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Main Area and Open Discussion / General Software Discussion / Re: MS Office 2013 Home/Business - non-transferable (1 PC p.person) - Caveat emptor.
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on: February 13, 2013, 04:10:44 PM
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and as you say in the title, only one install allowed (formerly 2 allowed) There’s no doubt that retail purchases of Office 2013 are for a SINGLE PC and NOT transferable from that computer after installation. Unlike retail versions of past Microsoft Office which allowed two installations that could be transferred to another computer. good for the competition I hope: The single machine license Office 2013 is another desperate attempt on MS's part to squeeze its lemon cash cow (sorry for mixed metaphors) and push people towards its subscription-based cloud model. I can't see how it can possibly be a good thing for them to do. Office apps are already becoming less relevant, competition such as the FREE LibreOffice is getting better all the time, and why would you want to upgrade if you already have Office 2010? To give students a single machine license will just push students (the future generation of office workers!) not to bother with MS Office at all. There are increasingly fewer reasons why they should need MS Office anyway. another related thread: MS Office Subscriptions Now
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DonationCoder.com Software / Screenshot Captor / Re: Request: make freehand annotations
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on: February 12, 2013, 09:51:07 AM
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Okay, it's working now: as said in previous post - the drawing showed in thumbnails after restarting. I then used the eraser and the thumbnail updated as expected.
I then worked on another screenshot and thumbnail showed correctly when saved.
I'm not sure if that's simply from the restart or from the editing (prob the restart but what would I know).
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DonationCoder.com Software / Screenshot Captor / Re: Request: make freehand annotations
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on: February 12, 2013, 09:45:33 AM
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I had made a new portable install for this testing. I restarted it and it saves the drawing every time now  - but I cant get it to show in thumbnail at all - well I just tried restarting it again and that worked. FWIW win7 64bit > As far "you can save and come back":ahh, that was obvious for me  - I was trying with the object remove
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DonationCoder.com Software / Screenshot Captor / Re: Request: make freehand annotations
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on: February 12, 2013, 09:14:30 AM
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New alpha version up ( same url), with better undo support, not just for freehand painting but for all object editing. first go here: works very well  couple minor things: if I go to another image, the drawing work is not saved (I have that setting activated where it saves automatically when you click on another shot). - Hmmm after messing around and at least 8 trys it now saved when I clicked other file. It doesnt show changes on the thumbnail though [edit] does now after a bit more clicking over and back [/edit]. Also, I am unable to remove the writing. You say "you can save and come back to a file and clear or erase any freehand painting" - I dont see how (?) not sure how many undo's it has - looks like 10. If press Ctrl+Z more than 10 times, each extra click reduces the number of redos (even though the extra Ctrl+Z's are having no effect). Example: I make 20 marks I press Ctrl+Z 15 times - 10 marks are removed I press Ctrl+Y 15 times - only 5 marks are shown again - the first 5 press seem to get swallowed by the superfluous Ctrl+Z presses (hope that makes sense)
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Other Software / Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Valentine Week Giveaways
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on: February 12, 2013, 05:15:19 AM
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@y2kusuma : I have temporarily turned off the plugin "Spam Free WordPress". Can you please try now?
FWIW I tried yesterday afternoon sometime (CET). Got the same message, but it worked yesterday evening (my comment says 9:40pm on the site - not sure if that my timezone or yours) I'm posting this @12:15pm CET
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Main Area and Open Discussion / Living Room / Re: Adobe Flash Player - Update/Fix emergency security patch for 2013-02-08
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on: February 11, 2013, 05:10:37 PM
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I thought Flash always tried to install an update checker that started with Windows? I block it on my system - have enough things starting at once already...
yeah, I used get that You can change the settings via control panel - choice is: - automatic
- notify [on startup]
- never
as said I'm using the automatic but cant really comment about it yet (I *think* I only changed it lately  - been working on too many machines lately...)
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DonationCoder.com Software / Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Very simple timeclock utility
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on: February 11, 2013, 11:37:34 AM
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That would be great! I would happily test it for you.
sorry - I see now I phrased that a bit ambiguously (I meant start using it again  ) I can just about change a hotkey in AHK - and that's it... So I'll repost your requests, in the hopes that someone might take a look at it: If you get motivated, the next feature that i would need is the tagging that people have discussed. the idea of being able to designate a span of time, with many programs used during that span, as a certain time allocation. Your suggestion of naming the files to contain a keyword, and then searching for the keyword would work, at least in some cases. But i think adding a new feature to the program to know about a tag directly would really help me. I'm guessing the tag would start out uninitialized, and perhaps stay that way forever, meaning, it's optional for those that dont need it. From my understanding of how the program works, it would mean something like re-writing the .csv file, cuz tags are provided by the user for time already passed. Perhaps even at the end of the day. Or some other way to store tags, but then the detailed view needs to read 2 files. Or something.
thing is, i really LIKE that the program today only appends to the .csv file, and doesnt lock it. cuz then i can edit the .csv file myself, and TitleLog keeps on working happily. But perhaps TitleLog adding a tag in the past would be ok, if it keeps re-opening then closing the file for each edit. But then you're re-writing the whole file each time there's a tag entry from the user. Dunno. I can see why that doesnt fit with the current program paradigm. And as i said, i like that paradigm.
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Main Area and Open Discussion / Living Room / Re: Adobe Flash Player - Update/Fix emergency security patch for 2013-02-08
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on: February 11, 2013, 10:21:05 AM
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and tired of ... assorted sites whining if you don't have the very latest installed.
mind you that was how I found out about the latest update(s) - for which I was thankful. If they're supposed to be important security updates, I'd have expected to find out a bit quicker from source. - I just checked and see I had changed flash settings to "allow Adobe to install updates"** but I still had to update manually a couple of days after this update was released  ** possibly dangerous in view of their attempting to install third party software of late (chrome)
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Main Area and Open Discussion / General Software Discussion / Re: ScreenShot Capture question
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on: February 10, 2013, 10:11:02 AM
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I am thinking that if I can delay some of the programs, like the screen capture, from starting up as soon as the computer starts, then maybe it will start up a bit faster. Will a start up manager do that? -no, it won't: I thought there were a couple of (paid) start-up managers that delay startup software. Chameleon? I've used the paid version of winpatrol to delay a couple of apps* - but havent really checked how good it is. * I've a few apps there that I know I wont be using in the first five minutes at least.
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Main Area and Open Discussion / General Software Discussion / Re: Agent Ransack 2010 freeware lightweight - Desktop Search
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on: February 09, 2013, 12:44:49 PM
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I see they're very generous and allow commercial use of the Lite version  if I just want to find where I put a particular file, or whether program X is on my computer, Everything is marvellous. But if I don't remember the filename, or I'm not interested in the filename but rather in the content, FileLocatorPro is terrific. It doesn't take up time and resources indexing, and its searches can be exquisitely fine-tuned. Though it can take a long time, I'm at times pleasantly surprised at how fast it finds what I'm looking for.
did you use the free version first cyberdiva? just wondering do you remember what prompted you to get the pro version? This seems like a biggie (just in pro version): More precision with enhanced Boolean expressions supporting NEAR, LIKE, wildcards and sub expressions Comparision page: http://www.mythicsoft.com...&type=filelocatorliteAnd if you came across any weak points in your use of it (thanks!) [edit] apologies - it sounds like I'm asking for a mini review! I'm not btw  - I'm just curious [/edit] (I've always wanted to get a decent 'full' search app but I would use it relatively little so it didnt really justify the investment. And I never got around to installing any of the free ones - but also kept hearing stories that put me off them.)
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