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Found Deals and Discounts / Giveawayoftheday - Jetstart Pro - for a very limited period

« on: December 04, 2006, 10:56 PM »

This looks interesting :

Caveat : Although this is freeware for a very limited period, you have to install it within the giveaway window. That means if you re-install or buy a new laptop etc, the software cannot be re-installed which renders it kind of useless - so I tend to give such software a miss no matter how good it looks. But I guess it could still be useful until your next major OS install or re-install.

That is unless, there's a tool available that legally help you move registry entries and all to a new installation. Does anyone know of any such tools ?

Giveaway of the Day » JetStart Pro
"JetStart Pro
December 4, 2006

JetStart Pro is a unique tool, that enables you to manage your Windows Start Menu more efficiently, and launch your favorite or recently accessed applications with just a few clicks. The program offers multiple ways to access your program: You can sort them into categories, select them from a list of recently used or newly added programs or search from them by keyword.

JetStart Pro adds an alternative menu to the Start button that appears when you hover your mouse over it (click on it to get the regular menu) and shows your categorized programs as well as recently used applications. In addition, you can access them from a tray icon, hidden edge menus, and also create a floating toolbar that can be displayed by clicking the icon.

Watch JetStart Demo (Flash 3.2 MB)."
http://www.giveawayo...ay.com/jetstart-pro/

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General Software Discussion / TOP 11 Tools for Sending BIG Files

« on: December 04, 2006, 10:02 PM »

Thought this would come in useful for Donationcoders

Note: for those good at Arithmetic, you will notice there's only 9 sites. But it says 11. I guess it's new maths
Also, I had to manually align the columns (but it still comes out somewhat unaligned) and the clickable links are somehow not copied over.

Can anyone tell me how one can copy the article intact from http://www.makeuseof...-to-send-your-files/

By the way, I used Firefox 2 and CopyURL+

‘TOP 11 Tools for Sending BIG Files’ released » MakeUseOf.com
"You, me and I bet every webbie once in while needs to send over a file that’s bigger then max. allowed email attachment (e.g. video clip, movie, software program, etc). So 2 days ago I decided to make a list of somewhat better websites and tools for sending big files. After some extensive searching I got more then 100 sites, obviously this was too much so I filtered them further by canceling out ones which aren’t free, simple to use and with max.file size mark below 500 mb. And below is what I got afterwards;
                      max. size    days before file deleted    Sign-up Required
YouSendIt       1 gb               7                                           No
Gigasize         1.5 gb             90 days                                  Yes
TransferBigFiles   1 gb            5 days                                          No
MegaShares    1.5 gb                  7 days                                        No
BigUpload.       500 mb    30 days after last download                  No
MailBigFile         500 mb              7                                             No
FileUpload        500 mb          7                                            No
Zupload             500 mb    30 days after last download                   No
Spread-it.          500 mb           14 days                                          No
.
If you send/receive big files frequently and do so among friends then instead of using above ones I recommend to install one of the following programs, either of which is free and user friendly in its own way."
http://www.makeuseof...-to-send-your-files/

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Found Deals and Discounts / Watch Your Site Like a Hawk-Service Hawk - 78% off discount for heavy hitters !

« on: December 04, 2006, 12:45 AM »

Another offer for the heavy hitters. Sigh !  Looks like Santa is forgot about the proletariat !

Bits du Jour: Discounted software and programs - One Deal a Day
"Watch Your Site Like a Hawk
Service Hawk - 78% off!

Regular price: $179.00
Bits du Jour Today Only price: $39.99
You save:    [Huge Discount!]    78%    [Huge Discount!]

If you host your own website - or other peoples' sites - you know how important it is to know right away if there's any problem. And as the hackers get smarter and the operating systems more complicated, there are more and more potential problems all the time.

You can't spend every minute watching your services. The good news is that Service Hawk can do it for you.
Service Hawk lets you:

    * Rest easy knowing your servers are up and running!
    * Keep expensive downtime to a minimum.
    * Automatically restart your services - no human intervention required!
    * Get immediate notifications via email, on-screen messages, or sound alerts.

