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General Software Discussion / Re: In search of ideal backup utility

« Last post by Dormouse on August 23, 2008, 04:25 AM »

Btw, I review the series of screen shots by Dirhael and I find TitanBackup supports grouping.
Ah, why didn't you tell me at the beginning...

Seriously, do you know whether is it unicode aware and able to backup ADS?
If so, then it is one big step closer to my 7 needs, I wonder if the company gives discount to user who switch from their competitors...

Anyway, I will download it and flip through its features, thank you.

-tslim (August 22, 2008, 08:25 PM)

If you are interested in Titan,it might beworth keeping an eye on GAOTD; IIRC it's been on there twice in recent months 

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Circle Dock / Re: Windows 7's Taskbar....Err.....Circle Dock for the DC Programming Contest

« Last post by Dormouse on August 19, 2008, 04:16 AM »

Just so you know, i'm using 2 monitors and by default, the Dock appears right at the center of the 2 screens, that means half in one and half in the other one. I think it would be better to make it appear at the middle of the main monitor.

-Ti133700N (August 18, 2008, 11:49 PM)

Using the pre x86 v5 alpha,it does appear in the middle of the main monitor on my system .

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Circle Dock / Re: Windows 7's Taskbar....Err.....Circle Dock for the DC Programming Contest

« Last post by Dormouse on August 17, 2008, 09:39 PM »

Tried this. The Windows icon disappeared to be replaced by the original circle centre icon. No attempt to change the icon to anything else in the Icon folder worked.

Added a Dock Folder. It added an icon; when I tried to change that icon (can't remember what it was now), all the CircleDock icons originally loaded (but not connected to any programs/folders) disappeared to be replaced by questionmarks. No further attempt to change those icons worked. Actually, when I exited and restarted the program the new icons appeared.

-Dormouse (August 17, 2008, 09:23 PM)

Noted, I will try Circle Dock 0.9.2 on other computers I have access to and see if I can replicate the problem.

As a last resort, try http://circledock.wi...ck/CD0.9.2Alpha4.zip. It has the added exception handler and I cleared the dock items so you can try dragging and dropping fresh items onto the dock.

-VideoInPicture (August 17, 2008, 09:31 PM)

It's a relatively minor issue at this stage. It just means that the prog needs to be closed and reopened for icon changes to take effect. There's no problem with dragging new items to the dock.

Will try latest alpha tommorow. Off to bed now.

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Circle Dock / Re: Windows 7's Taskbar....Err.....Circle Dock for the DC Programming Contest

« Last post by Dormouse on August 17, 2008, 09:34 PM »

Hmm, it might be another program on your computer is hooking the middle mouse button so Circle Dock doesn't have access to it.

Alternatively, press the F1 keyboard button or click on the tray icon to toggle the visibility.

-VideoInPicture (August 17, 2008, 09:10 PM)

It's possible that another prog has grabbed the button ( I will try to check) - but it does not do anything visible and the rotation does work and will switch between programs. F1 and tray icon both work. I have .91 set to a different button (via a allocating the button to a keyboard shortcut) and would probably prefer to do this anyway.

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Circle Dock / Re: Windows 7's Taskbar....Err.....Circle Dock for the DC Programming Contest

« Last post by Dormouse on August 17, 2008, 09:23 PM »

You can change the centre button by right-click on it and selecting "Change Icon".

-VideoInPicture (August 17, 2008, 08:54 PM)

Tried this. The Windows icon disappeared to be replaced by the original circle centre icon. No attempt to change the icon to anything else in the Icon folder worked.

Added a Dock Folder. It added an icon; when I tried to change that icon (can't remember what it was now), all the CircleDock icons originally loaded (but not connected to any programs/folders) disappeared to be replaced by questionmarks. No further attempt to change those icons worked. Actually, when I exited and restarted the program the new icons appeared.

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Circle Dock / Re: Windows 7's Taskbar....Err.....Circle Dock for the DC Programming Contest

« Last post by Dormouse on August 17, 2008, 09:07 PM »

Rotating your middle mouse buttons rotates the dock, as it should. If you click with your middle mouse button (wheel, press it down), it will toggle the visibility of the dock.

-VideoInPicture (August 17, 2008, 08:54 PM)

Clicking the middle mouse button has no effect on the dock at all.

