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General Software Discussion / Re: Help with finding accurate software.

« on: September 20, 2007, 12:52 PM »

MemPad seems like it fits your requirements; it's basically a text based hierarchical tree outliner.
http://home.mnet-onl...e/horst.muc/wmem.htm

I have it minimized on startup on my system tray and if I want to save a URL or copy/paste text to save for later review it's there at an instance.  Small program size, portable, can use windows encryption, search capabilities, auto save, etc.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Recommendations for project/schedule management software (besides MS Project)?

« on: September 15, 2007, 12:47 PM »

To add to the project management software list:

OpenProj - free, open-source desktop project management software for MS Windows, Linux, Unix, or Mac.
Capable of opening MS Project files.  Similar features as MS Project.
http://www.openproj.org/openproj

GanttPV - open-source project scheduling software for MS Windows, Linux, or Mac.
Primarily for gannt chart type resource scheduling and tracking. Not as full featured as OpenProj and seems simple to use.
http://www.pureviolet.net/ganttpv/

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General Software Discussion / Re: IBM Lenovo T61 Thinkpad - a standard SATA harddisk cannot be used ? Is this true

« on: August 24, 2007, 07:46 AM »

A question that should be asked is whether or not the notebook takes an ATA or SATA (Serial ATA) interface on the harddrive.  Take a look at newegg.com for "notebook harddrive" and you'll see references for SATA drive indicating "Notebook compatibility: SATA interface only".

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General Software Discussion / Re: imaging & partitioning queries

« on: August 17, 2007, 08:42 PM »

If you use a TI9 bootable linux CD to just image/restore whole partitions or drives I would think that it would not matter what the OS is since it does a bit by bit image of what's on the drive and does not interact with windows at all if using the bootable CD.  Someone who knows please tell me if I'm incorrect.

It's when you install the TI9 on an OS say Win 2003 Server that the installer may say that the OS is not supported since they want you to use the TI9 Server version rather than the Home/Desktop version. In addition, the installed TI version has features such as individual file restore from a TI image, differential/incremental images - with TI9 these features are not available if using a TI9 bootable CD.

An OEM version of Acronis TrueImage 9 is available from "NothingButSoftware" for $10 + $5 shipping:

http://www.nothingbu...tCode=36864&ai=0

Note that TI 9 is not supported for Vista.

-mwb1100 (July 17, 2007, 04:32 PM)

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Post New Requests Here / Re: FirefoxPortable.exe on a small Flash Drive that will bring up an Index

« on: August 04, 2007, 05:01 PM »

Take a look at this article:
http://www.dailycupo...b-drive-ask-for-help

Just download the mentioned "LostDrive.zip" and edit the readme.txt file to whatever text you want displayed on the pop-up window.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: All to systray

« on: July 21, 2007, 07:40 PM »

In addition to TrayIt! you can also try

TrayEverything - http://www.winapizon...tware/trayeverything
Iconize - http://brooksyounce....com/Soft-Iconize.htm

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General Software Discussion / Re: Encrypt single file?

« on: July 18, 2007, 09:46 PM »

How about the 7-zip command line version?
http://downloads.sou.../sevenzip/7za442.zip

You can compress, use AES-256 encryption (for .7z and .zip files), and create a self-extracting exe file.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Snailware: Newer Software for Older Slower PC's

« on: July 11, 2007, 11:25 AM »

You can just use the older version of ZoneAlarm Free version but you would just have the firewall and not the anti-spyware.  You can download previous versions of the free version from their website:
http://download.zone...aReleaseHistory.html

The firewall I use for a Win98 box I have is the last free version of Kerio Personal Firewall 2.1.5:
http://www.oldversio...rogram.php?n=keriopf

Plus if you're behind a router, it essentially has a firewall which blocks incoming baddies.  I use Kerio basically to find out about outgoing stuff that I don't know about.

