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General Software Discussion / Re: SQLNotes...what is it exactly?

« Last post by tomos on January 15, 2008, 01:20 PM »

As part of the GTD implementation, new quick Add Item form is now available. CTRL-N to open it. A system-wide shortcut is also available to open it from anywhere (CTRL-ALT-N): (see attachment in previous post)You can enter item text, decide into which folder to put it in (normally, the inbox) and put a due date if required

Plus... now you can show/hide an HTML box. SQLNotes can now much more easily be used as a web-clipping tool:

• browse to a web page
  
• Select some text
  
• copy (right-click or CTRL-C)
  
• CTRL-ALT-N (will open the above form)
  
• paste (right-click or CTRL-V)
  
• click Add Item (or Alt-A). An item has been created with your clipping, put in the inbox, ready for you to file it appropriately later-on
  
• focus is then restored to the browser (or whereever you were before hitting the hot-key.

-PPLandry (January 11, 2008, 11:20 PM)

ehh, it works nicely ... but how do we bring up the inbox?

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General Software Discussion / Re: SQLNotes...what is it exactly?

« Last post by tomos on January 15, 2008, 01:08 PM »

Attention all... I created a Wikipedia page to explain what SQLNotes is. The page is not very different from pages of numerous other software.

However for some reason (I know very little about Wikipedia rules/regulations), it has been marked as proposed for deletions in 3 days. One reason given is that only one person contributed... hence the appeal to all to add to the page. Thanks.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sqlnotes

p.s. grap a reference of what you write (and put it ironically into SQLNotes if you wish) in case the deletion is eventually done.

-PPLandry (January 12, 2008, 08:32 PM)

just had a look here,
they seem to be looking for references from other "reliable third party" source
odd in this context - why dont they just download the software to see if it exists !!

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General Software Discussion / Re: SQLNotes...what is it exactly?

« Last post by tomos on January 15, 2008, 12:26 PM »

The daily build is always available here:
http://public.sqlnot...t/download/sqlnotes/
Last one is dated jan 12th 2008

A new one is coming this week 

-PPLandry (January 15, 2008, 12:23 PM)

thanks. not sure how I missed that   havent gotten it in a while I guess

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General Software Discussion / Re: SQLNotes...what is it exactly?

« Last post by tomos on January 15, 2008, 12:03 PM »

is there a daily build there at the mo Pierre? it's not available here at any rate ...
I'm still with version 0.9.21 Beta 01 was hoping to try out some new stuff 

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General Software Discussion / Re: TweakGuides.com - Firefox Tweak Guide

« Last post by tomos on January 15, 2008, 11:54 AM »

thats a nice one to know housetier - dict.cc too! I was just looking for help in that direction

tell us, is that a FireFox theme or is it how the world looks outside (of) windows

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General Software Discussion / Re: ReNamer: The best freeware file renamer? (yes says cybernetnews.com)

« Last post by tomos on January 15, 2008, 11:11 AM »

in DOpus you have the option to show windows context menu or Dopus context menu
not sure how this done in #9 but should be easy to find in the manual ?!

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Word Processor Roundup / Re: Textmaker (Softmaker/Ashampoo Office) 2008

« Last post by tomos on January 15, 2008, 06:33 AM »

well now much better

File with fonts embedded comes to 167KB File without fonts embedded is readable except for the following # it can handle é but not ´ # it cant handle ' a single apostrophe like would normally be used in Tom's or in some surnames e.g. O'Connor # it cant handle euro symbol €

thread is here if anyone has PDF problems!

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Older Newsletters / Re: --> Special Edition Mini Newsletter for January 13th - Codename "Three Thing

« Last post by tomos on January 15, 2008, 06:08 AM »

Kimchee53, there are links in the newsletter to go to the discount page and to go to the page where you can enter to win.  but remember that you do have to be a donating member to enter our monthly drawings.

-mouser (January 14, 2008, 10:08 PM)

and "you do have to be a donating member" to get the discounts as well - correct?

Kimchee
see links bottom of first post

Other Links:     * Visit discount code section  (supporting members only).     * Enter drawing to win (supporting members only).     * Suggest other programs you'd like to see discounts on.

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Word Processor Roundup / Re: Textmaker (Softmaker/Ashampoo Office) 2008

« Last post by tomos on January 15, 2008, 05:48 AM »

Support/ServicePack/etc =
http://www.softmaker...lish/servofw8_en.htm
for Version 482

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Word Processor Roundup / Re: Textmaker (Softmaker/Ashampoo Office) 2008

« Last post by tomos on January 15, 2008, 05:32 AM »

Mike!
check first are you using "revision 482" I'm not and Ashampoo version says I'm uptodate..so awaiting reply from Softmaker, will post again

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General Software Discussion / Re: Easy photo editor

« Last post by tomos on January 15, 2008, 05:25 AM »

yet another image/photo editor and batch processor
a very depreciating title to a software announcement but it sounds very good
disclaimer - I have it downloaded but not tried it yet

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Word Processor Roundup / Re: Textmaker (Softmaker/Ashampoo Office) 2008

« Last post by tomos on January 15, 2008, 05:22 AM »

Funny - I actually have SoftMaker Office 2008 installed (academic licencing is a wonderful thing) and had meant to test this out myself. Of course, I've forgotten. I'll try and do so today or tomorrow and post back here with my own "experiences".

