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General Software Discussion / Re: Removing images when printing?

« Last post by Curt on January 28, 2015, 02:15 PM »

Once in a while Abelssoft will offer a discount on CleverPrint, but right now the price is the normal €40.

Prints multiple pages on one sheet
   CleverPrint minimizes your printing costs by printing up to 8 pages on one

Optimises PrintJobs
   CleverPrint can remove graphics within a printjob and thus drastically reduce printing costs

Deletes unwanted pages
   Printjobs often contain pages, which you don´t want to print. Simply remove them with CleverPrint

Integrated PDF-Printer
   CleverPrint is able to convert printjobs into PDF documents, or into PNG, JPG, etc.

-CleverPrint 2015

http://www.abelssoft.net/cleverprint.php

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General Software Discussion / Re: Removing images when printing?

« Last post by Curt on January 28, 2015, 12:22 PM »

Print in Draft Mode

In some print drivers, this mode goes under the name of “Print Saver,” “Toner Saver,” or “Economy.” When you select File –> Print, a box will pop up with your printer’s settings. Click “Properties” to see specific options for your print job. Click on the tab that says “Paper/Quality” or something similar and you’ll see an option to change your print quality to “Draft.” Selecting the draft option will print your photo at a lower resolution and the printer will dispense less ink. This selection is designed for initial-draft copies of a photo or document when overall quality is not important.

-inkpal.com

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http://www.howtogeek...-sites-print-better/
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I was very pleased with •Readability ◦ http://www.readability.com/ ◦ "Readability is a web and mobile app that zaps clutter and saves web articles in a comfortable reading view."  - but that is for web articles only, before saving the documents.
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Other than that, at first I would recommend PriPrinter Pro, but that was because we had an early version a lot cheaper than the new; ouch, it's expensive! So, you query for alternatives to priprinter: http://alternativeto...software/priprinter/ and you get this answer:

(click to enlarge to 743x1182 pixels)

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General Software Discussion / Re: memonic

« Last post by Curt on January 28, 2015, 11:07 AM »

The price is $28 per year  

They have a so-called free version, allowing 100 notes. I think the proper name is a demo version.

But they are clearly targeting all kinds of users:

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General Software Discussion / Re: Rewriting little memory

« Last post by Curt on January 27, 2015, 04:45 PM »

I think Anki is too difficult.

Besides:

To learn properly, you need textbooks, teachers, or exposure to real-world sentences
-but:

You do not learn, if you do not understand.

-SuperMemo

-Anki

Maybe video will be better for you:
http://www.youtube.c...earn+english+grammar
http://www.youtube.c...arn+english+spelling

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General Software Discussion / Re: Rewriting little memory

« Last post by Curt on January 27, 2015, 11:53 AM »

http://www.google.co...ards+memory+training -> maybe have a look at the adverts as well

The important word here is "flashcards"

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General Software Discussion / Re: Evernote Desktop v2.2.1.386.0 appreciation thread

« Last post by Curt on January 27, 2015, 02:50 AM »

EVERNOTE SETS NEW RECORDS ON POPULAR “GIVEAWAY OF THE DAY” WEBSITE
EverNote Breaks Records for Downloads, Traffic, Visitors, and Page Views

– On November 15th, 2007 EverNote® Corporation offered the latest release of its popular software, EverNote 2.2, as a free giveaway on GiveAway of the Day, a popular site which brings licensed software to consumers all over the world. The giveaway offer was met with unprecedented demand, breaking the site’s download records by more than 10,000 individual downloads.

The EverNote promotion broke records for single day site traffic with 128,000 unique visitors and 250,000 pageviews culminating in over 35,000 downloads of EverNote 2.2, and demonstrating the enormous appeal of EverNote software and its innovative technology. In addition, nearly forty blog sites wrote reviews pointing to the promotion including Lifehacker, Consumerist, jkOnTheRun, and GottaBeMobile, all demonstrating the widespread support that EverNote enjoys.

“Visitors to our site clearly saw the benefits of EverNote and flocked to the download page, amazingly breaking all our previous download records,” said Victor Sazhin, President of SoftDeluxe®, which owns and operates GiveAway of the Day.

