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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 )

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Living Room / Re: 10th Anniversary - long time member check-in thread

« Last post by Ath on March 15, 2015, 01:44 PM »

Elvis just left the building (aka: nudone was a visitor, less than 30 minutes ago, but it may be something automated as I see his name in the recent visitors list several times a day)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Create Shortcut Icons for Keyboard Shortcuts

« Last post by Ath on March 15, 2015, 08:13 AM »

That's quite easy, but a step-by-step guide with pictures is the easiest, I guess: http://www.wikihow.c...-Shortcut-in-Windows

It does sound a little bit backward though...

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

« Last post by Ath on March 15, 2015, 08:07 AM »

It's getting Hot in here, Arizona Hot to be precise, 1000th post!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Process to automate testing of a large email list to remove non working ones

« Last post by Ath on March 15, 2015, 07:28 AM »

• Export the list of e-mail addresses to a text file
• Run a script across that file to remove all valid e-mail addresses
• Pre- and post-pend all remaining with the sql to disable these records (assuming you have a column for that in the database)
• Run the script on your database
• Run the e-mail send script, excluding the flagged records

If the e-mail send script is in a formal programming language, lik Java, C#, php, etc., it should probably validate the e-mail before trying to send it, some sql dialects allow to cater for that using a LIKE or even a regex, if you press it hard enough

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General Software Discussion / Re: is it possible to have WhatsApp on my laptop?

« Last post by Ath on March 13, 2015, 05:06 PM »

Goto http://web.whatsapp.com (preferably using Chrome, AFAIR) from your laptop and scan the QR code shown with the whatsapp app on your phone, they'll then be 'linked', just follow the instructions there.
Needs your phone to have a very recent version of whatsapp.

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

« Last post by Ath on March 13, 2015, 02:03 PM »

Recharge? Solar cells I'd expect...