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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Feature Request (or Modification?): Title Case - with words to leave alone
« Last post by kunkel321 on May 28, 2016, 10:03 AM »
following
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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Realworld Icon Editor upcomming at BDJ
« Last post by kunkel321 on May 27, 2016, 08:17 AM »
If you look around on his blog, you can also find beta versions of things. 
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General Software Discussion / Re: Request: Deepdream frontend.
« Last post by kunkel321 on May 22, 2016, 01:20 PM »
OK, does this count as an easy enough front-end for you?
https://DeepArt.io/
-Deozaan (May 22, 2016, 02:01 AM)
Yea this one is pretty cool.  There have been a few free sites that have popped up.  Unfortunately none offer HD output.  This one is cool though, because you can input your own styles... 
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T-Clock / Re: T-Clock 2010 (download)
« Last post by kunkel321 on May 20, 2016, 10:39 AM »
A cool feature might be to have a "School days until Summer" function.  I guess this would be a branch of the "DOY" (day of year) function.  You'd have to allow the user to define the "non-school" days though.  And also define the first day of "Summer."  Perhaps a comma-delimited txt file with (appropriately-formatted) dates.  Saturday and Sunday should be excluded from the count automatically.  Excel has a similar function.  Most time-related apps don't though--which surprises me, because there there a lot of teachers and students out there!

Bonus Star Wars geek tip:  Make your own r2d2 audio alerts to use in T-Clock. 
 http://www.r2d2translator.com/index.php 
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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Realworld Icon Editor upcomming at BDJ
« Last post by kunkel321 on May 20, 2016, 09:50 AM »
Looks like RealWorld Icon Editor is on sale again...  72% off today 5-20-2016 only.  Pretty good deal.  Good software. -steve
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T-Clock / Re: T-Clock 2010 (download)
« Last post by kunkel321 on May 18, 2016, 12:08 PM »
Hey I just now saw this thread.  So glad that T-Clock is active again!  Thanks Stoic!   :-*

PS I was actually listening to White Tiger when I saw it.   :Thmbsup:
That's some good hair-metal right there.
182
Living Room / Re: Amazon: clicking 'Unhelpful' on Customer Review now has NO effect
« Last post by kunkel321 on May 02, 2016, 02:19 PM »
I complained to Amazon about the incident and checked the listing for the phone case just out of curiosity, it was being sold by another seller whom I've bought from several times and know to be honest. So my negative review was directly affecting their sales.
-nosh (May 01, 2016, 07:43 PM)

Isn't that the point?

It dissuades sellers from selling fake goods no matter who they are.  Unless they state that the item is a copy/non-genuine in the description, exactly how honest are they ?
-4wd (May 01, 2016, 11:23 PM)
A similar thing happened to me.  My favorite pocket knife is the Victorinox Swiss Tinker Deluxe. Saw it for a really good price so I ordered it.  The item that arrived was a cheap knock-off, not the item in the description.  Kindof interesting, because it was clearly designed to look like a real Victorinox -- even had their logo.  But it was absolute junk.  The seller, chawi, gave me the run-around.  Amazon made good on the refund, so that was cool.  Anyway, same deal, I submitted a product review indicating than the product in the picture is awesome, but chawi is crooked.  Amazon wouldn't accept the review, because it mentioned the seller.  Though they did, later, give me a chance to write a review of the seller too.
183
N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013 Release: sImgurUploader
« Last post by kunkel321 on January 25, 2016, 12:20 PM »
Hi Skwire and All,

It looks like Imgur is moving toward another version change in their API...  I got the following email: 
Hi Imgur API user!
It looks like you’re using version 1 or 2 of the Imgur API. We’re reaching out now to let you know that, starting on March 28, 2016, these versions will no longer be supported.
We encourage you to migrate your application to Imgur API version 3 before this date. If you need some assistance with that, feel free to check out api.imgur.com for documentation. If your application uses authorization, you will also need to upgrade to oauth 2.0.
If you have any questions, we’d be happy to help at [email protected].
Best,
The Imgur API team

Is there any chance this new one will be sImgurUploader-friendly?  I guess what I'm asking is whether sImgurUploader can be made to work with it...  I already got my new creds and tried them, but they don't work. 

I ran into the same problem as mentioned above, Imgur REQUIRES as callback address.  I just used my own Imgur main page, because I didn't know what else to use. 

EDIT:  I checked out your (Skwire's) profile to see if you were still active....  That's an impressive lineup of badges!   :up:

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Batch-edit images (remove frames)
« Last post by kunkel321 on November 29, 2015, 02:58 PM »
I was also going to suggest IrfanView.  Also, RealWorld Icon Editor has some advanced batch capabilities. 


