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ProcessTamer / Re: Disable balloon tips?

« Last post by justice on December 06, 2007, 06:27 AM »

double click the icon, configuration tab, under "show system tray balloon messages" uncheck all 3 options. I always turn these off as well so would support making this the default configuration.

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GOE 2007 Challenge Downloads / Re: Interruptron - GOE Challenge 2007 Entry

« Last post by justice on December 06, 2007, 03:59 AM »

IS it available yet? I went to the website, entered my email address so I could be send the download link but on submitting the form I got a Error 404 not found on the thank you page.

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Coding Snacks / Re: structured plaintextfile based note taker

« Last post by justice on December 06, 2007, 03:34 AM »

Thanks everyone for all your good suggestions.

Regarding  AM-notebook. It would be the software of choice if I needed more formatting options but I want to keep the flexibility of using something like notepad if i just want to make a quick edit to one of my notes or use my search tool of choice but when using the program most of the time have all the notes organised together even though they're on different physical locations. Their software is always high quality so I'll give it a go!

Do you want your notes to be kept tidily in one folder ? Or do you just need something to organize text files into a tree structure ? the second option is not hard to find : UltraRecall, MyBase, Surfulater or maybe even SQLNotes : just drag & drop your files there *as shortcuts* and organize them in a tree like structure.

-Armando (December 05, 2007, 09:39 PM)

I'm looking for the second option and I didn't realise these programs all do that.

I'm trying out Keynote now though and the 'virtual tree node' seems to do what I asked for, let's see how it stands up.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Noah is almost fantastic, but what is it?

« Last post by justice on December 05, 2007, 07:15 PM »

amen. please convenience the powers that be and I will move to the OS that does this best. Vista tried, then removed it before the public releases. Leopard is on its way. Beos users know how powerful this can be... searching through your mail, contacts etc as they were all stored as metadata and individual files. I'm sure if BeOS was still going strong we'd be there by now alas. It's mind blowing, provides an amazing degree of freedom and changes the way you manage and combine previously isolated information.

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General Software Discussion / Re: TechSmith release Jing (free at the moment)

« Last post by justice on December 05, 2007, 09:53 AM »

That's good to know. They might hope to go for ease of use of using their subscription system or DIY using ftp for free? Let's see if DivShare will support the flickr api then u can use that instead haha.

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Found Deals and Discounts / 20% or less discount off Steganos software: -1% each day from now

« Last post by justice on December 05, 2007, 09:26 AM »

From my inbox:

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We're counting down the days…on the 5th of December you save 20% off your purchase price; on the 6th you save 19%, on the 7th 18%, and so forth from there.

Guarantee your Holiday Bargain! The earlier you buy, the more you save!

To see our Holiday Special visit Steganos here:
https://www.steganos...roducts/home-office/

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Living Room / Re: TOP 10 Signs of a Failing Presentation

« Last post by justice on December 05, 2007, 09:19 AM »

Fresh cakes or biscuits have gone musty due to length of presentation. 

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Skwire Empire / Re: Compressing files into multiple .zip archives with each .zip being independent

« Last post by justice on December 05, 2007, 05:09 AM »

I can confirm it doesn't create any zipfiles. Also if you could tick the "include subdirectory" option by default and include standard sizes (650, 700,4.7GB) that would make it quicker to use.

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Living Room / Search archives

« Last post by justice on December 05, 2007, 03:55 AM »

I've made backups of gigs worth of webdevelopment related files and now I need to search through all of them (they're on several locations on the corporate network). They're in ZIP and RAR format. What's the best way to do this?

• I was considering setting up a desktop search program on our development server and have it index all. Is there a better way?

http://search archives doesn't really help me.

