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

« Last post by rjbull on December 17, 2010, 04:26 PM »

I just went back and looked at the KeePass page. It looks to me like there's a new plugin for integrating with FireFox (unfortunately it won't help for other browsers)

PassIFox extension for Firefox

-CWuestefeld (December 17, 2010, 10:28 AM)

There are also:

• KeeForm - http://keepass.info/...gins.html#formfiller
  Opens websites and fills in the login data automatically, for Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox.
• KeeFox  - http://keepass.info/plugins.html#keefox
  Bridge between KeePass and Mozilla Firefox.
• KeePasser - http://keepass.info/...ugins.html#keepasser
  Allows auto-typing into webforms based on URLs instead of window title. (Only for IE and Maxthon 2?)

I haven't  tried any of them (yet).

Siber Systems couldn't find me as a customer, despite RoboForm 6.10.1 correctly activating!  It's true I changed to a different e-mail, but they could surely have searched by other criteria.

I have now alerted Siber Systems (in the support ticket) to this thread to give them a chance to reply.

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

« Last post by rjbull on December 16, 2010, 02:29 PM »

I had this same discussion with a few friends last week when one of them began extolling the virtues of RF. Most of us had tried and liked it. But we all (but one) thought it not worth the asking price for the convenience and features it provided.

-40hz (December 16, 2010, 12:52 PM)

Once you've used it for a while, it's hard to live without.  I normally start new logonIDs in KeePass; less slick, but more versatile, and free.  But most logons I put into RoboForm for sheer convenience.  Haven't tried LastPass, though.  I thought that was a Web service, and I'd rather have an app.

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

« Last post by rjbull on December 16, 2010, 02:21 PM »

The important part of that reply was:

Go to http://activate.roboform.com/?lang=en in the browser to which RoboForm has attached

-CWuestefeld (December 16, 2010, 12:07 PM)

Thanks, CWuestefeld!     And - once I went to look for it - I found I already had those instructions in the original e-mail from them from four years ago - doh!   

As to the upgrade... Their licenses are pretty expensive, and I'm having a hard time seeing that it's worth the expense.

It looks to me like most of the improvements are to the UI, and whether those are "improvements" or not is in the eye of the beholder.  Good product, but very expensive for these cash-strapped times.

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

« Last post by rjbull on December 16, 2010, 11:39 AM »

I just tried updating RoboForm to the 6.10.1, which doesn't (yet) work.  It just brings up the URL but doesn't fill anything.  The installation process loaded the RoboForm page as usual, but didn't say the copy was registered.  Instead, it's showing that they upgraded from v6 to v7, which would be a paid upgrade for me, and fairly expensive, especially as I licenses for two fixed-PC copies of AI RoboForm v6 plus one for portable RoboForm2Go v6.

Has anyone upgraded, and if so, what do you think, please?

What's New in RoboForm 7

A Fresh New Look and Feel
We've updated our look including a new customizable editor.

RoboForm is Everywhere
Updated browser and mobile device support includes IE, Firefox, Chrome, iPhone...

Keep Your Passwords In Sync
Integrated Online Sync Service keeps your data backed up and in sync at all times.

Improved Password Capture
Less intrusive password save prompt making it easier for you to save passwords.

Online and Offline Options
Use our Online Sync service or store your data locally. The choice is yours.

New Multiple Login Feature
Log in to multiple sites with a single click.

Improved Bookmark Management
Import, Organize, and Sync your browser Bookmarks.

Better Language Support
We now support Unicode characters for improved international support.

Better Organized Menus
Popular features are now easier than ever to find.

Most Popular Logins
In addition to Recently Used, we now display your Most Popular Logins.

Site Icons
Your Logins have never looked better. Favicons make it easier to find all your logins.

It All Works Faster
Complete architectural reorganization speeds up everything.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Learn how to donate without paying!!

