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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Ever have your tray icons disappear randomly?

« Last post by PhilB66 on March 24, 2008, 10:51 AM »

Give Taskbar Repair Tool a try. Also, Nirsoft has a small utility, Explorestart, to kill all instances of Explorer and start a new one.

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Living Room / Re: Spokeo - new stalking social networking site?

« Last post by PhilB66 on March 24, 2008, 08:10 AM »

Sounds like a spam email... you might find this blog article an interesting read. Here's another one: Spokeo? More like Spooky-o; bad practice taken to the extreme.

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Living Room / Re: Cool site alert: Encyclopedia of Life (eol.org)

« Last post by PhilB66 on March 24, 2008, 03:35 AM »

Thanks Zaine! Here's another cool site:

The Visible Body



Argosy's Visible Body is the most comprehensive
human anatomy visualization tool available today.
This entirely Web-delivered application offers an
unparalleled understanding of human anatomy.
The Visible Body includes 3D models of over 1,700
anatomical structures, including all major organs
and systems of the human body.

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Living Room / Re: I hate this game...

« Last post by PhilB66 on March 24, 2008, 01:10 AM »

Pick a YouTube video for the answers.

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General Software Discussion / Re: best copy-paste tool

« Last post by PhilB66 on March 23, 2008, 11:12 PM »

See this thread for PlainCopy / PlainPaste script. Otherwise, you may want to search the Autohotkey Forum for "Copy + Paste" solution. Alternatives might be True-X Mouse Gizmo and X-Mouse Button Control (see pic below)



For Copy Files & Folders, I use FastCopy but you should search the DC forum for alternatives (TeraCopy and CopyHandler got mentioned a few times)

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Living Room / Re: Whats on your desktop?

« Last post by PhilB66 on March 23, 2008, 02:42 PM »

It's RMClock showing CPU Core Temp (mentioned in the "My Taskbar Notification Area Competition")

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General Software Discussion / Re: Small Apps

« Last post by PhilB66 on March 23, 2008, 02:13 PM »

http://www.fiastarta...PrtScr/Download.html

-cmpm (March 23, 2008, 12:58 PM)

NAPALM is a fun tool for the desktop vandals (from the maker of Ptr Scr).

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General Software Discussion / Re: Small Apps

« Last post by PhilB66 on March 23, 2008, 02:00 PM »

The other one would be good to send to someone who needs a simple one and don't know anything about installing programs. No install required, just download to desktop and it's ready to go.

-cmpm (March 23, 2008, 12:58 PM)

Capture Master falls under the same free, little, portable application category.



More screenshots

How to use:

- Move the red box over the area you would like to capture (Hold CTRL key down and put the mouse cursor on the red border to start dragging).

- Resize the red box to fit the image (Click on the small black bit at lower right hand corner and move (in)outwards)

-Click on "capture" in the main Window and then on "save to file" (Bitmap, jpeg etc).

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General Software Discussion / Small Apps

« Last post by PhilB66 on March 23, 2008, 07:26 AM »

Did absolutely nothing today but surfing the WWW... anyways found a few interesting links for small, useful freeware applications:

Classic Software®

THE AMAZING FAST C

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: The Ultimate Rescue CD

« Last post by PhilB66 on March 23, 2008, 07:13 AM »

Troubleshooter Tools CD  

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: show transfer rate within copy/move dialogue in explorer

« Last post by PhilB66 on March 23, 2008, 01:42 AM »

Copy tool 2.0 with adjustable cache and resume mode (direct download link)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Review of File Renamers — let's make a list

« Last post by PhilB66 on March 22, 2008, 12:43 AM »

Adding Métamorphose (free and open source) to the long list of file and folder renaming tools and utilities.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Flexible Renamer v8.0

« Last post by PhilB66 on March 21, 2008, 11:15 PM »

I cannot see that Flexible Renamer has been updated since May 2003 (except for addin of German UI in 2005) - is this program really to be counted among the best today?

-Curt (September 18, 2007, 12:28 PM)

Updated  . Flexible Renamer v8.0 is out. See detaills.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: I love the Bulk Rename Utility!

« Last post by PhilB66 on March 21, 2008, 11:12 PM »

hamradio, I have always loved Flexible Renamer since v.7.3, and that's over three years ago, but it has long been abandoned — at least it hasn't been touched since 2003.

-zridling (March 30, 2006, 09:35 PM)

Abandoned?... NOT... Flexible Renamer v8.0 is out. Lots of new features and improvements.

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General Software Discussion / Re: USBDeview - Guaranteed eject of your USB drive

« Last post by PhilB66 on March 21, 2008, 08:45 PM »

@f0dder

USBDeview has a "Safe To Unplug" column. See USBDeview page and scroll down for the "USBDeview Columns Description" section.

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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 PhilB66 on March 21, 2008, 08:33 PM »

@paulobrabo



The illustrations are amazingly beautiful. How about a new small Cody for the smiley collection?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Direct Folders 3.3 Released : Now FREE for HOME use

« Last post by PhilB66 on March 21, 2008, 01:51 PM »

can someone please post a screenshot of direct folder?
thanks

-masu (March 21, 2008, 01:43 PM)

Info, screenshots and demo

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Sebran's ABC

« Last post by PhilB66 on March 21, 2008, 01:45 PM »

My kids love it. BTW, the latest version is 1.47. There's also Minisebran for younger kids (2-6).

Check out Educational Freeware for more free educational software for kids.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Nirsoft Installer

« Last post by PhilB66 on March 21, 2008, 11:11 AM »

thanks. should mail him about it.

I mean that you should 

-TucknDar (March 21, 2008, 10:52 AM)

Posted a comment on his page.

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General Software Discussion / Re: USBDeview - Guaranteed eject of your USB drive

« Last post by PhilB66 on March 21, 2008, 10:46 AM »

By the way, is there any way of reconnecting a device after ejecting it without having to pull it out of the USB port and replugging it back in?

-icekin (March 21, 2008, 08:52 AM)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/311272

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General Software Discussion / Re: Nirsoft Installer

« Last post by PhilB66 on March 21, 2008, 10:22 AM »

Yes, got the same result. Download from http://smithii.com/files/ (I guess he forgot to upload the newest version)

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General Software Discussion / Nirsoft Installer

« Last post by PhilB66 on March 21, 2008, 09:55 AM »

I was looking for a downloader/installer/updater for the Nirsoft utilities set for quite some time now (and I was not the only one  ) and today BINGO. Hope you find this script useful.

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General Software Discussion / Re: USBDeview - Guaranteed eject of your USB drive

« Last post by PhilB66 on March 21, 2008, 09:38 AM »

@icekin

Try with Unlocker (http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/) first to unlock any file/process handles and then eject the device.

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General Software Discussion / Re: USBDeview - Guaranteed eject of your USB drive

« Last post by PhilB66 on March 21, 2008, 09:22 AM »

You may also want to check USB Disk Ejector. Command line added for coolness.

-paulobrabo (March 21, 2008, 08:08 AM)

You should search the forum... this program was mentioned before.

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Living Room / Re: "Grivitation-like" paradigm would have helped in the interim

« Last post by PhilB66 on March 20, 2008, 01:28 PM »

gri analphabet here... Could someone please explain to me what's that all about and how does it work?