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Living Room / Re: Cute jokes' thread
« Last post by rjbull on February 17, 2011, 03:12 PM »
BBC Bristol's early evening news programme had Graham Mack, a presenter for BBC Wiltshire, doing a warm-up for the Red Nose Day charity event.

Have you heard of the new Web site that aggregates YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook?

It's called   YouTwitFace.
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Living Room / Re: Can anybody recommend a free XML to PDF or RTF converter?
« Last post by rjbull on February 16, 2011, 03:31 PM »
I'd be interested to know if anyone has tried Treeline.  Features list includes, amongst much else:
    * 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.
[...]
    * 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.
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Living Room / Re: Recommend an alarm clock mp3 features.
« Last post by rjbull on February 16, 2011, 02:59 PM »
Kirby is good, but the snooze feature is not flexible enough for my purposes

Alarm++ checks out for all your requirements?
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General Software Discussion / Re: Bulk Creating Folders
« Last post by rjbull on February 16, 2011, 02:47 PM »
...or just an batch

+1  :up:

Batch files are a free and convenient way to do many jobs.  But, it's only us older hands who know how to use them?  :o
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Living Room / Re: Recommend an alarm clock mp3 features.
« Last post by rjbull on February 15, 2011, 01:50 PM »
So, I've managed to purchase a Panasonic Toughbook W8 for around $450.  I'm going to use that as my alarm clock!  ;D
The way I feel about alarm clocks, it had better be tough 

You might take a look at Kirby Alarm Pro (or maybe Lite, see the purchase page).  You can use it as a scheduler as well then.
   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!

Hmmm...  not sure about mp3 from that.
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i just thought it was good for a free tool (maybe there are better ones).

I can't think of any free ones, unless you count free-for-personal-use PhraseExpress and can set it to work that way.

i use TinySpell http://tinyspell.numerit.com/ for everyday use. it isn't free, but it's pretty cheap. best spell checker/correctrion tool i've tried that works in all programs.

I keep hearing about this but haven't tried it...  Otherwise, as donationware rather than simply free, the S in mouser's CHS is Spell, but then you have to do a clipboard dance.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Any better Clipboard program.
« Last post by rjbull on February 12, 2011, 02:36 PM »
if he only would fix my one minor complaint of the program, I'd probably depend on it a lot more.

But if your'e anything like me, you'd only find a new minor complaint  :(
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Interesting mix of features.  But it doesn't do text (including phrase) expansion, or text correction, does it?
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General Software Discussion / Re: Upgrading RoboForm from v6 to v7: worthwhile?
« Last post by rjbull on February 10, 2011, 02:37 PM »
Mentioned by Keith Russell in the Yahoo! Group PowerToolsSoftware: PC Magazine review of LastPass 1.72.

Brief mentions of RoboForm Pro 6.9, Kaspersky Password Manager 4, Identity Safe (a feature of Norton Internet Security 2011), Norton 360 Version 4.0, Steganos Privacy Suite 12, Encrypt Stick 5.0, SplashID Key Safe
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General Software Discussion / Re: Any better Clipboard program.
« Last post by rjbull on February 10, 2011, 01:58 PM »
Just want to report back that I finally got around to check out Oscar's File Renamer. Indeed it's very convenient, but it doesn't do unicode unfortunately.

I found it very useful for renaming files that were actually open at the time, which Total Commander wouldn't do.  Oscar's defers the renaming action until you press the Go button, which is great when you need to refer to the file contents.  Thanks for reporting back; I'm sorry it doesn't do unicode.  It's probably too old, dating to a time when that wasn't considered.

Another option might be to make a directory listing and edit it into a renaming batch file.  Again, though, I don't know about unicode on command lines.

Edit: I then dig around a bit in XYplorer, and found out that it has a rename method called "Edit Item Names ...", with which I can pretty much do what I would like to do with Oscar's File Renamer. Not sure when it got this (I often upgrade XY without knowing what's new). It's nice.


Doh!  :-[  I have a lifetime license for XYplorer and didn't think of it  :(  TC is my main file manager and XY, excellent though it is, does things so differently that I use it less than I should.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Link Checker with built-in HTML editor freeware?
« Last post by rjbull on February 08, 2011, 02:41 PM »
Does it have to be integrated?  Would you consider a making a list of old and current links, and using a freeware multi-file search-and-replace program to replace them?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Local History Tape Archive - need help
« Last post by rjbull on February 08, 2011, 01:54 PM »
There's several things I could suggest, but a better answer might come by talking to your town librarians. Info mapping, cataloging, data classification, storage and retrieval are their specialty. And they're also probably the most underutilized talent pool in the country.

