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General Software Discussion / Re: how to extract links from a site?

« Last post by justice on April 29, 2007, 02:16 PM »

http://home.snafu.de...tilman/xenulink.html
Sorry It's Xenu

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General Software Discussion / Re: how to extract links from a site?

« Last post by justice on April 29, 2007, 06:15 AM »

Also, Opera has a Link panel, which gives you all the links on a page, you can then search through them, but not save them all out it seems.

If you'd use a site link checker like Xeno then you'd get all the links in a site including which ones do no longer work.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Outsourcing web design

« Last post by justice on April 28, 2007, 06:55 PM »

You can compete because people don't just want a working template. Also if they do they will always think of things to add / change afterwards or in the mean-time and then have noone that can do it for them.

Getting the template is the easy part, getting done what the client wants is the hard part, doing better then the needs of the client is why you're doing the job and not the machine.

Instead of wasting $989 on a sliced template for 13 pages, they better go to http://www.wordpress.com and sign up in 5 minutes for free.

Or buy any suit in Walmart /ASDA instead of going to a tailor with needs and a goal.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Use locate32 with Farr

« Last post by justice on April 27, 2007, 05:04 PM »

readme.txt 

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Post your FARR v2 Plugin Idea Requests Here - Plugin Writers Read In

« Last post by justice on April 27, 2007, 10:38 AM »

Until there is a database/index feature in FARR, how about a plugin that'll search the index made and maintained by Locate32?

Locate32 -> http://locate32.webhop.org/

Total Commander has a plugin that can search the Locate index, for ultra fast searches in the file manager. Take a look at this thread for details: http://www.ghisler.c...iewtopic.php?t=14087

-TucknDar (April 12, 2007, 02:40 PM)

Use Locate32 with FARR

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Developer's Corner / Re: Adobe to Open Source Flex

« Last post by justice on April 27, 2007, 10:19 AM »

Wow I didn't realise the Flex SDK was already free. It looks quite powerful and I assume this is a politcal move in order to boost their Apollo framework?

Apollo is the code name for a cross-operating system runtime being developed by Adobe that allows developers to leverage their existing web development skills (Flash, Flex, HTML, JavaScript, Ajax) to build and deploy rich Internet applications (RIAs) to the desktop.

Apollo enables developers to create applications that combine the benefits of web applications – network and user connectivity, rich media content, ease of development, and broad reach – with the strengths of desktop applications – application interactions, local resource access, personal settings, powerful functionality, and rich interactive experiences.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Use locate32 with Farr -- outdated use plugin instead

« Last post by justice on April 27, 2007, 10:12 AM »

I wanted Locate32 to work with FARR but there's no document describing commandline options for the locate32 executable. after I noticed that the first word after locate32 that started with a dash lost part of the searchstring I knew I was on the right track...

After some fiddling I present you the results: If you want to search with locate32 from the command line you can use this:

[Select]

locate32 keyword

(to bring up the locate window with your keyword as the search, but it does not run)

[Select]

locate32 -r keyword

(to being up the locate window with search results for your keyword)
I couldn't find any documentation on any switches so I assume it's unofficial and might break in the future?? Maybe using some debug tool someone might find other switches, to search for extension for example.

To do this straight from FARR paste this as an preformatted alias group:

[Select]

1000>>>locate32>->loc $$1 |C:\Program Files\Locate\Locate32.exe -r $$1>+>^loc (.*)

or create a new alias like this screenshot (change the path to locate32.exe depending on where you installed it):


 

[attach2]

BTW it shouldn't be hard to write a plugin to use the locate.exe executable to return the search results inside the FARR window, as locate.exe <keyword> does a search for keyword and returns all search results in a dosbox.

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General Software Discussion / Auto ftp v2

« Last post by justice on April 27, 2007, 03:58 AM »

For months I have been looking for a good program to keep my preferences in sync between home and work. For example I have evernote and keepass databases, and opera bookmarks etc. I want to use the same data at work and at home, but I don't want to have to leave a PC on.

I've been using Syncback SE(slow comparison), synctoy (no ftp), allway sync (no ftp -- novell netdrive doesn't work in vista), foldershare (both pcs need to be online + annoying temp files) and looked at many other utilities who can't do ftp, or can only upload, or cannot create profiles, or cannot run them manually / scheduled...

