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General Software Discussion / Re: Locate32

« on: May 11, 2012, 05:10 AM »

There's an OS API where you can register your app or window to get folder change notification messages or updates. I forget if it uses a Windows Message or what. Last time I used Locate32 I noticed when I set it to automatically detect changes, I got that Explorer opening every file in the system. I assume it used that API. If I turned the automatic change detection off, it didn't churn the drive but then I had to do manual updates, sort of like the Linux locate command.

-MilesAhead (May 03, 2012, 04:57 PM)

I don't think I have every used automatic change detection, because I have always associated the program with the Linux locate command and manual updates. I just run an automatic update overnight, since most of the time I am looking for a file older than 24 hours. Manual updates do take a while though, when I need one.

I love the interception of Win-F, it makes me think this is a natural evolution of Find UI from Windows 95, if Microsoft had not let Find/Search go to rot.

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Best Dialog Extender / Re: Listary Pro - good value at full price, 50% discount on BDJ today - 17 Dec 2011

« on: May 11, 2012, 04:58 AM »

I also have registered Listary Pro some time ago, and I know I am underutilizing some of its features. I was browsing the Listary web site the other day and found two features I had not realized were there.

• "Find As You Type" also finds your favorite folders in addition to items in the current folder, I had never noticed this. I was trying to do this, but doing it wrong. I was trying to do it from the actual list of favorite folders.
• You can use regular expressions in "Find As You Type" (enter the colon (:) before typing).

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General Software Discussion / Re: Popup Translator Shootout?

« on: May 10, 2012, 07:15 AM »

Since I just couldn't get my former favorite "TranslateClient" to work properly AT ALL unfortunately (especially regarding the hotkey activation), I just identified QTranslate, which seems to work really well. I also like the standard hotkey "Double Ctrl."



This has a lot of potential to become my favorite popup translator!

Cheers David.P

-David.P (May 10, 2012, 04:22 AM)

I usually am not interested in this category of software, but this is indeed pretty slick. It seems to have picked up my Firefox cookies, because it auto-detected that I wanted to translate into Hindi.

By the way, Double Ctrl was my old FARR shortcut. Actually I think I used to use Double Left Ctrl for Launchy and Double Right Ctrl for FARR, now I don't have Launchy installed and just stick with the FARR default.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: TaskDaddy Release

« on: May 06, 2012, 08:18 AM »

I had a lot of hopes for expanding this program but I am unable to do so for personal reasons.

By way of tying up one loose end, all versions of TaskDaddy are hereby released under the CC BY 3.0 license.

I wish to thank all of you here for your support.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Locate32

« on: May 03, 2012, 03:59 PM »

btw I'm curious. I used Locate32 for quite awhile. But I noticed on Vista it used folder change notification on the entire drive it seemed. I noticed periods where my drive was all but unusable as Explorer went through every file on all my disks checking if they changed or something. It really made it unusable for me. Did you notice anything like that? Perhaps it's been fixed?

Just wondering as that alone drove me to use Everything Search.

-MilesAhead (May 03, 2012, 03:48 PM)

I've never noticed that. I have mine set to index at something like 3 AM, or manually using F8 (or is it F9?). On the manual index, I have noticed it being slower sometimes than other times, so maybe that is. What is folder change notification exactly?

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Living Room / Re: Blog comments - On of off?

« on: May 03, 2012, 01:07 PM »

I agree - some popular blogs have better content in their comments than they have in the original blog post.  Lifehacker was a great example of this.  They had some of the best commenters around (now not so much).

-jaden (May 03, 2012, 11:25 AM)

I agree, Lifehacker is actually one of the main ones I had in mind when I wrote what I wrote.

EDIT: Found it. It was on Gizmodo: You Write 'Bias Journalism' and I Read 'Derp'

-Deozaan (May 03, 2012, 11:36 AM)

That was unbelievably painful to read.

I do agree that ""Bias" Is a Spectrum and We're All On It," though. I also agree that if you are the one who owns the web site, you have every right to moderate those people who seem to have been printed on a 3-D printer with human rear end as the material. Just try not to become one of them.

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Living Room / Re: Apple Rejecting Apps That Use Dropbox

« on: May 03, 2012, 12:49 PM »

If you start accepting such monopoly as fair practice and then also dont mind google stalking you as annoying, or try to justify every act of your favorite brand then you're perfect candidate for chip implants in head.

