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Living Room / Re: 26 Terabits Per Second... WHOOSH~!

« on: May 28, 2011, 05:17 AM »

Is that fast enough for anyone here? 

-Renegade (May 27, 2011, 10:14 PM)

I'm a bit scared of how to view all those DVD's in that short timespan, afraid that my head will explode

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General Software Discussion / Re: KeyDrive 1.8.0.0

« on: May 27, 2011, 06:31 AM »

your AHk would not start

-tomos (May 27, 2011, 06:19 AM)

You should just run the KeyDrive.exe, it will hide in the systemtray. Right-Clicking on that icon, selecting About shows the configured hotkeys.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Restore programs that were running at system shutdown (with selection)

« on: May 27, 2011, 05:36 AM »

To completely save state and restore on next power up

-MilesAhead (May 27, 2011, 02:02 AM)

Isn't that what's called 'hibernate' in Windows???

-Ath (May 27, 2011, 03:46 AM)

In the OP he says he is wary of it...

-joiwind (May 27, 2011, 05:24 AM)

But that's with his 'previous machine'. As I stated yesterday, that's as good a 'comparison' as oranges vs. pears...

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Restore programs that were running at system shutdown (with selection)

« on: May 27, 2011, 03:46 AM »

To completely save state and restore on next power up

-MilesAhead (May 27, 2011, 02:02 AM)

Isn't that what's called 'hibernate' in Windows???

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Restore programs that were running at system shutdown (with selection)

« on: May 26, 2011, 05:05 PM »

The trouble here is that not all applications can restore to the document/project they had open when you want to close them, but that it is nearly impossible to determine what document/project they have open when you close them (externally). There would be so many different methods to try to determine that, that it's nearly impossible to pack that into a 'nifty little tool'.

You'd better have a good look (again) at the Hibernate feature of your computer, as the 'previous machine' you mentioned earlier is not your current computer, and the wrong point of reference. (IOW: "Any assumption made is wrong by default.")
Windows 7 (or Vista for that matter) does a whole lot better a job at hibernating, then Windows XP ever did. And with decent hardware even XP would do that just fine.

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Living Room / Re: 3rd monitor for display purposes

« on: May 26, 2011, 10:27 AM »

A quick google search found me this not too expensive deal

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Found Deals and Discounts / Zentimo upgrade offer $9,- until 2011-05-29

« on: May 26, 2011, 06:00 AM »

Crystal Rich sent me this offer today:

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--
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Looks nice IMHO, and might be of interest to others as well.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Certificate

« on: May 26, 2011, 05:49 AM »

That's a great idea indeed!

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Living Room / Re: Which is more important: the gadget, or the software and apps that runs it?

« on: May 26, 2011, 01:14 AM »

That's easy: Applications.

I've been stalling on getting an e-reader just because it's (nearly) a single-function aparatus, in favor of a decently sized tablet that can run (almost any) other stuff too, besides being an anything-reader. It's most likely not going to be an iPad though

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Little Voice Commander / Re: Adding spoken word option

« on: May 25, 2011, 09:08 AM »

This however is a perfect case where recorded human voice is superior,

-mouser (May 25, 2011, 06:44 AM)

Ok, I understand the reasoning , then you'd have to find a female beside Renegade, to supply those samples, too (and a config option to select them). An extra request might be needed for that voice, I guess

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General Software Discussion / Re: Access predefined keys of the windows registry

« on: May 25, 2011, 05:33 AM »

Hm, Isn't the 'Favorites' feature of Regedit enough to fit that bill?

You could use the commandline tool reg.exe, that's available from Windows XP and up. A nice description is here, and create a simple batchfile doing what you need.

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Little Voice Commander / Re: Adding spoken word option

« on: May 25, 2011, 05:24 AM »

I dont think the text-to-speech is good enough,

-mouser (May 25, 2011, 04:14 AM)

I'd surely have a good look at Windows supplied TTS (if I had a project for that). Current TTS for Windows is quite impressive, IMHO, and it's quite easy to select another voice, or switch from male to female, etc.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: [Freeware] FadeTop - a visual break reminder that fades the desktop

« on: May 24, 2011, 04:31 PM »

But the multi-monitor option is still being worked on (as it currently only fades my main monitor...)?

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General Software Discussion / Re: MS Word Spell Checker - Selective Failure

« on: May 24, 2011, 03:09 PM »

Where did you copy it from? Another Word document, or plain text?

Could you reset the attributes to the default (select + Ctrl-Space) that usually works if I have issues like these, or paste it as plain text (using Notepad++ as an intermediate, but there are several tools discussed here, that I don't want to install on my work-PC, that can do that for you).

