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General Software Discussion / Editor with Synchronized Comments Page?

« Last post by tomos on February 14, 2017, 07:40 AM »

Was titled: "Editor w. Facing Pages: Text Left, Commentray Right (?)"

I'm sure this must exist, but my search fu didnt find it:

Looking for an editor where I can view two facing pages, just as if I were reading a book.
If I write, or paste, a longer text in, I want it to show only on one side (ideally I could choose which side). I then want to be able to comment/annotate on the other side, i.e. the facing page.

• Would need to be able to export, or save to a file format that can be read elsewhere
• Ideally unicode
• Just text would be okay, but formatting would be nice

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced

« Last post by tomos on February 14, 2017, 07:30 AM »

Looking for advice for a Windows 10 laptop that hasn't been used for a couple of months --
should I:

(1) let it update itself (if so, any idea how long that might take, and how I can keep an eye on it)
or
(2) download updates and install manually? (dont even know if that possible)

TIA

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Living Room / Re: Looking for smartphone

« Last post by tomos on February 11, 2017, 09:48 AM »

Maybe you should send it back and get something locally. You could easily have problems again (no matter what you buy), but it should be easier for you to sort them out.

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Living Room / Re: Movies you've seen lately

« Last post by tomos on February 10, 2017, 04:18 PM »

Kundschafter des Friedens
a bunch of old East German spies come out of retirement and show the kids how it's done. With a few hiccups along the way.
I enjoyed it.

Nice sixties style spy music and split screens:

^ two (different) trailers in that one

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PopUp Wisdom / Re: New books wanted!

« Last post by tomos on February 10, 2017, 08:20 AM »

I have been compiling new books for years. like MAITREYA, MOVIES, and WORD ORIGINS, and more. Would you like to see them?

-MaitreyaBudda (October 12, 2015, 06:11 PM)

still on offer?
anyone else got any other books?

I've taken to editing books, but haven't created any new ones. I'll edit if I disagree with or dislike a quote; usually by adding a comment to it. Will only delete quotes when I think they're stupid (which happens).

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General Software Discussion / Re: Vivaldi, the new Web browser for power users

« Last post by tomos on February 09, 2017, 10:02 AM »

Featured on Gizmo's techsupportalert today, (with very little info)

A New Browser To Rival The Best Of Them

recently updated to 1.7

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General Software Discussion / Re: Screenshots all page content of openned pdf file in sumatraPDF in burst mode ?

« Last post by tomos on February 09, 2017, 06:47 AM »

I did test SCREENSHOT CAPTOR VERSION 4 http://www.donationc...hotcaptor/index.html but I wasn't able to do it (the automatic page "down/up" did not work - win8.1 64) !

-jity2 (February 09, 2017, 04:36 AM)

FWIW scrolling capture works in Adobe Reader, but that in Windows 7 here.

I'm not sure if it can be set to save separate shots per page (which I presume you'ld prefer), as opposed to making one long screenshot.

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N.A.N.Y. 2017 / Re: NANY 2017: CSearcher - A simple and fast free non-indexing search program.

« Last post by tomos on February 08, 2017, 07:07 AM »

Thanks - correct, there was a space in one of the filter boxes. Happened when messing around to see how keyboard navigation was.
That's fine the way adding drives works: I was just trying to find solution, but looking in the wrong place ;-)

And tanks for considering requests

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N.A.N.Y. 2017 / Re: NANY 2017: CSearcher - A simple and fast free non-indexing search program.

« Last post by tomos on February 08, 2017, 06:00 AM »

After messing around with the tab key to navigate, I seem to have broken something:

CS couldnt find anything -- see Everything result showing it on G:



I browsed to add another drive, and see that G: is *not* already selected, even though it was listed in the Search folders box.



If I can reproduce I will let you know.

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N.A.N.Y. 2017 / Re: NANY 2017: CSearcher - A simple and fast free non-indexing search program.

« Last post by tomos on February 08, 2017, 05:49 AM »

hi hugo,
a couple of minor queries / requests:

is there any keyboard method of getting to the "Search pattern" field ?
(I know I can tab there but that can take a while) Ctrl+F ?

would it be possible to show the path of found files as a 'tooltip' -- currently the only way of seeing most full filepaths is to resize column which then pushes other info out to right.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Help! My Firefox has lost Bookmarks Menu + the bookmarks!

