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General Software Discussion / Re: help me find taskbarex 64 bit

« on: August 10, 2025, 11:46 PM »

I don't think there ever was a 64-bit version, or any 32 bit version that worked with anything other than WinXP.

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General Software Discussion / Looking for a collaborative photo editor

« on: August 10, 2025, 10:23 PM »

Is there such thing as a free online photo editor, where you can upload a photo, and then give the URL to a group of people, so they can all add their own annotations to the photo?

I may have broken my arm, and if I end up with a cast, I'd like to have my online friends digitally sign a photo of my cast.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Order coffee over ssh

« on: May 23, 2025, 05:55 AM »

Ok, this is cool, but not $25 worth of cool. I'll stick to walking around the corner for New England coffee, which frequently goes on sale for $6. That means getting 4X the coffee, and still saving a buck.

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Living Room / Re: Do good mice still exist? Looking for recommendations.

« on: July 10, 2024, 09:20 PM »

I am trying the Logitech Mx Master 2 and 3.. Both are good enough.

-mouser (November 08, 2020, 04:24 PM)

I've been using a 2s for years. The only thing I don't like about it (still) is the angle of my hand while using it. Coming from using a vertical mouse, it took some getting used to and still causes me some discomfort.

The back and forward buttons on the Mx Master 2 are much worse than they were in pervious models -- they are tiny and on top of (overlapping even) each other.  The MX Master 3 are much more reasonable.  For that reason alone the MX Master 3 gets my vote by a mile.

-mouser (November 08, 2020, 04:24 PM)

Those are my copy/paste buttons. 

The wheel is very strange how once you start rolling it it just goes on forever.. I'm still getting used to it, but I could take it or leave it.

-mouser (November 08, 2020, 04:24 PM)

I like how it has 2 of them. I use the side wheel as volume control.

If the battery life holds up I'll be satisfied.

-mouser (November 08, 2020, 04:24 PM)

I get pretty good batter life on mine, and I like how you can still use it while it's charging.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Annoying McAfee refuses to quit

« on: January 08, 2024, 08:41 PM »

McAfee has a special tool for complete removal of their products.

Use Option 2 (MCPR): https://www.mcafee.c...p;shell=article-view

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor -- Are there any additional addon clipart libraries?

« on: August 08, 2023, 08:19 PM »

I found some more that I made...road sign style:



There's more in the pack, but the rest are blank road signs, which you can customize to suit your own purposes.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor -- Are there any additional addon clipart libraries?

« on: August 08, 2023, 07:11 PM »

Kind of sad not to see him around and wonder if he at least still checks in now and then.

-SuperMan (August 07, 2023, 01:57 PM)

He's still around. But he might be a bit busy at the moment, or he might have overlooked this post.

Also, clipart creation isn't really his specialty, so if there's anything you'd like to see in a future clipart pack, please do let me know, and I'll try to accommodate. 

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Post New Requests Here / Re: [REQUEST] Program that shows the battery life of connected Bluetooth devices

« on: August 06, 2023, 07:34 PM »

This may be useful for you, to write your own. (or maybe not)

https://learn.micros...ator-display-in-syst

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor -- Are there any additional addon clipart libraries?

« on: August 06, 2023, 04:30 PM »

I remember making a pack, but I don't remember if mouser included them with the program.

I have attached them to this post.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: [REQUEST] Program that shows the battery life of connected Bluetooth devices

« on: August 06, 2023, 03:55 PM »

Windows already does this, for all supported devices. (older BT devices don't support this feature)

Go to Settings/Devices and you should see a list that looks something like this:



If you don't see your device in the list, it hasn't been paired with your PC.
If you see it in the list but no battery indicator, then your device doesn't support it, and no 3rd party program will make it support it. (it most likely is using an older version of BT)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Twitter harakiri‘d. All was gone.

« on: January 22, 2023, 06:39 PM »

I was never interested in social media, but

-rjbull (January 22, 2023, 04:57 PM)

But you are here, on this forum, which is an older form of social media. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Twitter harakiri‘d. All was gone.

« on: January 22, 2023, 11:03 AM »

Most of us on there are Friendfeed refugees that needed a place to call home (that wasn't Facebook), after Facebook killed off Friendfeed. It's also a decent substitute for Medium, supporting similar style long form articles (Texts), formatted with markdown.

Feature-wise, it's a bit like if Twitter, Facebook, and Medium were whipped up together in a blender, but without any of the stupid corporate BS or drama. It was built by a fellow Friendfeed refugee who fully understood what it was that we all really wanted.

It has an API, if you want to roll your own tools and apps that can work with it, or you can use this guide and example to import your activities from your other social networks and websites, with IFTTT.

It has groups, but they aren't listed anywhere officially, and you can't search for them, which is why I created this group to catalog the English speaking ones. Between this and the Firehose, they would be your best options for finding people to follow.

Or you could follow me, or at the very least hit up my subscriptions list, which has most of the English speakers on Mokum.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Twitter harakiri‘d. All was gone.

« on: January 22, 2023, 03:41 AM »

I deleted my account when he lost his privacy and security execs. It wasn't much of a loss for me, though, considering my main social media usage has been on Mokum for quite a number of years, now.

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

« on: November 17, 2022, 05:10 AM »

What if Peter Parker was bitten by a radioactive cockroach?

