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Living Room / Re: Lost my father

« on: June 06, 2012, 02:55 PM »

My condolences, too.

I've lost my older brother 12 years and my father 11 years ago (and I was 26 at that time) and even I don't know what to say to somebody
to support him in his grief. It's a german saying "Die Zeit heilt alle Wunden" (time heals all wounds) but unfortunately this is completely untrue ;(

When time goes by it's only getting a tiny bit better.

I wish you all the best.

Regards,
Highend

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Little modification to menuak.ahk

« on: June 05, 2012, 07:02 PM »

Try to replace all launcher.ini occurrences with:

[Select]

%A_ScriptDir%\launcher.ini

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Cintanotes at Bitsdujour (soon!)

« on: May 30, 2012, 02:36 PM »

Mh, there is Evernote. Free (with a paid plan if you're a heavy user).
Why should I spend money for a note taking client that isn't even able to store pictures in a note? Hey, it's 2012, not 1990...

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Windows Firewall Control - Mini Review

« on: May 29, 2012, 08:28 AM »

Thanks for the review. Would you mind clarifying what are the features of the program that the donation unlocks, so I can use it at its full potential?

-Babis (May 29, 2012, 08:05 AM)

Registered Users Features
√ Learning Mode which provides notifications for blocked outgoing connections.
√ Lock the current state of the program and Windows Firewall with password.
√ Reset a forgotten password used to lock the current state of the program.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR Plugin: TinyEV (Everything integration) - 0.9.5 - 12 June 2009 (updated)

« on: May 14, 2012, 12:23 PM »

$findand*setup

Your "regex" is wrong.

$findand.*setup

is what you need. It'll find findandsetup and all other combinations of findand <everything> setup.

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General Software Discussion / Re: yet another file manager thread...

« on: April 08, 2012, 02:44 PM »

XYplorer (Pro) in my case, because I really like it's scripting capabilities...

132

General Software Discussion / Re: SnagIt 11

« on: March 07, 2012, 06:31 AM »

Windows System Requirements
.NET 4.0 or later required for video.

One more reason to stay with v10 ;(

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General Software Discussion / Re: FreewareGenius.com: The Best Free Compression / ZIP program

« on: March 05, 2012, 08:02 AM »

I'm just missing Bandizip (http://www.bandicam.com/bandizip/) in that comparison.

Portable version, can be used in scripts and has a nice progress bar while beeing invoked from cli.

I've did a short speed comparison myself:
Source: 5795 Files, 566 folders, 1,05GB
Source and destination are on the same partition

Compress command lines:
WinRAR.exe a -afzip -r "D:\winrar_Test.zip" "D:\Test\*"
Bandizip32.exe /archive "D:\bandizip_Test.zip" "D:\Test"

Extract command lines:
WinRAR.exe x "D:\winrar_Test.zip" "D:\new_Test\"
Bandizip32.exe /extract "D:\new_Test" "D:\bandizip_Test.zip"

Packer | Extract Time | Compress Time | Compressed Size (MB)
--------------------------------------------------------
Winrar  |        18        |       58           |          870
BandiZ |        18        |       58           |          869

Not bad for a free alternative.

134

Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Linkman 8 Pro and Cacheman 7.10 62% off on Bits du Jour 8/15/2011

« on: March 02, 2012, 07:01 AM »

Don't forget, the current offer is now active. Btw, the lifetime option can be added during the buying process. Thank you, Innuendo

135

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

« on: March 01, 2012, 12:07 PM »

Can I put Mint on it as a dual boot easily?

At least you can try. Nobody knows if something will go terrible wrong It's boot manager (grub) will (most likely) find your Win 7 boot record and include it in it's own. Make an image of you current installation before you go dualbooting

136

Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Linkman 8 Pro and Cacheman 7.10 62% off on Bits du Jour 8/15/2011

« on: February 28, 2012, 02:06 PM »

I just looked up my invoice and in my case, I bought, thanks to BDJ, a 2 computer license for $14.98 and the lifetime free upgrade (+50% to base price) was a whopping $7.50 giving me a grand total at check-out of $22.48.

That's nice. I hope the new BDJ offer will allow us to get the lifetime upgrade for such a low price, too 

137

General Software Discussion / Re: Need Disk Imaging tool that can restore from external HDD

« on: February 28, 2012, 02:00 PM »

I'll throw in another vote for IFW/IFL, a really solid and reliable tool. Been using it for the last 4-5 years, and it has yet to fail me

Yeah, same here...

