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General Software Discussion / Re: PDF to Word converter comparison
« Last post by Curt on August 10, 2013, 05:20 AM »
I prefer PDF burger one best pdf to word converter online
http://pdfburger.com
-elnorastewart (August 10, 2013, 02:49 AM)

http://pdfburger.com/pdf-to-word

^ tested; worth bookmarking!  :up:
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A Pro version is also available

just to prevent misunderstandings: The advertised version is the PRO version ($60 now $30), but I expect both versions of course will be available when the offer is on.

compare features (Free, Standard, Pro): http://bauerapps.com...version-comparisons/

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Community Giveaways / Re: WriteMonkey key
« Last post by Curt on August 09, 2013, 01:51 AM »
too close to be mere coincidence - I am testing it (again)!

- changed (2.5.0.7): Plugins are now locked and will work only with a valid writemonkey donor key.
-What's new

-so a key is now more needed than ever before. PM coming to a mailbox near you!


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Re-reading this post, I can now understand it may be important to say:
it has nothing to do with facebook!

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Original post:

I was looking for something to make it acceptable to visit facebook...
but found "about:addons-memory" [a:am] and "RAM Tab" instead:

1) https://addons.mozil.../about-addons-memory (by Nils Maier)
2) https://addons.mozil...irefox/addon/ram-tab

The problem with facebook (making the browser not answering) has gone, something was changed for the better, but I still like the informations given by Maier's addon [a:am]. It is of course not meant to be activated all of the time - just turn it on when you install a new addon, or when things have been updated or are acting weirdly.

The "ram-tab" is merely a button to make a:am easy accessible.

Dear press,

no, it is not OK to install this add-on along with the Top 20 or something add-ons and publish articles singling out the "biggest memory wasters" or something along the lines of this. This is wrong, superficial, sensationalist and outright wrong.

Adblock Plus, being the most popular add-on, using 20-30 MB of memory is not a problem. Add-ons that may use hundreds of mega bytes of memory with steadily growing memory usage *may* be a problem and this add-on is intended to find exactly these kinds of issues more easily.
-Nils Maier

You might not bother to click-to-enlarge my screenshot (519x3194 pixels!), so let me just tell its conclusion: My many extensions and addons for Firefox are using a total of merely 10MB. I think it is amazingly little! Even the handful that are using the most, are in my opinion using very little; how many "programs" do you have that are merely using a MB or less?

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appended:
I must admit, at first the informations from a:am made me de-activate a handful of addons. But when I then thought of it, I realized I merely had gained 3MB, and really, what is 3MB?! No, I will stick to my former claim: It is amazing how little memory all these addons are using!
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ehh... are you telling that the particular folder is to never be changed? Protected?
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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: FREE Today Zemana AntiLogger
« Last post by Curt on August 07, 2013, 03:50 AM »
*** Great News! Zemana Ltd. has agreed to extend this deal for another day - Enjoy! ***
http://www.bitsdujou...na-antilogger-172986

Zemana AntiLogger is given away at least once every second year. I have never heard anything bad about the security part, except for warnings when it is being installed.

Besides: http://www.bitsdujou...er-172986/virus-scan

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Jetviz, Beautiful Screenshots. Regular $45. Now $9.
« Last post by Curt on August 07, 2013, 02:38 AM »
Congratulations on your good looking application - and Thanks a lot for the discount!  :up:

Jetviz seems to be a Mac program for Windows. Jetviz also seems to have been made by young people. Young people with good eyesight. Young Mac users.

I was sad to realize that the program's interface won't be any smaller than 750 pixels (height), but it will always take up the full screen at start. My screen is merely 768 pixels, so I can't use Jetviz without first changing the setting for my taskbar (to auto-hide) - but this is not how I want to use my computer.

I didn't find any "Settings" to manage, maybe because of the all black design and the very small characters in a hard-to-read font.

I like the "Magnify" feature a lot, it's really good looking (the 3 "circles" are magnifiers):

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Bravo!
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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: FREE Today Zemana AntiLogger
« Last post by Curt on August 06, 2013, 02:38 AM »
http://www.bitsdujou...na-antilogger-172986

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Zemana AntiLogger is specifically designed to thwart malware attacks on your sensitive financial transactions! Unlike other programs, which rely on updated virus signatures to identify and block threats, Zemana AntiLogger proactively looks for suspicious activity, shutting down keyloggers, SSL banker trojans, spyware, and other malware before they have a chance to steal your data. Plus, since Zemana AntiLogger doesn't rely on virus signatures or file scanning, it won't bog down your computer like other programs do.

