tangent-man

Hi, I wonder if you peeps can help?

I would like some recommendations for some good softwares to use for a charity 'contact centre' type of thing.. Preferably free / open source (or as cheap as possible!)

We are a group of volunteer wildlife rescue volunteers and at the moment everything is mostly organized through social media, WhatsApp groups etc.

I used to work in a contact centre and I think we would really benefit from some software like you would use in a call centre would be really useful to track cases/callers and also to assign jobs to the correct people..

Some sort of knowledge base could be cool - but I guess I can just use a wiki for that..

I am reasonably IT literate.. I used to work in IT, although I am not much of a coder.. but could sort a server out/wiki etc..

Does anyone have any ideas what we could use?

Thanks for reading

I wonder if anyone can help (asking for a friend LoLz) ? I am looking at this page here: https://braintoblueprinttobuild.wordpress.com/2016/04/17/diy-laser-projector-part-5-building-it/ and wondering if rather than using an arduino to generate the signal if the output from a PC soundcard could be used in a similar way to this: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCECl4aNz5hvuRzW5fgCOHKQ is that possible? My friend is interested in projecting Lisserjoos figures and that sort of thing using lasers. It would be great if it could be driven by a PC soundcard output as he could use the output from VCVrack.

Sorry if I am asking this in the wrong place? If so, sorry, is there another forum or another place that you know of that would be a better place to ask this question?

Hi there,

When I was up in the loft the other day I found an old HD and discovered it had a Multibit classic bitcoin wallet on it with some remnants of BC on there (not a life changing amount, about £900 LoLz). Trouble is I have no idea what the password is...

I heard there are some defects in Multibit that it may be possible to exploit? Does anyone have any details about this please?

Thanks :-)

I have been using a 2012 Mac-mini with a copy of Adobe Creative suite CS6 which was fine* for what I wanted to accomplish. I mostly use Photoshop and a little bit of Illustrator; I intend to learn InDesign as well one day… The problems I have are the latest version of OSX no longer works with CS6 and running OSX Mavericks is getting more and more dodgy as it is no longer being updated with security updates and I don’t want to shell out the huge spondoolies to Adobe (and I don’t want to be tied into a software-as-a-service deal anyway).

*+ I am peed off with Adobe/Apple for never really sorting out a glitch in Photoshop CS6 see: https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-discussio...

I am thinking of going back to Windows. I have a legit copy of Photoshop CS5 that still runs under windows 10 fine and to be honest I think Microsoft for all their sins are better at enabling you to use your old software that you have actually paid for on there new OS’s than Apple. I would probably buy a new Mac-mini if I could still use CS6 on it, but alas I am too peed off with Adobe/Apple right now.

I am thinking of shelling out on a New PC Rig instead and bighting the bullet and learning Affinity Photo and Design instead for the long term. I think this is goodbye OSX (pretty as you are) and Hello to Windows 10 dual booted with Manjaro -for giggles…

Does anyone have any other suggestions? I haven’t used GIMP for a while but last time I used it I didn’t get on with it (maybe I am a bit thick). I liked Krita a lot but it seemed a bit buggy- not complaining its free.

I am only designing like Youtube Thumbnails and the Odd poster doing a bit of WebDev HTML/CSS and that sort of thing.. I don’t work in the design industry or anything.