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I scrolled down to the comments on the article and saw that mouser has already commented.  Speedy  ;D

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Screenshot - 2_6_2012 Mon , 11_38_23 AM.png
http://www.freewareg...ght-just-be-the-one/

I echo Samer's findings.  Screenshot Captor is the best screenshot software out there.  Thanks Mouser (and congratulations for the well-deserved praise).

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Excellent find, Jaden. The reviewer picked his apps, delimited his criteria, and set about comparing them. With file managers being so different from one another, even a limited review like this one is a big task. Just ask mouser!!

I completely agree - reviewing all 15, then paring the list to 7 and choosing sensible ways to compare them is a time-consuming, thankless process.  Well, not completely thankless since we're thanking him here :)

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They forgot my favorite, cubic explorer

Actually, they looked at 15 and chose their top 7 to compare.  Cubic Explorer was one of the original 15.

After evaluating 15 freeware programs seven of them were chosen for detailed consideration. In alphabetical order these programs are: FreeCommander, Master Commander, NexusFile, Q-Dir, SE-Explorer, UltraExplorer and xplorer2 lite. The following programs were also evaluated but got a lower score than the first seven: a43, AltCommander, CubicExplorer, ExplorerXP, FileAnt, JExplorer, Pablo Commander and Snowbird.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Dropbox....without dropbox?
« on: June 06, 2011, 12:46 PM »
Hah, I just read a comment on the mini-review without realizing I'd written it.  At least I still agree with it. ;D

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General Software Discussion / Re: Dropbox....without dropbox?
« on: June 06, 2011, 12:40 PM »
I've been using the PC-to-PC sync for a while, and am very happy with it.  I actually did a mini-review a while back if you want to look for it.

Cool, thanks.  Here's the mini review for anyone else who's interested.

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In what way does it slow down?  File operations, the interface in general?  I haven't seen a slow down with FreeCommander.  Of course, with the SSD I don't notice slowness in much of anything these days, but even before the SSD upgrade it's been zippy.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Dropbox....without dropbox?
« on: June 06, 2011, 02:44 AM »
I've been using Jungle Disk for backups since 2007, but didn't realize they had anything comparable to Dropbox (i.e. offline support).  Thanks for the heads up, I'm going to take a closer look.

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An interesting review of some good options (only freeware) that might be of interest.  I was disappointed with the treatment of FreeCommander, a program I enjoy using almost too much.

http://www.freewareg...omparative-analysis/

There are several freeware file managers that address this gap in Windows’ file management functionality. We looked at 15 of these and found 7 had many of the advanced features we were looking for. This post will compare the following program across several criteria: FreeCommander, Master Commander, Nexus File, Q-Dir, SE-Explorer, UltraExplorer, and Xplorer2 Lite.

The primary criteria used for the comparison were user interface, file operations and additional features.  I will say Nexus File looks fantastic (sexy even), but I downloaded the latest version and spent a 1/2 hour playing around with it and I just don't see it coming close to replacing the firmly entrenched FreeCommander for my day-to-day needs.

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You're welcome :)  This was on Windows 7 x64, and it may well be a "feature" of Windows 7 voice recognition.  I'll report back if I find anything else (if I can get the 2yo to be less afraid of the mic).

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Any feedback from beta users?

Also: I'd love help making some additional image packs appropriate for kids.

I just tried it out with my 2 year-old son but he was too shy to say anything into the mic.  My 6 year-old was more than happy to test it in his place but there weren't any pictures of farts  :D

If it's possible, it would be helpful to enable voice recognition when VoicePics starts.  It was started but disabled so I had to click on it to start, but I couldn't see the mouse cursor.  If you can't enable it, maybe you could let users know the shortcut to enable it.

When the word was recognized, VoicePics showed 2 to 4 images but they were often the same, even on words that have a decent selection of images like birds or houses.  Some images were hard to recognize for the 2yo when they were stretched across the screen (23" monitor), but it was still cool.  Even though the 2yo refused to say any words he was excited to see the things I said when they popped up.  And he kept asking where the thing was when it wasn't recognized.

