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Thread seems ok to me as it is -- unless a thread is meant to serve as a permanent reference for something, i don't think its so bad when it drifts around.-mouser (March 04, 2011, 02:50 PM)
Do you think it's worth splitting some posts off unto their own threads?
Oh dear. Same here, thoughout. That means the Gremlins are doing it. I HATE that.
...hang on, Jarte does clipboard monitoring. I wonder if it's that that's interfering... but then, it'd probably cause CHS to have problems, and it doesn't.-oblivion (February 27, 2011, 12:29 PM)
Automatic clipboard chain break detectionIt's possible that either ArsClip or CHS had fixed things when you tried again.
UPDATE: Vista users can and should disable chain break detection, since
breaks are no longer present on the Vista operating system.
Unfortunately, any program can mess up the "clipboard chain", because it is
left up to the program to correctly handle clipboard messages. ArsClip has
a workaround for this. It checks the contents of the clipboard every 1
minute to make sure that it was automatically notified of the current items
arrival. If it wasn't, it will display an error message, and then
transparently fix any future problems this session without bugging you.
People want something that can knit, bake a good rice pudding and cycle up the curtains as well as put words on paper, it seems.
If you're old enough to remember Fidonet, the standing joke about Terminate was the forthcoming dishwasher interface...(1989 might have been my first DTP package. That makes me feel suddenly very old.)
Remember GEM? 
I still want to make CHS work better for me, because I'm arrogant enough to believe that if it works better for me, it'll work better for everyone else too.
longish words I knew I was going to be typing repeatedly -- and set a shortcut up to bring up favourites to make them easier to get at quickly.
Apologies, mouser.I've now tried MemPad and DateReminder, but they just not give me the right feeling about them that I can safely distribute them in my team. It's a bit vulnerable that all data is stored in a text(like) file.-Ath (March 03, 2011, 07:34 AM)
a set of repeating Outlook appointments for our team-lead. These appointments have to be manually maintained, [...] biggest disadvantage is that the reminders only pop-up at the calendar of the person(s) that scheduled the reminders, not from a central calendar (we have a team-mailbox and -calendar in our Exchange server, never got group-notifications working).If you already have Exchange and Outlook, management would probably prefer that you use them. I wondered about Rainlendar because:
Shared & 3rd Party Calendarsbut for Outlook synchronization you need the Pro version, which is cheap, but not free. Also check the FAQ on memory usage for Outlook.
With Rainlendar Pro you can subscribe to online calendars and share your events with other computers. You can also see and edit your Outlook appointments and tasks in Rainlendar (Windows only).
If both of Horst Schaeffer's MemPad and DateReminder utilities could be combined-Ath (February 27, 2011, 01:36 PM)
I used to use JBLab Secure Notes (payware: this is the original link but it's now dead) which was a small two-pane PIM with reminders built into it, plus other useful features, but I abandoned it in favour of MemPad because there was no development and a point came when it started to be difficult to transfer data out of it into anything else. You could consider AllMyNotes Organizer, also payware. I haven't tried it, but reminders are mentioned in the Help index.How to... assign Alarms?The author of AllMyNotes Organizer occasionally posts on DC, and has posted links for discounts in the past.
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Multiple alarm objects can be inserted to the Note and placed at any text position.
Each alarm can be single-date event, or repeat daily, weekly, monthly, or annually. Also interval between alarms, and alarm end date (for repeating alarms) can be set. [...]
reminders, 1 or 2 months before a license is about to expire
FinePrint - Print the way you want.
Universal print previewer.
Delete unwanted pages
Convert to grayscale
Remove blank pages
Remove unwanted text and images
Print multiple pages on a single sheet
Print electronic letterhead
Archive print jobs
[ArsClip] complained, with everything I tried, that it couldn't work out where to paste the text. (Can't remember the exact error, but it offers to -- and does -- paste to the clipboard, it just can't find the window to paste into.
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I assume this is an issue with later versions of Windows than XP, as an XP machine I've used ArsClip on for ages -- well, probably a couple of years, now -- has never given me a problem. The machine I was using for this is a Vista box, and I have a Netbook with Win7 Starter that has similar issues.-oblivion (February 27, 2011, 02:42 AM)
I updated my USB stick(s) from Jarte 3.4 portable to 4.3 portable. ArsClip worked fine with both versions, at least with plain text, I haven't tried again with RTF. I'm using the latest ArsClip Beta, 3.1.5 build 4031, which is on Joe's Web site as acv315-t9.zip. OS is Vista Home Premium.[Jarte]'s the one. Small, lightweight, fast and effective.
I did my usual thing with this -- as with most free software I use -- although I didn't need (and don't use) the extra features, I bought the payware version anyway. Gotta keep the authors of good software in business, even if it's only in a small way!
If you're doing what I think you're doing, you might be better off with a dedicated text expander/completer/corrector.-rjbull (February 26, 2011, 03:03 PM)
I tried Phraseexpress a couple of years back -- I either didn't get on with it or it didn't work in a way I found useful, can't recall now. Perhaps I should take another look.
But I have become a big fan of portable apps. Anything like that, I want my clipboard to be able to travel with me.
