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Shareware Discounts for Members / get oMega Commander 2.3.14 for free!

« on: February 03, 2017, 07:06 AM »

Giveaway of the day — oMega Commander 2.3.14

https://www.giveaway...com/omega-commander/

Regards,

Anand

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Living Room / AI Assistant is just selling gimmick

« on: February 03, 2017, 05:20 AM »

Every big software house is making an AI Assistant; Siri, Alexa, Cortana, Google Assistant etc.  As I understand, they answer or try to answer your queries. One has to speak and not type, his / her queries. So far so good.

Since most people walk with mobiles now, why I am not hearing them shouting or even whispering to their mobiles or laptops on a table ? 

Everybody is typing with thumbs or fingers but none is talking. Everybody is searching Google, Bing etc. but none is asking for it. So I am wondering if all the hullabulla around these so called AI assistant is just selling gimmick and have no practical use !

I do not find myself comfortable in talking to a 'software' and maybe true for the rest.

Regards,

Anand

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N.A.N.Y. 2017 / NANY 2017 Release : Mouse Shake Menu

« on: December 31, 2016, 02:01 PM »

Well I could not sleep. I can not miss the NANY, sleep or no sleep.
So here it is. Hope you like it.

Anand

NANY 2017 Entry Information

Application Name	Mouse Shake Menu
Version	1.0.1
Short Description	When mouse is shaked left and right on a window, it popups up a user defined menu buttons.
Supported OSes	WinXp and above
Web Page	https://sites.google...site/mouseshakemenu/
Download Link	https://sites.google...seshakemenu/download

Description
Click on a window and shake the mouse left and right to popup a menu with 4 buttons. Each button is assigned to a set of keyboard keys. You can also run a program.

Features
Execute keyboard command with mouse only.

Planned Features
Complete website
More action buttons
Popup menu based on the clicked window

Screenshots




Usage
Installation
Extract zip file and run exe.

Using the Application
Click on an any window and shake mouse left and right.

Uninstallation
Exit program and delete all files in its folder.

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Living Room / NASA’s Curiosity rover finds more evidence that Mars was once habitable

« on: December 20, 2016, 04:40 AM »

"But the evidence of this groundwater system potentially extends the period of time when Mars could have been habitable. And that increases the odds that life formed there. "
http://www.theverge....e-crater-mount-sharp

Was it that "we" were living in Mars and made all the latest science technology advances, like today and killed all our natural resources, like nowadays and started looking for another planet to shift, like we are doing now and found Earth habitable.

This looks more likely to me. We destroyed our planet Mars then. Now we are doing same to Earth.

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General Software Discussion / win10 whats new

« on: November 10, 2016, 02:34 AM »

Win10 auto updates now and then. It gives me message that "updates installed. learn more". I try to learn more of "what's new in this update" in a "lay user term", but no. It has all sorts of information in various webpages but not a clear cut what it just gave me in this update, other that decreasing my broadband limit.

Is there a way I can see "whats new" in this version/update of Win10 ?

Regards,

Anand

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Living Room / robots are killing

« on: September 02, 2016, 07:31 AM »

I needed a second go through the code to locate the mistake,

http://oppressive-si...ics/oh-no-the-robots

That's why testing code is so important.

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General Software Discussion / Google Web Designer

« on: July 28, 2016, 04:43 AM »

https://www.google.com/webdesigner/

Anybody else tried it ?

Regards,

Anand

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General Software Discussion / Searching for a old freeware "Documalis Free Reporter"

« on: July 19, 2016, 07:32 AM »

Hello,

I am searching for a old freeware "Documalis Free Reporter". It was available and I downloaded also few years back and played with it. Now I need it for my a project but can not find it in my hdd. Googling is giving me blank links.

Anyone has downloaded the same or has idea how to get the same.

Regards,

Anand

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General Software Discussion / find duplicate songs by scanning folders with mp3 files

« on: July 14, 2016, 10:47 PM »

Hello,

I have a collection of mp3 files. When I play them, I find that duplicate songs are there, but have different file name, size etc.
Googling gave me idea that I need some "audio fingerprinting" but I could not find any win exe which will scan file mp3 folders and give me a list of duplicate mp3 files.

I got lots of android or win programs which will "listen" and not scan for it. Also found Python / Perl codes for it.

Is there a win exe available as I require ?

Regards,

Anand
 

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General Software Discussion / HamMultiPlayer

« on: July 04, 2016, 05:03 AM »

Found this HamMultiPlayer http://hammultiplayer.org/
"If you want to : search, preview, watch, manage, sort, copy, move or delete media files, this software might interest you"

I was looking for something like this to check my holiday video collection, at a glance. The author Barnuble has done very good job and looks very promising.

Hope some of us will find it very useful.

