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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Tool that lists digitally signed files from a folder/disk

« Last post by Curt on August 05, 2014, 03:02 PM »

is this the same as sigverif?

Verify Unsigned Device Drivers

    Click Start, click Run, type sigverif, and then click OK.
    Click Advanced.
    Click Look for other files that are not digitally signed.

    In the Look in this folder box, type x:\Windows\system32\drivers, where x is the letter of the drive where Windows is installed.
    On the Logging tab, make sure the Save the file signature verification results to a log file check box is selected, and then click OK.
    Click Start.

    NOTE: The log file is named Sigverif.txt, and it is saved in the Windows folder. Third-party drivers that are unsigned are displayed as "Not signed." Use the drivers in this list as your troubleshooting starting point.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308514

-support.microsoft.com/kb/308514

The article was about XP, but I can confirm that I have sigverif on Win 7 as well.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Zen Magnets are still attracting...

« Last post by Curt on August 05, 2014, 03:47 AM »

Buckyballs settled their lawsuit months ago. And news of Magnicube's settlement comes today. They're both out of the fight.

-Zen Magnets

We're at a critical crossroads between two options.

Behind Door #1: Shutdown & Stop-sales.
This makes the most sense from a business perspective. We exit the business as soon as possible with as much as possible, at the recommendation of nearly every lawyer and consultant we've talked to. We comply. We recall. The unique "Warnings don't work" argument goes unchallenged in court. Nobody else stands in the way of the magnet ban rule-making. The CPSC sets the precedent of dodging the most public objection the agency has ever received for any single action item. The CPSC wins it's gamble.

Behind Door #2: All-In for the Conscience.
Fight. Because how others treat you is their Karma, but how you react is your Karma. Because the beauty and wonder that magnets generate is worth a rescue effort. Magnet spheres work exactly as they are supposed to, and nearly everybody (over 99.99%) is able to use them safely. Statistical polls show consumers would rather see a ban of tobacco, than an all-ages nation-wide non-consensual market removal of magnet sets used for art and education. We can sleep without regret, knowing that as the last company standing, Zen Magnets fought for what was right: democracy, reason, liberty, and beautiful shiny magnets.

Nothing rational lies in between these two options, as costs and cortisol levels only go up from here on.




Take this as official notice that Zen Magnets LLC is going All-in, and taking "Door #2" as described. We will not settle for any sort of stop-sale of magnets that are perfectly safe when not misused. The hearing is set for December, and we will see that this influential case goes to trial.

We vow to continue this legal, awareness, and lobbying battle, until our very last drop of cash-flow blood. We will combat the CPSC's magnet prohibition until triumph, or until a glorious death of insolvency on the legal battlefield. At the very least, we'll have one more holiday season of availability.
 
Magnets must be respected, but need not be feared.
❤ Zen Magnets http://zenmagnets.com/

-Zen Magnets

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful

« Last post by Curt on August 01, 2014, 12:14 PM »

important link if you ever want to install a userscript:  
>>http://userscripts-m...pts/show/487275.html<<

-Curt (July 31, 2014, 05:25 PM)

@Curt: How did you find out about that mirror? It seems to have been a little-known item, which always makes me curious.

-IainB (July 31, 2014, 11:12 PM)

ghacks: http://www.ghacks.ne...g-good-alternatives/

userscripts.org seems to just have gone. Well, there are some alternatives.
http://wiki.greasesp.../User_Script_Hosting

-Tuxman (August 01, 2014, 06:20 AM)

Are any of you going to edit that wiki.greasespot page, and paste in the "http://userscripts-m...pts/show/487275.html"-link, please? I don't have an account because I don't understand a fraction of what they are doing, so it ought to be done by one of you guys. ;-)

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Living Room / Vote for the best bike!

