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Living Room / Re: backup question - how much of a risk is fire?

« Last post by tomos on January 31, 2007, 10:43 AM »

I've been wondering what people do in terms of off-site backup -
seems like a good time to ask - been considering one of these online services for just stuff I'm currently working on, which would be manageable.

But if you're backing up a lot of stuff & you say want to get it off the premises daily, what can/do you do?
what are the options??

11102

General Software Discussion / Re: General brainstorming for Note-taking software

« Last post by tomos on January 31, 2007, 07:20 AM »

FileType NEW=.txt

When the file is created, the name of the file is \"New Text Document.txt\" with the name already highlighted in F2 rename mode.

Instead, I'd like the file to be created with the name \"Notes YYYY.MM.DD.txt\" and not be in rename mode. Is that possible?

nudone, see this thread for making new "button" for to make new text file (dopus):
http://resource.dopu...le+file+current+date

You can then make your own shortcut in customise mode ..

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General Software Discussion / Re: General brainstorming for Note-taking software

« Last post by tomos on January 31, 2007, 05:38 AM »

nudone, was going to post this in new thread but it seems to tie in here with your request/idea:

just the last couple of days I've been thinking of/looking at using text files & dopus as an Organiser/todolist.

You have Project Folder e.g."ProjectA"
next action txt files:
1A
2A

Then ProjectB
1B
2B

The advantage being, using flat view (without folders), I can sort files having "next actions" of various projects at the top of the list ... (1A, 1B, 2A, 2B, 3A, etc.)
Also I can simply entitle the txt file with the action e.g. "1A_check their last mail" & add more text to file if necessary.

The disadvantage of using Dopus's collection (for me anyway) is that you cant create a tree structure within it

Now all I need is a calender in Dopus !!

Also could use one of those hardlink programmes to link files from elsewhere.

Do you know offhand the command for to make a new text file in Dopus?
I'll go look in their forum anyways
and get that plugin as well ..

Edit: I havent used "Descriptions" in dopus, but it appears you can add your own description which can be displayed in its own column. see PDF Manual p.138
I presume this could be used as another way of sorting files - not as good as tagging but better than nothing

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Living Room / Re: try my new experiment with HotOrNot pictures!

« Last post by tomos on January 29, 2007, 08:23 AM »

there is no start button on my page

ditto / IE

signed: angry young man 

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Mini-Review: Poisson Rouge (Red Fish) {kids}

« Last post by tomos on January 28, 2007, 04:42 PM »

Who is this app designed for:

Obviously the primary audience for this website is young children.  I have seen children as young as 4 years old enjoy the website.  Kids in the 5-7 age range tend to love the site and never get tired with it.  I have also had kids as old as 9 years old explore the site and have a lot of fun with it, though the excitement doesn't last near as long with them.  I will admit to spending quite a bit of time exploring the site as well.

I'm no spring chicken and have to say I've really enjoyed the last five minutes there ...
simply really good FUN !   

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General Software Discussion / Re: "intelligent" multisession burn

« Last post by tomos on January 27, 2007, 05:00 PM »

thanks mwb, I'll have a look at that.

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General Software Discussion / "intelligent" multisession burn

« Last post by tomos on January 27, 2007, 04:55 AM »

You know the way with synch software you get the choice to
delete files in destination directory that dont exist in source -
or not 

SOURCE:
file_A
file_D

DEST:
file_B

so you'd have the option to end up with all three files in Dest - i.e. file_B would NOT be removed from destination.

I'm not familiar with much burning software,
but basic multisession burning software does not allow this.

Does anyone know of software that does?
(here I say a prayer that it wont involve installing a bloated NERO - that's kindof an apt name when you think of the excesses of the original ..  )

11108

General Software Discussion / Re: free, small, fast uninstaller replacement

« Last post by tomos on January 27, 2007, 04:20 AM »

the first one - no-one mentioned the name yet    - Uninstall Tool 1.6.6 - it's portable.

It does load icons so reckon Safarp would be quicker that way.

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General Software Discussion / Re: free, small, fast uninstaller replacement

« Last post by tomos on January 26, 2007, 08:46 AM »

mentioned in this thread here:
https://www.donation...83.msg33577#msg33577

and a couple of posts later Carol says:

No - it doesn't mention dates - but it does nice things like open RegEdit and jump to the relevant part for each app or jump to the installation folder. You can also trawl through 'hidden' installs.

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General Software Discussion / Re: My favorite software! What's yours?

« Last post by tomos on January 26, 2007, 05:29 AM »

TrueLaunchBar (http://truelaunchbar.com $$ - This just makes my computing life easier.  I actually run with my taskbar at the bottom (with a truelaunchbar enhanced quick launch) and a toolbar across the top of the screen with some truelaunch plugins and my clipmate toolbar.  I loose a tiny bit of screen real estate, but I work faster.

