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Screenshot Captor / Re: Fixes Size Captor - How to with Minimum Key presses

« Last post by tomos on November 28, 2017, 07:23 AM »

^ Yeah, for your purposes not the best method. Just a 'FWIW explanation'

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Fixes Size Captor - How to with Minimum Key presses

« Last post by tomos on November 28, 2017, 06:35 AM »

I am still not clear of the purpose of the Favorites or how to use them - you say they "are easily toggleable from the redbox region capture mode" - I have looked in help and forum and cannot find anything on favorites or "red box capture mode".

-colink (November 28, 2017, 06:08 AM)

that would be:
'Grab windows object or scrolling ..etc.' shortcut is normally Ctrl+Shift+PrintScreen
Ctrl+right-click on the instructions will show a menu including those favourites / pre-set sizes.

I think you are saying that you will add code so that wheh I select a preset size I will be able to easily to toggle through the preset sizes  - this will be very useful.

-colink (November 28, 2017, 06:08 AM)

yep, sounds like that

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General Software Discussion / Re: Personal keylogger

« Last post by tomos on November 27, 2017, 03:48 PM »

It's the Microsoft AV, I don't think it allows me to do that!

-kalos (November 27, 2017, 03:06 PM)

have you tried it?

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Living Room / Re: Fight back email scams with Rescam

« Last post by tomos on November 27, 2017, 11:28 AM »

 

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Living Room / Re: Fight back email scams with Rescam

« Last post by tomos on November 27, 2017, 10:47 AM »

A drop of relief in a sea of stupidities...
https://thehackernew...arab-ransomware.html

-dantheman (November 27, 2017, 08:05 AM)

no comprende - where's the drop of relief?

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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"

« Last post by tomos on November 26, 2017, 08:40 AM »

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Facing New York

-Arizona Hot (November 25, 2017, 05:15 PM)

looks interesting -- where did you come across him?

-tomos (November 25, 2017, 05:48 PM)

New Scientist...but you can't see the whole article there(I can, I have a subscription.)

-Arizona Hot (November 26, 2017, 08:29 AM)

just curious: thanks!

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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"

« Last post by tomos on November 25, 2017, 05:48 PM »

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Facing New York

-Arizona Hot (November 25, 2017, 05:15 PM)

looks interesting -- where did you come across him?

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General Software Discussion / Re: New faster Firefox browser released

« Last post by tomos on November 25, 2017, 05:41 PM »

Mozilla is getting some attention for a big new revamp of their Firefox browser that is supposed to be much faster and more memory efficient..

-mouser (November 15, 2017, 01:58 AM)

initially it seems to be more memory efficient.
And it is definitely more CPU/page file efficient -- where older Firefox sinned a lot for me.
But on a Win.7 laptop with 8GB memory, I have already gotten this warning a couple of times (FWIW never used get it before)
--------------
Microsoft Windows
Your computer is low on memory
To restore enough memory for programs to work correctly, save your files and then close or restart all open programs.
[OK]
------------------
this after leaving a window open a while with a bunch of tabs -- less than twenty, many of them video (mostly youtube) -- but all video except one either paused or not playing.
Closing Firefox releases ~ 4.5GB.
FWIW on restart it behaves.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Lastpass down

« Last post by tomos on November 24, 2017, 06:16 PM »

^ I managed to log in at one stage but it didnt actually work. Maybe the problem is more this side of the world -- I'm definitely not alone at any rate.

I think that they meant if you had logged into lastpass while you had an internet connection, it has cached versions on your machine.

-wraith808 (November 24, 2017, 05:45 PM)

yes, that's what I understood. And they say that if you log in it will go there -- but it looks to me like you have to (in my situation) disconnect from the internet for that to happen. As it happens I managed to get into the site I was needing lastpass for, so I'm not going to follow up on that tonight. Will try it over the weekend.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Lastpass down

« Last post by tomos on November 24, 2017, 04:16 PM »

This is not something I have catered for -- how can one cater for this, securely?

-tomos (November 24, 2017, 03:46 PM)

I don't use LastPass. Does this mean you can't now login to any websites that you have used LastPass passwords for? It needs to contact their servers each time to retrieve your password?

-wysiwyg125 (November 24, 2017, 04:07 PM)

there's supposed to be offline access, but not sure how it works -- quote below gives the impression it would automatically work -- this was not my experience.

Offline Access to your LastPass Vault
How to Utilize Offline Access in Your Browser Extension or Mobile Application

The key to gaining offline access in your LastPass browser extension or mobile app is to have logged into the extension or app at least one time while you have had an internet connection.   This ensures that your computer or device has cached a local version of your encrypted data to the local drive. This is the data that LastPass loads when you login to LastPass while offline.   Any LastPass browser extension or mobile application can be logged into without an internet connection, and will default to this mode when no connection is present.

Please note these special options and conditions:

– In each browser extension, if you clear your LastPass Local Cache (LastPass Toolbar Icon -> More Options -> Advanced -> Clear Local Cache), you will have to log in online once more to recreate your cache before you can log in using offline mode again.

-https://helpdesk.lastpass.com/your-lastpass-vault/

Possibly not working here because I do have an internet connection.

EDIT// I guess this is why people go for a paid version: they do offer something called 'Lastpass Pocket' (I think) that works offline. Will have to check it out.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Lastpass down

« Last post by tomos on November 24, 2017, 03:46 PM »

This is not something I have catered for -- how can one cater for this, securely?

