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Living Room / Re: Destroying your hard drive is the only way to stop this super-advanced malware

« Last post by Curt on February 19, 2015, 10:45 AM »

"It seems Uhuru was able to detect the new malwares from the Equation Group"

-Giampy (February 18, 2015, 02:26 PM)

At first this Uhuru sounds fine:

Uhuru anti-malware designed for companies or public entities is now available either through direct contact with Nov'IT or via the French UGAP catalog.
A free version designed for individuals will be offered in 2015

but then they add this paragraph:

For the release of Uhuru anti-malware, Nov'IT makes a special offer designed for compagnies or public entities.
The offer includes a life-time license (minor software updates, major software upgrades, current or future releases).
This is a special and unique offer.
Minimum order size: 50,000 licenses.

^ eh... the beginning is good, isn't it: "lifetime keys". Wow!
but then they go on, don't they: "purchase and install at least 50,000 copies of our unknown software"?

Didn't a lot of "creative" Russians move to France? I am not sure if I dare to trust this Uhuru!

Well, I know nothing. Uhuru may be fine and just what the Doctor ordered.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Macrium Reflect 6 News

« Last post by Curt on February 18, 2015, 06:10 PM »

the extra money I paid for the pro license was wasted.

-Jibz (February 18, 2015, 03:29 PM)

^ yep!

I agree you should ask if they will find it their heart to swift it for a Quattro  OOOO   

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General Software Discussion / Re: Conditional diary

« Last post by Curt on February 18, 2015, 03:08 AM »

$39 http://www.allmyjournals.com/

>>All My Journals is a Diary and Journaling tool that lets you record your thoughts and impressions in a simple and accessible interface. Multiple different Journals at your fingertips - just double click the All My Journals icon and start typing.<<

The homepage is owned by Bad Wolf Software, author of PageFour, a note-taking text editor, I use. Their programs are fine, but not fantastic.

http://www.allmyjour...ms-diary-or-journal/

Medical Symptoms Diary or Journal


All My Journals is the perfect software for anyone looking to keep a daily record of their health and wellbeing. We already have users who use it to document their exercise regimes, and one user who uses it to keep a record of the medication she takes every day.

As many of us know, you can’t always rely on your memory to keep an accurate record of your actions, and when it comes to something as important as which pills you took, how many you took, and when you took them, it’s always better to write it down.

Medical symptoms can also be stored easily in All My Journals. How you felt each day, how your injury has progressed, etc. That way, when you go to see your doctor in a few weeks you can tell him or her exactly how you’ve been. The simple printing options in All My Journals make printing off a month’s entries for a single Journal a piece of cake, and the password protection enables you to keep all your medical information private.

So if this sounds like something you would benefit from, download the free 45 day trial version today, and try it out for yourself.

http://www.allmyjour...ls.com/download.html

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General Software Discussion / Re: OneNote is now free

« Last post by Curt on February 18, 2015, 02:36 AM »

Because it suddenly is free, I installed OneNote 2013 on my Win 7, for testing. Having now removed the program, using Revo Uninstaller Pro > Advanced, there are still a lot of OneNote entries in the various right-click context menus. How disappointing! Can "you" (anyone) help me, please, to remove these?
 
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Oops, silly me! OneNote 2013 did not overwrite OneNote 2010, so I still have that one installed. Never used, but forgotten.

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Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?

« Last post by Curt on February 15, 2015, 04:41 PM »

Thinking-Fast-Slow-by David Kahneman.
It's excellent. Read it!

-40hz (February 13, 2015, 09:04 PM)

^ +1 

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Living Room / Re: Cell Phone Questions

« Last post by Curt on February 14, 2015, 05:21 PM »

BTW:  Still don't have any CDs, DVDs, players, etc.  

-crabby3 (February 14, 2015, 12:28 PM)

^ "still"?            CDs are so last decade; totally outdated.  

Here in Denmark prepaid cards (for the cell / mobile phone) are too expensive; you can have a subscription for about $3½ per month (mine is $35 per month, everything included). Then you would have to also pay per minute for each call you make (never for the ones you receive). Of course you would also have to own a phone, but here the cheapest would cost in the area of $30. This is the cheapest solution I can remember around here; I don't know where you are situated.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Win7 update loop

« Last post by Curt on February 14, 2015, 03:16 AM »

Go to Start > All Programs > Windows Update > View update history
another address for the same place is: Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Windows Update\View update history

Hide content

Problem:
I keep being offered an update from Windows that I don’t want.

