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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Black Friday / Cyber Monday 2018
« on: November 25, 2018, 09:17 AM »
Would it be considered politically acceptable if I mentioned rugs? -


Re AdGuard: Since it's by subscription, can anybody confirm that it allows for viewing/browsing main "newspaper" and other propaganda sites which systematically leave you out if you use the usual adblocker (e.g. Adblock, Adblock Plus), and if so, which ones (and understood of course that you do NOT make an "exception")?

If there is some link to something potentially important, I open it then in Edge instead of FF, but I don't browse such sites anymore.

If the above is not the case, why is AdGuard so well regarded her in this forum? Since Adblock Plus works fine, too, for the sites remaining for me. Is it just because of "for once, the developer gets paid!"? Well, Adblock Plus's one gets paid, too - some call that extortion, but he wins the actions against him, up to now.

So I would really be interested in some pertinent information, and ideally along the lines, "is not blocked by adblocker-blocking sites, for most of them."


EDIT after further reading above: Would it be politically acceptable if I mentioned carnal knowledge in marriage?

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Black Friday / Cyber Monday 2018
« on: November 25, 2018, 08:35 AM »
"Techsmith, makers of Camtasia and Snagit are having a one day only, cybermonday sale."

Snagit, beyond being overpriced (65 euro incl. 13 euro for ANY, even the most minor update, and within a year only), had been the slowest such programs when I trialed them some time ago, in fact, it was around 20 times or so slower than ANY other such program, of around 5 or so I trialed); my observation not applying to the current version, this might be different now, so comparative (!) experiences would be welcome!

As for Camtasia, did anybody trial Camtasia and ActivePresenter, and then bought Camtasia, and if, why?

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Black Friday / Cyber Monday 2018
« on: November 25, 2018, 08:28 AM »
"I'm no expert in symlinks and how backup software should (or should not) handle them.   I suggest you download the SyncBack trial and see if it works the way you're looking for."

Being a satisfied (and fully-paying) user of Syncovery, I have no need to do this, but thank you anyway.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Black Friday / Cyber Monday 2018
« on: November 23, 2018, 10:08 AM »
Hint: Prominent google position (11th or 12th for "software friday (last 24 hours)" for minor, exotic software: good marketing, and for a mere 10$ from delusionary asking price (it's the competition, stupid!) of 40.

https://www.helpingwritersbecomeauthors.com/black-friday-special-25-off-the-outlining-your-novel-workbook-software/# . There: "I'm (...) a child of God. I'm the award-winning (...). I write historical and speculative fiction."

What, speculative fiction? I'm acquainted with speculative fiction writing, though, "writing on spec", but speculative fiction? I suppose that's science-fiction for women.


Also, DxO (or is it Dx0) minus a whopping 50 p.c., but then, the real question is, will they remain in biz, this time? I suppose that professional photographers who ain't into being buggered (thank you, Adobe, but no, thanks!), will use Capture One anyway.


EDIT: Photo Mechanic -30 bucks, but even then, it's around 120 plus VAT, and even that's quite overpriced for non-professionals like us, see the quite recent "c't" comparative review (in German, paid access in the web). Worst software in that review, Breeze Browser, but then, they've got the cutest little girl I've seen in any advert, she's as cute as Drew in E.T.: https://www.breezesys.com/BreezeBrowser/index.htm - yeah, the good ol' times... (btw, I always mix that up with Close Encounters, should probably watch both again. And Notezilla 30%; for some here it's even a text processor, lol! (Powergrep, Regexbuddy nope, DO neither, but then, next version should be quite immediate anyway, and its processing of metadata isn't that good after all.)

And à propos little (?) girls: SolveigMM (stands in for Multimedia, not for Peer Gynt obviously) Video Splitter doesn't get any cheaper than today, -50%, warmly recommended (no discount for VideoReDo, 4 times the price). (Navicat -30 but then, they first raised their (dollar) prices so much that with the waning euro, their asking price has almost doubled since.)



Oh, and Vegas Movie Studio is not Vegas Pro: hands off! (But the latter's on sale, too.)
And they sell Dramatica Pro (Win-only), the ugliest program you'll see in your entire life, for the same price as the newer, Mac-only version, and that latter thing could tempt some. And, as others have found out before me, TB with their usual 10 p.c. off whopper of the year.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Black Friday / Cyber Monday 2018
« on: November 23, 2018, 09:05 AM »
mwb1100,

Could you confirm that SyncBack Pro (since you use it) does mandatorily follow folder symlinks even in its current version, or better even, tell that by option, it does NOT follow them, which for sync and backup purposes, would be the wished-for behavior.

Unfortunately, this functionality seems to be absent though, and from my knowledge (and my experience with it), Syncovery (which is not on offer but obviously worth its full price) is the only such (2-digits-priced) tool which offers both: NOT following file symlinks AND NOT following folder symlinks, i.e. treating both as-is.

(This "manual" page is brand-new: https://help.2brightsparks.com/support/solutions/articles/43000335955-junction-points-reparse-points , and from there, they link to this: https://www.2brightsparks.com/resources/articles/ntfs-hard-links-junctions-and-symbolic-links.html which is just dated "copyright 2018", so I suppose this is current valid info there, and then it just treats file symlinks as-is, while at the end of the day, that's even more important for folder symlinks. See this discussion, but which is from 2015, so I'm asking for confirmation: https://www.2brightsparks.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=11927 )

Frankly speaking, I advise against any synch tool which does not do it the way you'll need it, so for the time being, and up to better information (updates), no discount justifies buying a tool not being able to do it.

Junctions are NO replacement for relative folder symlinks; (especially folder) symlinks make NTFS three-dimensional. (I have hundreds of relative file and folder symlinks (and big hdd's, but there are ways to combine lesser ones into virtual, bigger drives).)

And yes, you can do it with a (home-grown) script (robocopy doesn't do it either EDIT: clarification: it CANNOT do it, as wished for, either, i.e. it just has a switch for "don't follow file symlinks", but not the respective switch for folder symlinks: just like I fear the BrightSparks product works), but then, why buy any synch tool to begin with? (You run your script or Syncovery as admin, in order to get the UAC dialog just once, up-front.)

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