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General Software Discussion / Re: Fixing File Associations (PDF)

« Last post by 4wd on December 04, 2015, 05:18 AM »

Since you've got DOpus you might find it easier to do it in there, Settings->File Types->System File Types



That's usually how I end up fixing associations that screw up.

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General Software Discussion / Re: In search of ... Android-Windows task software

« Last post by 4wd on December 01, 2015, 01:20 AM »

FWIW, I use Google Calendar for scheduling reminders, you can assign multiple alerts for each task/event, eg. 5 days in advance + 2 days in advance + 1 hour in advance.  The alerts can either be put to sleep, (ie. they'll keep bugging you), or dismissed entirely.

You can access the Calendar in Windows either by a browser or I use Thunderbird with the Lightning extension.  Probably any other software able to access CalDAV or the Google API would be OK.

Scheduling is pretty flexible, I have things scheduled specific date in each month, annually, biannually, last Friday of the month, etc, etc.

I also use it for just noting down things I've done on a specific date, eg. service the car, distance traveled, bought something, general note kind of things, etc.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: No 'About' in Help

« Last post by 4wd on November 29, 2015, 05:51 PM »

Also accessible by the tray icon menu:

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Batch-edit images (remove frames)

« Last post by 4wd on November 29, 2015, 05:42 PM »

XnView - Batch processing using Auto crop



Before:


After:


If you want to do it from the command line, you can use nconvert which is part of XnView, this is for a single folder:

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1. for /f "usebackq" %a in (`dir K:\ /b *.jpg`) do ("C:\Program Files (x86)\XnView\nconvert.exe" -autocrop 70 245 245 245 %a)

This will recurse a whole directory tree:

Code: Text [Select]

1. for /r K:\ %a in (*.jpg) do ("C:\Program Files (x86)\XnView\nconvert.exe" -autocrop 70 245 245 245 %a)

nconvert is non-destructive by default, the original images will not be replaced, you'll end up with <name>_<number>.jpg in the same folder as the original.

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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"

« Last post by 4wd on November 28, 2015, 07:57 PM »

7 Amazing Things That Happen to Your Body When You Eat Peanut Butter

-Arizona Hot (November 28, 2015, 06:59 PM)

3. Gives you more potassium.
I love salty foods, don’t you? The only problem is, sodium isn’t that good for us. We have to eat it in moderation, but it’s hard because it’s so present in every food! Sodium can be bad for your cardiovascular system, but potassium can counteract the dangers of sodium. And, guess what? Peanut butter is an excellent source of sodium! Pair it with your salty snacks (in moderation!) and feel better about what you eat.

Certainly true of the ordinary stuff.



Gone are the days of product qualification and proof-reading ...

 

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Black Friday Deals 2015

« Last post by 4wd on November 28, 2015, 06:10 PM »

thanks for this -- yeah, it was 4 euros cheaper using AU$

-tomos (November 28, 2015, 01:58 PM)

Thanks for letting us know.

PayPal tried to compensate by charging me one Euro more than the current XE.com exchange rate (but of course they would have done that no matter the currency).

A bit offtopic

FWIW, I use a CitiBank Debit Visa on a Transaction account for foreign currency purchases: no fees, no foreign currency fee, and their exchange rate is very close to the current ForEx rate - much closer than either of my other banks and PayPal.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Black Friday Deals 2015

« Last post by 4wd on November 28, 2015, 03:54 AM »

Oh nice, didn't know the lifetime license was still obtainable .

-Jibz (November 28, 2015, 02:40 AM)

The deal has been up since August, (it was originally AU$2 cheaper), if there's a problem with it accepting an non-Australian order, let me know.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Black Friday Deals 2015

« Last post by 4wd on November 27, 2015, 08:34 PM »

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware

-Jibz (November 27, 2015, 02:23 AM)

Re. this deal, the following deal from PC & Tech Authority (via OzBargain) is still active as of this moment:

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Premium V2 - Lifetime, non-expiring, 1 PC license:



Depending on what your bank charges for currency conversion, it'll be cheaper if you buy it in AUD at AUD$29.95 which at current exchange rate is USD$21.54.

If you change the shopping cart to USD it's USD$27.95, for me anyway.



I tried it via a US VPN and it still let me add it to the cart and go to checkout, (didn't proceed as I already have a enough licenses of the program).

