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General Software Discussion / Re: DVD playback software

« Last post by NigelH on May 13, 2007, 07:58 PM »

IphigeniePickup, how about a copy of PowerDvd 6 (OEM) for $5.99  (free shipping)

It probably excludes some of the enhanced audio modes, but this should be absolutely fine for a laptop.

http://www.surplusco...il&item=SWW12418 

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General Software Discussion / PKWARE, releases free SecureZIP

« Last post by NigelH on April 23, 2007, 10:39 PM »

http://www.securezip.com/
Limited time offer

Secure email messages and attachments through integration with Microsoft Outlook®

SecureZIP is the easiest way to protect your files being stored or transferred

This limited time offer is for a full individual user license. THIS IS NOT TRIAL SOFTWARE

© 1989-2007 PKWARE, Inc. and its licensors. All rights reserved. PKWARE®, SecureZIP® and PKZIP® are registered trademarks of PKWARE, Inc. Trademarks of other companies mentioned in this documentation appear for identification purposes only and are property of their respective companies.

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Developer's Corner / Re: The Best Introductory Language

« Last post by NigelH on April 16, 2007, 08:59 PM »

For getting to grips with objects, check out BlueJ
http://www.bluej.org/index.html

BlueJ is an integrated Java environment specifically designed for introductory teaching.

The BlueJ environment was developed as part of a university research project about teaching object-orientation to beginners. The system is being developed and maintained by a joint research group at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia, and the University of Kent in Canterbury, UK. The project is supported by Sun Microsystems.

BlueJ supports:
fully integrated environment
graphical class structure display
graphical and textual editing
built-in editor, compiler, virtual machine, debugger, etc.
easy-to-use interface, ideal for beginners
interactive object creation
interactive object calls
interactive testing
incremental application development

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General Software Discussion / Re: Virtual Drive Pro

« Last post by NigelH on April 05, 2007, 09:00 PM »

Apologies for messing up the links folks. Here's the correction


$24-99 for VirtualDrive Pro 11
http://store.digital...vlet/promoID.2539800

$17-99 for VirtualDrive 11
http://store.digital...vlet/promoID.2539700

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General Software Discussion / Re: Virtual Drive Pro

« Last post by NigelH on April 05, 2007, 12:41 PM »

40% off offer

$17-99 for VirtualDrive 11
http://store.digital...vlet/promoID.2539800

$24-99 for VirtualDrive Pro 11
http://store.digital...vlet/promoID.2539700

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Living Room / Re: Good Video Editing Software? Is there any?

« Last post by NigelH on April 01, 2007, 02:21 PM »

I use Movie Edit Pro 11 http://site.magix.net/english-uk/home/.
It's pretty good value and is often available with a hefty rebate.

DVD-lab has always interested me though.
http://www.mediachan...vdlab/dvdlabpro.html
Comparison of various versions (DVD-lab 2.0, Studio and PRO) here
http://www.mediachan...dlab/comparison.html

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Found Deals and Discounts / Sale at Serif - up to 60% off

« Last post by NigelH on March 19, 2007, 09:23 PM »

http://www.serif.com...SerifExtra/index.asp

Webroot Spy Sweeper - $9.95

Webroot Desktop Firewall - $9.95
(rebranded or original?)

OmniPage Pro 12 - $9-95

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: free eXpert PDF 3 - Full commercial app, as sold for £40

« Last post by NigelH on March 12, 2007, 07:20 PM »

"cthorpe" , thanks for the StayBackground  tip .

I use Mike Lin's Startup Control Panel and StartupMonitor to handle "startup" issues.
http://www.mlin.net/

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General Software Discussion / Re: nostalgia hour: old software you loved

« Last post by NigelH on March 06, 2007, 09:11 PM »

PC-Outline (Dos) -Brown Bag software
Copy seen here http://www.umich.edu.../database/pcoutline/

List Plus (Dos) - from Vern Buerg

These days though, I use Less to view really large text files 
http://www.greenwood....com/less/index.html

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Found Deals and Discounts / free eXpert PDF 3 - Full commercial app, as sold for £40

« Last post by NigelH on March 06, 2007, 08:56 PM »

Grab it while it's still available. Make sure you register to get the serial number.
This is the full commercial single-user version of eXpert PDF 3
I've stopped using Jaws PDF Creator (V3.4) in favour of this.
http://www.pcauthori...ad/expert-pdf-3.aspx

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General Software Discussion / Re: CD Ripping

« Last post by NigelH on February 08, 2007, 08:12 PM »

These days I use VUPlayer. It's light and ripping is painless.
http://www.vuplayer.com/vuplayer.php
I particularly like it's mechanism of specifying codecs

162

Living Room / Re: password-protect external HD (USB)?

