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General Software Discussion / Re: EMDB: Eric's Movie Database

« on: June 08, 2012, 11:52 AM »

That's why I chose Movienizer. It's a multifunctional freeware.

-Umbrella (October 27, 2009, 08:26 AM)

It's not freeware in any way, shape or form:

-4wd (June 06, 2012, 07:36 PM)

Notice that the post is 2 years old, something may have changed in the meantime

-jgpaiva (June 08, 2012, 09:03 AM)

Good catch!

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Living Room / Re: If you are a LinkedIn/Last.FM/eHarmony user, then change your password pronto.

« on: June 08, 2012, 07:35 AM »

How many will admit having an eHarmony account?  

-rgdot (June 08, 2012, 06:26 AM)

That's unnecessarily unkind.    

-IainB (June 08, 2012, 07:33 AM)

Maybe they can add having the same password to their matchmaking criteria.

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Living Room / Re: If you are a LinkedIn user, then change your password pronto.

« on: June 07, 2012, 06:05 PM »

The leakedin website lets you type in your password, and it will check to see if it has been leaked by linkedin. I say don't type your passwords into any other website than the one it belongs to.

-justice (June 07, 2012, 04:40 PM)

When I read your earlier message, I thought your parenthetical "(leakedin)" was referring to LinkedIn, since your message came not long after IainB's humorous remark about LinkedIn changing its name to LeakedIn.   Now I see I was mistaken.  I totally agree with your advice about not typing a password into sites other than the one it belongs to.  Though LeakedIn is probably legitimate, there's always the possibility that it or a similar site may really be intent on gathering people's passwords, passwords typed in without even the protection that serious encryption offers.

-cyberdiva (June 07, 2012, 05:50 PM)

I took it that way, too. but this reminded me of one of my longtime annoyances with LinkedIn. It asks for your email login at the top of the page. At least once, I have mistaken this for an indication that I was not logged into LinkedIn and logged in with my email password by mistake. I'm not sure, maybe it used to have the password field right on the page instead of the Continue button.

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Living Room / Re: If you are a LinkedIn user, then change your password pronto.

« on: June 07, 2012, 08:48 AM »

To my knowledge, this is the second time something like this has happened at LinkedIn. The last time was on 2010-12-14, when LinkedIn emailed members telling them to change their passwords.

-IainB (June 06, 2012, 05:02 PM)

IIRC, the first time was due to a gawker.com breach, and they were advising that as a precaution in case the same password was used on their site.

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General Software Discussion / Re: EMDB: Eric's Movie Database

« on: June 07, 2012, 07:46 AM »

Currently I use CATVids, from the developer of SoftCAT, BookCAT, etc. Not as flashy but the data is infinitely more customizable. Plus it searches more than just their own database, like IMDB and Amazon for example. Much better reports available from DVDProfiler though I admit.

Sorry for any spelling or formatting errors; I'm posting from this damn iPad again (POS IMO!)

Thanks,

Jim

-J-Mac (June 07, 2012, 06:52 AM)

Thanks for the CATVids tip. I may have to check that one out. Yeah, I remember something like that from DVDProfiler too - a real design flaw, they should not try to be IMDB Jr. have one canonical movie record for everyone - most of the data gets downloaded from somewhere else anyway. I think they also require a barcode for any submissions, which is irrelevant to me, especially I don't use this type of software as collection inventory, I use it mainly to keep movies I (or someone in my family) want to see. (But I am weird that way, I am working on a PVD mini-review but I am going to need to have a long list of biases up front.)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Wall off section of screen

« on: June 07, 2012, 07:38 AM »

Sounds like you're looking for DesktopCoral.

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General Software Discussion / Re: EMDB: Eric's Movie Database

« on: June 06, 2012, 11:16 PM »

What's always amused me about EMDB is that you are only allowed to have movies in languages hard-coded into the program. which you can see in the animated second screenshot when it gets to "Default settings". That list used to be a lot smaller, and I complained about it somewhere but I can't find my complaint now, so now it is a bigger list, but hard-coded just the same.

You can see the same kind of thinking in the Custom values section where you are allowed to have two custom genres. So if you thought you could repurpose genres to compensate for lack of custom fields, you're out of luck.

