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General Software Discussion / Re: The GIMP/PhotoFiltre/Paint.net/etc., thoughts...

« Last post by tomos on September 19, 2007, 06:15 AM »

am i [going] nuts
or
is there no "pan" tool in GImP ?

[jeez, new computer, new keyboard, one week old - cant type a capital "m" ]

back ontopic:
the pan tool being something like the hand tool in Acrobat Reader/Photoshop etc
where you can move the view of the image within the window as opposed to actually
moving the image around on the page so-to-speak.
difficult to explain in words but i reckon you all know it anyways   

It looks to me as if you have to use the scroll bars or the navigation pane/dialog.

I couldnt find anything about it in Gimpland/googleland
(well apart from the guy who thought the zoom tool was the pan tool cause the icon looked like a fryingpan )

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General Software Discussion / Re: Opera: I do love you, but I do believe someone should get fired

« Last post by tomos on September 18, 2007, 11:58 AM »

it's true though,
tricks are all well and good
but
if you don't sort out (some of) the basics...

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General Software Discussion / Re: DriveImageXML--new disk imaging freeware

« Last post by tomos on September 18, 2007, 06:38 AM »

I came across DriveImage XML (again) on the UBCD4win windows boot disc.
Had been trying unsuccesfully to restore a SelfImage image & saw the DriveImage XML icon on the desktop.

It is looking good. Did a restore on a different partition which looked pretty much in order
Limitations:
Cant restore to a smaller partition than the original copied one
Cant do incremental backups for images... not that I expected either!

heres a link for a nice how-to automate it using a batch file
http://frozenpixels.....com/backups-part-1/

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Living Room / Re: Question about the "spam/advertising links" rule

« Last post by tomos on September 18, 2007, 05:57 AM »

from the other signature thread

Well, going against myself, i think that tall signatures with big images might become anoying. (i do love mine, though ) But people around here tend to be polite, and i probably have the biggest sign in the forum.

-jgpaiva (September 12, 2007, 06:27 AM)

honestly not trying to be smart here,
but me, I think a few less recently played tracks would be ..ehh.. nice 

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General Review Discussion / Re: Free PDF tools review?

« Last post by tomos on September 18, 2007, 01:46 AM »

... I was just going to install - are those issues not resolved yet for you? ...

-tomos (September 16, 2007, 12:03 PM)

tomos, if you haven't installed doPDF yet, get it's beefier cousin - novaPDF Lite from giveawayoftheday.com..

-lanux128 (September 17, 2007, 07:36 PM)

thanks Lanux, I was too late... -
did install doPdf though & probably will install PDF Creator/Gohstscript
so should be well covered !

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What's the Best? / Re: Best free alternative for Corel Draw 12

« Last post by tomos on September 18, 2007, 01:27 AM »

try

List of Vector Illustration Alternatives

Open source vector graphics software?

45 best Freeware Design programs

I know there has been other threads lately....
try a couple forum searchs (got those with "vector")

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General Review Discussion / Re: Free PDF tools review?

« Last post by tomos on September 16, 2007, 12:03 PM »

I believe doPDF does what Fineprint does, and it's freeware to boot.

-Nighted (March 04, 2007, 04:06 PM)

i've tried out doPDF but it has some problems which i have mentioned here, so i would like to know if anyone else has these problems..

-lanux128 (April 12, 2007, 09:12 PM)

they're (doPdf) at version 5.2 now, (you said 5.1 promised those issues were resolved)
I was just going to install - are those issues not resolved yet for you?

(didn't know which thread to post in..)

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General Software Discussion / Re: problems with (having moved) windows temp folder

« Last post by tomos on September 14, 2007, 05:11 AM »

in other words moving the temp folder is actually no problem
(as long as I get the path correct  )
I didnt even have to restart for install to work properly

Thanks to Grorgy as well - couldnt even find that out at microsoft!

Phew 

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General Software Discussion / Re: problems with (having moved) windows temp folder

« Last post by tomos on September 14, 2007, 05:09 AM »

trying to install dc software (updater, etc) I get the message
"unable to create temporary to extract to"
so obviously temp folder is not accessible

-tomos (September 14, 2007, 03:36 AM)

I note that you have not got back slashes in your path: (see attachment in previous post)
Is that an issue? I have back slashes in mine (previous post) 

-Perry Mowbray (September 14, 2007, 05:00 AM)

YES YES YES YES
thanks Perry I was struggling with the idea of losing a day & a halfs work
That was it, Funny I could have sworn there wasnt a backslash there when I went to change it
but who cares 

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General Software Discussion / Re: problems with (having moved) windows temp folder

« Last post by tomos on September 14, 2007, 04:47 AM »

no success trying various paths on c drive

I tried Tweak UI "powertoy" to see could that help.
Nothing there for changing Temp folders but
I found this which struck me as odd:
 (see attachment in previous post)
Does that have anything to do with it I wonder - Drive J: doesnt exist....

-tomos (September 14, 2007, 04:07 AM)

I looked in the registry & theres no "installation path" under special folders at any rate...

