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Found Deals and Discounts / 25% off purchase of SyncBackPro/SE (backup software) new or upgrade licenses.

« on: March 23, 2020, 04:56 PM »

25% off purchase of SyncBackPro/SE new or upgrade licenses.

World Backup Day 2020 Special Offer

As part of efforts to promote World Backup Day, we are offering everyone 25% off their purchase of SyncBackPro/SE new or upgrade licenses.

This offer ends Friday April 3rd, 2020.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Affinity offers 90-day free trial/50% discount on all software

« on: March 20, 2020, 07:26 PM »

Affinity: Supporting the creative community

The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have severely impacted people all over the world. To provide some support during this incredibly difficult time, we’re now offering a 90-day free trial of all the Mac and Windows versions of the whole Affinity suite. We’re also offering a 50% discount for users who would prefer to buy and keep the apps, including iPad versions.

Affinity Publisher
  Experience next-level professional publishing with this groundbreaking creative software.
     macOS    50% off - Only £23.99
     Windows  50% off - Only £23.99

Affinity Photo
  Create the perfect images with the fastest, smoothest and most precise photo editor around.
     macOS    50% off - Only £23.99
     Windows  50% off - Only £23.99
     iPad     50% off - Only £9.99

Affinity Designer
  Bring your visions to life with the ultimate graphic design and illustration app.
    macOS     50% off - Only £23.99
    Windows   50% off - Only £23.99
    iPad      50% off - Only £9.99

Affinity Workbooks
  The official guides to Affinity on macOS and Windows.
     Affinity Photo Workbook     Only £37.99
     Affinity Designer Workbook  Only £37.99

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General Software Discussion / Re: sluggish Win 7 and 10 upgraded to hot Win 10 - transfer automatic or by hand?

« on: March 09, 2020, 05:20 PM »

I'm doing your (2) method too, because I'm going from 32-bit Vista to 64-bit Windows 10.  But the following claim to transfer software for you:

• Total Uninstall can help transferring or deploying programs
• Paragon Drive Copy Business
• Laplink PC Mover

Sanity check - I haven't tried any of them for this purpose, although I'm using Total Uninstall to monitor certain installations at present.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: A similar function to Listary's Quick Switch function?

« on: March 05, 2020, 04:50 PM »

I more or less 'live' within my favourite file manager, Total Commander. Listary's ability to steer the dialog box to whatever is the active directory in TC is invaluable.  Listary supports several other file managers etc. too.

-rjbull (March 04, 2020, 03:25 PM)

Do you with "steer" mean one of these or something else? [...]

-Nod5 (March 04, 2020, 05:46 PM)

Something else. Suppose you have one of Listary's supported file managers in one window, and you are currently at the File Open/Close dialog of any arbitrary program in another window.  Alt+Tab to the file manager, Alt+Tab back to the dialog, and Listary will point the dialog to the active directory in the file manager.  I had even more fun testing this with two supported file managers    The Web site currently lists:

Listary supports most of the popular 3rd-party file managers:

    Directory Opus
    Total Commander
    XYplorer
    xplorer2
    FreeCommander XE
    SpeedCommander
    One Commander

The Options screen lists several others.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: A similar function to Listary's Quick Switch function?

« on: March 04, 2020, 03:25 PM »

I'm a long-term big fan of Listary...  When at my PC, I more or less 'live' within my favourite file manager, Total Commander. Listary's ability to steer the dialog box to whatever is the active directory in TC is invaluable.  Listary supports several other file managers etc. too.

Suggestion - from a non-programmer...  I don't know how Listary acquires the active directory from the file managers.  If FARR can offer the same information (ask Mouser), maybe you could persuade Channing to add it to Listary?

DC has older discussions on dialog box extenders, but I believe they mostly offer favourite and recent directories, not the switching feature that's so useful that for me, it's more less worth the modest asking cost of Listary on its own.

