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General Software Discussion / Re: Converting Spreadsheet to Table in forum

« Last post by tomos on May 25, 2007, 08:31 AM »

See post Number 2
in this thread for a list of 213 (or is it 214  ) created by Crush
and facilitated by Crono's convert from spreadsheet to Forum Table batch file

Please post any opinions !!

-tomos (May 25, 2007, 07:21 AM)

follow the link to post#2 in quote above to see the final (successful) conversion of .csv file to forum table

- takes a bit of work though to get the multi-line cells.
(especially when there's over a hundered of them )
If others want to use this it's possible limiting the width of the columns [edit: if that's possible] would be an easier way to go?

thanks again to crono & everyone else who chipped in   
tom

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: List of disc catalogers

« Last post by tomos on May 25, 2007, 07:34 AM »

Welcome ngoddard, and thank you for clarifying your company's policy WRT Axiope Catalyser's licencing. I'll have to take a look now!

-Darwin (May 25, 2007, 07:30 AM)

here here!
I'm so bogged down with spreadsheets I'm forgetting my manners 

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: List of disc catalogers

« Last post by tomos on May 25, 2007, 07:21 AM »

See post Number 2
in this thread for a list of 213 (or is it 214  ) created by Crush
and facilitated by Crono's convert from spreadsheet to Forum Table batch file

This is a test run
I actually think it should go in Post #1
Cause Post#1 is now a shown up as a fairly arbitrary collection/short list

I believe there is still the option to post the long list in it's own page instead of here
or simply to post it in it's own thread

Please post any opinions !!

-tomos (May 14, 2007, 07:20 AM)

tidied the "Long" list up, and made a bunch of corrections -
it should be much more readable now

just in case:
to view off screen parts:
click in the table & use right & left arrow button to see off-screen parts

tom

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Living Room / Re: Recommendation - Shirusupad

« Last post by tomos on May 25, 2007, 04:18 AM »

That clock is a good one - Sarbyx Trayclock - http://www.sarbyxlab...com/en/download.html

Note - there are many available font/color styles - use an image browser in the appropriate subfolder to see them.  The one I use was tweaked by adjusting hue and contrast (i got bad eyes;-)

-222fbj (May 25, 2007, 02:40 AM)

got a shock when I saw the price - no -
thats for the "full" Sarbyx organiser thingy [EDIT clock is free]

looks very nice


sorry I'm really taking this thread off course
 

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Living Room / Re: Recommendation - Shirusupad

« Last post by tomos on May 25, 2007, 02:23 AM »

sounds/looks interesting!

(on a totally unrelated note could you tell me what your clock is? ...thanks)

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: PhotoFiltre - excellent raster graphics editing tool

« Last post by tomos on May 24, 2007, 10:58 AM »

Re the plugins page -
http://www.photofilt.../plugins.php?lang=en

does anyone know is there a way to download all 36 plugins at the same time
maybe some download manager or FF extension would do that ??

-tomos (May 24, 2007, 04:02 AM)

Hi Tom, in the last few years i always use DownThemAll, a FF extension, for such issues.

-AbteriX (May 24, 2007, 10:18 AM)

Thanks Abterix!

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: PhotoFiltre - excellent raster graphics editing tool

« Last post by tomos on May 24, 2007, 09:10 AM »

PS just tried Stardownloader - it won't work via Context Menu in FF 2 BUT if you install it and run the leecher as a standablone, you can enter the url and it works. I've just noticed that there is a filter that will allow you to define what you want and ignore other things like urls and site graphics. This may be a feature of the Pro version only though (a quick look at the website if uninformative)...

Anyway, I just successfully used Stardownloader Pro download them all (and filter out the graphcis, etc.).

Hope this helps...

-Darwin (May 24, 2007, 08:55 AM)

Thanks Mike,
that's a handy tip for lazy beggars like me 

I'm a bit embarrassed to be so lazy as to not want to go through them & pick out what I wanted,
but,
in fairness - just had another look - & most of them seem worthwhile 

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: PhotoFiltre - excellent raster graphics editing tool

« Last post by tomos on May 24, 2007, 04:02 AM »

Has anyone tried downloading the full version?