I agree Personal Video Database is the only sane choice, for different reasons that I am too lazy to enumerate right now and spite of its having the ugliest incarnation of the ribbon UI you have ever seen (I am using the version 1 beta you can get from the forums). Will elaborate later, it is pretty late here now.

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Living Room / Re: The universe is geometrically flat?

« on: June 05, 2012, 07:43 AM »

Here you go  - it's described in NASA's: Universe 101
Time to change paradigms...

-IainB (June 05, 2012, 07:11 AM)

Is it saying the third dimension exists but it is so disproportionately small, it may as well be flat?

My non-scientific mind finds this consistent with the universe having been pressed into a shape by a giant cookie cutter, handy if you are creating several.

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Python / Re: Unicode string works in web based Python shell but not on desktop?

« on: June 02, 2012, 02:11 PM »

Found the fix and it works.
I notice the indentation is screwed up in stackoverflow -- I put the encoding = 'utf-8' line in line with the try and except preceding it.
This seems to have something to do with the Windows default encoding for stdout not being UTF-8.

Code: Python [Select]

1. encoding = "ascii"
2. if sys.platform == 'win32':
3.     # On Windows, we could use "mbcs". However, to give the user
4.     # a portable encoding name, we need to find the code page
5.     try:
6.         encoding = locale.getdefaultlocale()[1]
7.         codecs.lookup(encoding)
8.     except LookupError:
9.         pass
10.     encoding = 'utf-8'

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General Software Discussion / Re: Locate32

« on: June 02, 2012, 12:22 PM »

But what if I want only the program icon to appear in the system tray and no window should appear?

-Nzyme (June 02, 2012, 09:32 AM)

Because of your question, I double checked my shortcut because no window appears for me. But I noticed that if locate32 is already running, and I double click on the shortcut, the window appears even if I have /S (silent) specified. So make sure you don't have an extra shortcut or autorun entry somewhere.

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Python / Unicode string works in web based Python shell but not on desktop?

« on: June 02, 2012, 12:07 PM »

Any idea why I can create a Unicode string in the Python shell on a Silverlight-based Python on the web but not in IDLE or any other Python shell on my desktop? I am using Google IME to type in both cases.

 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Software Charity?

« on: May 29, 2012, 12:16 PM »

First thought, not knowing what type of software you mean, are there charities that will instantly realize they need your software or is this a bit of a "coincidence of wants" problem? You may need to spend some time talking to a favorite charity to either do a little "marketing" (even though..) or find out what they need and then write new software accordingly that they and similar charities can use.

Not that I have any expertise in this area, I'm just trying to flesh out the question a little more.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: AllMyNotes Deluxe latest version today on GOTD

« on: May 25, 2012, 05:52 PM »

It supports Unicode. Free for personal version and

You can also purchase the title at a greatly discounted price of $9.97 by clicking here. The paid version can be used commercially, and includes support/free upgrades. The free version cannot be used commercially, does not have support, and has paid upgrades.

Something I don't see often enough when looking at desktop notes programs: a glimmer of hope for a mobile version, a big plus for me if it ever happens, because at the times that I have owned a mobile device, the point of a notes program became to be able to take notes that are present wherever you go:

Yet we don't have Android version, right now we are finishing sync between .ddb files (version 3 beta), once it will be done we'll start working on mobile version. By the way, you are welcome to vote for Android here - http://www.vladonai.com/f...r-t24.html

So go vote for Android, too, even though it is already winning by a landslide!

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Python / Re: Book: Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python

« on: May 24, 2012, 10:09 AM »

edit: sorry, i didnt notice about this is in the python subforum, i just wanted to show some tool for kid learning

-flamerz (May 24, 2012, 09:45 AM)

No problem, but you're right, a link for a BASIC IDE could easily get lost in the Python forums, I suggest starting a new thread here so no one misses this nice link!

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Python / Re: Book: Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python

« on: May 24, 2012, 09:10 AM »

I know this is an old thread but that book looks awesome, even for non-10 year olds, and now there's a sequel that delves more into pygame. Being able to dive right into small real-world applications is a great motivator.

I was considering using this book myself except that it is using Python 3 which is not the  "status quo" yet according to python.org, and Python 2 seems to be used for any program I've seen that uses Python as its scripting language (Calibre, Plex, etc.). However that should give the book some nice longevity.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Write text over the wallpaper

« on: May 22, 2012, 08:39 PM »

I think maybe BGInfo lets you display the content of a text file.  
Maybe make an Autohotkey script to open the text file, then update BGInfo when the window is closed...  (?)

