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General Software Discussion / Re: TED Notepad updated to stable version 6.0.1 Beta, Nov 2, 2011

« Last post by rjbull on November 06, 2011, 05:25 PM »

Edited: found auto-complete bug after 5 minutes

-fenixproductions (November 03, 2011, 10:24 AM)

What happened?  Have you reported it to Juraj?

-rjbull (November 06, 2011, 11:25 AM)

When I select first list item to be inserted and hit Enter sometimes the 3rd one goes into text (or 2nd or 4th). This bug appears for every entry: pretty rarely highlighted word is pasted.

I think this may be an issue of automatic sorting option checked in but I still need to test it more.

-fenixproductions (November 06, 2011, 11:36 AM)

I confirm there's a bug that seems related to sorting.  I didn't have Sort checked, and things seemed to work correctly.  Then I checked it, and got insertions wildly different from what I'd tried to launch.  I can't confirm the exact position of the text inserted - perhaps I used a longer file than you did - but it certainly didn't put the right text in place.  Unchecking the box again put things to rights.

No yet reported. I want to give TED more time and make full list of issues/suggestions (like I did in the past).

-fenixproductions (November 03, 2011, 10:24 AM)

I'm glad to find someone else who likes TED Notepad!

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: PhraseExpress Pro with 70% discount - Celebrate with Us!

« Last post by rjbull on November 06, 2011, 05:11 PM »

BartelsMedia, does PE give you a choice of text insertion methods?

I ask because one of my editors is WSedit by Dr. Martin Vieregg, http://www.hypermake...om/english/home.html (made in Germany  ) I use it because it's WordStar style.  Some phrase expanders fail with it.  When you try to trigger the short form, they don't enter anything into the file.  The editor behaves as if Ctrl+V only had been pressed.  I checked this with clipboard enhancer ArsClip, http://www.joejoesof.../showpage.php?cid=97 because it offers a choice of pasting methods.  In AsClip's case, the Ctrl+V method doesn't work, but Shift+Insert and "Mimic Typing" both do.

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General Software Discussion / Re: TED Notepad updated to stable version 6.0.1 Beta, Nov 2, 2011

« Last post by rjbull on November 06, 2011, 11:25 AM »

Edited: found auto-complete bug after 5 minutes

-fenixproductions (November 03, 2011, 10:24 AM)

What happened?  Have you reported it to Juraj?

@mouser: apologies, I wasn't quite sure where to put an announcement when it's someone else's software.

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General Software Discussion / TED Notepad updated to stable version 6.0.1 Beta, Nov 2, 2011

« Last post by rjbull on November 01, 2011, 04:36 PM »

That excellent small but feature-rich editor, TED Notepad, has just received one of its rare updates.  Current stable version
6.0.1 Beta, Nov 2, 2011:

TED Notepad ChangeLog
small - quick - light - innovative - extensible - variable - free

This listing describes all major changes between previous versions of TED Notepad. Minor changes that did not affect difference between major versions listed here are omitted.

