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If you want to avoid the point, simply take offense. -Intuit


I came here to answer computer questions. (This used to say "...and nothing more.")


What I meant was, I don't know how much help I would be with other things... NOT that I would be upset if you asked a non computer question!


No matter the subject, Ask Away! (I'll do my best.)


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What is the rating for the new movie mr woodcock. NEED TO NO BY WEDNESDAY THE 12TH!!! PLEASE!!! (link)
Hi there,

The official movie site is usually a good place to look for rating information on a new movie like Mr. Woodcock.

http://www.woodcockmovie.com/

... that is the link for the official Mr. Woodcock website.

The answer is PG-13, but if there is anything else you need to know... there is the link.

They have the Mr. Woodcock trailer and all about the film.


okay i use that website and ive uploaded a couple of songs. but it only starts at the beging of the song. i was wondering if theres a way to change the start and ending of the song to have as a ring tone? sorry if that makes no sence. (link)
Hi there,

There is a way to get the part of the song you want to use into crostel ringtones... But it isn't on the crostel ringtones website. :-)

Open any audio editing program you might have on your computer, or download one if you don't have one.

Drop the sone you want to make into a crostel ringtone download, and cut off the parts of the real song that you do NOT want to be part of your ringtone.

Save the new file with a new name and upload to the crostel website. Perfect ringtones every time. :-)


Does anyone know where i can watch the old Television show "State of Grace" online??

Thanks so much! (link)
Hi there,

After a LOT of searching, I am going to say probably not... BUT... You may be able to download videos of the various episodes of the TV show "State of Grace" from Apple's iTunes Video site.

I couldn't find a way to search their videos without installing iTunes, so please forgive me for not checking that out any further.

I spent quite a while searching for ANY legal sites which allow the viewing of old episodes of State of Grace, and found nothing at all.

Good luck.

P.S. If you try iTunex Video please let me know in feedback if they had them.


Does any one know any of the songs in the movie "she's too young"?
Or is there a site with the track listings? (link)
Just to add another voice: I looked for 40 minutes and found nothing about the songs in the lifetime movie: "She's too young."

Nothing. Not a track listing, not a generic song list, just nothing at all.

If there is a sound track for She's Too Young, it is apparently top secret. :-)

The other poster posted exactly what I came here to post: Watch the credits. That is good advice.



so i got my camera today, for photo class
and i pulled out the film advace lever or whatever, with no film in it, now its like flopping around
did i break it?
or will it go back to normal once i put film in it? (link)
Hi there,

Unless you really yanked on the film advance lever, everything should be fine.

Press the shutter release button and see what happens with the film advance.

There is a fantastic books on getting familiar with your new camera. Look for something along the lines of 35mm SLR For dummies.

Those are great books for learning new things, and they have a "dummies" book for just about everything now. There are MANY different photography for dummies books that cover different aspects of photography.

You might find several that will help you become a successful photography student! :-)



I was going to ask this on the advice_admin column, but every time I ask a question there, no one EVER responds. So sorry if this is the wrong place, but I did not know where else to go.

Usually when people ask questions, once they are approved they show up in the column on the right hand side of the screen. Well, my questions, as of late, never do. Then I end up not getting any answers.

Could you please explain why this is so? (link)
Hi there,

I can absolutely tell you why:

How many questions have you answered lately?

You see the questions on the side bar only add another approved one to the site once one has been answered.

Right now there is a 24 hour backlog, which I am assuming will clear up when people get settled into the new school year.

The solution to your questions not making the site in a timely fashion is in your hands: Answer questions. :-)

As for the advice_admin account. All urgent questions regarding site problems are answered ASAP. Others are answered as time permits, or if they don't belong in the admin box, have been answered in the FAQ, etc... they are deleted.

Bug reports are answered when they are fixed, and site suggestions are answered when they are added to the to-do list.

As for your questions of late... I looked and saw one question that didn't have an answer yet.

It will be on the list soon, I am sure.

Thank you,

DN.


Every time I try to go to my advice column, it always shows a 404 error. Is this a glitch, or is it because I have characters other than numbers & letters in my username? And if it's the latter, is there any way to change your username without having to make a new one? (link)
Hi there,

It isn't a glitch. Those characters were warned against when your account was created.

Send an e-mail to dangernerd@gmail.com with you old username and your new one, and I will change it for you without you having to become a paid member. Just this once... :-)

DN.