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General Software Discussion / Re: The best uninstaller

« on: February 26, 2020, 11:48 AM »

I need something wich have an "install tracker" the best I've seen is Uninstall Tool by CrystalIdea.

-c-sanchez (February 23, 2020, 10:57 PM)

I see that CrystalIDEA's Uninstall Tool is based on the code of Geek Uninstaller.

Do you rate it better than Total Uninstall (TUN)?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Windows Launcher by Only One Key

« on: February 26, 2020, 11:30 AM »

It's funny- malwarebytes blocks that Qsel site, but virustotal shows it as clean from malwarebytes

-wraith808 (February 25, 2020, 05:02 PM)

I reported both the false positive, and your post, to Malwarebytes.  They replied the block would be removed in the next database update, but didn't comment on the odd VirusTotal result.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Windows Launcher by Only One Key

« on: February 25, 2020, 09:48 AM »

Website has returned, wasn't alive earlier: The Bond Interface

-4wd (February 16, 2020, 09:52 PM)

Still on 25% off offer at Bits du Jour

Possible freeware alternative:  Qsel by Horst Schaeffer.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« on: February 10, 2020, 04:28 PM »

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Living Room / Re: Legally Buy & Download Music Easily - Is it even possible any more?

« on: January 22, 2020, 11:41 AM »

I installed X-plore, an android file manager recommended by Tuxman.

-tomos (January 21, 2020, 11:10 AM)

A sound recommendation - that's my default one on Android.

It's sort of a two pane manager, with one pane pinned on the side. If you copy/move from one pane, the destination will automatically be the other pane.
[...]
Pressing the arrow on the top-left corner with show the other pane:

-tomos (January 21, 2020, 11:10 AM)

Have you enabled automatic screen rotation (or whatever its called) on your device - i.e., when you turn your phone/tablet from vertical (portrait) format to horizontal (landscape) format, it turns the text to match?  If you do, you'd see X-plore present itself in the usual Norton Commander-style two-pane clarity.  This 'one pane in vertical format, two panes in horizontal format' behaviour seems not uncommon in Android two-pane file managers, at least, Ghost Commander and Solid Explorer both do it.  Total Commander is slightly different.  It defaults to the same scheme, but there's a configuration option to force two panes even in vertical format.  In that case, they're very narrow, of course.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Artists: What digital hardware+software do you use for digital sketchin/painting

« on: January 13, 2020, 03:43 PM »

my tools of choice are Serif's DrawPlus for vector graphics

-oblivion (January 13, 2020, 08:42 AM)

That's their pre-Affinity one, yes?  Are you still happy with it on Win10?

I have several graphics tablets: [...]10 inch Ugee

-oblivion (January 13, 2020, 08:42 AM)

I've heard of Wacom, but never of Ugee.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What Android Apps Do You Use?

« on: January 13, 2020, 03:34 PM »

I apologize for not including the links to each app.

-city_zen (January 06, 2020, 12:55 AM)

As they say, "there's an app for that", viz. List My Apps.  I've used it in a simple way here, but there're more features than you'd expect; see under Annotations, and the variables in the Templates.  There was already a template for BB code - I've modified it for DC, though I can't now remember why.



This generates a list like this;

Alarm Plus Millenium
Package name: com.milleniumapps.milleniumalarmplus


App Search+
Package name: rjt.appsearch


ArsClip Mini
Package name: com.joejoesoft.acmini


BookmarkFolder
Package name: com.coconuts.webnavigator


CalcTape
Package name: de.sfr.calctape


Glance Note
Package name: com.fangleness.glancenote


HalnaOutliner
Package name: jp.blogspot.halnablue.HalnaOutliner


List My Apps
Package name: de.onyxbits.listmyapps


Stopwatch & Timer+
Package name: com.jupiterapps.stopwatch


Total Commander
Package name: com.ghisler.android.TotalCommander


X-plore
Package name: com.lonelycatgames.Xplore

List made using List My Apps

[/list]

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Possible suggestion -- variables in clips

« on: January 13, 2020, 03:02 PM »

Are your podcasts common file types like MP3, and if so, do they contain metadata tags?  If the answers to both are Yes, you might try a different approach.  Some of the better bulk file renamers can read metadata, and use it to rename files, which would do the job for you.  Examples include Rename Master (RM) and Bulk Rename Utility (BRU).  You can operate RM from the command line, which would mean you could add the same author's NewFileGo automation utility to watch for new files and invoke RM on them, perhaps as a scheduled event.