In addition, Service Hawk lets you monitor all your Windows services, including third-party applications that run as services.  Be sure all your important PC services - like virus checking, backups and networking - are up and running."
http://www.bitsdujour.com/

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Found Deals and Discounts / 90% off Automise @ www.bitsdujour.com - looks like heavy stuff for Admin people

« on: November 29, 2006, 04:52 AM »

I took a look at this but it looks like it's for Administrator type activities. But at 90% discount, it may interest some of you heavy hitters. Certainly not for me.

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General Software Discussion / Use Gmail to Generate Unlimited E-mail Addresses to identify spam source

« on: November 27, 2006, 10:40 AM »

Came across this interesting idea to track down spam sources and dump it.

Clipmark
"Use Gmail to Generate Unlimited E-mail Addresses:

Gmail has an interesting quirk where you can add a plus sign (+) after your Gmail address, and it'll still get to your inbox. It's called plus-addressing, and it essentially gives you an unlimited number of e-mail addresses to play with. Here's how it works: say your address is [email protected], and you want to automatically label all work e-mails. Add a plus sign and a phrase to make it [email protected] and set up a filter to label it work (to access your filters go to Settings->Filters and create a filter for messages addressed to [email protected]. Then add the label work).

More real world examples:

Find out who is spamming you: Be sure to use plus-addressing for every form you fill out online and give each site a different plus address.

Example: You could use
[email protected] for nytimes.com
[email protected] for freestuff.com
Then you can tell which site has given your e-mail address to spammers, and automatically send them to the trash.

Automatically label your incoming mail: I've talked about that above.

Archive your mail: If you receive periodic updates about your bank account balance or are subscribed to a lot of mailing lists that you don't check often, then you can send that sort of mail to the archives and bypass your Inbox.

Example: For the mailing list, you could give [email protected] as your address, and assign a filter that will archive mail to that address automatically. Then you can just check in once in a while on the archive if you want to catch up.

"
http://clipmarks.com...9-87A9-DF25D17EDAE9/

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Found Deals and Discounts / Handango Site Wide Sale - 25% off for this week only

« on: November 21, 2006, 09:07 PM »

Pocketpc and Palm users out there.

Here's your chance to get the software of your choice for 25% off Handango www.handango.com - it's only for a week. Just received the email Coupon but I cannot tell when it exactly ends. So don't sit on the Coupon - use it (but only if you really need it).

Coupon is EMAILSALE

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Found Deals and Discounts / Share your coupon codes at RetailMeNot.com - coupon codes for online stores

« on: November 16, 2006, 07:28 AM »

Just came across this interesting site. It will get better as it grows. I think it's related to www.bugmenot.com

Of course please do not share discount codes you find on donationcoder as members. Send your friends to www.donationcoder.com instead.

RetailMeNot.com - coupon codes for online stores
"Many online stores allow for a "coupon" or "promotion" code when you order to automatically assign discounts, deals and freebies (kinda like money for nothing). RetailMeNot.com is a place for finding and sharing these coupon codes.
So... when you buy online, check here for discounts first (unless you're frikkin crazy)."
http://www.retailmenot.com/

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Found Deals and Discounts / 30% discounts for Listpro and other Iliumsoft products till Oct 25

« on: October 20, 2006, 05:02 AM »

Pocket PC and other PDA users may find this useful.

They also have software that works under Windows.

Pocket PC Software, Palm Software, Smartphone Software

http://www.iliumsoft.com/

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Found Deals and Discounts / Surfpack has now gone freeware

« on: October 15, 2006, 12:35 PM »

Surfpack has now gone freeware.

It's similar to Google Personalized Homepage http://www.google.com/ig and maybe that's why it has gone Freeware but you may want to check it out for a comparison.

Surfpack is your local homepage with everyday favorites, news, and search tools.
"Welcome to Surfpack

Meet Surfpack, the lifesaver for people who know what they want on the Internet and regularly visit the same web sites!

Surfpack is a desktop application that gathers up information from your favorite web resources into a dynamic HTML pages, which then presents it in whatever form or shape you might like - favorite URL links, newsfeeds and even entire web pages! Surfpack's DHTML interface works under Internet Explorer 5.0+, Mozilla Firefox 1.0+, and Opera 7.5+."
http://www.surfpack.com/

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General Software Discussion / Mother lode of Freeware Links

« on: October 12, 2006, 03:03 AM »

I have been visiting www.nirsoft.net for a number of years now.

But for some reason unknown to me, I have never bothered to click on the "Links" on the side bar before.

