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General Software Discussion / Re: What's your preferred File Manager

« Last post by Darwin on May 03, 2009, 06:11 PM »

You're a very unusual person, Darwin.

-Innuendo (May 03, 2009, 03:57 PM)

Heh, heh... So I've been told!

I own a licence for PowerDesk 7 (and 6, for that matter) but don't have it (either) installed anymore. DOpus is all I use day to day. I have purchased licenses for almost all the major file managers available - TC, XYPlorer, explorer2, FileBoss, FileQest, Altap Salamander, Frigate 3, etc. but have only DOpus installed on my harddrive with XYPlorer and TC installed on my thumbdrives (along with DOpus!). I have had TC installed and tweaked to perfection and love it. Howver, DOpus is no like a well worn pair of shoes - so comfortable and familar   

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Living Room / Re: ToyVoyagers: Stuffed Animals Travel the Globe with the Help of Strangers

« Last post by Darwin on May 01, 2009, 02:10 PM »

any employee who goes away on vacation brings the monkey and takes on-location photos of the monkey back to share.

-CWuestefeld (May 01, 2009, 01:19 PM)

Does that result in a rhesus negative?

-cranioscopical (May 01, 2009, 01:57 PM)

You just keep getting better, Chris 

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Living Room / Re: The Worm Within: Disgusting and You Can't Stop Reading

« Last post by Darwin on April 30, 2009, 12:55 PM »

My reaction was neutral/positive (as in, funny-positive) most of the time. However!

-Shook (April 30, 2009, 12:06 PM)

For me it was more the thought of having to pull it out of my rear end that got me - coupled with the descriptions of 1. the several minutes of the worm's death throes (and being able to feel the same) and 2.  being able to feel the worm's carcass work its way through one's intestines as one struggles to pull it out. Very nice. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: What's your preferred File Manager

« Last post by Darwin on April 30, 2009, 12:52 PM »

Thanks, innuendo  I'm a DOpus devotee (but own a licence for TC and love it as well), so understand your position!

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Living Room / Re: The Worm Within: Disgusting and You Can't Stop Reading

« Last post by Darwin on April 29, 2009, 05:00 AM »

Fascinating! Thanks for the link, mouser  The description of the "cure" and its effects were cringe inducing 

rjbull - I'm going to have to track down a copy of New Guinea Tapeworms and Jewish Grandmothers: Tales of Parasites and People - I read the freebie first page at Amazon and like what I see!

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Living Room / Re: Geek gadgets - Calculators...

« Last post by Darwin on April 27, 2009, 06:50 AM »

I was running the Win7 calc in Vista for a while and usually have the Power Calculator installed as well. However, if I need to calculate anything when I'm on my computer I tend to fire up Excel or, more commonly, reach for a calculator. Somehow it just feels "right" to me, whereas using a computer based calculator leaves me feeling empty 

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Living Room / Re: Geek gadgets - Calculators...

« Last post by Darwin on April 26, 2009, 10:54 PM »

Thanks for sharing that, ewemoa 

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Living Room / Re: Geek gadgets - Calculators...

« Last post by Darwin on April 26, 2009, 01:21 PM »

Is bumping your own thread a faux pas  I'll live with it... 

Just thought I'd post to say that I'm surprised more people on DC aren't interested in calculators - these are the gadgets that got me into computing! I suspect that it is a generational thing, though - younger members are probably more excited by cell phones and mp3 players...

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General Software Discussion / Re: What's your preferred File Manager

« Last post by Darwin on April 26, 2009, 01:18 PM »

The Novatix re-incarnation of PowerDesk that they dubbed Explorer Plus is without a doubt the most desirable version of the PowerDesk siblings.

-Innuendo (April 26, 2009, 11:11 AM)

Incidentally, I forgot to ask above (when posting the download link), what are the advantages of Explorer Plus 6.2 over the current PowerDesk version (7.x)?