-David1904 (May 24, 2007, 03:15 AM)

maybe the site was having some trouble earlier -
I just downloaded it with FF (no download aids) no problem

http://www.photofilt....com/download-en.htm

__________________
Re the plugins page -
http://www.photofilt.../plugins.php?lang=en

does anyone know is there a way to download all 36 plugins at the same time
maybe some download manager or FF extension would do that ??

thanks
tom

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Living Room / Re: Free Acronis TrueImage for Seagate/Maxtor HDD owners

« Last post by tomos on May 24, 2007, 02:43 AM »

As an alternative I am currently trying DriveImage Xml, I've made images but I haven't restored from them yet.

-justice (May 23, 2007, 01:29 PM)

justice
Is that difficult to use ?

or maybe I should ask do you think would it be user friendly for non-experts 

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: A new name

« Last post by tomos on May 24, 2007, 02:39 AM »

TextVault

-justice (May 23, 2007, 06:51 PM)

sounds good

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: AceText - text & clipboard manager (for coders, writers, etc.)

« Last post by tomos on May 24, 2007, 02:37 AM »

In Clipboard Help and Spell -

Options > Clipboard >
has an option -

"Re-establish clipboard periodically"

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: List of disc catalogers

« Last post by tomos on May 24, 2007, 02:16 AM »

Hey! I found the most expensive File/Disc-Cataloger on the world today (not yet included in the list).

It´s Catalyzer http://www.axiope.co...p/importheaders.html
This is a real bargain for only 9000$/8000€ commercial licence (ok for 5 installations).
The cheaper version for non-profit-usage costs only the half of it 
...
How could you call such a pricing? Harakiri-Marketing?

-Crush (May 23, 2007, 11:47 AM)

hey, they wont need to sell many though 

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Living Room / Re: Calling for help - again !

« Last post by tomos on May 23, 2007, 08:46 AM »

at first boot, a windows (low-res) appears asking me to chose between French or US Windows XP, French being selected by default.  I am supposed to be able to change the choice with up and down arrow keys, and validate with enter.  Alas none of these keys seem to be operative.

-MerleOne (May 23, 2007, 06:46 AM)

Actually having a French XP, a German XP, or a US XP is quite different, you cannot simply change the default language.

As you say you cant actually change the actual operating language unless you have two copies of XP installed -
I wonder in that case what that choice -between French or US Windows XP- actually was/is?

Maybe it shouldnt even be there - that being why it doesnt work?

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General Software Discussion / Re: PC Diagnotic Software?

« Last post by tomos on May 22, 2007, 10:50 AM »

XP Pro takes about 12 minutes to fully boot and I'm  stumped by it! NB Disabling ZoneAlarm Pro and Winpatrol Plus from starting with Windows has helped quite a bit. but I still can't see why it takes so long. An app that would do as you suggest (amongst other things) would be mana from heaven...

-Darwin (May 05, 2007, 12:29 PM)

this is old now Darwin, & maybe you've figured it all out -
but
if not have you seen the thread where they figured out that Microsoft Update was causing a lot of problems, esp at startup.
 
If you change to WinUpdate -

If you have ever gone to the Windows Update page it asks you to upgrade to Microsoft Update so you may have done it without thinking. You can opt to revert to Windows update (it is hidden in one of the links on the left) and that certainly solved my startup problems.

-Carol Haynes (March 29, 2007, 06:28 PM)

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Find And Run Robot / Re: aliases

« Last post by tomos on May 22, 2007, 02:25 AM »

Babis

here's another
Do any of you customize/alter the Aliases that come with FARR?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Emulate a green monitor to reduce eye strain.

« Last post by tomos on May 22, 2007, 02:21 AM »

You could just wear a pair of sunglasses or get a real filter for your screen, rather than trying to make a homemade one.
...
I am beginning to wonder if I should start saving my money and buy one for this LCD. It's been over a year and I still haven't been able to get used to the difference between a CRT and LCD.

