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General Software Discussion / Re: Small Apps

« Last post by cmpm on April 23, 2008, 01:23 AM »

Cool, I'll check them out.
Thanks Phil.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Small Apps

« Last post by cmpm on April 23, 2008, 12:26 AM »

http://psydk.org/PngOptimizer.php

Makes graphics even smaller with png and more.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful

« Last post by cmpm on April 20, 2008, 02:27 PM »

No nothing more then registering.
It's easy and simple.
I haven't had any problems or junk mail.
The addon works great too.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful

« Last post by cmpm on April 20, 2008, 09:24 AM »

For images I use Image Zoom and Image Tweak.
So I can open an image in a new tab and use the zoom functions.
Using zoom in the same page distorts the rest of the page and was annoying.
So these two together made it much simpler when I want to view an image only.

https://addons.mozil...US/firefox/addon/139

https://addons.mozil...S/firefox/addon/3683

You can go with just Image Tweak I think but I liked Image Zoom also.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Carbonite Online Backup

« Last post by cmpm on April 19, 2008, 11:45 PM »

I just started using Syncplicity and it works fine.
It monitors the folders and files I tell it too and syncs as they change.

Though I believe a local backup is better and certainly faster.
I have a scheduled sync job every 4 hours to my slave drive.
And I'm considering syncing two computer's slave drives together either through My Network or Syncplicity or both.

Having more then one backup is really needed.

I store everything I need in My Documents. So all I have to back up or sync is that folder. Keeps it simple, but the folder is getting rather large.

Besides documents with license codes, I store all my downloads in there also. Any word processor backup or pictures are in it too.

We have an 80gb external drive to backup to.
External drives, or someone's server or a slave drive could all go down. So using more then one option is optimal.
I use google's bookmark synchronizer, so I don't need those backed up. And online email so that doesn't need backed up either.

Used to I never needed to backup much till I found DC.
Now I have a ton of programs that would take quite a while to download.
Plus it's nice to have older programs that went to paid versions or don't exist that I liked.
I still have some old programs from '94 and up that I like to keep.

Here's a Blog Alert I received the other day.

http://www.newwebmag...E2%80%99s-my-gdrive/

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General Software Discussion / Re: How do you track phone/contacts on your PC?

« Last post by cmpm on April 18, 2008, 12:29 PM »

If you have caller id with your phone company and a caller id capable modem you can use one of these in this thread. I've taken down the program that was on my site though. But YAC and Call Alert would be the first to look at for me.

I know YAC keeps a log in a notepad of calls that come in.

https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=8370.0

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General Software Discussion / Re: The great free screen capture shootout for Windows! (Screenshot Captor gets nod)

« Last post by cmpm on April 18, 2008, 12:22 AM »

"dated" lol....
well...so are we...

I've tried many a screenshot program.
Mouser's still is the easiest and cleanest and versatile one there is.

There are many more, besides the screenshot programs within other programs.

I have a print option after capture and before saving with ScreenshotCapture.
What are they talking about I wonder?

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Living Room / Re: Use illegal Vista - go legal - make a profit !

« Last post by cmpm on April 16, 2008, 02:04 AM »

Ha! this immediately reminded me of summer camp when I was a kid.

This was in Louisiana where there are a lot of 'bugs'.

If you broke the camp rules you had to lay on your back and wiggle your arms and legs in the air and keep repeating-

'I'm a dying cockroach, I'm a dying cockroach, I'm a dying cockroach'.....lol



I don't have Vista, my computer can't handle it.
I hope it's better by the time I can afford a new machine.

That pretty wild about the pricing.
When XP came down on the price, everyone did I think.
But it was only $10 or $20 less as I recall.

Microsoft and the computer industry has forgotten that the middle class made them millionaires.

Now they have made Vista and it's expensive hardware unreasonable for the average computer user. The lower to middle income people.

I don't believe I'll be getting it soon, even with the money in hand.
It would be nearly a months pay to get what I would want for Vista to work it's best, which XP still out performs for my needs.
I can do what I want with what I got.

rant button off

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Living Room / Re: Your happiness right now

« Last post by cmpm on April 15, 2008, 10:27 AM »

Spending a lot of time on forums seems to indicate loneliness.

A desire to help people with very few outlets to do it.
Although the internet is expanding greatly in this category,
being with someone for real is a better happiness which fluctuates anyway, in any situation.

Polls are not accurate sometimes, unless you have really honest people.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Is Firefox 3.0 the "Fat Elvis?"

« Last post by cmpm on April 15, 2008, 10:09 AM »

I think firefox people are listening to the feedback.

And yes IE^ was good and customizable.
That's why I like Firefox with Google toolbar.
You can put icons anywhere, even up with the menu bar.
Like IE6.

Carol, you may want to use Minimize to Tray add on to keep Firefox running. Check 'minimize on close' option.
It pops up instantly.

Minimize to Tray enhancer doesn't do much more.
It allows 'start with windows'.
But that can be done by putting a shortcut in the Start folder.