I use http://www.terabyteu...mited.com/tbosdt.htm as well in conjunction with IFD to implement two simple commands that I invoke with FARR,
called "backup" and "restore". They reboot my machine and perform the associated actions. It's all preconfigured, nothing more has to be done.

It's worth every single cent I spent on it 

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Linkman 8 Pro and Cacheman 7.10 62% off on Bits du Jour 8/15/2011

« on: February 28, 2012, 10:28 AM »

It is only a few dollars (less than ten) more if I remember correctly.

Lifetime Free Upgrades (+50% to base price)

A normal 2 computer license costs 39$.

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009 Release: Trout (audio player)

« on: February 28, 2012, 03:05 AM »

However, you may want to give my Looper program a try

Simple, unobtrusive and it does what I was looking for. Thanks skwire!

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009 Release: Trout (audio player)

« on: February 27, 2012, 05:45 PM »

Is there a way to double click on a .mp3 file in e.g. XYplorer (great file manager with portable file associations) and Trout opens (regardless if it was running before or not) and plays exactly this file? Atm it will only append the clicked file to the playlist and from time to time I just want to listen to the files that I select inside XYplorer instead of the files that are in the Trout playlist.

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General Software Discussion / Command line ftp client with specific features?

« on: February 23, 2012, 05:39 PM »

Hi,

does anyone know of a command line ftp client that:

- is a native x86 windows application (no crosscompiled cygwin stuff) -> I get problems with international chars like german umlauts

- supports scripting (can load a file which contains all the ftp commands that should be executed)
e.g. <ftpclient.exe> /script="<scriptname>"

- allows using ssh2 keyfiles in addition to user / pw logins (without the need for pageant or any wrapper app)

- is able to autoaccept a ssh2 server hostkey without bothering to accept one manually (providing the fingerprint in the script is ok)

- supports either a put or mkdir command that is able to create the recursive folder hierarchy for the destination file automatically
e.g. put öäü.hmtl /users/public/test/html/ or mkdir /users/public/test/html/
where /users was the only folder that existed before invoking the put | mkdir command

Tunnelier's sftp.exe and WinSCP's winscp.com commands support all these features with the exception of the last feature (put / mkdir).

Does anyone know a different command line client, that has all of these features?

P.S.: Ofc I talked to both companies if it's possible for them to integrate this feature wish. Both stated: Nice idea, maybe we'll
incorporate it in a future version. It's been a year now...

Regards,
Highend  
 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Help me choose an online backup service

« on: February 17, 2012, 03:34 AM »

@mouser

What's wrong with a rsync backup which doesn't need a client that runs in the background? You decide when the backup takes place (or you can use the task planner). My rsync tasks needs about 2 minutes if there is nothing major to upload.

150gb with about 120k files in 14,5k folders

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General Software Discussion / Re: Help me choose an online backup service

« on: February 16, 2012, 06:04 PM »

@40hz

If it take my time to test a new software you can be rest assured that I do it thoroughly

But it's kinda moot since it doesn't backup anything other than your data by default.

Anything on my C: drive isn't data that should be backup-ed. Why not? I already decided over 20 years
ago that I separate all of my data from the partition, where the os is installed. Apart from that 95%
of my used software is portable and stores it's settings and data on a different drive (and the only
Software that needs to be installed is forced to write everything it wants to save to a different drive as well).

if you first just let it 'do its thing' to see exactly how long it took - and then logged in to check and see exactly what got backed up.

You don't need to. You can see this kind of information before it actually begins the real backup. Look at the last rightmost tabs.

I doubt you would have seen much there you wouldn't have selected anyway.

189 MB of files it wants to backup (only for the C: drive).

So once the initial mirror takes place, subsequent backups only require a fraction of the original time unless major changes have taken place on your local drive.

Delta-backup. Atm it's hard to find reasonable sync/backup providers that DON'T support this technology.

It also keeps deleted and changed files for up to 30 days - so it also acts as a sort of versioning backup system

That's the case, right. The currently used HiDrive account allows me to configure for how long old / deleted versions are kept and these settings can be changed for different folders and users (I use a 5 user account with 500gb of storage).

Regarding the huge amount of data that can be backuped with a slow uplink: I'm storing atm 150 GB on my user account at HiDrive. With non throttled upload speed this takes about 18 days (24h/day) if you don't want to pay the extra fee if you send in a hdd.

