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Post New Requests Here / Re: Remove App Button From Taskbar without Minimizing it

« Last post by justice on June 07, 2007, 03:07 AM »

TrayIt! can do it. Right click the minimize button and click "place in tray"

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: predictive text for ms word

« Last post by justice on June 06, 2007, 03:15 PM »

Hey mouser would it be hard to apply the scoring mechanism of FARR to an app like LetMeType? The sourcecode is available, it seems like LetMeType does not have any scoring mechanism, for example with FARR the results you choose get a higher ranking. Adding this to LetMeType would make it a much more valuable app. Or maybe release something similar as LetMeType but with the FARR engine?

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Microsoft OneNote 2007

« Last post by justice on June 06, 2007, 05:47 AM »

I thought you were talking about mht files, which have an .mht extension? Not CHM. If I have made a wrong suggestion i am sorry.
Save a webpage with IE with file -> save as -> web archive and you can open it up in opera.

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General Software Discussion / Re: how to reduce pagefile usage?

« Last post by justice on June 05, 2007, 09:49 AM »

Windows XP myths, as linked to above by justice seems to suggest that setting the pagefile to its own partition on the same physical drive is a no-no anyway

-Darwin (June 05, 2007, 09:40 AM)

Well in a way but it doesn't really say that. It says that the preferred situation is to set the pagefile to a different physical drive. If you have multiple partitions on the same drive, moving the page file off the first partition will just move it further away from the fastest part of your harddrive (the beginning).

BTW, in vista the dialog has changed a little, it seems the OS is aware of multiple physical disks and can manage this effectively on its own (or not, whether or not grayed out options reflect the managed status or the disabled user options):

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Living Room / Re: Why do so many micropayment systems fail?

« Last post by justice on June 05, 2007, 04:37 AM »

Why Paypal is not any good for microdonations:

http://www.ppcalc.com/


It takes 23 percent of a 1 pound donation.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Microsoft OneNote 2007

« Last post by justice on June 05, 2007, 02:49 AM »

Opera browser opens MHT files, they call it Web Archive (single file)

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General Software Discussion / Re: how to reduce pagefile usage?

« Last post by justice on June 04, 2007, 05:31 PM »

There are many tweaks on pagefile usage, however the people in the know agree that Windows does the best job if you just let the system manage it. It is actually swapping out dlls that it can still load in when needed but making room for your apps. Limiting the pagefile, fixing its size etc will just limit your performance not increase it. Running less apps, minimizing windows (so their memory will be written to pagefile) or buying more RAM / quicker Harddisk are really the only significant ways to improve performance.

A great site about performance myths on XP is Xp Myths. IT deals with  Clearing the Paging File, Disable the Paging File, Moving the Paging File and Paging File RAMdisk.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Semi-Automated file naming

« Last post by justice on June 03, 2007, 03:25 PM »

Would be good for an coding snack!
Basically an interface that renames files based on the data in the summary tab and a user defined scheme of how to translate the metadata to a filename (first letter of each word).

A bit like Tag&Rename (this is a program to rename mp3s based on IDtags).

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Feature: include windows hotkeys?

« Last post by justice on June 03, 2007, 10:36 AM »

  I was thinking of mapping win-v to ctrl-alt-v but couldn't manage it with autohotkey, for some reason the keys seem to stick (ctrl was always pressed) under vista.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Microsoft OneNote 2007

« Last post by justice on June 02, 2007, 07:37 PM »

Sorry I did say that but after checking this it seems OOo can export to pdf without any extra software, but not edit pdf documents. My mistake, apologies. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Appget - user-run software update program

« Last post by justice on June 02, 2007, 03:48 PM »

another program that is similar but still in beta - filehippo.com Update Checker.
https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=8142.0

-lanux128 (June 02, 2007, 02:41 PM)

It is the same but it is different. FileHippo checks only applications that FileHippo provides for download, but always knows the real newest version. AppGet works with any application but depends on someone having the newest version installed.

Welcome to the forum jozydapozy, I was thinking maybe you could create a custom searchengine that queries the main download sites and change the "search" link to that page, you'd get better results. http://fileforum.betanews.com, filehippo, snapfiles.com, download.com that should probably cover most applications. In the customsearch you can choose just to mark these sites as most important, so not to exclude the rest of the net.

Also fileforum and filehippo (probably others) have an RSS feed where they announce their newest versions. if you could read in this data (xml) and update versions automatically that would be a major step forward.

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General Software Discussion / Appget - user-run software update program

« Last post by justice on June 02, 2007, 11:28 AM »

Researching for automatic update programs, I found Appget (direct download) (site is in dutch, but program is in english -- so use the babelfish translation to read more).

It scans the system for installed program then submits this list and compares it to the lists other users have submitted. If other people are running a newer version then it will notify you. It's possible to ignore items like windows updates, report version comparison problems (right click), submit urls for up-to-date versions, and search the app using google.