I'd like an add on that auto sets Firefox to the home page when hitting the close button.
I sometimes find that I've left a page open that I meant to reset to my home page.

Opera was to much for me to learn new things imo.
It seems to be a very different setup.
Though it's still on my computer, I prefer firefox.

IE7 is history except when needed.
Who came up with that design anyway?
I guess simple was the idea.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Disable right Mouseclick (please help for charity!!Seriously!!)

« Last post by cmpm on April 13, 2008, 05:22 AM »

Ok, for win 98-

http://www.bluechill...m/details/23394.html

Just do a search for
'disable right click windows 98'
and there are a few more.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: middle click on desktop to get quick launch or 'start menu'

« Last post by cmpm on April 13, 2008, 01:47 AM »

IntelliPoint 6.2 can do this with any mouse with a middle click.
Any button can start a program.
Set the options when setting up to 'Optical Mouse'.
And it will work with any three button mouse I know of.

http://www.filehippo...wnload_intellipoint/

Note bottom left corner of screenshot.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Disable right Mouseclick (please help for charity!!Seriously!!)

« Last post by cmpm on April 13, 2008, 01:25 AM »

I thought you could disable it in control panel-mouse.
But then does the right click function go to somewhere else?

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Living Room / Re: Offline Computing :The End

« Last post by cmpm on April 12, 2008, 04:30 PM »

There is a tremendous need for offline applications for third world countries. Where there is no online service within reason. All the doctors need them. Of course they need the computers as well.

In the health industry there is always a way to get used computers to those who need them the most.

The programs needed are not as hard to get as the computers and especially online service.

Heard this from the county health director in my area.

For instance, the African Nations are in much disarray, yet there are doctors there who would benefit from a computer with programs, even basic word processing suites.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Camstasia alternatives

« Last post by cmpm on April 12, 2008, 03:10 AM »

some online/offline ones

http://www.utipu.com/app/

http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/create

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Camstasia alternatives

« Last post by cmpm on April 12, 2008, 02:31 AM »

Cool, keep 'em coming.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Camstasia alternatives

« Last post by cmpm on April 12, 2008, 12:33 AM »

http://www.nbxsoft.com/

Found this while surfing.
Seems decent and works.
As well as the other programs.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox : frames and other graphics disappear in DonationCoder.com's layout

« Last post by cmpm on April 11, 2008, 05:05 AM »

Good Idea nosh.
Here's the cache-

C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Local Settings\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\wxzofc4h.default

2 of them on my computer.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox : frames and other graphics disappear in DonationCoder.com's layout

« Last post by cmpm on April 10, 2008, 07:27 AM »

I believe it's the "Lo-Fi" version of the page you are seeing.
That happens to me occasionally, not only here, but other forums as well.
I usually have to restart the comp if reloading the page don't work after a few tries.
And that's with Firefox as well.

Go to the bottom of this page-

http://www.thefreewareforum.com/

Click the 'lo-fi version'
and see if that is what you are getting.

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Living Room / Re: Two Mysterious folders

« Last post by cmpm on April 09, 2008, 11:20 AM »

Try a system restore to a point before they appeared.
Last nights update killed my internet connection.
But I was able to get it back after rebooting my modem and router.

Found one numeric file in the root and was able to delete it.

This is USA eastern standard time btw.

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Living Room / Re: Your happiness right now

« Last post by cmpm on April 08, 2008, 09:50 AM »

I've come across this in my life.
It has helped.
Part of many things I have seen and learned.

http://www.sacredart...ng.org/enneagram.htm

This is pretty cool but not something to live by, cause we do change.
More like a scent of the smoke of the fire within.

http://www.enneagram...om/dis_sample_36.asp

Happiness comes and goes I guess.
Leveling around 60%.
Even though I can relate to 'why am I here doing this'.
When I think there is something else I could be doing better.
But that passes and I just have to go with the flow.
And keep an eye out for better things ahead.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Download and convert video from YouTube

« Last post by cmpm on April 07, 2008, 11:47 AM »

I'm glad someone is trying to do something with IE7, man it sure needs help.
I've used Firefox for a while and switched back to IE7 for a little bit.
But I couldn't even stand the way it looks!
Can you do something to help in the themes department?
It sure is ugly!

Not to take away from the work you did for this plugin.
Which helps IE7, but it needs more then this imo.

Thanks for the plugin!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Memory Address Space

« Last post by cmpm on April 03, 2008, 09:21 PM »

Here's one that just came up at snapfiles.

The info-

http://www.ks-soft.n.../procmeter/index.htm

The free download-

http://www.snapfiles...m/get/procmeter.html

Looks pretty close to what you are looking for.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Get to the Point!?

« Last post by cmpm on April 02, 2008, 10:25 AM »

Worked that time.
But I had to try it a couple of times.
Once it said it can't do it because it was a site that was logged into.
But it worked the next try.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Get to the Point!?

« Last post by cmpm on April 02, 2008, 10:20 AM »

I think it takes some playing around with it.
I highlighted your edit ecept the word edit.
Let's see.

http://awurl.com/nvcxvb37955