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August 11

Criminal Case

I have a slight problem when playing Criminal Case -- the app won't let me share coins or orange juices, post my achievements, send energy or lucky cards to my teammates, or watch ads to get more energy (either I click on the button and nothing happens at all, or it says that something went wrong and I should reload and try again). I've looked at their support site and it says to disable my antivirus and firewall (I have Norton Internet Security, which tends to err on the paranoid side) -- the problem is, I don't want to disable it completely because I'm afraid of getting hacked while online. Is there a way I can work around this problem without completely disabling Norton (e.g. by selectively disabling only some of its features), or will I have to just live with it? (BTW, this problem DOES NOT occur in the Pacific Bay installment -- only in the original Grimsborough installment of the game.) 2601:646:8E01:7E0B:21B1:8CA4:6F9F:6132 (talk) 05:16, 11 August 2017 (UTC)

Have you tried https://www.criminalcase.com/help/en_US.html ? (((The Quixotic Potato))) (talk) 13:59, 11 August 2017 (UTC)

I have -- that's what's telling me to disable Norton! But I don't want to do this because it will make my computer totally non-secure -- so I'm asking whether there is a less drastic way to resolve the problem! 2601:646:8E01:7E0B:21B1:8CA4:6F9F:6132 (talk) 08:26, 12 August 2017 (UTC)

Using Android Phone as keyboard for PC over USB

I would like to be able to use my android phone as a keyboard for my PC, over USB.

I've seen apps such as the Intel Remote Keyboard and Unified Remote, which offer this facility over Wifi. I would like to be able to do the same, only instead of wifi, connecting the pc and phone via a usb cable. I'd like to do it without having to root the device.

Just to be clear, my objective is to be able to use the offline abilities of Google Voice Typing in a scenario where the PC does not have wifi support, and there is no internet.

Hope someone knows how to do this.

Best Regards--117.212.115.206 (talk) 15:27, 11 August 2017 (UTC)

PS:I want to directly voice type into MS Word instead of voice typing into WPS Office on my phone and then transfer the file to the PC.--117.212.115.206 (talk) 15:28, 11 August 2017 (UTC)

By default Android does not support such a functionality: you will need to jailbreak your phone and then install a custom kernel. See a discussion here. Ruslik_Zero 20:20, 13 August 2017 (UTC)

PDFs from Lexis (only) always think they have been modified

If relevant: Mac mini4,1, 2.4 GHz, OS X 10.10.5; I use Adobe Acrobat Professional to open PDFs.

This is just a minor annoyance – not a big deal – but I'm curious what might be causing it. When I download PDFs from anywhere they automatically save to my desktop, and I drag them to whatever folder they should be in. They save under whatever name they have, and I might or might not rename them. I use Lexis quite a bit and download a lot of PDFs from it—and also from lots of other places.

For some reason, consistently, all PDFs downloaded from Lexis (and from nowhere else) are not recognized by my computer initially as saved, or more precisely: my computer thinks I've made changes. What I mean is, every time I open up a PDF I've downloaded from Lexis, when I try to "x" out of it, I am always asked if I want to save the changes I've made to it (when I've made no changes). Once I save, then it acts like a normal PDF thereafter, but always, the first time I open it, it thinks I've modified it. Any idea what might be causing that? Maybe, what Lexis has set as the default condition of PDF's they provide?--72.80.50.155 (talk) 15:48, 11 August 2017 (UTC)

Just to be clear, does it ask whether you want to "save" or "save as"? The latter might be the default Lexis behaviour. Akld guy (talk) 03:21, 12 August 2017 (UTC)

Sounds like it needs to convert some aspect of those PDF files when you read them in, and it then marks this as a change having been made. StuRat (talk) 04:04, 12 August 2017 (UTC)

PDF files can contain embedded JavaScript that can do all kinds of things; my bet is on that. Lexis might put JavaScript in their PDFs that does something upon opening, and the reader then considers the file modified. (If you really cared, the way to test this would be to extract the components of the PDF, then make new PDFs one component at a time and see what triggers the reader to flag it as modified.) --47.138.161.183 (talk) 05:03, 16 August 2017 (UTC)