Well, I did it today and what a Mother Lode it is (at least to me).

I don't recall see this particular link to the freeware page on the recommended sites on www.donationcoder.com

Come to think of it, the Recommended site Links page on www.donationcoder.com seems to have disappeared !

I hope someone else can benefit from this.

Freeware Links
http://www.nirsoft.n.../freeware_links.html

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Found Deals and Discounts / BootItNG on sale tomorrow at www.bitsdujour.com

« on: October 10, 2006, 11:19 PM »

If you take the trouble to notice, on the top right hand corner, www.bitsdujour.com sometimes give a preview of what's on sale the next day. Today's listing of BootItNG is an example. See http://bitsdujour.com/

I have read some reviews about how good BootItNg is

http://terabyteunlim...ed.com/bootitng.html

The different versions can be a little confusing  http://terabyteunlim...ed.com/prodgrid.html

But I have no experience in this area other than with Partition Magic.

Anyone care to feedback on their experience with BootItNG (vs Partition Magic) or should one just stick to the tried and tested.

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General Software Discussion / Looking for a Search & Replace utility (with command line) to replace text

« on: October 08, 2006, 10:38 AM »

Can anyone suggest a Freeware Search and replace utility (with command line) to replace text in a text file.

Command line commands are absolutely required in this case.

Basically, I'm looking for a utility to search for expressions in a text file that are the the following formats

(46:2)
(22:3)
(1:3)

and replace them with say
(Ge 46:2)
(Ge 22:3)
(Ge 1:3)

Why I would need commandline commands is so that I could create a batch file so I can issue a string of command easily make all the changes)

Any help appreciated.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Save $30 -Spb Diary/PhatNotes Combo! or $10 off SPB Diary (50% - till Nov 30)

« on: October 04, 2006, 08:12 PM »

To all the PocketPC fanatics out here,  Are there any here ?

I hardly see any mention of PocketPCs here on www.donationcoder.com

But if they exist here at all, here it is.

Phatnotes beats the heck out of Pocket Word ! 

PhatWare Press Releases
"Save $30 on Spb Diary/PhatNotes Combo!

PhatWare Corporation and Spb Software House LTD are pleased to offer 50% discount on PhatNotes Professional/Spb Diary bundle and on Spb Diary application. This limited time offer will expire on November 30, 2006.
Spb Diary + PhatNotes Pro = Optimal Notes Solution
Save $30 on PhatNotes Professional/Spb Diary Combo
was $59.90 now $29.90    
   

PhatNotes is an award-winning notes organizer for Microsoft Windows-powered mobile devices. PhatNotes allows users to create notes and organize them by type, subject, creation and modification date. The application provides powerful text search, document security, and email capabilities. PhatNotes allows to synchronize multiple databases between the desktop PC and the mobile device through ActiveSync.   more..."
http://www.phatware....store/notes%5Foffer/

PhatWare Press Releases
"Save $10 on Spb Diary by Spb Software House
was $19.95 now $9.95    
   

Spb Diary is a feature-rich PIM Today plug-in. It enhances Pocket Outlook by gathering all your PIM information in one place.

    * Calendar, Tasks, and Contacts
    * Messages, Notes and Special Events
    * Photo contacts with handy pop-ups
    * Stylus-free control
    * Integration with most popular PIMs
    * Integration with PhatNotes
    * Top selling Today plug-in

With Spb Diary, the Today screen will soon become your favorite since you will need to leave it less and less.  more"
http://www.phatware....store/notes%5Foffer/

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General Software Discussion / Document Analysis Software

« on: October 02, 2006, 02:36 AM »

I would like to be able to analyze a document by extracting all the words and dumping them into a table which sorts the occurrence of words by the order of frequency.

Of course it would be preferable if you could eliminate commonly occurring words and numbers - ie there should be a way to have an exclusion table where you can specify the words and numbers to be excluded (preferably with wildcards)

I was thinking that with information overload that we all faced nowadays, it would be nice if I could cut an article off a webpage or anywhere else for that matter and then paste it into such a software and get a very quick overview of the emphasis.

Of course the next step is to be able to see the frequency occurrence of two or 3 word phrases.

Does anyone know of the existence of such a utility or perhaps write one ?

