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General Software Discussion / Typing break for Windows: alternative to Workrave

« on: December 17, 2011, 03:44 AM »

I have two major problems with Workrave, which would otherwise be exactly what I want:

1. If you aren't using keyboard or mouse constantly, you end up with longer intervals between breaks.
2. There is no simple way to disable/reenable it. Bug 501 is 6 years old.
3. It would be even better if it could automatically be disabled when using specific applications (e.g., as mentioned in the bug, full-screen games).

Yes, it's open source, but it's C++, so I won't be able to just modify it Are there good alternatives?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Real autocompletion in Microsoft Word

« on: October 19, 2011, 04:50 AM »

@rjbull,
Wow, thanks!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Real autocompletion in Microsoft Word

« on: October 17, 2011, 12:12 AM »

@IainB:
I knew about Word's AutoText, but it doesn't really do what I need:

You can then type in the part-words you want to be auto-corrected (or auto-completed) and the full string/phrase that you want it to become

With most text editors, you don't need to specifically tell it to autocomplete this or that word: if you start typing "syn" and there are already words "syncronous" and "synchronicity" in the file, it should automatically propose completion to "syncron" (and possibly a way to choose between "syncronous" and "synchronicity" as well). Strangely, LibreOffice does it wrong: it will propose whichever of "syncronous" and "synchronicity" is more common instead of the common prefix.
@cmpm:
Thanks, I'll try it out!

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General Software Discussion / Real autocompletion in Microsoft Word

« on: October 16, 2011, 05:09 PM »

There seems to be no way to autocomplete words which occur in the edited document in Microsoft Word (see http://help.libreoff...mmon/Word_Completion for an explanation of what I mean). Since this is absolutely essential for quickly writing text (at least for me), I assume there are at least add-ins for it, but I didn't find any

So, do they exist? If not, I'll have to write one myself for those times when MS Word is required...

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Find And Run Robot / Re: What hotkey(s) do *you* use to trigger FARR?

« on: June 29, 2010, 01:00 PM »

So I changed all of my boxes to use Win + Alt + Space.

-phitsc

Thanks for the idea! Just switched to it from Ctrl+Shift+Space. (I used to use Win+Space on XP/Vista as well and abandoned it for the same reason.)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Any dialog extenders (like FileBox Extender) for 64-bit Win 7?

« on: April 23, 2010, 12:36 PM »

Yes, it does work very well!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Alternatives to AnVir Task Manager

« on: April 19, 2010, 08:33 AM »

View > Always on top

Oh, thanks!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Alternatives to AnVir Task Manager

« on: April 19, 2010, 12:15 AM »

Oh, and I do like that WinPatrol noticed a file associations change.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Alternatives to AnVir Task Manager

« on: April 19, 2010, 12:14 AM »

After installing WinPatrol (not Plus yet): looks all right. The presentation for startup manager isn't as nice as with AnVir, but quite workable. Similarly, System Explorer (found at Gizmo's site) looks like a useful Task Manager replacement. My biggest dislike so far is that I can't get its information window to stick, which is occasionally useful.

Now, what can I do for the tray icons?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Alternatives to AnVir Task Manager

« on: April 18, 2010, 11:34 PM »

I've had freeze problems too ... and it does use resources ... it doesn't respond that well to ctnl-alt-del either

-hpearce (April 18, 2010, 07:36 PM)

With AnVir or with WinPatrol Plus?

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General Software Discussion / Alternatives to AnVir Task Manager

« on: April 18, 2010, 05:35 PM »

My subscription to AnVir's updates has expired, and I decided to ask for alternatives before updating it.

Here is what I get from AnVir:

Process manager
Tray icons which show CPU and memory load
Startup manager (in particular, I really like being immediately notified and asked for permission when some stupid application decides to add itself to the startup)

What I don't like is that it sometimes freezes and takes quite a bit of resources when its main window is open (though not when it's minimized to the tray, happily).

What are good alternatives there, especially for managing startup programs?

