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Living Room / USB HDD enclosure or what?

« on: October 08, 2017, 11:12 AM »

Hi. Time to call on the wisdom of DC again... I've got an old hard drive laying around and have never got around to doing anything with it, but figure it's about time. There's most likely nothing of interest on it, except to please my curiousity, if the HDD even works. I only recently picked it out of the computer it came with. But what I'd like some help figuring out, is how to access it? Preferably something cheap, something like a simple USB HDD enclosure that I can put the old HDD in and plug into my laptop. Would love some suggestions for an enclosure or what I'd need to have a chance of seeing what this ancient piece of computing contains (it was made in 2000 if I remember correctly, and I probably used it until about 2005).

Thanks, people!

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: xplorer² file manager - $14.95 - Bits Du Jour 6/17/2009 - WEDNESDAY

« on: August 23, 2017, 12:19 PM »

And again today: http://www.bitsdujou...in=todays-deals-home

I've used Total Commander since it was Windows Commander 3.14 I think, and can't see myself switching fulltime, but thought this was such a good deal that I figured it's another valuable tool to keep in my software arsenal. Impressed, so far!

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General Software Discussion / Re: YNAB moving to a subscription model

« on: April 30, 2017, 02:12 AM »

I'm re-trialling nYNAB and although it's not perfect and I think it's too expensive, I do like it. I appreciate that I can alter my budget in the mobile app and on any PC. I tried Financier - www.financier.io - which is a good alternative, but the (single) developer is open about not wanting to put much work into new features and basically just maintain it. That would be fine with me if it had scheduled transactions and a mobile app, which it doesn't.

I think I'll start paying for the subscription once my trial runs out. Budgeting for the subscription shouldn't be too difficult, after all

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Living Room / Re: Thank you Donationcoder!

« on: December 08, 2016, 01:28 AM »

Best wishes, Josh!

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N.A.N.Y. 2017 / Re: NANY 2017: Feast Day / Fast Day (Android)

« on: November 22, 2016, 02:18 PM »

  Promising title!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Affinity (Serif) goes head to head with Photoshop & (maybe) Illustrator

« on: November 21, 2016, 01:26 AM »

Drawplus X8 is only £20 / $25 and there's a discount coupon you can use for 25% off: DPSURPRISE

I'm actually tempted by it, even if I've bought Affinity Designer, exactly for the AutoTrace feature (I'll just convince myself that I'm paying for a plugin, I suppose). A bit reluctant though, as I only had problems with the last version of DrawPlus I owned, think it was X5, maybe X6. It crashed all the time, and was pretty much unusable (for me, YMMV). The software was very nice, when it came to features, GUI, etc. but the crashes, not so much 

There's of course also Black Friday and Cyber Monday coming up, so there might be an even better deal coming up, for all I know.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Affinity (Serif) goes head to head with Photoshop & (maybe) Illustrator

« on: November 20, 2016, 01:24 AM »

From the Serif website:

Serif legacy products

Our legacy, or 'Plus' range of software is no longer being developed as we focus entirely on our new Affinity range of professional graphic design software. However licenses for WebPlus, PagePlus, PhotoPlus and DrawPlus are still available to purchase here if you wish.

They're selling these for £20 /$25 a piece.

Spoiler

I successfully downloaded free (latest) full versions of MoviePlus X6, WebPlus X8 and PagePlus X9 by using email address I used to purchase PagePlus X8. You'll need to pay for DrawPlus X8 and PhotoPlus X8, however.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Affinity (Serif) goes head to head with Photoshop & (maybe) Illustrator

« on: November 19, 2016, 02:58 AM »

Full version Affinity Designer 1.5 for Windows was released two days ago! https://affinity.ser....com/en-gb/designer/

Opening offer of £30 / $40 / €40 until 24th November. Official price at £40 / $50 / €50 after that. Very decent price!

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Living Room / Re: Guide to Living with Introverts

« on: August 22, 2016, 08:21 AM »

So... how about the weather, huh? <-- Me making small talk

Nice guide, btw! 

