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General Software Discussion / Re: alternative to filehamster?
« on: March 04, 2010, 03:31 PM »
I'm using this. May not appeal to power users, but is good enough for the average home user
Yadis! Backup

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The marked folders are backed-up real-time (no scheduling needed!). You make a change? Yadis! Backup makes a backup
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Living Room / Macrium Reflect (Free) - Possible to write an Overwrite Command?
« on: February 19, 2010, 10:56 PM »
The partition which has my MR images will hold 5 images. Would it be possible (and if so how) to write a command which would tell MR to overwrite the oldest image when the partition became full?

Thanks.

P.S. Does anyone know of an on-line primer for learning about creating run commands?

Thanks again.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Battle of the Free Online Storages
« on: December 22, 2009, 07:51 PM »
New(ish) player in the field is GoAruna offering unlimited space and a slightly easier desktop upload process than ADrive.
Also note that Backupify is offering free accounts until end of January 2010.

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 - Pledge to Participate Here
« on: December 10, 2009, 05:57 PM »
Congratulations, good luck & heaps of motivation to all participants. Sure is an interesting list of pledges so far.
Best regards from (non-programmer) Clive.

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Living Room / Re: Good TV series. What do you watch? I used to watch Lost to unwind need successor
« on: December 08, 2009, 07:46 PM »
We finally gave up & turned the subtitles on for "The Wire" - all that,mostly unintelligible, Baltimore argot meant that my partner was constantly asking me "what did they say?". Still one of our fave shows tho'.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Evernote alternative that has an online interface?
« on: November 24, 2009, 07:38 PM »
iCyte - web only, but worth a try.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Anyone actually use windows system restore if so,does it work.
« on: November 17, 2009, 10:37 PM »
System Restore has worked for me but ,as with all things, you can't rely on it to get you out of all nasty situations. I use ERUNT as another form of system restore. (I'm a belt & braces sort of guy when it comes to 'puters). Most of you will have already heard of it, no doubt

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Living Room / RAM & Virtualisation
« on: October 20, 2009, 10:38 PM »
I've read that Win XP 32 bit can only see/use (I'm no ubergeek  :-[ so not sure which is the correct adjective) between 3 -3.5 GiB. If there's more than that installed is it possible to use this "extra" memory to create a virtual drive or to assign it to a virtualised process such as a virtual OS?

Thanks in advance.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Freeware Website Creator For Dummies?
« on: October 01, 2009, 11:03 PM »
Anyone using Komposer/Nvu might be interested in the forum devoted to them wysifauthoring. It appears to be an active forum.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Freeware Website Creator For Dummies?
« on: September 21, 2009, 09:34 PM »
I used Kompozer to create my website http://www.singaporedeep.com.au. I was starting from a KB of zero so I asked questions here & elsewhere. My faith in the human race was greatly bolstered by the generousity of everyone who offered assistance.
I did use a template created by Andreas Viklund. He has several which he offers for free use. I chose to use a template as I'm the sort of guy who paints all of his rooms white as choosing any other colour is too stressful!
I liked Kompozer because it was free, WYSIWIG, & most importantly created "plain" HTML code rather than something proprietory like Adobe CS which can then only be opened in Adobe CS. This meant that if I got stuck on something I could send a file to someone & know that they would be able to open it.

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Living Room / Re: Show us a photo of your mutt or other creatures..
« on: July 21, 2009, 09:15 PM »
Pic is of a swamp wallaby - native to our bit of heaven. Also regularly see wombats,echidnas, snakes & bluetongue lizards. They all lead their lives in parallel to us. We observe each other & respect each others independence.

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Living Room / Re: Show us a photo of your mutt or other creatures..
« on: July 18, 2009, 06:23 AM »
One of our wild "pets" in the garden just outside the kitchen window.

snapshot20090718193111.jpg

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Living Room / Re: Good TV series. What do you watch? I used to watch Lost to unwind need successor
« on: July 07, 2009, 01:41 AM »
The Wire - Hoping Season 5 will be as good as the earlier ones
Mad Men - Hoping that there will be a season 2. A show where there's not one likeable character.

Have you been to your public library lately?  You might be surprised. That's where I get all my DVDs.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Win7, disk imaging, vmware
« on: June 09, 2009, 01:49 AM »
For those interested in further exploration of Virtualisation  this sounds pretty interesting. The link takes you to the Wikipedia entry while this takes you to the QEMU page.
Thanks, corrected the error

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General Software Discussion / Re: Good Screen Recorder Video Editing Software?
« on: April 23, 2009, 05:45 PM »
I've just started using screentoaster
It's a free web based app with generous storage (also free). It's quick & simple.