Could anyone tell me what the default locations are for
Windows Temp folders are - as in screenshot in first post ?
(thats right click: My Computer > Properties > Advanced Tab > Environmental Variables)
EDIT: for Windows XP!

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General Software Discussion / Re: problems with (having moved) windows temp folder

« Last post by tomos on September 14, 2007, 04:07 AM »

no success trying various paths on c drive

I tried Tweak UI "powertoy" to see could that help.
Nothing there for changing Temp folders but
I found this which struck me as odd:



Does that have anything to do with it I wonder - Drive J: doesnt exist....

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General Software Discussion / problems with (having moved) windows temp folder

« Last post by tomos on September 14, 2007, 03:36 AM »

new computer fun -

moved windows temp folder:


noticed as I was installing software a TEMP folder was being created in
the folder where the original exe file was.

trying to install dc software (updater, etc) I get the message
"unable to create temporary to extract to"

so obviously temp folder is not accessible

I did restart windows a couple of times after changing this setting
Anyone any ideas?
I'll try changing back to C:TEMP & see what happens & report back.

Unfortunately I cant remember where the "System Variables" Windows TEMP & TMP folders were -
in the Windows folder I think..

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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 September 12, 2007, 02:16 AM »

the map is called "donationcoder.com" -
maybe they need to get Wordzilla to do a job on their search engine 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Top 3 programs you use

« Last post by tomos on September 10, 2007, 10:15 AM »

I searched for "meskalin software" and the first link I found was this: http://www.xbeat.net/meskalin/

-ad-min (September 10, 2007, 08:46 AM)

Yep, that's it. Sorry about stirring up this excitement about Meskalin. I was not aware that posts here are read that carefully.
Meskalin is nothing but a little screen loupe I wrote for myself but never published. I use it all the time to check color values and other graphic details. It also has some interesting recursive functions that generate near-chaotic psychedelic effects -- hence the name. If there's interest I can post a download link (freeware, but no support, no help file!...).

-DonL (September 10, 2007, 09:54 AM)

yup,
post a link!
nice looking webbsite/ilustrations by the way 

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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 September 10, 2007, 07:02 AM »

I thought I had posted this to the forum, but it looks like it may have just been on IRC. I created a Frappr map for DonationCoder.com. Please add yourself to the map.

-tinjaw (September 06, 2007, 08:56 AM)

tried..a couple of times... guess I have to joinup there first maybe?
(it did ask me straight away to add my details without registering or anything
but the pin didnt stick  )

Okay, just joined & it seemed to accept my "pin" -
but when I leave site & come back it's gone again -
am I doing something silly or is frapper 

EDIT: getting odder - when I login it says I'm on DC map but I amnt
Oh, I'll try again another day 

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Template for users wishing to write a mini-review

« Last post by tomos on September 08, 2007, 10:12 AM »

This may be a daft question (well, no - there is no such thing as a stupid question, right? Repeat ten times), but is the Donate to Author section soliciting donatins for the REVIEW author or the DEVELOPER (if a DC member)? I'm 99% sure this is meant for the reveiwer, but just want to clarify...

Ta.

-Darwin (September 08, 2007, 09:56 AM)

I notice the template currently has:-

Author Donation Link	If a DC member, include their link to donate to them. If a third party site which supports donations, include the link here. If not applicable, leave out If this is a dc member, post the donation link in the format similar to this Donate to App103, the Author
Reviewer Donation Link	Link to your profile, in the format similar to this Donate to App103, the Author

it is a bit confusing cause both link to app103 "the Author"
but first is for software author if applicable,
second is for reviewer

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Living Room / Re: Open Source Graphic Programs

« Last post by tomos on September 08, 2007, 09:56 AM »

40 Best Open Source Graphic Programs... and a reference to more free resources on this page

-PhilB66 (September 07, 2007, 12:04 AM)

thanks Phil, just finally getting to have a look today
there's loads of 3D stuff there
but that not of interest to me - these following were 

Photovault is an image archiving and organization application for photographers. It supports easy searching, annotation, and organization of images, as well as simple image processing operations like cropping and free rotation.     * Easily search for your photos based on shooting date or metadata     * Annotate your images with additional comments, information about shooting place, technical details or other metadata     * Add your photos into unlimited number of folders without using additional disk space     * Crop and rotate your photos freely - and always preserve the original image in case you want to revert the operation later     * Support for most common image file formats, including raw image formats of most camera manufacturers     * Flexible adjustment of conversion from raw image files to "normal" formats, including color balance, hue and contrast settings     * Adjust photo color balance and saturation     * Written mostly in Java, GPL licensed, runs on Windows, Linux and MacOS X -http://www.photovault.org/cgi-bin/trac.cgi

sometimes it's really hard to tell if programmes use tagging or not...
.

Xpdf is a viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files... The Xpdf project also includes a PDF text extractor, PDF-to-PostScript converter, and various other utilities. It runs under the X Window System on UNIX, VMS, and OS/2. The non-X components (pdftops, pdftotext, etc.) also run on Win32 systems, and should run on pretty much any system with a decent C++ compiler. Xpdf is designed to be small and efficient. It can use Type 1 and TrueType fonts.