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Zemana AntiLogger deals a blow right to the heart of most malware programs - malicious monitoring. With malicious monitoring, malware sits and waits quietly for you to copy sensitive data to the Windows clipboard, enter your password into a website with your keyboard - some malware programs can even turn on your webcam and WATCH YOU. These malware infections can run deep, infecting your system's memory, your Windows registry, and other sensitive areas. But with Zemana AntiLogger, you don't have to worry about these threats at all!

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-Bits du Jour
http://www.bitsdujou...na-antilogger-172986
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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Arcsoft TotalMedia Theatre 6 - 60% OFF
« Last post by Curt on August 03, 2013, 04:36 PM »
Now: $87.99, Coupon Code: TMTSM07W
will it be even less "on offer" tomorrow?
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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Writing Outliner for MS Word
« Last post by Curt on August 02, 2013, 03:18 AM »
Writing Outliner for MS Word is 29.00 today only (normal price $79) at Bits du jour.
-and 63% off again "today".

-and today.

Besides:

Latest Blog Post:

Writing Outliner now supports Windows 8 and Office 2012 (32bit) - March 31, 2013

It doesn't support the 64-bits version of Word.

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Living Room / Re: Damn Hackers!
« Last post by Curt on August 01, 2013, 06:03 AM »
-same reaction here; I was not sure what you told us, because I don't understand the wireless world. Bruised but okay?
 :up:

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Writing Outliner for MS Word
« Last post by Curt on August 01, 2013, 02:59 AM »
Writing Outliner for MS Word is 29.00 today only (normal price $79) at Bits du jour.

-and 63% off again "today".

click thumbnail picture to enlarge to 1341x1867 pixels (2MB):

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http://www.bitsdujou...outliner-for-ms-word
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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!
« Last post by Curt on July 31, 2013, 12:44 PM »
4 chaps from Liverpool should have known better but are singing a rather well-known song of theirs:




My vague wording is of course meant to protect from "this video is not available in your country".
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Living Room / Re: did you ever throw your back out?
« Last post by Curt on July 29, 2013, 04:48 PM »
Well let's see now, after 12 back surgeries and my back is still "out"......
Ouch!! It hurts just reading that.

Tinman's post really made me sad; so much pain! Is this why you went for the tinman name? I really thought it was a tribute, rather than a self-description!

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Thanks, IainB, interesting read  :up:

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Global average boot time:


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Living Room / Re: did you ever throw your back out?
« Last post by Curt on July 28, 2013, 06:16 AM »
I thought I'd start a thread related to ideas about how we should sit, stand, lift stuff even
Thanks, every time I see something on DC that relates to this area I am reminded to make an effort.

+1

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Besides -
I am impressed how this Gokhale woman has applied some small rubber pieces to the cover of a $60 office chair, and is now selling it for $560... http://gokhalemethod.com/chair
 ;D
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Living Room / Re: did you ever throw your back out?
« Last post by Curt on July 26, 2013, 05:10 PM »
@Nosh, I must say you obviously have tried more than your fair share of pain.

@Diva, I am pleased to know it usually was fixed in a week or two. But "several times"?

------------

Of course I should have been cured in a couple of weeks. However, you can shoot yourself (or your employees) in the foot, and sometimes bad luck just comes bundled! There was no phone or transport vehicle (the bus only went during rush-hours), so I simply had to WALK more than 2 miles to 1'st train station > 2'nd train to the central station > change to bus heading home. All this in great and growing pains > I still cannot remember the last half hour. Almost at home, rejected by hospital (on neighbour's phone): "we don't trust you; why didn't you phone from the station?", and I didn't know why! Then my local doctor was not available > replacement doctor says "You've made it this far, it can't be too serious. Anyway, I don't know you, you must come here!". At this stage I was crawling, and it was too late for a "normal" recovery process. Normally I am able to whine or shout, but I was apathetic so I didn't. Instead I shot yet another hole in my foot, so to speak.

Furthermore, they didn't discover until several years later that my legs were of uneven lengths
- but that's another and quite positive story!

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Living Room / Re: did you ever throw your back out?
« Last post by Curt on July 26, 2013, 09:51 AM »
"Been there, done that" they say. I could feel the pain, just reading mouser's explanation!  

Twenty years ago I had a temporary job in the industry. A stock of old fashioned TVs was to be moved manually one TV at a time - by me and a 3 other guys! After a few days a brainless body-builder guy was added, so we now were 5 (five). His fist action was to mock us for working two and two; "pussies, take a TV per person!". I explained why this was a foolish idea, but he was also a tyrant, so very soon it was "1 person, 1 TV". After 3 days I did a wrong move with a TV in my arms, "I threw my back out", and it took 8 months before I could walk normally again.



