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I'd have a seperate "browsing view / adding extra" for adding in applications via pad files, and not clutter the "update manager view" with it. At least not give the impression that DCUpdater just installed 63000 apps! 

 

Yes I'd imagine that adding something like an unknown file it could be a wizard type thing and not in the main interface at all??

[63K]

tens of thousands of pad files.

Yes, what are you doing with PAD files?

ASP's database has 63K records (with a lot of rubbish in it, I downloaded it yesterday)
PADdb has 28K records
PAD Database has 49K records

Yes, i'm trying to think the best way to do this.. keep the suggestions coming.

would it be possible to have different options available, similar to how emails can be displayed in different ways, sorts and groupings, could there be a menu "View by" with expandable groups:

• Update Status
• Program Title Index (A,B,C...)
• License Type
• Release Date (month?)
• Age (months? out of date)

I was definitely considering making a version of this tool that would include ability to browse a large pad database locally, or search online pad db sites, and then keep track of + install programs for the first time, or install updates easily.

Have you had any more thoughts on this? I've been experimenting doing a WebService on a Pad Database.

I use a combo of roboform and keypass. I enjoy having an encrypted backup I can take with me

do you have to fill in all the passwords in each individually or can you export them?

I've used both as well: I'm just in the [slow] process of converting over from KeePass to RoboForm (after being a very happy [until things stopped working] user of PINs).

To get an entry from KeePass to RoboForm all you have to do is login using KeePass (as normal) and RoboForm will pop up and ask if you want to save a new LogIn... easy.

Going the other way would be more problematic as the only export is to print, but you could use that as a source file somehow (even if it's just copy and past)

I'm starting to look at Roboform...
Anyone out there with the portable version?

I have not paid for it (I think I'm limited to 10 passwords??), but it works the same as RoboForm standard, except for a startup differences.

I believe you can get Roboform to generate passwords -
if you don't happen to have it with you, you're screwed,
but I suppose that's the same with any passwords unless they in your head 

That's true, and I guess why they have the portable version and the desktop version.

I'd like to get this but maybe I'll go have another look at KeyPass at that price

You can't go past the KeePass price. I'm using RoboForm because of a TrialPay offer.

Perry

Hey Mouser! What a great idea (Sorry, I've only just discovered this thread... something about the title didn't click with me  ). I'll have to wait to get home to give it a go as it gets Port errors here at work.

I've been thinking about this generally for a little while, and posted here about a simple response I put together. The auto-update feature that I used there was based on knowing where the PAD file was.

Then I wondered about extending that idea somewhat and providing a DataBase and WebService which would retrieve information about an Application from its PAD file based on some known thing (like Application Name & Author), which would then relieve the user from knowing where the PAD file was. Also, making the link between the user and the developer non-direct means that it can be updated when necessary.

That's the update checking, then there's the actual updating. If it's easy to find out what the latest version is and where it is, then downloading it can be done using many different techniques. I was going to do just a simple script first, but dcUpdater sort of does it all!?!

I'm wondering how you deal with just PAD files?

Checking the help file, am I right in saying that the <Version> & <VersionFileRemote> tags need to be manually written?

I've recently installed the iGoogle Sidebar at work, and am finding it to be very useful!

It compresses and displays your iGoogle page in a sidebar: much easier to display, click, hide again.

Regarding SpywareTerminator, it's probably because they are using different servers for updating the application and for new downloads, and they didn't add the necessary files for the update. But this is only a guess.

A good guess too! It's what I'd expect.

[really weird!]

I previously went and had a look after reading this post, but hadn't really had a chance to check it properly. Until now, and the first programme I check is really weird!

The programme in question is Spyware Terminator.

First: FileHippo reported that my version was way out of date (especially for a programme that is meant to auto-update):
[attachthumb=1]

Secondly: I went and checked the programme:
[attachthumb=2]

Finally: I thought that was odd, so I checked their website:
[attachthumb=3]

Isn't that amazing? No one can agree on what the latest version is: even the developer!

I've just seen a recommendation for Bloglines, which is an online system.  Has anyone tried it?

Hey, it looks like a nice mix of features, I'm keen to hear some feed back as well.

At work I've been using Daily Rotation for my lunchtime reading, which I've found to be simple and effective.

since the new wonders will be announced on the 7th, so i think midnight of 6th is the closing time.. have you tried voting?

That's what I thought; well, I didn't know about midnight, but something like that.

I did vote: couldn't go past our Opera house without a vote! 

I'm not sure it's the real thing though: it looks more like an email harvesting venture to get people to sign up to holiday type newsletters.

less than a couple of hours left..