Edit:  Very cool AutoHotkey script down there!!!
185
Living Room / Re: Is Excel the most dangerous software in the world?
« Last post by kunkel321 on November 12, 2015, 10:21 AM »
Some good replies here.  It is indeed possible that JPMorgan's top people were blaming Excel for their own poor choices.  Even if the goof did happen in the way they say, it is still the fault of the tradesman, and not the tool (to use Target's words).  Also, I had always assumed that there were many corporations that had a hand in this.  This is the first time I've read about a particular company being the "straw that broke the camel's back." 

Anyway, I will also attest to how difficult auditing an old spreadsheet can be.  I don't use Excel for finances, but for timelines and due dates on projects mostly.  I'll make these incredibly complex setups.  Usually they will continue working indefinitely--Excel is quite robust.  Later though, when I want to add a feature to my setup, I have to figure out how I designed darn the thing.  Usually I, essentially, end up going over the entire process of building it again.. .    :D

Here's the above-quoted book, btw: https://it-ebooks.info/book/6446/
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Living Room / Is Excel the most dangerous software in the world?
« Last post by kunkel321 on November 11, 2015, 06:13 PM »
I'm a major Excel nut, (and someone who lost a load of equity in his home since 2008) so I found this interesting. 
An excerpt from the book: Dashboards for Excel (Jordan Goldmeier & Purnachandra Duggirala)

No, really, it’s possible that Microsoft’s Excel is the most dangerous software on the planet.
      —Tim Worstall in Forbes Magazine
Worstall is referring to JPMorgan’s use of Microsoft Excel and its potential contribution to the global recession that began in 2008. The story is a familiar one. JPMorgan, one of the big banks, required a new way for their chief investment officer to model the risk associated with their portfolio of collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) . CDOs, as you might recall, are those complex financial instruments that are comprised of a bundle of mortgages used to speculate and manage the risk for default. In the end, many homeowners eventually defaulted on their mortgages. Yet, JPMorgan’s model had not captured this at all. According to an internal report by JPMorgan, their model contained an error that “likely had the effect of muting volatility by a factor of two and of lowering the VaR [value at risk].” What had happened? How could one of the biggest banks employ a model that was so absent from reality? According to the report, their model was “operated through a series of Excel spreadsheets, which had to be completed manually, by a process of copying and pasting data from one spreadsheet to another.” The error was generated when “After subtracting the old rate from the new rate, the spreadsheet divided by their sum instead of their average, as the modeler had intended.” Worstall, like many others, blames Excel. It’s too insecure, and there’s no audit trail, he contends. Its flexibility is its greatest strength and Achilles heel. His argument isn’t a new one, of course. Without proper internal governance and procedures regarding archiving, getting lost in a nightmare of error-ridden spreadsheets and mixed-up versions is a real possibility. But is that really what happened in the case of JPMorgan? Are more audit controls needed? I’m not so sure.
187
Find And Run Robot / Re: How can I search just executables or programs?
« Last post by kunkel321 on October 29, 2015, 09:34 PM »
GO to the Pattern Scoring part of the options dialog.  There's already an entry for *.exe.  Give it an even higher number and give the other patterns lower numbers.  Or uncheck them altogether.   Remember that you might want to point it at your Start folders and have a *.LNK pattern too.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Request: Deepdream frontend.
« Last post by kunkel321 on October 03, 2015, 12:58 PM »
I tried for hours and hours to set up a virtual box and get it to run python, using some directions found at
https://www.reddit.com/r/deepdream/
Very frustrating.  I'm not a programmer, much less a python programmer.  And I'm not familiar with Linux or virtual boxes.   So when things kept going wrong, my only hope was to do google searches and hope that someone else had already solved the exact same problem.   I did manage to get in to BIOS and activate virtualization--which was pretty good for a layman like myself.   I sortof got the virtual box running, but never did get the whole thing working. 
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General Software Discussion / Re: Request: Deepdream frontend.
« Last post by kunkel321 on October 02, 2015, 05:57 PM »
Here are a couple from the (above-mentioned) twitter tool.


