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I sorta think Steampunk is a nice interlude to my traditional problem with classical High Fantasy.

I'd welcome a DC Fantasy Book Club as well    If by "High Fantasy" you mean the kind of stories that start from the general area of "Morte d'Arthur" and Tolkien, don't overlook the wealth of non-High Fantasies.  See this post by Iphigenie in the Re: What books are you reading? thread, and my reply to it.

[Gateway]

Rather depends on what you mean by "favourite:" books you like, or books you respect?  It's possible not to be both.

Of traditional SF, I reckon Fred Pohl's Gateway takes some beating.  Off the top of my head, others I respect include Alfred Bester's Tiger! Tiger! and The Demolished Man, and Chtistopher Priest's Inverted World.  Note respect; I don't say any of these are particularly comfortable reading.

Streampunk isn't a genre I've consciously explored, but I'd suggest a look at Chris Wooding's "Tales of the Ketty Jay" series, which start with Retribution Falls.  I'd classify them as fantasy wearing an SF leather jacket with an eagle on the back...    For all the swashbuckling, edgy violence, humour and yes, sheer silliness, the abiding interest is in the character development, how this completely dysfunctional crew (even the ship's cat) ended up aboard the Ketty Jay, what their back stories are, and what they do about it.  Terrific entertainment.  Another series worth looking at is Philip Reeve's "Hungry City Chronicles," which start with Mortal Engines.  These are older children/YA, but very entertaining, set in a post-apocalypse far future where some technologies are being reinvented.

[Curt]

Thanks, Curt!  I had to uncheck that box.  What I would like, though, is for default behaviour to be to warn about redirection, except on specified sites.

I'm using Firefox 15.0.1.  It doesn't automatically allow a page to redirect to another page, presumably as a security measure.  I use some forums, e.g. Notefrog, Fountain Pen Network, which use auto-redirection a lot.  Firefox's behaviour becomes annoying when, e.g., I do a search, open several new tabs from the search results, then find I have to specifically Allow each page to redirect.  I did a (very) quick Google, but only turned up similar mild complaints.

Please, is there any way to force Firefox to automatically allow redirections in specified domains?

[mouser]

my pipedream: a freeware software writing IDE that has the elegance of C#

Isn't that called a mouser? 

It's proverbial that Mancunians think today what Londoners will think tomorrow 

Video complete with The Blue Danube music, just like the seminal video game Elite...

I searched for a while to find folder monitoring programs, there are probably a couple of threads here somewhere.

In Re: Recommend directory tracker?, patteo mentioned Log Monitor, which I believe mouser has used.  More details and suggestions here: Software to send email when a folder content changes and here: DONE: folder monitor with customizable action and here: Searching a "Filesystem based event trigger tool"

But the solution you found yourself seems elegant and effective, the more so for not entailing extra cost.

[24 August 2012]

Is that all freeware?

Well, it's apparently FreeAsInBeer, because the right side of the home page says " Its Free! ".

Also see bottom of Defrag page, http://www.puransoftware.com/Puran-Defrag.html under Version History:

24 August 2012    Version 7.5 Puran Defrag is now free for commercial use too. Added recommended schedules.

Grateful if anyone tried these non-cloud alternatives and can advise their comments ?
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Mentioned in Upgrading RoboForm from v6 to v7: worthwhile?, and in several other DC threads.

I was in the Kamieskroon Hotel in the Namaqualand area of South Africa's Cape Province once, on a photographic holiday.  At the end of the week, the hotelier politely offered us "Kamieskroon olives."  They turned out to be grapes...  pickled in brandy    Definitely not for kids!

[Y]

I upgraded to RoboForm 7 for its convenience, but, like others on DC, I always start from KeePass.  That way I always have a free, portable system that I can export from if necessary.  Quite a few plugins are available for extra convenience and form-filling with KeePass.

Is KeYpass a typo for KeePass, or a different program?

Other possible approaches:

SuRun...  Super User Run - free

Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT) - free; this has been used to run PowerPro in Win7, for example

Run As Admin Controller, RAAC: Start Programs with Full Administrative Privileges - cheap payware

True Launch Bar?  (Don't know if mouser's LBC will launch multiple things at once)

I have come to accept recently that there is probably another kind of workflow that Screenshot Captor should support, and that is an (optional) floating toolbar which lets you choose the kind of capture, and what to do after the capture, and a button to perform it.  Personally I would never use such a feature and would encourage anyone who takes lots of screenshots to learn the capture hotkeys instead, but I do accept that such a Quick Capture floating toolbar would server a need, so I am going to be adding it.

I suspect the need most likely to be served is where you have hotkey conflicts with other programs, especially ones you use more often.  In that special case, an alternative method would be welcome.

Also not start menu or run dialog, but free: SlickRun?

I heard that, back when genetic engineering was hot and every hastily-created new company had to have some element of "genetic" in its name, the Italian government wanted to set up a state one.  It was to have been called "Genitalia."

In similar vein, there's a story that when Idi Amin was megalomaniac dictator of Uganda, he hatched a plan to rename Uganda "Idiland."  Until some brave soul pointed out that people who live in Cyprus are called "Cypriots"...

Very recent versions of TheBat!, 5.1+, have been deplorably slow at picking up my e-mail, where Opera's built-in client seems practically instantaneous.

