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Thanks Wraith808 for organising the contest.

Just one more reason to love the DC community.

Origin key is why I didn't buy - don't want that EA crap on my machine!

Thanks for the giveaway of this nice collection of games

["Retro"]

The latest Groupees bundle "Retro" is live for the next 5 days.

Contents will grow over time as more bundles purchased - at present for minimum of $3 you get…

Dead Pixels (Steam)
Smooth Operators: Call Center Chaos (Desura)
Forceline (Desura)
Sylia - Act 1
Anodyne (Steam + OST)
Love+ (Desura)
8-bit Commando (Desura)
Bleed (Desura)

Next game to be added = Tiny Plumbers

Er... I don't actually know. I think Widows Defender at the very least is installed, but I've never consciously used any of them.

[I have warmed to eM Client]

I've been a (relatively) happy user of the inbuilt mail client in Opera for many years, but with the recent announcement that Opera is re-engineering its browser to be a WebKit clone, it is uncertain which features will survive the migration…

As such I've been looking at other email clients. I never got on well with Outlook, The Bat  or Thunderbird but I have warmed to eM Client.

In my experience removing vocals from a song rarely works satisfactorily.

The usual technique relies on the vocal being in the center of the stereo mix, and the instrumentation panned left and right. The theory is that you strip out the center and are left with a karaoke version.

Problem is that virtually no tracks are recorded like this! Older records did often hard pan the band to all parts of the stereo space, but thanks to the loudness wars that isn't often the case any more… after all you only get half the volume on your drums if they are only coming out of one speaker! And louder is always better

Even if the original panning is a well defined as it would need to be for the technique to work well, as soon as you add any sort of reverb to the mix this blurs all the sounds, pushing the echos all over the place, such that when the center is removed you still hear the ghost of the original bouncing around.

All this can be controlled to a degree by filtering out the various frequencies where the vocal used to be, but since the human voice covers such a wide range of the spectrum, you will end up with a very muffled sound.

If there isn't an instrumental version of the track you are after in existance, then the only good solution I've ever found is to rebuild the track by sampling, looping and reconstructing major sections of the song. Have done this several times as paid work for TV and theatre, but it is difficult and time consuming.

Also consider finding a midi version and putting it through a really good soundfont, or even splitting it out to various virtual instruments.

@tomos InfoQube looks ideal and I like the fact that it is generic. Shame it is going to be a bit pricey once it is out of beta.

I'll have to investigate the free personal license.

Thanks for the suggestion - I'll take a look.

Hey DCers,

I'm looking for an information manager in which to record health information such as temperature, diet, weight, mood, symptoms etc.

I know such things exist for specific conditions (eg Depression) but I'd rather use something generic that allows me to define the fields I'm interested in, and to specify them as check boxes, combo drop downs, multiple choice lists, free text, numeric etc.

I know that I could roll my own in a database such as MySQL or Access but that feels like overkill, and would involve building everything from scratch.

After a month or two of recording I'd like to output and analyse in Excel / Matlab.

My Google-fu has deserted me and I've not found the ideal piece of software yet - any thoughts?
Should be Windows based, ideally for free (or donation).

Thanks for any suggestions.

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Oops - mispost - didn't read thread properly - sorry - nothing to see - move along!

The fact that you are being forced (OK not forced, but heavily pushed) to use new weapons right to the end, was a real disappointment to me; since it gave no time to develop or specialise your character.

Just playing through Bastion over the last few days. It is certainly a polished game aesthetically - but I've found that the game-play is a little back. I've been doing pretty much the exact same thing all game, and although the voice over and pretty graphic held my attention well at the start, by game end I'm loosing focus.

The trailer above sure does look pretty, but I'll wait to see how much complexity is in the game-play before I commit.

Ah-ha! I may have found the answer myself... seems to be the Defense+ component of Comodo Firewall causing the problem - it is asking me to create a rule for the new game I am running, but the dialogue box is trapped behind the fullscreen application with no way to retrieve it!

And just discovered that Comodo Firewall does contain a manually enabled Game Mode that solves this issue, though I've not discovered HOW it solves the issue!