• Unpacking them all in their own folder is an option but can't say I'd like the prospect of that although then I can use locate.
• I can convert all .rar files to .zip so windows own search can look through them, that is probably a good idea even if i go with a desktop search.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Rumor: Windows Apps Running Native on Your Mac

« Last post by justice on December 04, 2007, 07:10 AM »

So are these Leopard loaders a sign that Apple is working on a way to run Windows apps within OS X? Possibly, though if they ran natively, without proper sandboxing, OS X could end up vulnerable to Windows viruses and malware, something Apple obviously wants to avoid.

Introduced in Leopard however is exactly such a sandboxing technology used for certain processes. That said the news is not even a rumor really.

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General Software Discussion / Re: ThreatFire - aka Cyberhawk - free behavioural blocking

« Last post by justice on December 04, 2007, 07:06 AM »

I still use this btw both on my work and home pc. I got a few suspicious reports - download managers logging keystrokes! - and one application incompatibility (linotype fontexplorer beta can't access the system font folder if Threatfire is not suspended -- but they're fixing that for next release after my report). I don't notice it running at all in terms of resources and it's a good complement to my antivir.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: 33% discount on the purchase of SUPERAntiSpyware Professional

« Last post by justice on December 04, 2007, 07:00 AM »

I'm using the free version of Treatfire,  the Antivirus used is Pc Tools anti virus and not really worth it, says Pc Mag (not that i trust them now, but that's how i found out about it). The free version updates silently too. I don't notice it running, and they're fixing one application incompatibility I reported for the next release.

PC Tools' ThreatFire 3 blocks malware (including zero-day threats) by analyzing program behavior, and it does a better job than many signature-based products. Add its free protection to your security arsenal, but don't pay extra for the less-effective scan-and-clean Pro edition.(http://www.pcmag.com...4%2C2191333%2C00.asp)

I have actively settled on Avira AntiVir PersonalEdition Premium ( I got one copy free by using Trial Pay on some photopaper for my inkjet for £2.50 - and bought another copy for the other pc) because it comes out very well on tests, I liked it footprint and lack of performance impact and felt dirty setting a local policy to block the popup from appearing. I'm completely satisfied by it: not had any false positives and you can enable/disable set what things to scan for - from archives to diallers to jokes, on read/write or just read etc).

I just use gmail for my email needs and all spam / viruses get moved out of my inbox (it now also scans mail on the gmail server) - but I suspect either AntiVir or threatfire would notice if something slipped past? Didn't realize the free version didn't scan mail though, good I upgraded, it's only $20 - or use trialpay.

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Coding Snacks / structured plaintextfile based note taker

« Last post by justice on December 04, 2007, 06:02 AM »

What i'm looking for could already exist, but i'm not sure how to find it.

a notetaker app that opens and structures a series of textfiles in a folder structure. At the moment most people either use software like onenote or evernote to keep all notes together, or plain text files scattered over their system. What I am looking for is to keep the flexibility of plain text (being able to edit/copy/rename/sync the node anywhere), but with some organising features - just some kind of tree structure where every node is an actual plain text file. Not the proprietary or database format used by all notetakers.

Quicknote comes close (http://www.quicknote.de/qscreensen.php), but i just want to use my own textfiles in it, not use quicknote to create them then save them to text files.

I hope I make sense, please tell me if I don't

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GOE 2007 Challenge Downloads / Evaluweight - GOE Challenge 2007 Entry

« Last post by justice on December 04, 2007, 05:42 AM »

I think Evaluweight is a great idea, it reminds me of what My Life Organised does (weighted importance) but it would actually work a lot better because it factors in multiple interests!  It would be fantastic if you could think about adding this to a more traditional todolist application to decide what to do next, especially between many tasks. This takes the guesswork out of 'what to do next' so it's a great experiment. I'd just love to try it out in a 'many projects with their own subtasks' setting.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Run apps as non-admin with SetSafer to avoid spyware.

