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General Software Discussion / Re: Kingsoft Office

« Last post by Paul Keith on September 27, 2008, 11:25 PM »

Unfortunately this seems just like a tabbed up Office Suite when I checked it out. It obviously has some built in features like encryption and search boxes but I doubt that alone would get them some new customers.

I was disappointed by their Klonoa mascot though. Usually when people opt for this, it means the interface is much more user friendlier than your run of the mill OpenOffice and MS Office but what I saw staring in front of my eyes was a very foreign if not slightly similar to general Office Suite user interface. (Of course Tux is an exception to this but it's still an illusion downer)

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General Software Discussion / Re: What are your opinions on sites like Hordit?

« Last post by Paul Keith on September 27, 2008, 11:21 PM »

@Paul Keith

I see your point, I am waiting for google to come out with something like that. I wouldn't be surprised if they haven't already thought of it and already have something in the works.

-Cloq (September 27, 2008, 09:12 PM)

Well technically if you combine Google Suite, IGoogle and Google Sites, that's what you get. I doubt they'll bother with it though. Google has a tendency to buy niche services more than bother with making these services.

Also, they often get a poor rep with privacy so I doubt they'll pursue this route. Google often dodges these by creating a better counterpart of an existing service but in the case of this, it's not popular enough.

By the way, has anyone tried the service? I'm still holding off because I'm not sure whether to trust this site or not. The disappearance of byteswap makes me extremely leery but I can't find a service quite like this.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What are your opinions on sites like Hordit?

« Last post by Paul Keith on September 27, 2008, 08:32 PM »

Thanks but I don't think it's the same. The site is more like a legal document counterpart to Scrbd where Hordit is about all files in general.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What are your opinions on fan-editing?

« Last post by Paul Keith on September 27, 2008, 06:20 PM »

f0dder, I think it's to appease the general audiences who don't know much about Dune. It's much more easier to relate to the cliche plotline of an evil mad conqueror than an equal struggle between three factions.

Don't get your high hopes on fanedit though. At first, I was impressed until I realize more than 50% of the fanedit there had no comments or reviews.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox 3.03 released

« Last post by Paul Keith on September 27, 2008, 06:16 PM »

Yeah, after my recent trouble with extensions and now this, it's making me leave Firefox again.

This is such a critical bug, I'm surprised they haphazardly released an update.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What are your opinions on sites like Hordit?

« Last post by Paul Keith on September 27, 2008, 06:13 PM »

Cloq, true enough however this is not an online backup per se (which is why I made it on a separate thread) as much as a Digg for File Sharing (which makes it more like Pownce) but with the intent on Profile making and File Gathering (which is more similar to FriendFeed, RSS Readers and Social Bookmarkers) that I'm not sure it applies much here since 99x of the focus is on documents (like Google Docs and Scribd) and less on mass downloading.

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General Software Discussion / What are your opinions on sites like Hordit?

« Last post by Paul Keith on September 27, 2008, 10:40 AM »

http://www.hordit.com/

Awhile back when I was searching for online backup services on my own, I found ByteSwap but never really tried it.

Today while organizing some of my files, I found the name again, did a search and Google linked me to this site and it seems alot has changed so my question to you all is, what are your opinions on the concept of "file profiling"?

Usually the saying goes that when something is too good to be true, it probably is but I could neither find an in depth good or bad review of this service which most services have in bundles so...your thoughts?

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DC Gamer Club / Re: This man knows what is he talking about! (CHECK IT OUT!)

« Last post by Paul Keith on September 27, 2008, 06:14 AM »

Haha, to each his own then. I could never ever feel like an ordinary Joe in HL even before I saw the Gordon Freeman artwork but that's my problem with most FPS. You make a guy so ordinary than it becomes unrealistic when he becomes a one man killing machine.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Damn it, why don't I ever learn. Anyone else having this problem with Firefox 3?

« Last post by Paul Keith on September 27, 2008, 06:08 AM »

I might just have to do that. This doesn't look like an extension problem, even just enabling and clicking on Adblock's option screen causes the extension page to freeze.