« Last post by NigelH on February 05, 2007, 08:18 PM »

I've used TrueCrypt and it's predecessor e4m ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E4M and http://www.woundedmo...g/win32/e4m202a.html ) since the early days. It has not let me down once.
Personally, I prefer creating container files in the size of whatever my backup media is and then mounting them as needed. That has the added advantage of simpler backup e.g 650 MB per CD or 4.x GB per DVD etc...
Partitions used to be more difficult to manage, however now there is a plethora of partition managent software these days, so that's no longer an issue.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Best Programming Music

« Last post by NigelH on January 23, 2007, 09:27 PM »

No Supertramp fans? 
http://www.supertramp.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supertramp

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General Software Discussion / Re: Paperless Home: Need document management software

« Last post by NigelH on January 13, 2007, 10:15 AM »

The current version of Paperport is 11 and is really powerfull, but it is expensive (+$150)
http://www.nuance.com/paperport/


You can find older versions (such as V9) online for much less.
http://www.ibuildcom...FT-PPDL9&p_vlt=L
Review
http://www.pcworld.c...-page,1/article.html

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Living Room / Re: Learn How to create No-CD Cracks.

« Last post by NigelH on December 25, 2006, 03:41 PM »

Slightly older free version of Paragon's cd emulator here (version 3)
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/downloads/2170291/paragon-cd-rom-emulator
Additional info here
http://vnunet.digitalriver.com/dr/v2/ec_Main.Entry17C?SID=64118&SP=10023&CID=161126&PID=248404&PN=1&V1=248404&CUR=826&DSP=&PGRP=0&ABCODE=&CACHE_ID=0

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Living Room / Re: Learn How to create No-CD Cracks.

« Last post by NigelH on December 21, 2006, 09:52 PM »

Mostly true for the latest games when the protection mechanism changes - at which point the Virtual CD developers release updates when they provide support for that game. Yeah, it's cat and mouse sometimes, but there are useful benefits.
Of course, some games do not ever get supported.

Go read the supported game lists at the Game Jackal forums or Farstone's VirtualDrive support.

Game Jackal currently has 40% off as well
http://www.gamejackal.com/home.asp

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Living Room / Re: Learn How to create No-CD Cracks.

« Last post by NigelH on December 21, 2006, 09:17 PM »

If you really want to run with no CD, then I suggest you spend a few dollars on a Virtual CD product.
Read about it...
http://compsimgames.about.com/cs/gamingtips/a/virtualcd.htm

Having said that, Farstone are having a 50% discount on all their products until 31st Dec
http://www.farstone.com/

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Mini-Review of Fineprint (Virtual Printer)

« Last post by NigelH on December 20, 2006, 07:53 PM »

Sorry folks, wish I'd been more informative, but it's so long since I used ClickBook.

Carol, their web page says this
"ClickBook, helps you scale and rotate digital photos, e-mails, documents, favorite on-line content, or other critical information into 170+ mobile and convenient layouts.  You can even design your own custom layouts and save up to 75% in paper costs!"

Btw, the $29 sale is only on this page
http://www.bluesquirrel.com/products/clickbook/
and not on this page
http://www.clickbook.com/clickbook_win.php

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Mini-Review of Fineprint (Virtual Printer)

« Last post by NigelH on December 13, 2006, 07:56 PM »

If you're trialing Fineprint, have a look at Blue Squirrel's ClickBook before you commit.
It may have a similar enough feature set it's also $49.95
I last used Clickbook in 1998
http://www.bluesquirrel.com/products/clickbook/

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Living Room / Re: wanted: free web-mail + forwarding

« Last post by NigelH on December 11, 2006, 06:57 PM »

Any users of Inbox (if any) care to comment on their experiences?
http://email.inbox.com/products/email.aspx

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General Software Discussion / Re: Anonymous Google searches with G-Zapper

« Last post by NigelH on December 09, 2006, 06:58 PM »

You could always use Scroogle
http://www.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/scraper.htm

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Found Deals and Discounts / Xara XS - Full commercial app

« Last post by NigelH on November 30, 2006, 10:21 PM »

http://www.vnunet.co...oads/2169799/xara-xs

It's a slightly scaled down version of Xara Extreme.
You will also get offered Extreme at 40% off.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Use Gmail to Generate Unlimited E-mail Addresses to identify spam source

« Last post by NigelH on November 28, 2006, 07:36 PM »

In case you're wondering, only Yahoo Plus ($) offers that feature.

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Living Room / Re: The Great MP3 Player Search

« Last post by NigelH on November 28, 2006, 07:25 PM »

Personally, I favor the Creative lineup. Their sound quality is excellent.
I have a couple of Muvo models, including the 4GB version.

The ZEN V Plus seems almost to be what you're after (demo shows color screen, but I'm not sure about FM record).
http://us.creative.com/products/products.asp?category=213&subcategory=214&product=15306

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Found Deals and Discounts / WS_FTP Home 2006 - Free

« Last post by NigelH on November 22, 2006, 06:28 PM »

WS_FTP Home 2006 from Ipswitch
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/downloads/2169109/ws-ftp-home-2006

Probably made available as WS_FTP Home 2007  is now out.