-Arizona Hot (August 21, 2022, 05:01 PM)

It would probably end up something like this:

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General Software Discussion / Re: If you own a Logitech MX Master 2S mouse, don't upgrade to Options+

« on: October 22, 2022, 12:14 PM »

Good to see you app! Haven't seen you aroudn recently!

-wraith808 (October 21, 2022, 09:34 AM)

 I am at one of those pesky crossroads where you become rather busy trying to figure out what to do with the next chapter of your life. In other words, currently unemployed and trying to decide what comes next.

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General Software Discussion / If you own a Logitech MX Master 2S mouse, don't upgrade to Options+

« on: October 21, 2022, 04:21 AM »

The Logitech MX Master 2S mouse is not yet compatible with the new Logi Options+ software. Installing it will cause your mouse to have severe bluetooth connectivity problems, making your mouse unusable.

Despite this, a glitch is causing the software to being pushed out to MX Master 2S owners. If you get the notification to upgrade, or see the link to do so on your current software dashboard, don't do it! Stick with the older Logitech Options software you already have.

If you do inadvertently install the Options+ software, you'll have to plug in a USB mouse so that you can uninstall it, then un-pair your MX Master 2S, power it off and back on again, then re-pair it with your computer.

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General Software Discussion / Re: How to check several sites daily with ease?

« on: February 13, 2022, 11:47 PM »

I also use RSS to keep track of YouTube Channels.

-Shades (February 12, 2022, 01:22 PM)

I have a locally installed Wordpress multisite (Bitnami) and use one of my sites to import Youtube videos, using a paid autoposting plugin (WP Automatic). Once I have watched a video, I just delete the post by clicking on the admin bar.

What is nice about using this plugin is that it can also automatically import videos by keyword, rather than from specific channels, OR by keyword from a specific channel or playlist. And it can import content from a lot of other sources, too, not just Youtube.

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General Software Discussion / Re: How to check several sites daily with ease?

« on: February 13, 2022, 11:23 PM »

I have a list of sites I visit, some daily, some weekly, and some monthly, and I don't want to forget to visit them (they give away free stuff). In order to ensure I do remember to visit them, I use a Notezilla note to automatically open them on a specific time & date, and it repeats daily, weekly, or monthly, as required. Since I always have Notezilla open any way, it doesn't use any extra resources that it wouldn't normally have already used.

If you have Notezilla or another sticky note app, or task scheduler, or anything else capable of opening a URL and scheduling it, that you normally use any way, that could be a good solution for you.

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N.A.N.Y. 2022 / Re: N.A.N.Y 2022: Desktop Maid

« on: January 05, 2022, 02:08 AM »

If you say so. I never "tasted" an application before. 

-GrumpyCoder (January 03, 2022, 10:48 PM)

You're missing out! You haven't lived until you've tasted an application.

-Deozaan (January 04, 2022, 04:20 PM)

They make great appetizers. 

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« on: December 09, 2021, 04:33 AM »

And from one of my favourite places on the planet, The HU ft. Jacoby Shaddix:

-4wd (December 09, 2021, 04:20 AM)

I love The HU! 

Really love this one:

I don't buy very many CDs these days, but I bought theirs.

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« on: December 03, 2021, 06:50 PM »

I am not really one for Christmas music, but this one is great:

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General Software Discussion / Re: Opera Start Page Question

« on: November 04, 2021, 07:53 PM »

Okay, so how well does Pale Moon deal with the asshat sites that "require" Chrome? Pale Moon Site says it's Goanna based - never heard of it - so what's it Goanna do when it encounters the Chromium canvas control and friends?

-Stoic Joker (November 04, 2021, 06:52 AM)

Goanna is a fork of Mozilla's Gecko. It's not perfect, but no solution ever is. If you come across a site that doesn't work with it, report it to the developer. You'll find that Pale Moon supports much more than the last Gecko based version of Firefox does.

However, should you end up needing a working user agent switcher add-on, for sites that engage in browser bigotry for no good functional reason, contact me privately. I have an old Firefox one that has been edited to work with Pale Moon, that I can't share publicly.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Opera Start Page Question

« on: November 03, 2021, 04:06 PM »

Hay, while we're playing whose got the most browsers.

-Stoic Joker (November 03, 2021, 03:38 PM)

And now you know why I have so many browsers. 

You can launch Pale Moon with the -P parameter to force it to show the Profile Manager, which would allow you to launch multiple instances of Pale Moon, each using a different profile. Each profile would have it's own everything...bookmarks, history, cookies, add-ons, etc. The Profile Manager also lets you quickly and easily create new profiles on the fly, as well as delete those that you no longer need. To force Pale Moon to always show the Profile Manager, just append the -P parameter to the shortcut target that you use to launch the browser.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Opera Start Page Question

« on: November 02, 2021, 04:06 PM »

You can populate the start page with a bunch of dials at once by selecting multiple bookmarks and pasting them into the Fast Dial favorites folder.

-MilesAhead (November 01, 2021, 09:56 AM)

It supports folders, too.

I use Opera for work, and Vivaldi for everything else. (I love Vivaldi's multi-level tab stacking, a feature that Opera unfortunately does not have.)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Opera Start Page Question

« on: October 30, 2021, 02:37 PM »

Under Settings, scroll to the bottom and then click to show advanced settings. Then keep scrolling till you get to the Start Page settings, and turn this switch on: