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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Mini review: The Journal

« Last post by rgdot on July 19, 2018, 08:41 AM »

Want to publicly thank David, the author, for being generous and allowing a free upgrade to version 8 of The Journal

About the new version, quoting the program site:

The Journal 8’s new features:
Improved searching! Searching your entries from the main UI is faster and easier than ever before–and encompasses all your active categories!
Improved security! Your entries have never been safer! The Journal now uses 128-bit AES (American Encryption Standard) throughout, and uses salted, iterated hashing to secure your passwords.
Improved topics!
Improved drag-and-drop support! Drag-and-drop entries between categories, between users, and even Journal Volumes! Drag-and-drop files directly into the entry tree!
PDF support! Easily print (or save or export) your entries to PDFs!
More word processing power!
New visual themes!

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General Software Discussion / Re: link for Mobysaurus thesaurus

« Last post by rgdot on July 13, 2018, 02:53 PM »

Do you mean http://www.dcmembers...wordzilla/downloads/ ?

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Stick-A-Note + Universal Viewer - Mini-Review

« Last post by rgdot on July 11, 2018, 10:25 AM »

Wish quick recovery Anand 

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Living Room / Re: Court Rules Copying Photos Found on Internet is Fair Use

« Last post by rgdot on July 02, 2018, 09:05 PM »

Comments by and large on the side of the photographer. What are the chances it would the same if this was about a song (writer/company distributing it)?
Humans

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Living Room / Re: Looking for smartphone

« Last post by rgdot on June 25, 2018, 07:59 AM »

Of course price is number 1 reason I have owned Motorala, especially since I am not a heavy cell user at all, so yes I agree with the 'relative' statement.
Among the issues that I have had with G series is the G3's front facing camera stopped one day, the phone wasn't dropped and there were no system or app updates either. It just stopped as if the phone doesn't have a front camera, no apps that use the camera even showed the option to switch to front camera. Resets, cache and data emptying etc all had no effect, remember googling it and other had experienced it too. I guess it was a hardware issue somehow, pretty bizarre as far as these things go.

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Living Room / Re: Looking for smartphone

« Last post by rgdot on June 24, 2018, 06:58 AM »

Moto G series are not known for good cameras. Where did you read that the G series are good camera? Would be very cool if G6 has changed that but I have owned a few (G5 and older) and camera is probably the biggest weakness, if anything.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Humble Software Bundle: Cybersecurity

« Last post by rgdot on June 19, 2018, 04:06 PM »

Feeling insecure? Get this bundle. It'll help keep you safe on the 'net with applications like Dashlane Premium, Private Internet Access, and SpiderOak One Backup. Plus, your purchase can support the Electronic Frontier Fund – or a charity of your choice!

ProtonMail Plus
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and others, 13 days 20 hours left!

https://www.humblebu...rity-software-bundle

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Living Room / Re: WordPress question

« Last post by rgdot on June 18, 2018, 05:04 PM »

I have come across this in the past, though never used it to do what I think you are asking.

https://support.shar...r-Each-Post-and-Page

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Release (preliminary alpha-or-so): ymarks

« Last post by rgdot on June 16, 2018, 10:47 AM »

https://venturebeat....r-chrome-extensions/

Google today announced that Chrome will no longer support inline installation of extensions. New extensions lose inline installation starting today, existing extensions will lose the ability in three months, and in early December the inline install API will be removed from the browser with the release of Chrome 71.

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General Software Discussion / Re: making a single .jpg from a web-page that is over one screen long

« Last post by rgdot on June 12, 2018, 10:00 AM »

FWIW Firefox's own screenshot tool does that well in my experience

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General Software Discussion / Re: Microsoft to buy GitHub in $7.5B all-stock deal

« Last post by rgdot on June 04, 2018, 04:27 PM »

Business system, whether you want to call it capitalism or not, is a joke. 100% agreed with mouser and 99% with Tuxman ( ) 7.5 billion for GitHub is one example of a farcical money flow that is dominated by banks/stocks/fake cash.

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Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?

« Last post by rgdot on June 03, 2018, 10:45 AM »

I guess a whole other topic as far as DC goes 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Ghostery Tries to Comply With GDPR, but Ends Up Violating GDPR in the Process

« Last post by rgdot on May 31, 2018, 02:33 PM »

I assume syncing settings. Ghostery also has 'added functionalty' when you sign up but I have never seen an explicit mention of what it is (I haven't signed up to try to see it myself).

If it is indeed syncing it once again highlights the achilles of internet for me. In the past on DC I have mentioned online syncing of passwords is a bad idea and in today's everything is eventually hacked world I wouldn't do it, but signing up for ghostery syncing is, at the risk of getting flamed for saying it, lazy

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Living Room / Canadian adventures

« Last post by rgdot on May 18, 2018, 01:04 PM »

Nothing interesting but a lesson in life perhaps. Would expect a lot more from Canada and any so called first world country.

