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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Mesh Editor (Text / Code Editor)

« on: August 14, 2024, 01:59 PM »

I haven't tried it out yet, but I found Windows builds of Zed here:
https://github.com/s...perboxes/zed-windows

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General Software Discussion / Re: Alomware Toolbox looks interesting with alot of tools

« on: September 19, 2023, 12:27 PM »

due to prior experience with images breaking over time, we prefer images to be attached and embedded in the post itself rather than linked

-Deozaan (September 17, 2023, 04:27 PM)

An advantage of docx and databases over md files

-Dormouse (September 18, 2023, 11:59 AM)

Hmm...a counterpoint to the "markdown for everything" movement that I had not considered.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Listary 6 released

« on: December 20, 2022, 10:57 AM »

Yep, sticking with Listary 5 here, too.  Not that I am complaining--it is a fantastic piece of software.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: WordPerfect Office 2021: 60% off

« on: November 29, 2022, 09:52 AM »

I honestly had no idea that WordPerfect still existed.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Listary 6 released

« on: October 10, 2022, 07:03 PM »

I'll give this release a try.  I am quite happy with Listary 5, and went back to it from an earlier 6 beta when I realized the newer one left off paths in some of the filename displays, making it impossible to differentiate files having the same name.  I am curious to see how this release looks in that regard.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Best Android Email App?

« on: September 27, 2022, 09:58 AM »

You mention Teams invitations, I would say that if you're using 365 for corporate email then they'll start disabling basic authentication in a couple weeks, so as much as I hate to say it, you might need to use Outlook. I know our company is disabling access from all other email programs.

-x16wda (September 22, 2022, 07:44 PM)

This might explain why I can no longer authenticate my Office 365 e-mail account via the BlueMail app.  I keep getting a "Network unavailable" error, which does not make sense.  Out of frustration I went ahead and installed the Outlook app, and found that the exact same login credentials worked flawlessly on the first try.

Fortunately, I remembered seeing this forum thread just recently, and opened it to see if anyone chimed in with recommendations for the original poster.

This is disappointing.  It was very useful to have all my e-mail accounts available in one app (BlueMail).  This is yet another example of further Balknanization of the Internet.  We deserve so much better.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What was a great program that's now been forgotten?

« on: June 01, 2022, 12:29 PM »

Synchronize It! and Compare It! - superb GUI design, I still use them to this day for small simple jobs - one can still buy them, they still work, but unfortunately not upgraded for many many years. Synchronize It! can even copy sparse files, which is extremely rare.

-brahman (May 31, 2022, 08:53 PM)

Have they been forgotten? I thought they were still being sold? I use them all the time.

https://www.grigsoft.com/wincmp3.htm

-wraith808 (June 01, 2022, 10:31 AM)

Maybe it is more like not getting the love they deserve!

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General Software Discussion / Re: What was a great program that's now been forgotten?

« on: June 01, 2022, 09:16 AM »

Synchronize It! and Compare It! - superb GUI design, I still use them to this day for small simple jobs - one can still buy them, they still work, but unfortunately not upgraded for many many years. Synchronize It! can even copy sparse files, which is extremely rare.

-brahman (May 31, 2022, 08:53 PM)

I still use "Compare It!" for source code comparisons.  For me, the killer feature is the ability to recognize the syntax of a rather obscure programming language (Progress' OpenEdge ABL) by downloading a syntax definition file written for some other text editor (I forget which one now).

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General Software Discussion / Re: What was a great program that's now been forgotten?

« on: May 27, 2022, 07:20 PM »

PC-Write was, I think, the first software I personally paid for.  I used that character-mode word processor for years before finally succumbing to the seduction of Windows GUI writing.  I still have the PC-Write packet here somewhere.  I'm too sentimental to throw it out.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What was a great program that's now been forgotten?

« on: May 27, 2022, 06:21 PM »

A more modern version here: https://github.com/A...some-Windows/Awesome

-ibay770 (May 26, 2022, 01:48 PM)

This is a great list.  There are a number of goodies there that I have never heard of.  Thanks for the point.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What was a great program that's now been forgotten?

« on: May 27, 2022, 04:11 PM »

Two of my old favorites were FoxPro and Rbase.
<snip>
But FoxPro was the absolute performance leader due to its indexing optimization technology FoxPro called:Rushmore.

-40hz (May 27, 2022, 09:38 AM)

Wow, is that a "blast from the past"!  I haven't heard that term "Rushmore" in this context since about 1994-5.  In my job at the time we were doing a lot of mailing list work and we found FoxPro to be a far better tool for manipulating that data than the antiquated database tool we were already using for in-house applications.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / TinyEV missing the last Everything result

« on: December 29, 2020, 08:04 AM »

I am trying out TinyEV and rather quickly found an issue.  I have a search that shows 7 results in the Everything native results list, but FARR shows only 6 while claiming 7 results in its status bar.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Software to easily and quickly browse a sound library (and hear previews)?

« on: December 10, 2020, 09:02 AM »

A freeware program named "1by1" might be worth a look:
https://mpesch3.de/1by1.html
I am not sure it handles tagging, but claims to make it quite easy to scroll through files and listen to them.

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General Software Discussion / Re: some useful but less-known software. share your list!!!

« on: April 29, 2020, 02:33 PM »

Code Browser is a folding text editor, designed to hierarchically structure any kind of text file and especially source code. It makes navigation through source code faster and easier: https://tibleiz.net/code-browser/

-panzer (April 29, 2020, 01:23 PM)

That looks like an extremely useful tool, one I will download and try out.  Thanks for pointing it out.

