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Living Room / Re: Show us a photo of your mutt or other creatures..

« Last post by tomos on January 20, 2017, 04:09 PM »

For those who like to keep their homes organized, I recommend a dedicated cat shelf:

-mouser (January 20, 2017, 03:55 PM)

 

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Living Room / Re: Quote/picture of the day

« Last post by tomos on January 20, 2017, 12:59 PM »

hi RainrooM
mouser has two apps that might help:

Popup Wisdom
which pops up a quote at timed intervals from the system tray e.g. here from my setup:



and
Multi Photo Quotes
which he describes as the *elegant* screensaver that combines images with quotes.
(I havent used Multi Photo Quotes myself so cant say much about it.)

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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 January 19, 2017, 02:11 PM »

^ thanks hugo

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Living Room / Re: Movies you've seen lately

« Last post by tomos on January 18, 2017, 05:34 PM »

La La Land
the lack of chemistry between the two really took away from it for me

-tomos (January 18, 2017, 02:58 PM)

You mean Gosling and Stone?  I thought they had great chemistry.  It's amazing how multiple people can see the same movie, and have such wide-ranging differences in what they see.  I've heard them compared to the Golden Age greats.

-wraith808 (January 18, 2017, 04:40 PM)

I'm always conscious others may/will see it differently. So yeah, my take on it.
I thought they had great promise initially -- him being stroppy, her quirky. Maybe it just wasn't given enough time. I did enjoy the ending, thought that worked very well. It was in the main body of the film I thought the chemistry was lacking. I'm not big on the musical approach, so maybe that left me looking for too much elsewhere.
Some great melodies, songs, music though

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Living Room / Re: Movies you've seen lately

« Last post by tomos on January 18, 2017, 02:58 PM »

La La Land
the lack of chemistry between the two really took away from it for me

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Living Room / Re: Movies you've seen lately

« Last post by tomos on January 18, 2017, 02:55 PM »

Interstellar I just found tiresome -- I actually gave up on it. Most voice parts delivered in a sort of a monotone that just left me jaded.
EDIT//  Dunno, maybe I'll try Interstellar again sometime - it gets very good score on imdb

-tomos (January 10, 2017, 01:51 PM)

Hey tomos! Yes, try it again, it was one of the best movies I saw in the last 3 years. (Wouldn't have minded it being a bit shorter though. ) And I just saw that it even entered IMDb's Top 250 (as #33).

-brotherS (January 10, 2017, 02:08 PM)

yes, saw the second half of it the same evening, well worth it

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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: Easy Proportion

« Last post by tomos on January 18, 2017, 07:11 AM »

^ has been updated there Miles

I could use that dmytron, will try it out :thumbsup:

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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 January 18, 2017, 07:01 AM »

I see I can copy filepath via:
menu >Edit >etc.

Any chance that could be made more accessible, especially via a shortcut?
Cant speak for others, but it's what I use most once I find a file.

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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 January 17, 2017, 07:10 AM »

Sorted

Where is "http://www.hnsoft.pt/Downloads/" given as a link above?

-hugo nabais (January 17, 2017, 06:21 AM)

in the download link in the table in the first post.

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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 January 17, 2017, 06:19 AM »

"http://www.hnsoft.pt/Downloads/" was not supposed to be accessed directly. But I understand people may try that, I'll get an alternative.

-hugo nabais (January 17, 2017, 06:08 AM)

as said, it's given as the download link above (so it's the obvious first choice for clicking)
But also as said, it not a problem

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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 January 17, 2017, 05:47 AM »

hi hugo,
just a heads up that the direct dowload link in op is not working:
"You do not have permission to view this directory or page."
http://www.hnsoft.pt/Downloads/

(Got the download via other page @ http://www.hnsoft.pt/Downloads.aspx)

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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"

« Last post by tomos on January 13, 2017, 06:35 AM »

Apologies to Arizona Hot for the plague of posts here:
most of the above posts were meant to be new threads -- see this thread
[New Thread] not being created if dc quote included

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: [New Thread] not being created if dc quote included

« Last post by tomos on January 13, 2017, 06:28 AM »

I think I'm in a bad science film
The link above is what I tried to post in the op, it got added to the quoted thread instead of posted as new thread.
Below is what I tried to post, but with the link stripped out of the quote:
New Thread is not being created if I quote another dc thread (with link), but is being added as new post to quoted thread:

Was attempting to create this new thread:
https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=43394.0

Originally,
I quoted this post 'normally' (i.e. quoted it in own thread, then copied pasted):

[ Invalid Attachment ]

Opera made a new web browser called Neon to try out weird ideas

-Arizona Hot

I added my own spiel, when I click post, instead of creating a new topic, it got added as a new post to the quoted thread.
It's one of thouse thing I thought it must be my mistake somehow -- but it happened multiple times -- each time a new post in quoted thread. I deleted most of them, but you can see one here:
https://www.donation....msg405636#msg405636

I was only able to make my new thread when I stripped the link out of the quote.
So, seem to be related to that.

so, yeah, definitely to do with the link -- question is: is it just that link (does Arizona Hot have super powers?) or is it with any dc linked-quote?
I'm giving up here, already spent way too much time on this -- someone else can experiment some more

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Living Room / Re: [New Thread] not being created if dc quote included

« Last post by tomos on January 13, 2017, 06:24 AM »

New Thread is not being created if I quote another dc thread (with link), but is being added as new post to quoted thread:

Was attempting to create this new thread:
https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=43394.0

Originally,
I quoted this post 'normally' (i.e. quoted it in own thread, then copied pasted):

[ Invalid Attachment ]

Opera made a new web browser called Neon to try out weird ideas

-Arizona Hot (January 12, 2017, 09:53 PM)

I added my own spiel, when I click post, instead of creating a new topic, it got added as a new post to the quoted thread.
It's one of thouse thing I thought it must be my mistake somehow -- but it happened multiple times -- each time a new post in quoted thread. I deleted most of them, but you can see one here:
https://www.donation....msg405636#msg405636

I was only able to make my new thread when I stripped the link out of the quote.
So, seem to be related to that.