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Black Friday Deals 2015

« Last post by 4wd on November 26, 2015, 06:16 PM »

On Cyber Monday, the C.H.I.P. computer will be available in limited quantity for $8: GetCHIP (Looks like you can sign up to reserve one)

Use promo code GETCHIP when ordering.

For those that don't know what it is: Kickstarter

Email announcement:

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General Software Discussion / Re: active extension filter for archive drive

« Last post by 4wd on November 26, 2015, 06:17 AM »

From time to time, I have used "Everything.exe" (the Best File Search engine I have ever seen...<a small 'plug' to Voidtools.com for making it > to locate the *.tmp and *.exe etc. and delete them all.

-questorfla (November 25, 2015, 01:02 AM)

You could create a Bookmark in Everything that has a RegEx that specifies all the extensions you want to list for removal.

Then when you run Everything, you only need enter, for example, badext: - it would list every file with the required extensions, you then select and delete them all at once.

eg. Here's a Bookmark I use for *.jpg_original files, (created by EXIFTool):



I just enter ojpg: and it lists all *.jpg_original files over the whole system.

If you tell us what extensions you commonly remove it should be a simple matter to create a RegEx that would match them all.

An example, bookmark for .bak, .tmp, and .old:

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by 4wd on November 17, 2015, 09:16 PM »

• Don't worry about the world coming to an end in the US today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.

-IainB (November 17, 2015, 02:53 AM)

Wait ... how did you get this post out?

These 34 Photos Are So Perfectly Timed, They Seem Impossible.

-Arizona Hot (November 17, 2015, 07:57 PM)

nvm, just the overly paranoid ref settings I'm using screwing things up.

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Living Room / Re: Does anyone here use Bitcoins?

« Last post by 4wd on November 15, 2015, 01:13 AM »

@Ren: IIRC, you mentioned having an Australian bank account (in another thread) so I would have thought that apart from time taken to verify ID, (with a passport I assume), you would have been OK.

Was there something else I've missed reading in their FAQ/T&C?

-4wd (November 14, 2015, 06:40 PM)

Dammit. I'd share the issue if it were only for me, but I don't want to shed any light on Asher's situation. Sorry.

-Renegade (November 15, 2015, 12:05 AM)

No problem 

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Living Room / Re: Does anyone here use Bitcoins?

« Last post by 4wd on November 14, 2015, 06:40 PM »

What's funny is that both Asher and I have the same problems in using Coinjar due to neither of us being Australian.

-Renegade (November 13, 2015, 02:00 PM)

Can you use CoinJar if you're not from AU?  Looks interesting...

-wraith808 (November 13, 2015, 03:26 PM)

Reading through it, it doesn't seem to matter whether you're Australian or not, just that if you are then ID verification will be quick, (a lot of ID verification in Australia can be done online and/or a quick trip to a local PO), and you have the ability to link Australian bank accounts.

If you're a UK resident then you can deposit via an EEA based credit/debit card (with attendant fee) but apparently no bank account.

If you don't have an Australian bank account then the only way you could get your funds out would be to transfer everything in your CoinJar BTC wallet to another BTC exchange that would give you that facility.

ID verification probably isn't necessary for non-AU/UK residents because there's no way you can deposit/withdraw external funds (non-BTC) to/from your CoinJar, so in that respect it's nothing more than an online wallet.

@Ren: IIRC, you mentioned having an Australian bank account (in another thread) so I would have thought that apart from time taken to verify ID, (with a passport I assume), you would have been OK.

Was there something else I've missed reading in their FAQ/T&C?

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Living Room / Re: Quirky Asian Movies

« Last post by 4wd on November 12, 2015, 11:42 PM »

Conversely, I don't watch anime at all but I enjoyed these films

And now for something completely different:

Zombie Ass: Toilet Of The Dead

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Living Room / Re: Quirky Asian Movies

« Last post by 4wd on November 12, 2015, 11:11 PM »

Parasyte Part 1
Parasyte Part 2

Humanity is under attack by human-mimicking flesh-eating alien parasites. One parasite bonds with his young high school student host, and he convinces the parasite to help him stop the others.

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Living Room / Re: Does anyone here use Bitcoins?

« Last post by 4wd on November 12, 2015, 08:27 PM »

Just an update to my CoinJar experiment:

ID verification was completed within 3 hours of uploading relevant info, this now lets me transfer up to AU$2500/day into the CoinJar account.
One bank account linked and verified within 6 hours, two remaining bank accounts linked and verified within 48 hours.

