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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor 3.17 Beta Test - Feb 22, 2013 - Feedback Wanted

« Last post by Ath on February 23, 2013, 08:47 AM »

It's a bit funny to see that the eraser is a few pixels wider then the pencil in free-draw mode. Until you want to fill the erased line with a different color and it doesn't fill the erased line-width...

Sample:

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Pre-generate thumbnails for images in selected folders?

« Last post by Ath on February 21, 2013, 02:14 PM »

There seems to be this 3 1/2 year old solution on SuperUser

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General Software Discussion / Re: Embedding external files into PDF file

« Last post by Ath on February 18, 2013, 04:32 AM »

The restrictions are (most likely) imposed by the OS (Windows or Linux) or the pdfreader application used, not by the PDF format.

Check out the options to avoid messages like these, but be aware of any security implications!

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by Ath on February 18, 2013, 02:47 AM »

Another (semi)milestone: User-ID 404404 , both a palindrome and a kinda-funny number:



Hope he/she doesn't hit too many 404's 

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: xplorer², a powerful windows file manager and explorer replacement / alternative

« Last post by Ath on February 18, 2013, 01:51 AM »

How do you feel about the current version of xplorer2 or do you find yourself using another file manager?

-Josh (February 17, 2013, 07:34 PM)

Still stuck at the 1.8.x level, as I don't feel like spending money for an update to get exactly the same functionality in the 2.x release.
But I'll keep using it for as long as it's safe

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Suggestion: Renaming file before coping to clipboard

« Last post by Ath on February 17, 2013, 12:08 PM »

Check out the settings, there are at least a dozen of options for naming the file and even for not saving to disk.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: super word counter

« Last post by Ath on February 17, 2013, 10:34 AM »

What software do you use for your day to day writing?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: "Saving options dialog" and "Auto copy to clipboard when SSC looses focus"

« Last post by Ath on February 17, 2013, 06:17 AM »

(At the moment even CTRL+C does not work all the time and one has to go to Edit menu to make a copy... strange...)

-Filipe Meira Castro (January 16, 2013, 12:00 AM)

This feature is context-sensitive, if you have the cursor focused on the image (clicking there once helps), Ctrl-C copies it to the clipboard just fine. In other locations, the current selection is copied to the clipboard.

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Multi Photo Quotes / Re: Pictures shown twice or more at the same time

« Last post by Ath on February 16, 2013, 07:02 AM »

is the download-link already updated?

-cross7bow (February 16, 2013, 06:38 AM)

Have you flushed your browser-cache? Most browsers don't re-download the same filename without adjusted cache-settings.

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Paste Something To Bottom Of All Text Files, Recursively

« Last post by Ath on February 15, 2013, 03:40 AM »

Most likely you can fix that using (DC-member) stahlworks Swiss File Knife

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by Ath on February 14, 2013, 02:45 PM »

Yes, another milestone for 40hz, 7800 posts

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Living Room / Re: proofreading on pc

« Last post by Ath on February 14, 2013, 01:55 AM »

but not by writing on the screen, but in a smaller device, like a touchpad-like input device

-kalos (February 13, 2013, 07:51 PM)

That is why originally recommended to use a tablet (computer) device. More specifically, a Windows 8 tablet.

but:
1) wacom is an expensive option :/

-kalos (February 13, 2013, 09:31 PM)

Cheap is not a realistic requirement, in the context you've drawn.

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Finished Programs / Re: Drop Zone Feature Suggestion

« Last post by Ath on February 13, 2013, 01:34 AM »

Welcome to DC Elancore,

It's more useful to add the intended application name in the title of the post, when posting in a generic forum.

And besides that, double-posting isn't needed, Skwire reads your request when he has time/is available, he may be living in another time-zone from where you are...

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Request: make freehand annotations

« Last post by Ath on February 12, 2013, 02:10 AM »

Hm, drawing is fine, but I'm a bit unsure about the Undo feature. ctrl-z doesn't seem to remove the free-hand drawing, though it does remove the shadow applied (as per your suggestion )

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General Software Discussion / Re: Best JAVA IDE

« Last post by Ath on February 12, 2013, 02:02 AM »

So no IntelliJ users?