-Press Release

-Curt (January 09, 2008, 10:27 AM)

re the beta, have a look at this and following posts from the "EverNote beta 2.2.0.372 has some nice new features" thread

It seems to be moving towards an online database where you might not even be able to backup to local disk 
(...)

-tomos (March 21, 2008, 04:41 AM)

Many people here abandoned evernote when it went 'cloud'.(...)

-urlwolf (August 28, 2011, 09:30 AM)

Thanks a lot for the link, http://jlog.jgen.ws/...vernote-2-2-1-386-0/  

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General Software Discussion / Re: save & playback of Q&A session

« Last post by Curt on January 27, 2015, 01:38 AM »

if the short way is blocked, use the longer way...
Have you tried to save each question & answer pair by itself, instead of "waiting" until you have done a full section?

Other than that, it may be difficult to help you out, if you don't give us any links.

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General Software Discussion / Re: The impossible thing software

« Last post by Curt on January 26, 2015, 08:21 AM »

to be gifted or not to be gifted

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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 19, 2015, 07:04 AM »

(...)
Listary Pro  http://www.listary.com/
(free and payware,  but you'd need the payware version)
Of these,  Listary Pro is by far the most powerful, and modestly priced for its great power. (...)

-rjbull (January 13, 2015, 05:26 PM)

Directory Lister Pro
http://www.bitsdujou...directory-lister-pro
Print and Export the Contents of Any Directory
50% Off = $14.50 Today Only

-bitsdujour, Monday 19-01-2015

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Ashampoo Office 2012: $5

« Last post by Curt on January 15, 2015, 04:36 PM »

Does Ashampoo still carpet bomb you with junkmail once you get something from them? They used to.

-40hz (November 22, 2014, 08:49 AM)

-both yes and no... If you don't stop them, they surely will attack your inbox! However, the Ashampoo user actually has the power to be the warlord in charge: Ashampoo > Configuration > Service-Channel:

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

« Last post by Curt on January 13, 2015, 05:00 PM »

Does any one here use DocFetcher ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DocFetcher
http://docfetcher.sourceforge.net/

Developer(s): DocFetcher project
Stable release: 1.1.11 / March 3, 2014
Written in: Java
Operating system: MS Windows, Mac OS X, Linux
License: Eclipse Public License

Portable Document Repositories

One of DocFetcher's outstanding features is that it is available as a portable version which allows you to create a portable document repository — a fully indexed and fully searchable repository of all your important documents that you can freely move around.

click thumb for 821x616 pixels:



http://docfetcher.so...ge.net/en/index.html

Index updates: Of course, an index only reflects the state of the indexed files when it was created, not necessarily the latest state of the files. Thus, if the index isn't kept up-to-date, you could get outdated search results, much in the same way a telephone book can become out of date. However, this shouldn't be much of a problem if we can assume that most of the files are rarely modified.

Additionally, DocFetcher is capable of automatically updating its indexes:
(1) When it's running, it detects changed files and updates its indexes accordingly.
(2) When it isn't running, a small daemon in the background will detect changes and keep a list of indexes to be updated; DocFetcher will then update those indexes the next time it is started.
And don't you worry about the daemon: It has really low CPU usage and memory footprint, since it does nothing except noting which folders have changed, and leaves the more expensive index updates to DocFetcher.

Java: Performance and portability: One aspect some people might take issue with is that DocFetcher was written in Java, which has a reputation of being "slow". This was indeed true ten years ago, but since then Java's performance has seen much improvement, according to Wikipedia.

Anyways, the great thing about being written in Java is that the very same portable DocFetcher package can be run on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X — many other programs require using separate bundles for each platform. As a result, you can, for example, put your portable document repository on a USB drive and then access it from any of these operating systems, provided that a Java runtime is installed.

