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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 7 -- ribbons for everyone!
« on: September 21, 2008, 10:01 PM »
In most of the programs I use with a ribbon you get the option to auto hide it, seems to give me more space than I had before.  It seems a bit pointless in something like perfect disk, but you don't really need a lot of room for it anyway so it causes me no problem at all.  I like the ribbon in office2007 because of the added functionality it has brought with it, the live previews and so on.  Most if not all the commands I ever used are there somewhere and any that are missing I don't seem to be missing.  A quick look in the help seems to suggest most of the keyboard shortcuts used prior to 2007 still work as well.

I somehow sense the feeling that 10 or 15 yrs ago some people would have been saying "These new menus! They won't catch on ya know, what's wrong with just knowing what to type in?"  Times move on, the ribbon will probably disappear at some point and Vista will be looked on as the greatest thing microsoft ever did.

From the number of new programs and sites offering so much I would imagine that for most people the computer will remain a tool, if it doesn't work out of the box, what use is it to them? They want to look at their facebook page, send an email, chat to their friends and sometimes do some research for school or general interest and they will in time go to something that just works, why wouldn't you?  People who like messing about with stuff, well they are another market and a much smaller one.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Drop Box lands
« on: September 21, 2008, 05:09 AM »
I just went and read the details at their site, and yes, if you put your stuff in a public folder then you make it public, seems logical to me, the (offending?) paragraph is

Your Public Folder

While you own the content contained in Your Files, files placed in your public folders are automatically available to other Dropbox users and to the general public. By placing Your Files in your public folder, you hereby grant all other Dropbox users and the public a non-exclusive, non-commercial, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable, perpetual and irrevocable right and license to use and exploit Your Files in your public folder. In other words, a file in your public folder can be used by anyone, for any purpose except commercial use. If you do not want other people to be able to use Your Files in this manner, then simply do not place Your Files in your public folder. By placing Your Files in your public folder, you agree and acknowledge that Dropbox has no responsibility or obligation to monitor or notify of you of any non-compliance related to the license you have granted and that Dropbox has no responsibility to enforce or police, or aid you in enforcing or policing, the terms of that license.


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General Software Discussion / Re: Drop Box lands
« on: September 21, 2008, 02:58 AM »
Aha, thanks anjan, I shall keep my stuff private!

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General Software Discussion / Re: POP Mail checker
« on: September 21, 2008, 12:15 AM »
I used poppeeper for years till I got it all going through gmail.  It was good, reliable and is the one I would use if I still needed one.  I went on a bit of a look the other day ad nothing seems to have turned up that is any better.

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Living Room / DRM and spore
« on: September 20, 2008, 02:19 AM »
An interesting article at opendemocracy blog  http://www.opendemoc...the-future-of-gaming on the DRM issue and gaming particularly spore.

Spore - "the most hotly anticipatedcomputer game of the year" according to CNN - has quickly become the mostcontroversial game of the year and, quite likely, of the whole decade.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Please Help Me "Transition" to Internet Exploder...err Explorer
« on: September 18, 2008, 09:24 PM »
Using IE7Pro could be a problem as well, since you have to install that from an exe as far as I know anyway.

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Living Room / Re: DonationQuote - DonationCoder Quote Database
« on: September 18, 2008, 07:40 PM »
Great work guys, thats a lot of fun  ;D

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General Software Discussion / Re: Strategies for international travellers regarding new US Customs seizure policy
« on: September 17, 2008, 06:43 PM »
Good to see Target, a little accountability is a good thing. You have to stop the bad guys somehow but there is not a lot of point if in doing so you become the bad guys!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Do you keep two computers synchronized? i.e. work + home. If so, how?
« on: September 17, 2008, 06:40 PM »
I keep my 2 computers more or less in sync (data not programs, I try to keep the laptop as lean as possible).  The amounts of data involved are not huge, 30gb of music looked after separately, and about 5gb of other stuff.  Files i am working on regularly, essays and notes, are kept in dropbox and now evernote, the other stuff that doesnt change day to day (new documents downloaded from libraries or databases whatever) gets the SFFS treatment (as does new wallpapers and Icons and photos)  Works for me, but as I say I don't have a lot of data, though, it does grow week by week.