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General Software Discussion / Re: List of Software that are now abandoned (Add yours!)
« on: March 05, 2009, 07:11 PM »
Onfolio. Initially stand alone software it was bought by MS & offered free as an add on to their Live Seach toolbar. Then it just dropped from sight. I'm trying to get people to add to this post: http://boards.live.c...aspx?threadid=924663 to try & have it re-instated. It is/was an extemely useful web research tool allowing one to record anything from a snippet to a whole website. A little like Evernote's web-clipper (but more funtional) or Google's (now redundant) Notebook clipper.
It was my tool of choice over Evernote or Onenote when wanting to keep track of web based research & I mourn its passing.
If you were a user of Onfolio & miss it as I do then please add your comment at the site above or write about it on your blog.

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General Software Discussion / Re: wanted: alternative to FastStone Image Viewer
« on: March 01, 2009, 07:00 PM »
Google's Picasa could be worth a try too.

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Living Room / Re: Incredible photo from Australian wildfires
« on: February 26, 2009, 07:08 PM »
I offer this link to a discussion about the alternate view on so called controlled burns. I live very close to a National Park & controlled burns there have caused more destruction ,by getting out of control, than many naturally occurring fires. We have had a ringside seat observing the folly of Man believing that he can control Nature.
http://realdirt.com....blame-game/#more-181

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Post New Requests Here / Re: DONE: MiniMe (aka MaxiMe)
« on: January 27, 2009, 07:37 PM »
this script can make windows management a lot less painless.
I'm sure it wasn't Justice's intent to make our lives "less painless" by writing this AHK script  :-[
Rather "less painful" perhaps?  :Thmbsup:

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General Software Discussion / CamStudio
« on: January 11, 2009, 08:46 PM »
Found this interesting looking software at FDAD (http://www.freedownloadaday.com/) & followed the link to the actual site (http://camstudio.org/). The "owner" is asking for help with further development.

A Plea For Help ...

I've got big plans for CamStudio and want to continously improve it and the Codec as well ... but I'm not a programmer.

The potential for CamStudio to be used as a professional training and support tool is huge and not just in the information technology and internet marketing arenas, but also in diverse markets and tasks like home eduation, recording online geneological research, keeping a video record of special offer prices on your favourite snowboarding (or whatever) website - you get the idea ...

It doesn't matter if you're at home in Las Vegas or on an Alaskan Cruise - if you've got a laptop or PC you can use CamStudio.

So if there are any Visual C++ programmers out there that have Flash, video encoding and codec experience who'd like a challenge, would you please let me know ... you can reach me at the Helpdesk (link above) ...

So, at some point in the near future I'd like to start accepting donations so any coders that work on this project will get some kind of financial reward in addition to the warm, fuzzy feeling they get from helping to resurrect this cracking piece of software ... so if you're feeling generous, please get in touch at the email address above and let me know ...

I'd also love to get your feedback on CamStudio ... what you liked, what you thought sucked and what you think is missing.

Who knows - perhaps someone lurking  ;) here might want to get involved.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Integrated Time tracking Invoicing Billing Calendar software?
« on: January 11, 2009, 07:53 PM »
Have a look at Radix (http://www.hurstridge.com/). I used it when ,briefly, self employed. Wasn't very appealing visually & only does text type e-mails (to reduce chance of infection they say). It worked for my basic needs though.

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Living Room / Re: New here, is there's any accounting or billing software - here or elsewhere
« on: January 11, 2009, 07:44 PM »
Something called Radix (http://www.hurstridge.com/) is a program I used for a while when self employed. It's free for single person use.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Money Management Software
« on: December 21, 2008, 06:59 PM »
Picked up the Bearwear site Financial Fate does future planning & is free - might suit you.

http://www.financialfate.com/

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Living Room / Re: HELP! Failed System Restore
« on: December 21, 2008, 05:40 PM »
    First the caveat - I'm no geek nor nerd & in this company my knowledge base is comparatively small. I recently had an issue with my satellite modem where everything appeared to be functioning, but I couldn't browse or do email. After doing all the usual tests with the assistance of the ISP I finally resorted to doing a system restore. This resolved the problem. When I rang the ISP helpdesk to advise them what I had done the guy said " Oh yes it was probably the network drivers which had become corrupted & you could have fixed that by going into Device Manager rather than doing a System Restore."
    Apparently the computer keeps a backup of the driver so the procedure is:


    1 Control panel
    2 Admin Tools
    3 Computer management
    4 Device manager
    5 network adaptors

    select the approriate network driver, uninstall then re-install


    Hope that helps.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Outlook & 2GB PST limit
« on: December 12, 2008, 04:50 PM »
Another solution posted here (http://ttrumble.com/...m-emails-in-outlook/ ) involves writing a macro. The blogger points out that even those fancy signatures that some people, himself included, add to their e-mails are attachments & also add to the burden.

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