« Last post by Curt on August 01, 2014, 03:45 AM »

-not "motor bike" but "Urban Utility Bike" ;-)

Last day to vote is August 3 at noon, PST

no, you're not gonna vote here at DonationCoder, but at > http://oregonmanifest.com/vote < (where there of course are many more photos and explanations)

The Bike Design Project

    The Project      Teams      The Workshop      Partners      Schedule      Vote

Vote for the best bike!
Which bike is the Ultimate Urban Utility Bike?
Your vote decides which bike will go into production with our partner, Fuji Bikes.
Last day to vote is August 3 at noon, PST

CHECK OUT THE DESIGN CRITERIA: http://oregonmanifest.com/vote

-Oregon Manifest

click thumbs to enlarge:

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General Software Discussion / Re: Top 25 Free Windows Utilities

« Last post by Curt on July 31, 2014, 05:41 PM »

almost funny; (I can watch the page in Internet Explorer, but) in my Firefox there is nothing to see but A WHITE PAGE - AND the text See all White Papers 

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General Software Discussion / userscripts-mirror

« Last post by Curt on July 31, 2014, 05:25 PM »

important link if you ever want to install a userscript:

>>http://userscripts-m...pts/show/487275.html<<

Redirect Userscripts.org to Userscripts-MIRROR.org

Script Summary:On any web page it will check if the clicked links goes to userscripts.org. If so, the link will be rewritten to point to userscripts-mirror.org

PROBLEM: Userscripts.org is unreachable.
SOLUTION: On any web page, this script will redirect userscripts.org links to userscripts-mirror.org.
DETAILS: The source code is very short and simple to understand.

-userscripts-mirror

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Found Deals and Discounts / AoMei Backupper Pro lifetime 72% off

« Last post by Curt on July 31, 2014, 03:06 AM »

This offer is via C|Net. Ends 05 August, 2014

Giveaway: http://www.backup-ut...m/giveaway/cnet.html
Dead-cheap lifetime key: http://www.backup-ut...m/specials/cnet.html

5 more days.

I don't have any reservations against this offer; AoMei is well-spoken of, and a lifetime key for less than $14, normal price $50 (normal Pro key: $39), surely must be a bargain.

Compare editions: http://www.backup-ut...tion-comparison.html

Maximum number of computers allowed to install: 2 PCs (I guess they mean, "at the same time")



Company homepage: http://www.aomeitech.com/
Program's homepage: http://www.backup-ut...om/professional.html

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Living Room / Re: Director wants his film on The Pirate Bay, pirates deliver…

« Last post by Curt on July 28, 2014, 06:21 PM »

Who is he uploading for?

-Curt (July 27, 2014, 12:42 PM)

Very tiny people who speak Dutch? 

-40hz (July 27, 2014, 03:34 PM)

Dutchlings?

-Deozaan (July 28, 2014, 03:45 PM)

 

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Living Room / Re: Director wants his film on The Pirate Bay, pirates deliver…

« Last post by Curt on July 27, 2014, 12:42 PM »

What a lack of effort. The director is of course not a nincompoop, I hope, so maybe he is a stranger to computers, the Internet, YouTube and such? I mean, the movie he has uploaded is merely 320x240 pixels - I will not watch 81 minutes in such a microscopic format - and the dialogue is all in Dutch and not subtitled!

Who is he uploading for?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Lazyload

« Last post by Curt on July 20, 2014, 03:36 PM »

Userscript.org has been inaccessible for more than two months.

Userscripts.org down for good? Here are alternatives:
http://www.ghacks.ne...g-good-alternatives/

-ghacks

I have a number of userscripts in Firefox and noticed that when I went to update all add-ons they was taking 3-4 minutes to update. Turns out it is because userscripts.org site is down and has been down for days. Checking around on the web I found information that the site is officially dead. I've had to change the update url in all my scripts to "about:blank" and now the add-ons update quickly again.

-a mozillaZine forum user

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: EaseUS & SoftMaker Office

« Last post by Curt on July 18, 2014, 04:07 PM »

a little peculiar... offering a suit for this little money, but not picturing it. what does it look like? Is the suit perhaps ugly, and that's why there is no picture of it?



sorry, tonight's movie was below expectations...