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General Software Discussion / UltraSearch: a competitor to Everything?

« on: February 24, 2010, 11:30 AM »

Haven't tried it out yet to see how it compares, but here it is: http://www.jam-software.com/ultrasearch/

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General Software Discussion / Re: Any dialog extenders (like FileBox Extender) for 64-bit Win 7?

« on: February 21, 2010, 09:03 AM »

FileBox eXtender works great on 64-bit Win7.

-kalons (February 20, 2010, 04:58 PM)

Good (but surprising) news. I'll try it.

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General Software Discussion / Any dialog extenders (like FileBox Extender) for 64-bit Win 7?

« on: February 20, 2010, 03:43 PM »

Which dialog extenders will work with 64-bit Windows 7 (and are any good)?

I know about Direct Folders; any others?

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

« on: June 27, 2009, 11:18 AM »

What makes it the must-have extension is that there's practically no other reason to highlight text on a Web page except to copy it to your clipboard.

Oh yes, there is a reason. You may want to search for it, for example. You may think this requires copying it to your clipboard, but SmarterFox and Easy DragToGo (and several other dragging extensions) disagree.

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General Software Discussion / Re: PDF viewers which don't lock the file

« on: June 17, 2009, 02:52 PM »

I prefer editing straight LaTeX, but I'll check it out. Is there an equivalent of the listings LaTeX package (or a way to access it), do you know?

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General Software Discussion / Re: PDF viewers which don't lock the file

« on: June 17, 2009, 01:33 PM »

For writing math papers Word is about the worst software known to man. It is a lot harder to edit Word files containing any math than nice LaTeX.

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General Software Discussion / Re: PDF viewers which don't lock the file

« on: June 17, 2009, 12:34 PM »

Because that still requires 3 actions:
1) close the file
2) recompile
3) open the file

Or more often 5:
-1) recompile
0) realize that I haven't closed the file
1)-3)

With a non-locking viewer that's one action:
1) recompile

Or possibly two if the viewer doesn't detect the file changing:
1) recompile
2) reload the file.

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General Software Discussion / Re: PDF viewers which don't lock the file

« on: June 17, 2009, 11:19 AM »

Because I want to edit the paper I am working on, recompile it, and check the results without having to close the reader and reopen it every time.

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General Software Discussion / PDF viewers which don't lock the file

« on: June 17, 2009, 01:46 AM »

And preferably have a shortcut for reloading the file.

Are there any on Windows (other than Sumatra)?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Mozilla add-ons site now allows you to publish your add-on collections

« on: June 12, 2009, 12:51 PM »

Yes, but check Add-on Collector. (Unfortunately, it isn't compatible with All-in-One Sidebar yet. If you have it, you need to set Add-ons panel not to appear in the sidebar.)

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General Software Discussion / Mozilla add-ons site now allows you to publish your add-on collections

« on: June 11, 2009, 11:36 AM »

Quite simply, if you like some Firefox add-ons and think they fit together, you can gather them into a collection. This looks like a great idea.

My two collections: Usability Pack and Keyboard Maniac Pack.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Is there a context menu editor which works with Vista?

« on: November 28, 2008, 09:18 AM »

The trouble with registry hacks is that they don't allow you to reorder items, only to disable/enable them. Or at least I've not seen any articles which would explain how to reorder them.

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General Software Discussion / Is there a context menu editor which works with Vista?

« on: November 28, 2008, 02:21 AM »

I have just tried to find a program for editing the system context menus, similar to the Menu Editor extension for Firefox. All programs I've found seem to be one of three types:
1. Programs which just add new items and submenus: FileMenu Tools, Moo0 RightClicker
2. Programs which allow you to enable/disable specific items, but not to change their order or create submenus: ShellExView
3. A program which does just what I want, but works with Windows XP only: Mmm.

Is there some program like Mmm which works with Vista?

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General Software Discussion / Re: 'Everything' is one FAST file search engine

« on: November 11, 2008, 07:40 AM »

I have actually written quite a similar letter