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Brief passing mention on TinyApps blog:

Download and combine F4F files into FLV

Bits du Jour deal again today, Sun, 5 May 2013, with 11 hrs left to run at time of posting: myBase Desktop 6.x + Addons Pack $39.50 instead of $79.

Simple research? THAT's the gold mine we all take for granted! Print a quick map of new places, check the service hours, menus, shopping, etc etc etc, save *weeks* of your life in twelve days.

Up to a point.  Now we're in a world where everybody and his dog has to have a Web site.  It seems to be easy enough to get one set up (I assume; I've never tried it myself)  But then there's a big problem - maintenance.  Smaller businesses just don't have the resources to put their every change immediately on their Web site.  I know a garden centre like that, where their Web site doesn't lead anywhere, their e-mail doesn't work.  It's no more than an electronic poster stuck on a virtual wall.  One of the local photography clubs has a dire Web site because nobody's got the know-how or the time to make it any better.  In other words, the Internet favours bigger and better-resourced operations over the small ones, even though small ones are often excellent.

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Thanks   

[pdfinfo]

This only gets you part way:

Command-line pdfinfo from the XPDF suite will print the page count of an individual file, amongst much other data.  So can
PDFTK, but again one file at a time.

You could put either in a batch file for multiple PDFs, but you'd have to massage the output data to make it tidy.

Lately Firefox (16.0.2) has been making silly noises each time it opens a Web page.  It didn't used to do this, and I haven't even had any recent updates that I know of.  I badly want this irritating sound turned off, but I can't see where to do it under Options.  Please can someone point me in the right direction?

Thanks...

This is about Google's always-on spectacles, right?  Which allow users to video anything and upload it, regardless of privacy concerns?

A writer in a UK magazine suggested that users should be termed "glassholes..."

[PromptPal]

PromptPal Version 2 Now Available!
05 April 2013 02:32 PM

PromptPal Version 2.0

PromptPal - our popular command line replacement for administrators and power users - has finally been given a major update. There are many changes in v2, but here are the highlights:

    Totally rewritten internally to put you closer to the underlying command shell. Commands that formerly required special treatment in PromptPal v1 just work normally in v2, e.g. More, Telnet, NSLOOKUP etc.
    Support for Windows PowerShell and other shells of your choosing.
    Integrated support for "Run as different user", which can even be combined with "Run as Administrator"
    Optional initial command for all new tabs
    Toolbar control over command completion options (simple on/off toggles)
    Command history is separate after tab creation.
    Pass-thru for CTRL+D and any other key combos not mapped to a menu item.
    Windows 8 compatibility improved

If you make a lot of use of the command line or find it a daunting but necessary evil, then give the new version a try. You'll be surprised how much time and effort it will save you!

Existing PromptPal customers who bought on or after 1st June 2012 have already been sent out free upgrade licenses for version 2. Those who bought version 1 prior to that date can upgrade at a 50% discount. Emails about this will be sent out on Monday 8th April 2013, but if you'd like upgrade earlier or have any questions, please either submit a ticket or email us here: mailto: support@promptpal.com

Except they call SSC Snapshot Captor, though they get it right in the main review.

Just again for discussion, how many images do you have? I'm close to hosting them myself.

Only a handful - I think I ended up with four.  My immediate problem is solved as it turns out that only one's first contact with eBay's customer service has to be made through their Web site.  Replies are sent to your ordinary e-mail, and of course it was easy to attach the images to my reply to that.  Would you believe that eBay UK(?) customer service "don't have the option to open the links you provided?"  Security gone mad, I suppose.  So for my current task, external image hosting turned out to be unusable anyway! 

What features do you need is the question.

Nothing much.  I'm having a problem with my eBay UK account, which has suddenly started sending "New items that match:" messages in an odd format.  eBay UK seem impossible to contact by normal means, only through their Web site, so you have to use the online messaging system.  Tech support wanted a screenshot, but there doesn't seem to be a way of attaching anything to the messages, which only have a limited text space anyway.  Hence needing an independent image hosting service.