Regards,

Anand

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Living Room / Why material design was designed !!

« on: June 17, 2016, 11:52 AM »

In my humble knowledge, Google required a very bare minimum interface for its Android, as cheap mobiles have less power and battery. More the graphics more the strain on CPU and battery. Then MS copied it for its Win10, same reason for its WinPhone and Surface tablet. It is like having sheets of paper with text written on them. Some may have different color or a box drawn around them but most are just plain text.

But for God's shake, think of desktop users. We do not have problem with cpu and battery. 

I really feel pissed off when I have to waste time just touching clicking at all places in finding the place which will act like a "Button"!!! 

See the few screen shots attached.











In IOBit Uninstaller, CCleaner and MS Settings. We can clearly see that in trying to be material design friendly, they give us high time in playing the game of puzzle to find out which "text" clicked will do what ??

Setting taking so much screen space that it has to be scrolled to get further options, which could have fit in one screen itself. Then blue text is button (Identify) but the bix blue box with 1 is not. ( I have clicked it many times)
CCleaner tab page highlight is reverse, the grey one is not the active tab page.
IOBit needed me couple of time before I understood how to click to uninstall a program. I am not taking about the big circle below, but the program list lines.
Second image of IOBit showing another window over the first one, but looks like it is one window and can not be moved.

In my Android phone, many are becoming material design and I understand their problem and I have to manage there but I do not want to play game on my desktop. Please give me back my buttons, bevel, shadows.

Regards,

Anand

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General Software Discussion / struggling in Fb and Twit pool

« on: February 08, 2016, 10:54 AM »

Well I jumped in Fb and Twit pool at last.

I wanted to "follow" DC from both but alas I was all wet but could not reach my destination.

I looks so bad that even small kids are splashing water everywhere, I am struggling to find my way. I am getting old.

Please throw the life line and tell me how to swim to follow DC, as googling did not help.

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Living Room / Now that AI has mastered 'Go,' are all our jobs next?

« on: February 06, 2016, 04:12 AM »

http://www.pcworld.c...next.html#tk.rss_all

Ha ! I do not think so.

AI can never be able to apologize to our wifes like we do, for no fault of ours.
AI can never sit in meaningless meeting with boss for hours and still smile.
AI can never...

AI is no match to our intelligence.

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Living Room / Why GOD has not updated the world ?

« on: January 19, 2016, 10:40 AM »

Well living in this world of IT industry, it has become my habit to check if new update of so and so has come up or not. Win10 updates itself and do not even tell me what has become new !!

But the world ! It still has 24 hours in a day. Hey come one we need more time for facebook, twitter, coding etc. and then we have to live also. I think GOD should update the world and add more features to it. What you say ?

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N.A.N.Y. 2016 / NANY 2016 Release: Move Aside Please

« on: December 30, 2015, 02:14 PM »

NANY 2016 Entry Information

Application Name	Move Aside Please
Version	1.0.0
Short Description	Moves a window aside when mouse pointer is placed on it. You can also make the window semi-transparent.
Supported OSes	WinXp and above
Web Page	https://sites.google...ite/moveasideplease/
Download Link	https://sites.google...asideplease/download

Description
During our work, many times we need to keep a small window of a program always on top of the desktop screen. This program may show network connection, mail status, auto updating messages etc. Now when we are working on some full screen program like editor, browser etc., this small window block the view of the part of the editor or browser.

Instead of closing or removing the small window, I wanted it to move aside from view when I hover the mouse cursor on it. This way I can easily view the blocked part of the editor or browser.

I could not find any such program by Googling, so I made "Move Aside Please".

Features
The window automatically moves up or down, when the mouse cursor hover over it. We can set the window titles which needs to be moved. Instead of moving the window, we can reduce its opacity, i.e. make it semi-transparent.

Screenshots


Regards,

Anand

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Living Room / Smart agents like Cortana will replace the web browser

« on: November 27, 2015, 03:59 AM »

http://www.businessi...cleshow/49775087.cms

Well soon I will be asking "Should I take the umbrella ?" to Cortana or Siri.
It looks similar to me asking this question to my wife now.

I dread when Cortana and Siri start replying like her !

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General Software Discussion / flamory

« on: November 06, 2015, 03:16 AM »

http://www.flamory.com/

Looks good as per description. Anyone using it ?

Regards,

Anand

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Find And Run Robot / column to show the actual folder name

« on: October 15, 2015, 06:32 AM »

Mouser, can you add a column to show the actual folder name in "Search Folders" tab ?

It will help me to understand what folders FARR is scanning without doing some trial and error.



Regards,

Anand

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Living Room / thinking of some earning

« on: October 09, 2015, 06:42 AM »

I am thinking of some earning.
The free apps I make will remain free. The website I make for them can accommodate some ads.