-mahesh2k (May 03, 2012, 12:08 PM)

Are you suggesting there may be something wrong with having chips implanted in one's head?
Enquiring minds need to know.     

-IainB (May 03, 2012, 12:37 PM)

Let me be the first to say: only those with something to hide will object to having chips implanted in one's head. And yes, I'm kidding.

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Living Room / Re: Firefall developer: "Consoles, I believe, are dead"

« on: May 03, 2012, 10:34 AM »

You scared me with that title.  I thought it meant command prompts   

-rjbull (May 03, 2012, 10:32 AM)

I read that the same way! 

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Living Room / Re: Apple Rejecting Apps That Use Dropbox

« on: May 03, 2012, 09:45 AM »

This is strange, that is like 90% of existing non-game apps, isn't it? I thought that was part of the deal with iOS, you don't have access to the file system on the device itself, so of necessity you put things on Dropbox. I guess the sole reason is that it completes with iCloud.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Giveaway of the Day - Inpaint 4.3

« on: May 03, 2012, 08:10 AM »

Inpaint 4.3 is available as a Giveaway of the day! You have 18 hours 16 minutes to download and install it.

-Giveaway of the Day

I wish they would call it Demo of the Day, it would be a little more honest. That said, a version that expires when you have to reinstall is in fact slightly better than a trial version that expires in X days. It's probably not rational for me to think of something free as a ripoff, but I sure like BitsDuJour's approach of discounted software a lot better.

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Living Room / Re: Blog comments - On of off?

« on: May 03, 2012, 07:21 AM »

tl;dr because I have to go to work but it seems to me that many of  the best blogs seem to be a magnet for good commenters, and often the comments contribute as much or more than the article itself. I like to think a good blog cultivates good comments. I agree it depends on the content.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Include Windows 7 Start Button Search Results in FARR?

« on: May 03, 2012, 07:04 AM »

I think my %FARRDIR%\scripts search folder (which houses the Control Panel shortcuts) originally required a cpanel modifier keyword but I removed the modifier:

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Include Windows 7 Start Button Search Results in FARR?

« on: May 03, 2012, 06:55 AM »

I renamed the shortcuts so that they too had "(cpanel)" in the name

-daddydave (May 03, 2012, 05:15 AM)

Hmmm, that didn't work for me...

It seems as if the target syntax (colons) is somewhat different between the original FARR cpanel shortcuts and the ones copied from the Godmode folder:

All shortcuts however work if simply double-clicked! Only FARR doesn't seem to see them  

Cheers David

-David.P (May 03, 2012, 05:36 AM)

Hmm.. I should clarify that I don't have the bare Control Panel Tasks in  FindAndRunRobot\scripts\Control Panel (cpanel), I have those in another folder. I right-dragged and dropped to the FindAndRunRobot\scripts\Control Panel (cpanel) folder to create the shortcuts.

This is the same as tomos's way, just a different search folder. Glad you got it working!

And +1 for the suggestion to have FARR do this automatically.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Include Windows 7 Start Button Search Results in FARR?

« on: May 03, 2012, 05:15 AM »

Off-topic but FWIW, I personally have copied the God Mouser mode shortcuts to the FindAndRunRobot\Scripts\Control Panel (cpanel) folder, so I can get those.

-daddydave (April 22, 2012, 07:16 AM)

How did you to that? I have tried and copied the respective *.lnk files to this folder, but FARR doesn't give me results when typing any of those files' names (only the original ones with "cpanel" in their name still work).

-David.P (May 02, 2012, 11:33 AM)

Hmmm. I wouldn't think this would matter, but I renamed the shortcuts so that they too had "(cpanel)" in the name (using a bulk renaming tool, I probably used PFRANK although any should do.)

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General Software Discussion / Re: In search of ... a used Web page identifier

« on: May 01, 2012, 06:41 PM »

See if Xenu's Link Sleuth will meet your needs.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Not Unicode?

« on: April 29, 2012, 02:37 PM »

See also this thread. I had asked the same thing not long ago, as you probably know.