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General Software Discussion / Re: What's your preferred File Manager

« Last post by Darwin on April 26, 2009, 12:18 PM »

If the PowerDesk way of doing things is anyone's 'groove', so to speak then it'd be very advantageous for one to track down a copy of Explorer Plus v6.2.

-Innuendo (April 26, 2009, 11:11 AM)

Download here!

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Total Commander 7.50 public beta 1 - mini-review

« Last post by Darwin on April 23, 2009, 08:58 AM »

Excellent work, fenixproductions  I have a licence and can highly recommend TotalCommander. The beta is working fine with Vista Ultiimate-64 as well... 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Uninstaller Roundup - Revo - Total - ZSoft & the less magnificent seven

« Last post by Darwin on April 20, 2009, 11:33 AM »

Heh, heh - will do, Steven.

PS to all - I apologize for the multiple exclamation points in my previous post... Giddy from lack of sleep, I guess 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Uninstaller Roundup - Revo - Total - ZSoft & the less magnificent seven

« Last post by Darwin on April 20, 2009, 08:36 AM »

also tried Ashampoo Uninstaller but didn't care for it. I forget all the reasons why but I do remember that it stayed resident in memory waiting for an install to monitor. I don't need another system tray app for that, I'd rather launch the utility when I need it.

-edbro (April 02, 2009, 01:36 PM)

Just to note - it is posible to disable this feature (which is how I install it). I don't have it installed at the moment, so can't give precise instructions on how to achieve this.

Steve - thank you for the informative post! I purchased a lifetime licence for Your Uninstaller at least five years ago and it pretty much relegated Ashampoo to secondary status! I'm tempted to give Revo a try, though...

Great post!

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is the currently best Desktop Search software?

« Last post by Darwin on April 18, 2009, 03:27 PM »

That said, what the hell is "Desktop Search Software" anyway? Did you lose something?

-widgewunner (April 18, 2009, 10:36 AM)

  The icon for the recycle bin 

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Living Room / Re: for the past 50 years, American students were taught bullshit

« Last post by Darwin on April 17, 2009, 09:54 PM »

What's your take? Do you hesitate to use "however", do you avoid "which" at the beginning of a sentence at all costs? Do you think your English education in school was sufficient?

-housetier (April 17, 2009, 07:09 PM)

Which question to answer was a hard choice, however there are more here to respond than me.   

-cranioscopical (April 17, 2009, 07:49 PM)

Wow! The above is REALLY cringe-inducing (WRT grammatical construction). Bravo 

 

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Living Room / Re: Geek gadgets - Calculators...

« Last post by Darwin on April 17, 2009, 09:42 PM »

No offence taken - I've not tried a 33s, so can't comment, but the HP 35s is a beautiful calculator and is touted as being a much better machine than the 33s. I bought it to get to know RPN... I haven't made much progress because I haven't had much time to play around with it (RPN) - after 25 years of AOS/EOS it seems kind of cumbersome.

I like Casio calculators too, BTW my first four calculators were all Casios (or Tandy/Radio Shack badged Casios) and I keep toying with the idea of picking up a 115ES (it's the 991ES up here in Canada) The TI-68 is awesome - the last great TI (non-graphing) Scientific (they made them between 1989 and 2002)... I can't stand the new ones.

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Living Room / Re: Geek gadgets - Calculators...

« Last post by Darwin on April 17, 2009, 07:03 PM »

PS Wrote the above while trying to teach...  Just wanted to clarify that the HP 41 is HIGHLY desireable, even though it has been out of production for 18 years or so and that they fetch BIG money on eBay. The 35th anniversary HP 35s is a bargain at $60, and a pleasure to use... Though I am currently most enamoured with the EC-4044 (TI-68), for reasons that I can't pin down right now. Not to worry, though, next week it will be something else 

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Living Room / Re: Geek gadgets - Calculators...