« Last post by tomos on February 07, 2017, 10:23 AM »

Any hardware related solution will have to wait until Christmas is over...

-Curt (February 07, 2017, 09:21 AM)

that last Christmas or next

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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"

« Last post by tomos on February 06, 2017, 10:36 AM »

I had just started posting this a few hours previously, when the donationcoder.com website apparently went down for a couple of hours. I wondered if I had somehow done it by invoking the wrath of Anonymous, or something.   

-IainB (February 06, 2017, 08:16 AM)

yeah, was surprised there was no other mention of it

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Screenshot Captor / Re: udoing edits post save

« Last post by tomos on February 06, 2017, 07:47 AM »

im a total noob when it comes to editing software, so please excuse my ignorance.  im trying to restore a photo that had some major photoshopping done to it.  is there anything in the raw data that can help?  any suggestions on steps or software that might be easier for someone as inexperienced as myself?  lastly, if two photos have been merged or layered together can you reproduce the originals using just the merged version??  thanks in advance for any advice or resources yall can provide.

-str8sprung (February 05, 2017, 12:43 AM)

It is unlikely that you can restore the original images from these files -- do you know what is the file format of the files you have? is it .jpg? (if you cant see, right-click the file and select properties, you should find the info there)

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Living Room / Re: Show us the View Outside Your Window

« Last post by tomos on February 03, 2017, 04:09 PM »

Yesterday's sunset.

-Arizona Hot (February 03, 2017, 12:11 PM)

can see the quality improval from the new camera


have a new camera myself too ;-)
here last week, from the bathroom window:





(35mm equivalent 200mm lens, cropped a lot -- not really close enough for print quality)

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: The Bat! Professional, 50% off (until tomorrow)

« Last post by tomos on February 02, 2017, 02:29 PM »

Must have been extended -- still 11.5 hours to go as of this post.


I got it the last time it was on offer, only installed it lately and havent done anything much with it.
Setting up imap with gmail was really efficiently done, I'm happy so far.

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Living Room / Re: Best Programming Jokes

« Last post by tomos on February 02, 2017, 03:36 AM »

^ that's me lol
(makes me a great beta tester though: if something can be done wrong, I'll do it )

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Living Room / Re: Movies you've seen lately

« Last post by tomos on February 01, 2017, 06:39 AM »

Manchester by the sea

-panzer (February 01, 2017, 05:49 AM)

saw that lately
good, really well acted, but a very heavy film
http://www.imdb.com/...034228/?ref_=nv_sr_1

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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"

« Last post by tomos on January 31, 2017, 05:50 AM »

@tomos: Glad you caught on to the Welsh bit. To save offence, I would usually translate it for my English mates as meaning "Bless all Englishmen". I used to speak/write Welsh fluently, but am a bit rusty now, though it all starts coming back whenever I read some document like (say) a police charge-sheet written in Welsh. I studied Welsh in Llanrwst International School and later studied the ancient art of Llap Goch self-defence (according to the Python school) in Langefni, with the rest of the inmates at the prison there. It helped to pass the time and kept one fit and provided besides a good career training/preparation for increased thuggery effectiveness on release/parole, if one was a hardened recidivist. Highly recommended.

-IainB (January 31, 2017, 01:58 AM)

  (nice to start the computer day with a laugh)

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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"

« Last post by tomos on January 30, 2017, 12:01 PM »

sorry Tomos, I didn't mean to step on your ancestral toes, but the point that I was trying to politely make (as an Anglo-Saxon Islamic-Christian Yorkshire-Welsh Jewish Republican Democrat Llap Goch human being) was that the term "ancient Britain" would have collectively included Ireland by default - which is why the historians at the BBC presumably (i.e., based on historical record) would have referred to it as that, rather than as you might seem to have preferred it to be described.

-IainB (January 30, 2017, 02:47 AM)

Hi Iain,
enjoyed your Welsh lol
and no, I wasn't at all angry about it (when I made my initial little dig). Looking again, I did made the mistake of equating "ancient" Britain, with modern Britain. I checked wikipedia and see that the term 'Britannia' was originally recorded by the ancient Greeks as referring to Great Britain, with 'Britanniae' referring to Britain and Ireland (and presumably the other surrounding smaller islands). Ireland did also have it's own names at that time: Iwernia, Īweriū, which lead to Hibernia and Éire; and Scotia, which of course eventually lead to the name Scotland for, eh, Scotland. (I dont know the finer points there, but presume it related to the fact that once England and Wales were transformed by the Anglo-Saxon influx, the common culture remained between Scotland and Ireland).

