Two things I wish Windows could do:

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Well, perhaps not Windows. And also, perhaps not only two . . .

What I wish my computer could do:

1. I have a few bars of a tune or a song going through my head.
Can't think of the name! What is that tune?
If I could just hum it into a mic, and read the name on the screen . . .

2. I am looking at a font. I like it, and want to use it for a project.
Problem: I don't know what it is called.
There are 350 fonts on my computer, and I probably could download more
(either free or paid).
Is here an easy way to look at the installed fonts, other than to click on
each one individually (a long process)?

Any programmers out there up to a challenge?


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I suppose you could record yourself humming a few bars and then go ahead and
upload it to a forum somewhere that's into music and someone might know it.
On those occasions where I don't know the name of the song I'm thinking of
(I have a lot of music and pay a lot of attention to it as if it's some sort
of great hobby but really it's just something that's stuck in my head from
an older brother always asking "who sings this?" over and over) I've often
found the easiest way is to either ask around or just go ahead and call a
friendly radio station. The latter seems to work really well, if you can
give them more information or what not that's good too but I have one
station here, they're a classic rock station, who's gone so far as to put it
on the air and have people call in with guesses that we could then verify by
listening to the song or checking online. We must have had close to an hour
long conversation one night, it was great fun and it turns out that it was
not the person we'd thought that originally sang "Kung Fu Fighting" (or it
might have been Frankenstein - Edgar Winter Group by the way - that night)
and it's now the second line of song title info that I use. It all started
with the craziest of suggestions as a group of friends and I were trying to
look up tab online and finally one of them suggest, ironically, call the
radio station... It seemed crazy at the time but chances are that if you're
calling a station that's program line-up is a similar genre then you will
get a start on the answer if not the answer itself.

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"A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the
furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the
lumber-room of his library where he can get it if he wants it."

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John said:
Well, perhaps not Windows. And also, perhaps not only two . . .

What I wish my computer could do:

1. I have a few bars of a tune or a song going through my head.
Can't think of the name! What is that tune?
If I could just hum it into a mic, and read the name on the screen . .
.

2. I am looking at a font. I like it, and want to use it for a project.
Problem: I don't know what it is called.
There are 350 fonts on my computer, and I probably could download more
(either free or paid).
Is here an easy way to look at the installed fonts, other than to
click on
each one individually (a long process)?

Any programmers out there up to a challenge?


John <><
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I can't help you out with wishful thinking, but try googling as much of one
or more lines of lyrics as you can remember.
 
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