Solution:
You can hide the update, and then Windows Update won't offer it to you again unless you choose to restore it.

Here's how to hide an update:

1) Click to open Windows Update.
2) Do one of the following:

• Click the link that tells you important updates are available if you have important updates to hide.
• Click the link that tells you optional updates are available if you have optional updates to hide.

3) Select any update that you want to hide, right-click it, and then click Hide update. Do this for each update you want to hide.

Click OK

This way you keep Windows updated  despite the one bugger.

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Living Room / Re: Funky Character Art

« Last post by Curt on February 12, 2015, 02:15 AM »

this one I received from a girly friend of mine:

╔♫╗────────╔═╦╗─♫╗╔╗─╔╗─♥──
║╩╠═╦═╦═╦╦╗║╚╠╬╦╣╚╣╚╦╝╠═╦╦╗
║╦║╬║╬║╬║║║║╔║║╔╣╔╣║║╬║╬║║║
╚╩╩╩╣╔╣╔╬╗║♫═╩╩╝╚═╩╩╩═╩╩╬╗║
────♫╝╚╝╚═╝─────────────╚═♥
ஜ۩۞۩ஜ CURT ஜ۩۞۩ஜ

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Living Room / Re: Funky Character Art

« Last post by Curt on February 11, 2015, 04:25 PM »

Try a web search for ANSI art

-rjbull (February 11, 2015, 03:23 PM)

^ how could it be ANSI, when Explorer warns that characters will be lost if saved as ANSI?

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General Software Discussion / Re: The return of Clippy! Microsoft says more about their digital assistant Cortana

« Last post by Curt on February 11, 2015, 10:35 AM »

... that we can build a personal assistant, ..., who knows your patterns, your behaviour, what you want, and predictions...

 if I am scared by Google wanting to know everything about me,
guess how scared this Microsoft assistant is making me!


Is Cortana funded by some American anti-terror agency?  

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General Software Discussion / Re: Microsoft OneNote - some experiential Tips & Tricks

« Last post by Curt on February 11, 2015, 03:03 AM »

Lifehacker Faceoff: OneNote vs. Evernote.
I think it could be pretty useful if OneNote and Evernote were somehow merged...  

-IainB (November 27, 2014, 04:30 PM)

just a tiny step, but a step: From the author of StExBar and grepWin: Evernote2Onenote http://stefanstools....vernote2Onenote.html
http://sourceforge.n.../stefanstools/files/

Evernote2Onenote is a small tool to import Evernote notebooks to Onenote.
Evernote2Onenote uses the Evernote script engine ENScript.exe to export notes. These notes are parsed and then imported into Onenote.
Evernote2Onenote requires that both Evernote and Onenote are installed. Also, at least Onenote 2013 is required.
To use Evernote2Onenote from a command line, you can specify the notebook to import and the date from which on notes should be imported: >Evernote2Onenote.exe NotebookName 01-01-2015< If no date is specified, all notes are imported.
Evernote2Onenote is open source (GNU GPL v3).

-steveking

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Living Room / Re: Google designing the font of the future

« Last post by Curt on February 10, 2015, 12:21 PM »

The full CJK family unpacked from "Noto all languages" is 28 files taking up a total of 438MB
- it was taking up all of the container, except 6MB!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Calibre 2 is out

« Last post by Curt on February 09, 2015, 08:35 AM »

The epubor ebook converter is a whopping $46 - it will need a huge discount, before I would jump that wagon!

-Curt (August 24, 2014, 04:18 PM)

^ and such a discount is available just today. Because of FREE offer on Bits du Jour, they also offer a so-called lifetime key for a mere $20.

Today: 100% off. Please note: This includes free 1-year license.
But here you can also get special discount price just $19.99 (60% OFF on $49.99) to upgrade to a lifetime license!
http://www.giveawayo...ook-converter-3-0-4/

-Bits du Jour

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: $99 TwistedBrush20: $39 on BdJ

« Last post by Curt on February 09, 2015, 07:40 AM »

The free one is still merely version 18, but now the $39 offer is $38 for version 21 at a 62% discount :

TwistedBrush Pro Studio v18.18 ($0)
TwistedBrush Pro Studio v21.02 ($38)

http://www.bitsdujou...stedbrush-pro-studio
Click "Get it for free"

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Living Room / Re: Google, designing the font of the future

« Last post by Curt on February 07, 2015, 05:53 PM »

eh... I can easily Save Target As... and download all 108MB ( https://noto.googlec..._cjk/NotoSansCJK.ttc ) but Windows Explorer claims NotoSansCJK.ttc is not a valid font file. Should it be renamed to .OTF?
 
