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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful

« on: March 24, 2012, 01:09 PM »

Wired-Marker
Looks like it will be an excellent way to make 'cheat sheets'.

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General Software Discussion / search engine plug DDG

« on: March 09, 2012, 11:17 AM »

I recommend Duck Duck Go as a search engine. It is fun to use, not too complicated and you can set preferences like 'Web Of Trust' icons.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Superboyac is throwing in the towel: I'm going to transition to Linux

« on: February 29, 2012, 06:37 PM »

I have been moving to Linux recently. I tried most of the 'live' CD versions and like, in order of preference, Knoppix, Mint v12, Puppy, Vector, Berry. I found using them on a laptop to be *very* frustrating [hardware problems]. I liked Mint v12 so much that I installed it to hard drive a couple of weeks ago and it is fun and the package management works very well [prolog, emacs].  I plan to remaster and burn small live specialist CDs for specific tasks. Cheers.

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Living Room / Re: DC Apps alternatives for LInux

« on: February 06, 2012, 03:12 PM »

ewemoa: I'm interested and I downloaded HFS.deb to my desktop in Knoppix. I would probably use it in Kubuntu or Mint since both say they are Debian based.

This branching to Linux topics is very welcome.

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Living Room / Re: Main hard drive in my PC died today suddenly

« on: February 06, 2012, 02:51 PM »

My laptop hard drive became unrecoverable before New Years and I have been using Linux 'live' CDs since then. It has been great. I continue using memory sticks and transferring data to another box where I also use 'live' CDs but I installed Linux Mint v 12 to that box. Each 'live' distribution has strengths and my plan is to get an external hard drive holder (Zallman?) that I can put several .iso images on.

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Living Room / Re: DC Apps alternatives for LInux

« on: January 31, 2012, 05:47 PM »

Thanks for the Linux audio information 40hz.

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Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?

« on: January 02, 2012, 06:48 PM »

Half through, "THINKING, FAST AND SLOW" by DANIEL KAHNEMAN.

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General Software Discussion / Re: how to run programs without altering the host pc

« on: December 11, 2011, 03:50 PM »

Re: "...any other alternative.":

'Live' Linux CD/DVD/USB run entirely in RAM and have a growing list of uses. See distrowatch.com

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General Software Discussion / Re: Flexible List (data) Management - ListPro and the Alternatives

« on: September 08, 2011, 01:29 PM »

« Reply #21 on: September 06, 2011, 12:53:13 AM » by Stephen, "You mention tabbed, so many they still enhance this ?  That would be a good sign, although surprising.", "It has to hold the hot-links in a special field too...".
Re. tabbed see:
avanquest.com > MyDatabase > screenshots

Re.hot-links/hot link:
No. OLE linking and embedding is supported for forms.

« Reply #29 on: September 06, 2011, 07:08:52 AM » by Stephen, "...Avanquest...if it is an active product...".
Active? Yes:
Clip:MyDatabase™ Home and Business
Accessed:Wed Sep 07 2011 18:48:42 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)
Source:http://www.avanquest.com/USA/software/mydatabase-home-and-business...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Flexible List (data) Management - ListPro and the Alternatives

« on: September 03, 2011, 02:19 PM »

Re: Flexible List (data) Management - ListPro and the Alternatives
...field design, and placement, and sorting...
Flexible printing is a real need. Automated Printing - saving a print procedure of various lists...Tab structure would help....
So, are there any List management softwares that are similarly capable, with good printing
Short of database programs (or if you use a database, which one and why ?)

I recommend DataBase Professional by Avanquest (formerly Elibrium), commercial, about $50. USD. Highly customisable, easy (tabbed) data entry, view and print; data table view and print; powerful searching and filtering; form creation and printing; import data from several file types; provided and custom reports can be edited, saved, exported and printed as well as sorted and filtered. I got three license keys, the CD and manual for the 2003 version from Elibrium and it has been excellent. Any questions about how this early version prints?

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General Software Discussion / Re: 'new' file manager - Elyse

« on: August 07, 2011, 05:23 PM »

Thanks Target. Great tip. It is working well for organizing my 'cheat sheets'.

