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General Software Discussion / Re: Mapping websites

« Last post by PhilB66 on August 03, 2007, 11:36 AM »

Is this stuff really free? I wanted to download the program but saw a note about an expiry date. Is it a trial version?

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Living Room / Re: new PC options:-

« Last post by PhilB66 on August 03, 2007, 04:43 AM »

@tomos

Check out  http://www.buildyourown.org.uk/ and http://www.mysuperpc.com/ for an extensive info and guides on this topic. You should post your specs at the forum (http://www.buildyourown.org.uk/forums/ and http://forums.mysuperpc.com/). My Super PC Web site looks a bit disorganized but has great tutorials (just all the way scroll down for the links)

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Living Room / Re: new PC options:-

« Last post by PhilB66 on August 02, 2007, 06:02 AM »

Just a quick comment, make sure the PSU power rating is AMD approved, is suitable for the mobo type and fit the case. I can't read German so maybe it's all in the link you've provided.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Photosynth demo

« Last post by PhilB66 on August 02, 2007, 05:00 AM »

Links to M'soft pages:

Photosynth Technology - http://labs.live.com/photosynth/

Seadragon - http://labs.live.com/Seadragon.aspx

Info about SeaDragon b4 it was acquired by M'soft http://web.archive.o...2/www.sandcodex.com/

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Living Room / Re: Some laser printers are as danagerous as cigarette smoking...

« Last post by PhilB66 on August 02, 2007, 04:42 AM »

Research Paper at http://cdn.sfgate.co...rinter_es063049z.pdf (pdf file)
Environmental Science & Technology Online Link: http://pubs.acs.org/...nce/nl_printers.html

One could always make music with HP Scanjet   http://www.youtube.c.../watch?v=FHcV8vZ96OM
http://www.youtube.c.../watch?v=n8W2AxXfbvM

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is the currently best Desktop Search software?

« Last post by PhilB66 on August 01, 2007, 07:45 AM »

AFAIK/CT from the forum,

-Darwin (July 31, 2007, 11:13 PM)

"CT" ?? I have come to learn that AFAIK means As Far As I Know, but what is the translation of CT ??

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-Curt (August 01, 2007, 07:38 AM)

AFAICT= As Far As I Can Tell

http://www.urbandict...fine.php?term=AFAICT

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General Software Discussion / Re: 12 Windows Explorer Alternatives Compared

« Last post by PhilB66 on July 29, 2007, 08:28 AM »

FreeCommander - Don't recall if it has it, been a while since I tested it (hated the interface, so it was a short test at that).

-Dirhael (July 29, 2007, 05:57 AM)

FreeCommander does not have it.

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Coding Snacks / Re: auto color 'new folder' icon to make it quick to find

« Last post by PhilB66 on July 28, 2007, 10:38 AM »

This may be something you could use:
http://icolorfolder.sourceforge.net/

-adarkstar (July 28, 2007, 09:51 AM)

You may want to / should read the forum at http://sourceforge.n....php?forum_id=510457 first b4 installing this software.

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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: The right software?

« Last post by PhilB66 on July 26, 2007, 03:09 AM »

http://www.photofiltre.com/

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Quality Comparison: 8 x freeware PDF Readers / Viewers

« Last post by PhilB66 on July 22, 2007, 06:43 PM »

My main needs are: to extract /cut pages from multipage pdfs/ amend text in same or similar fonts

-SKA (July 18, 2007, 10:28 PM)

pdftk (free) can extract pages from multi-page PDFs, but can't amend text as far as I know.

-rjbull (July 22, 2007, 11:26 AM)

PDF Text Reader (free for home user) http://www.ctdevelop...ftextreader_info.asp

Features:
Convert PDF files to text.
PDF to TXT
100% FREE
No spyware
No adware
Easy to use
Uses same conversion process as PDFconverter
Preserves PDF layout in text
Reads and displays info tags from PDF files
Built in text viewer
Works independent of Acrobat and all Adobe products
Complete and comprehensive help files
Distributed only by CTdeveloping
No limitations or time expiration, this software is free as long as you have it installed

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Quality Comparison: 8 x freeware PDF Readers / Viewers

« Last post by PhilB66 on July 22, 2007, 06:28 PM »

I think you might be refering to pdfspeedup.

-jgpaiva (July 22, 2007, 08:20 AM)

http://www.tnk-bootb...rted&id=7F7290B5 -Adobe Reader SpeedUp

-PhilB66 (July 22, 2007, 10:02 AM)

thanks guys, but no, that wasnt what i was thinking of -
& this is one of those very rare cases where I'm sure there was a cleaned up version (for want of a better way of putting it) about a year ago maybe - but it probably just out of date now anyway.
Will probably go for the Adobe install at some stage, thanks!

-tomos (July 22, 2007, 04:27 PM)

Check out Adobe Reader Lite at http://www.msfn.org/....php?showtopic=88167. If that's not what you're after, search the MSFN forum, there are a few pdf reader stripped down version circling around.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Quality Comparison: 8 x freeware PDF Readers / Viewers

« Last post by PhilB66 on July 22, 2007, 10:02 AM »

http://www.tnk-bootb...rted&id=7F7290B5 -Adobe Reader SpeedUp

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General Software Discussion / Re: Lock a folder down?

« Last post by PhilB66 on April 09, 2007, 10:45 PM »

Use CLSID to secure folders in WinXP

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Living Room / Re: Windows XP Annoyance: ToolTip pop-ups

« Last post by PhilB66 on April 08, 2007, 09:14 AM »

Hello, sorry for jumping in but I have a related question...Does anyone know what's the maximum visible time for tooltips and how to modify it?

Thanks,

PhilB

-PhilB66 (April 07, 2007, 09:40 PM)

Tooltips have a 5 second visibility.
Here's MSDN's all about Tooltips

-Cpilot (April 07, 2007, 11:43 PM)

Tnx. for the link.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Lock a folder down?

« Last post by PhilB66 on April 08, 2007, 09:10 AM »

Check out Hide Files and Folders and BCArchive

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Living Room / Re: Windows XP Annoyance: ToolTip pop-ups

« Last post by PhilB66 on April 07, 2007, 09:40 PM »

Hello, sorry for jumping in but I have a related question...Does anyone know what's the maximum visible time for tooltips and how to modify it?

Thanks,

PhilB

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General Software Discussion / Re: Strange Windows wallpaper trick

« Last post by PhilB66 on March 22, 2007, 09:00 PM »

Hi all, my name is Phil and I am an addi... oops, wrong forum. Cool trick Edvard, but it does not work if I choose to hide desktop icons by right clicking on an empty area on your desktop and unticking 'show desktop icons'. Any idea why?

Thanks,

Phil

BTW, my box runs on xp sp2.

Strangely, this trick works fine if I click on the 'show the desktop' button on the taskbar to hide icons and active windows.