« Last post by rjbull on December 15, 2010, 03:23 PM »

That's pretty good, [the offered version -2008] cannot handle MS's most recent formats but still a very good app

The upgrade to 2010 version [ which can handle MS's most recent formats] costs around $50 at the moment ($80 full price)

-tomos (December 13, 2010, 09:17 AM)

It's worth noting that Softmaker offer two free view-only applications that understand recent Microsoft file formats:

TextMaker Viewer 2010

Opens, views, and prints these document types:

.docx, .docm Microsoft Word 2007 and 2010
.dotx, .dotm Microsoft Word 2007/2010 templates
.doc Microsoft Word 6.0 up to Word 2010
.dot Microsoft Word templates 6.0 up to 2010
.tmd TextMaker 6.0 up to 2010
.tmv TextMaker templates 6.0 up to 2010
.odt OpenDocument Text
.ott OpenDocument Text templates
.sxw OpenOffice.org/StarOffice Text
.rtf Rich Text Format
.psw Pocket Word (Pocket PC)
.pwd Pocket Word (Handheld PC)
.htm, .html HTML documents
.txt Plain-text files (DOS, Windows, Unicode, UTF-8, many more)

PlanMaker Viewer 2010 (RC1)

Opens, views, and prints these document types:

.xlsx, .xlsm Microsoft Excel 2007 and 2010
.xltx, .xltm Microsoft Excel 2007/2010 templates
.xls Microsoft Excel 5.0 up to Excel 2010
.xlt Microsoft Excel templates 5.0 up to 2010
.pmd PlanMaker 2001 up to 2010
.pmv PlanMaker templates 2001 up to 2010
.pmw PlanMaker 1.0, 2.0, 97
.sdc StarCalc 1.0, 2.0
.slk SYLK files
.rtf Rich Text Format
.dbf dBASE files
.txt, .csv, .prn Plain-text files (DOS, Windows, Unicode, UTF-8, many more)

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Developer's Corner / Re: Tabbed Plaintext: Good or not-so-good idea?

« Last post by rjbull on December 13, 2010, 10:18 AM »

If you're on Windows - with a handle like Tuxman I expect you have a strong preference for Linux - would mouser's Form Letter Machine be equivalent?

The Form Letter Machine  is a program that will help you to write letters and emails by mixing and matching from pre-written paragraphs.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Learn how to donate without paying!!

« Last post by rjbull on December 13, 2010, 10:14 AM »

That's pretty good, cant handle MS's most recent formats but still a very good app

The upgrade to 2010 version costs around $50 at the moment ($80 full price)

-tomos (December 13, 2010, 09:17 AM)

You probably meant that Softmaker Office 2010 does handle recent M$ files, as it claims to?

Quoting Softmaker's e-mail to me:

You are registered as a user of an older "free edition" of SoftMaker
Office.

A new version, SoftMaker Office 2010, is now available.

You can now upgrade to the full-fledged SoftMaker Office 2010 at
a hefty 50% discount. Until December 6, we also include a free 4
GByte USB flash drive and have slashed shipping fees to just 1 cent!

The USB flash drive comes with a portable version of SoftMaker
Office pre-installed. You can take this flash drive wherever you go
and run it on any Windows PC without any need to install it.

That's a good deal especially if you got in by 6th December.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: The BitsDuJour Bundle

« Last post by rjbull on December 13, 2010, 10:05 AM »

I have a PostWorkShop license - but haven't looked at the software yet; that's a *distraction* for the future...  Also (somewhere) have an old freeware version of Aurora.  None of the other things much interested me.

Take a look at the Bits du Jour Dashboard at http://www.bitsdujour.com/previews though for their "Every-Day Deals."

I already posetd on Bits that I don't like the new page.  Gaudy, and breaks my RoboForm login.

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Living Room / Re: Where do you get your news from?

« Last post by rjbull on December 12, 2010, 03:47 PM »

I use http://news.bbc.co.uk which seems to give reasonably solid coverage, but they do two things which really grate:

1. They run ads! The BBC is supposed to be funded by UK TV license fee payers
2. Use of speech marks around 'everything'. Feels like every headline has to have gratuitous apostrophes 'left, right and centre'

-timns (December 12, 2010, 03:22 PM)

I just listen to the news bulletins on Radio 3   They repeat trailers for other programs so infuriatingly often that I scream with rage 

I'd guess the speech marks are to show they're quoting somebody, which will often mean quoting hype.  So, it's perhaps a word to the wise that the quoted comment should be taken with a big pinch of salt.

