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General Software Discussion / Re: Download Demons...

« on: December 27, 2007, 12:52 PM »

I use Leechget.........

  I use the freeware and it usually connects with three connections. So far so good!
It works.......... what can I say?


 "Welcome to LeechGet!

LeechGet was designed as a fast, comfortable and also powerful download manager, providing all capabilities you need to download files from the Internet quicker and simpler than ever.


 Simple to use 


One of the main aspects while developing LeechGet was simplicity - every function must be integrated in an easy-to-use yet powerful interface. LeechGet uses a Microsoft Outlook-like user interface with which many users should already be familiar: a navigation bar on the left and a concise menu provide access to important functions of the program while Wizards are used to perform more complex tasks. Modern styled controls enhance the Look&Feel of the application. In addition, LeechGet seamlessly integrates in the Windows 9x/2000/XP environment and the Internet Explorer, allowing you to easily start and manage your downloads.


 And yet powerful 


LeechGet provides many functions such a automatic downloading, download timer, automatic hang-up and shutdown to perform unattended downloads or uploads. A Webparser lets you download complete website with all images and scripts in no time and a history list gives you quick access to downloaded files.



 Free for private use

You may use LeechGet free of charge for private use only (LeechGet Personal Edition). However, the Personal Edition comes without support and updates and you can only download eight files simultaneously. For commercial use or just to unlock the restrictions mentioned above, you have to acquire a Premium license for only 17 Euros.

Click here to get more information about how to register your copy of LeechGet!


Please take your time to get familiar with the LeechGet Use Interface and its features.

Click here to see some screenshots of LeechGet in action under Windows XP."

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Acronis True Image

« on: December 27, 2007, 12:34 PM »

I commented about Nero 7 in the post titled Nero 6 in this same section. I purchased Nero 7 for about $5 several months ago and must report that it isn't worth it's shipping cost in my opinion.
I'm a big fan of Nero and have used it for several years so when version 7 hit the street for $5 ??? or so, I jumped.
Bad move!
I installed it and almost immediately discovered the error of my ways. I repented by uninstalling it and reverting to Nero 6.
I've been watching for a deal on version 8 but all reports I've seen are that v8 is a disappointment. I'm still recommending Nero 6 (see previous post Nero 6). With the free downloads of the various updates for v6 you can do about anything you can imagine and more. Most of Nero 6 I haven't even installed! YMMV

 

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Nero 6

« on: December 26, 2007, 02:58 PM »

Both of those suites are OEM, hence must purchase with hardware. When I bought them the CD came in a cardboard jacket similar to the ones AOL used and no hardware was involved.
I recall the jackets because they had about 65 cents postage on their free shipping container. Previously the sale didn't include free shipping and the S&H cost was $6/$7???
They were making more money on S&H than on the CDs!
Clarification! I posted that there were free upgrades and I think the correct term is updates. There are several free downloads available for version 6. You can't upgrade to ver7 or ver8 for free.
There's a version 7 kicking around for about $5.00. Save your money as that is practically worthless. I installed it and almost immediately dumped it.
Version 8 is out but from what I've read that is a big disappointment too.
The deal is version 6 and then download all the updates once it's installed.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Nero 6

« on: December 26, 2007, 09:24 AM »

http://tinyurl.com/m8fvb

SurplusComputers is having a year end clearance sale and they have two different suites of Burning Rom on sale.
I have both suites don't really recall what either contains. Both contain the basics for burning CDs/DVDs and what is not on the disks can be downloaded from Nero.com in the Nero 6 section. You can upgrade ver. 6 to do anything that most of us would ever need for free.
I have used Nero from day one and this sale is one of the best deals I've ever run across. I bought mine for $2.99/$3.99 with free shipping. This sale is for $.99 and $.49.......... I didn't check on shipping cost?
I've purchased from SurplusComputers for years (they are 60 miles down the pike) but in the last year or so their customer sevice has disappeared. I wouldn't buy anything from them that might require an RMA because you might never get an RMA. YMMV.
Buy two......... they're small.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Acronis True Image