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Living Room / Re: Google, designing the font of the future

« Last post by Curt on July 18, 2014, 04:17 AM »

I have removed the old version and installed this up-to-date (July 2014) Roboto font from Google's page http://www.google.co...ml#typography-roboto

Roboto

Since the Ice Cream Sandwich release, Roboto has been the standard typeface for Android. In this version, Roboto has been refined extensively to work across the wider set of supported platforms. It is slightly wider and rounder, giving it greater clarity and making it more optimistic.

File last modified: 01-July-2014:
RobotoTTF.zip (1237.93 kB - downloaded 317 times.)

-Google typography

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Living Room / Re: Google, designing the font of the future

« Last post by Curt on July 17, 2014, 04:37 PM »

Thank you, Ed, for giving the right link for Android users. However, it is not my impression that these fonts will do well in a textual document on a large desktop monitor - they look so awful here, that I already am planing to remove them again.

Also Thank You for writing when push comes to shove; I can't remember ever reading that phrase before!

when push comes to shove
English Phrase
    (idiomatic) When the pressure is on; when the situation is critical or urgent; when the time has come for action, even if it is difficult

-wiktionary

Normally I hate Google. Mainly because I quite often will want the oldest version  (= the original version) of a file, and Google refuses to look for it. But the Internet includes so many misquotes, and falsified pictures, or stolen material, and if the oldest file not is available, how will we ever know that we are not being lied to? Google is in some areas doing far more bad, than good. Oops! I did it again! Sorry for going astray. I like these fonts, but something about them is not yet perfect.

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Living Room / Google designing the font of the future

« Last post by Curt on July 17, 2014, 09:59 AM »

New York Magazine has an article by a Kevin Roose, named "Google Is Designing the Font of the Future". It's quite interesting, but too long to merely copy & paste - so you will have to go yourself to read it:

http://nymag.com/dai...t-of-the-future.html

Google Is Designing the Font of the Future.
It's called "Roboto," and it works on everything.

-nymag

Latest revision:

(click to enlarge to 991x606 pixels):



http://nymag.com/dai...t-of-the-future.html

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional Edition 5.5 free

« Last post by Curt on July 17, 2014, 02:31 AM »

on giveawayoftheday again today, Thursday 17 July 2014: http://www.giveawayo...ssional-edition-5-5/

Special Offer:

The giveaway version does not include free lifetime upgrade. But we provide GOTD users with the opportunity to get “AOMEI Partition Assistant Pro + Free Lifetime Upgrade” (originally priced at $49.00, now only $13.90)

http://www.disk-part...m/specials/gotd.html

I don't know if it ever will be updated again, but $14 is so cheap it shouldn't matter.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: AOMEI Backupper FREE + AOMEI Partition Assistant FREE - Mini-Review

« Last post by Curt on July 17, 2014, 02:21 AM »

[original posted deleted. wrong location!]

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General Software Discussion / Re: Readability and Reading List

« Last post by Curt on July 17, 2014, 02:10 AM »

A Readability page is meant to be printed, or virtually printed = saved as a PDF file => so you should click "Print", not "Save", and print to .pdf!

I am and have been using Readability for some years. Yes, it doesn't always save the pictures, but then I save the picture separately, and in my PDF editor I simply insert a new page with the missing pictures. But as you said, this is a frustrating waste of time.

By the way: The reason pictures are not always saved is, that Readability itself has determined that they are adverts or otherwise not related to the article. So, it is not a javascript error, but the article itself that was not designed in a way Readability could fully understand.

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Found Deals and Discounts / EaseUS & SoftMaker Office

« Last post by Curt on July 16, 2014, 10:58 AM »

View this email in your browser: http://easeus.com.be...y1&relid=C6EC15A

>"Save Up to 67% on EaseUS Data Backup / Partition Management Software, and get SoftMaker Office Suite ($79.95) for Free!"<

Back-to-School Special!