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General Software Discussion / Re: 'new' file manager - Elyse

« on: August 04, 2011, 11:15 PM »

Available now at giveawayoftheday. Free, 8.79 MB

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Living Room / Slacker radio service

« on: February 27, 2011, 12:58 PM »

One online radio source, www.slacker.com/, has added several new
Latin stations recently. In the US they are; Spanish, Spanish Pop,
Tropical, Regional Mexican, Reggaeton/Hip Hop, Rock En Espanol.

After signup in Canada, the list reverts to Spanish but there is a
work-around by googling to find stations playing, for example, some
Mexican music such as the 'Mazz' station on Slacker. Bookmark
the station, visit it, sign in through Slacker and Slacker will remember
your selection in the 'Recently Played' section.

I like some very specific music genres and I'm off to find them:
- Mexican Norteno influenced by Tex-Mex
- Early blues, only Delta/Louisiana style, with Texas influences
- Traditional Scottish country dance music
- Chamber and Baroque, especially harpsichord and organ
- New Zealand Maori influenced by gospel
- Traditional Hungarian Gypsy. Anyone know if there is a copy online
of "La petite salle blanche"?
Any tips about sources would be deeply appreciated.

Cheers

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General Software Discussion / Re: In search of a partition identifier ...

« on: February 05, 2011, 04:47 PM »

PowerQuest PartitionMagic v7 lists:
Disk | Partition |...| Status |...
 1       C...             Active

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Drop target to move files to predefined folders

« on: January 26, 2011, 02:39 PM »

Re. "...choice of destinations..." by timns on Jan 25, 2011, 05:03:21 PM :
An early version of the Firefox add-on "Shelve" prompted for a list
of folders in a default directory to save highlighted material while online and it also worked for *some* file material, in other windows, outside the browser.

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Living Room / Re: How to Get the Most Out of Your Laptop with Linux

« on: January 19, 2011, 05:27 PM »

Title:Linux-drivers.org - Linux Hardware Compatibility Lists & Linux Drivers
Source:http://www[dot]linux-drivers[dot]org/  (last update: 2011-01-18)

Title: Linux on laptops
Source:http://www[dot]linux-on-laptops[dot]com/
Source: item on above source

Linux forums are *full* of hardware problems, particularly wi-fi. Wired (ethernet)
modems often work better. 'Live' installs of earlier versions, Puppy v412, Knoppix
v511 and Ubuntu v8.04 often work better on older hardware.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Let's try to create our own suite for internet security.

« on: January 14, 2011, 06:30 PM »

I'll second the use of 'live' Linux and Puppy in particular for safety.
see: www[dot]ciphersbyritter[dot]com and the Nov '10 Online Security with Puppy 5

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Review of references for file and file contents tagging

« on: January 14, 2011, 04:04 PM »

Reference of file and file contents tagging methods and ideas. Methods for
photos/images, MP3/audio, HTML and 'cloud' are not emphasized. Tag is
used as equivalent to label or keyword. File retrieval by tag from a list,
separate file, database, 'tree'/folder structure and filters are mentioned in
the sources.  The title and part of the source URL should allow searches.

Discussions:
Title:Chapter 5 A Prototype System - CHROMA Source:...osiris.
sunderland.ac.uk...
Title:How to design data storage for huge tagging systems
Source:...stackoverflow...
Title:How to manage documents for many tasks/projects - Stack
Overflow Source:...stackoverflow.com...
Title:I am creating my own file taging system... Source:...stackoverflow...
Title:idea - tree nodes Source:...patents..
Title:Philipp Keller's blogpost  Source: 2005
Title:(store tags in a database) Source:...stackoverflow/334183...
Title:Tag Hierarchy Methods Source:
Title:Tags takes organization to a new level Source:...tuaw.com...
Title:(tags-database-schemas) Source:...pui.ch...