Supported Document Formats
##Microsoft Office (doc, xls, ppt) ##Microsoft Office 2007 and newer (docx, xlsx, pptx, docm, xlsm, pptm) ##Microsoft Outlook (pst) ##OpenOffice.org (odt, ods, odg, odp, ott, ots, otg, otp) ##Portable Document Format (pdf) ##EPUB (epub) ##HTML (html, xhtml, ...) ##TXT and other plain text formats (customizable) ##Rich Text Format (rtf) ##AbiWord (abw, abw.gz, zabw) ##Microsoft Compiled HTML Help (chm) ##MP3 Metadata (mp3) ##FLAC Metadata (flac) ##JPEG Exif Metadata (jpg, jpeg) ##Microsoft Visio (vsd) ##Scalable Vector Graphics (svg)

##Regex-based exclusion of files from indexing: You can use regular expressions to exclude certain files from indexing. For example, to exclude Microsoft Excel files, you can use a regular expression like this: .*\.xls

##Mime-type detection: You can use regular expressions to turn on "mime-type detection" for certain files, meaning that DocFetcher will try to detect their actual file types not just by looking at the filename, but also by peeking into the file contents. This comes in handy for files that have the wrong file extension.

##Powerful query syntax: In addition to basic constructs like OR, AND and NOT DocFetcher also supports, among other things: Wildcards, phrase search, fuzzy search ("find words that are similar to..."), proximity search ("these two words should be at most 10 words away from each other"), boosting ("increase the score of documents containing...")

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General Software Discussion / Re: Beware of Freeware downloads

« Last post by Curt on January 12, 2015, 01:04 PM »

DC should become a freeware download site 

-rgdot (January 12, 2015, 11:20 AM)

+1     

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Found Deals and Discounts / Revo Uninstaller Pro on sale: $12 or $7

« Last post by Curt on January 12, 2015, 08:51 AM »

Normal price is $40, so at $12 the discount is 69%. Want a price even lower than $11.99? Purchase three or more licenses (before January the 22'nd) and get them for $6.99 each; a whopping 80% discount!
 

Via http://sharewareonsa...uninstaller-pro-sale only

Revo Uninstaller Pro with free updates (69% discount) $39.25 $11.99   


Terms and Conditions •This is a 1-computer lifetime license, for home or business use
•You get free updates for current version
•You get free tech support
•Can be installed or re-installed whenever you want. However, one license is useable on one computer only. You can re-install on the same computer; if you want to re-install on another computer, you will have to contact support and ask them to reset your activation.
•May not be resold
•See developer's website for refund and exchange policy
Technical Details •Developed by VS Revo Group
•Version is v3.1.2
•Download size is 10.3 MB
•Supports XP, Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8 (32-bit and 64-bit)
•VirusTotal scan results: 0/45


Revo Uninstaller Pro is an award-winning, critically-acclaimed clean uninstaller for Windows. With its intelligent programming, Revo Uninstaller Pro quickly identifies files, folders, and registry entries programs leave behind after being uninstalled and allows you to delete them. Plus, it has forced uninstall capability which lets you remove programs that have a broken uninstaller or no uninstaller at all.

Want a price even lower than $11.99? Purchase three or more licenses and get them for $6.99 each — a whopping 80% discount!
 
Sale ends in 9 days 17 hrs 25 mins
Read more at http://sharewareonsa...uninstaller-pro-sale

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General Software Discussion / Re: Spam complications

« Last post by Curt on January 10, 2015, 03:55 AM »

@Hans; welcome 

this link just to make sure you know about it: http://wiki.apache.o...ssassin/WritingRules

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

« Last post by Curt on January 09, 2015, 04:40 PM »

@Tom. Yes, this new version is also dual pane of a kind. But I have not yet taken any interest into this feature, so I really can't explain myself other than, it looks different from other dual panes... ? However, there are many features and settings to do. Maybe even more than Miles apparently did the first time he tested it - at least I never had the drag & drop problem he described he had.


click  for 973x865 pixels:

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

« Last post by Curt on January 07, 2015, 05:35 PM »

http://qttabbar.wikidot.com/ and http://qttabbar.wikidot.com/plugins

QTTabBar ver 1024 (2014-12-24) New

 - Extends Explorer by tabs and extra folder views
 - Plugins... Further expansion

 - Free/Donationware
 - Multiple-language support by contributors
 - for Windows7 & Windows8 & Windows8.1 (32bit/64bit) + .net Framework 4.0

-QuizoApps

1024 has also been tested with Windows 10.


01 start

02 bottomtabbar

03 leftcommandbar

04_dropdownmenufrombutton

05_editablebutton

06_mediapreview

07_filtering

08_SubfolderMenuandPreview

09_compatibleViewColor

10_extraviewleft

11_extraviewbottom

12_extraviewsbottomandleft


QTTabbar 1024

QTTabbar Options

plugins & extra buttons

http://qttabbar.wikidot.com/ and http://qttabbar.wikidot.com/plugins

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Living Room / Re: Can anyone help break "router block"?

