnson wrote: ... > Apparently, it's based upon the ideas of Douglas Engelbart back in > the 1960s. Apparently, it can be argued * that much of the standard modern computer UI paradigm is "based on the ideas of Douglas Engelbart". * Weasel wording, sinc

Re: [Semi-OT] Incredibly useful Firefox addon: Hyperwords

2010-03-13 Thread Terence
On 13 March 2010 21:26, Ron Johnson wrote: >> what version of iceweasel do you have >> > > v3.5.8 > It's 3.0.6 for me, and works well. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: [Semi-OT] Incredibly useful Firefox addon: Hyperwords

2010-03-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-13 13:11, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-03-13 04:20, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Sat March 13 2010, Ron Johnson wrote: Apparently, it's based upon the ideas of Douglas Engelbart back in the 1960s. http://www.hyperwords.net/ it doesn't like iceweasel.. Sure it

Re: [Semi-OT] Incredibly useful Firefox addon: Hyperwords

2010-03-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-13 09:05, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Sat March 13 2010, Ron Johnson wrote: http://www.hyperwords.net/ it doesn't like iceweasel.. Sure it does. Me using it is QED. when I click on the download, it said I had to install firefox, chrome, or... something else.. now, it DID install

Re: [Semi-OT] Incredibly useful Firefox addon: Hyperwords

2010-03-13 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:57:35 -0500 (EST), Ed Jabbour wrote: > Ahh, the vagaries of machine translation. I took the word "other" in the > phrase "other top stories" and ran it from English to Arabic to Chinese to > English. I got "detention top stories". That reminds me of a story in which a p

Re: [Semi-OT] Incredibly useful Firefox addon: Hyperwords

2010-03-13 Thread Ed Jabbour
On Saturday 13 March 2010 12:31:53 am Ron Johnson wrote: > Since I stumbled onto this a couple of months ago, it's become > indispensable! Highlight some text, right-click and a little b/w > bull's eye appears. Mouse onto the bull's eye and a pop-up menu > appears which lets you perform a mult

Re: [Semi-OT] Incredibly useful Firefox addon: Hyperwords

2010-03-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-03-13 04:20, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Sat March 13 2010, Ron Johnson wrote: Apparently, it's based upon the ideas of Douglas Engelbart back in the 1960s. http://www.hyperwords.net/ it doesn't like iceweasel.. Sure it does. Me using it is QED. what version o

Re: [Semi-OT] Incredibly useful Firefox addon: Hyperwords

2010-03-13 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 13 March 2010, Paul Cartwright was heard to say: > On Sat March 13 2010, Ron Johnson wrote: > > >> http://www.hyperwords.net/ > > > > > > it doesn't like iceweasel.. > > > > Sure it does.  Me using it is QED. > > when I click on the downl

Re: [Semi-OT] Incredibly useful Firefox addon: Hyperwords

2010-03-13 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Sat March 13 2010, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> http://www.hyperwords.net/ > > > > it doesn't like iceweasel.. > > Sure it does.  Me using it is QED. when I click on the download, it said I had to install firefox, chrome, or... something else.. now, it DID install just fine on my separate firefox 3

Re: [Semi-OT] Incredibly useful Firefox addon: Hyperwords

2010-03-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-13 04:20, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Sat March 13 2010, Ron Johnson wrote: Apparently, it's based upon the ideas of Douglas Engelbart back in the 1960s. http://www.hyperwords.net/ it doesn't like iceweasel.. Sure it does. Me using it is QED. -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA US

Re: [Semi-OT] Incredibly useful Firefox addon: Hyperwords

2010-03-13 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Sat March 13 2010, Ron Johnson wrote: > Apparently, it's based upon the ideas of Douglas Engelbart back in > the 1960s. > > http://www.hyperwords.net/ it doesn't like iceweasel.. -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 Registered Ubuntu User #12459 http://usdebtclock.org/ -- To U

[Semi-OT] Incredibly useful Firefox addon: Hyperwords

2010-03-12 Thread Ron Johnson
Since I stumbled onto this a couple of months ago, it's become indispensable! Highlight some text, right-click and a little b/w bull's eye appears. Mouse onto the bull's eye and a pop-up menu appears which lets you perform a multitude of tasks, like Googling it, searching Wikipedia, translati