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Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?

« Last post by rjbull on December 12, 2010, 03:38 PM »

I know nothing about them myself. There could well be a scientific/archaeological basis for it, but once, eh, enthusuaists start talking about 'spiritual' powers related to some site or concept, the archaeologists/scientists tend to avoid the whole thing like the plague.

-tomos (December 06, 2010, 02:52 PM)

Quite so, very sensible of them.  But...  there's a book called The Experience of Landscape by Jay Appleton (Wiley, revised edition 1996, ISBN 0-471-96235-X).  It starts from the question, "What do we like about landscape and why do we like it?"  I've never managed to finish the book, but have heard others who have speak of it.  The thesis appears to be that since humans evolved as hunter-gatherers, the landscape is very much the arena in which life happens.  The ideal landscape consists of a location where one can look out for potential prey and for potential predators, with somewhere close by to rapidly retreat to in the case of the latter.  He calls this idea Prospect-Refuge-Hazard theory.  No way to prove this, but it seems to make sense, and would indicate a deep and emotional relationship with the landscape would be likely.  That might be the stimulus for 'spirituality' notions.

Which means it's nearly impossible to find out what's really the case. Wikipedia is disputed and doesnt really have very much info, although it is interesting to read what the dowsers have to say about it [In the 1930s, two British dowsers...]- I grew up in a town in the west of Ireland, but in the surrounding countryside dowsers were used to find a location for a well. From what I heard they would even be able to tell how deep you'd have to go. So I have great respect for dowsers...

The Wikipedia article does justice to Watkins, as far as I read him; it quotes him from other sources than The Old Straight Track.

I haven't heard much about dowsing recently, but it works well enough to be at least semi-respectable.  My former boss is a Ph.D and a very good scientist and technologist; he found it worked for him on at least one occasion.  It's been mentioned in New Scientist magazine, albeit not (I think) for a long time.  The last speculation I remember seeing was that dowsing is a naturally-occurring form of nuclear magnetic resonance in the brain.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Liquid Story Binder: Excellent

« Last post by rjbull on December 12, 2010, 03:10 PM »

don't get that one!  Who's Mike?

-superboyac (December 12, 2010, 02:27 PM)

aka Darwin  

Poor Darwin - he gets some stick over this, and it's not as if he's the only one!   

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General Software Discussion / Re: Liquid Story Binder: Excellent

« Last post by rjbull on December 12, 2010, 10:06 AM »

Hey ho.  Another day, another software license.  No wonder there's so much month left at the end of the money.

And my name's not even Mike...   

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Living Room / Re: OK - lets get to know each other... who are you, what do you do, where from?

« Last post by rjbull on December 10, 2010, 03:02 PM »

a view from my window, with loads of wires...

-tomos (December 10, 2010, 02:31 PM)

You've done a nice job of turning them into a feature! 

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Living Room / Re: OK - lets get to know each other... who are you, what do you do, where from?

« Last post by rjbull on December 10, 2010, 02:23 PM »

Hey, I've been there (my mother used to live in Barnstaple)!

-cranioscopical (December 10, 2010, 08:00 AM)

It's some way (by UK standards) from Barnstaple - but a lot farther from Canada, so glad you saw it when you could 

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Living Room / Re: OK - lets get to know each other... who are you, what do you do, where from?

« Last post by rjbull on December 10, 2010, 02:19 PM »

another beautiful image - very classically 'English' looking

-tomos (December 10, 2010, 04:41 AM)

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.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Command line tools - Console apps heaven

« Last post by rjbull on December 09, 2010, 03:20 PM »

AE - Andys Source Code Folding Editor is a small portable folding editor which runs on a variety of common platforms. Binaries for DOS, OS/2, Windows, NetWare, Linux (x86, x86_64 and 64-bit big-endian MIPS R3000), AIX (Power), HP-UX, SunOS (Sparc+Intel), MacOSX (Power+Intel), iPhone 1.x and Cygwin.

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Living Room / Re: OK - lets get to know each other... who are you, what do you do, where from?