I present Auto FTP:

Auto Ftp v2 is the new big brother of the original Auto Ftp. It can perform multiple ftp sessions simultaneously (fully multi-threaded). You can choose between straight file copy or synchronisation in either direction (local to remote or remote to local). Sessions can be started manually, timed, change triggered or daisy chained. Multiple sessions can be started from the command line making it a great batch file tool. Now you can have as many upload or download ftp sessions as you like configured and ready to go with one click.
Updated: 11 Mar 2007 | Version: 2.04 | Size: 306KB | D/L: 7057

It can schedule or run manually, upload / download / sync (oneway  ), doesn't cost hundred's of dollars. And by the looks of things it is quite a personal project! So it deserves some support and love.  http://www.glenn.delahoy.com/software/ plenty of other software gems to be had from the same author.

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General Software Discussion / Re: File container / file type translators

« Last post by justice on April 27, 2007, 02:53 AM »

Ah thank you for that very informative explanation! So I guess at the most something like that could work if all the formats were propretiary to one company, in case they probably have made their software compatbile with one another already.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR v2 - Vista Compatibility Testers+Discussion

« Last post by justice on April 26, 2007, 08:18 AM »

I have to say I have reinstalled FARR. Initially vista start menu search really impressed me enough to temporarily stop using FARR due to the preference location issue. However that is fixed and I find it annoying that you can't search for 'pad' to find notepad in vista, you'd have to use *pad* to include in-word strings. Too labor-intensive.

So I am back to FARR of course  , being able to search opera bookarmks is fantastic. Maybe in the future we can search notes as well, or even email?

Anyway, I found a small hardly worth mentioning dialogue box cutoff 'bug'. For completion sake I'll post a screenshot:

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Mini-Review: Sumotori (Sumo Wrestling Game)

« Last post by justice on April 26, 2007, 07:41 AM »

Don't alt-tab out of it while it is running, that locks up my Vista machine. (clicking on desktop with dual monitor eek). That said, it's fantastic and very enjoyable gameplay indeed well worth a try

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General Software Discussion / Re: Using AutoHotkey to auto-download and update programs

« Last post by justice on April 26, 2007, 06:53 AM »

ah yes a redirect, I'll test if this works here too. Sometimes the simplest solution is overlooked edit: Indeed it seems the UrlDownloadToFile function of AutoHotkey supports redirection perfectly.

The very simplest you can make something like this work I think would be:

[Select]

#SingleInstance,Force
#Persistent
SetBatchLines,-1
UrlDownloadToFile, http://www.some.url/some.asp, c:\temp\destinat.ion
ExitApp
Return

With (my asp/vbscript example): (some.asp)

Code: ASP [Select]

1. <%@LANGUAGE="VBSCRIPT" CODEPAGE="1252"%><%
2. Option Explicit
3. Response.Buffer = True
4.  
5. ' Permanent redirection
6. Response.Status = "301 Moved Permanently"
7. Response.AddHeader "Location", "http://www.some.url/redirect.exe"
8. Response.End
9. %>

Technical implementation is then not really a reason why not to support a 'latest' redirection link.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Idea: A directory box

« Last post by justice on April 26, 2007, 04:02 AM »

Have you tried QT Tabbar? This would at least reduce the amount of folders open in the taskbar to 1 (with tabs).

Alternatively FileBox Extender could add shortcuts to your favourite folders in open/save dialogues and from the system tray.

This is how I manage mine in a similar role as yours. You can also create a new toolbar in the taskbar, point it to the folder of your choosing (either a folder with shortcuts to your favourite folders or the 1 folder you are using) and have one-click access to it directly from the taskbar.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Cheeky

« Last post by justice on April 26, 2007, 03:49 AM »

Also, for example, some DVD players arte DIVX certified so that they can read data DVDs with DIVX on them. They're not all that expansive and you can find a list on the DIVX website.

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General Software Discussion / File container / file type translators

« Last post by justice on April 26, 2007, 03:42 AM »

If you have ever used BeOS you might recall they had a system called translator kits [1][2]. Basically you could add kits to the OS to enable reading / writing to a particular filetype. So you had a GIF translator kit, PNG etc. Any appllication with support for translator kits could then use these file formats.

Seeing how often particular software on Windows does not support a filetype (Try converting SVG files to PNG for instance, fireworks and photoshop don't support them, illustrator doesn't have a batch mode etc), I would have thought the translator kits idea would be a popular way to solve a major computing annoyance? Why is this not the case? How much better would it be if Windows had a centally managed filetype reading writing mechanism with addins provided similar to how they extend the indexing service at the moment (probably the addins would be very similar? a PDF indexing service addin already allows the indexing service to read and make sense of pdfs)

It seems to me (but I am not a programmer) that they already do it for video and music files: both AVI and MOV files for example are just container formats that support codecs. Why couldn't we have an .ADOBE container format with the codecs for all their software, or ultimately just .graphic, .music that can be opened by any program supporting the container (which the codecs doing the read/write to the software)? Or the end of file extensions.

