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Found Deals and Discounts / Kingsoft Office Suite Standard for free today
« on: May 23, 2012, 07:50 AM »
Today I stumbled upon this offer:

Kingsoft Office Suite Standard for free today at dailysoftwaregiveaway.com.

Now I added this to my arsenal of office suites consisting of Open Office and Softmaker.

While reading up on KS I also noticed that they have a very highly rated completely free and full featured (not crippled like the other ones) android office suite in google market with a 4.5 out of 10115 votes rating - not bad I guess!

I have never used Kingsoft yet. I know they are very popular in China. BTW Softmaker also has an android office app in public beta on their site, but it won't be free.

It seems that the PC companies have an experience advantage adapting their software to android over the purely mobile competition and apparently can render spreadsheets and docs without dropping and losing PC side features from the file.

What are your experiences with today's Kingsoft offer?

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Living Room / Free Web aids to teach English to native Russian speakers?
« on: October 11, 2011, 09:03 AM »
Hi,

some friends of mine would like to be taught English. Are there any good downloadable web resources for this task?

I am looking for special recordings in slowly spoken English and also (same text) normal spoken English to effortlessly accustom them to the different language melody and structure. It would be great if those recordings would already be structured in a step by step lesson-like context.

Also I am looking for a good downloadable grammar as a reference work.

Money is tight for them and not everyone has an internet connection at home, so it would be important that it is free and possibly available for download, i.e. not entirely web based.

I would also be interested in some fun written lessons and exercises.

Do we have any language teaching experts? I would surely appreciate your input.

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General Software Discussion / Case of the missing partitions when downgrading from W7 to XP
« on: September 12, 2011, 07:08 AM »
Hi everybody,

a while ago I installed the trial version of Win7 on my lappy.

Then I took the hard drive out, put it in another lappy and mirrored XP to the HD with Drive Snapshot.

Now XP starts fine, but my second partition is laways hiding. I can unhide it with any partition tool and it will show up for that session, but after a reboot it is gone into hiding again.

I think it has to do with the way Win7 aligns partitions.

I can find plenty of tutorials on the web to align a drive to the new Win7 partitoning scheme, but have not been lucky to find one that can reverse it.

Can anybody help?

Thanks.

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General Software Discussion / VueScan 9BETA - NEW: Twain, PS Import, native 64bit, Price Increase Soon
« on: November 26, 2010, 02:53 AM »
Hi,

because the release of VueScan9 will most likely be accompanied by a price increase, I just wanted to quickly give you a heads up that Ed Hamrick is in the final stages of beta testing the new version 9 of VueScan.

VueScan 9 is now compiled with Microsoft C and is a major rewrite.

New features:
  • Faster and more responsive user interface,
  • Twain support (i.e. you can use VueScan to directly import into f.e. MS Word, IrfanView, FastStoneImage Viewer, your favorite OCR etc.),
  • Native 64 bit binaries for Windows, MacOS, and Linux, so that now the full scanner feature sets are supported under 64 bit OS
  • Works better with scans over 3GB
  • PhotoShop Import filters (32 and 64 bit) for PS and PSE together with better memory management
  • Universal Binary on MacOSX

The final version is expected to be out beginning of the coming week and Ed dropped hints that it will probably also become more expensive at that time.

So if you were thinking of buying or gifting VueScan, you may want to grab it now before the expected increase. Ed never gives discounts, so there is no need to wait for a "deal".

The standard version is good for document scans and the occasional color scan, but for serious color work, the professional version is probably best, which also comes with unlimited upgrades (vs. 1 yr for standard).

Here is a more in depth review of VueScan:

https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=23658.0

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General Software Discussion / How to replace a driver in a .img file?
« on: November 24, 2010, 10:26 AM »
Hi,

I have a .ca_ file, which contains a 122MB .img file where I need to update a driver. I think the image is bootable.

I am a TotalCommander user, and have the  totaliso, iso, and img extensions installed.

When I extract and then try to open the .img file with TC I get an "error in packed file" message.

The 7z filemanager can open the file without a problem (but does not allow editing).

If I change the .img extension to .iso I get no error message but the content is shown as empty, if I change to .ima same results as .img.

The file seems to be  a bootable Microsoft .img file in NTFS file system. The first few characters of the file as shown in my HexEditor HxD are "ëR.NTFS".

Could anybody give me some hints how I can go about replacing a driver in that file.

I thing MagicIso could do it, but I would like to do it without paying the fee for a one time job.

Thanks.

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