When I logged on it was 5 hours to go 

Actually, checking your post time and mine and looking at the site again, I think it's minus 2 (yours) and minus 5 (mine) hours to go; which presumably means that it's past time???

[new user]

With clearer mind I realised that I was supposed to be a new eBay customer not an existing one.

Funny, I did the exact same thing, and really caught myself trying to get something for "free" 

I re-examined the agreement though, and it doesn't actually say "new user", it says "new account", but I'm sure that what they really mean is new user. So I gave myself a stern talking to and bought flowers 

Wait a minute...you can now get an iPod AND an iBox? Together? Sweeeet! 

Did everyone see the iRack video?

$6 extra for orders under $90 (mind you: I couldn't find any iPod for less than $90): that's a lot or origami.

I thought the flash animation was cute though: would that do for your wall if it was in a digital frame?

Before I reInstalled Windows I was using Great News which did everything I needed to my liking, and I'll probably reInstall it when I get around to it...

got to investigate further to see if it really is ZA, but that's my assumption at the moment...

It was ZA! Turn Anti-Virus off and I can switch users immediately, turn Anti-Virus on and it takes five minutes to switch users!

I'm reconsidering my use of ZA at the moment... I recently upgraded to the Internet Suite but it really has slowed my system down significantly where the free product didn't.

• Getting to the log-on screen can take minutes after coming back from StandBy.
• Sometimes my system will just hang, it's like it's doing something but the CPU activity is zip, then it'll come back for a millisecond then go off with the fairies again 

got to investigate further to see if it really is ZA, but that's my assumption at the moment...

[But]

Query options in the mail merge!  Query options in the mail merge!  Great!  Now I have a pristine Word doc with correct text...  Next step: a Word macro to make email messages of this doc...  Still after any suggestions if others can help...

There are also NextRecord functions in Word that you can use to skip records.

From memory, you should be able to MailMerge to email output from Word. Isn't there a Wizard to set that up for you??? So, in stead of chosing New Document as the output, it's email (I hope my  memory is serving me correctly).

But I still think it'd be a better solution to leave your original spreadsheets in tact and create a new one to mail merge from...

As KatyKaty says Excel wont cope well with your record spanning more than one row.

What you should do is VBA it into a single Cell.

Alternatively, you could
1. Write a formula (a LookUp probably) to concatenate the other cells into a single cell, then
2. Copy and paste the concatenated cells as values
3. Delete the duplicate lines

If you want to send me the file I don't mind having a look at it for you.

Perry

It's great advice: for my project base files I generally slowly migrate them off my PC as it becomes obvious that I really don't need them on my hard drive. For example:

Step 1: Move the files to a single Folder in a dedicated location ( e.g.: "old work/Project One/")
Step 2: Archive the Folder into a single File (e.g.: old work/Project One.zip)
Step 3: Move the Archive File to a CD/DVD

Generally I hate throwing anything away (even rubbish: as Murphy would say, "as soon as I call something rubbish and chuck it, I'll need it")

[Open New Tab]

Okay Curt, maybe I just didn't figure it out yet, but do you know of any way to make UltraExplorer a multipane environment.

Do you mean Open New Tab? From memory, I could open as many Tabs as I wanted? Or have I missed something?

What happens? Well, the relation between Program B and C gets messed up due to Total Uninstall action. That's a side effect of using the program, and it's mentioned in its help file. But don't worry, most of the times this is something related to a program stealing the file extensions of another one, and this is easily fixed in the "Preferences" panel of most programs.

Thanks for clearing that up... I couldn't quite make sense of it after reading the site.

Not to bash Access, but I thought it was a bit massive to take care of this issue. Totally agree in the quick environment.

Oh, you're right there about being a bit massive

Well, it seems that the rest of the members use the computer as a dumping ground

  I guess it's easy to?

I just need a keyboard shortcut that takes me to the address bar, and I might be set wit UE!

Have you asked the author?

You could do one in AutoIT/AHK pretty easily too.

I think I had two grumbles:

• Copy FileName+Path functionality wasn't what I needed. I'll keep using my AutoIT script...
• I also had issues with multiple tabs open, sometimes the wrong tab [read: not the one I was expecting] would change when I clicked on the shortcut (folder/etc)

I'm sure that UltraExplorer was mentioned here (although I can't find it now), as I installed it some months ago... and like you I'm impressed as well.

Where ever I originally found it had some criticisms about the programming method ("gluing different modules together opposed to coding it from scratch" from memory), but it works and I like the way it works...

...and the author is active and answers emails...