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General Software Discussion / The real DITTO

« on: December 22, 2010, 10:42 PM »

Sorry, could not resist.
If you'd used it, you'd know why.
DITTO

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Found Deals and Discounts / Chip.de 2010 Advent Calendar

« on: December 22, 2010, 04:30 PM »

#22 has UltraEdit 15.20 full version
I registered and received a license key.
The key might be only for the German version and possibly also only for the msi installer supplied via the email
Advent Calendar

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Living Room / Re: Need a New Mouse

« on: December 19, 2010, 10:57 PM »

Maximum PC gave the R.A.T a 98% rating

*Edit*: Maximum PC reviewed the R.A.T 7, so I updated the Cyborg link.

Considering how many mice I've had fail (both Logitech and Microsoft), one of these is definitely on a future short list.

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Living Room / Re: iPod - tell me why I should buy one

« on: November 18, 2010, 07:39 PM »

Not to mention Rockbox runs on quite few Sansa models.
I just Rockbox'd an old Sansa E250.
Why Rockbox

The Sansa Clip+ and Fuze are great players
anythingbutipod

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General Software Discussion / Re: Return of the Son of the best *free* Windows Text Editor

« on: November 11, 2010, 08:57 AM »

For Emacs  fans  ... or not   

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General Software Discussion / Re: Return of the Son of the best *free* Windows Text Editor

« on: November 10, 2010, 06:57 PM »

I really like HippoEDIT - it helped me sort out some complicated multi-platform ifdef stuff. I was quite impressed.
However, I don't use it as my main editor (EditPad Pro) as I had continuous context switching delays when editing files on SMB shares.
Perhaps there are configuration settings that could mitigate that problem, but I didn't pursue it.

I was also an UltraEdit fan at one point, but post V12, it really just became too lethargic.
For quick & dirty editing, it's Notepad++ mainly - sometimes Notepad2 or SciTE.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Download multiple links from WEB page

« on: October 28, 2010, 06:12 AM »

I had reason to use this tool recently.
The author of the tool now makes it available from here
WSUS Offline Update website

Looks like Office 2000 support has been dropped though.

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General Software Discussion / Re: EditPad Pro 7-BETA

« on: October 13, 2010, 06:16 AM »

widgewunner, thanks for the heads up.

Some of these issues have annoyed me as well, so it's good to see they will be fixed.
This one in particular

When opening/saving projects and files, there was only one "last used" folder that would come up as default...

and this issue always bugs the heck out of me. Why it was never there in the first place (or added to V6), I have no idea.

There was no way to quickly copy/paste a file's path/filename. Now you can right-click the files tab and get it into the clipboard

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Living Room / Re: Looking for Refrigerator Magnets that work

« on: September 28, 2010, 06:07 PM »

No argument .. thought you were referring to the N35 magnets 

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Living Room / Re: Looking for Refrigerator Magnets that work

« on: September 28, 2010, 05:37 AM »

CodeTRUCKER, I've used these Fridge Magnets
They're more expensive than those J-Mac linked to, but the magnets are stronger.

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General Software Discussion / Re: how to make a list of fonts you have

« on: September 19, 2010, 07:50 AM »

How about fastfontpreview
I can't vouch for it, but it does claim

VERY fast preview both uninstalled or installed fonts by folder from Hard drive,CD's or USB drive

and

Lanmisoft programs does not contain spyware, adware or viruses!

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Living Room / Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?

« on: September 06, 2010, 06:14 PM »

Must admit, I really can't complain these days (up could be somewhat better)
http://www.speedtest...result/943242820.png
32.7 Mb/s down : 3.62 Mb/s up

Reliability in my area is excellent as well - has been for a long time.
This is Cox Communications "Preferred"
Speeds up to 20 Mbps with PowerBoost®, great for music and photos.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Recommend disk imaging software?

« on: June 28, 2010, 06:34 PM »

Which is why I will always prefer a boot CD as opposed to other backup/restoration mechanisms

All disk imaging programs do some kind of tricky things to keep the disk & file system in a consistent state while backing up - so you can imagine that there is some contention among them.

-brahman

For me the K.O. criteria of O&O DiskImage 4 and 5 was that it cannot restore the system partition without a separate boot CD.

-brahman

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General Software Discussion / Re: Recommend disk imaging software?

