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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.

-delwoode (January 29, 2011, 07:15 AM)

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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General Software Discussion / Re: Simple Commandline to send Keystrokes

« Last post by rjbull on January 28, 2011, 02:47 PM »

I'll write down a readme, do some more testing, and wrap it all in one zip file

-Ath (January 28, 2011, 02:08 PM)

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: [Freeware] Text Filter - portable, search-as-you-type text file viewer

« Last post by rjbull on January 28, 2011, 06:31 AM »

I just tried it on some of my MemPad files.  These aren't plain text, but they're pretty close.  Text Filter coped with most - but not with the biggest one, which is about 4.5Mb.  Is there a limit in Text Filter, or is it choking on non-text characters?

[Edit 2011-01-28, 20:41] Erm...  Erm...  there isn't a problem opening that file...  never was a problem... I already had it open in MemPad, so it was locked...  Apologies!      [/Edit]

If you have to set the file mask to All files, should it remember that for next time, rather than reverting to Text files (*.txt)?  Or is that just Windows?

Not sure about this; if you specify more than one string in the search box, could the different strings in the hit list be highlit in different colours?

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General Software Discussion / Re: General and Casual Questions about SAP integration

« Last post by rjbull on January 28, 2011, 05:46 AM »

Are you stuck with SAP ERP, or do you yet have a chance to reach the escape pod?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Upgrading RoboForm from v6 to v7: worthwhile?

« Last post by rjbull on January 27, 2011, 05:03 PM »

Just saw this as a Bits du Jour Suggestion: anyone know anything about it?

Sticky Password

€23.95 includes portable version

Quoting their Web site (my emphasis):

    * login automatically to your favorite websites
    * fill-in online forms with one click
    * instant access to your passwords and personal data
    * generate and store strong passwords
    * protection against identity theft, phishing and keyloggers
    * your data protected by the strongest encryption algorithms
    * easily manage all your website accounts and passwords
    * portable version included: take all your passwords with you
    * automatic password backup

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General Software Discussion / Re: General and Casual Questions about SAP integration

« Last post by rjbull on January 27, 2011, 04:40 PM »

What do you mean by SAP?  Wikipedia SAP disambiguation page

Do you mean the business software - known at the place I used to work as Stop All Production, because that's what it did for a while?

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Site/Forum Features / Re: List of DC-SMF features?

« Last post by rjbull on January 27, 2011, 04:31 PM »

If you want to change font colour, that's a drop-down.  But if you want to change Font Face or Font Size, you get pre-set entries:

[Select]

[font=Verdana][/font]

[Select]

[size=10pt][/size]

Please, what font faces and sizes does DC SMF support?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Simple Photo Resizer - Please Give Feedback

« Last post by rjbull on January 27, 2011, 04:22 PM »

I'm the nitwit that when looking at storing a list of names, will say to myself, "But what if I want to store a list of names for everyone on the planet? [...] Now... Where am I going to get a complete list of everyone's names..."

-Renegade (January 26, 2011, 09:42 PM)

Facebook? 

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General Software Discussion / Re: rename pdf files

« Last post by rjbull on January 27, 2011, 04:15 PM »

The smoothest system I had was when I needed to rename safety data sheets generated by the system used by the company I worked for.  These had structure, so I converted them to text with XPDF, made an AWK script that matched the resulting text file, and ran a batch file that used the output to generate a second temporary batch file that did the renaming.  Then I could just click on the batch file and have the renaming done automatically.  This is, obviously, critically dependent on a particular structure.  If I was dealing with incoming files with no consistent structure, I had to use the kind of tools I listed above.  I have no idea what structure if any your file have, so I can't be more specific, and in any case I'm not a coder.  I just lashed things together.  All I can do is give you an idea of what worked for me.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Outlining software recommendations?

« Last post by rjbull on January 25, 2011, 02:38 PM »

I'd like more keyboard-friendliness too.  Can't see a keyboard method of expanding/collapsing nodes, for example.

-rjbull (January 25, 2011, 02:12 PM)

Ctrl-Space for one node, Shift-Ctrl-Space for all nodes. There's a list of shortcuts in the manual (the "manual.nte" file in the program folder).

-johnk (January 25, 2011, 02:33 PM)

So there is, now I've unzipped it again.  I had it loaded before, but couldn't see much in it.  Maybe I grunged it.

Thanks! 

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Screenshot Captor / Re: The bug about Screenshot Captor

« Last post by rjbull on January 25, 2011, 02:33 PM »

Not identical, and I'm using Vista Home Premium, but I've never had complete reliability with Red Box Mode and am trying to avoid it.  It isn't very consistent, but SSC tends to lock up and need a process terminator to exit.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Outlining software recommendations?

« Last post by rjbull on January 25, 2011, 02:12 PM »

How about Noteliner - a simple and traditional pure outliner?

-johnk (January 24, 2011, 03:04 PM)

Interesting find, johnk!  But looks to me like it's best for getting the basics of ideas down, less like a tool you'd use to write long documents/books.  The text manipulation features are rudimentary.  I'd like more keyboard-friendliness too.  Can't see a keyboard method of expanding/collapsing nodes, for example.

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General Software Discussion / Re: SpamCombat <-> MailWasher

« Last post by rjbull on January 24, 2011, 05:18 PM »

• It's freeware - yet clearly well supported, and in fact you can purchase support for $35

-timns (January 24, 2011, 04:38 PM)

Interesting approach, and they appear to have forums which are presumably free.

