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General Software Discussion / Re: SoftMaker Office 2018 announced (beta available)

« Last post by tomos on October 26, 2017, 02:50 PM »

Like Jibz, will upgrade at some stage when the price goes down a bit.

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Living Room / Re: good Videos [short films] here :)

« Last post by tomos on October 26, 2017, 02:29 PM »

- and this:

[Yoann Bourgeois - Fugue / Trampoline sur Metamorphosis II]
-IainB (October 26, 2017, 08:21 AM)

this is a real gem.
Couldnt stop watching, and at some stage just had to laugh at it.

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Release: cnpaperplay - Codenames /Codenames Duet Play on Paper Clone

« Last post by tomos on October 23, 2017, 03:05 PM »

Games generated from your list -- can you please check the words in the games and make sure the character encoding is correct?
-mouser (October 23, 2017, 02:10 PM)

the character coding is correct so far, but I'll have to get a native speaker to look at that list, I see one word I'm not 100% sure of (sorry, should have gotten that done first :-/)

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Release: cnpaperplay - Codenames /Codenames Duet Play on Paper Clone

« Last post by tomos on October 23, 2017, 06:05 AM »

Simply translating the list wouldn't really work -- as you say, many of the words have a couple of meanings -- that would be lost in translation.

I'm not so sure -- I don't think the specific words make that big of a difference to be honest.
-mouser (October 22, 2017, 11:53 PM)

With the help of phitsc's Text Inspection & Manipulation Utility, I now have ~240 german words which are all 'Teekesselchen' (homonyms).

I know that might make it too easy, but how about we go with that for the moment?
and I can get a couple of people to try it out and give feedback, and maybe improve the list for a future version

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Release: cnpaperplay - Codenames /Codenames Duet Play on Paper Clone

« Last post by tomos on October 22, 2017, 03:25 PM »

^ thanks mouser

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Release: cnpaperplay - Codenames /Codenames Duet Play on Paper Clone

« Last post by tomos on October 22, 2017, 02:12 PM »

^ thanks for the wordlist mouser -- mind if I ask where you got it?
was it from that boardgamegeek.com thread? if so any chance of a link for it -- search there is not working at the moment (504 error).

Simply translating the list wouldn't really work -- as you say, many of the words have a couple of meanings -- that would be lost in translation.

Reminds me of a german spoken game:
Teekesselchen, literally meaning 'tea-kettle', but today used to mean homonym.
Two people choose a word with two different meanings, then each person 'acts' as one meaning of that word:
'I am small' 'I grow' 'I am not alive' etc. etc.
others meanwhile try and guess the word.

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Release: cnpaperplay - Codenames /Codenames Duet Play on Paper Clone

« Last post by tomos on October 21, 2017, 03:24 PM »

How did you choose the word list mouser?
Are they random, or is there a logic or conditions to it?

(Wondering about creating a word list in other language/s)

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Release: cnpaperplay - Codenames /Codenames Duet Play on Paper Clone

« Last post by tomos on October 21, 2017, 01:38 PM »

First play (of duet) this evening -- I really enjoyed it

We got confused about the black: I thought if something was black on my list, I couldn't guess it -- but once we figured that out that I could gues them (and it was the other player could not) it was fine.

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Living Room / Re: Share your photos! Travel shots, photoblogs, etc.

« Last post by tomos on October 16, 2017, 05:03 PM »

^ Looking at that on my smallish (by todays standards) phone, thinking what *is* that... then I saw the eye.
Great photo

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Release: cnpaperplay - Codenames /Codenames Duet Play on Paper Clone

« Last post by tomos on October 14, 2017, 08:34 AM »

Will we non-coders be able to create our own word lists? (I'm thinking for other languages as well.)
Yep already implemented, and unicode supported.
-mouser (October 14, 2017, 08:21 AM)

sounds even better

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Living Room / Re: Chess?

« Last post by tomos on October 14, 2017, 08:33 AM »

do ya ever wanna visit the DC chat to talk chess!?
-TaoPhoenix (October 13, 2017, 10:17 PM)

will try during the week

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Release: cnpaperplay - Codenames /Codenames Duet Play on Paper Clone

« Last post by tomos on October 14, 2017, 06:59 AM »

Sounds great !
I have played this, but once only.
Will we non-coders be able to create our own word lists? (I'm thinking for other languages as well.)