-Darwin (January 14, 2008, 04:17 PM)

please do
there's relatively few posts at the Softmaker2008 forums yet so it would be great to know if this just me

Problems:

• huge file size (almost 2MB for one page with the three fonts mentioned above) with "embed only embeddable.." selected
• totally unreadable PDFs with "do not embed.." selected

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General Software Discussion / Re: SQLNotes...what is it exactly?

« Last post by tomos on January 15, 2008, 05:13 AM »

@Armando:
Using MSWord as the HTML Editor is an excellent idea. Making a full featured editor is a big job which I'd like to postpone if I can. Preliminary test seem good. I can create a word document in a window and load text into it. Menus are OK too. Main thing left to fix: docked toolbars do not show.

-PPLandry (January 14, 2008, 11:33 PM)

would that mean we need to have MS office

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Image Manager Shootout / Re: ExifPro and 3D Photo Browser

« Last post by tomos on January 15, 2008, 05:12 AM »

hi Maggy,
I agree, ExifPro is great!

do you use ExifPros tagging system as well?
I've tried it without great success but in fairness I havent checked it out very scientifically

also it seems to struggle a bit (here) with being made the default viewer for images.. but I am writing up a note about that for author...

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Word Processor Roundup / Re: Textmaker (Softmaker/Ashampoo Office) 2008

« Last post by tomos on January 14, 2008, 03:14 PM »

Hmm... no one's mentioned it there. If you want to post in that forum, point your browser here: http://www.softmaker.com/forum/index.php. You might need to register to use the forum first...

-Darwin (January 10, 2008, 07:59 AM)

done, posted at their forums, will update here - [it's still a problem for me...or for me and Textmaker!]

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Living Room / Re: What kind of tagging system would be appropriate for DC?

« Last post by tomos on January 14, 2008, 01:49 PM »

it's funny the way things can get so personal - and sometimes so quick too
i think it's often someone saying something, maybe in a tactless way, someone reacting, person one reacting to the reaction and its off into an escalating spiral thats difficult to get out of and very easy to get back into ...

ah well

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General Software Discussion / Re: Inadvertent Googling in Spanish

« Last post by tomos on January 14, 2008, 01:09 PM »

or maybe make a new one
http://developer.moz..._plugins_for_Firefox

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General Software Discussion / Re: photo duplicate scanner

« Last post by tomos on January 14, 2008, 12:14 PM »

From what i understand, you don't need a "similar images finder", all you need is a "duplicate file finder", which is included in serveral alternative file explorers (like dopus) or, alternativelly, you could use a standalone tool, like this one.

disclaimer: i've never used dupfilefinder. It does look good, though

-jgpaiva (January 14, 2008, 12:11 PM)

would that find them if they have different names - dont think dopus would do that
would have to compare all files for same size and then do a bit comparision

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General Software Discussion / Re: photo duplicate scanner

« Last post by tomos on January 14, 2008, 12:08 PM »

I used to have one called similar images finder but I never used it
so I googled -
similar images finder

one out of the first three listed is free, one has a trial, I didnt look further

if you do try any of them let us know how you get on!

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Living Room / Re: What kind of tagging system would be appropriate for DC?

« Last post by tomos on January 14, 2008, 09:43 AM »

is he embarrassed about what he wrote or what
or is it a grand statement - no need to answer me there...

hmmm, it is a sad end as Carol says

Personally I wouldnt go to the trouble of restoring - unless others really think it puts them in a bad light - he did obviously decide to leave a couple of posts in which he was trying to finish up the debate which could give a skewed impression of things

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Living Room / Re: site for searching for geographical features?

« Last post by tomos on January 14, 2008, 09:10 AM »

• http://www.geo.ed.ac...reategeofeatmap.html
• http://www.mesopotam...explore/geofeat.html

-lanux128 (January 11, 2008, 08:49 PM)

number one there is for Scotland

second one is for middle east or "messopotamia" as the link says
it's an interesting one actually

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Unicode Image Maker / Re: Open Image as Text?

« Last post by tomos on January 14, 2008, 07:56 AM »

Makes perfect sense - I just thought it would convert a picture to text is all,
thanks

-shagger1 (December 08, 2005, 08:16 PM)

probably a couple of years too late for shagger
Tim - Image to Text Converter
donationcoder NANY entry

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Living Room / Re: Have you ever wondered....

« Last post by tomos on January 14, 2008, 07:50 AM »

well, I'd avoid that first one:
http://www.justsayhi.com/bb/fight5
do the "survey" all you get is offers of "Free online dating"

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Point Motivator / Re: Suggestions

« Last post by tomos on January 13, 2008, 12:41 PM »

I think I may have posted this in the wrong thread

I'm  pleasantly suprised by the urge to build up those points
thanks mouser

a minor bug:
the reward column on the "Earn Points" tab only ever shows 10points here regardless of actual amounts (which work okay otherwise)
a minor request:
could you get it to come out of the tray on one click? (please!)
oh, and option to close to tray would be good too but only as icing

-tomos (January 10, 2008, 06:00 AM)

I have other ideas/requests but havent looked at this xml aspect of it yet so will post again

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Developer's Corner / Re: Bow to the browser

« Last post by tomos on January 13, 2008, 05:25 AM »

well he mentions Opera ... [but under Firefox heading]

I'm not sure about opera cause i've personnaly done survey for this browser in many internet cafes.and the users are complaining about its stability and security.

-mahesh2k (January 13, 2008, 04:51 AM)

anything I've ever read about browsers though, says that Opera is the most secure of all