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General Software Discussion / Lastpass down

« Last post by tomos on November 24, 2017, 03:45 PM »

Lastpass is broken here and seems to be broken for many others too --
I can get to the site but cannot log in -- either get no response, or 'check my internet' or having trouble connecting to the server.


http://downdetector.com/status/lastpass

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Black Friday / Cyber Monday 2017

« Last post by tomos on November 24, 2017, 05:28 AM »

Hard Disk Sentinel Pro 55% off
https://www.hdsentinel.com/

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Black Friday / Cyber Monday 2017

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

PragmataPro (and other fonts by the same designer) are 40% off (link)

-Jibz (November 24, 2017, 04:44 AM)

looks nice:
"PragmataPro™ is a condensed monospaced font [without interline spacing] optimized for screen, designed ... to be the ideal font for coding, math and engineering"

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« Last post by tomos on November 22, 2017, 06:58 AM »

From this thread: Luna Lee plays rock on the 6th century Korean Kayagum stringed instrument.

-IainB (November 21, 2017, 06:56 PM)

She is great does very amazing 'guitar' solos:

Lynyrd Skynyrd- Free Bird solo Gayageum ver. by Luna

Dire Straits-Sultans Of Swing Gayageum ver. by Luna

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum upgraded Nov 20, 2017

« Last post by tomos on November 22, 2017, 06:42 AM »

Re colour/s
another option would be the blue-grey + orange/ish type theme

-tomos (November 22, 2017, 05:57 AM)

here a couple of variations:


1) Shadow around quote removed, orangeish colour highlight - width reduced on the left:




2) a lighter shade of blue in quote (I didnt do that very well: I couldnt just make it brighter - it changed colour as well); and the orangeish colour highlight - width reduced on the left:



FWIW my vote would be for something like #1 above

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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"

« Last post by tomos on November 22, 2017, 06:18 AM »

Small sub meets some big sharks:

-mouser (November 21, 2017, 11:04 PM)

wow, hadn't heard of them before:
six gilled sharks, grow to ~8m / 26 feet

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Living Room / Re: Chess?

« Last post by tomos on November 22, 2017, 06:10 AM »

hi Tao
been meaning to reply 'properly' ...but time... is [not] on my side

I watched a couple of Kingcrusher's videos a while back:
enjoyed a lot, but they were maybe too advanced for me (I will try them again now I'm a more seasoned viewer!). They had the minor problem (for a beginner bigger though) of not highlighting the squares the piece just moved from, and to. So I kept having to rewind to follow the moves properly. (I should just ask him to do that.)
Will be interesting to see his Sultan Kahn one and compare. (Note that it's the norm to post the moves, but for me it's just better to watch the video twice.)

A story about his accent:
he was talking about the 'King's Indian' in a video I watched. Some commenters took offence, claiming he was saying the King's 'Injun', saying that was racist etc. Of course it was simply his accent -- he sort of says it like 'In-ji-an'.
London accent, innit ?!

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum upgraded Nov 20, 2017

« Last post by tomos on November 22, 2017, 05:58 AM »

delete me (I keep quoting instead of modifying since the upgrade)

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum upgraded Nov 20, 2017

« Last post by tomos on November 22, 2017, 05:57 AM »

Re colour/s
another option would be the blue-grey + orange/ish type theme (does MS Office have a theme like that? - pics below are from InfoQube)

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum upgraded Nov 20, 2017

« Last post by tomos on November 22, 2017, 05:51 AM »

^ unfortunately I didnt take a screenshot while it was blue - but it did make for a very 'cold' look. (Not saying the brown is 'it', just that it's better than the blue was.)

mouser,
another way of 'de-emphasizing' the boxes (if you wanted) would be to remove the shadow

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum upgraded Nov 20, 2017

« Last post by tomos on November 21, 2017, 05:00 PM »

Tweaked.

-mouser (November 21, 2017, 04:16 PM)

okay,
I like it at any rate :-)
we'll see what others say...

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum upgraded Nov 20, 2017

« Last post by tomos on November 21, 2017, 03:45 PM »

How's it look now? (Ctrl+F5 to refresh css)

-mouser (November 21, 2017, 03:29 PM)

a lot better

Minor details (my speciality):

• I'd still make the band on the left a little narrower
• a little white space between that bar and the quotemark would be good
• I'm not gone on the blue - makes the whole effect quite cold. (Preferred the brown FWIW -- if I get time tomorrow I could mock up a few different colours to see how they look)

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum upgraded Nov 20, 2017

« Last post by tomos on November 21, 2017, 10:44 AM »

.. Tomos can you send me (or post) your css fixes?

-mouser (November 21, 2017, 09:08 AM)

that was a photoshop job

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum upgraded Nov 20, 2017

« Last post by tomos on November 21, 2017, 07:11 AM »

Taking Ath's list:

>brown accent color?
this presumably the same colour used for member-names -- it does look much more vibrant though due to the adjacent white.
I think a thinner band on the left would be better.

>larger font?
yeah,
slightly smaller font, as before, is my preference too

>large cursive quoted name/date-time?
I like the cursive,
but I'd prefer this text to be smaller than the body text (within the quote).

>enormous upside-down-quote added?
I think definitely too big -- if font size is going to be requced, this will have to be reduced anyways -- but I'd reduce it even more.


In my browser the quote is serif font, the rest is sans-serif -- this also emphasizes the quote over the other text. To me, the quote is of importance, but of lesser importance than the text of the response -- that's why I think it should have less emphasis all round.


Below an edited sample:

• quote body text smaller
• quote 'title' even smaller
• brown band on left thinner
• one quote has a (much smaller) quote mark; the other has none