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« Last post by rjbull on December 23, 2011, 03:26 PM »I'm beginning to wonder about all these image editors. There are so many of them now. Maybe we need a DC review 
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plus there is Metapad talked about-cmpm (December 23, 2011, 12:31 PM)
4) Word count tool-jshare (December 21, 2011, 04:34 AM)
I sort of enjoy running up and downhill through the paths in Total Commander, so I hope I do not lose too much path jogging.-Steven Avery (December 18, 2011, 01:49 AM)
1) Text aliases i.e. shortcuts with a trigger that are then replaced by e.g. a much longer block of text.Text expanders have been thrashed around on DC quite a lot. The obvious suggestion is Phrase Express, because the basic version is free-for-personal-use, or AutoText Typing Assistant by the same company, which is completely free. I currently use Typing Assistant, which is payware. It's easy to add shortcut blocks of text via the clipboard.
I currently use Lifehacker's free Texter-jshare (December 17, 2011, 02:38 PM)
2) Full-on key loggingThis would almost certainly cause CHS to be flagged as malware. If you'd like recommendations for free-standing ones, review this DC thread: pls recommend a good benign keylogger. Keylogging is built into PowerPro.-jshare (December 17, 2011, 02:38 PM)
the ability to"attach" a sticky to a particular window or window class. This allows you to have stickies that only appear when a particular web pageDoes it accept a wildcard, so that the sticky will appear on all child Web pages under a given one?-dragonmage (December 14, 2011, 11:05 AM)
a commandline utility that could take a pdf file, grab its title, author, and date and rename it to some combination of those, would be EXTREMELY useful.-mouser (December 10, 2011, 09:37 AM)
pdfinfo version 3.02
Copyright 1996-2007 Glyph & Cog, LLC
Usage: pdfinfo [options] <PDF-file>
-f <int> : first page to convert
-l <int> : last page to convert
-box : print the page bounding boxes
-meta : print the document metadata (XML)
-enc <string> : output text encoding name
-opw <string> : owner password (for encrypted files)
-upw <string> : user password (for encrypted files)
-cfg <string> : configuration file to use in place of .xpdfrc
-v : print copyright and version info
-h : print usage information
-help : print usage information
--help : print usage information
-? : print usage information
pdfinfo 2011_velbon_catalog.pdf > info.txt
Title: 2011_catalog.indd
Creator: Adobe InDesign CS3_J (5.0.4)
Producer: Adobe PDF Library 8.0
CreationDate: 03/17/11 17:31:25
ModDate: 03/24/11 11:30:11
Tagged: no
Pages: 16
Encrypted: yes (print:yes copy:yes change:no addNotes:no)
Page size: 1274.43 x 273.584 pts
File size: 9668147 bytes
Optimized: yes
PDF version: 1.6
On this site you will find all kinds of (administrative) scripting related information:Plus WMI, ADSI, WSH, books, scripting tools.
* several scripting languages: batch files, JScript, KiXtart, Perl, PowerShell, Rexx, VBScript ... even some C# code ...
* some language reference material
* regular expressions
* lots of sample scripts
* scripting techniques and best practices
* undocumented features, tricks and work-arounds
* links to more scripting info
* commands for unattended (silent) installations
* downloadable tools and utilities
* titles of relevant books on scripting
* and more...
I think what Jibz is waiting for is the price to upgrade from 2010 Standard to 2012 Standard. I know that's what I'm waiting for.Me too. I see the point of Pro for businesses brave enough to dump Microsoft (as long as they don't need a full database), but for home users happy with existing e-mail clients, an update of the Standard edition is a more interesting event.-cyberdiva (November 30, 2011, 09:49 AM)
I'll make my 1000th a special oneOnly a programmer would think of making a recursive post-Ath (October 06, 2011, 02:25 PM)
Chameleon Task Manager
A Better Alternative to Windows Task Manager
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Chameleon Task Manager gives you complete control over the processes that are running on your computer, giving you much more detailed information about your programs than Windows Task Manager can even dream about. With Chameleon Task Manager, you'll have a way to automatically manage background processes that hog CPU or disk usage, reducing their priority to allow current programs to fly like the wind. An optimizer determines exactly how much memory a program needs, so you're sure that every bit of RAM that's in use is by design.
Have you ever taken a peek at your process list and been aghast at the number of programs that are running in the background? Chameleon Task Manager gives you control over when programs are allowed to run, either after other programs have finished or started, or on certain days - so you can set annoying, but necessary, system scans to run on weekends when you're out partying, instead of when you're trying to work during the week! You can even set Chameleon Task Manager to automatically kill processes, preventing unnecessary programs from running at all.
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rj, i could use a little more help in understanding a test i can do to fix this.Figuring out command lines is hard work!
your commandline arguements to spellcheck files make it hard for me to figure out.-mouser (November 28, 2011, 08:28 PM)
can you give me a sample text, and a sample mtrw invocation that reads from stdin, writes to stdout, and tell me what i should see. and that doesnt use any additional files like some spellcheck?-mouser (November 28, 2011, 08:28 PM)
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2) extract all the text of pdf pages (and save it in a variable or a file)XPDF. Freeware.-kalos (November 26, 2011, 08:02 AM)
3) search and replace specific text in pdf pages (optimally using regex)PDF Text Replace Tool. It isn't command-line, but it's the only one I know that can do that. Freeware and more advanced payware editions.-kalos (November 26, 2011, 08:02 AM)
Concordance software for Windows, GNU/Linux and MacOS
TextSTAT is a simple programme for the analysis of texts. It reads plain text files (in different encodings) and HTML files (directly from the internet) and it produces word frequency lists and concordances from these files. This version includes a web-spider which reads as many pages as you want from a particular website and puts them in a TextSTAT-corpus. The new news-reader, too, puts news messages in a TextSTAT-readable corpus file.
TextSTAT reads MS Word and OpenOffice files. No conversion needed, just add the files to your corpus...
In TextSTAT you can use regular expression which provides you with powerful search possibilities. The programme is multilingual. Because it uses Unicode internally, TextSTAT can cope with many different languages and file encodings.
I wouldn't like to lose the the free Pro features by getting this upgradeUp to you, but it's not very expensive. Speaking of which, I just missed Amazon UK's Black Friday deal on Photoshop Elements 10-Ath (November 24, 2011, 03:35 PM)
But that doesn't clear up the puzzle about Listary apparently failing to show its updates 
[/Edit]And no, I haven't reported the Listary problem. I assumed that the update checker was broken for everyone. Oh well.... Do you have the free or the Pro version?Mine's Pro. Is yours free? Even if it is, I'd have expected the updates checker to work. Could your firewall be blocking it from calling home?-cyberdiva (November 23, 2011, 04:04 PM)