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General Software Discussion / Re: post your 5 most used applications in 2007 here!

« on: January 03, 2008, 04:56 AM »

Freeware
1. Firefox
2. Autohotkey
3. Strokeit
4. Find n run robot
5. Process explorer

Shareware
1. Directory Opus
2. Kaspersky
3. Babylon
4. Clipcache pro
5. FirstDefense-ISR

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General Software Discussion / Re: clean up text

« on: December 29, 2007, 02:00 AM »

Thanks a lot for all replies.

Curt, definitely the program needs a lot of improvement, but I am not responsible for it. It is basically a program that displays all the emails, faxes and telexes received. Now some of them have been forwarded many times and in different formats (email and the old but still used from vessels telex) and therefore look like that.

Boxersoftware, I would like my processed text looks like how Curt processed it. I will try your program now, but please note that the text has been forwarded by email and telex.

f0dder, exactly, what bothers me the most, is that the linebreak is done on the character and not on the word.

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General Software Discussion / clean up text

« on: December 28, 2007, 12:45 AM »

Hello, I am receiving some text messages in my work's program, which have been forwarded many times and in the end appear as follows. Is there a way to clean it up and reformat without loosing the paragraphs?

L NOT
MORE 0,40 M IN INNER ROAD), PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT SHIP STAMP AND MAST

ER
SIGNATURE AREWELL READABLE AS PORT DUES BILLS WILL BE ISSUED ACCORDIN

G
TO PILOT'S/TUGS BILLS. ALSO PAY  SPECIAL ATTENTION IN CASE OF
MOORING/UNMOORING
FROM 22:00 TO 06:00 AS EXTRA CHARGES FOR TUGS ASSISTANCE ARE TO BE PA

ID
DURING THIS TIME. IF TUGS STARTED WORK AT 06:35(FINISHED AT 22:25) IN

TUGS
BILLS THERE MUST BE MENTIONED CORRECT TIME AS OVERTIME WILL BE CHARGE

D IN
CASE TUGS STARTED WORK EARLIER THAN 05:35(FINISHED LATER THAN 22:25)
BBB.
IN ACC TO RUSSIAN IMMIGR LAW ALL CREW MEMBERS ON ARRIVAL NOVO MUST HA

VE
VALID
SEAMEN'S BOOK IN GOOD CONDITION W/O UNAUTHORIZED CORRECTIONS. OTHERWI

SE,
LANDING
OF CREW MEMBERS  WITH A/M CASES WILL B PROHIBITED BY IMMIGR AUTHORITI

ES
DURING
PASSPORT CONTROL ON ARRIVAL AND PENALTY WL BE IMPOSED UPTO USD 300.
NATIONAL PUBLIC PASSPORTS WITHOUT ENTRANCE RUSSIAN VISA ARE NOT ACCEP

TED
BY
IMMIGRATION AUTHORITIES.
ALL CREW MUST TAKE SEAMEN'S BOOKS DURING LANDING/VISIT SHORE (PIER, C

ITY)
IN ORDER TO AVOID PENALTY UPTO USD 300.
CCC.
IN ORDER TO AVOID PENALTY AND OTHER PROBLEMS PLS PAY SPECIAL ATTN ON

NARCOTICS
DECLARATION,STORAGE OF NARCOTICS AND MEDICINES CONTAINING NARCOTIC,
STRONG,
PSYCHOTROPIC AND POISONOUS SUBSTANCES O/B THE VSL, AS CUSTOMS DRUG DE

PT
OFFICERS MAY INSPECT VSL IN THIS RESPECT.
ALSO PLS CHECK IF CREW MEMBERS HAVE PORNO PRODUCTION. IF YES - ALL PO

RNO
MUST
BE COLLECTED, COUNTED (EXACT NUMBER OF MAGAZINES, CD, VIDEO TAPES ETC

.)
AND
DECLARED IN STORE LIST. DURING VESSEL'S STAY IN PORT PORNO MUST BE S

EALED
IN BONDED STORE OR SOME OTHER LOCKER.
PLS NOTE THAT SUPPLYING PROVISIONS/FOOD PERMITTED ONLY THROUGH
SHIPCHANDLER.
BUYING AND DELIVERY PROVISIONS/FOOD ON BOARD BY CREW MEMBERS IS PROHI

