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

« Last post by Ath on April 13, 2015, 01:21 PM »

I caught myself, making my 2400th post: 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Comodo Internet Security -- a cautionary tale?

« Last post by Ath on April 11, 2015, 11:07 AM »

I have been using Avast Free for the last couple of years on all my systems, and I'm quite happy with that. Combined with the built-in Windows firewall, and a spam-filter on the systems fetching e-mail, I'm quite confident about security.
I can't compare with Comodo, as I've never installed it, ever, but compared to the, once trusty and lightweight, AVG free, the impact on performance from Avast is barely noticable. Though all the systems involved have at least a core-2 Intel cpu...

That's my 

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Post New Requests Here / Re: LeDimmer replacement?

« Last post by Ath on April 11, 2015, 04:54 AM »

CinemaDrape @ http://www.aurelify.com/cinemadrape/ is a good alternative.

-PhilB66 (April 10, 2015, 11:37 PM)

Well, I tried both CinemaDrape (CD) and LeDimmer (LD, downloaded today from Softpedia), but running LD "As Administrator" (I have UAC turned off) is much more intuitive than CD. LD automatically only shows the active window, while CD requires me to select the visible viewport, any time I change focus (though I may have misunderstood the instructions, I didn't get it to work as I want).
LD is probably here to stay (Windows 7 x64, single screen, Laptop @Home)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Solved: Visual Studio Toolbox Blues

« Last post by Ath on April 11, 2015, 03:51 AM »

Is there really anything that exciting in 13 to make it worth shenanigans?

-Stoic Joker (April 10, 2015, 11:20 PM)

Well, it seems that the WPF/xaml designer is finally working, without the major hickups and bugs experienced in all previous versions...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Text-To-Speech Freeware?

« Last post by Ath on April 09, 2015, 01:41 AM »

The current best text to speech software is Text Speaker.

-Sarin Samuel (April 06, 2015, 07:17 AM)

^ Text Speaker has not been updated for 2½ years, and is certainly not free
 

-Curt (April 08, 2015, 10:06 PM)

I did think about reporting that message as spam, as it sure looks like targeted advertising

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General Software Discussion / Re: 'create Restore Point' question

« Last post by Ath on April 05, 2015, 12:05 PM »

What's the brand & model of that mobo?

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General Software Discussion / Re: edit columns in MS Word

« Last post by Ath on April 02, 2015, 05:50 PM »

10 tips for working with columns (TechRepublic)

Similar, but with more detailed pictures (Legal Office Guru)

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Coding Snacks / Re: Update of NirSoft's ZipInstaller

« Last post by Ath on April 02, 2015, 05:58 AM »

Well, as NirSoft dropped their ZipInstaller, and plenty free installer tools are available (Inno Setup, NSIS, Wix), a lot of software is available with their own installer. A zip-version (portable install) is usually just that, and often available next to the formal installer.

Don't think there is much interest here to start re-creating something that's been abandoned elsewhere, or somebody would have chimed in...

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Living Room / Re: The 2015 10th Anniversary DonationCoder.com Fundraiser Cheer for Victory Thread!

« Last post by Ath on March 31, 2015, 12:56 PM »

What happened??? I've been away for a few hours and the $5000 mark is passed

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Developer's Corner / Re: Best programming language to pick up for applications?

« Last post by Ath on March 29, 2015, 05:27 AM »

Well, after re-reading the OP, I'd advise to go for AutoIt 3, in favor of AutoHotKey, as the AHK language is quite quirky, compared to the Basic-like and thus (IMHO) readable format of AutoIt 3. I've done a few bigger au3 projects, and at the offstart have looked at ahk, but I couldn't get the grasp of it. Though that may suggest something about my abilities I think one should feel comfortable with the use of a (programming) language and ahk didn't give me that.

With the tooling provided, it's also rather easy to create a GUI, so that combines it into a win-win tool for automation tools as described. It would be quite a challenge to create anything similar in C#, C, C++, Java or any other general purpose programming language. (as others also said)
 

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: I have put a "share with facebook" type thing on the pages (temporarily?)..

« Last post by Ath on March 29, 2015, 04:55 AM »

They are now where I'd expect 'm: at the bottom of the page, where I can easily ignore them like on many other sites
Much better.