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DC Website Help and Extras / [New Thread] not being created if dc quote included

« Last post by tomos on January 13, 2017, 06:24 AM »

unable to post here due to this bug :-/
Please see this post:
https://www.donation....msg405641#msg405641

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General Software Discussion / Opera Neon: New 'Concept' Browser

« Last post by tomos on January 13, 2017, 06:12 AM »

Opera Neon: New 'Concept' Browser

Opera Neon launched for Win and Mac -- described as a concept browser -- “the way it could be”.
They dont plan extensions (so not sure what they plan really)

Opera made a new web browser called Neon to try out weird ideas

-Arizona Hot

Promotional Video:

via Arizona Hot in 'the interesting thread' https://www.donation....msg405623#msg405623

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Living Room / Opera Neon: New 'Concept' Browser

« Last post by tomos on January 13, 2017, 06:07 AM »

EDIT//
Okay: there's a bug here mouser --
it must be to do with me quoting Arizona's post (from here) in a new thread, causes the new thread to be demoted to just being a new post on this thread.
Or something :-/

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Living Room / Opera Neon: New 'Concept' Browser

« Last post by tomos on January 13, 2017, 06:01 AM »

EDIT// really weird:
I tried to start a thread in General Software Discussions board and when I posted, it posted here -- tried again & each time made a new post in this thread

Opera Neon: New 'Concept' Browser

Opera Neon launched for Win and Mac -- described as a concept browser -- “the way it could be”.
They dont plan extensions (so not sure what they plan really)

[ Invalid Attachment ]

Opera made a new web browser called Neon to try out weird ideas

-Arizona Hot (January 12, 2017, 09:53 PM)

Promotional Video:

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General Software Discussion / Re: Google Nik Collection

« Last post by tomos on January 12, 2017, 02:57 AM »

If you look in the Plugins folder before adding, you'll see a JSON file with two of the Nik plugins defined, the ones marked as working above.

-4wd (January 12, 2017, 12:26 AM)

so do the others not work at all?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 - Collection of Hacks, Tweaks, Improvements

« Last post by tomos on January 11, 2017, 01:51 PM »

2017-01-12 0558hrs - Just added to the list: A handy 3-in-1 tool replicating some existing Windows 10 settings functionality - Starter - a Startup Manager + Task Manager + Services Manager for Windows

Starter is a Startup Manager cum Task Manager cum Services Manager will help you manage your Windows startup items & programs and more. The tool also lists all processes & information on memory usage, DLLs, priorities, thread count, etc.

-IainB (January 11, 2017, 11:03 AM)

that may work in windows 10, but hasn't been updated AFAIK since Vista days (I use it on one Windows 7 machine). Homepage is http://codestuff.obn...roducts_starter.html

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Living Room / Re: Time lapse video (thread)

« Last post by tomos on January 11, 2017, 08:37 AM »

Similar topic:
HEAVENLY STORMS - Supercell, Tornado & Lightning Time Lapse

from Pecos Hank,
who apparently makes his own music for most of his videos


and another one from Oblinski of previous post, also with some beautiful footage (and very dramatic music)
Monsoon III (4K) [North American Monsoon]

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General Software Discussion / Re: Google Nik Collection

« Last post by tomos on January 11, 2017, 04:54 AM »

Requirments:

"Adobe Photoshop CS4 (CS5 for HDR Efex Pro 2) through CC 2015"

I read in the comments on this dpreview page: Affinity Photo for Windows...,
that the google NIK Collection will work with Serif's Affinity Photo

https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/photo/

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Living Room / Re: Time lapse video (thread)

« Last post by tomos on January 11, 2017, 04:18 AM »

more storms, great footage

Vorticity

-tomos (July 19, 2016, 05:12 AM)

from the guy who brought us ^that^ one -- Mike Oblinski -- a beautiful black and white one of 2016 storms.
Worthy of full screen and high resolution:

also on YT here Pulse 4k

via dpreview

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Living Room / Re: Movies you've seen lately

« Last post by tomos on January 10, 2017, 01:51 PM »

^ following up on 'Arrival', Contact & Interstellar were suggested to me:

Contact is dated, poorly made & filmed (imo), yet had a couple of very good/interesting phases.
Interstellar I just found tiresome -- I actually gave up on it. Most voice parts delivered in a sort of a monotone that just left me jaded.
EDIT//  Dunno, maybe I'll try Interstellar again sometime - it gets very good score on imdb

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N.A.N.Y. 2017 / Re: NANY 2017: Scratchpad - A simple way of recording notes, with autosave!

« Last post by tomos on January 10, 2017, 10:43 AM »

Hi camerb
found a biggish bug:

The shortcut Ctrl+R works as a universal hotkey to restore scratchpad.exe -- not only that,
it seems to close whatever scratchpad file you have open, and bring the initial scratchpad.exe dialogue/window to the front ("Which scracthpad would you like to load?")

Windows 7 x64