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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Release: Dualcopy

« Last post by tomos on January 01, 2018, 06:46 AM »

Cross-posting:

Codesector the makers of Teracopy have a promotion of 50% for New Year! through January 7, 2018

New Year Sale – 50% Off/

-antekgla (December 31, 2017, 06:00 PM)

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: pCloud

« Last post by tomos on December 29, 2017, 06:20 PM »

So I guess they change it depending on your local currency?

-wraith808 (December 29, 2017, 03:41 PM)

Yes,
I was curious what they were charging over there :-)

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: pCloud

« Last post by tomos on December 29, 2017, 03:14 PM »

They're doing an offer at the moment: 'Lifetime' one-time-payment (in euros) -- 500GB/€125 or 2TB/€250
https://www.pcloud.c...-pricing-plans.html?

Not of interest to me personally, but it's an interesting idea, a one-off payment. Course it is a bit of a gamble...
I'd be curious btw what that offer is in other currencies, especially $US ?

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Foreign Language Paste

« Last post by tomos on December 27, 2017, 11:08 AM »

C H+S is not unicode, as far as I know it needs a big change to be so.

-rgdot (December 27, 2017, 08:37 AM)

@drgt:
Windows clipboard is unicode, so the last clip you copied will (normally) be correct -- whether pasted via CHS or not, but as soon as you copy another clip it will no longer display many non-English letters accents etc. correctly.

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General Software Discussion / Re: CLCL, Cant access 'Template' if *HISTORY* HAS more than 35 items ' ( UPDATED )

« Last post by tomos on December 26, 2017, 05:23 PM »

^ as per recommendation in the other thread:

2) Limit the number of items of your history displayed in the menu [..]

-antekgla (December 13, 2017, 02:26 PM)

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Living Room / Re: Why doesn't DC make its own browser?

« Last post by tomos on December 26, 2017, 02:59 PM »

I get the picture mouser.

Maybe... picking up where a few of the long-trusted and used Firefox legacy extensions left off would be an easier challenge?
Autohide bookmark toolbar, scroll through open tabs with middle 'mouser'  , FTDark theme to name a few appreciated features of old that'll never come back?.
Bye bye 2017!

-dantheman (December 26, 2017, 07:50 AM)

wonder what's going to happen with Pale Moon, and the ESR Firefox in the future...

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Living Room / Re: Happy holidays, merry christmas, and all that junk

« Last post by tomos on December 25, 2017, 04:02 PM »

I'm baking, for the first time in ten years at least, we'll see what comes out of it, but it makes for a nice festive vibe.

-tomos (December 25, 2017, 02:25 PM)

I hope you mean you're baking food...and not literally baking...

-Stephen66515 (December 25, 2017, 03:38 PM)

well both actually (there's a low ceiling here)

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Living Room / Re: Happy holidays, merry christmas, and all that junk

« Last post by tomos on December 25, 2017, 02:25 PM »

go on Stephen you grumpy git you :p
have a nice day, while you're at it

I'm baking, for the first time in ten years at least, we'll see what comes out of it, but it makes for a nice festive vibe.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by tomos on December 24, 2017, 05:25 AM »

warning, in case you want to see more:
Oglaf.com is very NSFW

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General Software Discussion / Re: Add a Icon for 'File Shredder' to Context Menu ( Win7 )

« Last post by tomos on December 23, 2017, 04:21 PM »

FileMenu Tools might do it -
they say change icon, but may be just for folders...
Have you asked the developer of File Shredder?

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by tomos on December 23, 2017, 07:01 AM »

This LiveLeak video had me larfing. The guy is very good.
How a Fluorescent Lamp Turns On

-IainB (December 23, 2017, 01:00 AM)

yes, that was very good
seems he has a big following on YT as well, here his channel intro video

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General Software Discussion / Re: calendar that is happy in Windows and on tablet

« Last post by tomos on December 22, 2017, 05:41 AM »

You may try ...

