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General Software Discussion / Re: SuperboyAC's DC blog #2 (Live Search feature in software)
« Last post by rjbull on June 17, 2010, 02:43 PM »
Well, I guess 2 years ago it looked like the standalone version of Evernote was going away. It is still alive and kicking as far as I can tell, in fact there was an update this month.
-daddydave (June 16, 2010, 05:49 PM)
Really!  I had no idea.  I have to give it a try.  Awesome, thanks.
-superboyac (June 16, 2010, 07:30 PM)

Please will you report if you do try it?  I too thought that EverNote standalone (assuming that means the version that saves its files locally, not on their server) was dead.  I'd be interested to know if they updated the Firefox extension, too.
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General Software Discussion / Re: SuperboyAC's DC blog #2 (Live Search feature in software)
« Last post by rjbull on June 17, 2010, 02:41 PM »
rjbull, way to resurrect an old thread!
-superboyac (June 16, 2010, 03:31 PM)

:)  I read another thread where you mentioned live search, and thought it was worth mentioning NoteFrog for completeness here.

Notefrog looks impressive.  I am very interested in it and I'm going to give it a shot. Even though I use infoqube and onenote, there's always room for another light, quick notetaker.  Actually, now that evernote standalone is gone, this may have to be my replacement.  Nice find!

I don't see it as anywhere near as powerful - or large - as EverNote, but as you observe, for light-duty operations it looks potentially good.  It can be portable too, but they don't (or didn't) have a ready-made portable version, you have to copy the files over yourself.  As far as I'm concerned, the lack of import is serious, but it's still a young project.  For light note-taking I currently use Horst Schaeffer's MemPad, which is an excellent, free, portable tree-style program, but is essentially plain text and doesn't have live search.  I think it uses a built-in Windows component to do its Ctrl-F search, too, and that's very slow on largish files on Vista Home Premium.
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General Software Discussion / Re: SuperboyAC's DC blog #2 (Live Search feature in software)
« Last post by rjbull on June 16, 2010, 03:24 PM »
A newish live-search notekeeper - NoteFrog.  Looks like a young project.  I couldn't convince the authors to add import   :o  They point out you can drag-and-drop, but I wanted to import files whole.  Still, it's a moderately interesting new program.
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Living Room / Re: Looking for a Decent Contacts Manager
« Last post by rjbull on June 16, 2010, 03:17 PM »
I do use Outlook as a PIM and just forgo the email components (very heavy PIM, but effective).
-steeladept (June 16, 2010, 12:12 PM)

Vista Home Premium comes with Windows Calendar, that looks (from memory) much like the calendar component of Outlook, also Contacts.
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Living Room / Re: Looking for a Decent Contacts Manager
« Last post by rjbull on June 16, 2010, 03:07 PM »
I want to avoid a threadjack, but for those interested in my wants/needs in this kind of software -
-steeladept (June 16, 2010, 07:04 AM)

If synch with handhelds is a must, how about ListPro?
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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Open command prompt at current directory
« Last post by rjbull on June 16, 2010, 02:51 PM »
It's one of the features built into Listary, even the free-for-personal-use version.  But, it's another app to run and another hotkey, though you might like Listary's other features enough to run it anyway.  However, I suspect you're thinking of DOSHERE, mentioned in e.g. Feature Request - right click on results Command prompt here option.  As it's so small (just an INF file - don't ask me how to use it) I'll attach it to this post.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Recommend disk imaging software?
« Last post by rjbull on June 16, 2010, 02:37 PM »
I am just noting that the review you linked could perhaps have been more thorough
[...]
I'll take a 100% reliable clunky solution without the bells and whistles over a fancy GUI that ends up failing miserably the one time you need it.
-Jibz (June 16, 2010, 03:53 AM)
That's two good points  :)

I hadn't expected on-the-fly imaging, though, and was surprised to see it.  I'd expected "offline" only, which I take to mean, the PC basically isn't doing anything else while the image is made.  I'd be happy to settle for that for home use.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Recommend disk imaging software?
« Last post by rjbull on June 15, 2010, 04:48 PM »
Still don't feel certain yet.  It's a difficult category to test, too.