« on: December 25, 2007, 08:21 PM »

Here's a link for DealNews email alerts or their RSS feed. I subscribe to both year around, not just for the holidays.

http://tinyurl.com/36ddyp


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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Acronis True Image

« on: December 25, 2007, 08:09 PM »

We can do that!
See if you can subscribe using this link.........

https://secure.neweg...NewsLetterSignUp.asp

 

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Found Deals and Discounts / Acronis True Image

« on: December 25, 2007, 03:50 PM »

http://tinyurl.com/yr83pt

I don't think I've ever seen it cheaper.

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General Software Discussion / Re: CD vs DVD for viewing photos on TV

« on: December 25, 2007, 11:37 AM »

http://www.nero.com/...nero6-tutorials.html

Just came from here..........
There is almost 27mb of instructions on Photo and Video here, a help file and an eBook.
With a modicum of natural ability, indomnitable courage, and a helluva lot of luck a person might learn the answer to your friend's question.
You'll have to add patience too since the site seems terribly busy but I got both files eventually.

Happy Holidays!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Two questions regarding DVD drive utilities

« on: December 25, 2007, 10:48 AM »

This might answer one of your questions?

http://werkema.com/software/tinycd.html

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General Software Discussion / Re: Software Raid with SATA Disks

« on: December 25, 2007, 09:51 AM »

Just da facts, mon!

http://search.techre...d+explained&t=11

edit by jgpaiva:fixed tinyurl link with the actual link

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General Software Discussion / Re: CD vs DVD for viewing photos on TV

« on: December 24, 2007, 02:20 PM »

This might help....

http://www.anvsoft.com/support.html

or this........

http://www.dvd-photo..._dvd_using_nero.html

otherwise I haven't got a clue.

Happy Holidays

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General Software Discussion / Re: S.O.S.....Having troubles "upgrading" from Vista to XP SP2

« on: December 23, 2007, 11:15 PM »

Sorry, I didn't post the link for SIW.
MajorGeeks............
and a great many more system info reapers

http://www.majorgeek....com/downloads9.html
 

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General Software Discussion / Re: S.O.S.....Having troubles "upgrading" from Vista to XP SP2

« on: December 23, 2007, 11:04 PM »

SIW under Hardware/Video may give you the video adapter model?

 

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General Software Discussion / New Game

« on: December 22, 2007, 01:37 PM »

I found a new game awhile back.......... freebie........... small.................. neat
and driving me apes___!

http://www.download....2111_4-10778461.html

Common sense, basic math and simple logic tell you that 47 out of 48 can be removed. My tops is 42, ONCE, and more usually 37 or 38. Playing the game may cause to me lose another marble and I'm not sure I can afford to lose even one more.
Maybe a cheat sheet???

 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Product Key Explorer

« on: December 22, 2007, 10:55 AM »

Belarc does a fine job and there are a couple more system info harvesters that came down the pike since Belarc.
Give them a shot. They are also free...........
http://www.gtopala.com/      SIW ... System Info for Windows

http://www.cpuid.com/pcwizard.php   PCWizard was just upgraded and CPuid offers other freeware that is also excellent.

Ralf's password finder looks like a real professional tool but a price tag prompts a rejection. There are other apps available for free that have managed to keep me out out of trouble for years. Magical Jelly Bean has never failed me and he an upgrade in beta that may be even better.

http://www.download....36.html?tag=pdp_prob     Magical JellyBean keyfinder

Magical Jelly Bean is at Download.com and I had to use the link above (for downloading problems) to get it. I also got the beta but haven't tried it yet.

BigJim, if you combine all the information from Belarc Advisor, SIW, and PCWizard you could write your Master's Thesis for a degree in computer science. That is, if you understand ALL that information and can explain it to me so I can understand it.