Modified: No, it shouldn't! 

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Living Room / Re: Google, designing the font of the future

« Last post by Curt on February 07, 2015, 08:13 AM »

Roboto: 1.21MB
Noto: 363.5MB

Roboto and Noto

Since the Ice Cream Sandwich release, Roboto has been the standard typeface on Android. Since Froyo, Noto has been the standard typeface on Android for all languages not covered by Roboto. Noto is also the standard typeface for all languages on Chrome OS.

To support all languages worldwide, Google recommends using Roboto for languages that use the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic scripts and Noto for all other languages.

-Google Noto Fonts

The Noto family is already 98 fonts!!!

Read http://www.google.co...pography-roboto-noto
and http://www.google.com/get/noto/cjk.html
and http://www.google.com/get/noto/#/

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by Curt on February 07, 2015, 02:54 AM »

one of the wives said "In the butt".  

-Deozaan (February 04, 2015, 02:42 PM)

^ I read this yesterday, but didn't believe it. I simply couldn't understand how such a word would need to be beeped. Further more she was pronouncing the "the" as the before an a e i o u y, not as before a b.

I am a very slow thinker, so it took me a long time to understand that even your "quote" has been beeped. She was not saying "butt", but she was using the British word for a donkey...   It's all about that bass.  ( | ) 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Program to open groups of programs.

« Last post by Curt on February 05, 2015, 03:41 PM »

TaskLayout may achieve a similar effect

-dr_andus (February 05, 2015, 03:03 PM)

^TaskLayout is $20 and the homepage is http://www.systemgoo...m/index.php/products

Thanks for telling about SPLAT; Skwire hasn't fully update his homepage, so its "home" is not listing SPLAT.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Macrium Reflect 6 News

« Last post by Curt on February 05, 2015, 11:32 AM »

I have looked at this program several times, because I would like to have the PRO version. However, even the standard version's normal price is HIGH, I think, and the PRO version incl taxes is $74

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Softmaker Office: **90%+** Discount!!!! Offer Expires Feb5 6pm(?) EST

« Last post by Curt on February 05, 2015, 11:09 AM »

the dfro discount is not globally fixed, so to speak. My upgrade discount for Office Professional here in Denmark is kr. 223.05 now kr. 133.95, and for Office Standard: kr. 148.55 now kr. 44.60. SoftMaker Office 2012 for Linux was kr. 223.05, is now kr. 74.40. Good upgrade discounts, but nowhere near 90%.

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General Software Discussion / Re: QTTabbar (now at version 1024) is once again my favourite

« Last post by Curt on February 04, 2015, 06:06 PM »

Where is the executable from QTTabbar.
What am i doing bad ?

-Contro (February 02, 2015, 01:29 PM)

QTTabbar is a DLL, not an exe.

You may not get to like this program. As you have noticed, people that we admire for their understanding of computers, still don't understand how to use QTTabbar. I certainly don't understand how to use it, either - I am not the one  playing with the settings! In my mind, one thing is certain; you have to STUDY the manual   (or read Japanese?)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Browser Hijackers

« Last post by Curt on February 03, 2015, 04:15 PM »

usually the bugger is the last entry in add/remove programs...

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General Software Discussion / Re: QTTabbar (now at version 1024) is once again my favourite

« Last post by Curt on January 31, 2015, 10:50 AM »

I use eXtender myself 

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General Software Discussion / Re: QTTabbar (now at version 1024) is once again my favourite

« Last post by Curt on January 31, 2015, 10:40 AM »

no, contro, I am not the programmer
but try it anyway, running or not...
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I cannot seem to make "ExtraViews"(Dual Pane) work

-chrisk (January 31, 2015, 02:53 AM)

Sorry, chrisk, I cannot say much about this, because I don't use the feature.
However, if you right-click a folder in the left margin, you will get a context menu that is different from the normal ones:
>>Open in place / new tab / other view / new window<<

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for a utility to quick access folder by hotkeys! like DIRKEY 2!!!

« Last post by Curt on January 28, 2015, 03:25 PM »

http://code.jeanlalonde.ca/folderspopup/

(...)
##Select the option to use numeric menu shortcuts to launch favorites with your keyboard.
(...)

-In Folders Popup Settings, Options

   I have never tried this one.