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Living Room / Re: Where did your DC user I.D come from?
« Last post by Darwin on June 03, 2009, 12:22 PM »
I am honestly not sure where this came from. I just picked letters using the randomization formula from mouser's prize picker for the monthly giveaways. This is the result!
-Josh (June 03, 2009, 08:57 AM)

I think you're joshing!
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Word Processor Roundup / Re: Textmaker (Softmaker/Ashampoo Office) 2008
« Last post by Darwin on June 03, 2009, 12:19 PM »
On the other hand, after looking at their description of the upcoming DB application, I'm not impressed with that. It looks like a clone of Access. That is ... OK. But Access has evolved into a monster, with all kinds of oddities as the product grew over time, and tried to remain compatible. I wish they'd started from a clean slate. (Or maybe I'm reading too much into their screen shots)
-CWuestefeld (June 03, 2009, 08:41 AM)

Heh, heh, I gave up following progress about 18 months ago as nothing seems to be being done with it... However, I *thought* that one of their goals WAS to start with a clean slate?
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Living Room / Re: Where did your DC user I.D come from?
« Last post by Darwin on June 03, 2009, 08:37 AM »
I've long been a student of evolutionary theory and in a moment of paranoia about net annonymity took to using Darwin as my login/username for my IDs. It has a double meaning, as well, because it is also the name of my college at Cambridge.

The avatar is a mirrored version of a picture of Amud 1. I studied Neanderthals for years and it seemed appropriate. I should change it but at this point it would feel like having plastic surgery to hide my identity  ;D

EDIT: corrected a typo and added link to wiki page on the Neanderthals
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Word Processor Roundup / Re: Textmaker (Softmaker/Ashampoo Office) 2008
« Last post by Darwin on June 03, 2009, 08:26 AM »
Wow! Great find, mwb1100  :Thmbsup: I have a licence already and recommend this deal to anyone looking for a lightweight, comprehensive and powerful Office suite. I'm curious to see what's in the next version... I wonder if the long promised DB application will appear?
1080
Living Room / Re: What annoys you to no end?
« Last post by Darwin on June 02, 2009, 10:33 PM »
-cranioscopical (June 02, 2009, 07:52 PM)
Leaving you with but a sole source of support?
[/quote]

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General Software Discussion / Re: Is it time to start a new AntiVirus/Internet Security Suite review thread?
« Last post by Darwin on June 02, 2009, 06:38 PM »
Why celebrating Christmas with my family, of course! Er... actually, I simply wasn't that interested at the time. Six months on and I'm feeling a bit more fiscally responsible (or is that impecunious?)  :o
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Living Room / Re: What annoys you to no end?
« Last post by Darwin on June 02, 2009, 06:36 PM »
OK - totally, TOTALLY, agree with this:

Telephone based services where, upon connection, an automated system collects ALL details -- account #s, name, address, phone etc. -- and then connects you (after a  little phone-pad fandango) to a human who proceeds to ask you for account #s, name, address, phone etc.
-cranioscopical (June 02, 2009, 12:12 PM)

and this:

Don't know how I forgot about this:    Facebook!   :o

I signed up on Facebook last year when a small number of DC members thought it would be a good idea to join and create our own software group. But no one ever actually went any further with, AFAICT.
-J-Mac (June 02, 2009, 12:21 PM)

Hear, hear (or is it "here, here". Crap. Trying to figure that out bugs me as well. And don't even get me started on my shoes - only had 'em three weeks and the heels are worn right through...).
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General Software Discussion / Re: Is it time to start a new AntiVirus/Internet Security Suite review thread?
« Last post by Darwin on June 02, 2009, 10:50 AM »
I bought it on a whim during their last sale when they were selling lifetime licenses and I was in a mind to putting an end to yearly AV subscription costs.
-Innuendo (June 02, 2009, 09:51 AM)

Dang! I'd jump at something like that... Though $15-30 a year for peace of mind is a small price to pay, all things considered. Still...
1084
Living Room / Re: 2009/May/31 - DC/IOSx02 - DC Meetup Berlin, Germany
« Last post by Darwin on June 02, 2009, 07:52 AM »
Holy Carp, batman! Those mugs are awesome! C-Base looks pretty cool... I wish I could have been there. Meeting everyone would have been great (I'm not so mercenary/materialistic that my only motivation to attend would have been a mug. Honest  :P).
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Living Room / Re: What annoys you to no end?
« Last post by Darwin on June 02, 2009, 07:43 AM »
bloggers (well, any online writers) that don't put the publishing date on their articles and posts.
-nudone (June 02, 2009, 04:28 AM)

software revision pages that dont give dates for the updates
-tomos (June 02, 2009, 06:29 AM)

Good one - I can't stand this either  :Thmbsup: er,  :down:
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General Software Discussion / Re: Is it time to start a new AntiVirus/Internet Security Suite review thread?
« Last post by Darwin on June 02, 2009, 07:42 AM »
Sunbelt's Firewall is a separate download/install from VIPRE, as far as I know. I have a licence for the firewall but don't have it installed because it annoys the bloody hell out of me, as well! Thus, at worst it will need to be uninstalled while at best it isn't part of the package at all.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Is it time to start a new AntiVirus/Internet Security Suite review thread?
« Last post by Darwin on June 01, 2009, 02:11 PM »
I'm running Sunbelt's VIPRE on four notebooks. It's been very solid under XP 32-bit SP-2 and SP-3, Vista 64 bit SP-1 and SP-2, Vista 32 bit SP-1 (hasn't been updated to SP-3 yet), and Win 2k SP-4.
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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: XYplorer File Manager
« Last post by Darwin on May 29, 2009, 09:26 PM »
Agreed, kartal. I've been playing (rather superficially, thus far) with the DP beta and it makes a big difference in how I percieve XYPlorer. It really could bump DOpus out of first place on my machine  8)
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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 May 29, 2009, 07:33 PM »
Retired from Texas Instruments as an electronic tech. Moved to Panama in the mountains where the weather is springlike all year around.
-bratliff (May 29, 2009, 07:46 AM)

Welcome Robert  :Thmbsup: Interesting background and an interesting "move" post-retirement! Welcome to DC - hope to see more of you around here  :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Bluebeam (AWESOME pdf editor, Acrobat alternative)
« Last post by Darwin on May 29, 2009, 12:36 AM »
Looks interesting, superboyac. I wouldn't call it all that expensive, though. It compares favourably in price to the other non-Adobe packages - Nitro, Jaws, Nuance, etc.