-kunkel321 (May 20, 2012, 10:19 PM)

Nice idea indeed.
 

-Contro (May 21, 2012, 01:34 PM)

What I used to do when I used BGInfo was create a shortcut to a batch file that would first open up the text file for editing and then run the command to update the wallpaper (maybe it was bginfo /timer:0, I am not sure). So when I saved the text file and exited it, it then updated the wallpaper with the new contents of the text file.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows Aero (transparent window borders, etc.) is dead.. Good riddance

« on: May 22, 2012, 06:39 PM »

I also like XP's "Fisherprice" theme

-Deozaan (May 22, 2012, 05:20 PM)

Oh, I hate that blue and orange menace! The first thing I always did was change it to "classic" mode.

-daddydave (May 22, 2012, 05:23 PM)

Orange?

I only remember it being blue, except the red X button of course. And since blue is my favorite color... I like it. 

-Deozaan (May 22, 2012, 05:40 PM)

I stand corrected. I had a memory of the red X button being orange, but I guess it was just the gloss on the red making it a little lighter.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows Aero (transparent window borders, etc.) is dead.. Good riddance

« on: May 22, 2012, 05:23 PM »

I also like XP's "Fisherprice" theme

-Deozaan (May 22, 2012, 05:20 PM)

Oh, I hate that blue and orange menace! The first thing I always did was change it to "classic" mode.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows Aero (transparent window borders, etc.) is dead.. Good riddance

« on: May 22, 2012, 05:13 PM »

I guess Aero was pretty slow on 10-year old PCs that originally came with Windows XP. I'm sure those square boxes in Windows 8 will be an improvement. I guess Tandy was right:

Tandy DeskMate, circa 1980's (don't be fooled by the 2009 date in the screenshot)

from Wikipedia

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General Software Discussion / Re: Locate32

« on: May 22, 2012, 04:56 AM »

I have had Locate32 launch at startup but the problem is that when I login, the program interface also opens up. How do I have this minimized on startup?

-Nzyme (May 22, 2012, 12:27 AM)

Go to the properties of your shortcut and add a space and then /S after locate32.exe in the target.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Parameters Control Diary

« on: May 19, 2012, 10:06 AM »

I'm not really sure what you're after, but have you looked at Points Motivator?

Trying it myself, and the Delete This Entry / Modify This Entry context menus don't seem to work. Even if I create a new blank file, it still shows the default items. But maybe that is just me. If so I wil start another thread.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Kiss Your Browser Goodbye - Windows 8 to BAN Firefox and Chrome

« on: May 16, 2012, 07:33 AM »

I love the way the teaser headline contradicts the article, extremely typical these days. In the future there will be no articles, only teaser headlines. That's the only part people remember when they retell the story anyway (present company excepted, of course).

A more accurate headline would be "There's still not an ARM version of Firefox, if anyone cares"

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General Software Discussion / Re: Trying to make Firefox awesome bar slightly awesomer

« on: May 16, 2012, 07:15 AM »

I should probably use the TagSieve sidebar for this, I usually don't use it. It would interesting to see how involved it would be to change the Awesomebar behavior, though.

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General Software Discussion / Trying to make Firefox awesome bar slightly awesomer

« on: May 15, 2012, 10:55 PM »

OK, the + symbol in the Firefox awesome bar is magic. It causes autocomplete to match only bookmarks with tags (which, since using XMarks and importing my delicious.com bookmarks, tends to be all of them).



Notice from the screenshot that in spite of the +, not everything that comes up is tagged abc: it finds abc in the title as well, hence the Nerd ABC's and ABC News links which are tagged something besides abc.

Does anyone know a way to make Firefox match tagged items ONLY by searching the tag, and not the title?

(btw, in preparing this screenshot, I noticed that abc matches "labcast" as well, but I am less concerned about that)

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: AppendDate

« on: May 11, 2012, 02:17 PM »

Oh, and 'separator' only has 1 e, but 2 a's

-Ath (May 11, 2012, 01:25 PM)

I had to double check that one - probably been misspelling it for years...

-tomos (May 11, 2012, 02:01 PM)

My memory of hearing that separator has "a rat" in it has outlasted my memory of the name of the teacher who taught me that.