They're an endangered species in Britain.  Brutal "cuts" to balance the UK budget means county councils are seeing libraries as a soft target.  Library users are protesting, as well we should.
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I think that a photograph is like seeing the world through other people's eyes, that's why I don't find my own photos very interesting ;)

I once heard a photographic club judge say he liked a photo that told a story.  I've always thought I'd rather have a photo that could inspire a story  :)

I could easily imagine that church as filming location for a few fantasy/medieval movies!

Nobody seems to know when the church was built; it looks to be part-Saxon, so it's over a thousand years old.  That makes it old enough for the Middle Ages, and then some!  Movie makers would find too many modern graves in the churchyard to make things easy, but no doubt they'd cope, and longer shots would be fine.  We rarely get hoar frost like that, though.
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another beautiful image - very classically 'English' looking :)

Thanks  :)  I could have done without the wires; maybe should have walked closer, but that might have changed everything else.  Had to have a go, though; we very rarely see hoar frost like that in this country.
Fantastic image! For some reason, it first gave me a romantic feel, and the second time I looked, it changed to scary :P
ps: I had to go back and look for the wires ;)

If you mean my photo, rather than tomos', then thanks!  :)  I believe that what you get out of a photograph depends on what you bring to it - and by the same token, you photograph things, and photograph them in particular ways, depending on what sort of person you are, and what's in your mind.  I've always had a strong liking for fantasy and science fiction, so maybe that's part of where your dual response came from  :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Infix PDF Editor now at version 4
« Last post by rjbull on February 06, 2011, 01:23 PM »
Same Bits du Jour offer to be repeated on Thursday 10 February, 2011, same price as above.
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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2009 / Re: Do Visions and Missions work for you?
« Last post by rjbull on February 06, 2011, 10:10 AM »
In my experience, mission statements are an illiterate mish-mash of management buzzwords.  In richly-deserved lampoon, much like this:

Mission statement generator© -  it's vertical, tracing and almost perfect

Do you feel left out because your business does not have a mission statement? Do other Executive Directors laugh at you because you don't have a corporate vision?

Writing a mission statements is a tricky business, but now help is at hand with the ISMS Mission Statement Generator©.

The ISMS Mission Statement Generator©  has been has been described on the Internet as: Dual-headed, top-down and almost spectral.

Example:
To incubate plug-and-play deliverables with maximum effect for the benefit of our patrons and other private parternships

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General Software Discussion / Re: General brainstorming for Note-taking software
« Last post by rjbull on February 03, 2011, 02:33 PM »
Just for the compleatist, I just stumbled over these two when looking for something else.  I haven't tried them.  They're both freeware.

Techno Notes Manager
Save and organize any texts with rich formatting.
Free-form personal notes organizer with tree-like structure. Sometimes this kind of software called outliners. Main purpose is to store many notes with hierarchical structure in single file.
    * Main features: Modern easy-to-use interface
    * Full rich text support including images, tables, bullets, etc.
    * Powerful encryption
    * Full-text search engine
    * Organization with hierarchy and by keywords (tags)
    * Export to HTML or RTF
    * Spell checker
    * File attachment to any nodes
    * Portable mode support
    * Multilanguage interface

Smereka: extensible personal freeform database and personal information manager

Smereka is a freeware program that allows you to organize your data in an hierarchical, searchable database stored in a single file.

Your files and notes can be stored in a single file - Smereka database. This file is being indexed on the fly, so you can search your information items as soon as they are added to the database. All information items - files, notes and even folders - can be tagged to create "alternative hierarchy".

The search capabilities of "Smereka" are extended by a hierarchical system of item storage (in a tree). This allows you to sort your items into a tree-like structure. You can move, copy items from branch to branch, assign icons to them and more.

Your information (text, offline webpages) appear on the screen instantly, as soon as you click a tree item - you do not need to run an external program in most cases.

And of course, you can share the database. Having received a single file, your peer may instantly browse all the array of your data, search it or export information items to disk.
Here are typlical cases of freeform database usage:

    * organizing snippets of text information: you are accumulating small, independent text files and saved webpages. They are used to store ideas, notes, article archive, etc.
    * data mining: you are researching some topic. You need to save and analyze a lot of diverse information, which is located on different webpages, in different text files. You also want to save relevant discussions, IM chats etc.
    * project management: you are leading a project, which requires organizing and storing a great quantity of artifacts: documents, important e-mails, chat transcripts, ideas, brainstorm protocols etc. In addition to specialized tools, such as MS projects, CMS or bug trackers, a personal database helps a manager to put pieces of informationtogether, which otherwise would not "fit" into these large and formal tools. Flexible reminders can be attached to any item and keep you track your project.
    * structured information exchange: you need to send your colleague a set of file together with some relevant instructions. You can attach files to the database as info elements, and insert text items as child (or parent) nodes.
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DWM is the new desktop manager introduced in Vista, it's what gives you the fancy transparency. You can turn it off by selecting the Vista Basic theme. It's worth trying just out of interest.