 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Monitor Rotation

« on: December 21, 2007, 10:50 AM »

When I posted this originally I was thinking more about the capability of rotating the display to accomodate a disabled person. The news is full of stories about our disabled trooops and I was curious about how much work had been done to use the features available in currently available hardware to aid the disabled?
Thirty years ago I turned a small TV set on it's side on the side of my bed to watch something. A disabled troop sure couldn't do that with a 21" portable nor with a 21" monitor.
With a monitor on a table beside the hospital bed could a patient easily rotate the display 90 degrees left or right, CW or CCW, without assistance. Is there simple software available to perform the action?

I don't have any answers and perhaps there is no need?
Henry J. Kaiser said many years ago "Find a need and fill it".
I saw the post from Entech about the display capabilities, the little trick of tipping the TV set on it's side popped into my mind. The thought process continued and I wondered if anyone had explored any of this and whether there was a need. My mind is warped! Something that moves, a box to tell it how, and a programmer to tell the box what to say seems like something waiting to happen. YMMV

I'm sorry if I confused anyone. Hopefully Kaiser filled the need already!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Any image viewers that can read .SPP? (Serif PhotoPlus)

« on: December 20, 2007, 02:30 PM »

Found this???

 by glenbarr... Member since:
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Serif only SAVES as spp. Many photoeditor programs work this way, but I'm not sure why. But you CAN convert from within PhotoPlus, in the file menu, there an EXPORT selection, that is the place that allows you convert to other formats.

(Note: the free version doesn't allow as many different conversion types as the commercial version.)
1 year ago

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General Software Discussion / Monitor Rotation

« on: December 20, 2007, 01:05 PM »

This looks like a good idea for certain applications.
Has anyone ever played around with it (other than as a prank)?

http://www.entechtai...om/util/irotate.shtm

I was given a small, 13" TV set many years ago and I use to turn that on it's side to prevent getting a stiff neck while watching it in bed.

I was thinking of bed patients. Rotating the screen, depending on their position in bed, might provide some comfort to people in that situation.

The same would be true with TV, such as in the military hospitals, but that would require rotating the entire TV set.
Food for thought, though!

 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Need help with a name for my new NANY program

« on: December 19, 2007, 08:49 PM »

My late brother and his brother-in-law were in the sign business many years ago.
He had a critiqueing system for signs proposed by customers. The system may be useful in your situation?
For example, the local fishmonger wanted a big banner type sign that he could hang in front of the store when he got a big load of fish in for sale.

He informed my brother that he wanted the sign to read:

[size=12pt][/size]FRESH FISH SOLD HERE TODAY

Bro suggested maybe they could shorten the sign some and still get the point across.
They discussed the word FRESH and decided that once you got a whiff of the fish it became obvious it wasn't fresh.

Fresh was chopped off and they looked at the word FISH. It was decided that with the rack full of ice and fish in front of the store that the word FISH was expendable.

They soon agreed that everyone in town knew it was a fish store so they dropped SOLD.

Left with HERE TODAY they readily agreed that HERE was redundant. After all, this IS the fish market!

With only TODAY left it seemed ridiculous to hang the sign. With all that stinky fish out front when else would it be for sale?

Being mutually agreed on the sign my brother bought a couple of Red Snappers and left.

Perhaps "POINTS" would suffice?

 

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General Software Discussion / Re: NovaPDF Pro Question - Can It Do Form Filling?

« on: December 19, 2007, 05:44 PM »

From Roboform......

Filling Long Forms from Identities
Quality Artificial Intelligence
RoboForm is really smart in filling in forms; it is the most precise form filler on the market. We use Artificial Intelligence techniques to achieve this kind of precision and we test RoboForm thoroughly.

Not Limited Only to Forms it Knows in Advance
RoboForm can read and fill any form, even a form that it has never seen before. This is because RoboForm does what humans do when they fill a form -- it parses the form, "understands" it and makes field filling decisions.

Multiple Identities
You can have many Identities and you can easily switch between them. Your identities do not have to be real persons. Use fake Identities -- preserve your privacy.

