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General Software Discussion / Re: What is the currently best Desktop Search software?

« Last post by tomos on October 31, 2007, 08:23 AM »

How are HTML emails and attachments stored in Thunderbird? How can you archive off older email to stop folders becoming unmanageable - are there tools built in to do it?

-Carol Haynes (October 31, 2007, 07:58 AM)

good questions.
I was coincidentally just this morning figuring out how to (bulk) delete attachments from sent mail

came across this

Technical details Thunderbird stores the whole e-mail together, including the attachment, in MIME format in the mailbox files in your Profile folder - Thunderbird. It does not un-encode and store the attachment outside the mailbox file unless you save or detach it as described above. By contrast, the Eudora e-mail program automatically un-encodes and detaches the attachment when you receive the e-mail; it always stores attachments as separate files.

External links     * AutoZip Attachments extension     * Attachment Extractor extension     * Copy Attachments to Clipboard extension     * Slideshow extension

re archiving I'm curious!

EDIT: kindof overlapped with Ralphs post there

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Living Room / Re: dotNET compiler for LOLCODE

« Last post by tomos on October 31, 2007, 06:11 AM »

Aieeeeeeeeeeee!

http://newyork.craig...h/cpg/460249817.html

-Ralf Maximus (October 27, 2007, 09:08 PM)

thats a screenshot (should ave put a shadow on it)

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Living Room / Re: NEW Cody wallpapers for Halloween

« Last post by tomos on October 31, 2007, 04:53 AM »

super stuff nudone

amazing detail(s) in there!!

10404

Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Free computer help online/CompuTech (my) programs

« Last post by tomos on October 31, 2007, 04:45 AM »

looking good - keep it up Brandon 

what are these parent approaching etc buttons (& POS!!![???]) 
just curious

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General Software Discussion / Re: Run apps as non-admin with SetSafer to avoid spyware.

« Last post by tomos on October 30, 2007, 07:25 AM »

! thanks for that tip justice 

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General Software Discussion / Re: A Simple Database Program? (Or is that an Oxymoron itself?!)

« Last post by tomos on October 29, 2007, 04:17 PM »

SQLnotes?
https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=10432.0

I dont say much more cause I dont know much more 
but
it's in beta will cover what you want from what I've read

EDIT: corrected the link there

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Living Room / Re: Windows Install Date Thingie: I made it!

« Last post by tomos on October 29, 2007, 03:00 AM »

My date is  11/12/2004    but it says   alive 3 yrs  11 months  6 hrs 55 min 29 secs

BUT  from 11/12/2004 to 10/28/2007  should be   2 years, 11 months, 16 days

Is it me ?

Lew

-ljbirns (October 28, 2007, 06:30 PM)

could it be to do with american 11/12/2004 = european 12/11/2004?
nope still doesnt add up

10408

Living Room / Re: Postcards from DC members

« Last post by tomos on October 29, 2007, 02:54 AM »

i just checked with the post authority and i can't do that because of the different dimensions.. maybe a img2postcard utility could fix that..

-lanux128 (October 28, 2007, 11:34 PM)

if you crop your image  ??
here you're allowed to range between 2 different sets of dimensions

I like the make your own postcard image [or customise one] idea!!
photo(s), collage, photocopy, photoshop whatever
makes it more personal on the front as well as on the back

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General Software Discussion / Re: Evidence Eliminator - What has your experience been?

« Last post by tomos on October 28, 2007, 01:38 PM »

dunno whether this is already covered by ccleaner:

Find My Credit Card (freeware)

Find My Credit Card software is intended to show you private info, which you may not know of, and erase redundant information posing hazard to your security.

Perhaps, you have no idea that your computer may contain your private information which you have long forgotten about. These may include your credit card information, login names, passwords as well as cookie files tracking your Web surfing habits. The Find My Credit Card software finds all personal information and suggests its unrestorable erasure. Please bear in mind that no antispyware will save you from information theft. You need to be aware of what and where sensitive information is stored on your computer and purge it on a regular basis thus making information theft useless.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Synchronisation tools

« Last post by tomos on October 28, 2007, 01:23 PM »

Doey any of the tools above support Realtime synchronizing?
e.g. I change a file, the program discover this change and sync the file to the backup directory.

-masu (October 28, 2007, 01:05 PM)

masu
[edit: this not synching but versioning - still very worth a look]
you should have a look at Filehamster - there's a couple of threads about it lately:
https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=7492.0
& a list:
https://www.donation...2;search=Filehamster

there's now a paid version but the free version is still very comprehensive

they have very good forums too

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for a small dockable, auto-hide notepad

« Last post by tomos on October 28, 2007, 01:18 PM »

wow, just installed Keynote today
it's very nice, easy to use - so far doing everything I want 
(that happens soo seldom with software - well esp that it's easy/intuitive as well!)

looking foreward to using it which i reckon i will a lot 

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Living Room / Re: Windows Install Date Thingie: I made it!

« Last post by tomos on October 28, 2007, 12:09 PM »

I think Brett has beat me by a nose, or whatever
I'm currently on this one



without the help of imaging software, no partitions, well C: 
3GB free out of 60 at this stage..

It has worked very well over the 4yrs 9months - running into lots of little problems lately but think that might be more to do with being overly full 

In fairness I moved to new computer about a month ago (install 6 weeks old)

...
and
plan to do a cleanout/reinstall/etc on the older before I forget all the stuff I learnt sorting out new pc

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General Software Discussion / Re: opera 9.5 beta out

« Last post by tomos on October 28, 2007, 11:56 AM »

thanks for all those details nontroppo   


I used to have two different installs for me & the other "user" - we dont even have seperate user accounts
In fact I still do have 2 installs, no 3 - I have the "portable" version as well -
must read up your link about profiles 

a nice thing about opera compared to FF is that you can have separate versions of it running at the same time no problem

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General Software Discussion / Re: babylon: charging you $6.99 for retrieving your lost lincense ?!?

