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December 14

Need some ideas

I am helping a relative with a small business logo. How could I create a logo that involves an original picture on the internet, for free, but still w/good quality? 65.31.168.213 (talk) 00:06, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

What exactly are you needing help with? Do you already have a picture you want to incorporate into a logo? If you want free picture editing software Gimp (software) is the usual recommendation. If you want to create your own logo not based on an existing photo, you can also use free vector drawing software like Alchemy (software) that lets you create a logo that can be scaled up and down. Are you wanting help in finding a photo? If you're looking for general logo-designing advice I can't help, but I'm sure there are websites/other people. --Colapeninsula (talk) 10:09, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

If you tell us what the business is, perhaps we can suggest a logo. Note that logos need to be simple, so 3D computer graphics are probably out anyway (although you could have a 3D version and a simplified 2D version, too). StuRat (talk) 06:08, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

I guess logo was a bad choice of word to describe this. The business is a sole-proprietor bait and lure company operating out of a town in the northern Midwest. The picture will be needed for the front of the bait bag. 65.31.168.213 (talk) 01:14, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

Well, you could have a happy worm smiling from a hook as a huge smiling fish breaches the water surface and gulps at it. StuRat (talk) 03:55, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

Deleting previously-visited sites from search bar in Firefox

It should be so easy to do; I think I can't work it out because I don't know the correct terms to put into Help; whenever I start typing in the url bar, I get a menu of suggestions from previously visited sites, which is sometimes helpful, sometimes, frankly, embarrassing. How do I delete them, or stop Firefox from doing this? I'm on a Mac.

Ta Adambrowne666 (talk) 09:09, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

There's some advice on how to disable or configure it here. However instructions vary for different versions, so if it doesn't work tell us what version of Firefox you're using (from Help -> About Mozilla Firefox). There are other ideas about how to disable it for earlier versions of Firefox 3 here and here.

You can delete individual items in the suggestions by highlighting them and pressing delete on your keyboard (either use the up/down cursor keys to navigate the list when it appears, or put the mouse over an entry to select it). --Colapeninsula (talk) 10:03, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

If you are planning on doing some "embarrassing" browsing, you can start a private browsing session. --LarryMac | Talk 12:47, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

Or use a separate profile, if you want history and bookmarks. ¦ Reisio (talk) 00:19, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

Worked a treat - thanks all for the informative answers. Adambrowne666 (talk) 18:59, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

Dumb memory

What is Dumb memory?--Intr199 (talk) 13:18, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

It would depend on the context, but it could refer to memory chips (or RAM within a semiconductor) lacking any memory controller, DRAM controller, refresh logic, or other interface logic. This sense of the word "dumb" (and the opposite "smart") is common in computing, as in dumb terminal, dumb printer. --Colapeninsula (talk) 14:49, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

Report bug in Windows 7

Where can I report a bug in Windows 7 to? --178.208.197.76 (talk) 19:10, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

That will depend on several factors. Did you experience a program crash? If so, you should have seen a Windows Error Reporting dialog box, and you can use that interface to report the crash.

If you want to provide feedback in a more general way, you should go to http://connect.microsoft.com to provide feedback or bug reports.

Developers of new software usually head straight to the support forums at http://msdn.microsoft.com - but in general, developers know more specifically where the appropriate report should be filed. Nimur (talk) 19:17, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

Open a variable URL with HTML without Javascript

Hi,

I want to read the content of a field of a HTML form and then open a URL containing the text I read from the field. Is this possible in plain HTML, without using a scripting (client- or server-side) language?

Thanks. Apokrif (talk) 20:56, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

You must use scripting of some kind. HTML is a markup language, not a scripting language. -- kainaw™ 21:01, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

And note that it would be really quite trivial to do it in Javascript. --Mr.98 (talk) 22:41, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

To continue with the unwanted help, here is how you could do it with Javascript

<input type="text" id="color" />
<button value="go" onClick="var color = document.getElementById('color').value; window.location='http://www.something.com?foo='+color;" />

TheGrimme (talk) 16:55, 17 December 2011 (UTC)