If x = 2a - b2, then a a equals what? (link)
You may ask for instructions on how to arrive at an answer, but you may ot ask for answers to your homework directly.

Please, if you need help understandig how to do the work, ask again the other way. If you are just being lazy and want other people to do your work for you... wrong site. ;-)


The expression sqrt of 90 x sqrt of 40 - sqrt of 8 x sqrt of 18 simplifies to

1. 22.9
2. 48
3. 864
4. 3,456

how did you get your answer? (link)
You may ask for instructions on how to arrive at an answer, but you may ot ask for answers to your homework directly.

Please, if you need help understandig how to do the work, ask again the other way. If you are just being lazy and want other people to do your work for you... wrong site. ;-)


What is the slope of the linear equation 5y-10x=-15?

Can someone explain to me how to do this? Please give me the answer, too, thank you. (link)
You may ask for instructions on how to arrive at an answer, but you may ot ask for answers to your homework directly.

Please, if you need help understandig how to do the work, ask again the other way. If you are just being lazy and want other people to do your work for you... wrong site. ;-)


Which is an irrational number?

1. 0
2. pie
3. -1/3
4. square root of 9 (link)
You may ask for instructions on how to arrive at an answer, but you may ot ask for answers to your homework directly.

Please, if you need help understandig how to do the work, ask again the other way. If you are just being lazy and want other people to do your work for you... wrong site. ;-)


i know i should ask advicenators this, but i dont know how, so maybe a moderator could help me or something?

whenever i click the "your advice column" to view my column, it says this,

No column was found with the specified username, so either there was an error in the username specified or the column has been deleted. If you would like this name for yourself, register at Advicenators.com and start your own free advice column!


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NOTE: If you followed a link from an AIM profile page, and ended up here, it is because AIM's new version is stupid and cuts off the username when people paste it into their profile. You can fix this by adding everything after the "=" in the link by hand. Don't write me about this, write AOL and tell them they suck.

im deffinetly registered and that, i have been for a few years. i can ask questions(obviously lol) and answer peoples questions. im not banned or anything. why is it saying this? (link)
If you have any HTML characters in your username, they are stripped out by security program.

Therefore:

U/S\EN&A{M}E

Would become:

USERNAME, which wouldn't be right, so the system things no column exists.

If you e-mail me at:

dangernerd@gmail.com with your old account name and what you would like it changed to, I will do it for you.

DN.


i just got a nintendo ds and i've already ordered a m3 ds simply but i was wondering can i just download games from any websites and save them to my computer and then put them onto the m3? is it the same way if i want to put music or pictures on it? (link)
Hi there,

There are Nintendo DS homebrew games which are legal to download and play here is an example:

http://www.game-addicts.com/20070522/puzzle-of-connections-a-worthwhile-homebrew-download.html

... Setsuzoku no Puzzle (Puzzle of Connections.)

This is a sales page for the M3 DS Simply Complete 1GB Kit, but it has instructions as well:

http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20070517/m3-ds-play-homebrew-games-on-your-nintndo-ds/

Have fun!


I bought Xingtone Ringtone Maker a long time ago, and I haven't used it in about 3 months. So when I opened Xingtones it was alright and everything, but then I tried to open a song and It wouldn't work.. it would just have the dotted lines but it wouldn't play the song. Anyone know what the problem is?? I've tried uninstalling it and reinstalling it, changing the format (.wav, .mp3, .cda, .mpeg) and I looked on their website at FAQ but none of these worked..... anyone know the problem?? I've done it before, so I have about 10 songs on my phone, but now all of a sudden it doesn't open the song. (link)
Dear Xingtone problems,

Have you upgraded to the latest version? If you haven't, that may have something to do with it, I am not sure how picky they are about that with the Xingtone ring maker.

Here is a link to contact support:

http://xingtone.com/support/contactSupport.htm

... but, BEFORE you do that, please double-check yourself by following this Xingtone video tutorial to the letter:

http://xingtone.com/support/vidTutorial.htm

... so that you can, if it still fails, tell them EXACTLY which step in the tutorial failed.

Good luck with Xingtone... It looks like fun!