Apps:
Title:BenubirdPDF Source:...snapfiles.com...
Title:Cintanotes Source:
Title:Detailizer Source:detailizer.com...
Title:DocTagger Source:
Title:fotoxx Source:
Title:FileSpot Source:
Title:Freemind Source:...Sourceforge
Title:HandyNotes Source:...sourceforge...Firefox...
Title:Ironic Support Forum - The multi word tagging method
Source:...ironicsoftware.com...
Title:myBase Source:
Title:Omea Pro Source:
Title:Phantasmagoria Source:
Title:Posterous Source:
Title:Punakea Source:
Title:SnapFiles Source:...snapfiles.com...
Title:Speedbar: File/Tag summarizing utility Source:...sunsite.ualberta.ca/...
Title:Speedbar Source:...gnu.org...
Title:Surfulater Source:
Title:Tabbles Source:...tabbles.net...
Title:Tag Folders Source:...tagfolders.vndv.com...
Title:TagBot Source:
Title:TagFolders Source:
Title:TaggedFrog Source:...lunarfrog.com...
Title:Tagging Files [MultiEditSoftware] Source:...wiki.multiedit.com...
Title:Tags Source:...gravityapps.com...

Cheers, sword

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General Software Discussion / Re: Word Processor OS

« on: January 11, 2011, 12:08 AM »

MenuetOS and KolibriOS with Tinypad are small and basic.

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Living Room / Re: Are You Ready to Switch to GNU/Linux?

« on: January 10, 2011, 05:19 PM »

The expression "Free Beer" is familiar and easily understood if you are old enough. It was used as a gag/joke in early silent movies. It was shown on a sign or billboard outside a theater or meeting place where unsuspecting 'patrons' could be lured in and would have to endure some political speech, propaganda or truly awful performance.

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General Software Discussion / Re: How to choose the best Linux distro for laptops

« on: January 04, 2011, 05:29 PM »

Thanks zridling.
I was using trial-and-error, mostly error. My Toshiba Satellite only likes Knoppix v511. I tried all the other Knoppix versions. Puppy pulp_002 is the only one that works, not v412PAW, v431, v500, v511 on the Toshiba. I think they don't like my Telus DSL modem.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Any better Clipboard program.

« on: December 28, 2010, 04:30 AM »

Curt,

I'm very sorry you had trouble installing ACM.
For the interest of any others, my original install was downloaded 4/15/2009
and I got these files:
acm_3_0_src.tar    39KB    GZ File
ACM_Setup       861KB    Compressed (zipped) Folder
ACM_Setup_Windows_JRE_1_6_Included 4443KB Compressed (zipped) Folder
jre-6u13-windows-i585-p-iftw 594KB Application

I have had automatic updates.

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Recent sources:
1.   : http://acmgr.sourceforge.net/doc/
2.   : Title:Advanced Clipboard Manager
Clip:What is ACM?
Accessed:Tue Dec 28 2010 00:11:44 GMT-0800 (Pacific Standard Time)
Source:http://acmgr.sourceforge.net/
3.   :http://sourceforge.net/projects/acmgr/forums/forum/631934
4.   : http://sourceforge.net/projects/acmgr/
5.   : Title:Download Advanced Clipboard Manager 4.1.1 Free - A handy clipboard manager - Softpedia
Clip:Advanced Clipboard Manager 4.1.1
Accessed:Tue Dec 28 2010 00:41:25 GMT-0800 (Pacific Standard Time)
Source:http://www.softpedia.com/get/Office-tools/Clipboard/Advanced-Clipboard-Manager.shtml
6.   : Title:Advanced Clipboard Manager 4.1.1 download free - A handy clipboard manager
Clip:Advanced Clipboard Manager 4.1.1
Accessed:Tue Dec 28 2010 00:57:45 GMT-0800 (Pacific Standard Time)
Source:http://www.filecluster.com/Business-Office/Office-Suites-Tools/Download-Advanced-Clipboard-Manager.html

Cheers

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General Software Discussion / Re: Any better Clipboard program.

« on: December 26, 2010, 04:54 PM »

Re: superboyac 22 Dec "...forgot what it was called."
Advanced Clipboard Manager
Cheers, sword

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General Software Discussion / Re: Simple specialized sites

« on: November 11, 2010, 04:15 PM »

Great idea. I think it would be the section I went to first.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What the heck am I doing wrong with MS Word page numbering?

« on: October 30, 2010, 02:16 AM »

This is *not* a solution for your problem but others have had similar problems and some of them feel better knowing they are not alone. Google: mindfulmusings.net>March 2004>Microsoft Word...