BITED
BY CUSTOMS AUTHORITIES.
DDD.
PREVENTION OF THE POLLUTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT
BEFORE ENTERING THE PORT AND FOR THE HOLE PERIOD OF STAY IN THE PORT

ALL
SEA
VALVES LEADING TO THE VESSEL?S SIDE AND THROUGH WHICH OILY MIXTURES A

ND
HARMFUL
SUBSTANCES ARE DISCHARGED OVERBOARD SHALL BE CLOSED AND SEALED.
HOLDS/HATCHES ARE TO BE CLEANED FM DUST/RESIDUES OF PREVIOUS CGO.
VESSELS LYING ALONGSIDE OR IN THE ROADSTEAD ARE PROHIBITED

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General Software Discussion / Re: What’s Your Backup Strategy?

« on: November 25, 2007, 02:33 AM »

With firstdefense you can store as many back ups as you want to an external hard drive as archives and restore them any time. But true the intend use is not mainly as a back up tool, rather disaster recovery.

I find more its more exiting use, after a clean windows installation to create different windows snapshots each with different antivirus, word processing programs, utilities and even install windows 2000 or vista on the top of windows XP and return to the original installation any time.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What’s Your Backup Strategy?

« on: November 23, 2007, 06:51 AM »

FirstDefense-ISR, you have to see it to believe it. Apart from excellent back up abilities its the perfect uninstallation tool, disaster recovery and much more.

Home page: http://www.horizonda...sys.com/253715.ihtml

Forums: http://www.wildersse...orumdisplay.php?f=84

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Find And Run Robot / Re: plugin problems

« on: November 22, 2007, 03:53 AM »

I'm not sure if this will help.

Maybe there is a problem with locate.exe version 3.0.7.11040.
I have similar problem with Total Commander plug-in
(http://www.ghisler.c...p;highlight=locate32)
which stops working. When I changed locate.exe with locate.exe version 3.0.7.9220 it works again.

-zajc (November 22, 2007, 01:27 AM)

Wow thanks a lot, fixed now.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: plugin problems

« on: November 22, 2007, 01:00 AM »

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Find And Run Robot / plugin problems

« on: November 21, 2007, 02:43 AM »

For some time my plugins do not work any more, especially the keyboard shortcuts, like for example "loc" for locate, as per the snapshot

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General Software Discussion / Desktop List view

« on: July 20, 2007, 03:27 AM »

Self-explanatory thread's subject...

Before



After



mouser     http://iamwill.com/d...opListView/index.php

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR v2.00.100 ALPHA PREVIEW Release - June 07, 2007

« on: June 27, 2007, 04:01 AM »

Hi mouser, the ? wildcard does not work for folders, although it works for files.

Is this a bug or supposed to work like this?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: aliases

« on: May 22, 2007, 12:53 AM »

thanks for all replies

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Find And Run Robot / aliases

« on: May 21, 2007, 05:07 AM »

Hello, can you post me a link on how to create my own aliases, for example "google I am feeling lucky" & "google images"

Also I think there is a small bug: if I launch farr and decide to exit (without launching anything) by pressing Alt+F4, farr exits but always by launching one item from the results list (not necessarily the first).

If I exit farr by heating Esc twice, above is not reproduced.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Avafind mini review

« on: March 13, 2007, 04:28 AM »

@surftwo: x1 is for files' content search and could be used as an addition to Avafind, but for files/folders searching/launching cannot be compared to avafind/locate

@svv1999:
1) there is not need to refresh the cache unless you have exited the program for a reason. Also a manual refresh doesn't delay the PC at all, in my PC it takes about a minute with 20% CPU.
2) Never experienced any crashing 3 years of using it and also Avafind never missed indexing a single file in 3 years
3) Mounted partitions, agree.

@edbro: CDS (copernic desktop search) indexer slows down occasionally the PC and lacks keyboard shortcuts. Definitely not recommended to be used solely to launch files/programs.

@MerleOne: I tried MS desktop search. It is not as customizable as CDS but it seems more stable and lighter. It could be used to launch files/programs.

Personally I am using Avafind in combination with DTSearch Desktop (for content searching) and Directory Opus.