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General Software Discussion / Re: List of newbie questions regarding software
« on: September 17, 2008, 06:28 PM »
I love all these neat tools. I just have to be careful to keep them in perspective.
-40hz (September 17, 2008, 05:55 PM)

This is so true 40hz and you can find comments about that sort of thing  on almost any of the productivity sites/blogs and no doubt on the writing sites.  When it all boils down, if you want to write or be productive or whatever it is, then the tool you use is probably the least important thing (though its also perhaps the most fun to try and find, and to put off what it is you are really trying to accomplish)

Photography is another good example, people have been making excellent images long before photoshop turned up, long before computers turned up, a good photographer will take a good photograph with any old camera, they will maybe make a better one with a fancy modern camera, but its their creativity and knowledge of what makes a photo good not the tools they use to do it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Mathematics symbols OCR
« on: September 17, 2008, 01:56 PM »
I tried a program called PDF Annotator at one point, can't remember much about it except that it seemed pretty good if you wanted to use a tablet anyway might be worth a look, $69.95 US http://ograhl.com/en/pdfannotator/

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Living Room / Re: Flash Toy of the Week: How Well Can you Differentiate Colors?
« on: September 16, 2008, 05:20 PM »
It may have something to do with the different ways cats see colour  ;)

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Living Room / Re: Flash Toy of the Week: How Well Can you Differentiate Colors?
« on: September 16, 2008, 04:29 PM »
oh me oh my, I must be getting old, my eyes are wearing out  ;D  Score = 30

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Living Room / Re: News Article: Old News, Served Fresh
« on: September 15, 2008, 04:37 PM »

It's complex for a reason :P

It is, if everyone discovered that the best way to make a living was in fact to shuffle money from one point to another point and actually not produce much or any of anything, there'd be a riot!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Microsoft Streets And Trips 2008 Activation crud
« on: September 14, 2008, 08:49 PM »
Those that could not activate their Vista systems due to server outages may disagree with you Josh.

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Living Room / Re: News Article: YouTube Bans Terrorist Videos
« on: September 14, 2008, 06:03 PM »
Does this mean clips from Rambo will be banned too?  :o

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General Software Discussion / Re: Mathematics symbols OCR
« on: September 14, 2008, 05:13 PM »
Well, i guess the price depends on how important it is to you, it is cheaper than photoshop, just lol

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General Software Discussion / Re: dpc latency checker: interesting if you plan to do serious Audio/video
« on: September 14, 2008, 07:00 AM »
Its not specifically an XP problem, mine shows all green, mind you I don't  really understand what its measuring but it seems to feel happy about it  ;) (XP home SP3 AMD X2 3800  and the laptop, xp home sp3 celeron 1.5)

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Living Room / Re: Has the LHC destroyed the world yet?
« on: September 12, 2008, 07:52 PM »
I think thats it though nosh, it isn't going to help us in any particular way at present.  It will add to the sum of knowledge and at some point someone in a more applied research effort will find a use for it.  Though in the meantime people interested in the origins of the universe may discover further insights.  Who knows, me I'm going for lunch!

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Living Room / Re: Has the LHC destroyed the world yet?
« on: September 12, 2008, 04:58 PM »
Its one of the great things of science, and all intellectual pursuits really, that some things are just done, investigated, tried whatever, just because someone is curious enough.  A bit of pure research can lead to all sorts of things which seems to be something which has been forgotten in this lets make a buck world.

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Living Room / Jeddai Knight training!
« on: September 11, 2008, 08:25 PM »
The wonderful things they will teach at universities, i hear surfing is available in some places but i had not heard of this before

Bring your own light sabre: Uni launches Jedi course

By Europe correspondent Emma Alberici

Posted 1 hour 14 minutes ago
Participants dressed as Jedi Knight characters perform with their light sabres

The force is strong: The university says Star Wars can shed light on political and social issues (Reuters: Issei Kato, file photo)

The UK's first Jedi course teaching personal development through a Star Wars syllabus will open to students at Queen's University in Belfast from November.

According to its publicity material, the course, Feel the Force: How to Train in the Jedi Way, teaches the real-life psychological techniques behind Jedi mind tricks.

It also claims to examine the wider issues behind the Star Wars universe, like balance, destiny, dualism, fatherhood and fascism.

The university says it hopes to attract young Star Wars fans and introduce them to education through open learning.

No prior qualifications are required and the blurb informs students that light sabres are not provided.



So there you go, all you aspiring Darth Vaders

From http://www.abc.net.a...08/09/12/2362719.htm

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General Software Discussion / Re: More Browser Real Estate - Try Prism
« on: September 11, 2008, 08:02 PM »
Though for various reasons some of us are still stuck on ff2  >:( so its good to know if we cant use it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: How do you manage your email?
« on: September 11, 2008, 10:02 AM »
I'll have to see if I can patent myself someday
.

I think you are probably too late, you probably have been patented by now!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Image organizer recommendations
« on: September 11, 2008, 09:40 AM »
While its been a while since i've played with it, I think you could probably make the CD or DVD with MS Movie Maker, the free one that comes with xp.  Just add the pictures in the desired order, add music or a voice over whatever then burn it to a DVD with some burning software, I dont know if movie maker would do that.  Just a thought anyway, and you cant go to far wrong, its all free, just a bit of time.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: REQUEST: DonationCoder Song
« on: September 11, 2008, 08:42 AM »
I think you are getting quite fond of this feathered beast and won't eat him after all  ;)

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