For anti-virus, AVG free version appears to support Win98 and provides real-time protection.  You could also use ClamWin Portable but it does not have real-time protection - however it is portable and can be put on USB key/drive.  I use ClamWin portable since I do not want the win98 machine to be more slower.
http://free.grisoft....rus/us/frt/0#details

I have not installed anti-spyware software but occasionally I checkout the online scanner from TrendMicro which checks for virus, spyware, and malware.  The Java or Active X downloads the current definitions and should support win98.  This is an on-demand rather than a real-time scanner.
http://housecall.trendmicro.com

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General Software Discussion / Re: Recommendations for project/schedule management software (besides MS Project

« on: June 30, 2007, 09:42 AM »

I've done some light research on this about a year ago and the ones that I remember are:

http://www.openworkbench.org - OpenWorkbench is open source software formerly called Niku and now sponsored by Computer Associates

http://www.ganttproject.org/ - Another open source software which focuses on Gantt charts and scheduling


Other alternatives are listed in the wikepedia entry -
http://en.wikipedia...._management_software

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General Software Discussion / Re: Free Photoscape: 5 stars from Snapfiles

« on: June 29, 2007, 02:09 PM »

Hmmm, the start-up does not seem that bad on my end - isolated test machine: Win98 Pentium II 128 MB RAM

1.  If your firewall automatically blocks unapproved outgoing connections, this may cause it since it tries to call home to a specific IP 3 times and then 1 time to www.flickr.vip.mud.yahoo.com

2. OR if you're automatically allowing outgoing connections then maybe its your ISP's DNS server slow in doing the domain name resolution to flickr.vip.mud.yahoo.com - Try to copy and paste the address in your browser to see if it's kind of slow...

On Flickr forums some people are noticing slowdown depending on geographical location:
http://www.flickr.co...m/en-us/40740/page3/

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General Software Discussion / Re: Free Photoscape: 5 stars from Snapfiles

« on: June 29, 2007, 12:27 PM »

Curt - which speed issue are you referring to?  Is it the one in the Viewer tab where it generates all the thumbnails when you go to a folder?  Maybe turning the thumbnail cache on would help.  The issue is similar to other viewers such as Faststone Image Viewer which can view folder via thumbnails.  One way to avoid the thumbnail preview this is go to the Editor tab and open the specific filename.

I'm just starting to see PhotoScape on the other download sites such as softpedia, download.com, softonic, majorgeeks, etc.
From the looks of it, even though it says version 3, it's either
1. the first general release and just labeled it version 3 to give it some maturity
2. OR the software was called something else before and has just undergone a name change

Anyways I'll keep my eye on the user reviews, looks good so far.  Right now it's on a standalone Win98 box isolated from the rest of my stuff.

Now if only the author can do something about making the "calling home" aspect and the automatic download of flickr photo  an optional feature 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Free Photoscape: 5 stars from Snapfiles

« on: June 28, 2007, 12:13 PM »

Have been playing with Photoscape for a little bit.  This has potential because in addition to being a viewer, it has several modules which a quite useful: placing text and graphic objects on the photo then combining them into one layer, preset photo collage page templates, frames, buttons for one click photo adjustment (auto level and contrast).  Most of these features I typically have used another utility to perform in addition to my general graphic viewer.

It could use improvement such as consistently putting an undo/redo option in modules such as the Editor, Page, and Combine tabs.  I do like context help as you hover the mouse over a control such as a button or slider.

Some annoyances I mentioned in my previous post are the automatically "calling home" for an unknown reason and also downloading of a flickr photo - but I just let the firewall deny these 4 outgoing calls.  I see no options on the GUI or the cfg files to disable them.

Oh yeah and also the icon does indeed look somewhat familiar... maybe ubuntu but without the "appendage part: on the PhotoScape icon?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Free Photoscape: 5 stars from Snapfiles

« on: June 27, 2007, 08:41 PM »

My firewall reported outgoing connections -
I wish there's an option to:

1. Turn off the "calling home" part when the program starts.  Don't know if homebase is counting the number of unique users of the software, number of downloads, checking for software updates, etc.

2. Turn off downloading a picture from a Flickr page.  There's an option to not show the picture but only after the image has been cached on the computer??

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General Software Discussion / Re: Monitoring and Notification Software?

« on: June 13, 2007, 11:50 PM »

Have a look at the utility called Shutter:
http://www.den4b.com/projects.php

Even though it's primarily a shut down utility, it has trigger events based on file size limit, process stops, and ping stops which may fit all of your stated needs.  Rather than stating a shutdown action you can just display a specified message.  It can be set to automatically run on windows start up.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Synch Folders NOT files

« on: May 12, 2007, 10:50 AM »

The command line command called Robocopy.exe (found in Microsoft Windows Resource Kits) can be used to synchronize subdirectories with the /MIR  (mirror) switch.