Me: watermelon
VoicePics: birds
2yo: Where is watermelon?
Me: grapes
VoicePics: house
2yo: Where is grapes?
Me: @#$%
VoicePics: duck
2yo: What was that word Dada?

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I'd be willing to help test it.  My 3 year-old would probably enjoy it and my 4 month old could be a backup if development takes a long time :)

Here are some name ideas I came up with:

SpeakNC
BabyPrattle
BabyGab
BabyTox
Babyak
PrattlePix
ChatterPix
ShowTot
MiteSight
TykeSee

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I downloaded the file without errors, but it also downloaded successfully before the new setting was in place, so it doesn't say much. ;)

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Those Hitler rants never get old  :Thmbsup:

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Living Room / Re: US rolls out Internet Identity Plan
« on: April 17, 2011, 02:21 AM »
They're treading very lightly as well.

I noticed that too.  It seems complaints about privacy have had a positive effect.  8)

...the final version contains an even stronger emphasis on NSTIC being a private-sector, voluntary undertaking. This point was stressed so many times in a background briefing call for reporters this morning that it's clear the government fears a potential backlash against its efforts.

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Living Room / US rolls out Internet Identity Plan
« on: April 15, 2011, 12:23 PM »
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/04/with-passwords-broken-us-rolls-out-internet-identity-plan.ars

Just saw this post on ARS.  This is a big issue and their solution has merit, though it's not bulletproof.  If this goes mainstream I'm sure it will be exploited, but it seems better than our current solution with hundreds of passwords.

The final version of NSTIC tries to address two problems: the fact that passwords are "broken" and the fact that it's almost impossible to prove your identity on the Internet. The future belongs to smart cards, cell phones, USB security sticks, and similar solutions—when the Department of Defense moved away from passwords to a smartcard security solution, it saw network intrusions drop by 46 percent.

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I wish them the best- but their narrowed focus unfortunately means I won't have as much of a reason to keep track of them.

I agree.  I'll still read it, but I wish they hadn't restricted their topic to browsers.  If we're lucky, the change is in name only and they'll continue writing about the same topics.

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I have talked to a few of the writers and they were notified about cuts about a week ago, but completely stunned that cuts meant the whole site. They still cannot really believe what happened and have no explanation for it, but you can be sure that they find homes somewhere else pretty soon.

Thanks for the update ghacks.  Please do let us know where they find homes.  They had great articles and I already miss reading them.

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How can any of you say anything like that~! Shame on you~! They're delivering stock holder value~!

I know your comment was tongue-in-cheek, but it made me wonder if they really are.  I'm not impressed.

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Usually that happens after mouser and Gothi[c] do some config changes to the/a server, they wait for a little time to see if 'that helped', and if it did they happily report it fixed here

That was my first thought too, but I wasn't daring enough to move into full-on wishful thinking mode  ;)

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Another vote for Quinn

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Downloadsquad (the popular tech blog with an emphasis on software) is closing down, as a consequence of the AOL/Huffington Post merge. Will anyone miss it or I am alone here?

You're definitely not alone.  I was a daily reader, and noticed there weren't (m)any posts yesterday, then saw their announcement this morning.  I spent a good 30 minutes searching for a site that covered similar topics and am trying out Wired Software and Addictive Tips.

If anyone hears where the authors are headed, please share.

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I may have just got lucky, but IE9 grabbed that file and all the others at the link f0dder posted just fine on the first shot.

I tried it again and it downloaded completely in all 3 browsers, as well as wget.

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Another data point.  The initial download of http://carrolld.dcmembers.com/minecraft/2011-04-07.png in Chrome produced a 24KB file.  In Firefox it stalled at 156KB and Opera stalled at 209KB. 

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I just tried downloading this PNG: http://carrolld.dcmembers.com/minecraft/2011-04-07.png and I saw the behavior being described (browser thought it was done, but only the top portion of the downloaded image is visible).

In our case the files were zips and were corrupted, so I'm not sure if this could be the same issue or not.  It's possible when a server-side scanner flags a file as infected it stops the download and the browser thinks it's complete.

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