Linking a bank account isn't necessary since you can still deposit to your CoinJar account by using BPAY^w, (up to 24 hours to process), or POLi^w, (up to 48 hours to process).

If nothing else these guys are ridiculously efficient.

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Living Room / Re: Kickstarter Highlight: Onion Omega

« Last post by 4wd on November 12, 2015, 05:52 PM »

From the Kickstarter campaign:

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« Last post by 4wd on November 11, 2015, 05:50 AM »

More Evanescence, just can't stop playing them really loud at the moment 

Caroline Lavelle (previously mentioned in this thread) from the end credits of the movie Joy Ride which I rewatched a couple of weeks ago (static video).

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Living Room / Re: Does anyone here use Bitcoins?

« Last post by 4wd on November 10, 2015, 08:29 PM »

Just signed up with CoinJar to have a play, here's their current exchange rate based on current Bitcoin.info @ US$317.80 = 1BTC



Let's me link my bank account (AU or UK) to direct convert ... now if only I had some money in it 

Their Hedge option looks particularly interesting since BTC is currently dropping.

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Living Room / Re: Kickstarter Highlight: Onion Omega

« Last post by 4wd on November 10, 2015, 03:52 AM »

The Onion has landed!



And next to his desktop friends:



Although the RasPi2 has now been configured as a Tor WiFi Hotspot.

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Living Room / Re: Does anyone here use Bitcoins?

« Last post by 4wd on November 09, 2015, 03:58 AM »

Finally reinstalled Bitcoin-core on my machine, still about a year and a half of blocks to download but I've got back the US$0.03 I had in the wallet ... YAY!   

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Living Room / Re: Gadget WEEKENDS

« Last post by 4wd on November 03, 2015, 08:50 PM »

Finally got sick of wrestling with wired headphones/IEMs for my computer/tablet/phone and grabbed a set of MEE audio (previously MEElectronics) Wave Bluetooth Headphones, which arrived today.

They have headset functionality but wasn't really interested in that side of them since I use headphones/IEMs for music/video listening not hands-free calling/VOIP/etc.

Audio from the Wave is great, good noise isolation, comfortable, foldable, Multipoint Bluetooth (connect to two devices at once), 24hr battery life, and also comes with a stereo lead so it can be used in wired mode (eg. battery running low, aircraft, etc).



Amazon link - (I bought direct from the company).  Went with MEE audio since the IEMs I have already (S6P, 2 x M9P) are from the same company and the audio is very good.

Addendum: Been using them almost constantly for the last 3 days and they're great.  Paired with computer and tablet, listen to music/videos on the computer and when that gets turned off, it switches over to the tablet.  It will switch to whichever device is actively transmitting even if both are turned on, just need to stop audio out on one device to get it to switch.

Battery life is close to what is specified, I have done about 8-10 hours per day and only just plugged them in for a full charge.  When battery level hits low you get a prompt every minute, so I turned them off and switched to the 3.5mm stereo lead, sound quality was just as good.  Headphones automatically power off after a couple of minutes of no input.

You get voice prompts for various things, eg. power on/off, battery level when turned on (high/medium/low), pairing, device 1/2 connected/disconnected.

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Coding Snacks / Re: Shell Extension adding EXIF orientation tag support for windows explorer

« Last post by 4wd on November 01, 2015, 11:27 PM »

Some how I don't think this is going to happen given that it hasn't in the 14 years that XP has been around.

Some options:
1) Use an image viewer that honours the EXIF Orientation tag, (eg. XNView, IrfanView, etc).

2) Rotate all the images according to the Orientation tag and reset it to 1, as explained here (top reader comment).

Download JHEAD from here and jpegtran from here.  Copy both into a folder, open a CLI in that folder and use the following command:

jhead -v -autorot <path>\*.jpg

or if you want recursive:

jhead -v -autorot <path>\**\*.jpg

eg.

jhead -v -autorot K:\test\**\*.jpg

3) Upgrade to at least Windows 8 

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« Last post by 4wd on November 01, 2015, 11:21 PM »

^ I'll admit that I have her 1000 Fires^w CD

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« Last post by 4wd on November 01, 2015, 10:16 PM »

Evanescence - My Last Breath (turn up the volume)
Can someone tell me where I can find the real original video (if it exists, this is made of clips from Lithium) ?

L'One - Океан (Russian rap)

Traci Lords - Fallen Angel (Yes, that Traci Lords - techno/trance)

Enigma - Seven Lives