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DC Website Help and Extras / Delete as well as Modify Button for own post?

« on: March 29, 2011, 03:57 AM »

I think I posted in the wrong thread a year ago but since my post is in the chain, every time someone replies to that thread it shows up in "new replies to your posts" section.

It would be nice if after I realized I lame posted I could just obliterate it myself instead of calling attention to it.  Is it possible/desirable?

Also I think it a generally useful feature. Not just for the particular instance I noted.

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General Software Discussion / Chrome/Chromium has Firefox "deskCut" functionality built in!

« on: March 08, 2011, 04:57 PM »

I was looking around for an extension for Chromium that would perform as Firefox deskCut AddOn.  I ran across this article while searching.  Turns out the functionality is built in!! That's cheating!! Way too easy!!!

I'm running Chromium 11.0.686.0 and instead of a Star on the left of the Address Bar as shown in the article, it has some round thingy.  I can't tell if it's supposed to be a smiling face or a soccer ball or what, but it works.  Highlight url in the Address Bar then drag the ball onto the desktop. You get a Chrome/Chromium icon shortcut that browses to that page when double-clicked.

http://www.tothepc.c...chrome-by-drag-drop/

edit: I've tried this in Windows7. Judging by comments for the article, it may not work on Mac or Linux.

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General Software Discussion / FreeCommander Preview

« on: March 07, 2011, 03:23 PM »

A preview(beta) of the new FreeCommander file manager is now available for download:

http://www.freecomma...r.com/fc_beta_en.htm


Previously only donators were given a peek. There's a portable zip so I'm going to check out how it feels.

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Living Room / Mirageman : Brilliant Flick

« on: March 06, 2011, 03:39 PM »

Mirageman

When I first watched this film over a year ago, my reaction was mixed.  Having viewed it again the other day I enjoyed it much more. It took a second viewing for the brilliance to sink in.

It's the best example of the "regular guy becomes superhero" genre I've seen.
Lots of laughs.  The actor who played the lead, Marco Zaror, choreographed the fight scenes.

Even though I saw this film before, I was laughing loud and often. The toughest part of being a superhero, assuming you are already a karate master who can kick ass, seems to be getting the costume right.  This flick has the funniest take on it I remember. It also puts a perverted twist on many of the Hollywood clichés found in action flicks.


It was filmed in Chile.  Spanish with English Subs.

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General Software Discussion / Prep USB key to be bootable using diskpart : Vista/W7

« on: March 01, 2011, 05:06 PM »

Here's a pretty succinct article how to prep a USB key boot disk using diskpart:
http://www.techsuppo...ta7-command-line.htm

For wiping a drive and creating a single partition diskpart can be a lot faster than using a general purpose formatting program Gui.

The article shows the diskpart prep sequence.  The remaining step is to put a bootable image on.  Once the USB key is prepped it's usually a matter of xcopying the bootable files on with the correct switches.

The diskpart prep is very fast.  The time consuming task is the format.  I recommend using the standard format rather than quick esp. if the USB key is being changed from FAT32 to NTFS or vice versa.  Better to have the entire capacity written in the format to avoid stuff grinding to a halt when you actually use it.

I mentioned this sequence a few times.  Looking though Gizmo's site today I noticed this article. I was happy to see it didn't omit the clean step in the sequence.

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Living Room / Too much free time apparently :)

« on: February 08, 2011, 09:10 PM »

I just noticed I have over 2000 posts on this board. I have too much free time apparently.

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Living Room / USB 3.0 stick - anyone taken the plunge?

« on: February 08, 2011, 06:03 PM »

Some USB sticks are showing up as USB 3.0. I'm just curious if anyone has sprung for one. If/how you liked it etc..

The prices seem to be dropping into the somewhat reasonable range. If over $50 can ever be reasonable for a key chain gadget.

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Find And Run Robot / No EditBox

« on: December 11, 2010, 03:16 PM »

This happened a few months ago, but I can't remember how I fixed it.  All of a sudden I hit Pause key to open FARR.  No editbox or icons to click to get options. I can't find any options in settings accessed from the tray icon that look like they would turn it on or off.  I just tried reinstall.  Same thing.