Actually I am pleased that I cannot remember his name or looks, because then I cannot really hate him. I am just sad that I didn't have the power to stop his destructive tyranny. Also I am still angry how stupid some of the official rules are; I could not walk and I had no money, but once a week I had to go to the doctor (to get a "sick-note" for one of the council's offices); I will not try here to explain how impossible this situation was.


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I realize I know what it is to throw your back out.

How "you" tried it, reader?
 :tellme:

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Living Room / did you ever throw your back out?
« Last post by Curt on July 26, 2013, 08:51 AM »
To >throw your back out<, without throwing?

English is not "a second language" to me, but a foreign language, so I don't NEED to understand what "throw your back out" means in this context, but it sure would ease my mind! I simply don't understand what the cartoon kid is referring to when he says, "your dad threw his back out", unless it simply means to get rid of all the old junk in the closet? The phrase is not explained in any of my many, expensive dictionaries. :-(
:tellme:

 
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Dextronet FastPaste 3 (for Windows) today via Bits du Jour only $12 or $24 => 60% off.
http://www.bitsdujou...m/software/fastpaste

Homepage, Compare editions: http://www.dextronet...m/fastpaste/editions

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   Easy fast installation that doesn't require admin privileges. You can install FastPaste even if your Windows user account doesn't have administrator privileges. This makes it perfect for installing it at your day job - you don't need to ask anyone for a permission. Just install it under your user account even without the admin rights.

    Or, install it at home, deploy it to USB thumb-drive using File - Deploy to USB, and run it from there.

FastPaste is very easy to use, and has simple and elegant design. But it still gives you the flexibility and customization options that you need, so you can configure it to meet your pesronal needs.

It is suitable both for personal and business use. There are also some "hidden" features, like great and fast technical support for free, frequent updates, or unconditional 90-day money back guarantee.


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Some of the most notable features include:

Paste commonly used text phrases, rich text, images or execute keyboard scripts    
    Paste Plain text, Rich text, Images and Scripts. . You can paste just about anything, from a single word to multi-line rich formatted text.

Keyboard scripts to fill forms or send keyboard sequences or combinations    
    Scripts allow you to fill forms, send hotkeys and key sequences, and do all sorts of other useful keyboard operations. Be creative and liberal when using scripts. It's your time you are saving here - the most precious commodity in the whole universe! Scripts are in Professional edition only.

Secure clipboard data    
    Encrypt your projects to protect password and other personal or sensitive data. The encryption uses very secure 256-bit AES algorithm.

Sidebar docking for commonly used text phrases and clipboard clips    
    Docking (sidebar) support. Dock FastPaste as a sidebar, and have instant access to your commonly used clips.

Portable clipboard utility    
    Portable.. Runs from USB thumb-drive. You can deploy FastPaste to a USB drive and then run it from any computer.

Rich text clips    
    Rich-text clips with full-featured formatting, including styles (bold, italic, underline, strike through), colors, bullets, fonts, and more.

Paste commonly used text phrases with 4 different methods    
    4 different pasting methods for maximum flexibility:
        Paste using a global hotkey associated to each clip (keyboard)
        Paste using a global paste menu for all clips (keyboard)
        Paste using "Copy" button from the main program interface (mouse)
        Paste using the FastPaste notification area icon right-click menu (mouse)


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    All global hotkeys and shortcuts are fully customizable.
    Smart hotkey handling. FastPaste will detect conflicted hotkeys and inform you. It will also register only hotkeys for the clips that are actually used.
    You can also just copy the clips to clipboard, the autopaste can be disabled.

300 clips accessible with keyboard, unlimited number of projects    
    Unlimited number of projects, 30 clips per projects.
    Up to 300 clips readily accessible with keyboard or buttons with Quick Projects feature.

Fast clipboard access with FastPaste fast clipboard projects    
    10 FastProjects for quick access. You can have up to 10 projects associated with global hotkeys and also easily openable from the main toolbar. This way, you can access over 300 clips entirely using your keyboard.

Reorder commonly used clipboard clips    
    Reorder clips using drag & drop. It couldn't be simpler. Just start the drag on the number upon the clip.

Display clips in 1 column, 2 columns, or 3 columns    
    Display clips in 1, 2 or 3 columns, so the FastPaste window will fit perfectly into your work space.

Overview of clips and hotkeys can be exported to HTML or printed    
    Overview of clips and hotkeys can be exported to HTML or printed. This is very useful, e.g. if you've just setup a bunch of hotkeys and want to remember them, then simply print the overview and stick it on the wall beside your computer for a reference. You will memorize the hotkeys in no time. Or better yet, you don't have to remember anything with this handy overview!

Always on top Fast-Paste mode    
    Always on top mode supported.