-cthorpe

it'd be nice to see a screenshot if you could?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: drag window to edge automatically resizes it

« Last post by tomos on January 18, 2007, 03:50 AM »

Attached to this post is the grid you asked for, singx7. I also fixed the 3-part reversed grid, it had an error. Thanks for noticing it

-jgpaiva (January 17, 2007, 06:44 AM)

hi jgpaiva,
dont think I've posted here before - it's a wonderful thing is gridmove !!
I actually dont use it that much due to nature of my work, but when I do, boy do I appreciate it (should go donate then  )

Anyways, the above grid doesnt seem to be attatched to post as you say - also your whatchamacallit - signature - the image link is broken (from my perspective at any rate!)

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General Software Discussion / Re: "Word" liscence query

« Last post by tomos on January 17, 2007, 11:08 AM »

it's the same programme/s 

same price too  

11113

Living Room / Re: SuperboyAC's DC blog #1

« Last post by tomos on January 15, 2007, 10:58 AM »

I know nothing about mp3 players - always hated wearing earphones ...

but this about gapless recording of continuous albums may be of interest to people here. (There's updates towards the top of the page)

Most MP3 players cannot play albums; do you care?
The MP3 format has inherent flaws which, unless worked around, mean it cannot move seamlessly from one track to the next without adding silence or at least a click. Some players (and encoders) address these problems and perfect gapless playback is possible with MP3 but, rather than address these problems, the majority of MP3 players, both hardware and software, actually make things worse by inserting additional silence of their own.

http://www.pretentio...rs/index.html#albums

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General Software Discussion / Re: "Word" liscence query

« Last post by tomos on January 15, 2007, 04:10 AM »

I you only use WP occasionally why not just use WordPad ? It does most things needed for quickly typing a letter etc. and it is on your computer anyway.

-Carol Haynes (December 29, 2006, 11:15 AM)

tried it but even though I dont use it often, I want to be able to make tables, see where the page ends &, I dont know - have more control ( I must ... have control ...     )

I installed the trial version of Textmaker
http://www.softmaker...m/english/ofw_en.htm
(SoftMakerOffice - with Word & Excel replacements)

I was having trouble, or rather I should say someone else was having trouble with an OpenOffice word .doc I made - when they opened it in the latest Word all the colour-highlighting was gone.
Sorted that out in textmaker.

You can also open OpenOffice documents.
It seems to hold the original layout much better than with OOo/Word or AbiWord/Word or OOo/AbiWord.
I read somewhere but cant find it now (should be working ) that you can install it on a USB stick.

But the most impressive thing - for a lot of people here anyway, is that you can get an Academic/Student/Teacher liscence for €14 - i dunno - but estimate conversion @ around $16 & (my god, theres no Pound symbol on my keyboard) maybe 7Pounds sterling or so.
(You do need to prove your studenthood or academic status.)

They may as well give it away, well, unfortunately I dont qualify
- it's still under €70 full price so certainly compared to MS it's a bargain.

See Zaine's review (below the Open Office one)
http://www.anova.org...are/index01.htm#word

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General Software Discussion / Re: Areca Backup - Now there's no excuse!

« Last post by tomos on January 15, 2007, 03:33 AM »

...but it's java >_<

-f0dder (January 14, 2007, 04:07 PM)

does that simply mean painfully slow (I'm thinking of OOo)
or is there worse?

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N.A.N.Y. Challenge 2007 / Re: WorkCoach - v0.7.7 - December 30, 2006

« Last post by tomos on January 11, 2007, 04:16 AM »

Hi Arjen

went for it (workcoach) again this morning.
Was having some system problems (genaral high CPU usage) but seems fairly okay now (dunno, I rebooted ... )
Listed as AMD AthalonXP 1666MHz 2000+
Win XP uptodate

Using Process Explorer:
CPU rates vary between 15 & 30%
still seems very high - it seems to fluctuate a lot as i work even though I havent changed window/programme. (CPU changes every second or so but then I notice they all do that in ProcessExp.!!)
Also seems so far not to vary that much between different programmes (including surfing)

hope that helps ??!!

tom

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Living Room / Re: How do you spend your time on the computer?

« Last post by tomos on January 09, 2007, 03:54 AM »

... doing excel charts of our power consumption and calculating how much we'll have to pay for it.

-f0dder (January 09, 2007, 03:49 AM)

thanks f0dder - first good laugh in a couple of day    
(reminds me of me doing Excel charts of all my shortcuts ... )

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N.A.N.Y. Challenge 2007 / Re: FreePcSecurity - v1.00.01 - December 14, 2006

« Last post by tomos on January 09, 2007, 03:45 AM »

kyrathaba.....

i  trust  that  you  did  not  know  that  spyware  terminator   was  on  the  rogue  software  lists  with  spyware  warrior...since  being  de-listed  has  been  heavily  spammed  on  numourous  forums  with  a  great  deal  of  encouragement  from  its  developers....and  i  for  one  do  not  want  an  app  thats  developed  by  a  company  whose  main  objective  is  in  advertising....

please  research  your  recommendations  more  thorouthly  in  future.....