I also looked on Gizmo's site.  In the Best Free Drive Imaging Program review, they recommend Paragon as a whisker ahead of Macrium Reflect.  But, on another part of the site, an article on Reliable Drive Imaging Software comes down in favour of the TeraByte one.  Noting brahman's comment, my hard disk is relatively young and has its hardest thrashing by Windows updates, so bad sectors should not be a problem yet, but it's as well to be prepared.

Interesting difference in the sizes of the programs - Macrium is about 30Mb, Paragon about 100Mb, TeraByte only 6Mb, Drive Snapshot tiny.
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General Software Discussion / Re: How safe is it to run portable apps on public computers?
« Last post by rjbull on June 14, 2010, 03:00 PM »
If one were to use an encrypted disk, e.g. Rohos Mini Drive, or one of the hardware-encrypted ones like the expensive IronKey, which are intended to prevent snooping, would that also reduce the chances of the USB getting infected?
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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Clipboard Help+Spell finally gets hotkeys for groups and formatting presets
« Last post by rjbull on June 13, 2010, 09:37 AM »
However i still thing my requirement is needed as to assign dynamically
the words i got from cntr C to any hot key instead of going trough
script/compilation. Further more the time it takes to execute
a simple script is much much slower then pushing the word to clipboard
-limelect (June 13, 2010, 01:36 AM)


When I was using AHK for text expansion, I assigned a hotkey to reload the script, as per the AHK Help:
^!r::Reload  ; Assign Ctrl-Alt-R as a hotkey to restart the script.

That was on the first line.  I kept the script open in a text editor.  When I updated a shorthand expansion, I pressed Ctrl-S in the editor to save the script, then Ctrl-Alt-R to reload it.  Quick enough.  If you use Typing Assistant (TA) it's even easier.  Mark the text you want expanded in future, press Ctrl-C to send it to the clipboard, press a couple of TA hotkeys to bring up the right box and you'll find the body text already filled in, with just the short version to add.  Or, you could try Oscar's MiniCLIP which is a freeware clipboard enhancer with shorthand expansion built-in, but even the author says he probably never used it.  I certainly haven't  :)
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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Clipboard Help+Spell finally gets hotkeys for groups and formatting presets
« Last post by rjbull on June 12, 2010, 03:59 PM »
I am using the word DELPHI ,and others,  in many applications all day long
-limelect (June 12, 2010, 11:00 AM)
If that's a major need, you might want to try one of the text expanders/completers as well as CHS.  I use Typing Assistant, which is good payware.  But you can get text expansion in various freewares too, including AutoHotKey/AHK.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows shortcut hotkeys broken?
« Last post by rjbull on June 12, 2010, 03:43 PM »
Yep, the Options/Exclusions section of OA is what I meant. Sorry I haven't responded before now, but I've been computer-less for the last few weeks (ie. failed power supply).

Hope your issues were resolved or at least minimized so that you can continue to use your preferred hotkey apps.
-sajman99 (June 11, 2010, 03:16 PM)

I'm not sure how much difference it's really made, but it can't hurt.  My system seems so slow anyway, probably because of all the security stuff, updates and so on.  It's just driven me round the bend by downloading a huge Windows update and insisting on a compulsory reboot, without allowing me to postpone it - just when I was doing a large music download from the Music on Demand department of the Minnesota Orchestra.  I've had to request a new download link.  Microsoft know how to enrage their customers.

Hope your PSU problems are solved now...
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Living Room / Death and the net: How to log off gracefully for the very last time
« Last post by rjbull on June 08, 2010, 02:21 PM »
There have been mentions of similar services on DC before, but this seemed a useful up-to-date summary.  The current edition of New Scientist magazine, dated 5 June 2010, No. 2763, has an article entitled Me and my Avatar: Upload your mind and you could live forever, by Linda Geddes.  The complete article is currently (2010-06-08) online as Immortal avatars: Back up your brain, never die.