I have the DVD of the show I was referring to above, will have to check it, but IIRC, they dont actually explain any of ^that^, and proceed with the oh-we-British-are-so-great sort of vibe that often comes from the BBC and sometimes from elsewhere. Hence my little (as it turns out politically-[in]correct) dig.

PS re racist humour: oddly I find racist humour against my own country or culture can be the most enjoyable -- you usually know exactly where it's coming from and what's going on. A couple of years ago I watched a lot of Bernard Mannning on youtube -- until I saw him viciously attack a Japanese tourist in one show. Moved on after that.

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Living Room / Re: Show us the View Outside Your Window

« Last post by tomos on January 29, 2017, 11:05 AM »

I have a "like new" new camera now.

-Arizona Hot (January 28, 2017, 06:24 PM)

good for you -- it looks quite impressive, enjoy!

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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"

« Last post by tomos on January 29, 2017, 11:01 AM »

...(this one at least should have been called History of Ancient Britain *and* Ireland)
Tom

-tomos (January 25, 2017, 08:37 AM)

Heh, very droll. Was there such a political or regional differentiation in ancient times? One suspects that it were all Anglo-Saxon or Celtic like, mate, or som'at. They probably hadn't learned of political correctness then.
Long live Queen Boudica (Boadicea) of the Iceni.
'Scuse me whilst I paint my face with woad, as is my cusrtom.

-IainB (January 29, 2017, 05:17 AM)

maybe I'll have to go paint my face as well :-)
For those who dont know, Ireland and Britain would have been more or less the same Celtic race and culture at that time -- before the Romans, the Anglo-Saxons, and then the Vikings, came and changed Britain's culture. Of those three, only the Vikings reached Ireland, and in much lesser numbers than especially in Northern England, where they had a huge influence. Mind you, Dublin was a Viking town. On a personal note, my (irish) mother has a viking surname which translates literally to Son of Cedric.
Many of the Vikings settled in Normandy, where they became almost completely french in their language and culture, but kept their roving ways, and came over to England in the 11th century and invaded England and made French the language of their rule.
Going back to the Celts, like the Angles and Saxons, they came from what is now Germany, but further south.
So we Europeans are all pretty well mixed.

PS yeah, I guess it is literally politically correct to call an autonomous country by it's own name, as opposed to by the name of its neighbour.

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N.A.N.Y. 2017 / Re: Screen Capture by handle

« Last post by tomos on January 28, 2017, 03:13 PM »

I have a general question, because I don't know what any of this "handle" terminology even means: If anybody's used both, how does this compare to Mouser's ScreenCaptor,
https://www.donation...er/screenshotcaptor/
in terms of (a) capabilities and (b) ease of use by know-nothings like me? (And also, I guess, (c) learning curve.)

-wdstarr (January 28, 2017, 02:43 PM)

hi wdstarr
"Screen Capture by handle" here is much more specialised programme -- if you simply want to take screenshots, Screenshot Captor is your man. I'll call it 'SC' -- it has become much more user friendly in the last couple of years. The best introduction is probably one of mouser's videos
https://www.donation...c/3ds/sc27/sc27.html
this one has a great summary - but goes very quick: you'll probably need to use pause and rewind occasionally :-)

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General Software Discussion / Re: problems with windows clipboard

« Last post by tomos on January 25, 2017, 10:22 AM »

How did you get on with Tranglos's Ethervane Echo as a replacement for Ditto ?
https://www.donation....msg398811#msg398811

Edit// I see Ditto is still in development, so may be a better choice

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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"

« Last post by tomos on January 25, 2017, 08:37 AM »

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Skara Brae - Wikipedia

-Arizona Hot (January 24, 2017, 04:16 PM)

BBC's A History of Ancient Britain is well worth watching -- here a cropped copy of the episode that covers Skara Brae (try about 10 minutes in)

(this one at least should have been called History of Ancient Britain *and* Ireland)

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Living Room / Re: Interesting Stuff

« Last post by tomos on January 22, 2017, 04:22 PM »

^ reply #368 -- wrong thread I think :-)