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Living Room / Re: Goodbye to my father

« on: May 26, 2016, 02:07 AM »

My condolences, mouser. I'm sorry for your loss, he really sounds like a great father and a great person.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - ScreenshotCaptor - v4.16.1 - Dec 12, 2015

« on: March 04, 2016, 06:58 AM »

Ok, so now it works... I rebooted my computer and that fixed it. My guess is that Dropbox probably caught the PrtScr key, and waited for me to use it, and then when I declined, PrtScr was left on it's own (in lack of better words).

Anyway, nothing to see here 

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Screenshot Captor / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - ScreenshotCaptor - v4.16.1 - Dec 12, 2015

« on: March 03, 2016, 02:10 AM »

I'm having a problem getting PrtScr working with Screenshot Captor. Needed to capture an active window, but Alt+PrtScr didn't do anything except asking if I wanted Dropbox to save the screenshot, which I declined. Alt+PrtScr does work, but Screenshot Captor doesn't interfere with Windows 10's default behaviour. Is this possible? Or do I need to use AutoHotkey or something to catch Windows' hotkey and pass it on to SC? Apparently I haven't used SC for this since installing Win10...

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Hard Disk Sentinel Standard : 100% Off at BitsDuJour

« on: January 07, 2015, 10:25 AM »

... and extended for another day.

I got the free Standard edition, but if I like it, it seems like the Pro version is a regular at BDJ, so should be able to get it discounted later.

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N.A.N.Y. 2015 / Re: NANY 2015 Plege: A FARR Plugin

« on: December 28, 2014, 08:50 AM »

I pledge to write a plugin for Find and Run Robot.
Now.. what Plugin should I write?  I could try to finally write a plugin for use with my Clipboard Help+Spell tool, which some have asked for in the paste..

-mouser (October 15, 2014, 05:00 PM)

Yes please

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Long time members with over 50 posts, report for disbursement duty

« on: June 06, 2014, 02:45 PM »

I haven't been very active for a while, although I browse the forums pretty much every day, but I'm in! There are certainly some posters that are deserving of some extra credits!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Facebook is a disaster now

« on: March 18, 2014, 09:10 AM »

I'd check out the Opera forums. Opera is up to 20.something now, so might be solved with an update?

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Living Room / Re: What happened?

« on: March 08, 2014, 03:09 AM »

Quelle domage!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Directory Opus 11 Released!

« on: March 07, 2014, 04:24 PM »

Comparing their price isn't faulty reasoning. Jibz didn't, as far as I can tell, state that the price was the only difference. His post was a followup to the price discussion and just brought into the frame some comparison between the differing licenses and prices. It seemed clear enough to me that the post was only concerned with the price and license difference between some well known file managers. An interesting post as well... to me, anyway

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General Software Discussion / Total Commander 8.50 final released

« on: February 20, 2014, 03:03 AM »

Total Commander 8.50 final is released!

It can be downloaded from www.ghisler.com

As usual the update is still free for all registered users.

What's new? There are many new functions this time. The most important are:

File operations:

• F5 copy: First copy all files where the user doesn't need to be asked and skip all with errors, ask at the end
• F5 copy: Option to verify files after copying them.
• F5 copy: Option to keep paths relative to current folder while in branch view (Ctrl+B)
• Select and copy related files, e.g. *.jpg > crw*.cr2 selects/copies raw files only if there is a related .jpg file
• F8 Delete: Only warn at the end if folders couldn't be deleted
• F8 Delete: Always use new delete method when VistaDelete isn't set in wincmd.ini, but show our own delete confirmation dialog if the system dialog is disabled
• Support unpacking of more archive formats: 7zip, new RAR5 format, as well as -lh6- and -lh7- (LHA)
• RAR with encrypted file names: Show archive content after entering password
• Pack/unpack files: Option to remember last entered password until TC is minimized, Windows goes to standby, or the screen saver starts
• Alt+F5 pack: New option to leave out the names of the selected folders when packing each folder to a separate archive
• New wincmd.ini options CopyLinks and IgnoreLinks to handle file system links
• FTP/file system plugins: When editing a file with F4, the file will automatically be re-uploaded when saved in the edfitor. No need to close the editor any more. Change via Edit/View options.

