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Living Room / Re: Whats on your desktop?

« Last post by Darwin on September 06, 2009, 11:43 AM »

Here's my desktop - I have a 15.4" notebook and a 19" secondary monitor running:



I'm still loathe to use icons directly on the desktop (silly, really) as I rely instead on TrueLaunchBar...

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: ClipMate at $19.95 on BitsduJour today - Sept. 4

« Last post by Darwin on September 06, 2009, 11:38 AM »

@Curt:
You forgot ArsClip, CHS, CLCL, ClipCache and MiniCLIP

-rjbull (September 06, 2009, 10:28 AM)

ClipCache is right there in the screenshot 

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Living Room / Re: OK - lets get to know each other... who are you, what do you do, where from?

« Last post by Darwin on September 06, 2009, 11:37 AM »

edbro - the same lines keep running through my head!

You know what they say - a rolling stone gathers no moss 

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Living Room / Re: LockHunter: Fix file-in-use problems on Windows x64 (free donationware)

« Last post by Darwin on September 04, 2009, 09:58 AM »

Thank you, thank you, thank you  I'd given up on finding a 64-bit replacement for Unlocker and *just* discovered this thread. Off to download and test now 

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: ClipMate at $19.95 on BitsduJour today - Sept. 4

« Last post by Darwin on September 04, 2009, 09:13 AM »

Couldn't agree more, cyberdiva. ClipMate is definitely "can't do without software". Of course, there is also mouser's Clipboard Help+Spell. If  wasn't using ClipMate before I'd heard of Donationcoder, that's what I'd be using.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Switcher2: Expose Clone (Window Arranger) for Windows

« Last post by Darwin on September 03, 2009, 10:05 AM »

Forget it, f0dder-man - I got off my butt and installed it myself! So far, it's pretty good. Minimal CPU impact (NO CPU impact, really) and working set memory use is 44MB when idle and 59MB when "switching". This is under Vista 64-bit with 4GB RAM, a T9300 Core 2 Duo Core and with 512MB dedicated video memory.

PS just to note that memory use falls off/rises with the number of windows that you have open. I'm down to three windows (versus the five I had open earlier) and memory use has fallen off accordingly: 30MB idle and 42MB when "switching". Now I'm monitoring whether or not this creeps up over time. I'll report back in a few hours!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Add tabbed documents to MS Office

« Last post by Darwin on September 03, 2009, 09:56 AM »

Update - I really don't know what is going on: the uninstaller still showed up in "Programs and Features" (Add/Remove programs under Vista) and the settings dialog worked just fine from the start menu folder for Office Tabs 1.21 (my claim that it had disappeared "without a trace" was a bit OTT). I re-ran the installer and all is well. I'll be monitoring this, though.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Add tabbed documents to MS Office

« Last post by Darwin on September 03, 2009, 09:48 AM »

Well... sad to report that after a while this add-in simply disappeared off my machine without a trace  This occurred without a reboot! Very weird. Right, off to investigate. I'm not sure how far I'll get with this, but will post back if I get anywhere.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Switcher2: Expose Clone (Window Arranger) for Windows

« Last post by Darwin on September 03, 2009, 09:25 AM »

Thanks for reviving this thread, f0dder. I'm interested, but am wondering about the resource "hit" under Vista?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Anyone Using OmniPage and PaperPort?

« Last post by Darwin on September 03, 2009, 09:24 AM »

Re: Paperport 12 Pro, here's the first review that I've seen (from AppScout): http://www.appscout....rt_12_pdf_organi.php.

It doesn't specifically state, but implies, that Office 2007 files are now shown as thumbnails.

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Living Room / Re: DC-IRLDD Champaign, IL - Aug 29, 2009

« Last post by Darwin on September 01, 2009, 10:16 PM »

Give me a shout if you are!

-cranioscopical (September 01, 2009, 06:16 PM)

I WILL!

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Actual Window Manager mini review

« Last post by Darwin on September 01, 2009, 01:52 AM »

I'm running Vista 64-bit and have yet to see the memory leak (system has been running for over a week without a restart, though it does sleep at night). I am noticing an odd inconsistency inwhich the title bar buttons (and context menu, sadly) appear/disappear in certain programs. However, as tranglos notes, this affects apps that also add buttons to the title bar (DOpus 9, for example), so I'm living with it.

In sum, version 5.4 is exceedingly well behaved on my system and uses about a third the resources that UltraMon does.