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Circle Dock / Re: Windows 7's Taskbar....Err.....Circle Dock for the DC Programming Contest

« Last post by Dormouse on August 17, 2008, 08:47 PM »

32 bit XP Pro, .Net 3.5, English, Administrator

Old crashing bug when adding new programs etc has gone.  
Lots of juddering when Location and Toggling opens and closes.  
My middle button seems to rotate the dock rather than toggle visibility.

Very pretty. I have an ObjectDock addin clock which I would choose as the centre button if I could.

Not keen on using this version instead of .91 at moment. (I've already added the progs etc that I want to .91 and I've set .91 to much smaller icons and circles so that there is much less mouse movement needed.) Very happy to test new functions as they come and report back on experience (or do anything else I can to help).

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General Software Discussion / Re: Anyone Know of a Multi-Monitor Simulator for Software Testing?

« Last post by Dormouse on August 17, 2008, 06:05 AM »

I suspect the hardware solution is best. It should be possible to get hold of a 2nd monitor cheaply (ie free), if you know a lot of people who have had computers a while. Lots of people have switched from CRT to flatscreen and just kept their old screens somewhere in case they were ever needed; lots of other people just throw them out, and it is only a question of picking one up. Quality etc won't matter that much if you just use if for testing, but you will need the space to store it.

Only potential problem is having the videocard with 2 outputs, if you don't already have one; not so easy to get one of those for nothing, but it can be done quite cheaply.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Any virtual printer for .doc or .rtf?

« Last post by Dormouse on August 14, 2008, 06:26 PM »

Well there's ePrint & presumably others. Not tried it much, so couldn't recommend it (or not).

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Developer's Corner / Re: Essay: Why Free Software has poor usability, and how to improve it

« Last post by Dormouse on August 06, 2008, 07:05 AM »

I think the big problem with the essay is that it confuses big projects, medium projects and small team/single developer projects. In my experience the problems of each of these groups are quite different.

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General Software Discussion / Re: BeyondCompare 3 Released

« Last post by Dormouse on August 05, 2008, 04:32 PM »

This is good.

I'll download it now to see if I'll use it.

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Developer's Corner / Re: What is the .NET 2.0, 3.0, and 3.5 market share?

« Last post by Dormouse on August 05, 2008, 04:30 PM »

I'm not sure what they are, but I got 3.0 for something & then upgraded to 3.5 to see if it solved a Circle Dock problem.

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Developer's Corner / Re: What is the .NET 2.0, 3.0, and 3.5 market share?

« Last post by Dormouse on August 05, 2008, 02:02 PM »

Some people refuse to have anything to do with any .Net application. And that will be 2.0, 3.0, 3.5 etc etc.

I think the others would be prepared to upgrade their version of .Net if needed for an application they wanted.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What's your preferred File Manager

« Last post by Dormouse on August 05, 2008, 01:55 AM »

Ah, so the registration just really buys support and lifetime upgrades. I assume that the reason for the free version is that he intends the main one to becime paid for at some stage. I'll give it a look.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What's your preferred File Manager

« Last post by Dormouse on August 04, 2008, 06:40 PM »

This browser is basically free

-Lutz_ (August 04, 2008, 05:58 PM)

I see that there is a free version limited to 3 windows, but in what way is the main version basically free?

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Living Room / Re: Cuil search engine

« Last post by Dormouse on August 02, 2008, 11:59 AM »

It looks like they have investment and marketing power. We can determine this by seeing amount of hype created around its name and superior skills.

-kartal (July 29, 2008, 11:46 PM)

True - but they'll need huge amounts of money and time now to overcome this sort of joke/opinion - http://www.theregist.../08/01/cuil_apology/

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General Software Discussion / Re: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards results!

« Last post by Dormouse on August 02, 2008, 02:53 AM »

How on earth does XBMC win in the "gamers" section? It's a media player, chrissake :-s

-f0dder (August 02, 2008, 02:29 AM)

Maybe that is 'gaming' to sourceforgers 

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: YourFonts - Generate a font based on your handwriting

« Last post by Dormouse on August 01, 2008, 12:54 PM »

I'd not realised that the empty cells could be used; it's really good. (again)

-Dormouse (August 01, 2008, 11:53 AM)

I'm not sure if we both understand each other. Can you please clarify your last post?

-erwind (August 01, 2008, 12:35 PM)

I suspect now I got it wrong again  , but i had taken these comments

Then there are still 3 cells empty, so there is room for a couple more characters.

-erwind (August 01, 2008, 09:37 AM)

But no worries, only characters that are written down on the template(s) are added to the font, so if you only need a few characters, then only write those down.