I'm running 2.90.02 on Vista64.

The same release is on Win7 32 bit and is still working normally.
Could be I double-clicked another tray icon and hit something by mistake. But I can't find what that might be.

Searched here but editxxx is too common a term to get a hit that isn't 3 years old.

Aiyy. Hit something else. Now all I have is a gray rectangle when it comes up.

Edit just installed latest beta on top.  No joy.

Edit2: completely uninstalled, deleted folder, installed latest beta.  Same deal. No edit box.

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Finished Programs / DONE: Time Calculator that accepts a column paste of mm:ss

« on: December 07, 2010, 07:39 PM »

I'm looking for an easy way to total the track times of albums listed on AllMusic.com.

The track times are on the right using mm:ss format as in 7:55
but I don't see a way to column select with chromium.

The only time calculator that comes close is the old AddTime.
But it only accepts either '.' or ',' as the separator.  So I have to block select in Chromium, paste into an editor that does right justify paragraph, line up the numbers by padding with zeros manually, column select and copy to clipboard, then AddTime will allow pasting.

Ideally something would read the clipboard, get the times from the end of each line, do the math, and pop up a total.  The display of the total can be a simple MsgBox. I don't care about being able to copy and paste the result.  One total time is no hassle to type.  But if a nicer display is more pleasing to the author that's fine with me.

Perhaps an .ini file with an option for minutes/seconds separator would make it more generally useful.  But I think most music sites give the times as MM:SS.

AddTime lets you enter using the number keypad but if there's more than 4 or 5 tracks it can be tedious.

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Post New Requests Here / Idea: Chromium or general-purpose favicon fetcher

« on: December 05, 2010, 12:34 PM »

I'm running Chromium.  Right now the "fix" for losing favicons in bookmarks is to open all bookmarks in each folder on my bookmarks bar.  It launches a ton of processes.  I haven't found a bookmark validation extension for Chrome/Chromium that refreshes the favicons.

What I'd like is a program that sifts through the bookmarks and refreshes the favicons. People say just use normally and they will eventually refresh.  But before then an update is likely to plunk it back to square one.  So a push-button fix would be handy. It doesn't have to be particularly fast.  Low on resources would be even better.

If anyone knows of an extension that already does this that works in Chromium that would be great too.

For Firefox, CheckPlaces does the job. I made a suggestion for Bookmark Sentry extension to add this feature but no one commented. I assume it's never going to happen.

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General Software Discussion / Free Windows command line converter for text based subtitles

« on: November 27, 2010, 04:27 PM »

http://sourceforge.net/projects/saconv/

There seems to be some .NET dependency but it's not specified.  It runs fine for me in Vista64 and Windows Seven 32 bit command lines.

If you download the source it has a handy batch file you can use to convert subs in a folder to .srt.  It supports quite a few text sub formats.  The documentation is practically zero. Run with no args on command line to get help text.

It's for those occasions when you have more than a few subtitle files to process so that manually loading in a Gui and saving would be tedious.

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General Software Discussion / HmsTimes 1.0.0.1

« on: November 23, 2010, 07:41 PM »

HmsTimes 1.0

Reads xml chapters file.  Writes text file in HH:MM:SS format.

If you use DVDAuthorGui DVD authoring program, you may find this program useful.
It reads an xml chapter file such as you get when you extract the chapters from an .mkv file. It writes a text file of the same name but with .txt extension.  The text file is just chapter start times in HH:MM:SS format as used by DVDAuthorGui.

For years I have been pasting in the DVDAuthorGui chapters dialog from a file I made with times at 5 minute intervals.  Since MakeMKV produces an .mkv with the chapter info I though it would be desirable to have the chapters the same as the original.

I've only tried it on a couple of rips but it worked flawlessly on both.
It's a compiled AutoIt3 program. It should run on Windows XP and later.

It's free for you to use at your own risk. You may download from this link:

http://www.favessoft.com/downloads.html

Just search on HmsTimes.

The included Readme.txt has a link for donations as well as sample output.

To extract the .mkv chapters to xml I recommend MKVExtractGUI-2.