I'm happy with Nuance for now, but will bookmark Bluebeam for future reference  :Thmbsup:
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General Software Discussion / Re: INfix: easy, capable, but expensive WordPad-like PDF editor
« Last post by Darwin on May 28, 2009, 10:42 AM »
Nuance annoyed me.  I live in the UK.  I went to their "Buy Now" page, which says the price is US$99.99, about GB£62.5, then changed the country to UK.  The price turned into £99.99 - which is over $159  >:(  Admittedly that includes tax at (currently) about 15%, making the price more like £85 or $136, but I wasn't going to pay so much over the odds just because I live in the UK.  It's a connected world now, and Nuance and other vendors will have to accept that.  I bought a license for Able2Extract instead.
-rjbull (May 28, 2009, 10:29 AM)

This kind of thing infuriates me as well. It's not too bad if the vendor will allow you to process an order in US dollars, but when a store, such as Nuances (is it Digital River - can't remember) insists on charging you in the currency of the country that the credit card is from it's very irritating.

@steeladept: There's a feature comparison matrix for the different versions of PDF Converter here: http://www.nuance.co...ibility-features.asp. I don't have any experience with the other versions, so don't know if I would miss any of the Pro features if I were using the regular version.
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General Software Discussion / Re: INfix: easy, capable, but expensive WordPad-like PDF editor
« Last post by Darwin on May 28, 2009, 08:57 AM »
PS PagePlus will search and replace text on every page of the file, if you ask it to... However, once you're at this point, you are searching the text of the temporary ppp file, not the pdf. Nuance PDF Converter Professional 5, on the other hand, will search for text over the entire document but doesn't seem to offer a batch replace feature. The search feature returns a list of linked occurrences of the text and you need to replace each occurrence individually. I *may* be wrong about this, but if there is a more robust/convenient "search and replace" feature it's very well hidden  ;D

@Curt - PagePlus will search and replace the entire document in a single search. PDF Converter Pro will search the entire document in a single search.
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General Software Discussion / Re: INfix: easy, capable, but expensive WordPad-like PDF editor
« Last post by Darwin on May 28, 2009, 08:48 AM »
Yup - PagePlus X3 will search and replace (ctrl-H) within the text of a pdf file (provided the text is not part of an image). X3 does offer to open pdf's by default (ie pdfs are listed as PagePlus files in the Open dialogue) but once a pdf is selected to be opened, it is imported as mentioned above. To save as a pdf you have to select "Publish as PDF" from the File menu.
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General Software Discussion / Re: INfix: easy, capable, but expensive WordPad-like PDF editor
« Last post by Darwin on May 28, 2009, 08:39 AM »
rjbull - don't forget, what PagePlus will do is import the contents of a pdf and manipulate it as a ppp file. Once  you're done, you need to export it as a pdf again. I'll take a look to see if it has search and replace, but I have to warn you that I've found pdf import/editing cludgy with PP...

I'll report back soon  :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Desktop/email search program
« Last post by Darwin on May 27, 2009, 08:29 AM »
best tool I know of for dealing with PST files is <a href="http://www.mailstore.com"> MailStore </a>
-Target (May 23, 2009, 05:59 AM)

AFAICR, though, the free version won't catalogue archive files that are not loaded into Outlook. I could be wrong about this, though...

If you don't care about formatting, look at Archivarius. If you do care about formatting, check out X1. Both of these suggestions are shareware mind you (@$30 for Archivarius and $50 for X1)...
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Living Room / Re: "Check mail every ??? minutes"
« Last post by Darwin on May 26, 2009, 08:41 AM »
I'm in the same boat - had to check what I set my check mail period is and found it to be three minutes. Like f0dder, I changed this to every five minutes (I don't do anything THAT important!).
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General Software Discussion / Re: Photo Scanner Software
« Last post by Darwin on May 25, 2009, 08:45 AM »
Some scanners (including mine) come with an insert that will allow you to mount negatives and scan them six or so at a time. The bundled software will also handle separating the negatives into individual photos.

YMMV of course!
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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 May 25, 2009, 07:05 AM »
Welcome erikts, tranzor, and freevector! Hope to see all of you on the forum  :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Photo Scanner Software
« Last post by Darwin on May 24, 2009, 11:12 PM »
FWIW, I own a licence for PaperPort Pro 11 but use Vista's built-in scanning engine with a four or five year old (or older?) HP ScanJet 3970. Vista tags my scans and places them in a folder of my choosing and I then use PaperPort's amazing SET tools to tweak them... It's not a cheap solution by any stetch, but it works well for me.
1100
Living Room / Re: Things your kids will never know - old school tech!
« Last post by Darwin on May 24, 2009, 10:09 AM »
old school don't have high tech computers....

http://www.fieldstoneacademy.org
-richel8 (May 24, 2009, 08:51 AM)

Ironically, the webpage you linked to features a picture of a kid sitting at a desk surfing the web on a notebook computer - see upper right hand of the webpage  ;D
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