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General Software Discussion / Re: Remapping F-keys (f1-f12) shortcuts

« on: October 12, 2008, 03:57 AM »

autohotkey all the way, except nice layout

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Living Room / digital photo frame & my pictures

« on: September 15, 2008, 02:28 AM »

Hello,

I bought a digital photo frame, with the following specs:

7"  16 x 9 display

Most of my pictures are shoot with a sony DSC-T100, @ 3264 x 2448

My question is what is the best way to put the pictures on my USB flash and connect it to the digital frame?

If I put them as they are they are displayed stretched and occupy unneeded space in the 1GB usb flash that I devoted to the digital frame.

For best display do I have to crop them or change pixels or photo's dimensions?

I mostly use compupic for resizing and the relevant window is like this:

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Find And Run Robot / Re: How to view more search results?

« on: August 22, 2008, 01:13 AM »

should i change +sall to +a
seems like it might be something common enough to make easier to type..

-mouser (August 21, 2008, 12:15 PM)

Please make it custom, thanks.

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General Software Discussion / Re: New version of FirstDefense-ISR

« on: July 01, 2008, 04:34 AM »

Thanks for this, I love FirstDefense, unnecessary changes for me though...

Actually I don't find any updates that make any difference for me since the version that was sold by raxco, couple of years ago. Maybe the support for vista x64

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Living Room / Re: Philips Flat TV 20"

« on: June 16, 2008, 11:31 AM »

Thanks

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Living Room / Re: Philips Flat TV 20"

« on: June 16, 2008, 05:17 AM »

I am looking for a very good office monitor (text editing, emails, browsing) and nothing else like tv and gaming.

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Living Room / Re: Philips Flat TV 20"

« on: June 16, 2008, 04:56 AM »

Oh thanks mouser, can you suggest any that will work well on an office computer (no video games), around 20-22 inches ?

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Living Room / Philips Flat TV 20"

« on: June 16, 2008, 03:54 AM »

Hello. At my work I have a crappy ViewSonic 17''

At my home I have a Philips Flat TV 20", specifications here



Please advise how this TV will stand as office computer monitor (i.e. used for creating documents, sending emails & faxes, browsing and occasionally picture editing)

Or maybe its not worth it as office monitor?

Thanks

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Suddent takes forever to open plugins window

« on: May 30, 2008, 06:55 AM »

ok thanks I found it

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Suddent takes forever to open plugins window

« on: May 30, 2008, 05:46 AM »

I cannot open the plugins folder through farr.

When I press "click here to examine and configure plugins" following window pops up:

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Find And Run Robot / Re: is it possible to search the search history ?

« on: May 28, 2008, 04:26 AM »

I would also love the feature to be able to search inside google searches. If I can do this, I say goodbay to Googlebar Lite.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Your fav' audio CD burner?

« on: May 08, 2008, 04:17 AM »

... nothing compares to Easy CD-DA Extractor, ...

-Babis (May 07, 2008, 03:30 AM)

(see attachment in previous post)
http://www.poikosoft.com/index.html

It sounds really good, this finnish Audio CD Ripper, Audio Converter, and CD/DVD Creator
- but somehow I get the feeling it is a bit ... I don't know ... "nerdish"??
How easy is it to use? 

Forgive me for using the same words about the German cdr front-end.
It doesn't say anything about saving meta data and cover art??

-Curt (May 07, 2008, 08:47 AM)

Hello Curt, I am not so sure what you mean by nerdish but for me the interface is clean and usable.
As a program it is extremely easy to use, there are 3 tabs:

Audio CD Ripper -  Audio Converter - CD/DVD creator.

I use only the last two. The audio converter supports all the audio formats that I know and has options for normalization, volume adjust, metadata and additional metadata. The CD/DVD Creator tab has 4 tabs:

Audio CD - MP3 CD/DVD - Data CD/DVD - DVD Video.

From these tabs I use only the 1st, as for the 3 others I prefer imgburn.
The Audio CD tab supports drag n drop of all formats and on the fly conversion of any format to wav before burning and some minor features like CD-Text, Gap Length etc.

In general for burning and converting audio files from one format to another it is excellent; as for Ampa's reply, imgburn does not convert audio files (so you have to have a different converter) and cannot change CD text, metadata, set gaps and some others.

Finally as a Audio CD Ripper, I think EAC does better job (more complicated though)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Your fav' audio CD burner?

« on: May 07, 2008, 03:30 AM »

Hello, I have changed tens of software in my computer life, in order to conclude to the one that fits my needs.

In case of burning/converting audio CDs nothing compares to Easy CD-DA Extractor, its like the imgburn of audio CDs

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General Software Discussion / Re: converting divx to dvd?

« on: May 05, 2008, 03:08 AM »

The simplest one I've ever tried has to be VSO's ConvertXtoDVD. Not freeware though. Another option is Nero 7, and even though I think it's a bit bloated it is really easy to use.

-Dirhael (June 17, 2007, 03:31 PM)

If you are not into any complex video tasks, there is no better than convertxtodvd (at least compared to winavi, TMPGenc and couple of other minors that I have tried). There is a trial version (which includes watermark).

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General Software Discussion / Re: Is Firefox 3.0 the "Fat Elvis?"

« on: April 15, 2008, 02:23 PM »

One of the big problems in all Windows systems is that EVERYTHING gets slower over time - even when you make the effort to keep your house clean and tidy. The only reason I can think this might happen is the registry as you can clean off all crap from your system and defragment, clear out unused apps etc. but after a while it just doesn't seem to make any difference.