My clipboard manager of choice has always been ArsClip. However, it won't play ball with the text editors I've tried to use for the work I've been doing -- Jarte primarily, but I'd have used OpenOffice or anything else that could do quick editing and basic formatting.-oblivion (February 25, 2011, 02:43 PM)
CHS has worked nicely with Jarte (if you haven't, try it -- it's a wrapper for WordPad, apparently, but is a very decent free rtf editor)
I set a few favourites -- longish words I knew I was going to be typing repeatedly -- and set a shortcut up to bring up favourites to make them easier to get at quickly.
so it is essential to be able to somehow prevent the app from thinking that the webpage has changed every time it connects to it-kalos (February 24, 2011, 04:41 PM)
it is essential to be able to detect changes in areas like the text in a drop down menu
I prefer FileBox eXtender. On Vista, it even has a bug!-Curt (February 22, 2011, 04:25 PM)
The feature to automatically filter a clip depending on the contents (e.g., the text strings) into a Virtual Folder in CHS, using the appropriate SQL, is either not enabled in CHS at present, or is too obscure for me to understand.-IainB (February 22, 2011, 09:04 PM)
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* Categorise/Organise your clips. Create rules/filters for incoming clips.
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* Quickly access the source web page of internet clips.
Replace dupes with hard links or shortcuts
* CloneSpy: GUI dedupe utility that can (among other things) replace duplicate files with shortcuts or hard links.
* Dupemerge: CLI utility that searches for identical files on a logical drive and creates hard links among those files. (via Anthony Frazier)
* Duplicate File Hard Linker (DFHL): Open source CLI tool that replaces duplicate files with hard links. Byte-per-byte comparison ensures only identical files are hard linked.
* Finddupe: Open source CLI tool for detecting, deleting, or hard linking duplicate files. Can also list all hardlinked files on a given volume (similar to Microsoft's Hlscan.exe). Finddupe computes a hash based on the first 32k of a file, only checking entire file if there is a match.
This KB article explains hard links:
A hard link is a folder entry for a file regardless of where the actual file data exists on that volume. Every file is considered to have at least one hard link. On NTFS volumes, each file can have multiple hard links; therefore, a single file can be displayed in many folders (or even in the same folder with different names). Because all of the links reference the same file, programs can open any of the links and modify the file. A file is deleted from the file system only after all of the links to it have been deleted. After you create a hard link, programs can use the link like any other file name. Note that Windows Explorer and a command prompt will show all linked files as being the same size, even though they all share the same data and do not actually use that amount of disk space.
This last bit can be confusing. Let's say you've got a folder with three duplicate files of 10MB each. After replacing the dupes with hard links, the folder size is still reported as 30MB by Windows Explorer and cmd.exe. However, the "Used space" reported by Windows Explorer for the volume will have decreased by 20MB.
Notebooks and Paper – <http://pigpog.com/2007/01/20/pigpogpda-a-moleskine-hacked-into-a-complete-system/>PigPogPDA.
GTD – You may be looking for <http://pigpog.com/2006/07/11/gtd-the-pigpog-method/>The
PigPog Method, though if you’re new to GTD, you probably want to start with our <http://pigpog.com/2005/10/26/gtd-introduction/>Introduction, or a bit about <http://pigpog.com/2005/10/26/gtd-methods/>Methods of Doing GTD. You may want to know <http://pigpog.com/2006/02/10/gtd-dirty-secrets/>GTD’s Dirty Secrets, or find out how to <http://pigpog.com/2005/10/26/doing-gtd-without-doing-gtd/>Do GTD without Doing GTD. The geekier among you may even want to try <http://pigpog.com/2006/01/16/filesystem-gtd/>Filesystem GTD, or even <http://pigpog.com/2007/10/20/gtd-with-emacs-plannermode/>GTD with Emacs PlannerMode.
I don't know what the fuss was about; FlashFolder is almost nothing. FileBox eXtender is still way ahead, even no longer supported-Curt (February 21, 2011, 05:38 PM)
* Set default folder for any application.
* Rebound to the last used file in that folder.
* Stores almost any type of information, including plain text, HTML, numbers, dates, times, booleans, URLs, etc.
* The tree structure helps keep things organized.
* Each node can have several fields that form a mini-database.
* Several node types, with different sets of fields, can be included in one file.
* The node format, including fields, output lines and tree-view icon, can be defined for each node type.
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* TreeLine files are XML by default, but there are options for automatically compressing or encrypting the files.
[...]
* File Import and Export The data can be exported to HTML.
* An XSLT file can be exported to work with the XML TreeLine files.
* Tab-delimited tables and tab-indented text files can be imported and exported. Plain text files and Treepad files can be imported.
* Mozilla and XBEL format bookmark files can be imported and exported.
* Generic XML files can be imported and exported, allowing TreeLine to function as a crude XML editor.
* ODF text documents can be imported and exported as outlines.
* Batch file conversions can be done from a command line interface.
Kirby is good, but the snooze feature is not flexible enough for my purposes-superboyac (February 15, 2011, 04:04 PM)
...or just an batch-AbteriX (February 16, 2011, 02:28 PM)
So, I've managed to purchase a Panasonic Toughbook W8 for around $450. I'm going to use that as my alarm clock!The way I feel about alarm clocks, it had better be tough-superboyac (February 15, 2011, 01:12 PM)
Run a program automatically
Pop up a note
Play a sound
Send e-mails automatically
Transfer a file by FTP (pro version only)
Backup files and folders (pro version only)
Say the time
Say the message
Handy To Do List (with query facilities)
Plus loads more!