Version 6.0.1 beta (Nov 2, 2011)
    This version is a complete rewrite of the entire project. Small changes might be left out by omission.
    + Search and Replace dialog replaced by Search Bar.
    + Added: Support for Escapes and Regular Expressions in search/replace patterns.
    + Added: Experimental Search and Last Tool concept. Similar to Search and Replace.
    + Added: Long searches automatically display an abort dialog.
    + Added: Option to Mimic Case upon Search and Replace.
    + Added: Auto-search for current word upon no selection in Find Selected.
    + Added: Extended Replace also supports Escapes, RegExps and Mimic Case.
    + Added: Support for user-defined color of text and background.
    + Added: Random Color Scheme generator in Settings dialog.
    + Added: Display Line Numbers, Newlines and Line Lengths.
    + Added: ZoomIn, ZoomOut, ZoomReset.
    + Added: Auto-recognition of UTF-8 files without BOM.
    + Added: Import/Export/Reopen file in chosen encoding or codepage.
    + Added: Full transparent support for binary files (load+edit+save).
    + Added: Full transparent support for mixed newlines (load+edit+save).
    + Added: Command line parameter: /b Skips the "Create new file" question.
    + Added: Option to auto-save documents directly to their original files.
    + Added: Option to create recovery auto-save files with hidden attribute.
    + Added: Question, whether to auto-load a lost auto-save version of a file.
    + Added: Question about saving before closing is skipped for empty Untitled documents.
    + Added: Favourite files now support relative paths.
    + Added: Template file for new documents.
    + Added: Shuffle Lines tool.
    + Added: First Capital, Random Case and Fun Case tools.
    + Added: Unclose Lines, Trim Empty Lines and Shift Lines Right tool.
    + Added: Collapse Empty Lines tool.
    + Added: Unwrap Lines tool.
    + Added: Extract Words tool.
    + Added: Most tools are now showing their progress and support cancel.
    + Added: Classic old system edit control replaced by new improved editbox.
    + Added: Text storage engine with improved support for working with huge files.
    + Added: Support for very long lines (current limit is set to 1 MiB).
    + Added: Multi-level Undo and Redo. Better Undo granularity.
    + Added: Legacy single-level Undo still available through Alt+BkSpace.
    + Added: More sensitive navigation through entire words.
    + Added: Support for Triple/Quadruple/Quintuple-click and mouse selecting.
    + Added: Option to auto-Copy to clipboard upon mouse selection.
    + Added: Paste/Swap from clipboard upon mouse Ctrl-Right-click.
    + Added: Option to Mimic Case upon Paste from clipboard.
    + Added: Option to auto-select current word/line/paragraph/document upon empty Copy/Cut.
    + Added: Insert Recently Inserted and Recently Deleted text.
    + Added: Support for Smart Home and End keys, working with indentation
    + Added: Support for moving/selecting by entire paragraphs.
    + Added: Option to keep distance between the Caret and window borders.
    + Added: Improved and enriched Right-click menu.
    + Added: Support for Insert/Overwrite mode.
    + Added: Horizontal mouse-wheel scrolling.
    + Added: Improved INI files for saving settings into Config.
    + Added: Support for hierarchical INI file loading.
    + Added: Command line parameter: /i Load specified INI file
    + Added: Location of current INI file added to Settings dialog.
    + Added: Printing font.
    + Added: Page Setup for printing.
    + Added: Check Updates shortcut.
    + Added: Sort tool: Upto five independent sorting keys available.
    + Added: Sort tool: Range of columns can be specified in each sorting key.
    + Added: Sort tool: Option to ignore white-spaces and/or punctuation while sorting.
    + Added: Sort tool: Option to ignore all but alpha-numeric characters while sorting.
    + Added: Sort tool: Option to ignore blank and/or control characters while sorting.
    + Added: Sort tool: Options to ignore characters supported even while sorting as numbers.
    + Added: Sort tool: Uses current user locale settings while sorting as numbers.
    + Added: Sort tool: Support for positive signs while sorting as numbers.
    * Modif: Sort tool: Sorting keys no longer depend on previous keys.
    + Added: Columns and Sort tools: Option to "delimit by entire phrase" rather than "separate characters".
    + Added: Columns and Sort tools: Options for saving info from tool dialogs into the Config.
    * Modif: Columns and Sort tools: Tool dialogs accept ranges and columns inverted.
    + Added: Columns tool: Random number insertion point (%r).
    * Modif: Columns tool: Center alignment modifier changed from ^ to !.
    + Added: Translate Charaters tool: Supports escapes and ranges.
    + Added: XmlTag tool: Works more carefully with singleline/multiline selections.
    * Modif: XmlTag tool: Reselects the original selection after enclosing it.
    + Added: XmlTag tool: Option to keep or reset fields "Attributes" and "Empty".
    + Added: Compare tool: State of checkboxes from tool dialog are saved into Config.
    + Added: Compare tool: Option for saving the compared strings into Config as well.
    + Added: Filters: New variable %S, which expands with current selection.
    + Added: Filters: Option to convert all text to/from UTF-8.