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General Software Discussion / Re: The New (And Improved?) VLC

« Last post by Paul Keith on September 27, 2008, 06:07 AM »

Hmm...strange. It does on mine here and I didn't do anything but install it. You're using the Windows version right?

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General Software Discussion / Re: The New (And Improved?) VLC

« Last post by Paul Keith on September 26, 2008, 08:04 AM »

Try it on this

It could be just that the file is corrupted. I never did check with another player.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What are your opinions on fan-editing?

« Last post by Paul Keith on September 26, 2008, 03:20 AM »

well, the phantom menace was certainly better after they fan edited jar jar binks out of it.

google/youtube aren't going to promote/mention it as it's obviously violating copyright just to start editing someone's work without their consent.

-nudone (September 26, 2008, 03:07 AM)

Well google and yahoo certainly don't have a problem when you do a search for p2p.

I've thought for many years that this is going to be the future of movie making.  In the next decade i predict that when a new movie is released i theatres, the complete unedited raw footage of the shooting of the movie (hundreds of hours of different takes, etc.) will be available on the web for people to reassemble and re-edit.

Yeah, same here mouser that's why I'm hoping to jump the bandwagon before it catches on but so far no luck on finding a newb friendly guide.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Damn it, why don't I ever learn. Anyone else having this problem with Firefo

« Last post by Paul Keith on September 26, 2008, 03:19 AM »

Thanks sri but I know of that extension already. I just never bothered because I often use the opportunity to use a blank version of Firefox to check out all the new extensions that I never tried just right around when a new version of FF is announced. (Best time to check out new extensions IMO)

Incompatible extensions don't bother me that much. It's the bugs that result from arguing extensions that causes me to pull my hair out of my head in frustration. (Tab Mix Plus and All-in-One Sidebar being famous for these)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Damn it, why don't I ever learn. Anyone else having this problem with Firefo

« Last post by Paul Keith on September 26, 2008, 03:02 AM »

Yeah, I was considering that but I just wasn't in the mood. This requires going through all my extensions one by one which I just had to add on the day before an upgrade that I didn't know about and there's no easy way to tell the problem because all my extensions (meaning all those buttons disappeared) no longer work so...aaarrrgghhh...sorry, this is driving me to ADHD.

It's precisely the problem I had back then when I was starting out with Firefox so I specifically avoided all the troublesome add-ons and I was tolerant of extensions sometimes not working on the newer version but this is too much for me.

Oh and I just do the lazy way of having Flock around to import all the files I need when this happens but it's still annoying.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Damn it, why don't I ever learn. Anyone else having this problem with Firefo

« Last post by Paul Keith on September 26, 2008, 02:41 AM »

Thanks. 

Oh well...back to mainly using Opera.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What are your opinions on fan-editing?

« Last post by Paul Keith on September 26, 2008, 02:40 AM »

It's basically taking a movie and editing it.

Kind of like the many Youtube videos involving excerpts from one movie or another (I don't know how to do those either) except the intent here is to use the technique on an entire movie. Sometimes with the intent of improving the movie based on the editors' own vision.

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General Software Discussion / What are your opinions on fan-editing?

« Last post by Paul Keith on September 26, 2008, 02:35 AM »

I just did a search on DC about fan-edits and didn't find anything so I was wondering what this board's opinions on it are.

It seems even the frontpage of Google doesn't like it because I haven't found any software or howto guides about it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: The New (And Improved?) VLC

« Last post by Paul Keith on September 26, 2008, 02:28 AM »

Beware, I have this thing crash on me when I played a .ogg file.

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General Software Discussion / Damn it, why don't I ever learn. Anyone else having this problem with Firefox 3?

« Last post by Paul Keith on September 26, 2008, 02:27 AM »

So things were finally settling down and after fighting the temptation for so long, I just had to "increase" my Firefox extension list and all was working dandy when I closed it.