The third and final page has a box entitled Death and the net: How the web can help you log off gracefully for the very last time... listing the following services:

  • My Last Email
    Enables you to leave letters, photos or video messages for friends and family, as well as write your own obituary
  • Deathswitch
    Imagine you die with a secret that you longed to reveal. Deathswitch is an automated system that prompts you for your password on a regular basis. If you repeatedly fail to respond, it assumes you have died and emails pre-scripted messages to nominated addresses
  • Legacy Locker
    You create a master list of usernames and passwords for all your online accounts and social networking sites. Once your death has been verified by Legacy Locker, the list will be emailed to a named beneficiary
  • Seppukoo
    Samurai warriors preferred to commit ritual suicide rather than allow themselves to be captured by enemies. Seppukoo.com enables you to commit "virtual suicide" by deleting your Facebook account - or at least it did until a legal wrangle with Facebook, though the service hopes to be up and running again soon
  • Slightly Morbid
    If something terrible happened to you, who would tell your online friends? This service enables users to consolidate all their online contacts, allowing a trusted third party to contact them in the event of your demise


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General Software Discussion / Recommend disk imaging software?
« Last post by rjbull on June 07, 2010, 03:49 PM »
I'm looking for disk imaging software for use on Vista Home Premium.  The laptop came with Samsung Recovery Solution III, which I used to make the original image before putting anything much on the machine, but I don't know how good it is for regular use.  I've glanced at a few other DC threads and am currently inclined to Macrium, though they don't seem to have a free version any more.

Any thoughts, please?
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Screenshot Captor / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - ScreenshotCaptor -2.82.01 - June 1st, 2010
« Last post by rjbull on June 06, 2010, 12:15 PM »
Thanks, hamradio - DcMouseHk.dll was in the Allowed list, but DcKeyHk.dll doesn't appear at all.  Hmmm.
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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: USB Safely Remove, 50% discount on January 17th
« Last post by rjbull on June 06, 2010, 12:05 PM »
USB Safely Remove will be featured on Bits du Jour again on Wednesday 9 June, 2010 :
Deal Price: $12.00
List Price: $20.00
You Save: 40%

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Screenshot Captor / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - ScreenshotCaptor -2.82.01 - June 1st, 2010
« Last post by rjbull on June 06, 2010, 11:50 AM »
mouser,

What are the mouse and keyboard hooks called?  I'd like to check the Online-Armor HIPS hasn't stifled them.

That's one of the problems of malware defense - names are so enigmatic, it's not immediately obvious whether what's trying to run is kosher or no.
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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Upload tool for Jotti Virus/Malware Scan similar to VirusTotal's Uploader
« Last post by rjbull on June 05, 2010, 03:38 PM »
It sounded to me like you were using VirusTotal's Uploader, and closing the dialog box was an annoyance you wanted to avoid.
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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Warfare $3.99 @ Dirvect2Drive (80% off) Worth Buying
« Last post by rjbull on June 05, 2010, 03:33 PM »
Inflammation....the tanks turn into hemorrhoid guns. :D
-Innuendo (June 05, 2010, 12:58 PM)

I was going to say that makes the game sound a real PITA, but thought I'd better not in case cranioscopical turned up and out-punned everybody.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Recommend deleter for files/directories with corrupted names?
« Last post by rjbull on June 05, 2010, 03:18 PM »
Tip for running console apps admin: open the start menu, type "cmd" into the search bar. Hit ctrl+shift+enter, instead of just enter, to launch cmd.exe elevated. From then on, any apps you start from the console will run elevated. FARR can do the same, btw :)
-f0dder (June 04, 2010, 05:16 PM)

Thanks!  That could be a really useful tip  :)

I only just realised how to make things run as Admin under Windows Explorer  :-[  Don't double-click the file, right-click it and choose from the context menu.  When you're in a near-panic it's easy to overlook the obvious.

Anyway, I guess you're using FAT filesystem on the USB drive, since it got that corrupted? If you mainly use the drive on a single machine, consider converting to NTFS.

I was going to say I use it on other machines as well.  Then I remembered it's my back-up HD that really only runs on my own machine, whereas I do occasionally use my USB sticks on others.  So I'll have to look into converting to NTFS next time I mount it.