-manxman21 (January 09, 2007, 03:35 AM)

I suspect a lot of people aren't aware of that ... could you give us a link there?

quite apart from that, it's not getting very good results - see
http://www.davescomp...tters/20070101.php#2

pity, it was so nice to have auto-updates 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Hide icons from desktop

« Last post by tomos on January 08, 2007, 03:18 AM »

What screenshot?
Will someone get this stupid attach system a useful help section!!   

-Curt (January 06, 2007, 05:52 AM)

Mouser already did, Curt.. Check out https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=1996.0

(i edited your post to show the screenshot)

-jgpaiva (January 06, 2007, 06:01 AM)

It would be helpful if this link could be added to the "post reply" window.
(Dont know if that would be possible?)
A lot of people (me included  ) have difficulty figuring out attach images first time round ..

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Living Room / Re: What do you want to do with your life?

« Last post by tomos on January 05, 2007, 03:49 AM »

jeez,
there's enough in that review alone to keep a body thinking a while 

..
"learning to take care of ourselves creatively rather than resentfully is a big step in growing up"
...
"As long as you are blaming, explaining, apologizing, trying, resolving to be good, hoping or feeling guilty, you are not being responsible."
..

(my italics)

p.s. thanks brotherS

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Living Room / Re: What do you want to do with your life?

« Last post by tomos on January 05, 2007, 03:04 AM »

Along those lines I also recommend you buy the book Radical Honesty. Not an easy read but well worth the time invested!

-brotherS (January 05, 2007, 03:00 AM)

brotherS, any chance you could tell us something about the book?
thanks, tom

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N.A.N.Y. Challenge 2007 / Re: WorkCoach - v0.7.7 - December 30, 2006

« Last post by tomos on January 05, 2007, 01:57 AM »

If I understood you correctly the program currently keeps a much simpler counter of time used per window and simply increments this and saves it in a file. Adding timestamped events if this is the case is probably too much to ask because it is a departure from your current lean and simple approach, what do you think ?

have you looked at TitleLog
https://www.donation...45.msg33062#msg33062
It keeps track of all windows used - to the minute - which is great as a record of what you doing but not so good for keeping track of how long youve spent on something throughout the day.

Anyone else having problems with WorkCoach using a lot of CPU ?

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N.A.N.Y. Challenge 2007 / Re: DC Forum Post Notifier Lite (a.k.a. Pop-Up Cody) - v1.1.30 - January 3, 2007

« Last post by tomos on January 03, 2007, 11:55 AM »

The notifier displays a number of recent posts in a pop-up window upon user request and when it detects mouse hovering on the title bar of one of the posts, it shows the content of the post in a floating window and closes the window when the cursor moves out of the area. In a word, shrink and expand.
..
any idea? 

great idea

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N.A.N.Y. Challenge 2007 / Re: DC Forum Post Notifier Lite (a.k.a. Pop-Up Cody) - v1.1.30 - January 3, 2007

« Last post by tomos on January 03, 2007, 09:14 AM »

I think the problem here lies in how we can effectively determine "missed notifications". Imagine the user sits right before his display when the notifier pops up, he was staring at his monitor, probably daydreaming and then only scans a few words on it and decides to ignore it, letting it automatically fade out.
...
Maybe one of the criteria could be "no keyboard/mouse activity for ## seconds", same way how screen savers work. What do you think? 

-mobysaurus

on thinking about it i think theres too many variables (for me at any rate )

I think if it was available I would use a universal hotkey to bring up the popup showing recent posts (i.e. preferably directly to the recent posts) & I probably wouldnt bother with anything else

also, for example, a couple of times today I happened to hit return as a new post was materialising in the corner - it disappears - then the hotkey would come to the rescue again 

I havent read the full thread so it may have been suggested already:
possibility of changing number of recent posts would be nice.

ta, tom

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N.A.N.Y. Challenge 2007 / Re: DC Forum Post Notifier Lite (a.k.a. Pop-Up Cody) - v1.1.30 - January 3, 2007

« Last post by tomos on January 03, 2007, 08:20 AM »

would it be possible or what would you think of an option to show it as a minimizable window - I mean from the point of view of being able to Alt-Tab to it & then check recent posts -
if I am staying at computer I could minimize it to system tray - then maybe a hotkey to bring it up as a window if I'm coming & going ?

-tom

I was thinking very complicated there ! 

A universal hotkey to bring up recent posts would cover it - think you were probably considering that anyways