    + Added: Filters: Option to push no input (stdin) into filter.
    + Added: Filters: Option to ignore output (stdout/stderr) from filter.
    + Added: Filters: Option to mix output (stdout/stderr) from filter together.
    + Added: Filters: Option to display filter output as message instead of replacing.
    + Added: Filters: Option to auto-exit when filter is finished.
    + Added: Filters: Option to skip saving upon auto-exit when filter is finished.
    + Added: Filters: Option to ignore filter's return value.
    + Added: Filters: Option to wait for filter to finish.
    + Added: Filters: Option to skip the launch dialog.
    + Added: Filters: Quoting variable modifiers, which escape all double-quotes while expanding.
    + Added: Search and Replace All feature groups Undo steps into one Undo step.
    + Added: Search and Replace All feature shows total count of replacements in the Status Bar.
    + Added: Progress and info messages displayed in the Status Bar during most operations.
    + Added: Undo feature can now remember the last document save-point.
    + Added: Double-clicks on the Status Bar supported (as shortcuts to anticipated actions).
    + Added: Word Wrap indicator in the Status Bar.
    + Added: Current character value in the Status Bar.
    + Added: Suggest filename from first line supports longer filenames.
    + Added: Suggest filename from first line now works also in Exclude File feature.
    + Added: Option to confirm with user whether to exit by Esc key.
    + Added: Option to prevent insertion of control characters.
    + Added: Option to show bold Caret upon Overwrite mode.
    + Added: Option to improve definition of what a word consists of.
    + Added: Option to Indent selection (of multiple lines) with simple Tab key.
    + Added: Option to reduce Undo steps to the last single step upon Save.
    + Added: Option to persist current scrolling during tools.
    + Added: Option to auto-hide the Search Bar after it has been used.
    + Added: Option to auto-hide the Search Bar only after a successful use.
    + Added: Options to reset/keep specific search attributes in the Search Bar.
    + Added: Option to execute search as non-abortable (for compatibility).
    + Added: Option to execute all tools as non-abortable (for compatibility).
    + Added: Option to warn, when a file being loaded is bigger than a specific value.
    + Added: Support for overriding user locale settings (number formats, date/time formats).
    + Added: Many more settings and options to subtly adjust behaviour of features.
    - Fixed: Malformed UTF-8 files could cause loading troubles.
    - Fixed: Save As dialog allows read-only files when read-only files can be forced.
    - Fixed: Save As dialog no longer changes current working directory on the way.
    - Fixed: Switch to already opened document, while the other document's window is in tray.
    - Fixed: Troubles with changing the opened-and-watched-for-modifications file too rapidly.
    - Fixed: The opened-and-watched-for-modifications file no longer share-locked unnecessarily.
    - Fixed: Statistics tool: Average line length computed over non-empty lines only.
    - Fixed: Statistics tool: Line lengths (avg/min/max) ignore tail white-spaces.
    - Fixed: Unique Lines tool: Duplicates of empty lines not counted upon Leave empty lines.
    - Fixed: Unique Lines tool: Improved algorithm used in the tool (bug with quadratic impact).
    - Fixed: SysTray icon reappears after explorer/taskbar crash and recreation.
    * Improved and more user-friendly Goto dialog.
    * Statistics tool dialog supports copying of the values into clipboard.
    * Settings dialog now remembers the last active tab for convenience.
    * All tools working with selection can now auto-select word/line/paragraph/document.
    * Changing document Encoding or Newlines makes the document modified.
    * Old Margin Bar renamed to Wrap Margin. It soft-wraps lines upon Word Wrap.
    * Message "Search pattern not found!" now includes the search pattern.
    * Current selection and scrolling try to persist Search and Replace All operation.
    * Search and Replace All draws all changes at once if there is no idle CPU.
    * Undo is available in the Search Bar, when selection is pre-filled as new pattern.
    * Ability to define and use the Second Search through the Search Bar.
    * Longer patterns (upto 8 KiB) allowed in the Search Bar.
    * The selection is reversed upon searching upwards.
    * Word Wrap rewraps the line being edited correctly, including previous word.
    * Better maintenance of current scrolling and selection upon reverting the document.
    * Better maintenance of current scrolling upon rewrapping lines of the document.
    * Horizontal Scroll Bar tries to be a bit smarter and less resource consuming.
    * Quote Mail tool removed.
    * Few hotkeys modified or switched between functions.
    * Tools sub-menu and Edit sub-menu rearranged a bit. All dialogs improved.
    * Defaults for some of the settings modified to fit the new capabilities.
    * Few config names changed or moved to prevent sharing with old versions.
    * Core memory-handling and text-processing routines improved.
    * Non-linear generator of pseudo-random numbers used in tools.
    * Default fonts changed to Courier New and Arial.
    * New application icon introduced.
    Changes against version 5.4.1.