Easy Installation - No Admin Privileges Required    
    Easy fast installation that doesn't require admin privileges. You can install FastPaste even if your Windows user account doesn't have administrator privileges. This makes it perfect for installing it at your day job - you don't need to ask anyone for a permission. Just install it under your user account even without the admin rights.

    Or, install it at home, deploy it to USB thumb-drive using File - Deploy to USB, and run it from there.

FastPaste to insert commonly used text phrases    
    And much, much more! This list of features is not by any means complete. Download the free 30-day trial today for the full FastPaste experience.

    With FastPaste, you will win the war on stupid typing, reclaim lost time, and have more time for creativity, learning, your family and friends, relaxation, and your true interests.
-copy&paste
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General Software Discussion / Re: Are you going to wait for Windows 9?
« Last post by Curt on July 24, 2013, 11:50 AM »
You guys are not making it easy for me. Some time ago I purchased a copy of Win 8 Pro, but because of you people I have not tried it yet. I was also telling myself that it would be smart to wait until I also have a new and more powerful machine to match the Pro's 64GB RAM option - but I seem to never quite have the cash!!

Darwin: "I really don't see a difference between 7 and 8 other than the start menu."
tomos: "I'm only using the desktop in Win8"

My first question to tomos is: "the desktop", as opposed to the start menu?

The subject makes me uncertain because the desktop is one thing I never use. But you may of course not be the right person to ask for advice because of your anti-Explorer attitude... hehe...  8)

Anyway, the more important question:
a few weeks ago an advert from Microsoft said that version 8.1 is more "old-style desktop user friendly". Isn't it?  :tellme:


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General Software Discussion / Re: Infix Pdf Editor now at version 6
« Last post by Curt on July 24, 2013, 05:54 AM »
I have now tried the editor some more, and so far I think Infix version 6 Professional in some areas is an even better solution to me than my Nitro Pro 8!

Firstly, Infix now launches noticeably faster than Nitro.
Secondly, because of the Wordpad likeness it is even easier (for me) to navigate the Infix interface than the MS Office interface of Nitro, (YMMV if you are used to the new Office ribbon interface). Less confusion!
Thirdly, the most important part to me, the abillity to OCR & edit the text in existing pdf files (sort out typos), is The Best I have ever tried, (but I have not tried a new Adobe editor).
Fourthly, the quality of produced "Print to Pdf" files is just as good as Nitro Pro's virtual printer.

In the coming days I will see if it fully can replace my Nitro Pro or similar "suite" with extra features, ("convert this and that format", etcetera,) because Infix has some but not all such extras - and I am not yet sure what is needed and what is not.


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Advanced features: http://www.iceni.com/pdfeditor.htm :

Advanced features

Infix also includes some features you might need if you work with print-ready PDFs, convert printed documents, or need to translate documents into other languages:

    OCR lets you create new PDFs from printed pages then easily make corrections where the OCR has mis-interpreted words.
    Industry-standard CMYK colour picker ensures the colours you choose on the screen print accurately on paper too.
    Translation tools allow you to export your PDF as XML, translate with your own translation tools then import and reflow the translated text back into the PDF. Find out more…:
"Features of Infix Professional PDF Editor": http://www.iceni.com/pdfeditor.htm

What it does offer in Pro, Standard, or Free Form Filler: http://www.iceni.com/infixcompare.htm
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Found Deals and Discounts / temporary Key Metric 50% coupon code
« Last post by Curt on July 24, 2013, 01:39 AM »
http://www.keymetricsoft.com/


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For the next 15 days, you can use the following coupon code to get a 50% discount on a large range of Key Metric Software product licenses:

XGRADE_PROMO_2013


Please note that the above coupon cannot be used for product upgrades, nor can it be combined with other active promotions.
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General Software Discussion / Re: merge mail
« Last post by Curt on July 20, 2013, 06:05 PM »
-yeah, you might want to rephrase the blah blah blah -part.

http://www.nonags.com/nonags/ems.html
http://www.yetesoft.com/
http://lib.giveawayo...om/SendEmails_93631/ free for max 200 mails pr month.
or scroll http://lib.giveawayo...m/search/email_send/
or maybe even use Google? Yeah, I know it can be scary - so many results!


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General Software Discussion / Re: new here, hello from Yosef from xbible
« Last post by Curt on July 20, 2013, 05:07 PM »
Welcome to the forum, Yosef. Your projects are commendable, and I hope you'll succeed, so people don't get killed but saved because of your work!

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Moderator,
maybe move thread to "OK - lets get to know each other... who are you, what do you do, where from?" at  https://www.donation...pic=124.800#lastPost ?
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