« Last post by Curt on January 05, 2015, 04:51 PM »

I have been using this Netgear since October 2011, and it has been solid. However, one beginner's problem was that the included firewall was on per default...  (maybe see https://www.donation....msg265341#msg265341)



Content Filtering > Block sites

(click for 1377x840 pixels):







Content Filtering > Services:

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Code Sector discount 50%

« Last post by Curt on January 03, 2015, 05:36 PM »

I am a big fan of TeraCopy, so I have tried to purchase a license for this old problematic laptop I have been given. Unfortunately there is something wrong, be it soft and or hard ware, but whatever it is, it has made Java become a huge problem to me, and I have not yet been able to fix it. Java is saying on their homepage that one should wait 10-60 seconds before Java will respond. But Codesctor's shopping cart waited for less than a 10'th of a second, before I was re-directed to >"Payment information not received, did you enable JavaScript?"<. Sad story, I am sorry. I have not yet received an answer from Sales.

Did any one else have problems with Codesector's shopping cart?  

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Code Sector discount 50%

« Last post by Curt on December 29, 2014, 05:15 PM »

this year might get TeraCopy.

-lanux128 (December 25, 2014, 08:48 PM)

PS. TeraCopy 3.0 alfa will be released tomorrow, stay tuned.

-Code Sector, December 26th, 2014

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: WinPatrol & WinPrivacy holiday discounts

« Last post by Curt on December 29, 2014, 12:19 PM »

I won't install it when it's still in beta, so at this price I didn't first test it, but purchased 2 lifetime licenses right away. Fantastic offer!

80% off:

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Found Deals and Discounts / Ocster Bckup 8 Pro 5-PCs 73% off

« Last post by Curt on December 29, 2014, 05:19 AM »

http://sharewareonsa...er-backup-pro-8-sale

Ocster Backup Pro 8 Platinum Edition with free upgrades (73% discount)
$66.70 17.90

Terms and Conditions •This is a 5-computer lifetime license, for home and business use
•You get free upgrades for two years
•You get free tech support

•Can be installed or re-installed whenever you want
•May not be resold
•See developer's website for refund and exchange policy
•Developed by Ocster •Version is v8.15
•Download size is 25.7 MB
•Supports Windows XP, Vista, 7, and 8 (32-bit and 64-bit)
•VirusTotal scan results: 0/45




Ocster Backup Pro 8 is exceptionally easy to set up and a very powerful backup program. It supports file backups, full PC image backups, and easy backups of specific applications (Outlook, Thunderbird, Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox, etc.).

Ocster Backup Pro 8 comes with the ability to create bootable/rescue CD/DVD/USB for restoring backups when your Windows has crashed or is infected, plus it helps save drive space by creating 50% smaller image backups than competing products using its new Infinite Reverse Incremental Image Backup technique.

Platinum Edition is a 5-computer license with free upgrades for two years

Read more at http://sharewareonsa...#JvLrsa2p7MCLsvTd.99

At this price I would expect the words "free upgrades for two years" to actually mean "free minor updates for two years"

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by Curt on December 24, 2014, 04:15 PM »

not another milestone (actually, the first milestone is a mile away):





I don't know how it even is possible to upload post number nothing...

https://www.donation....msg370283#msg370283
https://www.donation...ion=profile;u=463548

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General Software Discussion / Re: Mailbird

« Last post by Curt on December 23, 2014, 02:16 PM »

30 days money back guarantee, and merely $6 per year - and they also offer a free version? Wow!

I had never heard of it before, so Thanks for informing!  

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Interesting (lack of) feature:

We respect our users’ privacy and therefore Mailbird was developed to never scan the content of your inbox or other personal information.

http://www.getmailbird.com/features/

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General Software Discussion / Re: Convert to MSI package

« Last post by Curt on December 23, 2014, 02:16 AM »

I found this, http://www.adobe.com...minGuide/basics.html , which may or may not have relevance.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Convert to MSI package

« Last post by Curt on December 22, 2014, 12:47 PM »

exe2msi https://www.google.c...search&q=exe2msi
sorry, no recommendations