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Living Room / production salt-water pwrd car
« on: December 09, 2014, 02:50 PM »
Purely aside from how way cool this car is, can you imagine a salt-water powered DC3 retro-airliner, or this NASA concept airliner, that guarantees if it crash-lands you won't be burned alive by all the spilled fuel?

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General Software Discussion / how play Kindle for PC text-to-speech?
« on: December 06, 2014, 03:44 PM »
Is there a freebie way to get the free Kindle for PC to do text to speech?
Or a free app or freeware program to use with it?
I tried searching Google and can't seem to wade through all the ton of offers for tablet and handheld device reader apps to find anything.

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General Software Discussion / ProcessTamer not self-starting on boot
« on: December 03, 2014, 05:45 PM »
I just installed ProcessTamer, and have high hopes for fewer BSODs and lock-ups.
I already set them to high priority, but why would I want to click on 'force high priority' for ProcessTamer and the 'front end' PT GUI themselves?

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Any idea why Process Tamer won't self-start in Win7?
I checked the box for it to start on boot and also entered my DC key, but it won't do that.

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My Norton Startup Manager says ProcessTamer is on its 'start on boot' list, but PTs 'front end' says it's not running at boot, and I have to manually click the Desktop icon to make its icon appear in System Tray.

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My Norton Startup Manager says ProcessTamer is on its 'start on boot' list, but PTs 'front end' says it's not running at boot, and I have to manually click the Desktop icon to make its icon appear in System Tray. My OS is Win 7 32-bit.
Nice program! Thmbsup

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General Software Discussion / pdf to doc text converter?
« on: December 02, 2014, 05:32 PM »
I have an interior pdf document which contains indented paragraphs and some words italicized, with some text centered and some justified (straight right and left borders).
The original pdf is 1.18MB, and about 90K words.
I would like very much to convert it to MS Word 2003, saving the layout with all attributes as a pure text file.
Also if possible to drop out the 278 page numbers, but I could do that manually I suppose.
If I can get that far somehow, I know what to do with MS Word 2003 to turn it from that into an etext with dynamic clickable TOC (Table of Contents).
I found a different DC thread where someone suggested 'Free PDF to Word Online Converter'; it says it can handle up to a 10MB file, but when I used it, it only gave me a 1.4kb file and had only converted 4 pages.
Is there any freeware or free on-line way to do this?

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General Software Discussion / Firefox wierd crash reporter behavior
« on: November 24, 2014, 08:33 PM »
My up-to-date Firefox Portable began giving me a Crash Reporter pop-up error window every time I close FF normally.
So I went to an older FF backup folder, a clone copy that's a few months out-of-date b/c I intended it that way, and started it instead as a test; and immediately after closing it normally, it also gave me a Crash Reporter pop-up error window.
That implies something external to FF Portable is going on, but what?

So then I went into my up-to-date version of FF Portable, and renamed crashreporter.exe to crashreporterDISABLED.exe, and restarted it, then closed normally, and this time no Crash Reporter pop-up window appeared.

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