« Last post by justice on December 04, 2007, 05:27 AM »

That's a bit hacky to me it might cause issues with other applications. I was hoping there was a local computer policy for it.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: 33% discount on the purchase of SUPERAntiSpyware Professional

« Last post by justice on December 04, 2007, 05:21 AM »

It could be the best ever (it has super in the title, ok cheap shot), but in my opinion you don't need to pay for good antispyware software. You get spywaredoctor free for a year with google pack, there's also windows defender.

My setup is immunizing the pc using the immunize features of  Spybot Search and Destroy and Spywareblaster once a month, running browsers with lower priviledges using setsafer [read more on my blog or on donationcoder] and doing a scan occasionaly using Spybot. You can run Threatfire if you like for 0 day attacks. Of course I use a virusscanner too. So that's only 2 programs running, both Threatfire and avira antivir are light on resources. Since I adopted this methodology I have not has anything other than tracking cookies without any performance penalty associated with running a realtime spyware scanner.

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General Software Discussion / Re: FileBox eXtender now works under Vista

« Last post by justice on December 04, 2007, 04:50 AM »

Filebox extender was already working under Vista (32bit at least) for about 6 months at least, just not as a release version.

edit: yes since april 2007 there was a beta available that didn't give me any issues. Reported this on the forum back then. BTW i can also recommend this program, I can't live without it.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Microsoft OneNote 2007

« Last post by justice on November 30, 2007, 08:07 AM »

I used it for keeping information together and code snippets but I have imported all codesnippets to directaccess and all notes to plain text files as I realiased my needs were minimal

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Living Room / Re: Looking for email SERVER

« Last post by justice on November 30, 2007, 06:32 AM »

Google apps for your domain can do what you want and prices start from nothing. However I've got no experience with it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Leopard is the New Vista, and It's Pissing Me Off

« Last post by justice on November 30, 2007, 04:18 AM »

Any article that starts the way that one (2 sentences) does is not journalism, and that on pcmag.com. Between that and the sidebar enty "social networking stinks", they must be needing some extra sales at the moment but mudthrowing like that. No thanks Oliver Ristard

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General Software Discussion / Re: Shut Up About Vista, Already

« Last post by justice on November 30, 2007, 03:46 AM »

Wonder what would happen if they'd made two editions: Vista Fast and Vista Compatible. Or installed Vista Fast & an optional compatibility pack. I can see how this requires an insane amount of work seperating all the compatibility code though.

I also disagree about XP being small and fast though. A modern pc shouldn't take much longer to boot up a 5 year old OS than my TV does.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Shut Up About Vista, Already

« Last post by justice on November 30, 2007, 03:44 AM »

It will be too easy to reply with another I don't like vista reply, even if it's perfectly correct it will not spawn an interesting discussion. So let me just comment that because of 7 years of the OS (5 years since xp and 2 years of compatibility) not really changing people now have come to expect that whatever they have lying around or bought will work with 'Windows'. Same goes for software really, any app out there was compatible.

However this is not the case anymore but computers are now even more of a commodity then 7 years ago. These two combined results in massive problems for people adapting vista. An uphill struggle really. Microsoft has a fantastic reputation with regards to backwards compatibility, but in this different environment decisions taken in the past are now imperfect for todays hardware / software. So in my opinion they've had the choice between being fast but breaking everything, becoming a slow and bloated compatible  system or creating a new market so the two oses don't compete.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Proof of Concept: using files to expose information to FARR

« Last post by justice on November 29, 2007, 04:26 PM »

yeah you're right Fixed the title - sometimes my explanations can be overly complex

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fSekrit / Re: Beta: fSekrit 1.35 for your testing pleasure.

« Last post by justice on November 29, 2007, 01:55 PM »

if you try and save an empty note then it crashes, however it saves out the file ok and it will load up again.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Proof of Concept: using text files to expose information to FARR

« Last post by justice on November 29, 2007, 01:02 PM »

Farr can only search filenames not inside files. However the find command prompt command can do what you want.
just create a list of textfiles like you said and then open a command prompt and type:

for %f in (*.txt) do find /i "something" %f

... to look for something inside all .txt files