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Living Room / Re: Google looking good today

« on: April 24, 2012, 07:02 AM »

I saw a screenshot of this on Google+ from someone in India, before it was Friday in the U.S. where I am, and wondered why ARC and prior formats were being snubbed..now I am reminded that zipped has a literal meaning, too.

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Living Room / Re: FBI: Hundreds Of Thousands May Lose Internet In July

« on: April 23, 2012, 10:50 PM »

That same FBI link showed up in my Facebook stream recently. Sounds like yet another reason to run Ad Blocker.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Bitdefender "lifetime" $80

« on: April 23, 2012, 05:48 AM »

...[Deleted] Not sure now.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: $380 PDF to Flash [page flip] for free

« on: April 23, 2012, 05:07 AM »

Ugh.

I hate people who use these pdf-to-flash, and with a passion. Just gimme a good old download link so I can use my PDF reader of choice, instead of being forced with a slow and crappy UI running in the most CPU-sucking, security-holed and unstable piece of crap software on the web.

-f0dder (December 20, 2011, 10:28 AM)

+1

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Include Windows 7 Start Button Search Results in FARR?

« on: April 22, 2012, 07:16 AM »

Off-topic but FWIW, I personally have copied the God Mouser mode shortcuts to the FindAndRunRobot\Scripts\Control Panel (cpanel) folder, so I can get those.

Thus:

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Living Room / Re: Employers asking job seekers for Facebook passwords

« on: March 21, 2012, 05:20 PM »

As an unemployed job seeker, and a healthy proponent of privacy, this impacts me directly.
What will I say if (when?) I am asked this?...

When Justin Bassett interviewed for a new job, he expected the usual questions about experience and references. So he was astonished when the interviewer asked for something else: his Facebook username and password.

http://seattletimes...._apusjobapplicantsfa
(see attachment in previous post)

N.
O.
Period.
My Facebook password is the functional equivalent to the front door to my house.
You do not have any right to come through it unless you are invited by me or are a vetted authority with the proper search warrants.
As bad as I'd like a job right now, I'm with the first guy; do I really want to work for somebody with a cavalier attitude about invading my personal space?

I just told you the answer.  

from the Seattle Times

-Edvard (March 21, 2012, 02:30 PM)

App had posted something about this on Google+, and then I heard it again on NPR. This is pure evil. I hope and pray I am never so desperate for work, that I would have any response other than something to the extent of "Sorry, I thought you were a legitimate company, but you've wasted my time. Good-bye."

We now have the opportunity to write our elected representatives, to have it added to the list of prohibited questions to ask during interviews, like religion, marital status, etc. I can't imagine on what grounds it would be objected to by any political party. Making it illegal won't stop it altogether, of course, but should put a dent in it. I don't know that there is an epidemic of this kind of thing out there, but may as well "nip it in the bud" as we say where I'm from.

done editing I think

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General Software Discussion / Re: RightNote Ver 2.4.1 Is Out

« on: March 20, 2012, 10:05 PM »

I just checked RightNote's site to see whether they have started a forum.

-bob99 (March 20, 2012, 09:54 PM)

You're not the only one who does that.

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General Software Discussion / Re: RightNote Ver 2.4.1 Is Out

« on: March 20, 2012, 10:03 PM »

Ah..thanks, I had purchased it myself. Looks like the added feature was RTF import

changelog

20 March 2012, version 2.4.1


- Add import option for rtf files (Options->Import)

- Some small fixes

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Living Room / On a lighter note: A Man Said to the Universe

« on: March 16, 2012, 12:30 PM »

You know the classic Stephen Crane poem (circa 1899)

A man said to the universe:
"Sir, I exist!"
"However," replied the universe,
"The fact has not created in me
"A sense of obligation."

This has been kicking around in my head lately, with variations. There have been a few "heavy" threads lately, and I have wanted to balance it out a little with something on a lighter note. Please add your own variations!

Modern Version

A man said to the universe:
"Sir, I exist!"
"Your call is very important to us," said the universe.

Selective Indifference

Lady Gaga said to the universe:
"Sir, I exist!"
"I can't hear you," said the universe.
"I'm listening to Adele on my iPod."

The Tables Are Turned

The universe said to a man:
"Sir, I exist!"
"However," replied the man,
"The fact has not created in me
"A sense of exploration."