-Carol Haynes (April 15, 2008, 04:14 AM)

That's the reason I use FirstDefense-ISR. I create an initial snapshot after a clean installation with windows fully updated at that time and only basic apps (without MS Office, AntiVirus, Firewalls, Image processing etc) and at any time I reboot to clean Windows, to start messing with registry and software installations again.

Now as for firefox it is definitely possible to do a clean installation at any time. The delay at launch is definitely due to some add-ons and you can test it by running a clean profile. High memory utilization add-ons include these that remember closed tabs, like Tab Mix Plus, but these add-ons are making firefox so customizable and my first choice.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: AceText - text & clipboard manager (for coders, writers, etc.)

« on: April 02, 2008, 02:13 AM »

Thanks for the review, I tried acetext for 3 days and I am really impressed. I have a couple of questions though:

- can I make "live spell check" to work on capitalized words?

- can I make it to beep or make whatever sound when a clip is copied to the clipboard, in order to be sure that the clip has been copied?

- about search: every time I close and reopen acetext, the search options are reset and I have to mark the checkboxes "all clips in all collections" etc. Is this for real, that I have to set the search options every time I launch the program?

Other than that, it is really excellent with great interface and shortcuts with way faster response than clipmate.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Keyboard Shortcuts for Quick Filter and Clear Quick Filter

« on: March 27, 2008, 03:21 AM »

Search is maybe the most important feature on a clipboard manager with hundreds of clips saved.

I would like a hotkey for filter (search) and then jump to matching results by TAB and paste the highlighted result by pressing ENTER to the last active application.

Thanks.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is the currently best Desktop Search software?

« on: March 10, 2008, 06:27 AM »

Hello and sorry for late response.

- not as quick as archivarius, copernic or X1

-Armando (March 09, 2008, 06:59 PM)

- a bit more difficult to find what I was looking for -- - couldn't enter search queries as quickly

I doubt it. Consider that it finds as you type – it can’t be faster than that, just type anything you want and from the second letter it displays results

- not as accurate

Why? Here are the some on the fly search options, that making searching personalized and easier:

- Index was taking a lot of space

Not if you exclude binary files from the options

- RAM hungry

RAM hungry? Exactly the opposite is the reason that I am using it. Just schedule updates (which are executed through Windows’ Scheduled tasks, usually in high speed if you exclude binary files, as above and if its not the initial index . No hidden processes, actually when you don’t use the program there is not even a single process running on the PC

A feature that I would like to be added is to be able to exclude certain file types from one index and to include them in another index (like copernic’s). For example I want to exclude pdf files from one index only (out of many indexes). I am not able to do it – as filtering options are universal and apply to all indexes.

Try the latest beta and you won't be disappointed.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: [GER/ENG] CLCL Clipboardmanager Forum

« on: February 28, 2008, 02:36 AM »

I tried CLCL but I can't find a search option. How can I search for a word if I have 100 clips

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General Software Discussion / Re: Why is it so hard to find a decent image organizer?

« on: February 26, 2008, 05:54 AM »

I know it has been discontinued but in case he may find a copy, his sister will find exactly what she's looking for.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Why is it so hard to find a decent image organizer?

« on: February 26, 2008, 05:01 AM »

Can anyone help me find a program to recommend to my sister?

Unfortunately, I'm not that familiar with image organizers.  I use ACDSee just for photo browsing, but I've never tried organizing anything beyond the regular directory structure.  My sister's needs are very simple and she's not a poweruser on the computer, so all of this exif stuff and powerful featureset is not for her.  Her needs are the following:
--transfer files from the camera to the computer
--organize the pictures in a user-friendly way.  Tags, albums, whatever, as long as it has a good interface and easy to use.
--Easily prepare a selected group of photos or albums to be printed by either putting them on a cd or something, or using an online service.

I know a regular file manager will do most of this, but I'm afraid even the file manager method would be too complicated for her needs.

I'm thinking she might like ExifPro, it's cheap and looks good.  Maybe Picasa?  I used Picasa recently and thought it was kind of klunky and weird, with a smooth interface (but I didn't think it was all that easy to use...just a little weird).  ACDSee has album organizing features (that I've never used), but it seems simple enough like just click pictures to include in albums, but there probably is something better.  Photo Collector looks kind of like something she would like.

-superboyac (February 25, 2008, 06:15 PM)

Microsoft Digital Image Suite Library

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General Software Discussion / Re: Easy photo editor

« on: January 20, 2008, 06:58 AM »

nice 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Easy photo editor

« on: January 15, 2008, 11:30 AM »

A quick update: I tried everything listed above in a snapshot of FirstDefense-ISR (except FastStone's maxview which I have set as default viewer long time ago - only thing I don't like is when I zoom-in it starts zooming from the center of the picture and not from where my cursor is, so I have to move the picture afterwards, if you know what I mean)

I must say I am impress with paint.net, I mean so small and so effective!!! I am facing some difficulties presently, like the clone tool seems not smooth at all and I miss some things from PictureIt!, like edge finder, blender etc, I will install it and on my default snapshot.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Easy photo editor

« on: January 15, 2008, 06:00 AM »

thanks

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General Software Discussion / Easy photo editor

« on: January 15, 2008, 04:58 AM »

Hello. I was using "Microsoft Digital Image Pro" for many years, which mainly consisted from latest version of PictureIt! and a nice photo gallery. Now the product has been discontinued for more than a year and many of its features are included in some vista versions.

I am looking for a similar simple but powerful photo editor for basic digital image tasks, like crop, resize, change hue, saturation, fix red eye etc

The program that I am looking for should be easy and not to have to go through books to learn even the basic functions, so it has to be other than photoshop/paint shop pro.

I am currently trialling Ulead's Photoimpact, but I am looking for others, thanks for any suggestions