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Quality of Captured Image

« Last post by tomos on October 13, 2017, 11:29 AM »

For the examples above, I was using RIOT, which has a simple interface (and is used as a plugin by IrfanView).
-Jibz (February 26, 2014, 02:31 PM)

this was updated in 2016 - there may be better out there in terms of compression, but it has a good interface:

it's slow with hi-res files, but does offer to reduce resolution as you open the file.
I'm happy, e.g. the file in image there got reduced from 280 to 85KiB

[note I didn't reduce the resolution of the file]

(Note that higher compression makes very little difference but takes much longer.)

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Release: Dualcopy

« Last post by tomos on October 13, 2017, 04:41 AM »

Looks good antekgla

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General Software Discussion / Re: Adobe Acrobat - is there an alternative?

« Last post by tomos on October 13, 2017, 04:30 AM »

What did you get in the end techidave?
Do Adobe even 'sell' Acrobat any more -- or is it all subscription?

On closer look I believe FlexiPDF would have sorted your needs (but haven't used it myself).

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General Software Discussion / Re: New PDF editor: FlexiPDF from SoftMaker

« Last post by tomos on October 13, 2017, 04:26 AM »

I'm looking at this again because Softmaker has an offer this weekend on FlexiPDF**

$19.99 https://www.ashampoo...ice-software/pdf-pro for 10 more days.

Yes, it clearly is a renamed version of FlexiPdf Pro.
-Curt (October 07, 2017, 05:21 PM)

initially I thought it was the only basic FlexiPDF version - but I see Ashampoo has "Find and replace across documents" which only the Pro FlexiPDF has
See
Ashampoo PDF Pro features
and
FlexiPDF feature comparision page

FWIW FlexiPDF coupon code is
flexioffer
=>
and prices in Euroworld are 25 & 35 euro respectively

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Non-Windows Software / Re: Backup my data

« Last post by tomos on October 10, 2017, 06:40 AM »

I'm not sure why my weblinks aren't working like they should. Any advice would be appreciated.
-techidave (October 10, 2017, 05:58 AM)

closing bracket missing there
EDIT// also your comments are in Shades quote, but I didnt look closely there

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Living Room / Re: Albert Einstein . Why Socialism ?

« Last post by tomos on October 08, 2017, 11:50 AM »

Put quotes in spoiler please:

[spoiler] QUOTEs HERE [/spoiler]

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Living Room / Re: USB HDD enclosure or what?

« Last post by tomos on October 08, 2017, 11:45 AM »

^ have one of these, from Sharkroon.
Got it about 5 y.o. Still working fine. Works with 2.5 drives, even with IDE drives (probably wont get that any more though, but you probably wont need it either).

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Non-Windows Software / Re: Backup my data

« Last post by tomos on October 06, 2017, 06:01 AM »

Hello everyone.
Thank you admin for introducing a new segment for us(MAC users). I am about to sell my Mac air in next couple of days. It carries of about 150+ gb of pictures, videos and other data. any idea of safely moving it to some other system ?? External harddisk is a rather slow process. please do suggest better ways
Thanks in advance.
Please reply the earliest.
-AndyFlick (October 06, 2017, 03:32 AM)

Do you have no backup of them already?
If not, go for it: copy them to the external HDD. That *will* take a long time - just leave it run for a day, or overnight.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Malwarebytes 3.0 out

« Last post by tomos on October 06, 2017, 03:24 AM »

Was thinking of taking the jump
(my install is 1.70.0.1100 -- what can I say $:-\$ it doesnt auto-update nor even prompt)

4wd, wondering what the exact number of the file you installed was?
You can see there what they now offering -- I'm presuming they've updated it since, but cannot find release notes on their site

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Living Room / Re: Chess?

« Last post by tomos on October 05, 2017, 10:51 AM »

The one I am talking about is with no special combo it just DOES things, some of which overturn 100 years of "established wisdom" except it just somehow works. Besides the weird one I mentioned, a famous category is insane combos that somehow just all amount to getting one piece. Then you just lose from level 1 see above.
-TaoPhoenix (September 29, 2017, 07:01 AM)

Below a couple videos from another channel I started following (agadmator's Chess Channel). I like him a lot -- he's got a very relaxed style, but is much faster moving than the other channel above.

Following on from your quote there:
Two interesting untypical games (especially the first). Both with interesting back-stories, both played by humans :p