« Last post by rjbull on December 09, 2010, 02:57 PM »

Holcombe Old Church in hoar frost.  There will be details of the church here, but the Coleford and Holcombe churches have only just got their Web site and it's only a holding page as yet.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Command line tools - Console apps heaven

« Last post by rjbull on December 08, 2010, 02:14 PM »

The Semware Editor (TSE), if it qualifies; I believe some versions are true console-mode, but others are actually WinGUI using some obscure programming trick to look and feel like a console app.  Expensive, but ZTree users get a discount.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Command line tools - Console apps heaven

« Last post by rjbull on December 07, 2010, 02:30 PM »

FAR - NC clone

-Tuxman (December 06, 2010, 07:20 PM)

I use Total Commander, which is WinGUI, but surprisingly comfortable.  I was/am a DOS holdout, and registered TC in about 2000.  It was the first thing that made using Windows almost semi-tolerable.

As I understand it, FAR is console-mode but saves a lot of stuff in the Registry?  Which seems a curious hybrid.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: For non-programmers: Editpad is the best text editor (for now!)

« Last post by rjbull on December 07, 2010, 02:24 PM »

only to find out that my existing combination of N++ and Vim is probably the one that fits my needs best.

-Tuxman (December 06, 2010, 07:09 PM)

At least you'll save some money    Are you sure it isn't just familiarity with existing tools that's "convincing" you, against the effort to change?

For non-programmers EditPad Pro is probably too expensive.

True, which is why I'm hoping for a BdJ (or elsewhere) discount.

Spending money for something that you use for recording random text is not something most people I know would prefer.

It might be worth it if the software makes something that much more convenient.

On the other hand, some of us just have a software habit to feed

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: EditPad Pro discounted at Bits du Jour on December 18

« Last post by rjbull on December 06, 2010, 04:22 PM »

I'm not sure that being listed on that page indicates something is coming up. I think they have a page for all the vendors who have ever participated before. I could be wrong.

-edbro (December 06, 2010, 03:47 PM)

You're probably right, but, when I went looking in BdJ History for "editpad," I couldn't find it.  I therefore assumed that the former deal had dropped off their list, and, on checking today and seeing this, further assumed it was a new/renewed one.  Maybe I just couldn't find it.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: For non-programmers: Editpad is the best text editor (for now!)

« Last post by rjbull on December 06, 2010, 04:17 PM »

You make it sound like the deal will take place on Dec. 18th, but that's actually the subject of a 2 year old thread. Confuzzling.

-Deozaan (December 06, 2010, 03:10 PM)

Sorry.     Should have started a new thread.

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Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?

« Last post by rjbull on December 06, 2010, 02:29 PM »

true havent heard anything about leylines in a while -
so what was your opinion of that one ?
just had a quick look in Amazon, I see it's from the 1920's

-tomos (December 06, 2010, 08:15 AM)

You're right about the date.  I read a facsimile of the 1925 edition, complete with original typewriter-like typeface.  I think he got the ley-line idea first, then tended to co-opt any evidence he could find to substantiate it.  But that's a bit "superior," as I haven't gone ley hunting myself.  I think I'd like to see a reasoned critical review with statistical analysis of the chances of finding "x" number of significant items on a straight line.  Watkins probably didn't have much in the way of statistical methods available to him back then, and I imagine that much of the archaeological and other evidence he quotes has been updated as well.  But, he wasn't himself an idiot; he was the inventor of the Watkins Bee Meter, and early photographic exposure meter, and had his own photographic business.  He doesn't go in for soggy mysticism of the "earth energies" variety either.  He comes over to me, lacking qualifications for sensible criticism myself, as having been carried away by his idea.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: For non-programmers: Editpad is the best text editor (for now!)

« Last post by rjbull on December 06, 2010, 02:15 PM »

Forthcoming (don't hold your breath) EditPad Pro discounted at Bits du Jour on December 18

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: EditPad Pro discounted at Bits du Jour on December 18

« Last post by rjbull on December 06, 2010, 02:12 PM »

Looks like another chance of a Bits du Jour offer on Editpad Pro: "Just Great Software has signed up,"  though no date or price given yet.

Bits du Jour Discount Deals from Just Great Software

Also a deal to come on RegexBuddy.