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Found Deals and Discounts / 20% Discount on PerfectDisk and other products from Raxco till Sep 30

« on: September 26, 2006, 10:57 PM »

Got this in an email regarding PerfectDisk 8

To celebrate the success of the new release, Raxco is offering a 20% discount on not just PerfectDisk, but all products purchased from our Download Store during the month of September. Just enter coupon code GREAT8 in your cart prior to check-out and the entire cost of all licenses will be reduced by 20%.   

* This code will expire at midnight on September 30th and does not apply to previous purchases.

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Found Deals and Discounts / A cool new kind of popup to save you from RSI and saves time too

« on: September 23, 2006, 01:32 AM »

I came a wonderful new freebie called Instaverse.

This is useful for you when you read devotionals or emails with bible verses.

How often have you wanted to check the context of the quoted verse but didn't because you had to cut and paste the verse onto a webpage or bible software to find the verse. ( I also wonder how this concept can be implemented in the context of helpfiles to walk users through a software application )

Well, Instaverse solves that problem, although it's only free for the Kind James Version.

Of course this may not appeal to those who have no interest in this area, but for those who do, this is a definite time saver and in the longer run may save all the geeks on donationcoder from an earlier onset of RSI (Repetitive Stress Injury) of our keyboard fingers.

I quote from their Website:

InstaVerse by WORDsearch
"Do you visit Christian web sites or receive daily devotional emails? Ever want to look up a scripture fast? InstaVerse™ by WORDsearch will let you instantly see the actual Bible text for scripture references like “John 3:16”—just point your mouse at it, and the text pops up in your preferred translation! The best part is that InstaVerse with the KJV Bible is FREE!"
http://www.instaverse.com/

Works in Internet Explorer, Outlook, Outlook Express, Firefox (v1.5), and Microsoft Word.

Well, some may say that it's a promotional tool to sell more of their other Bible versions, but as is, with the free King James Version, it is fully functional and free (I say Amen to that)

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General Software Discussion / Anyone know a good mov (Quicktime) to Mpeg converter

« on: September 22, 2006, 12:48 AM »

Can anyone suggest a good mov (Quicktime) to Mpeg converter other than TMPGEnc. It will be a bonus if it's Freeware

I downloaded the freeware TMPGEnc from http://www.tmpgenc.net/en/e_about.html
"TMPGEnc converts *.AVI file to MPEG1, the format which is used in VideoCD. Using variety of option in TMPGEnc, you can compress your video file in high quality."

And also

" QTReader.vfp - This is a plugin QuickTime reader for the TMPGEnc mpeg encoder. You just copy this file into
TMPGEnc's folder and you should then be able to read any QuickTime movie."
http://www.geocities...alley/4942/svcd.html

After that I installed Quicktime 6.5.1

I could convert a Quicktime mov file to MPEG1. Everything looks OK except the Audio does not work.

I tried converting the sample movie that was included in the Quicktime version 6.5.1 to MPEG1 file. Similarly there was no audio after the conversion even though I checked the audio settings to ensure that I set TMPEGEnc to convert both video and audio.

Does anyone have any idea why this is so ? Thanks

Or can you please suggest an alternative.

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Found Deals and Discounts / For cats who have trouble looking for the Mouse "pointer"

« on: September 22, 2006, 12:14 AM »

Do you ever have problems looking for the text pointer in say a Microsoft Word document.

If so, you will love Vippy.

Vippy: the writer-friendly text cursor

Don't get lost in your own text. Get Vippy.Do you find it hard to locate your cursor, and mark the insertion point in your documents? You're not the only one. That's why you'll love Vippy, the mouse pointer you can't lose, because it's red. The difference is clear."
http://www.officeboosters.com/vippy.htm

You will also love the fact that it is FREE too.

I was doing a search and replace this morning, and I found that a the text cursor moved from searched item to item, I had a hard time looking for it.

But the free Vippy was a sight saver.

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General Software Discussion / Looking for a utility to safely remove duplicate contacts from Microsoft Outlook

« on: September 10, 2006, 09:37 AM »

I use Microsoft Outlook to maintain contacts. I also use Pocket Informant on the PocketPC and synchronize on a regular basis.

Somehow, along the way, I get a bunch of duplicate contacts in Microsoft Outlook.

Short of going through a long list of contacts to delete the duplicates, I'm looking for a safe way to delete these duplicates.

