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Living Room / Re: Great sites for guitar learning

« on: November 26, 2013, 11:03 AM »

i can recommend justinguitar - worked for me.

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General Software Discussion / Re: delete some space in every page of a pdf file

« on: November 01, 2013, 02:04 PM »

use one of the many pdf stamp utilities and slap a background coloured stamp over the top of whatever you want to hide.

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Living Room / Re: Am I the only person that has a real big problem with software like this?

« on: October 04, 2013, 10:03 AM »

yeah, yeah, yeah... and when you've already caught them out more than once and perfect parents & kids are what other families have?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Combining Batch Files

« on: April 26, 2013, 03:35 PM »

use a flag so the batch knows which routine to run?
use powershell get-process?

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Living Room / Re: Would a 41 megapixel camera get you to buy a Windows 8 phone?

« on: February 22, 2013, 03:47 PM »

I have a nokia 808 pureview.
It's an excellent phone and a phenomenal phone camera. symbian was axed, it hasn't died. there's millions of users worldwide if you can look beyond your own borders.

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General Software Discussion / Re: which is the most advanced pdf editor?

« on: January 18, 2013, 03:35 PM »

foxit pdf editor used to be excellent for the job.
However, it is now part of their business suite which is the most expensive version.
It's still a stand-alone program within the suite.
Last I checked I don't think the installer created an icon for it and it was only checking the install dir that revealed it still existed.

failing that, probably adobe livecycle which is now a separate product from acrobat pro.

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General Software Discussion / Re: In search of ... charting, course plotting software

« on: December 26, 2012, 12:42 PM »

I like polar navy myself, they have a linux version and it runs with the free charts.
however I've not used it in anger yet as my sailing has primarily been using mkII eyeball.

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General Software Discussion / Re: xpdf, pdftk, etc

« on: August 22, 2012, 12:34 PM »

foxit pdf editor used to be the 'must have' pdf editor for me.
however, it is no longer available as a standalone and last time I looked was a part of their phantom business suite. inaccessible through the gui or start menu items, I had to run it from the program install folder, which might mean if you didn't know it existed, you'd never run it.
things might've changed...

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Living Room / Re: Anyone got an iPad and like it?

« on: November 01, 2011, 07:09 AM »

I bought an ipad and eventually got rid of it. I spent a fair amount of money on apps but couldn't resolve my dislike for the itunes/locked in business  model. So it went. I now use a xoom which works well enough for my requirements. I will return to a windows tablet though. If HP released an updated TC1100, I would jump on that.

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Living Room / Re: Looking at Cameras

« on: July 18, 2011, 05:08 PM »

I bought a new compact recently because I needed a waterproof one to take on a sailboat.
I ended up with an Olympus 'tough' TG-810 (probably named differently in EU).

I can say 'without doubt this takes the worst pictures I've seen since 1 megapixel cameras'
It's supposed to be 14Meg (I think) but the snapshot output has no clarity and barrel distortion is horrendous. I really can't believe how bad the pics are out of this camera. Wasn't cheap either. Ho Hum. This is one case where my phone camera does better.

Anywho, if you're looking for a waterproof, avoid olympus TG-810 unless you can test it out, (mine might just be a dud).

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General Software Discussion / Re: Upgrading RoboForm from v6 to v7: worthwhile?

« on: February 13, 2011, 03:25 PM »

I was fed up with robos licensing and moved to lastpass/xmarks (at least for a year).
lastpass has been okay, though I have the same problems with flash based logins.
but at least I can install it on my pcs... at work, and on my android tablet

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General Software Discussion / Re: Ini manipulation tools (text manipulation tools) software

« on: January 08, 2011, 02:04 PM »

textpipe maybe.

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Living Room / Re: Request: Does anyone know a good "pet" game?

« on: August 15, 2008, 12:17 PM »

animal crossing

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Living Room / Re: How the Web Was Won: An Oral History of the Internet

« on: June 05, 2008, 12:58 PM »

seems like how USA won the web (though tim berners-lee does get a mention).

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General Software Discussion / Re: What's the Greatest Software Ever Written?

« on: September 09, 2006, 06:20 PM »

'hello world' in whatever language you first did it in

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: "Back to School 3-day Sale - 50% Off on All PhatWare Products for PocketPC

« on: September 02, 2006, 08:25 PM »

Tablet pc & hpc also!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Win/IIS to LAMP Converts

« on: September 01, 2006, 07:19 PM »

look up xampp on apachefriends.org, it's great for trying LAMP out on a windows box by using the proggies you would run on Linux.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Suggestions for Usenet Binary Downloader?

« on: April 24, 2006, 07:22 PM »

newsleecher the easiest to use.
usenet explorer/newspro the best
newsbin pro a happy medium

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General Software Discussion / Re: What's your favorite computer game from when you were young?

« on: April 19, 2006, 06:43 PM »

elite on a BBC B by Ian Bell & David Braben.
It was a fantastic open-ended space trading sim with wire-frame graphics. My first experience with computers for recreation. It changed my life! 

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Living Room / Re: Webroot SpySweeper scores 0% success rate in malware test ...

« on: April 08, 2006, 07:09 AM »

sunbelt are hardly likely to have anything positive to say.. even if they sugar-coat it.
pcmag/world (can't remember which) tout spysweeper as the new anti-spyware messiah.
Someone's being economical with the truth.
For the record, I have registered sunbelt but no longer use it, to my mind it became too obtrusive and slow.

If there's one thing I learnt.. never trust magazine reviews, they're FOS! which makes DC so useful.

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Living Room / Re: Great Software blog has moved

« on: April 02, 2006, 06:27 PM »

I like the pic'ass'a joke myself.

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Living Room / Re: cool kitty

« on: February 26, 2006, 05:46 PM »

kittin tiem! (robbed from b3ta)

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Living Room / Re: great way to make some extra money

« on: February 22, 2006, 01:45 PM »

pfft! I would upload a picture of my (expensive) cat-aerobic center, but there's no one using it. They're all on chairs or beds.

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Living Room / Re: animal identity crisis..

« on: February 19, 2006, 05:28 PM »

These pics are from a japanese store which sells all manner of hats for cats. I did have the url at one point but I've since lost it. Some of the images were quite humorous/humiliating. The cat never looked particularly happy with the assignment either.

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Living Room / Re: Best Video Player there is

« on: January 18, 2006, 05:17 PM »

I agree, teh zoom player.