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: I have put a "share with facebook" type thing on the pages (temporarily?)..

« Last post by Ath on March 28, 2015, 07:59 PM »

On my tablet it is too obtrusive, and I'm not concidering to share on any social platform. I don't share anything there, if I can help it.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: pretty-software.com does the same as Find and Run Robot and it is really free ;D

« Last post by Ath on March 25, 2015, 02:56 AM »

Pretty Run is actually mentioned in the FARR manual under related programs.

I have always thought it was a nice gesture of mouser to list the competition .

-Jibz (March 25, 2015, 02:47 AM)

I don't mind mentioning a competing product, I stumbled over the 'really free' phrase

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Find And Run Robot / Re: pretty-software.com does the same as Find and Run Robot and it is really free ;D

« Last post by Ath on March 25, 2015, 02:33 AM »

does the same as Find and Run Robot and it is really free

-cyberdoc999 (March 25, 2015, 12:22 AM)

Why do you suggest that FARR isn't really free? Because it is actually, very much, free.

You can (and probably should) support it by giving a donation to the author, if you are actively using it in your day to day computer activities.

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UrlSnooper / Re: Stops Sniffing | Locks Up | Cannot Close | Cannot End Process | Must Re-Boot PC

« Last post by Ath on March 25, 2015, 02:29 AM »

Network Adapter: Pealtek PCIe GBE Family Controller
    Clicked on it's properties and checked online for driver update and it said I have the most current driver already installed.

-SuperSoaker (March 24, 2015, 03:41 PM)

You'll have to go to the Realtek site (better use Google to search for the exact chipset type download) and install the latest from there for your OS. Windows Update is usually 'quite conservative' in getting updated hardware drivers.

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Living Room / Re: Downloading from DonationCoder always gives me problems

« Last post by Ath on March 24, 2015, 02:19 PM »

I'd assume that the A/V and/or network monitoring systems in your office are of such poor quality it can't handle a bit of clean software downloading...

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General Software Discussion / Re: how can I do this in excel?

« Last post by Ath on March 24, 2015, 02:40 AM »

that the server is secure and I cannot run my own stuff on it

-kalos (March 23, 2015, 04:33 PM)

Since when is that an excuse to not use the right tool for the job?

Plenty of CMS's can be run on your local system, only to upload the files to a remote (optionally very tightly secured) web server. It's even a plus not having anything but the web-content on a web server.

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General Software Discussion / Re: how can I do this in excel?

« Last post by Ath on March 23, 2015, 04:24 PM »

I told you I cannot do CMS

-kalos (March 23, 2015, 04:17 PM)

If you can manage using Excel, then, compared, a CMS is a piece of cake.

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General Software Discussion / Re: how can I do this in excel?

« Last post by Ath on March 23, 2015, 03:03 PM »

@kalos: as I said in the other thread, where you asked exactly the same question: get a CMS. And please stop asking the same stuff if the answer is beyond your comprehension; do at least some research first

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General Software Discussion / Re: text to phone

« Last post by Ath on March 22, 2015, 03:59 PM »

Evernote.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: [ AutoHotkey ] Win Viewer

« Last post by Ath on March 20, 2015, 06:06 AM »

Nice tool!

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

« Last post by Ath on March 19, 2015, 10:03 AM »

In the 'nice numbers' category another palindrome for a new user: 478874

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General Software Discussion / Re: Find/Replace different text strings in same text file

« Last post by Ath on March 19, 2015, 09:35 AM »

sed ?

Optionally running a Windows compiled version of that, and (nudge) using my SedTester NANY 2015 entry ?

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General Software Discussion / Re: links of files of a web server

« Last post by Ath on March 19, 2015, 04:13 AM »

The best approach would be to use a CMS for website maintenance.

Why would you want to store links in a website in an Excel file...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Make Windows 8 login/lockscreen transparent?

« Last post by Ath on March 16, 2015, 09:29 AM »

Well, I do use the lockscreen, but it would baffle me if it was transparent, it's mostly used to keep my screen content invisible from prying eyes while I'm away from my desk (and because our security policy demands me to use it )