Fantasy but in a non euro-medieval setting. Really got me, and I am picky and jaded when it comes to fantasy or magical realism.

There are some good fantasy series set in pseudo-mediaeval, pseudo-North European milieus, but it's been done to death.  It's a refreshing change to find something different, so thanks for that one.

FWIW, authors of fantasies that I've enjoyed, who set their works in relatively unusual worlds, include Sarah Ash, Garth Nix, Caroline Stevermer, Michael Marshall Smith, Steph Swainston, Naomi Novik, P.C. Hodgell, Chris Wooding, Jonathan Stroud, Marcus Sedgwick, Jan Siegel/Amanda Hemingway, Chris Wooding, and D.M. Cornish.

I stopped using TheBat! for the same reasons you mentioned, even though I am a licensed user.

Lately it's been infuriatingly slow at picking up my e-mail, though I updated at the same time as installing a new router (don't think that should affect things).  I need to face up to checking my ISP's Web site in case it's their fault, but a brief trial of Opera's built-in e-mail client seemed to give much faster mail retrieval.

I purchased Softmaker Office Pro and part of the suite is the "eM Client" which I have switched to using exclusively for email.

No email client is perfect

Er, does that mean that some things about eM Client are already irritating?  And it's just a case of which program irritates less?  I have Softmaker Office Home, without eM Client, and I've heard Thunderbird development may have ceased, so I'm interested in alternatives.

Is it possible to write a macro in AHK, AutoIt, PowerPro or something, that will watch for the appropriate window, and put the cursor in the right location whenever it first appears?

This might be the earlier request for something similar: CHS feature request: smart copy/paste of hyperlinks

I used to have a similar need to m9833's.  ClipMate has templates that are text files with placeholders for the clip elements.  That would be a useful addition to CHS, allowing customized output "on the fly" without needing further massage, and without the hailstorm of Alt-Tabs I used to have to do to collect assorted bits from a Web page, including its URL, and pasting into a new file.

[The Bat! 5.2]

Don't know if it helps yet, because I've only just spotted it.  My emphasis.

The Bat! 5.2
08/23/2012    New features

    New filter action – "Clear all tags"
    Added profiles for re-filtering a folder
    Filter action to add/delete addresses to/from address book can now extract target addresses from message body with template
    It is now possible to quick-search folders in the folder selection dialogue
    Nickname/Handle from Address Book can be used in TO parameter of /MAIL switch in command line
    Nickname/Handle from Address Book is automatically expanded when used in address macros (TO, CC, ...) in templates
    Added folder set tabs in the folder selection dialogue
    Option to wrap text in "Plain text (Windows)" editor

Improvements

    "Paste as plain text" option added to popup in the Edit Mail Message Form
    System folders (Inbox, Outbox, Trash, etc.) can have their own settings for templates, deletion etc.
    Now if files are dropped onto an Address History item, the editor uses the corresponding e-mail address as the destination
    Some visual fixes in "View Mode Setup"
    Empty lines are now correctly displayed in POP.log and SMTP.log
    Double clicking on a list column separator expands column to fit its contents
    When an account is created by selecting folder in MAIL folder, the account name and home directory are automatically filled
    Image content is used to determine real image type (for example, name has PNG extension but there is GIF image inside)

Fixes

    View Mode option "Expand All Threads" cannot be ignored during changing threading or switching between View Modes anymore
    Temporary files are now deleted after auto-save in the message editor
    Deletion of common folders could sometimes give an Access Violation error
    Large folders are not opened slowly on Windows XP anymore
    Message create/receive time is correctly displayed without degrading folder loading performance
    Fixed a bug when only the first message was used for checking against filter condition when a filter was applied to several selected messages using Hotkey
    Text settings like Date/Time separator are now retrieved correctly from the system's registry if the text is one character long
    Message list cannot lose changes made by incoming filters anymore (setting color group in IMAP folder for incoming messages wasn't visible before refreshing folder)
    Fixed stack overflow when trying to parse malicious or malformed HTML with too many nesting tags
    (#0000014) Fixed problem with wrong timezone offset in new message header if "(GMT) Greenwich Mean Time: Dublin, Edinburgh, Lisbon, London" timezone is used in daylight saving time
    "Resend" message action now uses "Delivery type" option in "Account Properties" to send message immediately or put it in Outbox
    Fixed "-ERR Invalid command" response from POP3 server when opening message in Dispatcher
    Fixed an AV when trying to save attachment by drag-and-dropping it from message stored on HDD (anti-virus check enabled)
    Application does not freeze when doing mass mailing of big messages anymore
    Solved the problem that appeared when copying/moving several messages between folders of the same Gmail account
    File selection dialog does not hide current window – message editor or address book – anymore
    Fixed memory corruption if Message Finder was closed when searching was in progress
    Solved the problem when System Hotkey "Open MailTicker messages" did not bring opened message to front on Windows XP
    Fixed possible deadlock when updating counters for IMAP folder
    (#0000059) Fixed the problem with certain graphics that could not be accessed in tabs
    Solved possible access violations related to logging subsystem
    Fixed reported errors on some received S/MIME messages that were encrypted by weak keys

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Previous DC threads:

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Its a tad foggy...

Reminds me of those Scottish postcards that say there's a great view from here, when you can see the view...  Yet you live south of the border!