Contact: a Small Identity
Contact is a small Identity that usually is not offered for form filling. You can use Contacts to create your own Address Book, with folder tree structure.

Multiple Credit Cards, Addresses, even Persons in Each Identity
Every group of fields found in Identity (Credit Card, Address, Bank Account, Person) can have multiple instances. That is, you can have several credit cards, addresses and persons (usually members of one group) in one Identity.

Selective Form Filling
You can ask RoboForm to fill just a part of your form, rather than the complete form. Simply select (highlight) the fields that you want RoboForm to fill and click any form filling button -- only the selected fields will be filled.

Filling Selection and Radio Button Fields
RoboForm correctly fills selection fields presented as drop-down lists of items. Example: if you car expiration date is in February, RoboForm will select "Feb" or "February" or even "02" in the field. It handles radio buttons in a similar fashion.

Filling Partitioned Fields
RoboForm also fills out fields that are divided into several sub-fields. Example: the "Phone Number" field could be in 3 fields of 3+3+4 digits, 2 fields of 3+7 digits, or one field of 10 digits. Roboform fills out all of these correctly.

User-Defined Custom Fields
In each Identity you can have custom fields for which you specify the field caption that is used to recognize the field.

Country-Sensitive Form Filling
RoboForm can fill forms in multiple languages, not just in English. List of supported languages is available at the Translation Page.
RoboForm lets you select the country you are in, and then it customizes its form filling rules based on the traditions of your country. For instance, it knows that in the US the date format is MM/DD/YY but that in the UK it is DD/MM/YY.

Machine Translation: Just a Little Bit
You can set the selection value in one language (for example: you create your Identity with Titre "Monsieur" in French) and RoboForm will correctly fill this value in any language that it can handle. For example: it would put "Herr" into the Titel field in a German form.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Parts Manual on CD thru TV?

« on: December 19, 2007, 02:27 PM »

I may have posted this here previously but in case I didn't..........
http://www.mihov.com/eng/im.html

This is a freeware html index generator that I use frequently.
If you download a series of web pages you can index the pages with Mihov's index tool. I often compile the list and the index into an html help file (.chm)
The process Ralf discribed prior triggered this. Using the index and the back button to navigate saves coding all the links.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Parts Manual on CD thru TV?

« on: December 19, 2007, 01:36 PM »

Thanks Ralf,

The parts list is about 3mb (xls) and I haven't downloaded all the schematics and diagrams yet. I think one of those Clymer Shop Manuals for about $20 is their best bet.
The guy's boss gave him a Makita Power Plant, 5700 watts, that you can hear clear over in Napa County..........
I'm not really sure I want to aid and abet???
At about $3.80 a gal for gasoline I'm going to recommend a candle if the power goes off.
Thanks, 

Cuffy

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General Software Discussion / Parts Manual on CD thru TV?

« on: December 19, 2007, 12:35 PM »

Does anyone know off hand if I can download a parts manual, burn it to CD, so my neighbor can view it on his TV?
They don't have a computer.
TIA

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General Software Discussion / Re: Need help with a name for my new NANY program

« on: December 19, 2007, 10:30 AM »

Sounds like "Payday Power" to me.
More points, more power, more presents.
A screw-up will put you deep in debt.

   

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General Software Discussion / Re: Idea: File note

« on: December 19, 2007, 10:16 AM »

GiorgosK ,

I don't know if you followed this conversation from the beginning but it started when my copy of Filenote from Moonsoftware wouldn't work on this install of XPPro64.
NOD came up with Filenoter, which works fine, and then I got your File Notes installed correctly so it also works as planned.
The point here is that both apps work with a 64 bit OS. The last time I checked the app by MoonSoftware still wouldn't work at 64 bits. BigJim has been in contact with MoonSoftware and they plan on doing some upgrading of their products soon.
Maybe we'll get another new toy soon? I love new toys (especially free ones)!
Again, thanks to all!

Happy Holidays,

Cuffy