-app103 (May 21, 2007, 12:03 PM)

App:
I thought LCD etc screens were supposed to be easier on the eyes  -
do you have a very high contrast one or whats the problem getting used to it ?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: aliases

« Last post by tomos on May 21, 2007, 03:26 PM »

Actually, that's not a bug. It's a feature tongue
Pressing alt+f1 launches the first result, alt+f2 launches the second result, alt+f3 launches the third result and... yes, you've guessed it. Pressing alt+f4 launches the fourth result.  That's a fast way to launch any of the results on the result list, up to f9 Wink

-jgpaiva

didnt realise that cause -  alt+1, alt+2, etc. works to launch as well ..

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Find And Run Robot / Re: aliases

« Last post by tomos on May 21, 2007, 08:02 AM »

a single Escape press works for me ...

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: List of disc catalogers

« Last post by tomos on May 21, 2007, 03:48 AM »

God! I'm a romantic SOB, aren't I?

-Darwin (May 20, 2007, 01:12 PM)

of COURSE you are 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Converting Spreadsheet to Table in forum

« Last post by tomos on May 21, 2007, 03:46 AM »

Hi all,

There is a program called Columnizer (freebie) - from Gulf Coastal Software.
It does a lot of stuff with aligning columns, adding or deleting lines or characters. I really don't know whether it is of any use in this situation or not, but thought I'd mention it

David

-David1904 (May 16, 2007, 05:03 PM)

Hi David,
thanks for that

I couldnt find a home page for that -
could you tell us a bit more about it or give a link ?

I did find the programme for download here -
http://www.simtel.ne...product_page%5D91922

thanks
tom

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General Software Discussion / Re: Converting Spreadsheet to Table in forum

« Last post by tomos on May 21, 2007, 03:40 AM »

Hi Tomos,
I tried to dive into "Openoffice.org XML Export Filter"-Programming. This would be the "cleanest" way to do it, but I haven't found the time right now.
The #-thing would work at least I believe...

Try:

[Select]

@echo off
set infile=%1%
sed -e "s/#/\[br\]/g" "%infile%" > temp1.txt
sed -e "s/;/\[\/td\]\[td\]/g" temp1.txt > temp2.txt
sed -e "s/$/\[\/td\]\[\/tr]/g" temp2.txt > temp1.txt
sed -e "s/^/\[tr\]\[td\]/g" temp1.txt > temp2.txt
echo [table] > table.txt
type temp2.txt >> table.txt
echo [/table] >>  table.txt
del temp1.txt
del temp2.txt

Its untested - please try it

-crono (May 16, 2007, 02:39 PM)

Now [finally ] tested  -

4cat140.zip.exe

http://files.chatnfi...re%203/026/files.htm DOS Cataloger

Freeware

from this .csv file (using "#" as separator to indicate new line within a cell) 

[Select]

4cat140.zip.exe;http://files.chatnfiles.careware%203/026/files.htm#DOS Cataloger;Freeware;;

looks very good to me Crono  thanks again!
- will try it with the full list spreadsheet sometime (soon) this week and post a link here when done 

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Official Announcements / Re: Winners of May 2007 Giveaway Drawing

« Last post by tomos on May 17, 2007, 01:52 AM »

Yeah
  thanks again to Carl for all the organising etc 

EDIT- PS Get well soon MerleOne !!

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Official Announcements / Re: Winners of May 2007 Giveaway Drawing

« Last post by tomos on May 16, 2007, 04:55 PM »

OMG!!!

thanks Carl!
thanks Tobias (from SFFS)!
thanks Mouser!
thanks Microsoft for causing me to search out this place !!

Was just trying it (SFFS) out today and really loving it

lol 
tom
(have to keep checking it to make sure I really won it !!)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Converting Spreadsheet to Table in forum

« Last post by tomos on May 16, 2007, 04:45 PM »

thanks crono
might not be able to try for a couple of days (holiday here tomorrow - moving furniture plans..)
will let you know how i get on (with the script!) when i try it.

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What's the Best? / Re: cd burning

« Last post by tomos on May 16, 2007, 04:42 PM »

I now have a free copy of Photo Optimizer (fwiw) ....

-Carol Haynes (May 16, 2007, 04:17 PM)

if you get a chance sometime, maybe you'd let us know what it is worth !