[Games that run just fine]

For months I've experienced this issue and never found an answer: so time to ask the DC community!

When many games try to go fullscreen both of my dual screens go black and the system freezes.

I can't hit escape, alt+tab, win+tab, ctrl+alt+del, win+pause/break, win+d

The only way to get out of this situation is to hit the power or reset button and reboot.

A few examples… Games that run just fine All games in my Steam library Batman Arkham Asylum Civ V Perspective Games that black screen Flight Control HD Gatling Gears OIO Qrth-Phyl Master of Alchemy Super Hexagon I can see no connection between those games that work and those that don't.

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One way to get around the issue is to run offending games in a window, and if they don't offer that option to run them in a sandbox (such as the Comodo Firewall sandbox or SandIE) which forces them into a window.

Gfx Driver: Catalyst 13.1
Gfx Card: Radeon HD5770
Screen Res: 1280x1024 both screens.
OS: Win7 x64

Does anyone have any thoughts about what is going on? The situation is driving me mad!

Thanks

Where do you find the above info: use the same keyword to group entries?

I didn't find the information anywhere, I just tried it, and it worked.

Seemed obvious to me that was how the feature should work, but I admit it could be made a bit more explicit!

As for management of the various projects and associated folders: I agree that the current system is rather basic, as one will end up with an ever growing unordered list of entries.

I suggest discussing with Channing (the author). I have chatted with him about various Listary issues. I've always found him to be very interested / committed / supportive.

Update 1: So I went ahead and made a post on the Listary forums. We'll see what Channing says.

Update 2: Channing has replied to my suggestions, and it looks like Project management will be getting an upgrade in the next version. See thread in update 1 for details.

[or a collection of folders]

Did I even misunderstand the "project" feature in Listary?

I think you may indeed have misunderstood Listary's projects.

A project is a keyword that limits Listary's search to a single drive / folder or a collection of folders.

Example: I like to search my music collection which is spread over 2 drives in 3 folders. I add an entry for each folder in the projects view and give them all the same keyword "mu" as an abbreviation of "music".

Then I search "mu jackson" to see only files and folders from my music collection (the 3 folders defined earlier) that contain the word jackson.

NOTE: Listary does include favourites - bookmarked folders to which you want to gain access with only one click or minimal typing, but this is quite separate from 'projects'.

Have been running v4 throughout the beta testing period, and gotta say I love it 

Instant system wide searches is fantastic.

Good job Channing 

SpeedDial is Opera's new tab page.

Um...what?

This is by no means new.

I believe you may be reading this differently than the author intended... I see this a a statement of fact, that SpeedDial is a feature that Opera uses as its new-tab page. ie a new blank tab displays SpeedDial, as opposed to the feature being new.

Not quite the same, but I am liking Bins.

Still using xplorer² PRO.

Was disgruntled to have to pay again when version number jumped to 2 - so I didn't!

Instead used TrialPay (found some daft offer whereby if I signed up at a casino - with false information and a disposable email address - gave me a free license!)

Taking a look at this now - am about to build my first Wordpress theme and hope your base will ease the process.

Hey y0himba - if Flatout Ultimate Carnage is still up for grabs I would thoroughly enjoy a copy

Thanks.

(I am Ampa in the DC Steam group - full username night be AmpaSteam)

I too have stuck with Opera, though the most recent versions (certainly everything 12 and the tail end of 11) have had me questioning my browser choice.

My chief frustration is some sort of compatibility problem between Opera and my email host (Dreamhost) where a proportion of my mail simply doesn't arrive! I have a work around - all messages show up if I manually "Resynchronise all messages" but it is a real hassle!

Beyond that I have found 12 to be more unstable than previous versions, web compatibility seems to be getting worse, and it frustrates me that newer features of CSS3 and HTML5 are being added significantly slower than in other browsers.

Why don't I change to something else?

Despite the above issue - I still really love having my email accounts in one place, in a proper desktop app, inside my browser.

And every time I try Chrome or FF I spend a day or more installing addons to incorporate basic out of the box Opera like behaviour.

Well done Wraith808 - I know from experience it is a lot of work to organise such a giveaway!