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

« on: March 25, 2020, 02:16 PM »

I have a couple of Logitech G602 mice and love them.  I find the longer size to fit my hand well.  The longer right button makes perfect sense, as human hands have middle fingers that are longer than the index fingers.  The longer right button fits so well, and makes so much sense, one is left wondering why this feature is missing from almost all computer mice. 

I thought I would love all the extra buttons, but in practice I find I use them very little.  But I do like being able to reprogram the buttons, and have found that programming the two index finger side buttons for PgUp and PgDn is extremely useful.  And, the programming stays with the mouse, so if I move it from one machine to another my custom functionality travels with it.

My only wish for the G602 would be for Bluetooth connectivity to eliminate the little USB dongle.  Old-style USB ports are few on most laptops nowadays.  However, after wrestling with the quirks of a Bluetooth mouse, I do like the reliability of the USB wireless dongle.  It works, always, unlike the Bluetooth mouse I have tried.  (In all fairness, the mouse or this particular laptop might be at fault.)

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Living Room / Re: OK - lets get to know each other... who are you, what do you do, where from?

« on: March 25, 2020, 02:07 PM »

Well, since I have not yet posted in this thread, this is as good a time as any.

I am Keith, from southeast Michigan, though I am fortunate enough to be able spend winter seasons in southwest Florida.

For a living I have been a database software developer for over 15 years, specializing in the Progress OpenEdge development environment.  I have been fortunate enough to be able to work remotely on a contract basis for a number of years.  However, with the current COVD-19 panic and likely recession to follow, I have no idea where my career path will lead next.  I should take this downtime as a chance to diversify.  Python, for one, is intriguing and seems to be high in demand.

I enjoy programming, and got my college degree in Computer Science.  I am old enough to have done a good bit of Pascal programming as part of my degree program, and I have to admit I miss Pascal.

Interests include sports car racing (watching, not driving), especially IMSA and Formula 1; photography; and computers in general.

So, that's me in a nutshell.

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Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?

« on: May 29, 2019, 08:53 PM »

I am working through two books right now.

The first is a technical book about programming, likely the best I have ever read on the topic:
The Pragmatic Programmer, 20th Anniversary Edition, by David Thomas and Andrew Hunt
I read the first edition not long after it was released, and every time I go through it I glean something that I need to implement in my work.

The second is my "just for fun" book:
Life Is a Wheel: Love, Death, Etc., and a Bike Ride Across America, by Bruce Weber
I quite enjoy reading accounts of bike touring, especially those across the USA, and this is yet another.  Though this one has more biographical content than is usually the case, I am enjoying it.

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Living Room / Re: The future of Ghacks (2018)

« on: March 23, 2018, 01:27 PM »

Agreed, that's a great site.  It's one of my favorites in my stack of RSS feeds.

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Living Room / Re: Looking for smartphone

« on: October 04, 2017, 03:24 PM »

  The removable battery was one of the key features for me.

-irkregent (October 04, 2017, 11:19 AM)

Do you keep a replacement battery in store? Or is there another argument for having a removable battery?

-Ath (October 04, 2017, 02:23 PM)

Having a few spare, charged batteries available when I travel is a real plus.  I can go longer without having the phone tethered to a wall socket.  I recently went on a week-long camping trip, and with four spare batteries on hand (that combined still weighed less than an external phone-charging battery) I never needed to worry about trying to find some place to charge my phone overnight.

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Living Room / Re: Looking for smartphone

« on: October 04, 2017, 11:19 AM »

I recently picked up a refurbished LG V20 for cheap ($280 USD) and am really pleased with it.  The removable battery was one of the key features for me.  I also like that LG allows one to alter the "soft buttons" at the bottom of the screen, selecting which buttons and in what order they appear.  It has 4GB of RAM and 64GB of internal storage.

One downside is the circular power button on the back of the phone, in that without a case it is hard to find without looking.  But a case will solve that annoyance. 

One thing to know is that the top and bottom of the screen are slightly curved, meaning that a glass screen protector cannot cover the entire screen surface.  That has not been an issue for me, however.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful

« on: August 29, 2017, 12:25 PM »

a lot more addons were ruined by the last Firefox update. I have removed it and moved to "ESR" (Firefox Extended Support Release ESR):
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/52.3.0/releasenotes/

This way one can keep all the extensions and still have a browser accepted/made by Mozilla.

-Curt (August 28, 2017, 08:11 AM)

The developer(s) behind Waterfox intend to keep support for "legacy" extensions in its releases of the Firefox-based browser.  Of course, that is just one part of the equation.  If the extension developers keep giving up on their projects, then browser support is moot.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Text comparison tool with most robust similarity/moved block detection

« on: May 13, 2017, 04:03 PM »

I just ran across another diff tool that you might want to try:

True Human Design - Diffinity Official Homepage
http://truehumandesign.se/s_diffinity.php

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General Software Discussion / Re: lastpass and firefox

« on: May 11, 2017, 07:10 AM »

I would look at the "e10" setting.  I know in the past having that turned on broke LastPass's functionality, and I believe Firefox was going to start enabling "e10" (separate processes per window) by default for a subset of users.

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N.A.N.Y. 2017 / Re: NANY 2017: Calculor - A Live, Handy, Dandy, Inline Calculator

« on: December 01, 2016, 04:38 PM »

I just tried this out and every time it runs it shows the error message:
"Sorry, Bub, the colour file list does not exist."

It seems to run just fine after I dismiss the error box.

This is running on Windows 10 Pro 64-bit.

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Living Room / Re: Some photos from our last walk

« on: September 19, 2015, 09:39 AM »

Looks like fun.  Thanks for posting this.

As an aside, this is the first Google Photos slideshow I've viewed, and I'm very impressed.  I'm looking into a photo hosting site, and will need to look seriously at that one.