Edit: A minor update.  If no chapter time tags were detecting in the input
file, an error dialog is shown.

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General Software Discussion / Scite loses caption bar in Windows Seven?

« on: November 07, 2010, 05:50 PM »

Don't know what happened. I was using Scite4AutoIt3 and commented a block.  The editor went full screen with no caption bar. I copied the entire scite folder from AutoIt3 install from another machine where it's working properly. No joy. Uninstall/reinstall no getting it back. I assume it's got some stupid setting in the registry to take up all the desktop.  Anyone know how to get it so I can resize it again? Hitting F11 only covers and uncovers the TaskBar.

Man what a waste of time! I've been screwing with this for 2 hours now.

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Post New Requests Here / Idea: Toggle Windows Mouse single/double click to open in Explorer

« on: November 03, 2010, 02:13 PM »

I've changed from the default double-click to single-click for opening items in Explorer.  The bad side-effect is that holding down shift and clicking doesn't select a row of stuff anymore. You have to deal with individual check marks.

What I'd like to see is a quick toggle, perhaps with a selectable hotkey, that changes between single and double click mode.  So I can toggle to double-click mode, select a bunch of items using Shift click etc.., then when done, toggle back to Single-click mode.

Could be the best of both worlds.  I know where the setting is in the Explorer menus but I don't know the registry keys that control it to attempt it myself.

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General Software Discussion / Windows Shortcut Key Article

« on: November 01, 2010, 02:46 PM »

I found this of interest because on occasions when I tried using a hotkey with a Windows shortcut, it seemed inconsistent. I gave up on it.  The article explains the locations where the shortcut key will work.

It may save running a hotkey just to launch a program esp. if you can stand the shortcut being in the All Programs list.  Unfortunately it seems to favor the desktop. I've cleaned all icons off my desktop and have no desire to put them back.  Anyway, it may clarify some things for those frustrated with the shortcut key mechanism:

http://www.techsuppo...cation-or-folder.htm

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General Software Discussion / Transpose 2.3.2.3

« on: October 29, 2010, 03:10 PM »

I wrote an AHK hotkey awhile back to Transpose the 2 characters left of the caret in some editors and browsers.  I added a couple of Mouse hotkeys for Chrome-based browsers.

The compiled program is available for download:

http://www.favessoft.com/hotkeys.html

Program source and icon are included.  See the Readme.txt for info how to add editors and browsers to the supported apps in the AHK source.

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General Software Discussion / Anyone tried WinPatrol "Cloud" and is there a way to disable the remote bits?

« on: October 26, 2010, 01:26 PM »

I notice WinPatrol has been updated.  But it seems this "cloud" business is built into the new version.  Has anyone taken the plunge?  I don't particularly like stats gathering being sent off to servers.  But it does seem to have some bug fixes for x64.  So I'd like to know if I can update then kill the "cloud" portion?

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General Software Discussion / SrtStrip 1.3.4.0

« on: October 15, 2010, 01:47 PM »

Someone on another board requested a program to strip those Italic and other angle bracket tags from .srt subtitle files(e.g. <i>some dialog between</i>)

http://www.favessoft.com/downloads.html

SrtStrip 1.0

It's command line based. It's only designed to remove those one character
open and close tags(e.g. <x> and </x>.)

See the Readme.txt for particulars.

There are other ways to remove the tags, such as using an editor, but the person requesting the command line app had several hundreds or even thousands of sub files and loading one at a time would be a chore.  With this utility, you can process all the .srt files in a folder by opening a command prompt in that folder and running this command line:

for %s in (*.srt) do SrtStrip %s

for each filename.srt you'll get an output file named filename.srt.strip

Since every now and then I run into subs where the italic tags just show on screen
I thought I'd knock it off.

I tried using sed but to get that Linux streaming edit stuff to work on Windows you really need to set up bash or another shell.  Otherwise it takes longer to figure out how to work around the incompatibilities than to just program it from scratch. For a one-off it's not worth it.