.
this one sounds nice but unfortunately only Linux, Unix

DigiKam is an advanced digital photo management application that makes importing and organizing digital photos a trivial task. Photos can be organized in albums, which can be sorted chronologically, by directory layout, or by custom collections, and they can be tagged, commented, and rated. DigiKam makes use of a fast and robust database to store meta-information, which makes adding and editing comments and tags very reliable. Metadata can also be stored inside pictures using Exif and IPTC. An embedded image editor and a standalone application named showfoto have simple but powerful features for editing your pictures with filters and correction tools.

& for OSIX, Unix

Endeavour Mark II is a file browser/file manager with an image browser, a recycled objects system, and an archiver front end. It features all the common UNIX file operations for all types of disk objects found the UNIX realm. It also supports disk drive mounting, a fully customizable window appearance, a MIME Types system, and interapplication drag & drop support for KDE and GNOME compatability (although KDE and GNOME are not required).

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for a program like add/remove programs any idea's?

« Last post by tomos on September 06, 2007, 09:08 AM »

is there anyway I or a mod can mark this thread as solved since Dirhael came up with a solution that has worked with 100% success ?

-NightFlyer (September 05, 2007, 02:13 AM)

I think just edit first post & change the title to [DONE]...

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

« Last post by tomos on September 04, 2007, 02:50 PM »

Hey Tom - you've already changed your avatar since the "new" one on July 10th. I like it, it's very dreamy. What's it from?

-Darwin (August 20, 2007, 03:37 PM)

who, me?? -
sorry,
I missed that post -
ehh, it's a piece of the sky!!
 
I think it's a detail of this

well comparing the two, looks pretty much like a reduction of same

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General Software Discussion / Re: Settings backup software?

« Last post by tomos on September 04, 2007, 02:36 PM »

I mean, I am perfectly happy with diving into the guts of my registry and messing around, exporting the keys I want & need. But is everyone else?

-app103 (September 04, 2007, 02:33 AM)

absolutely not !!

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Living Room / Re: New Nick for Darwin

« Last post by tomos on September 04, 2007, 04:41 AM »

as the 61st reader I enjoying it -

LOL. Well, even if no one else does, you and I will enjoy this thread! 

-KenR (September 03, 2007, 06:45 PM)

just not sure where it's coming from 
is it his help exposing -
$7.5 to optimize XP NTFS Drive access : rip-off or not ? ?
or
his general knowledge/expertise re software & Acceptable expletives - no, that wouldnt make him a revenger?!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Good programs for helping you manage what programs start with windows?

« Last post by tomos on September 03, 2007, 02:40 PM »

Wow, I copied the shortcut for the StartupCop forum, posted it here, and then read the forum. Quite a read...! I'm having no trouble at all with it here (FWIW) but I'd read the forum for potential pitfalls.

-Darwin (September 02, 2007, 07:07 AM)

hmm, doesnt sound too encouraging....

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General Software Discussion / Re: Good programs for helping you manage what programs start with windows?

« Last post by tomos on September 01, 2007, 05:33 PM »

PCMag has just released Startup Cop 3 with a bunch of new features including both delayed startup and the ability to set startup order (as in, don't start app x until app y has successfully launched). It's $7.95 (unless you have a subscription to their downloads) and I've just installed it but haven't had an opportunity to wring it out and put it through its paces (ah, the mixed metaphor - an artform!). Anyway, here's a list of features from the website (because I am too lazy to type it out myself):

-Darwin (August 31, 2007, 07:24 PM)

sounds very interesting, they seem to have a lot of nice little programmes.
(nudone has recommended a couple over the last couple years)
I think if you pay $19(.99 I guess ) you can down them all -
dont know if they are easily accessible though.

Yeah, Mike, do let us know how you get on with that!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Settings backup software?

« Last post by tomos on September 01, 2007, 05:24 PM »

the new backup4all plugin system would cover some apps.
posted about it here apparently you can write plugins, well I probably couldnt

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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2006 / Re: Getting Organized in 2007

« Last post by tomos on September 01, 2007, 05:08 PM »

First, I'm in 
will have to think about things a bit first which in itself is a helpful thing...

Ok, not to be the 'complaining' smurf here, but...
Wasn't last year edition aborted half-way through?
I thought most people who participated never even bothered asking for new tasks, because they were too busy doing other things...
I took it like it is: sticking to one time management system is incredibly difficult. You have to have iron willpower.

Even though DC got to interview the two superpowers back then (Allen and Forster) and we reviewed plenty of time-management systems and applications, I'm not sure we got much out of it. I, for one, have abandoned the system I was using in 2006.

Thoughts?

-urlwolf (September 01, 2007, 07:13 AM)

I dont know,
I definitely got a lot out of it, but at the same time I know I need to change/evolve self/habits/whatever a lot more in order to be "successful"
Which is why I in again 

EDIT:
PS urlwolf, have you a new system in place?