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I am pretty far from being an UI specialist, but I am always happy to offer my oppinion .

I think it has a slight bit of the "mac" feel to it, but you have added just enough black to the icons to not make it too bland. I still wonder if perhaps a touch of pale coloring on the icons might work, just like the blue in the heading works?

I assume you did not make the texture on the border of the window, but for this particular one, I find the edge where the glassy shadow on the border starts (slightly below the edge of the second box of text) to be rather distracting. When I first opened the post and glanced at the screenshot, I thought it was one window at the top that cut of the top bit of another window below it.

And, nitpicking, I feel there is perhaps slightly too much space above and below the final paragraph of text at the bottom.

Maybe we need to start offering companies "lifetime payment" when we buy their software?

I was actually digging through some of the first versions of my old executable packer the other day, and found some rather obscene comments here and there . It seemed like I had a thing with putting a comment in with a strange word in it to be able to use the search function to get back there, I guess my editor back then didn't have bookmarks or anything.

It was also interesting to see just how horrible the code actually was -- most of it was written while I was trying to learn C. It works and all, but I would hate to have to fix a bug in a mess like that .

Slightly related.

Mouser will go dental when he sees that .

I try hard to keep out of these discussions as well, because I think mouser is right -- so I will just say that you continue to amaze the rest of the world by having "photo finishes" between your candidates. I think it is one of those "Only in America" things  .

http://www.huffingtonpost...ional-poll_n_2066972.html

I have always had this idea it is because the software developers who are employed by hardware companies are of a different breed. For most of their work they have to focus on not making any irrecoverable errors. If you write a desktop application and you make a bug, it might crash that one application and annoy people, but they can just uninstall it -- if you write a hardware driver and you make a bug it could irreparably damage hardware or require a somewhat complicated process to get the machine going again.

I assume this is why desktop software is fancy looking, sleek to use, and full of bugs, while driver software is usually ugly, a pain to use, but generally doesn't blow up your machine .

It has gotten a lot better though in many cases -- I think perhaps some companies are employing a bit of a mix.

If you have been reading the posts about Sublime Text here on DCC and wondered what the fuss is about, this video tutorial course gives a good introduction to some of the stuff ST does well:

https://tutsplus.com/cour...rkflow-in-sublime-text-2/

Via Sublime HQ.

http://dangerousminds.net...ok_i_want_my_friends_back

http://www.stuff.co.nz/te...promote-posts?cid=dlvr.it

So .. pay $10 a post if you want it to reach more than 20% of the people who should be able to see it?

Recent negative review of CrashPlan: http://goinside.com/2012/...shplan-crashes-and-burns/

I am not saying there is not a lot of stuff that could be better about CrashPlan, but that is not the best review I've ever seen. Just look at the way he handles any comments that do not agree with him. Looks more like he was going for the snarky SEO headline he mentions at the beginning himself .

I mean, just as an example, if you do just a little homework you would know that most services like this only backup what is in your documents folder and a select few other places by default -- some even only allow certain file types or locations to be backed up at all.

Ad Muncher has worked well for me too, and the authors have been quick to fix the few issues I've had -- but it is worth mentioning that it does not filter https connections, so you will get adds on sites like facebook.

Nice one, thanks for the heads up .

Yes, when I see a first post like that, I must admit the first thing I do is a quick google for the name and some keywords from the post .

In this case, it shows accounts on about 10 different tech-oriented forums with only 1-2 posts that in essence are a short blurp about cloud services and a link to that same site (cloudreviews).

I think they all work like that .. I mentioned it in the review thread last year as well.

For a tech user it seems like an obvious security problem, but you have to remember that this is aimed at family members who probably have access to each others machines anyway. What I found more troublesome is the fact that CrashPlan in effect gives you access to files outside your own account on the machine it is running on (i.e. it seems like you can restore files that were backed up from the administrator account or some other users account on the machine). I guess it is the price you pay for having a convenient service that can back up all files instead of just your own.

Sounds great .

Any chance that v4 will support selecting multiple files from the search results list?

I would say it depends on if you are searching for a file by its name or contents, and (to some extent) if the filebase you are searching is largely static or changes a lot.

Btw, not sure if it was in multiple HIB, but I found mine in HIB 3 .

@ renegade
Thanks for the offer, if I get a rejection (or silence) in the next couple of weeks I guess you're off the hook — unless you'd like to enlighten the DoCo world failure notwithstanding (you can write it sitting down) 

@wraith808, jibz, renegade…

Has anyone asked for a discount? If not, I'll ask and see what is the reaction.

It looks like cthorpe might have asked for one a little over a year ago, but no mention of the outcome:

http://www.donationcoder....m/index.php?topic=26313.0

It's still a random nag screen when saving, and no other limitations that I am aware of. I must admit I have postponed buying a license because, well, it's expensive, and I was hoping for a larger DC discount

Excellent games .. shame I had them all already .

I love this comic .. it has made half the internet remember that one four word combination. I think what it fails to tell you is that if you have more than five of these random four word passwords, they are almost as impossible to remember as random ones. Unless you have some system to relate the words to the actual site, but then, of course, they are no longer random words, and the number of effective bits starts shrinking.

Btw, for all the patent haters (via NH):

https://xato.net/password...s-sorry-that-is-patented/

The continued development argument is one thing I agree. I just noticed it is pretty much only available in English though .

the features look enticing to a Thunderbird user.

Actually I was just looking at their switch from Thunderbird page wondering if there was any of it that would make a difference to me.

I guess since it builds on Thunderbird, you do not get more security, compatibility, or speed -- so what features do you feel are a big step up?

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdIWKytq_q4" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdIWKytq_q4</a>

I think that explains a lot

The only time I've seen MSE incur a noticeable speed hit is with some compressed or otherwise protected executables - when that happens, I get delays in the more-than-a-second range, even on my (pretty darn fast) i7-3770 - don't have a noticeable speed hit on normal executables, even those in the multi-megabyte range.

My personal guess is that it is because XYplorer is single-threaded, so if anything at all interrupts reading icons or other information from the files as they are displayed, the entire interface locks up. The problem is XY is written in VB6 which does not really support multi-threading. Other file managers like TC and DO do not have this issue.

On some sytems this is not a big problem, on the three machines I have here, I can go get a cup of coffee if I browse to the wrong folder.

Oh and the archive support .. don't get me started .