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Post New Requests Here / Re: "PazzPort Helper"
« Last post by rjbull on May 17, 2010, 03:12 PM »
Would mouser's TapTap Hotkey Extender work?
It monitors for certain unusual hotkey combinations not supported by most programs (like doubletap right shift key). When such hotkey combinations are detected, TapTap will simulate a normal hotkey that the user has configured.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Window maximizer (auto window manager)
« Last post by rjbull on May 17, 2010, 03:03 PM »
Can you make a shortcut to your program, change the Properties of the shortcut to Run: Maximized, and run the shortcut instead of the program directly?  Does that work for you?  Example below:
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Post New Requests Here / Re: request jpg resizer
« Last post by rjbull on May 16, 2010, 03:05 PM »
Have you tried Resize, freeware by Peter Bone?
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I got interested in HotKeyz's learn-by-example macro feature, but it appears not to work on Vista Home Premium with UAC On.  The help file doesn't say why, just that it only work with UAC Off.  Pity.  I also notice something in HotKeyP's Help file about the Vista and the "hook."
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Post New Requests Here / Re: Compare 2 files and list differences...
« Last post by rjbull on May 16, 2010, 10:14 AM »
+1 for Total Commander.  I also have a license for ExamDiff Pro; I personally only used it for file differences, but it will compare and synchronize directores as well.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Recommend anti-spyware, please?
« Last post by rjbull on May 15, 2010, 02:15 PM »
I refuse to purchase this F-PROT, [...] Is it "good", this five-for-one anti-virus?

I don't know if it's "better" or "worse" than othe AVs; as they share virus information, I assumed that efficiency was fairly similar?  An assumption that's not  very safe, I suppose.  But, F-Prot for DOS was free (at least for personal use) and I used it along with the now-defunct TBAV for some years.  When I needed an AV for Windows, it was not only the first one I thought of, but I felt I was paying something back to the company as a debt of honour.
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For intellysinc

Thanks - got it now.  Looks like this is going to take some effort, though!
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Luckily i don't really need this product since there are many other good editors around.
It's just my sense of collecting such tools who let me be after this  :P

Yes, I think I ought to learn to use the tools I've got rather than accumulate new ones, but, oh dear, DC is all about software addiction   ;)
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it looks to me like HotKeyz doesn't recognise mouse clicks as input but it will do it as output. in other words, if i wanted to associate a macro to a simultaneous left and right button click (that i manually perform) it won't do it. but it will allow me to create a keyboard hotkey that will then perform mouse clicks for me (i want to do the reverse of that, if you see what i mean).

Not entirely, but as you observe, it's easy to get confused with these things.  If you're interested in a more mouse-centric program and don't want to go the PowerPro route, have you looked at RemoteKeys?  It's another one I haven't tried - maybe I should make a resolution not to suggest things I haven't extensively tested myself  :-[

From RemoteKeys Readme.txt:
RemoteKeys is a button-based automation tool with macro recorder and timer.
It can automate complex control systems.
It can replace all complicated keystroke combinations with simple button clicks.
It can send text modules to any window and form and many more.

[...]

RemoteKeys is freeware for private use but restricted for commercial use.

i could well be wrong that HotKeyz doesn't do these things but i couldn't see how and the help file didn't explain how either.

Sounds like it doesn't, then.  But it might be worth e-mailing the author to check, or suggest as a new feature.

until then it was looking like a very good hotkey manager.

I'd guess that HotKeyP does most of what it does, except for learn-by-example macros, but HotKeyz looks the most polished of the dedicated hotkey programs, at least of the ones that are free.
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You might want to look at Pimlical (www.pimlicosoftware.com)
I'm using that to sync both an old IIIx and a relatively new Pal Pre to Palm desktop 6.2.2.
-cranioscopical (May 11, 2010, 03:58 PM)

I e-mailed Pimlico back in January.  Their reply to me reads, in part:


If you are using 64-bit Vista, you can only sync via Bluetooth. If you have 32-bit Vista, you should be able to get at least part of synching working
with the V-6.2 Palm Desktop although you may have a problem with the contacts database as the T3 has an older format for the database.

I have 32-bit, so don't have to bother with Bluetooth, but the part about database formats sounded a problem.  Do you mean that not only can you sync, but the 6.2 Desktop will correctly show you the contents, let you edit them, and sync back to the PDAs?
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HotKeyz looks kind of nice, with the use of icons for hotkey items but i can't see how it uses mouse buttons for input - nor does it appear to have a pause.

Sanity check; I haven't used it myself, at least, not much and not recently.  But, according to the Web version of HotKeyz Online Help, it has both mouse actions and Pause and Wait commands.