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Coding Snacks / Re: The Best Way to handle finding and removiong Duplicate Files

« on: December 22, 2019, 04:22 PM »

Back when I was more excercised about nuking dupes, I used

DoubleKiller.  Last update was 2015, as the author is probably working on his PhD.

Two more different approaches:

Cathy is a media cataloguing tool; in my experience, it's very fast at making catalogues.  It has a "search duplicates or singles" feature.

Nir Sofer's SearchMyFiles has a "Find duplicates" feature that can be combined with normal file-finding criteria.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Top 3 programs you use

« on: December 22, 2019, 04:09 PM »

2. TreeDBNotes

-BGM (December 21, 2019, 07:51 PM)

Looks as if the main website is now down completely and purchase links no longer function.
The free version was always good enough for most uses.

-Dormouse (December 22, 2019, 10:12 AM)

Maybe there were too many two-pane organisers for the market to bear, as there appears to be a winnowing going on.  You're reporting TreeDBNotes development moribund.  The entire Treepad family (including the popular freeware Treepad Lite) and associated Freebyte site have gone from the web.  Smereka TreeProjects appears to be freeware.  Jot+ Notes has just been declared freeware.  Still plenty of others, of course.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Good Freeware Video Editor?

« on: December 06, 2019, 04:55 PM »

In its latest issue (dated 4-17 December 2019) UK magazine Computeractive published its list of "Best Free Software for 2020."  They recommend:

• VSDC Free Video Editor as having plenty of features but easy to master, with excellent tutorials.
• DaVinci Resolve 16 (as noted by sphere earlier).  More advanced than VSDC, but also harder to master.

Both of those are cut-down versions of payware programs.  The full version of DaVinci Resolve is very expensive.  VSDC Pro is more approachable, and appears to currently be on offer at $19.99

They DON'T recommend HitFilm Express because while it's a decent if complex program, they don't like the way it requires you to sign up for an account before you can even download it.  It also needs a powerful computer, including a graphics card with a minimum of 1 GB of memory.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« on: December 04, 2019, 02:41 PM »

I went to register a product on Panasonic's site.  Had to enter date of birth.  When I got to the year field, accidentally pressed End.  The site's response had a certain lack of making connections about it...

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Living Room / Re: Happy Thanksgiving 2019 to all DonationCoder folks!

« on: November 28, 2019, 05:41 PM »

Becoming a black-Friday pauper.

-cranioscopical (November 28, 2019, 05:05 PM)

Me too   

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General Software Discussion / Re: IS THERE AN ADJUSTABLE "DARK SCREEN" FOR WINDOWS?

« on: November 27, 2019, 04:19 PM »

To flesh out superboyac's post:  f.lux® software to make your life better

Ever notice how people texting at night have that eerie blue glow?

Or wake up ready to write down the Next Great Idea, and get blinded by your computer screen?

During the day, computer screens look good—they're designed to look like the sun. But, at 9PM, 10PM, or 3AM, you probably shouldn't be looking at the sun.
f.lux

f.lux fixes this: it makes the color of your computer's display adapt to the time of day, warm at night and like sunlight during the day.

It's even possible that you're staying up too late because of your computer. You could use f.lux because it makes you sleep better, or you could just use it just because it makes your computer look better.

Free on Windows, for personal use

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« on: November 24, 2019, 03:48 PM »

A lion and a witch were carrying a wardrobe down the street.  I asked, "Where are you going with that?"  They replied, "Narnia business."