Then I opened it up today, FF updated to 3.0.2 and now all my extensions have disappeared and my add-on screen seems corrupted. I don't mean disabled extensions. I mean ALL extensions just don't appear and when you go to the add-on screen and click on anything, it just hangs.

Everything else seems to be working fine though but it acts like vanilla Firefox all over again without the ability to use any of the extensions ever. God, damn it! I need a hit yourself in the head smiley for this.

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

« Last post by Paul Keith on September 24, 2008, 06:26 PM »

Naw man, post away.

I checked the rar file and it's right at home with everyone else's.

I can't speak for everyone but usually what I think people or at least I consider lots of extensions are those with tons of toolbars + the extensions you listed.

To get an idea of this, go and download all the toolbars in the FF extensions page and create a self made ribbon for FF.

Btw, if you like the vertical tab bar of tabkit, you might want to check out Tree Style Tabs.

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Living Room / Re: Should I Stay Or Should I Go -- A Social Networking Dilemma

« Last post by Paul Keith on September 24, 2008, 03:38 PM »

I'm not really sure. Have you tried out Profilactic or at least FriendFeed?

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

« Last post by Paul Keith on September 24, 2008, 03:24 PM »

Oh well, here's all my add-ons

- Adblock Filterset.G Updater
   http://www.pierceive.com/
   Synchronizes Adblock with Filterset.G
- Adblock Plus
   http://adblockplus.org/
   Ads were yesterday!
- Addictive Typing Lessons
   http://www.geocities..._typing_lessons.html
   Learn touch typing. Click the icon in the status bar to run it.
- AutoPager
   http://www.teesoft.info/
   AutoPager is a firefox/mozilla extension to autoloading next page at backgrand.And you can use it an XPath generator too.
- Better Gmail
   http://www.ginatrapa...firefox/bettergmail/
   Enhances Gmail with over 25 additional features.  Works with the classic Gmail interface.
- Better Gmail 2
   http://ginatrapani.o...irefox/bettergmail2/
   Enhances Gmail with a compilation of user scripts and styles.   All scripts copyright their original authors. Click on the script homepage in the Help tab for more information.
- BetterCache
   http://netcat.ath.cx/extensions.html
   Removes anti-cache server response headers
- CookieSwap
   http://cookieSwap.mozdev.org
   Tool to save and swap out a collection of cookies on the fly
- CustomizeGoogle
   http://www.customizegoogle.com/
   Enhance Google search results and remove ads and spam.
- Diigo Bookmarks and Web Annotations
   http://www.diigo.com/
   Bookmark, highlight, and add sticky notes on any web page. Save your bookmarks on the web so you can access them anywhere.
- DownThemAll!
   http://downthemall.net/
   The mass downloader for Firefox.
- ErrorZilla Mod
   http://www.jaybaldwi....com/Blog.aspx?cid=4
   Implements a useful error page when a website cannot be reached.
- Evernote Web Clipper
   http://www.evernote.com/
   Provides a button and context menus to easily add a selection or an entire page to Evernote
- Extension List Dumper
   http://sogame.awardspace.com/
   Dumps a list of the installed extensions.
- Flashblock
   http://flashblock.mozdev.org/
   Replaces Flash objects with a button you can click to view them.
- Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer
   http://www.foxmarks.com/
   Synchronizes your bookmarks across machines.
- Gmail Manager
   http://www.longfocus...om/firefox/gmanager/
   Gmail accounts management and new mail notifications.
- Google Gears
   http://gears.google.com/
   These are the gears that power the tubes! :-)
- Grocery List Generator
   http://www.captaincaveman.nl
   Generate your grocery list.
- Highlander
   http://tech.einaregi...projects/highlander/
   There can be only one...    ...tab for each url.
- ImageTweak
   http://cafxx.strayorange.com
   Enhances the vision of direct images
- Java Console
- LastPass
   http://lastpass.com/