-MilaCh (December 22, 2017, 05:34 AM)

hi MilaCh -- looks good, but:
best to state your affiliation with product/s, otherwise posts like yours usually get deleted as spam.

PS there is also an Announce your own product board on the forum

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Living Room / Re: Arizona sunsets

« Last post by tomos on December 21, 2017, 06:16 PM »

I didn't know ICE could fill in.

-Arizona Hot (December 21, 2017, 05:36 PM)

according to the video above, yes. If so it must be better than MS paint (which I've got to say though, has been working reasonably well: I hadnt noticed anything funny about the edges).

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Living Room / Re: Chess?

« Last post by tomos on December 20, 2017, 03:20 PM »

on impulse, I searched for somewhere I could simply play chess against myself -
I found:
https://www.liavaag....ish/Film/Pong/Chess/

They offered a 'cpu' option -- me against my own cpu maybe?
I lost the first badly, and they didnt even play particularly well.
The second game I won in 11 moves, which of course confirms that I'm a natural genius and should really have started playing chess at a younger age. It was interesting for me to notice myself getting defensive in the game, then thinking, they have a weakness: go for that weakness.

Proceeded to lose the next few games -- replayed one up to where I screwed up, allowed the cpu to take over and did reasonably well after. But it's clear the engine I'm playing against is really bad. It is a nice way for me to start -- I mean it's encouraging, but leads to a few questions:

1) any better site I can play where I can choose the level I am playing against?

2) is there any site or programme I can feed the moves into and it will allow me to replay the game by simply pressing a play button?

Here my immortal ;-) as copied form above site:

Spoiler

1. d2 d4 d7 d5 2. c1 g5 b8 c6 3. e2 e3 c8 f5 4. f1 d3 f5 d3 5. d1 d3 b7 b5 6. g1 f3 b5 b4 7. d3 b5 g8 f6 8. b5 c6 f6 d7 9. c6 d5 f7 f5 10. f3 e5 c7 c5
11. d5 f7
checkmate!!

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Release: Shortcuts Creator

« Last post by tomos on December 20, 2017, 07:33 AM »

You're on a roll

and this looks interesting...

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Living Room / Re: Arizona sunsets

« Last post by tomos on December 19, 2017, 02:41 PM »

Any other questions?

-Arizona Hot (December 19, 2017, 09:58 AM)

yes,

• have you been using ICE to fill in the edges of the panoramas ?
• have you been using a tripod ?

Had a look at this ICE video, it's very impressive software:

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Living Room / Re: Arizona sunsets

« Last post by tomos on December 19, 2017, 06:28 AM »

Nice sunset picture with clouds.

-Arizona Hot (December 19, 2017, 01:35 AM)

how are you making panorama pictures these days (with the new camera) ?

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Living Room / Re: Mechanical Keyboards

« Last post by tomos on December 18, 2017, 11:24 AM »

It seems the major design choice when considering one of these things is the switch, and there's like a gazillion of them.  Some are loud, some aren't, some offer more resistance, some less, some are 'clicky', some aren't

-Target (December 17, 2017, 08:45 PM)

tactile switches have a slight or pronounced bump on the stem, letting you feel it as you type.  linear switches are smooth from top to bottom.  clicky switches click as you type- like the old IBM keyboards.  The actuation force is the amount of pressure on the keys needed to actuate (activate) it.  There's a lot of keyboard science to them, and a lot is based on personal preference.
[..]
I like to use Brown (tactile) switches.  They are tactile with an actuation force of 45cN. 

-wraith808 (December 17, 2017, 09:22 PM)

I have only ever used one mechanical keyboard, it has brown switches -- I'm very happy with them.

without spending a shirtload of money to buy all these things to test, how does one go about making a choice (the right choice?)