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Living Room / Re: DC-IRLDD Champaign, IL - Aug 29, 2009

« Last post by Darwin on August 31, 2009, 02:43 PM »

These gatherings aren't once a year -- they are whenever a dc person is nearby and wants to come over.
Actually we've been thinking that we might have game night every week or every other week, so anytime a dc person is in the area will work out fine.

-mouser (August 31, 2009, 10:47 AM)

Well... I'll try for next summer, then! I should be in Toronto next July-ish and might try to drive down.

Peripherally, if anyone wants to organize something on the West Coast I'd make an effort to attend. I'd organize something myself but Courtenay, population 22,000, is a bit out of the way!

EDIT: fixed wonky quote...

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Living Room / Re: DC-IRLDD Champaign, IL - Aug 29, 2009

« Last post by Darwin on August 31, 2009, 10:42 AM »

Where can I get this stuff?

http://www.tastethepain.com

Order from their top-10 hottest
http://tastethepain....Top_Ten_Hottest.html

-Gothi[c] (August 30, 2009, 07:34 PM)

Thanks for the link, Gothi[c] - I'll have to try this 

Mouser - I'm sorry I missed the DC-IRLDD. Maybe next year!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Recommend file shredder?

« Last post by Darwin on August 31, 2009, 10:37 AM »

I'm very late to this thread (didn't really get near a computer/DC all summer), but just wanted to give rjbull my condolences on the loss of his mother and his job. Went through redundancy myself 18 months ago and can sympathize.

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Living Room / Re: Show us a photo of your mutt or other creatures..

« Last post by Darwin on August 30, 2009, 10:49 AM »

Jack (1995-2007), may he R.I.P. I miss him every day.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Add tabbed documents to MS Office

« Last post by Darwin on August 28, 2009, 11:37 PM »

Thanks for the heads up on this one, CWuestefeld I noticed the ghacks posting about this but didn't pay much attention; I'm glad you drew our attention to it! I've missed this funcitonality since I moved to Office 2007/Vista 64-bit (from Office 2003/XP 32-bit) as that move rendered a number of add-ins I used to do this inoperable 

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by Darwin on August 27, 2009, 06:39 PM »

Congratulations, João 

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by Darwin on August 22, 2009, 03:57 PM »

Spooky, this one crept up on me!
 (see attachment in previous post)

-kwacky1 (August 21, 2009, 10:00 AM)

I thought it was more kwacky, than anything... At any rate, congratulations to both you and TPReal on hitting the century milestone! Keep 'em coming 

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Actual Window Manager mini review

« Last post by Darwin on August 22, 2009, 03:54 PM »

Thanks for organizing the discount, Carl (and thanks to Alex as well!) - I'm evaluating AWM 5.4 now against UltraMon on a Vista x64 system. Very nice! It's more feature rich and yet has a smaller footprint.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: AntispamSniper For The Bat!

« Last post by Darwin on July 04, 2009, 04:44 PM »

Heh, heh - they called while I was out so I am now awaiting a second call. I might just buy another license through your other vendor and give my wife the Plimus generated code when it arrives - she currently relies on Outlook's built-in Junk Mail filters.

EDIT: except that Plimus is the only vendor for the non-Bat! versions. C'est la vie...

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: AntispamSniper For The Bat!

« Last post by Darwin on July 04, 2009, 12:22 PM »

BTW - I'm very impressed with AntiSpam Sniper  I bought it because SpamBayes has gotten increasingly flaky under Vista-64/Outlook 2007 (to the point where I have to uninstall/reinstall it every time I re-start my computer) and ran the trial - it captured spam messages that I NEVER managed to convince SpamBayes were spam. These are messages that my isp inserts (Telus detected SPAM) at the beginning of the subject. I've been flagging them as spam for years with SpamBayes and it never learns. Other than that, it's been brilliant! At any rate, I digress: Antispam Sniper is a fine bit of code indeed! Thanks, Vitaly and Innuendo 

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: AntispamSniper For The Bat!

« Last post by Darwin on July 04, 2009, 12:13 PM »

Thanks, Vitaly! I went ahead and purchased the Outlook license as well... However, Plimus is "reviewing" my order - I suspect because I used the same credit card for a second purchase quite soon after the first (?).

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: AntispamSniper For The Bat!

« Last post by Darwin on July 04, 2009, 10:03 AM »

Just to note - I used the discount code successfully to purchase a license for the Bat! version but the code was refused for the Outlook version... 

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Living Room / Re: What annoys you to no end?

« Last post by Darwin on June 29, 2009, 11:40 PM »

she unconsciously(?) wiped her just-licked fingers on the sofa as she was talking!!!!

-SKesselman (June 29, 2009, 10:21 PM)