« on: June 24, 2010, 08:06 PM »

Interesting that there are few recommendations for O&O DiskImage
I've had great success with it.
O&O DiskImage 5 Pro

 

For $29-95, you can cross-upgrade to O&O DiskImage 5 Professional Edition from the following products: Acronis True Image Home or Workstation, Norton Ghost, PowerQuest, DriveImage or DeployCenter, Paragon Drive Backup Professional Edition or Drive Copy Professional Edition, Avanquest Perfect Image (Workstation)

The free version may even serve someone's requirements
O&O DiskImage Express

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Living Room / Re: Power supply and SATA

« on: May 25, 2010, 06:49 PM »

Monoprice is good as well.
Monoprice cable

PS: Stoic Joker, thanks for the sfcables reference.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Free ALZip 8.0 License key

« on: May 08, 2010, 07:30 AM »

Link is off the main page
ALTools

To celebrate the release of ALZip 8.0 beta1, we are holding a small event.
Get it here

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General Software Discussion / Re: How to remove ">>>" characters from mail and rewrap mail text?

« on: April 21, 2010, 06:15 PM »

Have used stripmail for years - although not often lately.
Has individual paste, strip, paragraph, copy back to clipboard buttons as well as a "do it all" button

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General Software Discussion / Re: Video Editing software - Any recommendations?

« on: April 20, 2010, 09:29 PM »

mediachance have a range of video editing  products.
I've never used any of them, nor do I know anyone who has.
At $89, EditStudio PRO may be in the "low cost" category.
The products don't appear to be updated that frequently though, but that does necessarily mean they are not capable editors.
If there are any users of their video editing products, please chime in.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Quality Comparison: 8 x freeware PDF Readers / Viewers

« on: March 01, 2010, 06:27 PM »

PDF-Xchange viewer drives me nuts regarding the time it takes to render some PDFs.
I can wait for 5-10 seconds before some pages are drawn.

The Nuance PDF Reader does not exhibit that behavior at all, in fact it's really quite fast.
The slow startup is annoying though, but it still may become my default reader.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Quality Comparison: 8 x freeware PDF Readers / Viewers

« on: February 20, 2010, 03:12 PM »

Not sure if appropriate to re-open this thread, but has anyone tried this yet?
Nuance PDF Reader

Introducing a free PDF reader that's small in size and big on features.

Get ready to rethink your choice of free PDF reader. Nuance PDF Reader enables you to do much more than just view PDF files. You can convert PDF files to Word®, Excel®, and RTF via a hosted web service. Use annotation tools to highlight, cross-out, and underline text for more effective collaboration. Even fill out and save PDF forms. Nuance PDF Reader takes up less disk space, is more secure than Adobe® Reader®, and works with virtually any PDF file. Best of all, it’s absolutely free, proving that you really can get a whole lot of something for nothing.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Mass checksum checker

« on: February 16, 2010, 08:29 PM »

md5deep etc from sourceforge?
does directory recursion etc.
There are some restrictions on Unicode though.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Web-Browser Review: Opera 10.00

« on: February 03, 2010, 05:59 PM »

Well, I wish Opera management would devote a smidgen of resources to beefing up the Wand. It could be so much better. I track passwords in Keypass then feed them to Opera for Wand storage as needed.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Web-Browser Review: Opera 10.00

« on: February 02, 2010, 11:41 PM »

Fair enough. Like I said, more content is good.
Opera ticks me off (occasionally), but really just so much less than the alternatives.
For me, there actually is no practical alternative 
 
Ok, off my high horse

I often wonder how many FF fans have not even tried Opera.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Web-Browser Review: Opera 10.00

« on: February 02, 2010, 05:11 PM »

Stephen66515, it's your review. You get to write what you feel.
Don't moderate your review based on what you think someone else would like to hear.
*edit* Sure, more content would be welcome, but not your position.

For what it's worth, every single time I try to start using Firefox for regular use (a new release perhaps), I end up remembering that I seriously dislike it. I do use it occasionally for one plug-in (DownThemAll) and, even then, I only use one particular feature of that.  But for that, I would not even bother install it.

Opera rules (in my world anyway) since version 2.1!!

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Remove duplicate files, folders and archives - DupeTrasher 2009

« on: September 28, 2009, 11:02 PM »

Thanks AsmDev