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General Software Discussion / Re: (urgent) Need AMD/ATI Catalyst Software: CCC 15.7 WHQL - Windows 7 BSOD

« on: November 07, 2016, 11:41 AM »

@dr_andus: yeah, that sucks...

Turned out the AMD gfx card had developed a hardware issue, and since my Vaio model didn't allow to replace it, it was time for a new PC. 

I decided to buy an Acer, and am just in the process of installing everything. I love how quiet it is! 

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General Software Discussion / Re: (urgent) Need AMD/ATI Catalyst Software: CCC 15.7 WHQL - Windows 7 BSOD

« on: November 01, 2016, 11:56 AM »

Wayback didn't help and rolling back (sadly) wasn't an option, but I now contacted the AMD support. They pointed me to the 15.7 version (http://support.amd.c...0-%2064&rev=15.7). Fingers crossed!

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General Software Discussion / (urgent) Need AMD/ATI Catalyst Software: CCC 15.7 WHQL - Windows 7 BSOD

« on: November 01, 2016, 09:38 AM »

Hello,

I have a nasty BSOD problem with atikmpag.sys (and my Radeon 5650). Windows can only be started in Safe Mode (and a really bad screen resolution), but after spending many hours to look for solutions and trying some of them I'm confident that what I now need is to install the CCC 15.7 WHQL.

Sadly, I can only find version 15.7.1 and that's not fixing the BSOD.

Does anyone here have better search skills or the version 15.7 installer still on their HD?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for MP3 player with "speed up playback" option

« on: June 26, 2016, 12:09 PM »

Thanks for the pointer. I came to really like VLC, but only as a video player. For speeding up audio, I prefer a player with a better UI (showing the current speed, being able to quickly change it to back to 100% speed and speed it up to the previous speed again, ...).

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for MP3 player with "speed up playback" option

« on: June 22, 2016, 02:08 AM »

KMPlayer could do that (and many other things) easily!

Look for the last good versión. 2.9.4.1435 before became crapware with Pandora.

-antekgla (June 17, 2016, 11:52 PM)

Thanks for the pointer! Two questions:

- does it work properly like PaceMaker, or does it sound like Mickey Mouse when speeding up playback of human voices?
- I read that you can optionally not install additional stuff (like Pandora) when installing. Is that not true for the latest version?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for MP3 player with "speed up playback" option

« on: June 15, 2016, 02:24 AM »

> Winamp can do that.
> http://www.surina.net/pacemaker/

Installed both Winamp and PaceMaker, works like a charm!   I even found out that I had registered PaceMaker back in 2006 (it works without, but registration gives you enhanced options). 

Thanks to all of you!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for MP3 player with "speed up playback" option

« on: June 15, 2016, 01:56 AM »

> https://sourceforge.net/projects/mpcbe/

I like it (in general), but it only delivers a Mickey Mouse-effect when speeding up playback.   I'll keep it around as an alternative for VLC though.

Looks like I need to try PaceMaker again.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for MP3 player with "speed up playback" option

« on: June 14, 2016, 02:10 PM »

Thanks for your replies! I'll address them one by one:

> Blue Stacks Android Emulator

I installed it... took me way longer than I expected, and after I finally figured out how to load a MP3 file, the app crashed. It always crashes. :-/


> http://www.surina.net/pacemaker/

Haha, damn! I totally forgot that I had used this until ~2007. I stopped having the need then and totally forgot about it.


> https://sourceforge.net/projects/mpcbe/

That looks good (and it's only one program), will give it a try!


> Audacity

Ok, I'll keep that in mind if the rest fails.

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General Software Discussion / Looking for MP3 player with "speed up playback" option

« on: June 13, 2016, 08:29 AM »

Hello,

Maple JB for Android is rather good for what I need when not at home, now I'm looking for something for Windows. Does anyone know a good one? Freeware if possible, I don't need it frequently enough to justify a big purchase price.

Presets (i.e., "play at 1.6x speed") and an easy way to increase/decrease speed would be great. Maybe even an option to delete the file after listening. And if I could use it to launch a file (to be played) directly from Windows Explorer (like with mp3directcut)... now that would be perfect!

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Post New Requests Here / wanted for AutoHotkey: color-detecting solution I can use in my scripts

« on: September 30, 2015, 05:45 AM »

Hello!

I have several scripts that load a website and interact with it in some way. Because it was the easiest-to-code solution, I'm using "sleep" for the script to wait until the site has loaded. That sucks though, because load times depend on Windows and server load and so I either have to use really long "sleep" times (zzzZzZzz...) or short "sleep" times that then cause the script to fail because the site hasn't yet fully loaded.

I'd love to be able to use a solution that detects if a given pixel has color #whatever (I imagine something like "PixelGetColor, 500, 600" and "IfPixelColor = ..."). I googled around and there doesn't seem to be a good solution for this yet. Or maybe Chrome can report back to AHK somehow that it has finished loading that tab?

Any ideas? 

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ProcessTamer / Re: Process Tamer isn't hiding all the Chrome processes <1% CPU

« on: September 29, 2015, 04:52 PM »

Excellent!

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ProcessTamer / Process Tamer isn't hiding all the Chrome processes <1% CPU

« on: September 29, 2015, 02:50 PM »

After a long time I started to use Process Tamer again. I like it, it's just that all the 0% Chrome processes clutter up its GUI, even though the "hide <1% normal CPU" option is enabled. (Yes, I use *many* tabs!) Any chance you could fix that?

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ProcessTamer / Re: Font is sooo small!

« on: September 29, 2015, 02:30 PM »

Yes, the font size is quite small...