« Last post by tomos on October 28, 2007, 07:08 AM »

Speaking about the product itself, can it translate a group of words (i.e., a selection of sentence or sentences)? If it doesn't, is there any alternative (freeware preferred) for German->English?

-sri (October 28, 2007, 06:33 AM)

dont know would this help :
http://german.about....rary/bltransltxt.htm
or
more generally:
http://www.google.de...amp;client=firefox-a

I use Leo but that's just a dictionary -
If you need some post-translation-proofreading/checking & if it's not too much stuff let me know I might be able to help.
But if it's technical forget it 

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General Software Discussion / Re: New version of Process Explorer available (11.03)

« Last post by tomos on October 27, 2007, 06:49 PM »

It seems to be available on the system display but not on properties for individual processes.
...

-Carol Haynes (October 27, 2007, 06:28 PM)

ahh, that's where I saw it. thanks Carol!

I thought the main page was CPU, memory & something else
hang on -
from help:

mini graphs for CPU, memory, and if on Windows 2000 or higher, I/O history

&
this I had edited from above quote (now I see - it says "System Information dialog" ) :

On systems with multiple CPUs the System Information dialog includes a Show one graph per CPU checkbox. Checking it switches the display into a per-processor view. Hyperthreaded (SMT) processors sharing the same core and NUMA processors sharing the same node are grouped together and the mouse tooltip shown when hovering over a graph displays the processor and core or node numbers. Note that the mouse tooltips for a processor graph show the name of the process that consumed the most CPU on the entire system at the associated time, not the process that consumed the most CPU on the particular CPU.

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Living Room / entertaining signatures

« Last post by tomos on October 27, 2007, 06:39 PM »

I've seen some very entertaining signatures here

problem is people change them after a while & I think what was that one -
I seen references in posts as well to signatures that have obviously since changed

so
I thought: start a thread  :idea:

heres a few:

I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. /Calvin

that's from Curt who had one previously about Computers & Swahili which was very good too ...

"Some people have a way with words, other people,... oh... have not way" - Steve Martin

Darwin 

dug out this one from app103 from august this year:

"You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat." -- Albert Einstein

I know there's lot's more - noticed any lately?

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General Software Discussion / Re: New version of Process Explorer available (11.03)

« Last post by tomos on October 27, 2007, 05:43 PM »

thanks Carol

wow that firefox is using lots of memory (closing a few tabs helps though - only 50 now )


dunno should i be starting new thread with the following:-

I've noticed in other posts/screenshots:

On systems with multiple CPUs the System Information dialog includes a Show one graph per CPU checkbox. Checking it switches the display into a per-processor view....

.
I noticed this on my new dual core (intel) computer once or twice but then no more



I wonder if I changed some setting but dont think it's optional - it's there or not I reckon...
Anyone come across similar problem ?

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Paragon Hard Disk Manager 8 Free! (exp Nov 4)

« Last post by tomos on October 27, 2007, 05:18 PM »

thanks     

is the plugin part of it or at ubcd4win site?

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General Software Discussion / Re: opera 9.5 beta out

« Last post by tomos on October 27, 2007, 04:58 PM »

great

I usually let updating go for a while cause it's not my main browser these days
& what with having to download each new version & install yourself
I always forget the advantages/disadvantages of classic & non-classic installers

As far as I remember I usually install for all users - I think thats the way stuff gets saved in the installation folder as opposed to user-data...

I guess it will pick up on current settings anyways which are customised.
(Can always make backup first in case )

if anyone could give brief summary or a link it would be much appreciated!

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Free computer help online/CompuTech (my) programs

« Last post by tomos on October 27, 2007, 07:43 AM »

thanks Brandon 

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Do this First.

« Last post by tomos on October 26, 2007, 02:15 PM »

I'm sure

make that I've definitely read about something similar done by somebody - using a script(?)
I think it was here - maybe in the Getting Organised Experiment - does that ring any bells for anyone?
Of course there was so much stuff linked to from there...

I've absolutely no idea what to search for but hopefully that might trigger someone's brain who has a better search/memory function than mine ?

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Living Room / Re: Multibooting and Partitioning Experiments

« Last post by tomos on October 26, 2007, 10:08 AM »

only today I found, that you have started a thread on multibooting already!

-wolf.b (October 26, 2007, 09:58 AM)

I'd actually forgotten that mainly cause I didnt follow up on it at the time

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for a Profile Desktops

« Last post by tomos on October 26, 2007, 09:28 AM »

my idea was simply to change from one set of icons on desktop to another
nothing else

I don't see how you could do it without virtual desktops?

I have no idea - I've never even used Virtual desktops cause they're overkill for what I had in mind

eg I could have my empty desktop,
shift+Tab or whatever to Graphics, office, tools

I think psionics has a similar idea but with a fancier gui

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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 tomos on October 26, 2007, 09:18 AM »

Hi all,

my name is Wolfgang, I am from Germany. I am 41 years old and computers are just a hobby, not my profession.
I have come across this forum, when I searched for tips on programming/scripting: AutoHotKey -> Skrommel -> DonationCoder
My impression is: DC is the friendliest place on the net.

-wolf.b (October 26, 2007, 07:18 AM)

hi Wolfgang!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for a Profile Desktops

« Last post by tomos on October 26, 2007, 09:13 AM »

an easy way to swap desktop layouts ... All without setting up _____

-Ralf Maximus (October 26, 2007, 08:18 AM)

or
without using virtual desktops

I think that's part of request, psionics?
if not,
well that's what I would like

main difference i believe not using Virtual Desktops is that programmes shown in taskbar aren't affected