Anyway, for what it does, it seems to work pretty well. It's just rudimentary. No real error checking.  It checks to see if the output file already exists in the current folder, and if so, deletes it before processing the input.

edit: since it's command line based, no gui for screen shot, but here's the program icon.

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General Software Discussion / Splash Lite 1.60

« on: October 12, 2010, 02:57 PM »

http://mirillis.com/...products/splash.html

I would really love this player if they would include PGS subtitle support.

The main thing distinguishing it from many other players is the ability to seek in .mkv video with impunity.  I don't know how many players just go away when I move the slider while watching an .mkv file.

It would really put this on top if they supported more than text subtitles.
I harass them periodically on their forum, along with a few other users, but to no apparent effect.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Verbatim DVD+r 16x DVD5 blanks $18.99/100

« on: October 08, 2010, 12:24 AM »

http://www.newegg.co...17-507-003-_-Product

pretty righteous if you qualify for the free shipping.

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General Software Discussion / MD5Hash 2.9

« on: September 22, 2010, 07:00 PM »

MD5Hash 1.0 is an x64 only Dialog app to create MD5Sum for files.

I developed it on Vista Home Premium SP1 64 bit.

You may download from this page:
http://www.favessoft.com/downloads.html


Drag & drop one or more files on the dialog.
Or, to process an individual file, type in the
filename or use the Browse Button, then press
OK.

Cancel closes the app, or if it is busy processing, will
prompt to abort the operations.

See the included Readme for particulars.  But, basically,
it's stand-alone. You may just copy to a directory in your
path as it makes no registry settings or .ini files.

It's not the fastest checksum app out there. On my quad core
Core Temp shows about 50% to 60% core usage out of a possible
400%.  But it's faster than my old FileCRC32 without bogging down
your machine.

(thanks to Elmue on Code Project for the md5 c++ algorithm
http://www.codeproje...curity/cryptest.aspx)

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General Software Discussion / ErrMsg 1.3

« on: September 18, 2010, 03:46 PM »

ErrMsg 1.2  ErrMsg has been reworked to use an EditBox.  Now the error text may be copied/pasted using the clipboard.  Also it has been recompiled to remove the MSVCR100.DLL dependency.

It's only been tested on English systems and only returns Windows system error messages. It is free for you to use at your own risk.  You may download here:

http://www.favessoft.com/downloads.html

Also Softpedia should update the listing to 1.2 soon.

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Developer's Corner / vs2008 express vc++ has anyone gotten RegisterHotKey to use mouse?

« on: September 11, 2010, 02:33 AM »

I know AutoIt3 is written in C++ and it doesn't accommodate mouse hotkeys the way ahk does. I'm wondering if the reason is that vc++ RegisterHotKey doesn't, if you use any mouse virtual keys. At least I couldn't get one to work with an hour of effort.  The keyboard keys work fine with WinKey or Alt or whatever.  But any mouse key, VK_LBUTTON or whatever, even if the RegisterHotKey call succeeds, press the hotkey and you get nadda.

Is there a secret or is it just broken?

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Found Deals and Discounts / Verbatim DVD+r 16x DVD5 blanks $19.99/100

« on: September 02, 2010, 07:27 PM »

http://www.newegg.co...17-507-003-_-Product

I've had good luck with these on both my burners. Not ink jet hub printable but I just use a Sharpie anyway.

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General Software Discussion / Control Click for Chrome

« on: August 30, 2010, 12:14 AM »

It was bugging me that middle clicking a link in Chrome opened in a new tab behind the other tabs.  I found out the standard combination to open in a new foreground tab is Control-Shift-Left Click on the link.  I don't like holding down 2 keys as it's just awkward.  I made this ahk to do the job on middle mouse click.  Thought someone else may find it handy. You can even use it with Speed-dial. The dial you middle click will open in a new tab in foreground instead of replacing the Speed-dial page:

[Select]

SendMode Input

#IfWinActive, ahk_class Chrome_WidgetWin_0
^LButton::
  Send, ^+{LButton}
Return

edit: since posting it's become evident this interferes with mouse middle click drag to scroll in the browser.  I just changed the hotkey to ^LButton.  At least I don't have to hold down 2 keys while clicking.