Interesting idea or am I just clueless   ?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Using AutoHotkey to auto-download and update programs

« Last post by justice on April 26, 2007, 03:31 AM »

Wow.  Here are 92 different implementations in PHP. A lot of them are free.

Basically what you do is set up an connection to the download and binary write it to the browser with the right mime type. If you want to understand how it works or create your own implementation I found the following link from about.com

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Newbie: Find only in active directory window ?

« Last post by justice on April 25, 2007, 09:21 AM »

Maybe he could integrate FARR with Barnacle and have FARR run from Barnacle in explorer windows 

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General Software Discussion / Re: WINDOWS MEDIA

« Last post by justice on April 25, 2007, 08:25 AM »

Yep you need the correct codec. WMP will try and download this automatically but doesn't support a lot of formats. You can either install a codec pack that adds in support for loads of formats or download a player that supports more formats out of the box.

For a codec pack see:
http://www.free-code...ec_Pack_All_in_1.htm

For two FREE players with wider video support:
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
http://www.gomplayer.com/main.html

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General Software Discussion / Re: Using AutoHotkey to auto-download and update programs

« Last post by justice on April 25, 2007, 08:18 AM »

I made a similar script myself for other uses. The only problem with using it more generally is that you have to know the url of the download.

I have always wondered why more software authors don't make their latest release version availalbe via a fixed url, for example: http://softwareautho.../download/latest.php (which would return not a HTML page but the installation package with the right mime type)

This would open the door for many updating utilities.

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ProcessTamer / Re: Vista 32bit & 64bit compatibility needed

« Last post by justice on April 25, 2007, 08:13 AM »

I experience the same problem, and I am not sure if ProcessTamer is running at all at that point! Because I have never seen the balloon tooltip pop up.

However, if we run ProcessTamer as an administrator via the shortcut properties it runs fine and the issue NOT RUNNING is gone.

However, as ProcessTamer runs continuously from startup due to the increased security from Windows Defender (i think?) it requires user input to start process tamer as all software ran with administration priviledges is blocked from starting automatically.

A minor annoyance, nothing more, but this info might help solve the problem for you.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Customise Save Dialog

« Last post by justice on April 24, 2007, 06:48 AM »

Release versions of Filebox Extender does not support Vista yet, however the author is working on it and you can read about the progress and download a beta.

I'm testing it right now.

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Post New Requests Here / IDEA: Run Before / After something

« Last post by justice on April 24, 2007, 03:40 AM »

Some software allows you to run a command before or after the software itself is run. For example: Syncback allows you to run a command so that you can do something with the backup. I would be interested in using a program that does this on a more general basis:

For example I could set up a "link" to download the newest  Keepass database from ftp before running the Keepass program (synchronisation) and upload it again afterwards.

ideally

Ideally It would be good if it worked with a list of entries, each entry specifying program and the commands it should run before / after. This is easier to maintain then something decentralised.
Ideally it would still allow you to run a program the usual way (run Keepass from the start menu and FARR). I guess it would intercept the run call or modify the shortcut or some other clever way.
I guess that some people would want to run more than one command, although of course you could just run a script or batch file.

Hopefully this sparks someone's interest or someone could point me to a similar program.

Thanks!

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General Software Discussion / Re: XNeat: rearrange taskbar, ontop windows, hide tray icons (free)

« Last post by justice on April 16, 2007, 07:59 AM »

And it can even hide command prompts too, I've not seen that often.  middle click close!

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General Software Discussion / Re: opera 9.2 is out

« Last post by justice on April 16, 2007, 07:55 AM »

Security

In the Security preferences you can manage your security certificates and set up which security protocols to use. Opera can also warn you about potentially unsafe situations.
Master Password

To prevent other people from using your certificates, you can set a master password with strong 168-bit triple DES encryption.

You will then be asked to enter your master password when you want to use your certificates.
Select a password that is impossible to guess and keep it secret
Set Opera to ask for the master password every time needed if other people have access to your computer or user account

You can also use the master password to protect your e-mail, news, and Wand passwords.

http://help.opera.co....02/en/security.html

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General Software Discussion / Re: Desktop Search for network files?

« Last post by justice on April 13, 2007, 03:50 AM »

Apparently google says:
How to enable network indexing in recent releases of X1