Looking for an excuse to try it

-ewemoa (February 11, 2013, 07:22 PM)

Tried it a few months ago, but I was so totally baffled on how to use it, even after being 'nurtured' by NetBeans, I un-installed it 5 minutes after first try.

I.O.W.

Total crap.

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Living Room / Re: Suggestions for low vision problems while working on a computer

« Last post by Ath on February 12, 2013, 01:55 AM »

tv resolution is 640 x 480

-techidave (February 11, 2013, 04:47 PM)

Huh? Even my CRT tv can do better than that. I'd expect that size to be show in a 'passe-partout' style on any tv.

You'd prolly better find the native resolution of the tv, and configure the laptop with that for the external monitor, then the image is going to be much better viewable, I guess.

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Living Room / Re: Suggestions for low vision problems while working on a computer

« Last post by Ath on February 11, 2013, 05:25 AM »

Is it common for the tv to not fill the whole screen?

-techidave (February 11, 2013, 05:13 AM)

Have you set the external monitor (the tv) as secondary (extend desktop onto it) and to it's native resolution? most likely 1920x1080, or possibly 1367x768, as I don't expect the 10.1" laptop to use those resolutions, so it shows the laptop-resolution (1280x800?) mapped 1:1 on screen.

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Living Room / Re: proofreading on pc

« Last post by Ath on February 10, 2013, 12:05 PM »

A tablet?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Best JAVA IDE

« Last post by Ath on February 10, 2013, 11:00 AM »

Ah, again this same question  

IMHO, there is only 1 java IDE and that's Eclipse.

I also use NetBeans, but I always feel I'm treated like idiot by it, so I'm somewhat discomforted when using it. And the projects are a disaster as it's impossible to switch project-type, or have a project that builds using both ant and maven.
And when working with VS2010, I crave for the autocomplete and javadoc features of Eclipse. The only good feature there is the search feature during intellisense but I expect the next release of Eclipse to have that too.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Avast Installs Chrome

« Last post by Ath on February 08, 2013, 01:43 AM »

That's a practice I've seen before, both from Avast and other software[s/z]

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ProcessTamer / Re: How to limit a specific program?

« Last post by Ath on February 08, 2013, 01:41 AM »

I'm not sure what I'm looking for. How about this link? Or should it be more specific? Thanks.
http://joejoeinc.blo...ternet-explorer.html

-Scott_Y (February 07, 2013, 09:05 PM)

Not sure it's up to date for the IE you have installed, but I've seen this script solve similar problems before.
And it won't hurt if all was well already, so just run it.

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Skwire Empire / Re: Release: sWeather (tray-based weather app)

« Last post by Ath on February 02, 2013, 01:17 PM »

I think you're a bit overprotective here. I'm getting weather data from 6 or 7 locations around the world, so my physical location is not necessarily related to the weather I'm monitoring

For comparisons: Do you use such proxy to retrieve your twitter or Facebook updates?

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ProcessTamer / Re: How to limit a specific program?

« Last post by Ath on February 02, 2013, 01:10 PM »

If rightnote is using the IE html control to display it's content, I'd reregister the IE stuff. Instructions can be found using Google (I'm typing on a tablet atm, so copy/paste is quite bothersome)

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ProcessTamer / Re: How to limit a specific program?

« Last post by Ath on February 02, 2013, 11:48 AM »

You'd better fix the issue with Eudora, then to fight the symptoms it's causing, that's way more productive.

Most likely the content of the message that causes high cpu can't be processed correctly, you could check the registration of the IE control or whatever Eudora uses to display the message. It could also help to update Eudora to the most recent stable release, or reinstall completely.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Program: Set 'Run this program as an administrator' for mass file settings

« Last post by Ath on February 01, 2013, 02:41 PM »

Would be about as quick to turn UAC to the lowest level, no nagging any more, same result.