Thanks again  :)
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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Upload tool for Jotti Virus/Malware Scan similar to VirusTotal's Uploader
« Last post by rjbull on June 05, 2010, 03:06 PM »
If automatically clicking the close button on a dialog box is all you need, there are various tools to deal with it, e.g. ClickOff (freeware) and PTFB Pro.  The latter is payware, but you can find the last free version on 321download.com's Page 29.  If you're using a user account with UAC On, you may not get all features in the free ones, but PTFB Pro certainly works.  Other programs can do this too, e.g. PowerPro - PowerPro is free, but it's a whole way of life - or (I think) Macro Express which is an excellent payware macro program.
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Screenshot Captor / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - ScreenshotCaptor -2.82.01 - June 1st, 2010
« Last post by rjbull on June 04, 2010, 03:23 PM »
mouser,

Can anybody replicate this?

I'm using Screenshot Captor v2.82.01 - June 1st, 2010 on Vista Home Premium with a user account, UAC On.  I've hit what seems to be a weird bug.  SSC locks up when I use Shift-PrtScr = Grab selected Region.  I make a screenshot, SSC makes its capture sound, and the New Screenshot window (at least I think that's its title - the buttons on the title bar obscure it) pops up.  At that point, SSC locks up and I have to forcibly terminate it.  I didn't try scrolling region or repeat last, but all the other methods seem OK.  This behaviour mostly happens if Shift-PrtScr is the FIRST capture.  That is, if I tried other methods first, it usually, but not always, works as expected; sometimes it locks up even if I have tried another capture method first.  I think Red Box mode may have a problem?  Something like this happened with the beta, but I think earlier versions were OK.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Per application keyboard remapper?
« Last post by rjbull on June 04, 2010, 02:01 PM »
I looked in AHK's Help for scan code, and found this in the Send / Send Raw (etc.) page:

{vkXX}
{scYYY}
{vkXXscYYY}
 Sends a keystroke that has virtual key XX and scan code YYY. For example: Send {vkFFsc159}. If the sc or vk portion is omitted, the most appropriate value is sent in its place.

The values for XX and YYY are hexadecimal and can usually be determined from the main window's View->Key history menu item.
 

Would this work better than the other method, assuming you know the scan codes you want?
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General Software Discussion / Re: Per application keyboard remapper?
« Last post by rjbull on June 03, 2010, 04:17 PM »
I don't know for certain that this will work, only briefly tried it, but you could try HotKeyz remapper feature.  It would be a bit tedious to set it up, but...  As far as I can see, when you limit it to which windows to work with, it will only accept single items, i.e. recognises "TED" but not "TED Notepad."

You could also look at Comfort Keys.  I don't know if you can make it program-specific but you can load alternate key maps with a hotkey, which should be smooth enough.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Recommend deleter for files/directories with corrupted names?
« Last post by rjbull on June 03, 2010, 03:47 PM »
I briefly tried deleting from the command line, can't remember if I tried wildcards, and got a message about file name being too long.  But...  kudos to f0dder!   :Thmbsup:  chkdsk did the job - eventually.  Basic "chkdsk" works, but as soon as I added a switch, "/f", it complained that I didn't have rights and it needed to be elevated.  I'm using Vista Home Premium from a user account with UAC On...  So I logged off, logged back on as administrator, tried again - only to find the same thing.   >:(  I can't remember exactly what I did then, but I copied chkdsk.exe to the root of the USB drive, fiddled about with its Properties to make it "Run as admin," and somewhere along the way it ran "chkdsk /f".  There's a thread similar to this elsewhere on DC, where Carol Haynes notes (from memory) that "chkdsk /x" would be more appropriate in these cases.  In fact my "chkdsk /f" instantly turned itself into "/x" because it said the drive had to be dismounted.  At last it ran, I accepted the defaults about changing to a file etc., and was able to delete the mess.  Windows didn't try very hard to make it easy, though.   :(

Along the way I learnt a few things.  I didn't know that USB devices have serial numbers, and can also have labels, and that SyncBack Pro can recognise either or both as a way of uniquely identifying a particular USB device, so you only run the right profile against it.  USB Safely Remove, which is on Bits du Jour again on Wednesday 9th June, can conveniently give USB devices permanent letters, i.e., as I understand it, a particular USB device is always recognised as "g:\" or whatever.  Presumably it too understands serial numbers.

I didn't try Unlocker because I thought that was mainly for deleting files that Windows thought were still in use, even where they weren't.  It's very useful for that situation, but this situation seemed different.

Thanks, folks!   :)
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