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Clipboard Help+Spell / Accented characters...

« on: April 04, 2012, 09:00 AM »

Hi, I just decided to revisit your prog today, after our discussion in a different thread - you seem to have done quite a bit of work since last time I tried it, I especially like the addition of image capability.

One minor thing though... when I copy text that contains an accented character, e.g. 'č', I see that CHS doesn't display this correctly in the clips list. In this instance, it displays 'é' instead... it does however paste the correct character, so it's not a huge problem.

I see elsewhere in the CHS discussions a comment about problems with the cyrillic alphabet... is this a related issue?

Excellent app anyway, thank you.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Good Multi-account (GMAIL included) email notifier

« on: April 04, 2012, 06:41 AM »

I really like GMail Notifier Pro. It's standalone so you don't need your browser running, and also has a portable version. And it isn't just limited to GMail.

Unlike others I've tried, when you use it to compose/send, then the message appears in your Gmail Sent Mail. It also works well as a default mail handler in W7, as well as linking to your Google Calendar with pop-up reminders.

The free version only lets you monitor two email addresses but the license is only 13 US dollars, and it's easy enough to monitor more accounts anyway, if you just have all your other email addresses forward their received mails straight to your Gmail.

The only issue I've had, is that it doesn't seem to work with Yahoo, but that's only because YMail doesn't allow IMAP with their free account. Or something like that... I didn't spend much time on it to be honest so there might even be a work-around. Correct me if I'm wrong there anybody.

It will add a few seconds to your boot time, but I like it enough not to mind that.

Also it's very very easy to set-up and configure ... no messing around with server addresses, ports, or anything ... just give it the email address and the password and that's it.

Lastly the developer seems very helpful... I asked for a (completely pointless) Sent Mail Confirmation pop-up ... "Your Mail Has Been Sent" kind of thing, and that was added to a new version within a couple of weeks I think.

And, I agree with ppass... WebMail Notifier is also great if you have Firefox running all the time.

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Coding Snack Guidelines / Re: Idea - Paste utility...

« on: April 04, 2012, 02:49 AM »

Hi Barney thanks for your suggestion... I thought I'd tried all the freeware clipboard apps but Ethervane Echo is new to me so I'll try it today.
Shortkeys also looks v good, but ideally I'd like a solution that's entirely mouse-driven (most of my working day is spent with my mouse in one hand and a piece of paper or cuppa in the other). And also freeware if poss... not because I'm too tight to pay out for a good solution (honestly!), but because I don't use credit cards so actually paying for stuff can be difficult.

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Coding Snack Guidelines / Re: Idea - Paste utility...

« on: April 03, 2012, 05:06 PM »

Thanks for your reply ... yes I have used Clipboard Help+Spell for several years, it's very good. But it's really the whole hotkey and seperate list thing, that I'd like to lose if possible, just for the purposes of quickly pasting particular snippets of text.

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Coding Snack Guidelines / Idea - Paste utility...

« on: April 03, 2012, 04:52 PM »

I don't know if I'm posting in the right place here... definitely don't know if this qualifies at all as a 'snack', but...

In Firefox, there's an add-on called 'Clippings', which lets you add text items to a context sub-menu for instant pasting into text areas. I know nothing about coding, but I'm wondering how possible/difficult would it be to have something like this that works globally across Windows? i.e. in Notepad, Open Office, Open/Save dialogs, etc?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Whats your preferred web browser?

« on: April 03, 2012, 03:35 PM »

Been all around the block, and always come back to Firefox... I love it for its add-ons, which don't slow it down overly, if I'm careful about which ones I install. And since around v9 or 10 when they finally fixed its tendency to take 20 minutes to quit properly, it now seems very smooth and quick.

Opera used to be the fastest thing available, before v11 I think when it became a RAM hog like FF pre-v9. Chrome I liked because it syncs so nicely with Google accounts... and sync'ing also syncs add ons, but I didn't find it especially fast.

The main thing was that my favourite download manager (FDM) never seemed happy with Chrome or Opera. Especially for downloading vids from Youtube etc. So, back to Firefox.

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General Software Discussion / Re: In search of ... opinions on synchronization software

« on: April 03, 2012, 03:00 PM »

Hi.

I also gave up on dedicated backup software some time ago, for 2 reasons - the main one being that none of them seemed able to cope with foreign characters (e.g. č, š, ž etc) in filenames, and would either fail completely or just pass over them and not back them up. The other reason is that they all seem to bypass empty folders. And the great thing about filesync apps is that they don't create their own format of back up... so you can use different ones without having to re-create your back ups.

Anyway, after trying several, I've settled on FreeFileSync. It's on version 5 and I like it a lot... it can seem very slow at times, but when I actually timed it against other sync apps, there didn't actually seem to be much difference.
It's really easy to use; compares first and then shows you a list of pending changes, which can be kept or deselected as you please. It has various sync options... Mirror/Update/Auto/Custom, and an option for deleted files to go in the recycle bin, just in case. You can save jobs, can drag and drop folders onto it, and it can copy file permissions if you tell it to. Also it has a portable version.

Before FreeFileSync, I always used FileMenuTools which has a built in sync'er... excellent app overall but I stopped using it when I moved on to Windows 7.

Lastly you might like PureSync... I tried it and it seems very good, just a bit too heavyweight/over-complicated for my own needs.