« Last post by Darwin on April 17, 2009, 05:27 PM »

Yup. I bought the HP 35s because I wanted an HP 41... but I couldn't afford one! Have the emulator on my PC though 

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Living Room / Geek gadgets - Calculators...

« Last post by Darwin on April 17, 2009, 04:04 PM »

I love 'em and have a small collection. Anyone else? What are you favourites?

For those that care I have:

HP 50g
HP 35s

Radio Shack EC-4044 (the TI 68 in RS clothing)
Radio Shack EC-3035 (Casio fx-580 in drag)

Casio fx-115w
Casio fx-570w

Sharp EL-W516b
Sharp EL-546WBBK
 
TI-65

TI= Texas Instruments
HP= Hewlett-Packard

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Living Room / Re: The entitled generation....Are they right?

« Last post by Darwin on April 17, 2009, 03:59 PM »

Enough talk! Just give me the download link and the serial number already!

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General Software Discussion / Re: A Vista printer utility that saves ink like InkSaver?

« Last post by Darwin on April 15, 2009, 08:00 AM »

laser toner is going to be MUCH cheeper than inkjet ink isn't it?

-mouser (April 13, 2009, 08:47 PM)

If you mean black, laser toner won't be such a financial birden 

-cranioscopical (April 13, 2009, 10:38 PM)

eggsactly

-Target (April 13, 2009, 10:59 PM)

Seriously, though, to address the OP's original question, I'm not aware of an InkSaver-type app for Vista.

Incidentally, what version of Vista are your running? I'm surprised InkSaver won't install/run. Have you tried installing with administrator privileges?

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Quality Comparison: 8 x freeware PDF Readers / Viewers

« Last post by Darwin on April 11, 2009, 11:29 AM »

As I noted elsewhere on DC, I've switched to using PDF Converter 5 Professional as my viewer and am quite impressed with how light it is and how quick and responsive. Recently, I did download and install the latest Adobe Digital Edition and I agree with urlwolf about its speed adn low resource consumption. I haven't tried any copying within it though... Doesn't sound convenient. I WISH that e-books were universally readable in a pdf viewer and that the content was protected some other way... I object to *needing* Adobe on my system just to read a book I've purchased (given that the book in question is one I also own two paper copies of, maybe I should just blow off the $4 I spent on the digital version... as it's the sole ebook I own that is in the proprietary acsm format, which I suspect is just a fancy schmanzy wrapper for pdf?).

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Developer's Corner / Re: 7 Reasons Not to Direct Link to a Developer's Download Files

« Last post by Darwin on April 04, 2009, 04:03 PM »

Most of them are, but there is also the old newspapers from the NY Times that is being digitized for preservation. I don't know if that is a commercial endeavor or not, but anything that preserves history can't be a bad thing even if it is somewhat commercial.

-app103 (April 04, 2009, 01:28 PM)

Here, here 

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Developer's Corner / Re: 7 Reasons Not to Direct Link to a Developer's Download Files

« Last post by Darwin on April 04, 2009, 01:26 PM »

I kind of like the idea behind the reCaptcha though...

-Darwin (April 04, 2009, 09:05 AM)

Really? Well...I'll bet your eyesight is a lot better than mine then.

-40hz (April 04, 2009, 11:25 AM)

Well... no. I have trouble with them as well. However, I don't think I've yet seen a reCaptcha in the wild. If I did, I wouldn't mind - it's for a good cause!

Thanks for that link, app. My understanding of it is that these are scanned texts from University libraries (primarily) and that the texts themselves are out of copyright. So I guess there is no reason for me to suspect that anyone is profiting from this 

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Developer's Corner / Re: 7 Reasons Not to Direct Link to a Developer's Download Files

« Last post by Darwin on April 04, 2009, 09:05 AM »

I kind of like the idea behind the reCaptcha though...

I should probably be outraged somewhere along the line at providing free processing power for book digitizing given that at some point someone must be profiting from it, but I love the idea of electronically accessible text