P.S. If you upgraded(?) to Windows Vista, you will need to download a special version to make Xingtone RingTone Maker work in Windows Vista:

http://xingtone.com/support/FAQs.htm#vista



okay, so i have a new emusic account [and i have ten free downloads] however. when i searched
Jonas Brothers
- hold on
- SOS

Rhianna
- umberella

i tried all of those and NOTHING came up from the songs i ACAULLY WNAT.! why the hell is it not working? (link)
Hello there,

Not everyplace has everything, sadly. :-(

Emusic doesn't make it easy to find their search tool:

http://www.emusic.com/search.html?mode=x&QT=Rhianna&x=12&y=14

... and I guess this may be why.

Write the customer service department and ask them to add your favorite artists if they aren't listed. Other than that, you have an excellent reason to cancel your emusic.com account:

"emusic.com doesn't have the music I want!"

... They may add it just because you asked, I don't know how their customer service is.

Good luck!


samsung 19" LE19R86WDX Freeview HD Ready LCD TV (White)

ok so i have that tv in my room and recently i lent it to my friend when hers broke...

when i got it back and tried to plug it back in i discovered that there was no sound.... well i dont think she returned it damaged or anything because i may have bent the tip of the cable (it looks like this cable:


http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/31TKZFETR0L._AA280_.jpg


but the tip is thiner and there is a an attached golden tube thing that connects it and screws on to the tv at the back where it says cable out an in (one tip connecting to tv the other to cable receiver)

anyway... well the problem is that there is no sound. i thot it was the volume so i adjusted it from both the receiver and the tv but its not that. and then there are the three colored wires at the back (blue green red) which i put in the rite sockets but still nothing. that leaves me with this wire... what is it for and how do i know if it is damaged? and which plug is for the sound? (link)
Hi there,

The cable that screws on is called co-ax, or coaxial cable. Usually that carries both audio and video.

So if you have selected "cable" as your input, you should be getting sound.

With the three cables like what you pictured (RCA cables, by the way) if they are properly color coded then the yellow one is video and the red and white ones are the right and left stereo sound respectively.

If you have tried both of those, and don't get sound, the problem lies elsewhere.

A good idea at this point it to connect it to something else. Try connecting it directly to your DVD player/Xbox/Playstation/Wii/whatever else... and see if you get sound.

If you do, then look at the reciever from that point out.

If not...

I hate to ask this... but have you pressed the "mute" button? Just checking. :-)

If you go into the menu on the TV, look at the audio settings and see if anything that should be ON is OFF.

That is about all I can suggest for basic troubleshooting.

Good luck!


Well im trying to upload something i make in movie maker and im trying to upload it on youtube its the right size and less then 10 minutes and anyways right it uploads but stops half way as in while its uploading it'll go to 55 or 60 then stop there anyway i can fix it ? (link)
Hi there,

Usually failed video upload are just a temporary thing with YouTube, but if it is continuing, or you try with another file and get the same video upload failure at YouTube:

On the screen where you select the video file to upload to YouTube, there is this text and link:

"Click here if you are having problems with the uploader."

... Click that, and it will give you another way to upload videos to YouTube.

If this one gives you the same issue, then there is something between you and the YouTube servers.

Some people have internet companies that won't allow you to send files bigger than a certain size, which sucks when it makes for broken video uploads at YouTube. :-(

If that is the case, I don't know what to tell you, except to get another internet company if you can.

Almost always, clicking the link I told you about will let you upload your video to You Tube correctly.

Good luck!


does anyone know any sites i can use to find the next time ryan sheckler would be touring in MD? (link)
As an update to the other answer on the Ryan Sheckler tour info:

http://www.ryansheckler.com/

... does indeed have a forum where you can ask this question. Go to the link, and click "Forum."

Ryan Sheckler has quite a career ahead of him from what I have seen.


whhats so good and bad in HiGH cholesterol?


how did Esmee Denters get discovered by Justin Timberlake? Besides YouTube? lol (link)
Hello there,

Please ask only one question per question.

You may ask both of them if you wish, but not together like this.

Thanks,

DN.


Today, I've been trying to view questions, but I click on the link to one, and this message comes up:

"Parse error: parse error, unexpected ';' in /home/advice/public_html/qview.php on line 677"


That is the message specifically from http://www.advicenators.com/qview.php?q=511056


I don't know what the problem is, but I thought I would bring it to your attention =D. (link)
Thank you!

I have the situation resolved. It looks like time to change hosts for teh site. :-(

DN.




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