I used TechSmith's freeware Jing, which hosts images online, but whined about updates, and I felt I wanted more freedom in what screenshot/annotation program to use.

Please can you recommend a free image hosting site?  I'm only looking for a repository for screenshots at present, rather than a photographer's gallery.

I'm aware that a few have been mentioned, especially with respect to SSC, but was wondering about pros and cons.

Thanks...

>> My version of this is to have a particular sticky note pop
>> up on ALL pages of a given site, not just a specific one.
You could do this even with Notezilla 7 using wildcards inside titles. When sticking note to a particular window you are shown  the 'Stick To Window' dialog with list of open windows. You can just double click on any window title and edit it like *eBay*. So the note will appear on all pages of eBay website.

Ah...  I missed the possibility to edit.  Thanks for pointing that out.

Ehancement request:
It would be nice to see a feature where the linking is to ANY webpage with the text "DonationCoder" in the window text.  And not just a specific web-page.

My version of this is to have a particular sticky note pop up on ALL pages of a given site, not just a specific one.  I couldn't see that in NZ7.  Please, is it available in 8?

We could write a 100-line batch file to do this.

It could be made smaller than that with a "SWEEP" aka "GLOBAL" type utility that repeats a command in every directory matching a filespec.  Some can be found in the Fidonet batch programming echo's file depository, http://www.filegate.net/bfds/  These are old, though, and I don't know how well they'd work in current Windows consoles.

[Desktop Window]

I don't know how much this helps.  Do you know PowerPro?  It has numerous features for controlling windows under Help > Actions for the *Window command

Alternatively, another hotkey program, HotKeyz.  Online help is here.  Scroll down to 3.5.3 Desktop Window:

Desktop Window

Close
Close the active window with a hotkey.

Hide
Hide the current window with a hotkey. Use the hide as a boss key to hide a private window from others as they walk into your office or study.

Kill
Kill the process of the current window.

Maximize
Maximize the current window with a hotkey.

Minimize
Minimize the current window with a hotkey.

Minimize All Others
Minimize all other windows except the current window (top most desktop window). Specify additional window titles not to be minimized in the parameter box.

Restore
Restore the current window with a hotkey.

Stay On Top Enable
Enable the current window's stay on top property to ensure that it will always be on top of all other windows.

Stay On Top Disable
Disable the current window's stay on top property.

Unhide
Use Unhide to display hidden windows or right click on the HotKeyz system tray icon to view a list of hidden windows. You can also unhide any hidden windows with the unhide hotkey.

Unhide Pick List
Use the Unhide Pick List to choose from a list of hidden windows.

Both PowerPro and HotKeyz are freeware.

HTH...

Thanks, folks...  I'd decided the common claim of "aircraft grade" aluminium given for low-end torches was (usually) specious, but didn't know about "LED fade," nor thought about switch quality.  I realise you get what you pay for, but as you can often buy 10 cheapies for the cost of one high-end torch, it becomes harder to decide what's the better deal.

I hadn't thought about hand-cranked torches either, but having one around would clearly be a good idea.  They're widely available in the UK, but look very low-end.  I checked both Brinkmann and Garrity on Amazon UK; the former look the same price as other top brands, and Amazon don't offer Garrity hand-cranked models.

To light up a room, I have a fluorescent camping lantern that takes 4*D batteries, but it only really gives enough light to see your way around, not enough to actually do anything.  Fluorescent tube lanterns have also been superseded by LED lanterns, but look quite large.  I've seen a recommendation for the pen-sized RIL50 8 LED Mini Inspection Light.  It doesn't really look big enough to light a whole room, but good for working in small areas, like vehicle engine compartments.

An expensive recommendation I saw recently, and that appealed to me, was for the LED Lenser V2 Aviator Torch because it has a ring of white LEDs surrounding a single separately-switchable red LED.  The idea is to use the latter for things where you don't want to affect your night vision, like map-reading, but to have full illumination readily available as well. 