The link below basically shows a screen which shows what I'm talking about above with the robocopy output displaying the run statistics:
http://www.simplefai...om/kb.aspx?kbid=1013

If you do not want to deal with the command line, then a Microsoft Software Engineer has also created a  windows GUI for robocopy.  See link below:
http://www.microsoft...11/UtilitySpotlight/

When doing backups of a doctor's Electronic Medical Records data, I first copy the live production data onto a separate drive.  I then make archives/backups off of this copy.  I am currently using an xcopy script but will be migrating to another script using robocopy with the /MIR option since I think it's more robust than xcopy.  On subsequent runs, only files which were added, changed, deleted from both source and destination directories will be processed rather than every file being copied to the destination directory.


patrick

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Capture extended menu

« on: April 01, 2007, 08:36 AM »

Probably from WinSnap (shareware starting from v2) from version 2 on since it's the only one that I can find that can do extended menu capture with drop shadow feature.  www.ntwind.com

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General Software Discussion / Re: suggesting: "best encryption"

« on: March 30, 2007, 08:15 AM »

I use fSekrit for encrypting text based data and use Blowfish Advanced CS for file-level encryption (multiple algorithms). 

One good feature of Blowfish Advanced CS is that it has a "work with" feature where you can decrypt a file and work with it in an associated application.  Then when you're finished with the application, the file is automatically encrypted with the decryption key and any interim files are wiped.

Blowfish Advanced CS canbe found at http://hotpixel.net/software.html
There's also a zip version so no installers needed. I just unzip and put it on my usb drive.
You can select a folder or multiple files to encrypt at once but they'll be encrypted as individual files with the same password.

I haven't yet used Truecrypt but if I do it will be for smaller container files rather than tens of gigabytes or greater containers.

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Official Announcements / Re: Mar. 2007 Giveaway/Discounts: Website Watcher,Local Website Archive,AM-Notebook

« on: March 22, 2007, 12:26 PM »

Any advantage of using LWA over other offline browsers such as WinHTTrack/HTTrack.  I see that HTTrack can include/exclude certain portions of a site but I'm not sure if LWA can do this.  HTTrack also has incomplete support for flash sites according to its FAQ.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Make any app into tray icon only

« on: March 03, 2007, 08:06 PM »

Other app to system tray minimizer I've tried:

Iconize - http://www.brooksyounce.com
This is simpler app than TrayIt and just minimizes app window or windows explorer folder window to system tray.

TrayEverything - http://www.winapizon...tware/trayeverything
Can minimize app window but not windows explorer window.  However, this app will allow a minimized/hidden app to the system tray to have password protection before restoring the window.  The utility has a default of the Italian language but can be set to English.  My language setting was not "sticking" for some reason so I just copied the eng.dll and renamed it ita.dll

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Print large pictures on multiple pages

« on: February 18, 2007, 07:25 AM »

Other options to Rasterbator and ProPoster that people can try are:

Posteriza - http://www.posteriza...index.php?lang=en_US
Posterazor - http://posterazor.sourceforge.net/

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Watch for specific drives, at intervals, after a certain hour

« on: February 17, 2007, 11:28 PM »

What about calling that same script via window's own task scheduler (first set up a daily task, then go back and edit it to go into "Advanced" and enable repeat task every ... 30 minutes).

You can also use System Scheduler (free and pro versions) (www.splinterware.com)  if window's own task scheduler is flaky running on your system.

patrick

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General Software Discussion / Re: EMS mysql manager.. looks pretty good...

« on: February 17, 2007, 12:43 AM »

I've been playing around with Aqua Data Studio (http://www.aquafold.com).  It's Java based and handles the major databases.  They just updated to version 6 but made the prior versions free for personal and academic uses.

I'm using the previous major 4.7 version to do SQL (by hand and thru its Visual Query Builder) to figure out the mySQL database for an electronic medical record system.

In the past I've used TOAD tools (http://www.toadsoft.com) for Oracle databases.  But now I see they have different modules for the other major database systems.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA : hide window to system tray 1 icon

« on: February 14, 2007, 01:05 AM »

OK doing more searching I think I found what you are looking for - Iconic Tray (shareware).  Can send to system tray as individual icons OR into the Iconic Tray Icon.

http://www.minimize-to-tray.com/

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA : hide window to system tray 1 icon

« on: February 14, 2007, 12:48 AM »

Candle - TrayIt! has an option to group similar icons. 
Maybe you can do something with that like represent your programs with the same icon; or what about calling your apps each with a batch file - maybe TrayIt will group all batch windows to 1 icon.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA : hide window to system tray 1 icon

« on: February 13, 2007, 09:10 PM »

How about TrayIt! (it's free and been mentioned in some of forum threads over here)
http://www.teamcti.com/trayit/trayit.htm