Preferably, the software should be able to highlight the differences in the seemingly duplicate contacts so that where necessary, I can merge the details into one Contact and delete the superflous duplicate.

Of course it would be nice if there's a freeware version.

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Living Room / Think you are safe ? This ought to bump you off your socks

« on: September 07, 2006, 12:40 AM »

This is for those of you who feel that you have properly secured your home with good quality locks each night before you turn in.

Now almost any Tom, Dick and Harry can break into your house with no sign of forced entry which means your insurance company would just assume that you left your house unlocked and you deserved to be robbed or burgled and I certainly hope not injured.

I don't always turn on my alarm system, but I will certainly do so as this technique gain more traction on the internet.

Read it in Newsweek and watch it on youtube. I hesistated posting this here, in order to not help propagate this. But I think donationcoders need to know about this to better protect themselves.

Lockpicks See Security Flaw in Most Locks - Newsweek Technology - MSNBC.com
"Beware the 'Bump' Key
As lockpicking gains traction as a hobby, a surprisingly easy new technique has been circulating online and among hackers.
WEB EXCLUSIVE
By Brian Braiker
Newsweek

Updated: 2:43 p.m. ET Aug. 5, 2006"
http://www.msnbc.msn.../1/displaymode/1098/

Watch the shocking video at http://www.youtube.c.../watch?v=7Uv45y6vkcQ

Note : Mouser, admin or whoever, if you think in the interest of not helping spread this bump key thing, please remove this post.

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Found Deals and Discounts / "Back to School 3-day Sale - 50% Off on All PhatWare Products for PocketPC

« on: September 01, 2006, 09:18 PM »

PhatWare makes some really good products and CalliGrapher is probably one of the most powerful handwriting recognition engines around.

Besides that you have Phatnotes which beats the socks off Pocket Word with.

And Phatpad which is the PocketPC software that my nieces zooms in on when use the PocketPC, to draw doodle etc.

If you've been looking at picking up any of their stuff (and also software for Tablet PCs/UMPCs and Smartphones etc), now is the time.

Back to School sale, 2006
"Back to School 3-day Sale - 50% Off on All PhatWare Products

 

The sale will start at 12:01AM EST on Saturday, September 2nd and will end at 12:01AM EST on Tuesday, September 5th. Please visit this page again during this time."
http://www.phatware....m/store/b2s2006.html

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General Software Discussion / Right Click no longer works in Firefox

« on: August 26, 2006, 01:10 PM »

For some unkown reason, my right click no longer works in Firefox.

I tried reinstalling Firefox 1.5.0.6 but that did not solve the problem.

I tried searching Google for a solution but could not find one.

Can anyone help please.

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Living Room / Do you reach for your mobile when it did not ring ?

« on: August 19, 2006, 08:11 AM »

How often have you reach for your mobile phone when it did not ring. You just thought it was your mobile ringing when it was your wife or son or just a stranger's mobile ringing.

Well, it happens to me. Many of us use Nokia phones and guess what, the default ring tones are the same in many cases. They do have a few others but some are just too jarring or too plain.

I was wondering if anyone knows a good, safe website where you can download catchy and nice FREE ring tones so that you only need to reach for your mobile when it actually rings, even in a crowded train.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Nelson Email Organizer Pro (NeoPro) 50% discount

« on: August 03, 2006, 10:26 AM »

For those of you using Microsoft Outlook as an email client and suffering from email overload, you may find this of great help.

It's now at 50% discount for a limited time (How long ? Unknown). I used to use it until I switched my email client to Gmail.

But for the diehard Outlook user, this could be the solution for your email overload.

Nelson Email Organizer - NEO - The Microsoft Outlook Email Software Add-On
""
http://www.caelo.com/

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Found Deals and Discounts / 1 Day 50% discount on Advanced DHTML Popup

« on: August 02, 2006, 01:27 AM »

Some of you may be interested to know about this discount.

I'm kind of wondering how useful this software is ?

BUt if you have a message for people who visit your site, it may come in useful to get a response.

On the other hand, it may irritate your visitors.

Any thoughts from people who run websites.

Bits du Jour: Discounted software and programs
"Flashy Little Windows
Advanced DHTML Popup

Regular price: $35.00
Bits du Jour price: $17.50
You save: [Big Discount!] 50% [Really Big Discount!] "
http://bitsdujour.com/