The application works really well but only programs that are detected through the add/remove programs list are detected. Also it depends on enough people using it so updates are found. Apart from these minor niggles, it's worth a look!



The author is very reponsive and friendly, I have discussed features in the past and sent him a link to this topic.

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Living Room / Re: How much does the internet weigh?

« Last post by justice on June 02, 2007, 10:17 AM »

For those who don't want to read all of the scientific background info:

Spoiler

The weight of the Internet adds up to just about 0.2 millionths of an ounce.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Microsoft OneNote 2007

« Last post by justice on June 02, 2007, 09:53 AM »

You can print notebooks to PDFs with a free pdf printer and then read out the data in OpenOffice (edit: not possible) and convert them to any data you like, right? I've not tested that but it should be possible. or export to webpage and word documents.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Post your FARR v2 Plugin Idea Requests Here - Plugin Writers Read In

« Last post by justice on June 01, 2007, 05:32 AM »

Good idea to allow any application to act a plugin.. I'd very much find that helpful because AutoHotkey can't compile into DLLs! So I can't return any informatino to FARR like you said. I'm not sure if to use the +keyword for this would be the best implementation though.

An alternative way of doing this:
* Someone would make a simple EXE output/stdout wrapper as a plugin (dll).

We would then just be able to create quick scripts that would integrate with farr without any extra work, using the current alias system. I'd pay some credits for a solution to this idea.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Microsoft OneNote 2007

« Last post by justice on May 31, 2007, 06:42 PM »

Great review. I never realised that OneNote had synchronisation capabilities!!! Now I really need to check it out, I guess I could make a shared notebook on USB and work in two locations and the changes would be merged? Never realised the potential for screenshots either, that would save so much typing!

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General Software Discussion / Re: RAID explained ?!

« Last post by justice on May 31, 2007, 06:22 PM »

If you are thinking of setting up a RAID for your desktop think again:
see these two excellent articles from CodingHorror:
You Want a 10000 RPM Boot Drive
Desktop RAID: Oversold?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Alias sharing

« Last post by justice on May 31, 2007, 05:50 PM »

* I downloaded the zipfile provided
* extracted it to C:\Program Files\FindAndRunRobot\Scripts\stt
* changed the alias to 1000>>>Switch To Task>->stt $$1 |C:\Program Files\FindAndRunRobot\Scripts\stt\SwitchToTask.exe $$1>+>^stt (.*)
* found the alias tab in FARR
* right click - paste preformatted alias group
* pasted in point 3

and it worked. I am using the Find+Run Robot v2.00.82 though. See the highlighted text below to verify that it works (the AHK icon and the switch to task text)

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Living Room / Re: Microsoft's proposed new user interface

« Last post by justice on May 31, 2007, 04:09 PM »

The best way for a lazy man to order a drink without going up to the bar. 

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Post your FARR v2 Plugin Idea Requests Here - Plugin Writers Read In

« Last post by justice on May 31, 2007, 01:42 PM »

Hi jsturtridge I have created a helper program to achieve this, although it would be great if someone could make a plugin that would show you the list of apps in the results window as you type, that would certainly minmize any typing mistakes.

Until that time try SwitchToTask

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ProcessTamer / Re: Vista 32bit & 64bit compatibility needed

« Last post by justice on May 31, 2007, 08:46 AM »

Any solution in sight yet? As I am no longer running windows defender for performance reasons I will test processtamer in admin mode again.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR V2 hyper-alpha - alias fiends available to test?

« Last post by justice on May 31, 2007, 03:00 AM »

@Liquidmantis Use locate32 with Farr

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General Software Discussion / Re: CBS buys last.fm for $280 m

« Last post by justice on May 30, 2007, 06:47 PM »

Exactly my sentiments. Wondering if it will turn out to be a bubble or not.
Now it's just waiting for yahoo or MS to buy Finetune.

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Living Room / Re: UK pc con (sorry, i mean repair) man captured for TV show

« Last post by justice on May 30, 2007, 06:40 AM »

I don't see how making phots or video's of the repair job is going to help really, there's nothing wrong with swapping the graphics card. It is if it's replaced by inferior models or if nothing is wrong. But you can't see that on the video.

I guess inventory sheets migth help, also explaining your procedure beforehand (on the website?) would probably be good. Or refunds on repairs if not satisfied.

For people with pc problems it's maybe a good idea before starting repairs (after diagnosis) to get a few quotes from different people.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR v2.00.82 ALPHA PREVIEW Release - APRIL 26, 2007

« Last post by justice on May 30, 2007, 04:24 AM »

The program continued to work perfectly!

-jnulu (May 29, 2007, 08:48 PM)

Good to hear! It was definately two versions of FARR conflicting with each other, the reason behind it is still unclear. Good luck.