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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 rjbull on October 20, 2011, 02:14 PM »

Another photo of Frome, Somerset.  According to The Guardian, the town is now a pit stop for celebs gasping for a FairTrade mochachino on the way to Glasters...  but The Grauniad exaggerates.

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Living Room / Re: Show us the View Outside Your Window

« Last post by rjbull on October 20, 2011, 02:09 PM »

There certainly should have been    It was the strongest rainbow I've seen for ages, outer bow and everything.  The light intensity difference between "inside" and "outside" is more extreme than I remember seeing it, but I think that's an example of the brain's visual processing.

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Living Room / Re: Show us the View Outside Your Window

« Last post by rjbull on October 19, 2011, 03:17 PM »

This afternoon, 2011-10-19.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: CHS: New Formatting Dialog

« Last post by rjbull on October 19, 2011, 03:10 PM »

you MUST include lines in your perl to flush stdout!

-mouser (October 18, 2011, 06:55 PM)

Is that just a PERL thing, or required with any utility?

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General Software Discussion / Re: True Clock Utility

« Last post by rjbull on October 19, 2011, 03:06 PM »

The Bits du Jour discount on Vector Clock Pro is today, 2011-10-19

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA : XML Stripper

« Last post by rjbull on October 18, 2011, 03:36 PM »

There's even:

XMLgawk

http://home.vrweb.de...rgen.kahrs/gawk/XML/

XMLgawk is an experimental extension of the GNU Awk interpreter. It includes a small XML parsing library which is built upon the Expat XML parser. The parsing library is a very thin layer on top of Expat (implementing a pull-interface) and can also be used without GNU Awk to read XML data files. Both, XMLgawk and its XML puller library only require an ANSI C compatible compiler (GCC works, as do most vendors' ANSI C compilers) and a 'make' program.

XMLgawk provides the following functionality:

    * AWK's way of reading data line by line is supplemented by reading XML files node by node.
[...]

Someone has compiled binaries for Windows, though it looks like you might need Cygwin or something else as well.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA : XML Stripper

« Last post by rjbull on October 18, 2011, 03:13 PM »

A quick Google search turns up a few SED and PERL scripts that might work, at least partially?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Real autocompletion in Microsoft Word

« Last post by rjbull on October 17, 2011, 03:11 PM »

I don't use Word, but DC already has plenty of threads on autocompletion software, text expanders, completers and the like:

jgpaiva's abbreviations importer
https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=2598.0
link to jgpaiva's AHK tools
https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=3461.0

Harrie's review of Instant Text, and following posts
https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=2631.0


Word AutoCompleter
https://www.donation...1036.msg6713#msg6713 (mentions IntelliComplete, AutoTyping, LetMeType, AllChars, Type Pilot)

Auspex
https://www.donation....msg231091#msg231091

External links:

Productivity Talk - Harrie's own forum site for (primarily) Medical
Transcriptionists
http://www.productivitytalk.com/

Jon Knowles site on typing productivity
http://home.earthlin...net/~agjon/index.htm

Jon Knowles' ABCZ typing abbreviation system
http://home.earthlin.../~agjon/abczrule.htm


Here are some more:

TypeMate http://www.typemate.net/
TypeItIn http://www.wavget.com/typeitin.html
Direct Access  http://www.nagarsoft.com/
PhraseExpress   http://www.phraseexpress.com/
AutoText Typing Assistant  http://www.autotext-software.com/  (a freeware by the PhraseExpress people)
RoboType 4  http://www.pcmag.com...,2817,2380508,00.asp
Rocket Typing  http://www.easy-to-u...m/html/rocket-typing
Typing Buddy  http://www.supernova...oducts/speed_typing/
FastFox Typing Expander  http://www.nch.com.au/fastfox/index.html
Type Booster  http://www.typebooster.com/index.php
Smart Type Assistant  http://www.blazingtools.com/sta.html
Typing Assistant  http://www.sumitsoft.com/index.htm
Comfort Software  http://www.comfort-software.com/  (only completion from a dictionary)
Texter  http://lifehacker.co...r-windows-238306.php

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Post New Requests Here / Re: New words/quotes keeper

« Last post by rjbull on October 16, 2011, 04:27 PM »

FWIW, the last free version of AZZ Cardfile is at the bottom of their azzCardfil Downloads page.  It should give the flavour.

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge & Early Beta: Ethervane Echo

« Last post by rjbull on October 16, 2011, 04:00 PM »

I just can't bring myself to record my voice in English.**

-tranglos (October 16, 2011, 02:31 PM)

Try a Wink slideshow instead?

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General Software Discussion / Re: True Clock Utility

« Last post by rjbull on October 16, 2011, 11:01 AM »

Today's (2011-10-16) e-mail from Bits du Jour says that the Pro version of Vector Clock is "coming soon."

BdJ offer on Vector Clock Pro; 51% off, $12.23 instead of regular price of $24.95.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: CHS: New Formatting Dialog

« Last post by rjbull on October 13, 2011, 02:39 PM »

Understood now, and +1 on the last three points    That's more or less why I asked for the STDIN/STDOUT alternative.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Recommend host for slide shows?

« Last post by rjbull on October 13, 2011, 02:32 PM »

http://www.screencast.com/ (part of TechSmith's domain)

-DerekHal (October 13, 2011, 12:37 PM)

That's where I came in.  Jing sends single screenshots or videos to screencast.com, but I didn't think there was a way to upload slideshows made by third-party programs, and that maybe they wouldn't be very happy if one did.

http://screencast-o-matic.com/
http://prezi.com/

-DerekHal (October 13, 2011, 12:37 PM)

I think you're elected resident expert on screencasting    Thanks!

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Error EX4: DBISAM Engine Error #11013

« Last post by rjbull on October 13, 2011, 02:22 PM »

i really wish i had never used the dbisam database engine in this program, it has been nothing but trouble.

-mouser (October 12, 2011, 08:45 PM)

I don't know anything from the programmer's point of view, but I've never seen CHS lose or mangle any data it had captured.  Hence I'd rate the engine as sound from the users' point of view.

mouser, would it be a workaround to install CHS as portable rather than installed "normally?"  Would that put the temp directory somewhere less sensitive to AV programs?  And, is there an easy way to make the CHS SFX archive able to install as portable without having to remember to edit the INI file before first use?  I don't know about recent versions of WinRAR, but DOS RAR came with a "mini batch language" for making installations.  For the INI file, you'd just have to make it choose between a standard and portable?

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: CHS: New Formatting Dialog

« Last post by rjbull on October 13, 2011, 10:01 AM »

Thanks, mouser.
[Edit 2011-10-13, 20:32]
Just noticed your edit! 
Well, I'm not working, so I don't have as much need as formerly, but maybe I'll try and find something to use it with 
[/Edit]

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: CHS: New Formatting Dialog

« Last post by rjbull on October 13, 2011, 09:50 AM »

That works very nicely and hands stuff out for processing by an editor that has many years' worth of Rexx macros built into it.