-Target (December 17, 2017, 08:45 PM)

said keyboard cost me around 60 euros -- I just had a good look at amazon reviews, and went for the cheapest that got reasonable reviews (is a qwertz full keyboard from qpad, they dont seem to sell keyboards in the states, dont know about elsewhere)

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Living Room / Re: Mechanical Keyboards

« Last post by tomos on December 17, 2017, 05:07 PM »

curious about recommendations for a mechanical keyboard nooby.

I'm interested in getting a tenkeyless board (nothing as extreme as 40%!) but all these switches and options mean nothing to me, and spending $140+ a time to test a keyboard isn't in my budget

-Target (December 17, 2017, 04:15 PM)

below a 68key board (no F keys) recommended by wraith. If you scroll down (on amazon) it gets compared with a few others that also might suit

the Qisan keyboards are pretty nice for the price.

http://www.amazon.co...cforce/dp/B01872MCIA

The browns are more for some reason... the blacks and blues are a lot less.  On this particular keyboard, you're giving up the function row (which can be accessed using the function key) and the numeric keypad.  It's a good tradeoff.

-wraith808 (May 25, 2016, 02:22 PM)

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General Software Discussion / Re: CLCL, Cant access 'Template' if *HISTORY* HAS more than 35 items ' ( UPDATED )

« Last post by tomos on December 15, 2017, 04:03 PM »

Screenshot1, please do not post in this style, with red text and huge caps -- it's very distracting and will turn people off more than make them want to help.

-mouser (December 15, 2017, 12:59 PM)

I saw 'RED' was a colour 'Option !! and its NOT all in Capitals ??? only a few words ??????

-screenshot1 (December 15, 2017, 03:35 PM)

hi screenshot1,
red is read as a warning, or often used to emphasize something of great importance. The combination of all red and some caps comes across a bit like someone shouting their head off -- it's clear from your response that that's not what you intended, but it will discourage helpful responses.

Also it's helpful to make a post once, and then wait for a response. I'm not sure how many times you made that post - but I can tell you, the more times you post it (in the one forum), the less likely it is that you will get a helpful response.

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General Software Discussion / Re: CLCL, Cant access 'Template' if *HISTORY* HAS more than 35 items ' ( UPDATED )

« Last post by tomos on December 15, 2017, 01:37 PM »

The post has already been posted in this thread, here
https://www.donation....msg415246#msg415246

Was also posted as a separate thread earlier, but it looks like someone deleted it after I pointed out it was already posted elsewhere (might be better to simply lock the thread? then the poster can find the other one).

So, making this post for the second time. Starting to feel a bit like that film...

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Living Room / Re: Its hard in this world not to be cynical but you can try

« Last post by tomos on December 14, 2017, 03:48 PM »

The same person/people made this video, also related to homelessness
(which seems relevant to some of your thoughts there wysiwyg125)

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Living Room / Re: Animal Friends thread

« Last post by tomos on December 14, 2017, 02:10 PM »

A patient, calm bat gets some help from humans:

-mouser (December 13, 2017, 01:06 PM)

Look a bit like foxes.

-tomos (December 13, 2017, 02:03 PM)

I'd never considered that before. But I suppose you're not alone in your observation, and that's why she referred to them as "flying foxes" in the video.

-Deozaan (December 14, 2017, 04:28 AM)

ah, hadn't noticed that -- I wasn't listening properly, but it probably worked as the power of suggestion. Meanwhile me thinking I had a great insight ;-)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Notetaking software

« Last post by tomos on December 13, 2017, 03:03 PM »

FYI your FF is quite behind the current Version of Firefox which is 57.02 and Clibu works fine on that.

-nevf (December 13, 2017, 02:01 PM)

many are avoiding the new firefox, as most extensions no longer work in it (or still dont work in it).

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Living Room / Re: Animal Friends thread

« Last post by tomos on December 13, 2017, 02:03 PM »

A patient, calm bat gets some help from humans:

-mouser (December 13, 2017, 01:06 PM)

they seem to be quite curious and not much afraid. Look a bit like foxes.