Mouse Actions:
LButton                - Left Mouse Button
MButton                - Middle Mouse Button
RButton                - Right Mouse Button

Wait

This command waits for the time in milli-seconds specified in the parameter tab. This command should only be used as part of the Multiple Commands. When you want to wait between commands then specify a waiting period.

Special command:

Pause (Use this half a second pause between remap commands)

I also e-mailed Magnus and suggested he made the more interesting features more obvious on the HotKeyz Web page, also that he might make a version that didn't need an installer.
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Just for the record, it looks like HotKeyz can do the same sort of things as HotKeyP, including multiple keys triggered by a single hotkey, and "macros" in the sense of being able to follow your keypresses and mouse movements.  The Web site says it can be USB portable in saving files to the application directory, but it only seems to come as an installer.
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@ha14:  I think Pumatech must have disappeared; can't find a Web site.  The main hits for Intellisync seem to be related to Nokia, presumably specific to them, unless I'm barking up the wrong tree entirely?

@tsaint:  Your solution sounds scarily technical, but it seems the problem may not, after all, be the OS as such.  Loading the Palm TX (Palm 6?) Desktop allows a one-way sync from Palm T3 to PC, but opening the Desktop gives blank entries.  I am told that Palm changed the database format between T3 and TX, which is why the Desktop won't show anything.  You'd think they would have added a conversion program  :(  It puts Palm on my black list of companies whose products I won't buy in future.
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Living Room / Re: Must Login to BDJ to See All Future Deals Now
« Last post by rjbull on May 10, 2010, 02:31 PM »
I don’t know - he claims to never sell or give out info to any other entity; he already has my email address from the daily deal email subscription and he appears clean on that front.

I haven't seen any obvious spam from Bits du Jour yet either, and I'd already signed up for weekly updates before they started this.  But I don't want to see any in future either...   >:(

Looks like it might be a way for him to "customize" deals for individual people. I don’t think I want yet another organization tracking where I look and what I buy so they can tailor ads to what they perceive as my interests.

I agree  :(  Have you noticed that people who post in BdJ's "Suggestions" are now labelled Bright Spark, Rising Star, Frequent Flyer or Superstar?  Is that supposed to make people feel good?
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Living Room / Re: Must Login to BDJ to See All Future Deals Now
« Last post by rjbull on May 10, 2010, 07:21 AM »
Hmm... I just dropped in at Bits duJour earlier to see what deals are coming up for the next week and - I could only see a couple days of deals. They just put a lock on their Future Deals page and you must register and log in to see more than two days of deals now.

I noticed that, and thought it strange, annoying and pointless, unless they intend to harvest the e-mail addresses and sell them.

No explanation given that I can find. There is a link for "more info" but it just took me to their forum where a thread about this was filled with a lot of folks complaining about having to log in and allow cookies. The admin there, Nico, mentioned that he wants to "…incentivize people to sign up and log in". Why the hell would he want to motivate people to have to log in to see his Future Deals?? 

Beats me - unless you subscribe to the sinister explanation above...  I already am signed up for their weekly list, and had subscribed via two different addresses on different days to get overlapping lists.  But I would still like to see forthcoming attractions without fuss.

(I'm not going to use that neologism Nico used!).

Sound fellow!  I came across another unpleasant mangling of the language the other day - "disablism"  :(
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okay, that's interesting about PowerPro. i'll try it out tomorrow. i wonder if it requires tray icons being visible (i.e. not hidden in the tray).

We really are thinking along the same lines; after I logged off, I began to wonder about that.  Vista Home Premium hides buttons if you don't use them.  You can tell it to keep them visible, but control isn't as powerful as I'd like.  I've also found that it occasionally misses things in the start-up list, probably because start-up is trying to do too many things at once.  Missing buttons would put the rest in the wrong order, with undefined results.

HokeyP does have the mouse button control i was after - it just wasn't obvious as it doesn't appear to recognise my netbooks left mouse/pad button (it does recognise left and right buttons together though).

What would happen if you used mouser's TapTap Hotkey Extender that allows you to define things like a double tap on the right shift key, and remap them to keys you really want?

i'm finding HotkeyP to be quite impressive (it does help reading the help file i suppose).

I could have done with a better Help file and some examples myself, but at least a Help file exists.  Also, HotKeyP has been mentioned on DC before, so users are around to be consulted.

you can give it a set of commands in a list form and it will step through them with each hotkey press - so, that's a single specific hotkey to traverse a list of commands. not sure if it's useful but i find that interesting.

That presumably means that you don't need as many hotkeys to perform an action as you otherwise would, so saving them for other uses, and also reducing memory strain  ;)
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but i was wondering the very same thing about (locating) tray icons and selecting the right option(s) from their corresponding menus.