Save Up to 67% on EaseUS Data Backup / Partition Management Software
Get SoftMaker Office Suite ($79.95) for Free!

EaseUS All-in-one backup and disaster recovery software, protecting your data, including photos, music, videos, documents, emails, financial data and applications.

    Efficient system backup & recovery can quickly get your dead computer up when disaster strikes.
    Back up emails in Outlook, network data and other more against data loss.
    Back up files to hard drive, external devices, tapes, etc and you can restore them to specified location.

-EaseUS

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General Software Discussion / New: TLB PORTABLE!

« Last post by Curt on July 16, 2014, 04:56 AM »

NEW: TLB beta PORTABLE!

disclaimer: I often install True Launch Bar beta versions, and have never experienced anything dangerous with them.

True Launch Bar v6.6.5 beta is released.

What's new:

    Now it is possible to use True Launch Bar in portable mode.
    Added additional margins for menu items into Customize Menu dialog box.
    Improved conversion of the menu layout data (tlbdata.xml) into new format.


find portable mode etc at http://www.truelaunc....com/beta/index.html

-truelaunchbar.com

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General Software Discussion / Re: The art of finding

« Last post by Curt on July 12, 2014, 05:15 PM »

you could test the free version of iMetaSearch. I use the pro version, because it was on offer..., but right now it isn't. It hasn't been updated since April last year, and who knows if it ever will be. There is a fine user manual and an instructive video to make it easy to begin using the program. I think you might benefit from the way this program works:

tutorial: http://www.puffinwar...tasearch-manual.html



video:

http://www.puffinwarellc.com/ "iMetaSearch Makes Google Better"
-the pro version is offering 11 more search engines, besides Google

click:
       

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General Software Discussion / Re: rtf documents to the web for no-bureaucracy sharing

« Last post by Curt on July 07, 2014, 05:42 PM »

I know nothing about Atlantis or Abiword's abilities, but I do remember that Word 2003 gave excellent output, when biblical texts were uploaded directly via the Word's .DOC files. And because .RTF is much simpler, I trust you will be satisfied with your Atlantis publishing directly from Rich Text > HTML.

--------
by the way
http://latex2rtf.sourceforge.net/

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General Software Discussion / Re: rtf documents to the web for no-bureaucracy sharing

« Last post by Curt on July 06, 2014, 12:36 PM »

I agree with you, Steven, that RTF is the more suitable format. However, my experience is that some RTF editors have features not supported by all RTF readers. But it is more important to be understood than to include fancy features, so I almost always use WordPad Write - because  it cannot write many features, but it can read most. So when other people are opening my RTF documents they will never answer that they couldn't read all of it (except of course if they don't have the relevant fonts). WordPad has changed its file name and location several times, on my Win 7 it is C:\Windows\System32\write.exe

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

« Last post by Curt on June 29, 2014, 04:25 PM »

Supporting member dcwul62 posted #200:

https://www.donation....msg358378#msg358378



 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Metalenguage - Encoder - Decoder

« Last post by Curt on June 28, 2014, 02:34 AM »

InfoRapid ... has served me well in the past, though.

-Shades (June 27, 2014, 08:35 PM)

- just how far back into the past?  



I don't want the program, so I won't test it, but it would be interesting to see if it still works on a modern system, after 11 years without updating. I guess "XP-mode" should make it possible?
 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Is there a decent youtube downloader?

« Last post by Curt on June 24, 2014, 02:03 PM »

One user is talking about the included features already being standard in Firefox 30.

----------

YouTube Center is not really in the browser, but on YT's homepages:

--------------------------
The YouTube front page. A cog button is added to the right of the blue "sign in" button and when the cog button is clicked the YouTube Center settings panel will appear.

--------------------------
The YouTube Center settings

--------------------------
A YouTube video with YouTube Center activated. The player is stopped and a preview is display until the player is clicked on. This is because the setting: prevent auto buffering is enabled. The player fills out, because the player size: "Fit To Content" has been selected