Living in a big city suburb, Toronto suburb, definitely not rural. Phone service is down on several streets for 5 days and counting. Internet (DSL) is sporadic at best. Somehow internet, presumably because it uses 1 pair of wires not 2 is not 100% affected even though the phone company rep cites the issue as 'water soaked cable, trying to find location of the soaked cable'  Makes very little sense and the downtime length is down right ridiculous.

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Living Room / Re: Basic banking issues

« Last post by rgdot on May 15, 2018, 10:06 AM »

You should be searching and exploring these sites, figure out which are too basic or not

https://www.coursera...usiness?languages=en
https://ocw.mit.edu/...-topic/#cat=business

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Living Room / Re: FreewareHome closing down

« Last post by rgdot on May 14, 2018, 09:54 AM »

A good source for reviews and info

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Mug showoff

« Last post by rgdot on May 13, 2018, 05:58 PM »

Spoiler

2007 NANY ....A PBS Masterpiece Mystery

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Mini review: The Journal

« Last post by rgdot on May 13, 2018, 09:29 AM »

The Journal to keep a diary, to write, to create reminders

App Name	The Journal
App URL	http://www.davidrm.com/
App Version Reviewed	7.0.0.1099
Test System Specs	Win 10 1803
Supported OSes	Windows 10/8/7/Vista/XP
Support Methods	Email recommended
Upgrade Policy	$29.95 to upgrade from v.6 and older
Trial Version Available?	45-Day full version
Pricing Scheme	$64.95 US, a few paid add-ons such as a Devotional Edition and Writers Edition which include presets for keeping a journal of prayers and aid you in writing respectively
Relationship btwn. Reviewer and Product	No relationship, won a copy on the April 2018 giveaway here on DonationCoder

Intro:
The Journal is most of all a record keeper, a diary or journal with added benefits of supporting reminders, images, to do lists and free form "doodles".



Who is this app designed for:

Many would benefit since this overlaps a personal information manager with writing tools.

The Good

The tree style categories that support both a calendar or daily journal format or writing kept in a "loose leaf" format which as its name suggest is like a white page.
The possibility to display a day calendar to a page adds flexibility in creating reminders and remembering any writing by date.
There is big emphasis on securing the database including entry encryption, password protection, lock up on minimize. Plus 'extended security' to lock the program after X failed logins.
Plenty of formatting options and support for icons, tables, timers and stop watch.
Word counts, spell check and thesaurus included.
Global or filtered (date, title, category, image description based) search add more usefulness. Search queries can be saved.
Bookmark entries, move between entries based on set dates (eg 1 year ago)
Built in back and restore option, auto save as you type.

Why I think you should use this product

The product seems stable enough to keep records and makes it easy to save your database in any location including cloud drives to share across devices as its license allows this.

Conclusions
The extended trial period makes it very easy to decide if price is worth it and it fits into a user's workflow. It is a well rounded information manager.

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Living Room / Re: From the Tinfoil Hat Department - FaceBook Listening?

« Last post by rgdot on May 10, 2018, 03:59 PM »

Wait.. Stephen is making sense? When did that start?

-mouser (May 10, 2018, 03:09 PM)

That and he doesn't even own a phone? 

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Fundraiser 2018 Money - Help Decide Where it Goes

« Last post by rgdot on May 01, 2018, 05:15 PM »

Which software did you receive?  Just curious.  I have to start writing my reviews, so don't feel bad 

-wraith808 (May 01, 2018, 02:50 PM)

The Journal.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Alias: WolframAlpha Search

« Last post by rgdot on May 01, 2018, 12:11 PM »

2+3 becomes 2%2b3 is what I think he is saying.

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Fundraiser 2018 Money - Help Decide Where it Goes

« Last post by rgdot on May 01, 2018, 11:33 AM »

  but yes as wraith said was not about need

If the writing idea is implemented I think I can participate. Which reminds me to write a mini review of the software I won in the giveaway, hopefully by weekend 

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Fundraiser 2018 Money - Help Decide Where it Goes

« Last post by rgdot on May 01, 2018, 08:55 AM »

Other than hosting and site costs the priority should be the coders. I would increase the coders amount, that includes yourself of course. They create 'loyalty' to the site and concept of DC.

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General Software Discussion / Re: GodMode - Windows 10 Tip

« Last post by rgdot on April 14, 2018, 11:46 AM »

How to enable CodyMode?

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Official Announcements / Re: New article posted about the DC Remodeling in 2018 -- server changes, cms, etc.

« Last post by rgdot on April 12, 2018, 09:44 AM »

Unlike my home setting experience disk space is more expensive than bandwidth and other things in the hosting world. Of course hard drives used on servers are not the same as those for personal use but over my time I have shopped for hosting countless times and one can get the best processors, bandwidth but suddenly over 100GB disk space (or 500GB for example for dedicated servers) the price climbs rapidly. I suspect hosting all software, images, videos here on DC servers is itself requiring more cash. Several examples I have come across are in hosting forum sites. The 'not expensive' processor and RAM options can easily handle the number of connections and users who are simultaneously viewing the site and demanding resources...but as the forum accumulates GBs of posts and content the costs rise faster than one might think.