LED torches are making my old incandescent Petzl head torch look decidedly dim, so maybe I'll start looking at head torches again.  Sigh...

I think skwire's right about LED light quality.  It may be something to do with the output not being full-spectrum, just a narrow band of frequencies.  I've even seen that stated as a reason why they can't be used for hunting at night, the lack of full-colour vision also spoiling one's depth/distance perception.

Be aware of the "creative" definition of the word lifetime

Personally, I'll cut them at least some slack, because they're Russian and their English isn't very good, as seen in much of the rest of their English-language text.  The more so as I don't speak any language other than English...

A few years ago, I got mildly interested in modern LED torches (flashlights, to those of you west of the Atlantic).  I settled on a Fenix L1D, a model I think they no longer make, and was very impressed with the light output from a small torch with a single high-quality LED and a single AA battery.  Indeed, sometimes it's too bright.

There are still plenty of premium models around from the likes of Fenix themselves, LED Lenser, Maglite, Ansmann and others, but lately I see every outlet rife with dirt-cheap multi-LED torches that may not be of such quality, but still deliver a lot of light at low cost.

If you aren't an emergency services professional, or the like, and just want a torch for around the house and garden, or for carrying in your car, is there really any point now in buying an expensive top-brand model?

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From the authors of the AML Pages notekeeper.  Appears to be popup boiler-plate text, rather than a text expander.  This alpha version appears to be freeware, but it looks like they may move to a payware version later.

[@Tinman57]

In case you have problem in finding the required feature, I am giving below the screen shots from my machine.

Many thanks!    I wouldn't have found that, even though I know perfectly well that my sticky notes program makes all its notes hidden windows.  Pistachio is an interesting utility; pity it doesn't show icons as well in that list.

@Tinman57: thanks - did a quick check on the original pages, but they don't seem to have a known solution for Vista.

I really haven't seen it get much easier than ScreenshotCaptor. And it's pretty hard to beat the asking price too!

kalos isn't a supporting member 

Do these help any?

• Starting CHS via batch file quandary
• Windows Batchfile can't recognize long file name...!!!!

(They're short)

[@anandcoral]

The app will still be running in the background (which is why Ath's KeepUpApp probably won't help) but there just won't be a tray icon for you to be able to access the app from.

Yes, that sounds about right; I haven't investigated fully, but suspect the apps are all there, I just can't see them.  Many thanks!

I wrote an app to try to simulate the process of waiting, clicking shortcuts, and waiting some more.

I already run WinPatrol Plus with some programs run Delayed, and should have thought of that    It's nice to see your free delayed-startup program; who better than that scary taskbar girl    As you point out, it may be tedious to figure out and organise the correct amount of delays.

@anandcoral:
I don't see that particular feature in Pitaschio's Features list, but I'll take a look.  Thanks for the pointer!

I use Vista Home Premium, UAC On, user account.  Quite a lot of things are loaded into the tray at system startup.  However, Vista has a habit of missing some of them out every now and then, with occasional oddities like loading a service, but not the GUI that controls it, or loading an app correctly, but with a blanked-out icon.

This problem is known.  Various sites on the Internet suggest fixes that involve either re-starting Windows Explorer, which I don't think is a permanent fix, or, making a Registry hack, which I'd rather avoid.  So I decided I'd use one or other menuing program to mimic the Taskbar, but complete with everything the Taskbar should have.

I know where the .EXEs are for programs I installed myself, and where I had to go look, usually Chameleon Task Manager was a good helper.  But, some tray programs were pre-installed, like Volume, connection status, Bluetooth, etc.  Given that .EXE names can be enigmatic, how can I easily match a tray icon to its .EXE?  I'm envisaging hovering the mouse over an icon and having something pop up to tell me what I'm looking for.  That looks problematic as most icons offer tooltips when you hover over them.

Please, does anyone know an easy way to solve this?  Or have I overlooked something obvious?