-cranioscopical (October 10, 2011, 05:39 PM)

I'm not sure I follow you.  I thought the point of this kind of tool was to avoid using the editor itself, while gaining extra benefit from scripts already written for it.  That is, instead of loading your editor, you'd run your scripts with a free-standing REXX interpreter via CHS.  Is that what you meant?

In my case, I have, or rather had at work, a myriad AWK scripts plus a much smaller number of SED scripts.  As first written under DOS or for use in a DOS box, these were run from the command line using redirection and sometimes pipes because that's how you did it in those days, and seems to be the standard Unix method for running Unixish tools.  Often they were wrapped in batch files.  More recently I configured certain scripts as user tools in editors like TED Notepad, Notetab Pro (NTP), and HippoEDIT.  NTP can even keep the scripts inside its own clipbook (macro) libraries.  The editors all send a marked block of text to the script, receive the transformed text back, and over-write the original marked block.  This works by STDIN/STDOUT without temporary files (or at least without them being visible to the operator).  I see that mouser's example PERL script is specifically written to use files as IO rather than STDIN/STDOUT.  I'd rather avoid having to change my scripts that currently work by STDIN/STDOUT, which is why I'd like to have STDIN/STDOUT offered as an alternative method.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Recommend host for slide shows?

« Last post by rjbull on October 13, 2011, 09:22 AM »

How about [...]

-DerekHal (October 12, 2011, 04:59 PM)

Thanks!  That's the kind of thing I meant.  At first sight, slideshare looks most interesting.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Recommend host for slide shows?

« Last post by rjbull on October 13, 2011, 09:10 AM »

Have you read this thread Seriously, Youtube is becoming impossible!?   It's not the only DC thread finding fault with YouTube.

-rjbull (October 12, 2011, 03:51 PM)

-Stephen66515 (October 12, 2011, 04:05 PM)

* Stephen66515 STARTED that thread...

-Stephen66515 (October 12, 2011, 04:05 PM)

Oops     It must be right, then...   

just because its not perfect, doesnt mean its not a handy service for something like your wanting.

-Stephen66515 (October 12, 2011, 04:05 PM)

I'd rather avoid anyone having to dodge spam buttons and the like, if I'm tying to describe something technical.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Recommend host for slide shows?

« Last post by rjbull on October 12, 2011, 03:51 PM »

Yes, I suppose I do want a free Web host [...]

-rjbull (October 12, 2011, 03:06 PM)

How about a youtube channel? Just make the slideshows into video format, and upload

-Stephen66515 (October 12, 2011, 03:14 PM)

Have you read this thread Seriously, Youtube is becoming impossible!?   It's not the only DC thread finding fault with YouTube.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: CHS Demo Screencast: Using Custom Script/Tool Formatting Presets

« Last post by rjbull on October 12, 2011, 03:43 PM »

Looks likely to blow Clippy, Text Monkey and others out of the water 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Recommend host for slide shows?

« Last post by rjbull on October 12, 2011, 03:06 PM »

Yes, I suppose I do want a free Web host, and I was thinking of instructional material for the public, as it were.  This was started by posts about using Listary with XYplorer on the recent lifetime license offer on XYplorer on Bits du Jour, where I wanted to make some screenshots (I misunderstood matters, but that's irrelevant here).  Jing is a TechSmith program and can send its output to their screencast.com Web site, where you get 2 GB of free space.  It can do either plain screenshots with simple annotations, or 5-minute videos that can't be annotated.  I was looking for a home for the half-way situation of step-by-step "how to" slideshows like Wink does.

mouser - thanks for the offer: it's just that the public might not be solely or even primarily DC.  In that case, I wouldn't feel all that comfortable.