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General Software Discussion / Re: SuperboyAC's DC blog #2 (Live Search feature in software)

« on: March 04, 2007, 02:16 AM »

@brotherS, my first minireview posted 

@WhiteLion, in DTSearch you have to go to options>indexing options>filtering options>binary files and set it "do not index". Now the index will finish in less than half time

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Avafind mini review

« on: March 04, 2007, 02:04 AM »

Avafind mini review by babis, upon brotherS request

The main window launches by hitting shift & escape instantly. Then by start typing the second letter the program starts to present results, which can appear in 2 views, detailed showing filename, size and location and basic showing only filename, as the following snaps. The main results window offers some nice options when right-click on a result and anytime if choose Explorer Options it will show you all the typical explorer options. All operations of Avafind can be done through keyboard, no need for using mouse at anytime.

Avafind remembers your choice, this means that if I type word and then decide to launch the winword.exe from the results (by pressing enter), then the next time when I type word, the winword.exe will be highlighted and by pressing the tab it will bring you directly at the result selected at the previous similar search string.

This is a very big advantage over similar programs, as the first time you have to scroll to the list of first results until find the target but then it will remember choice and drive you directly to the result previously selected, similarly to find and run robot (but not quite, as in farr you don’t have to press tab and also the desired result appears from the first or second letter typed)

The main advantage of Avafind however is the index-on-the-fly. It’s the Scout Bot on the upper right corner where all the in/out files are displayed (similarly to recent documents from the windows start menu but more extended). There you have some options by rightclicking, such as browse folder (inside ava’s main window, copy path, create new folder and others as shown on the screen shot). An important option is to choose to block file or folder from being displayed to the Scout Bot, which also applies and to the main panel of results (for example I always exclude the the prefetch directory from the searhc results).

Then comes My Picks, located at the bottom right; it’s a favorites section simplified where you can add files/folders by drag and drop, otherwise files/folders will be added according to launch history, hierarchically. By right-click on a file, you can remove it from the Picks.

Other features of Avafind are the toolbar buttons: Music, Videos, Pictures, Programs, Documents and Downloads, showing all your audio, video, image etc files accordingly (I never use these buttons btw).

Also Avafind can be used as folder size program (like treesizepro, foldersizes etc). For example just type am fil (part name of the program files, to show that you don’t have to type whole paths or start from the beginning of path) and the program files folder is displayed. Then choose arrange results by size and you have, the folders’ sizes feature, missing from a typical windows installation.

The program have not been updated from 2003 and the development seems abandoned but even 4 years old, it excels as simple but very powerful file finder

Edited reason forgotten to add  home page http://www.think-les...do-more.com/avafind/ and advanced features

Here is a link to a another review and mini comparison with locate. Note that after the trial period ends, Ava still seal searches but the advanced features are disabled.
http://www.techtree....551-57605-610-2.html

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General Software Discussion / Re: SuperboyAC's DC blog #2 (Live Search feature in software)

« on: March 03, 2007, 02:22 AM »

Faster file finder ever: Avafind, like locate but finds in real time (no need to press enter) and automatically indexes all new files, so in every new file you don't have to update database, just avafind takes cpu for a millisecond and the file is indexed.
Further the scout bot on the upper right corner displays all the new files and there is a my picks column showing the files used regularly. I have to say here that most of the times I am looking a file/folder this is new. The interface is much better than locate and I strongly advise to give it a try. Screen:

DTSearch: in my opinion best desktop search, with plenty of features like fuzzy searching, auto update index, tons of options but price rather on the (very)high side

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR v2.00.45 ALPHA PREVIEW Release - February 6, 2007

« on: February 08, 2007, 02:43 AM »

Thanks for implementing this option. I am not sure how it works. I went to options>heuristic scoring and gave "recency date bonus" the highest score. However when I type ".txt" the most recent text file is not on top of search results.

-Babis (February 03, 2007, 01:01 AM)

Well let me quote myself now. If I set the value to 9999.00 instead of 500.00, I get the result I want: most recent files come first. I thought that a value of 500 will suffice as it was the higher value in Heuristic scoring, but now everything works as wished.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR v2.00.39 ALPHA PREVIEW Release - January 29, 2007

« on: February 03, 2007, 01:01 AM »

Thanks for implementing this option. I am not sure how it works. I went to options>heuristic scoring and gave "recency date bonus" the highest score. However when I type ".txt" the most recent text file is not on top of search results.