User interface:

• Support for touch screen devices: Tap on icons to select files (configurable), long tap to open context menu
• Support for high resolution screens (high DPI)
• Drive drop-down list (Alt+F1/Alt+F2): Show links to "My Computer" and "My Documents" Configurable via. ShowExtraDrives in wincmd.ini
• Drive drop-down list (Alt+F1/Alt+F2): Open context menu directly in the list without choosing a drive first
• Show exclamation mark to the left of some options as a warning, e.g. that files may not go where the user expects them to go, like during copying from branch view, or when packing and unpacking
• Show file size and last modified time also in virtual folders like connected MTP devices like Android phones/tablets
• Button bar: Support multiple internal and/or user-defined commands on a single button e.g. cm_SelectAll,cm_Copy
• Progress dialog: Show number of files/bytes in more functions. Switch to files/bytes remaining by clicking on the numbers
• Show thumbnails in virtual folders like libraries
• Option to remember position of background transfer manager in system menu (click on top-left icon)
• Improved background copy dialog: Show number of copied and selected files and bytes, add button "Foreground"

Search function:

• Search for text supports any combination of ANSI, ASCII, UTF-16, UTF-8 Unicode and office XML/EPUB at the same time
• Skip a folder by clicking on its name in the status line (with confirmation). Also allows to just pause the search
• Open in separate process via Alt+Shift+F7, so TC can still be used during the search
• "Feed to listbox" also when searching in archives, on FTP servers and file system plugins
• Search for duplicate files: Search by plugin fields, e.g. name parts, file extension etc.
• Search for duplicate files, Feed to listbox: New dialog box to select files inside the groups of duplicates, e.g. by newest, oldest etc.

Other functions:

• Compare by content: "Resync comparison from here" now also works after editing the files
• Create/Verify CRC checksums: Also support SHA256 and SHA512 formats
• Show hidden/system files now split into separate options for hidden and system
• Option to get more items in various history lists, set via wincmd.ini: HistoryLen for directory history, OldCmdLineCount for command line. MaxItemsInComboBox for comboboxes in F7 New Folder, Alt+F7 Search, Num+ select files etc.
• Lister, right click menu: Directly search for selected text via Google in default browser (configurable)

A list of additions and corrections, also for previous versions, can be found in the history file.

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General Software Discussion / Re: RightNote version 3.0.0 released

« on: January 25, 2014, 07:24 AM »

Well, I'll add some RightNote love, to balance out the negative views.

I love RightNote, I think it's a wonderful piece of software and is perfect for my needs. 
I probably don't use half it's features, but what I do need is in there, and the web capturing is excellent. Money well spent, IMO!

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: FineReader11, 50%off, BdJour, Nov15Fri

« on: November 15, 2013, 07:40 AM »

Great product!

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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel now available from DC member kyrathaba!

« on: July 27, 2013, 05:11 AM »

wraith and kyrathaba, thanks a lot for your answers! I hadn't really thought about the approach you're using wraith, creating the world, characters, etc. as a starting point. I can imagine that it might very well be a better approach for me than trying to develop a story from A to Z.

Good to know that once again I can rely on fellow DC-members to come up with something helpful

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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel now available from DC member kyrathaba!

« on: July 26, 2013, 03:15 PM »

Have purchased your book and look forward to reading it! Being a fellow DC'er makes me feel like I almost know a real author

I'm curious about a few things and hopefully you could be of help... When you first got the idea to this novel, how did you develop the plot and characters? Did everything sort of "just appear" or did it start with a premise and then take off from there?

How did you set about writing it? I've got a few story ideas, and sometimes I sit down, fire up a word editor and ... very little happens... I write a few sentences but what I write seems a bit phony (usinga word by a favourite fictional character of mine, guess who?). What was the start of writing this novel like for you?

Thanks for any input!

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Living Room / Re: The DonationCoder.com 30-Day Healthy Eating and Exercise Challenge!

« on: May 22, 2013, 03:52 AM »

Great idea! I'm in!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Listary 4 released - tons of new features

« on: March 08, 2013, 02:45 AM »

I have the same problem as Jibz. It does autostart, but asks for admin privileges. Probably need to contact the developer about it.