-erwind (August 01, 2008, 10:45 AM)

to mean that there could be user specified characters added to the font (even if it meant a bit of exploration to work out the keyboard entry for those items).

I see now that you meant that the empty boxes were null boxes (but that you could chose to fill them in the future) and that people could use just some of the boxes that were active, if they chose.

But it would be good to be able to define a few undefined characters. Of course, I could simply subvert a few of the specified boxes for that I suppose.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: YourFonts - Generate a font based on your handwriting

« Last post by Dormouse on August 01, 2008, 11:53 AM »

I'd not realised that the empty cells could be used; it's really good. (again)

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General Software Discussion / Re: BeyondCompare 3 Released

« Last post by Dormouse on August 01, 2008, 05:38 AM »

You could use BC2 for 30 days, but it only counts days that you actually started the program. So even though I've used it quite a lot I still have days left and I will certainly demo BC3 and try and get it bought at work.

-justice (August 01, 2008, 03:42 AM)

And, if you use Windows and Linux, I assume that you can effectively extend the trial to 60 days.

Haven't tried the prog at all yet, but I probably will. Does look rather expensive for the amount of use I would get from it though - unless there is a big discount, of course (I did notice the price looking very reasonable for 100+ users; a DC members discount would produce 100+ new users, no?)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Merging Word documents

« Last post by Dormouse on August 01, 2008, 05:20 AM »

Chapter by Chapter[/url]' (CbC) can be helpful in a situation like yours. This app could be used to add individual files in a treeview (see pic) then output them as one single big file.

-lanux128 (July 31, 2008, 08:55 PM)

Hadn't known about this, seemed interesting, so I tried it.

Works, but concatenating Word (.doc files not 2007 format) is all it does (with a helpful note section at the bottom of the page for each file). Produces a concatenated .doc file which can be worked on in word. Only works with .doc files (well, can use RTF files, but cannot mix doc and RTF files).

I checked the box to make it appear in the taskbar, but never succeeded in getting it there. Which made finding it again a pain when it was overlaid with other windows. SOLVED - For new settings to take effect, the program has to be rebooted. I thought I had done this by closing it and restarting it from the file system, but I hadn't. It was sitting in the system tray all the time (so I didn't really need to change the settings anyway  ).

Also needs all the files to be in the same folder it is set up to work in. It doesn't seem possible to change this setting after installation.

Still, it does meet the OP's need, and surely, if everything is in the same file, it shouldn't be too much work to restyle the document.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: YourFonts - Generate a font based on your handwriting

« Last post by Dormouse on July 30, 2008, 04:09 AM »

Had to resize because scanning was to PDF & I found it needed to be an image format, so I converted & then had to resize because the prog would not take the original size. Next time, I'll change the settings and scan to jpg.

That guidance is fine - except I didn't see it when I tried it. Don't know how/why I missed it.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: YourFonts - Generate a font based on your handwriting

« Last post by Dormouse on July 30, 2008, 01:47 AM »

Well, with Deozaan's form I'll give it another go.

And the last time I tried, I had to do a lot of tweaking to get it to the right pixel size. Once it stops being a free demo, I think that nearly all the resizing ought to be done on the server, just with guidelines about ideal file size and pixel sizes (and a maximum file size limit for uploads). And some guidance about how to write in the template. I'd think ease of use would be important.

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Living Room / Re: Cuil search engine

« Last post by Dormouse on July 29, 2008, 06:28 PM »

But the level of negativity and pro google comments sounded little childish to me First of all the engine has just launched other day. I would ask you to refresh your memory about when google came out. Probably Cuil`s results are better than Google`s first day results. It takes time to create sensible results.

-kartal (July 29, 2008, 11:40 AM)

As I said, I do remember when Google launched (with rather less publicity that Cuil have managed) and it was a better search engine from the beginning. That's why it was able to grow so quickly.

I don't think that my comments have been particularly pro Google. I do think it is the best search engine at the moment, but I'm not sure that the search results are as well selected as they were a few years ago. I also dislike the default 10 results on a page. I do like the various specialist search facilities and also think that they have been one of the most innovative big IT companies over the last few years, but I will be very quick to look at any alternative that looks as if it might be better.

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Living Room / Re: Cuil search engine

« Last post by Dormouse on July 29, 2008, 03:01 AM »

Also comparing search results to google is not very scientific either. Google search results are irrelevant anyways. There is no "industry standard" results database.

-kartal (July 28, 2008, 10:49 PM)

That's the reason for using a term, where I know BOTH what the results should be AND can check it against Google.