• There's a splendid pop-up from the system tray icon that summarises what's waiting in your inboxes, and when the next mail check is due
• Stats! Gotta love 'em

If you like those features, you'd probably like Poppy, which can do similar things:

    * Checks multiple POP3 accounts for new mail.
    * Uses the taskbar icon to indicate that mail is waiting.
    * A configurable interval between checks of the POP3 account.
    * A a convenient popup menu to reach all functions and configuration.
    * Play a sound when new mail has arrived on any account.
    * Play a different sound for each account.
    * Execute an external program when new mail has arrived.
    * Show a non-interfering popup window when new mail has arrived.
    * Automatically hide the popup window, without user intervention.
    * Always notify or only when new mail has arrived.
    * Always notify or only when mail from a friend has arrived.
    * Dialog to display 'From' address and subject of each message.
    * View the headers of an e-mail message.
    * Preview the source of an e-mail message.
    * Delete e-mail messages from POP3 servers.
    * Select and/or unselect messages based on selection rules.
    * Only notify based on the selection rules.
    * Check e-mail headers against an anti-SPAM DNS blacklist.
    * Option to automatically delete SPAM messages
    * It is small and easy to use.
    * Support for POP3 servers that use SSL (like GMail).

• After adding a sender to the whitelist, the interface does not update that message to reflect that it's now "good"

Humph.  That could be better.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Simple Photo Resizer - Please Give Feedback

« Last post by rjbull on January 24, 2011, 05:10 PM »

this requires 1 drag & drop, 1 slide, and 1 click. So a bit more than 1 click

-Renegade (January 24, 2011, 04:38 PM)

I omitted the drag & drop    I think I meant, more or less, the equivalent of leaving the slider at the same point next time you enter the program, so that all your output images will be the same size.  Hmmm...  mind going fuzzy...  time I got some sleep...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Simple Commandline to send Keystrokes

« Last post by rjbull on January 24, 2011, 04:57 PM »

Looks like NirCmd might be able to do it.  At least, it has "sendkey" type commands, but it doesn't seem to specify a target program or window.

Also looks like AutoHotKey may be able to read text from a file and type it as keystrokes to a program, or, maybe you can use Windows Scripting Host.  However, most of the Google hits appear to refer to sending keystrokes to a command window, not getting them from it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Simple Photo Resizer - Please Give Feedback

« Last post by rjbull on January 24, 2011, 04:17 PM »

People want to reduce photos to make them smaller to upload or email (most often).

-Renegade (January 24, 2011, 03:58 PM)

A one-click system to reduce any size original to a specified size for e-mail/forum posting?

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General Software Discussion / Re: SpamCombat <-> MailWasher

« Last post by rjbull on January 24, 2011, 10:37 AM »

I got fed up with training and re-training Mailwasher, plus other problems with it.  My strategy now is to first run freeware Magic Mail Monitor.  It isn't Bayesian, and you have to constantly update the filters, but I've not found it too onerous so far.  I use TheBat! as e-mail client and have the AntispamSniper plugin for it, Pro version thanks to a DC discount.  There's also a free version.  Pro versions exist for Outlook, Outlook Express, Windows Mail, and Windows Live Mail, but not free versions.  AntispamSniper is well-liked on DC.  I'll be interested to hear more about SpamCombat.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Simple Commandline to send Keystrokes

« Last post by rjbull on January 24, 2011, 10:22 AM »

Why does it have to be command line?  There's some reason you can't use a macro program like Macro Express or PowerPro?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Simple Photo Resizer - Please Give Feedback

« Last post by rjbull on January 24, 2011, 10:15 AM »

I use Resize by Peter Bone, small and doesn't need .NET.
[Edit 2011-01-24, 22:13] Forgot to add, it's freeware. [/Edit]

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General Software Discussion / Re: FolderSize o DirectorySize with rules or filters

« Last post by rjbull on January 23, 2011, 04:09 PM »

1.1.3.0 is out. Enjoy!

-uuderzo (January 23, 2011, 11:22 AM)

I've only used it for seconds - but oh, is it ever FAST!

Thanks, Umberto!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Karen's Directory Printer - copy content of a directory to txt file or print it

« Last post by rjbull on January 23, 2011, 09:51 AM »

You might want to cross-reference the thread Goodness! Is there NO Win utility to do "DIR /S/B C:\ZZZ\*.JPG > RESULT.TXT"?, specifically mouser's post LS - File List Generator (for Windows).  As LS is under 50k I've attached it below.

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Living Room / Re: Robert Kiyosaki Is Predicting A $6,000/oz. Silver Price In The Next Couple Years

« Last post by rjbull on January 22, 2011, 02:27 PM »

We've been in these parts before...  Wikipedia article on Nelson Bunker Hunt:

Nelson Bunker Hunt (born February 22, 1926) is an American oil company executive. He is best known as a former billionaire whose fortune collapsed after he and his brother William Herbert Hunt tried but failed to corner the world market in silver.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Karen's Directory Printer - copy content of a directory to txt file or print it

« Last post by rjbull on January 22, 2011, 02:05 PM »

I use the DiskDirExtended plugin for Total Commander, quick and easy, but no fancy GUI