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Living Room / Re: Getting Things Done revisited

« on: August 19, 2015, 07:04 AM »

It has been a looong time since I read the GTD book, so I'm not 100% sure what I took from it and what I learned elsewhere, but if I recall correctly, using lists that are context specific is from GTD. So I now use https://mail.google.com/tasks/canvas (because I can edit it in the web browser and there's an app for that) for lists of all kinds. Weekly shopping, calling people, project work, what I want for xmas, whatever. Amazing!

Another great thing for productivity (at least for me) is email: I email 'stuff' (ideas, reminders, links, things to do when back at the PC, ...) to myself almost every day. And since I use a specific address alias (https://support.goog...l/answer/12096?hl=en), Gmail automatically applies a label, which helps to find/ process them later. I use a different address alias for "some day, maybe" stuff. Those emails get a label too, but don't even show up in my Inbox. Very helpful.

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General Software Discussion / web design question: layouting one 'simple' page on my own?

« on: August 19, 2015, 06:32 AM »

Hi,

my goal is to have a single web page online that contains some text, an image and a YouTube video. Other than that, I'd love to have buttons that reveal/hide additional content when clicked (is that done with HTML 5?). Are there tools available online to do that?

My HTML coding skills are roughly zero and the result shouldn't look like it has been put together by a monkey on crack.  

I already have a web server where I plan to put it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: uBlock Origin (Chrome ad blocker extension) - I like it!

« on: July 25, 2015, 05:24 PM »

I gave up on uBlock Origin when it blocked sourceforge completely - there was (deservedly) a bit of a fuss about sourceforge lately, but was surprised to see an adblocker blocking a whole site.

-tomos (July 25, 2015, 12:57 PM)

When I read your post I found that hard to believe, but you are right, they block the site. I googled a bit to find out why, and it looks like Sourceforge can't be trusted anymore under the new owner...  http://blog.gluster....rceforge-has-fallen/

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General Software Discussion / uBlock Origin (Chrome ad blocker extension) - I like it!

« on: July 25, 2015, 04:52 AM »

Just wanted to share my appreciation for this extension with you guys. It's faster/more resource-friendly than the well-known ad blockers and - like them - allows you to define elements you want to block on pages. I rarely need that, but I love to have that option when I do.

https://chrome.googl...fiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm (5 stars)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Software wanted: warn when free RAM falls below xxx MB

« on: July 16, 2015, 05:02 PM »

Thanks for the explanation, I'll play around with different values and see how it works! 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Software wanted: warn when free RAM falls below xxx MB

« on: July 16, 2015, 03:51 PM »

https://www.donation...ouser/ProcessPiglet/

-mouser (July 16, 2015, 10:27 AM)

Just one more thing (ok, two): You could put your nice video demo of it on https://www.donation...ouser/ProcessPiglet/ . And the "Click _here_ to forcefully restart this process" could also include an option to just kill the process (that would be one use scenario for me).

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General Software Discussion / Re: Software wanted: warn when free RAM falls below xxx MB

« on: July 16, 2015, 03:43 PM »

Give this a try, please:

-skwire (July 16, 2015, 12:10 PM)

You are quick! Thanks! Is it possible for you to base the code on the "free" RAM instead on the "available" RAM? For me, free RAM is a much better indicator: things tend to slow down when all free RAM is used up (probably because of increased pagefile usage).

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General Software Discussion / Re: Software wanted: warn when free RAM falls below xxx MB

« on: July 16, 2015, 10:45 AM »

That sounds like a great feature idea to add to my Process Piglet tool  I'll add it asap.

-mouser (July 16, 2015, 10:27 AM)

Oh, didn't even know about that one.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Software wanted: warn when free RAM falls below xxx MB

« on: July 16, 2015, 10:18 AM »

Give me a few minutes and I can have something written for you.  What kind of icon design were you thinking of?  Simple squares of colour?  Something else?

-skwire (July 16, 2015, 09:50 AM)

That would be awesome! Hmm... maybe just the letters "RAM" on a unicolor background which changes according to (customizable) available RAM levels? Red, yellow and green.

And thank you, MilesAhead.

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General Software Discussion / Software wanted: warn when free RAM falls below xxx MB

« on: July 16, 2015, 09:30 AM »

Hi,

I'm looking for a small program that can alert me in some unobstrusive way* when the free RAM (as shown in the Windows task manager) drops below a certain level. Is there something like that out there?

*for example by changing its 'system tray' area icon from blue to red

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General Software Discussion / Re: how to easily shuffle around parts of an image

« on: April 22, 2015, 05:06 PM »

You mean like a slide puzzle, but with none of the pieces removed?

I found this game called FloTiles, that might do what you want, but I suppose you may have to make a screenshot of the resulting puzzle, to be able to keep it as a new image file.

http://apps.microsof...0f-a746-cdc50af286de

You may need to have Win8.1 to download it, though, and I am not entirely sure if this is for phones and tablets, only.

-app103 (April 22, 2015, 04:31 PM)

Yes, something like that would work, if the "tile" size would be a lot smaller/customizable.

And yes, it requires Windows 8.1 - which I don't have...

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General Software Discussion / Re: how to easily shuffle around parts of an image

« on: April 22, 2015, 12:22 PM »

TileMage:   http://tilemage.50webs.com/
SplitImage: http://www.thecastle.com/software/files/

-FJMcNasty (April 22, 2015, 11:25 AM)

Thank you. Those seem to actually split up the files though... I want to have just one image as a result: same size as before, but with the content shuffled around.

Can you elaborate on what you want to do with the result? Do you actually want to make it like a puzzle? What's the motivation for this?

-mouser (April 22, 2015, 11:29 AM)

Can't elaborate on that in detail. I don't want an actual puzzle, but that comes closest when describing the process and end result.