   Last Password you will ever need
- Line Marker
   http://piro.sakura.n.../_linemarker.html.en
   Adds a new menu "Line Marker" to the context menu. It changes color of selection.
- Magic's Video - Downloader
   http://www.magic-imv.ro/vd/
   Download videos from Video.Google.com; Youtube.com; Metacafe.Com; 220.ro; Trilulilu.Ro; Neogen - Video; 2XtremeBoom.phg.ro; Metacafe.Ro; xtube.com; redtube.com; xhamster.com; myvideo.de; peteava.ro; myspace.com; ifilm.com (spike.com); dailymotion.com; pornhub.com; gametrailers.com; mymusclevideo.com; vbox7.com; video.acasa.ro; crunchyroll.com; wrzuta.pl; supernovatube.com; 420tube.com; godtube.com; tnaflix.com; video.rol.ro; protv.ro, a lot more websites will be added!
- Menu Mod
   http://ugray.be/menumod/
   Adds many options to modify Firefox menus.
- OperaView
   http://operaview.mozdev.org/
   Open pages in Opera from Firefox, Mozilla, Flock and Netscape 8 context menus.
- QuickDrag
   http://mozilla.ktech...uting.com/quickdrag/
   Extends the function of the drag-and-drop mouse gesture so that it can be used to load URLs, do a web search of selected text on a page, or save an image on a page.
- QuickRestart
   http://es.geocities....carlosa/quickaddons/
   Adds a "Restart Firefox" item to the "File" menu.
- Resurrect Pages
   http://trac.arantius...Extensions/Resurrect
   Resurrect dead pages, by finding their ghosts.
- RSVP Reader
   http://hireme.robswebpages.com
   An RSVP tool that allows people to read text on the web up to 3.5 times faster.
- ScrapBook
   http://amb.vis.ne.jp/mozilla/scrapbook/
   Helps you to save Web pages and organize the collection.
- Session Manager
   http://sessionmanager.mozdev.org/
   Saves and restores the state of all windows.
- Shareaholic
   http://shareaholic.com
   Found something awesome online and can't wait to pass it on?  Easily share, bookmark and e-mail web pages with Shareaholic.
- Stylish
   http://userstyles.org/stylish/
   Customize the look of websites and of the user interface.
- Tab Catalog
   http://piro.sakura.n.../_tabcatalog.html.en
   Shows thumbnail-style catalog of tabs.
- Tab Counter
   Counts the number of open tabs.
- Taboo
   http://runningfrombears.com/taboo
   The cure for tabitis
- Tabs Open Relative
   http://jomel.me.uk/s...ox/tabsopenrelative/
   Tabs open to the right of the current one.
- Undo Closed Tabs Button
   http://code.google.com/p/uctb/
   Add a toolbar and/or tab bar button to undo closed tabs
- Universal Print
   http://www.vibrantde....swizi.com/uniprint/
   Prints all currently open tabs via right-click or Tools menu.
- YouPlayer
   Advanced video-site player and download tool

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General Software Discussion / Re: AVG vs TicTocTitle

« Last post by Paul Keith on September 24, 2008, 03:19 PM »

they locked me out of the forum a couple of years ago

I don't mean to offend but when a forum does this especially a security related one, isn't it time to switch products?

Thanks for the heads up though.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 7 -- ribbons for everyone!

« Last post by Paul Keith on September 24, 2008, 02:52 PM »

Hmm... I don't use FARR but this sounds interesting. Care to elaborate?

-Paul Keith (September 23, 2008, 09:35 PM)

I'll let others elaborate for me

-Lashiec (September 24, 2008, 07:58 AM)

Thanks! In the words of Carol:

Wow! That's brilliant - probably better than the 2007 ribbon or 2003 toolbars !

Now this is what everyone needs! 

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: The Superior Software List

« Last post by Paul Keith on September 24, 2008, 02:48 PM »

Paul, I wasn't that offended, I'm a pretty mellow guy.  I just wanted to point it out.  I know where you're coming from, don't worry about it.  This is a different kind of forum, and people are doing such nice things for each other, we go out of our way to always be polite.  It starts from mouser and extends all the way down.

Glad things worked out. Yeah, the quality of this forum is worth a guide by itself on how to achieve the same quality on other forums.