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General Software Discussion / Re: Request: Deepdream frontend.
« Last post by kunkel321 on October 02, 2015, 03:18 PM »
It's tempting.. this is close to my academic background (neural networks, before the "deep" adjective became the magic sauce that everyone throws into everything to get publicity).
-mouser (October 01, 2015, 10:27 PM)
"DonationDreamer."  (c)  Copyright 2015, reserved for Mouser.    :D

And I'll pledge 20 USD.  Who's with me?
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General Software Discussion / Re: Request: Deepdream frontend.
« Last post by kunkel321 on October 01, 2015, 07:10 PM »
You can make a better one Mouser...  You know you want to...   ;)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Request: Deepdream frontend.
« Last post by kunkel321 on September 16, 2015, 06:26 PM »
Hey thanks for the link.  That was pretty fast!
Here's my trippy sea turtle
http://deepdreamgene...com/dream/f345213750
and here's a brain
http://deepdreamgene...com/dream/ebf2db1c7a
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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Brainstorm Pro Thesaurus Software With Multi Language & Research Tools
« Last post by kunkel321 on August 14, 2015, 04:08 PM »
Looks pretty cool!
194
Living Room / Re: what is this saying?
« Last post by kunkel321 on July 23, 2015, 01:23 PM »
Hi this is Jamie calling from l;k;ljl;kj treatment fee ;lkl;kjl;kj application ;lkjl;kjl;kj call us at blah blah....
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General Software Discussion / Request: Deepdream frontend.
« Last post by kunkel321 on July 10, 2015, 12:31 PM »
A couple weeks ago, I posted about the new trippy artform from Google
https://www.donation....msg383771#msg383771

Now Google has opensourced the project.  All of the needed components are listed on the blogpost here:
http://googleresearc...for-visualizing.html
And it's all open stuff.

Unfortunately it's still pretty far beyond the technical abilities of most of us non-programmer types...

A couple people have tried to make web-based front-ends for the technology:
https://deepdream.in/
http://deepdreams.zainshah.net/
But as you might guess, the ques are impossibly long...

Is it possible for one of you gurus to make a desktop version on this?  Or maybe it's not even possible because of the need to be online with Google Images...  IDK.

Thots?   :-*
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General Software Discussion / Re: Any ideas for an entry-level "how to use a mouse" tutorial?
« Last post by kunkel321 on July 06, 2015, 12:47 PM »
Thanks all, for the replies.
Yea, after App301 posted his bead designer, it occurred to me the MS Paint is a sensible starting point. 

Mouser, Thanks very much for the offer!  I don't think it'll work though, on Amazon there's a review that suggests it's not Vista-compatible.  Also, I'm hoping to upgrade to Windows 10 at some point. 

Miles, I will definitely check out that site. 

Thanks again, Everyone.
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General Software Discussion / Any ideas for an entry-level "how to use a mouse" tutorial?
« Last post by kunkel321 on July 04, 2015, 04:30 PM »
Hi All,
I'm wanting to teach my 3-year-old daughter to use a computer.  She is able to use the touchscreen on my Kindle Fire HD just fine.  And she has seen me use the mouse on our Vista PC.  She is a bit intimidated by it though.    I need a game or a learning app that is really really simple and has some kind of "learn to use your mouse" tutorial...  Any ideas of free or really inexpensive ones?
198
Living Room / Re: The joy of seeing a first time forum poster
« Last post by kunkel321 on June 30, 2015, 10:59 AM »
 :Thmbsup:
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Developer's Corner / Re: AutoHotKey text replacement question
« Last post by kunkel321 on June 29, 2015, 10:15 AM »
Man I gotta learn to do ahk programming....  I don't think that computer programmers appreciate just how confusing this stuff is to us lehhfolks.
Anyway.  I remember a few years ago, finding a script that someone had already written that does autocorrects.  Here I just now found this article about it.
http://www.howtogeek...ions-on-your-system/
I think it's been updated a few times, so google it and get the latest version.  If my memory is correct, they integrated some wikipedia list of "most common English typos" or some kind of thing.... 

Also, the a/an situation is difficult.  There are lots of exceptions. 

I also googled that.   
https://www.google.c...a+grammar+exceptions

From here: https://owl.english....owl/resource/591/01/

Exceptions
Use "an" before unsounded "h." Because the "h" hasn't any phonetic representation and has no audible sound, the sound that follows the article is a vowel; consequently, "an" is used.

an honorable peace
an honest error
When "u" makes the same sound as the "y" in "you," or "o" makes the same sound as "w" in "won," then a is used. The word-initial "y" sound ("unicorn") is actually a glide [j] phonetically, which has consonantal properties; consequently, it is treated as a consonant, requiring "a."

a union
a united front
a unicorn
a used napkin
a U.S. ship
a one-legged man

 
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Living Room / Re: Inceptionism: Trippy new artform from the Google people...
« Last post by kunkel321 on June 26, 2015, 10:47 AM »
More related stuff....
http://www.theguardi...-electric-sheep-live

... Remember those amazing images from last week that looked like a computer having an acid trip? What if you could watch them live?
A group of PhD students from Belgium have created a Twitch livestream which lets viewers look in to the mind of a neural network as it “dreams”. ...

I'm not sure what a "live stream" is... 
I wasn't able to view the video (or whatever it is) on my Kindle FHD, but can on my laptop...  Pretty trippy. 
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