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Little Voice Commander / Re: Latest Little Voice Commander Release v1.33.01 - May 23, 2011

« on: May 24, 2011, 01:58 PM »

That's nice

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General Software Discussion / Re: Freewaregenius.com: Another Forty-Three of The Best Free Windows Enhancements

« on: May 23, 2011, 05:44 PM »

Also, Apathy's QuickCliq made it as well.

-skwire (May 23, 2011, 04:46 PM)

I missed that one, sorry

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General Software Discussion / Re: Freewaregenius.com: Another Forty-Three of The Best Free Windows Enhancements

« on: May 23, 2011, 04:32 PM »

Oh, and I really like the way I can manipulate the sidebar on that site (but that's more of a SSC nature )

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General Software Discussion / Re: Freewaregenius.com: Another Forty-Three of The Best Free Windows Enhancements

« on: May 23, 2011, 03:58 PM »

And I'm proud to say one of my applications (Find and Run Robot) made the cut.

-mouser (May 23, 2011, 11:57 AM)

Yup, and also skwire's Drop Zone made it there.

For a lot of the tools mentioned there are at least 2 equally nice alternatives, but some are indeed real gems that should be in the spotlight every now and then.

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Living Room / Re: Strange phone problem - can anyone help?

« on: May 23, 2011, 01:25 PM »

Assuming it's a Dect phone, isn't anything else in the 2.4 GHz band disturbing the signal to that phone? like a wifi router from your ADSL connection, or something like that.
Even if the frequencies are (a bit) different, a strong signal transmitted from close proximity can overwhelm a receiver so much that it can't correctly receive or separate the normal equipment it's designed for. And that would explain why the replacement set has exactly the same issue. That the interference is only when dialing 3's is just an unlucky coincidence, I guess.
Putting either aside for several feet should significantly improve the behavior. (that is assuming you have a wifi router or other transmitting equipment, like a CRT-TV nearby)

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JGPaiva's GridMove and Ahk Tools / Re: GridMove download link not working

« on: May 23, 2011, 12:23 PM »

What's the link you have used so far?

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« on: May 23, 2011, 05:26 AM »

It's not only the number of posts (for some users) that's impressive, also the number of registered users.
I shot this (and anonymized a bit) a few minutes ago:

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Living Room / Re: tablet screens to go blind for

« on: May 23, 2011, 01:25 AM »

Everything is simply too small. Mobile software is designed for 10-year-old girls' fingers. Not mine.

-Renegade (May 22, 2011, 08:16 PM)

I do agree, but the high resolution (& quality) screen of my Motorola Milestone (aka Droid) allows me and my big hands to use multicon to get more icons on the screen without problems

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General Software Discussion / Re: windows file manager with single-click navigation?

« on: May 22, 2011, 12:17 PM »

xplorer2 has that option, but the 'lynx' navigation it doesn't, AFAICS. It does feature navigating using BackSpace and Enter keys, though, much like Norton Commander and many of it's look a likes.

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General Software Discussion / Re: looking for a program to close other program in a batch

« on: May 22, 2011, 12:11 PM »

taskmgr pro

-ha14 (May 22, 2011, 10:56 AM)

Auto Kill Any Process

-ha14 (May 22, 2011, 10:56 AM)

SmartClose

-Curt (May 22, 2011, 11:02 AM)

These would have fitted nicely in the previous request post that brought us eventually Movie-ize, and would have saved 4wd a bit of effort. But I'm quite sure he enjoyed creating Movie-ize

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The Form Letter Machine / Re: The Form Letter Machine and the HTML management

« on: May 21, 2011, 11:04 AM »

I assumed you where creating an application yourself, having this feature request..., as usual any assumption is wrong by default

It's the Desktop App running on Win XP...don't know which language is made with...

-marvis (May 21, 2011, 08:42 AM)

In that case: You can't. (Without creating an external 'monitor' tool that detects you/the user opening the combo and pointing at an item, offering a clickable link based on a list you provided earlier)
Hmmm, come to think of it, my WinButtons can detect the executable being loaded, and showing a specific window with buttons, that could open a webbrowser when clicked. But it can't (yet) react on a specific control selected, or hide while it's not selected. Ah, a (double/triple) feature request for WinButtons!  

@mouser: You'd probably better move this one to the Coding Snacks/Post New Requests Here board, I'll pick it up asap.

Edit: I finally see it's specific to FLM,  missed that earlier. But I'm quite sure a combobox can't offer clickable links for each item, next to the normal selection, though a listbox could be made to do that, AFAICS.