This is how the internet is now and I am planning to go along. I read about adsense.
In summary,
I can apply but may not be approved,
My income is not guaranteed,
Google can disable adsense any time without reason,
May require extra work for the adsense to work.

Presently I am looking at it as an extra source of income, if possible with minimum work.

I will be happy to get comments for fellow developers who have experience in adsense, guidance etc.

Regards,

Anand

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General Software Discussion / NANY 2016 !!

« on: October 09, 2015, 06:33 AM »

It is October now.
No news of NANY 2016 !!

(actually I am waiting for the push, you know)

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General Software Discussion / Sudo and Kill commands for Windows

« on: September 17, 2015, 04:53 AM »

http://www.ghacks.net/2015/09/17/sudo-and-kill-commands-for-windows/

I have to edit files / script which are in "\Program Files\" folder and need Administrative rights. Found SUDO useful as I can open the text editor via it in Administrative mode.

I already use SuperF4, still KILL can be useful from command line.

Regards,

Anand

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General Software Discussion / Deleting Recovery Partition and Merging to C drive

« on: September 10, 2015, 10:55 AM »

My Dell laptop came with Win8, got auto updated to 8.1 and now to 10. 
Now I find that there are 3/4 recovery partition on my hdd. I assume they are for 8, 8.1 and 10.



I want to delete those partitions and merge the space into C: partition. I have made USB recovery of Win10.
I googled for help on it and downloaded "EaseUS Partition Master" and "AOMEI Partition Assistant".

Before I start deleting and merging, my query is "Has anyone have similar experience ?"
Any advise on it is valuable for me at this stage.

Regards,

Anand

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Living Room / First impression of Win10. Google - Material Design

« on: August 25, 2015, 11:42 AM »

To keep DC forum mesg small, I have made webpage with the supportive images.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wd2lfEe_IG5H-JFbg6fvVeCki7RyQvP4fetLh7lS6dw/pub

First impression of Win10. Google - Material Design.
Yes this is what I saw from login screen to desktop. MS is following Google.

First good news.
FARR runs, hurray.
All my apps run without any error, I can sleep peacefully.

Now not so good news.
Login photo now in round frame just like Google+. Why ? MS following Google !!
Tray icons black and white clipart. Hard to understand which is what. Who told MS that users are color blind ??
Windows title became white, same as body, no separation mark / line etc. Looks like MS is copying material design of Google but forgot that Android apps do not have a title bar which user need to click and drag to move the window.
Start menu looks like a dark menu bar attached with a WinPhone with those tile apps.
All icons in task bar now show smaller in size. Bigger icon in Win 8.1 was easier to see.
Settings looks like a webpage, flat. This is advancement ??

But the the killer is child window display. My program which has a main window and child windows for entry, report etc. show very odd. It shows WinXp button in child windows !!

More news.
Solitaire exist and it is free.
Cortana disabled in India, so will know after I meet her.

I understand that Win10 is work in progress. So many of the problems may get fixed in auto updates. I also understand that MS think most user are in Android so are habituated to seeing such windows.

But like most users, I also request MS to understand desktop users too.
http://www.codeproject.com/Lounge.aspx?msg=5114704#xx5114704xx

Regards,

Anand

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General Software Discussion / win10 auto upgrade - confusing mesg

« on: August 16, 2015, 11:42 AM »

The "Get Windows 10" shows "still downloading",
"Windows update" shows "Start installing Win 10" !!

What should I do ? Wait till "Get Windows 10" enables "Upgrade" option ?

I am afraid to click "Get started" in "Windows update" 

Anybody faced this situation ?



Regards,

Anand

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General Software Discussion / Need help guidance as a beginner of Android world

« on: March 10, 2015, 03:13 AM »

I got an Android phone, finally. It is Lenovo A6000.

Now I need help guidance as a beginner of Android world. I am using Nokia 5230 now and I have some must need apps installed in it. I looked for their alternatives in Google Play and was overwhelmed. GPlay do not have proper search filter like GMail. So it is best to ask the users directly to get the correct app.

1. Backup and Restore - At least photo, videos and contacts, if not sms and notes etc.
2. Undelete or Recycle option - To restore files deleted by mistake.
3. Call Recorder - Simple, record both in coming and out going, with playback. Need it for client job specifications done on phone.
4. Quick note taking - Simple, may or may not have voice note mode.
5. PDF reader - Small just for reading pdf files.
6. Calender task and reminder on home screen - This I found in Lenovo and looks like may do the job as of now.

If free better else paid one will also do. But they must not be very space and memory hogging. Reading the GPlay reviews and descriptions I bookmarked some but still can not say if they will work as advertised.

So I need the help from all Android users here to guide me to the right stuff. Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Anand