I'll have to look up how to tur it off, but it's worth a try, thanks.  Transparency doesn't add much, after all.

More likely though I'd still say it could be a UAC issue.

Try a reinstall, and make sure the first time you run it is as an admin. As it stands it sounds strange that you had to put your reg code in twice, it probably got confused and that's why the service didn't work.

I've had to put my reg code in twice in similar situations before.  I suppose it makes sense, if a program is registered to a user who isn't necessarily the admin.  It looks like the accounts are sealed boxes...
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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Shutdown Windows toolbar ( SuperboyAC special for DC!)
« Last post by rjbull on January 31, 2011, 02:15 PM »
I've been thinking about making a shutdown menu for myself, but I would want mine to contain options to run SyncBack Pro and CCleaner so I'm less likely to forget them.
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If we're going to have automatic wrapping, shouldn't it work even when text is pasted in?  Or should it only work as you type?"

I'd have thought it was a case of offering both "Paste" and "Paste Special" commands for without/with formatting.
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The actual Ritlabs forum:
This is the one on their website.  According to the rules, you can only say "positive" things about the Bat there.  Nothing else.  no bug reports, no support questions, nothing about beta.  Only "positive" remarks.

Something close to that was the original basis for my public spat with Bartels Media over Phrase Express.  In both cases, the respective company's attitudes are strange and pointless - because both programs are very good to excellent of their type.  The companies should have broad enough shoulders to carry comments and criticism, especially when it isn't even hostile criticism.
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Good thought, Eóin.  Just tried running as admin.  I had to put in my registration again, and got this message:

***** CRITICAL *****
The application cannot be launched because it failed in installing the
core services (error code: -2147483647).
Please check the application integrity and try again.

Exited, ran it again, loaded OK, and looking in About, it says it's registered.  But, no highlighting at all.  :o  Firefox is running in user account, but surely Hilitext running as admin should still work.

What's DWM?
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General Software Discussion / Highlighting software - any alternative to Hilitext?
« Last post by rjbull on January 31, 2011, 10:38 AM »
I run Fanix Software's Hilitext on Vista Home Premium with UAC On, but it doesn't fully work as it did on XP.  Quote from Fanix's Web site:
Hilitext - The super-powered text finder tool

Hilitext is a powerful OS-level text finder tool that works with all Windows programs to help you find what you are looking for easier and faster. Powered with an innovative text highlighting technology, Hilitext automatically scans your screen and highlights every instance of your keywords in all open desktop windows including web pages, e-mail messages and other documents to help you find information more quickly and easily. It continues to highlight all instances of your target terms automatically as you surf from web page to web page or e-mail to e-mail.

Well, it doesn't work properly any more, as can be seen on the screenshots.  The first is on Magic Mail Monitor and the second on the DC forum's Recent Topics page, viewed with Firefox.  Either Hilitext misses things completely, or it messes up the highlighting and/or the text underneath it.  It does seem rather better on text editors, but that's only a limited use.

I think I e-mailed Fanix a long time ago, with no reply.  Is there anything I need to check, or, please, is there an alternative software to do the same job?
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Living Room / Re: The Curse Of The Web
« Last post by rjbull on January 30, 2011, 02:56 PM »
There is a lot of data filed away in that thing and it's difficult tedious to retrieve.
-cranioscopical (January 29, 2011, 03:01 PM)

I realise that the "free keys" will get you out of trouble for now, but if you decide to change, could you run another clipboard enhancer at the same time, and use a Macro Express macro to send all the clips from SmartBoard to the clipboard one by one in turn?  Then they'd be captured by the new program.  At least, as I don't have file translation expertise, that would be my own approach.
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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Macro Express - MiniReview
« Last post by rjbull on January 30, 2011, 10:10 AM »
I tried Macro Express pro but prefer Vtask studio - however I now find I dont use either as Autohotkey does everthing I want and has more options/flexibility. IT's also free.

I tried a few small things with AHK, back when I had a job.  It was OK for text expansion, though I ended up going for dedicated software.  But, not being a coder, I found AHK hard to use for other things.  I usually wanted a fix now, without struggling with Help files and trying to code.  Macro Express has an excellent "learn by example" system.  I only tried the AHK script that tries to do that for AHK itself twice or so, and found it unreliable.  One of the scripts had to be only slightly edited, but the other was hopeless.  Macro Express was worth the price to save time in rush jobs.  For longer-term things where I had time to think about what I was doing, I mostly used PowerPro, which I was running anyway.
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