- from The Last Laugh, The Countryman, Nov. 2019

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Coding Snacks / Re: Killing app the way Alfred can in OSX

« on: October 29, 2019, 04:21 PM »

Maybe one of these, though they're quite old?

• KillProcess by Orange Lamp Software
  KillProcess is an application assassin of the extreme kind. It can terminate almost any process on a Windows machine, including any service and process running in the system. Even protected Microsoft system processes can be terminated. All of this can be done in the matter of milliseconds.
  
  The speed that KillProcess can kill your applications with is determined by your computer speed and is not restricted by any other settings within the OS itself. KillProcess is way more powerful than the Task Manager in other terms than speed. It can kill multiple processes, either by multi-select or by clever use of “kill lists”. Using these techniques it is possible to “batch” terminate processes, quickly and swiftly, with a click of a button.
  
  KillProcess can also scan the running processes on the computer, and kill them on sight, much like an anti-spyware application would. In KillProcess however you are in charge of which applications should be allowed to run or not – and that applies to the computer as long as you say so.
   
• Taskill by DS Software (Dariusz Stanislawek)
  Taskill is a process viewer and killer. It works in GUI or CLI mode and can kill multiple instances of the same task in one go.
   
• AppSwat by Dikiye Dvizheniya
  AppSwat is a process viewer and terminator. It shows a list of all running programs on a computer and lets the user terminate any process unconditionally. This is especially useful for Win9x based systems: On NT based systems like Windows 2000 or XP the built in task manager has quite some control over processes. On Windows 9x/ME it often fails to shutdown programs or even display their presence.
  [ very old - dodgy web site, beware popups ]
  

Some of the hotkey programs offer the ability to kill the process under the cursor, e.g.:

• HoeKey by bCheck
   Tiny hotkey program, configurable with an .ini file.
   
• HotkeyP by Petr Laštovicka
  You can assign a keyboard shortcut, a mouse shortcut or a joystick shortcut to any executable file, document, folder or WWW page. You can also use all multimedia keys, the fourth and fifth mouse buttons and a remote control (if you install WinLIRC). Other commands are: change keys in other applications, shutdown, restart, lock computer, start a screen saver, change the desktop resolution, set window opacity, audio volume, set process priorities, terminate applications, eject CD, set CD speed, show disk free space, empty the recycle bin, delete temporary files, change desktop wallpaper, save/restore desktop icons positions, minimize any application to the system tray, hide window, change window transparency, zoom tool, screenshot to BMP file, set window always on top, paste date/time or any text, ...
   

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Is there any plan to update to ScreenShot Captor ?

« on: October 06, 2019, 03:55 PM »

I'd appreciate a rules-based file-renamer within Screenshot Captor.

-lanux128 (October 05, 2019, 01:09 AM)

Would it be enough, or easier, to harness a command-line file renamer like BRC  (brother of the better-known Bulk Rename Utility (BRU)) or Rename Master?

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Android Apps / Re: Re-usable ToDo lists (possibly using *Checklist DC*?)

« on: October 01, 2019, 03:11 PM »

EPIM seems to only do two levels of hierarchy.

-tomos (September 29, 2019, 06:08 PM)

On a quick test, Android EPIM can do at least four levels of Tasks below he base level.  I'm using a registered copy of PC-EPIM - don't know if that makes a difference.  I don't remember paying for a copy on Android.

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N.A.N.Y. 2020 / Re: IrfanView Panorama

« on: October 01, 2019, 03:04 PM »

Is this going to be free-standing, or a plugin for IrfanView?

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Android Apps / Re: Re-usable ToDo lists (possibly using *Checklist DC*?)

« on: September 29, 2019, 03:59 PM »

I want an app for ToDo lists that would be re-used.

-tomos (September 28, 2019, 03:05 PM)

I'm not certain it would do what you want - but have you looked at the Android version of Essential PIM (EPIM)?  I think it's free.