PS.: I like intelligent software. As long as it let's me reconfigure it's behavior when it does things that I don't want it to do.

Regards,
Highend

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General Software Discussion / Re: Help me choose an online backup service

« on: February 16, 2012, 04:14 PM »

They are giving you unlimited space for backups. Why would you want to exclude anything? The only reason I can think of to exclude anything from backup is to keep from running out of space, which isn't going to happen with Backblaze, so you might as well let it backup everything.

Why should I let it backup things that don't need to be backuped (e.g. parts of my C: drive)? Why should I waste my upload bandwidth (1MBit) for such a task?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Help me choose an online backup service

« on: February 16, 2012, 01:07 PM »

Backblaze

Tried it today. Maybe it's a cheap solution but for an advanced or pro user this isn't probably the way to go. You can exclude folders / drives but it's a cumbersome task if you have a nested folder structure and want to sync several folders inside this structure.

It is _really_ not possible to reverse it and say: Only include these specified folders that I want to sync, no matter what.

I hope http://www.acrosync.net/home.html gets into a usable state in the near future so that I have a more graphical approach to my current online backup / sync needs...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Help me choose an online backup service

« on: February 16, 2012, 05:46 AM »

Java backup applications suck (imho)...

I've tested CrashPlan a year ago and observed equally the same results as in the review of JavaJones. A backup client software that was
awfully slow and used up several hundreds MB of memory. Ridiculous...

ATM I'm using rsync (under windows) in conjunction with a hidrive account (www.strato.com)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Help me choose an online backup service

« on: February 16, 2012, 03:46 AM »

Isn't CrashPlan's software a java application?

148

N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge & Early Beta: Ethervane Echo

« on: November 17, 2011, 06:09 PM »

Let me check this. Do you use the (default) option to automatically minimize Echo when it loses focus? (This option is at Preferences -> Display -> MinimizeOnDecativate). If you do, Echo should minimize on startup regardless of StartMinimized, due to the fact that when Windows starts applications, Echo is very likely to lose focus soon after Windows has launched it.

Yes, MinimizeOnDeactivate is set to true. I'd prefer if the StartMinimized option works as expected and hides the Echo window on startup I start a lot of applications via FARR and usually don't look at the monitor while doing this (10 finger typing) and somehow Echo get's "in the way" if the first key after it's start isn't the Escape key.

Yes, that is a separate setting: Preferences -> Capturing Clips -> CatchUpOnConnect.

Ah, sorry, that's something I've missed. Turned it off and now it works fine

3.) Adding one additional modifier is a good idea and letting the user decide which modifiers does what is even better. Please include the Win-key if you're doing this.
But I still think it could be done with a "mode switch".
E.g.:
The swith could "obey" to this logic: if the first character that is pressed is a digit (while the Echo window is open) it doesn't go into the searchbox but selects the #<number> entry in the list. If it's a different character it goes directly into the searchbox. Btw, it's probably better to just select the entry instead of directly pasting it because you can use e.g. shift + enter to use the paste as plain text option once it's selected. Typing the same digit a second time (or any other character) would activate the search box as usual. I personally don't search for values inside the clipboard very often so I would activate the switch permanently. This would probably the best or at least the fastest way to select entries in the list if you don't want to use the mouse.

Regards,
highend

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge & Early Beta: Ethervane Echo

« on: November 16, 2011, 04:45 PM »

May I ask a few questions / make some suggestions?

1. How do I start the portable edition autominimized to tray?
 I have set StartMinimized (Startup behavior) to true (and ofc quit and restarted Echo afterwards) but the main window will always appear on screen when I start it.

2. Is there a way to use the InMemoryDatabase option without populating the first clipboard entry with www.ethervane.com after each start?

3. Could you please add an option that allows us to enter a number between 0 and 9 to paste entry id 1, two, ..., 10 to the current application instead of selecting e.g. the fifth entry by going down with the cursor down key 4 times? Optionally with the shift modifier to paste them as plain text?
Ofc there should be some kind of override option so that any of these numbers doesn't trigger the search function.

Tia,
highend

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Xara Xtreme 5 -- Magix Photo & Graphic Designer 5 FREE

« on: November 08, 2011, 06:06 PM »

They added me to their junkmail list and would not unsubscribe me no matter what I did.

Hint: e-mail address @ mailinator.com

Or a different domain in the case it's not allowed when subscribing.