PowerPro has something it calls "tray support," which suggests it's possible.  I can't test it at present as I don't have it installed here; PowerPro really needs to be run as admin and I normally only operate from a user account.
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Screenshot Captor / Re: ScreenshotCaptor folder opens
« Last post by rjbull on May 09, 2010, 05:00 PM »
mouser on the case    8)

Meanwhile, how about a kludge?  How about using something like ClickOff (freeware) or PTFB Pro (payware) or PTFB (last free version) to automatically close the dialog box for you?  Doesn't solve the problem, only the symptoms, but might reduce the irritation until mouser finds a proper fix.
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i see HotkeyP has mouse button control too.

I was impressed to see that both HotKeyP and Clavier can simulate mouse actions, and the former also has "system level" commands that HoeKey does (terminate process etc.).  Both can send multiple keystrokes, so apart from lacking flow control, they're essentially poor man's macro programs.  I wondered if you could do things like set a hotkey to click tray icons and interact with any menus that might pop up, though I haven't tried it.  That is, if the on/off switch was on such a menu, maybe one could set a pair of hotkeys that way.

AHK or another "proper" macro program will give you more control, but I too don't use AHK much because of the greater effort.

You posted while I was still typing - have to digest your latest comment   ;)
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Screenshot Captor / Re: ScreenshotCaptor folder opens
« Last post by rjbull on May 09, 2010, 02:58 PM »
I just ran into the same problem.  I think this should work - load Options (Control-P from main screen), go down to the "Saving and Loading Files" tab, and uncheck the "Save As Options - Open folder after save as box":

mouser... ??
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You're using programs that don't have a built-in system for saving work automatically?  Well, you have quite a lot of requirements.  As a starter, three thoughts:

1) Use programs that do have auto-save and auto-backup.  E.g., NoteTab Pro has both.

2) Use a program that sends Control-S = "Save file" to your application at regular intervals.  There used to be one called Helmet at http://www.jimmythefork.com/ but I can't see it at present.  I e-mailed to ask.  You could roll your own with AutoHotKey or one of the other macro programs.

[Edit], 2010-05-11: Fidel, author of Helmet, says he took it off his site because it didn't get many hits, but it's still available on request.[/Edit]

3) Use a keylogger that tracks everything you type (this is assuming you're using an editor/word processor type application).  I tried this using the keylogging feature of PowerPro, though I have to say that reconstructing meaningful information from the log files was more effort than expected.
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hotkey toggle to pause their other functions then i'll be very interested in them.

I don't use hotkeys much, but do run HoeKey, great little program, not least for having things like Terminate Current Process and hide/unhide windows on a stack.  I haven't checked HotKeyz because it has to be installed.  Someone asked about a hotkey to toggle Comfort Keys (which I do have installed) in their forum: Comfort Keys Lite Tastenkrzel activate / deactivate?.  There isn't one, but the author suggested a workaround by using a hotkey to load a blank Comfort Keys shortcuts file.  The other two are, or can be, no-install.  As far as I can see from the docs, only HotKeyP has a global toggle for itself, assuming I'm reading it correctly.  I'll be interested to hear of your investigations  :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: What's your preferred File Manager
« Last post by rjbull on May 09, 2010, 10:48 AM »
XYPlorer also has a lot of features but TBH I Don’t know how to use a lot of them.

Same here.  I use Total Commander almost all the time.  But when I was at work, XY was brilliant for doing unindexed searches on the company network, especially when I wanted to do something with the found files, not just find where they were.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Clipboard Managing-Which one?
« Last post by rjbull on May 09, 2010, 10:39 AM »
As someone who uses text clips (not images) quite intensively, I can recommend this combination:

My combination at work was ArsClip and CHS, though at home I mostly just use the latter.

ArsClip (Very good). Saves images and text.

True, but it has a default setting to not save non-text clips above a certain size.  I can't remember the default, but recommend users check it's big enough to fit their needs and adjust if necessary.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Clipboard Managing-Which one?
« Last post by rjbull on May 09, 2010, 10:33 AM »
Mostly, I only want to retain clipboard history for a while, and have it deleted on FIFO basis.
This is true for me most of the time, and ClipMate makes this very easy.   

It's a feature I can't see in CLCL, and one of the reasons why I rarely use the latter.  Also true of the old free version of ClipCache, though the current payware version is much more sophisticated.

I value very highly ClipMate's "powerpaste" feature; this permits me to take a bunch of clips and paste them into a document in sequence just by hitting CTL-V.

I never really got into ClipMate, but that sounds a potentially useful feature.  Some of the freewares have something similar, e.g. ArsClip's Form Mode, though I've never used it.
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