BTW the thread displays v.2.00.39 and my new installation v.2.00.41. That's why I just updated because I thought I had the most recent version.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR v2.00.39 ALPHA PREVIEW Release - January 29, 2007

« on: February 02, 2007, 12:58 AM »

i will put on my todo list an option for grabbing/showing/sorting/biasing-scores by date.
it may slow things down a little so ill make it optional.

-mouser (January 24, 2007, 06:57 AM)

Please consider and this feature, thanks.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR v2.00.37 ALPHA PREVIEW Release - January 21, 2007

« on: January 25, 2007, 02:54 AM »

i will put on my todo list an option for grabbing/showing/sorting/biasing-scores by date.
it may slow things down a little so ill make it optional.

-mouser (January 24, 2007, 06:57 AM)

That will make it perfect. Please try to implement at version 2.

Gee. I was using X1 and Copernic today and, although I'm using them for a different purpose than FARR, I must say that I find FARR much more reliable and predictable. X1 is sluggish and doesn't index my biggest documents completely, copernic refuses to show (in preview window) big documents completely, etc. And both crash from time to time. FARR has not even crashed once in a year and WORKS REALLY WELL for what it's meant to do.
I have to congratulate you again Mouser! I know that words of thanks are not money  , but... in the mean time.
Armando.

-Armando (January 24, 2007, 02:43 PM)

Try DTSEARCH you will be amazed with the quality difference.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR v2.00.37 ALPHA PREVIEW Release - January 21, 2007

« on: January 24, 2007, 04:09 AM »

It seems that I cannot resize the columns in the latest Alpha release. When I press and hold the left mouse button to drag them towards right, something seems odd, like following screenshot. Is it a bug or someth with my settings?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR v2.00.25 ALPHA PREVIEW Release - January 13, 2007

« on: January 19, 2007, 03:40 AM »

Babis, you still need to get your self an improved screenshot tool which takes png images which wont have all that noise you see in your imags.  I still recommend my own Screenshot Captor (visit web page here).

-mouser (January 19, 2007, 01:12 AM)

I am using HyperSnap, but I will try screenshotcaptor.
I made the original pics small only to load faster and not waste your bandwith
BTW I updated now with bmps

i think we are thinking very much alike - it's just in my implementation, the first time you hit escape it brings you to the edit box (assuming you arent there already).  If you hit escape from within the edit box, it does exactly as you say and highlights the existing search so that you can type a new one.  And if you hit escape while the existing text is highlighted then it closes the window.  I find this pretty natural but i'm willing to make escape highlight the complete text right away (the extra step makes it a little easier to hit escape to interrupt a search and ADD terms).  So basically escape operates in stages, always canceling current operation and putting you back a step.

-mouser (January 19, 2007, 01:12 AM)

Well I haven't noticed that you have to hit twice escape.
Now I am covered so you can ignore the request.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR v2.00.25 ALPHA PREVIEW Release - January 13, 2007

« on: January 19, 2007, 01:04 AM »

Well I make full use of escape as it is. If you are in results list and hit Esc you go back to the search bar.

The only small improvement I want for Escape is when I return to the search bar to have the previous search highlighted. Now the cursor stays at the end of search text. Please make it to highlight all the searched text so that the new search starts immediately.

Screenshots of what it does now and what I suggest

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR v2.02.01 ALPHA PREVIEW Release - January 7, 2007

« on: January 09, 2007, 03:29 AM »

Thanks for the excellent release.

Please consider to add "Size" in the columns, it will be very handy and useful

edit: Also it would be nice if I could use the "delete" button. It seems that in order to delete an item from the list I have to go
appskey>shell context menu>delete
I would like just to press delete when I am on the list, if possible.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: search for all matches shorcut / button

« on: September 26, 2006, 05:45 AM »

Just a question: is there a possibility to have a shortcut key or button to search all matches?

-robbero (September 22, 2006, 05:26 AM)

Its a combination, not one shortcut key:  DOWN, APPSKEY, S