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General Software Discussion / Re: SQLNotes...what is it exactly?

« Last post by J-Mac on November 10, 2008, 05:50 PM »

I'm trying to export to Excel...I highlight all the rows of items in my grid (all of them), and then I click the export to excel button.  I open the file, and only the very top level item is there.  How do I get all the other ones to appear in the excel file?

-superboyac (November 10, 2008, 05:25 PM)

Are you sure that they're not all there in that one item, but just not visible because of the row height?

Jim

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is the currently best Desktop Search software?

« Last post by J-Mac on November 10, 2008, 05:48 PM »

Hi qforce - welcome to DC, it's always nice to have developers drop in here, and thanks for pointing us to your feature request forum. I haven't tried DocFetcher, but it looks nice  FYI, Curt's mention of a dog was only peripherally linked to DocFetcher; Jim was actually referring to Chameleon Startup Manager:

Try using Chameleon Startup Manager - it does that with ANY program for which I set up a startup delay. Annoying is much too mild a word for this.

If I could find another startup manager that handled start delays I drop this dog in a minute.

Jim

-J-Mac (October 29, 2008, 10:37 PM)

Hope to see more of you in this thread and around the forum.

-Darwin (November 09, 2008, 04:36 PM)

Messrs. Darwin & qforce:

I wasn’t referring at all to Doc Fletcher, nor was I talking about something that needs to be reported to a developer as a suggestion. The programs that always open in a full window for me work fine on another computer. But when I set them up for a delayed start within Chameleon Startup Manager they always open full. It is a problem I only see with Chameleon.

Jim

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General Software Discussion / Re: Check&Get or Power Favorites or Linkman

« Last post by J-Mac on November 10, 2008, 03:41 AM »

I have Linkman also, but to be honest I mostly use Delicious now.

Linkman is pretty good, but I found their support to be substandard. E.g., I sent support emails to them in May 2008 were did not receive a reply until August 28! And then the reply in August simply said "A screenshot is worth 1000 words". I was less than impressed.

Jim

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Living Room / Re: Things your kids will never know - old school tech!

« Last post by J-Mac on November 10, 2008, 02:24 AM »

My Dad's teacher (circa 1930's) wouldn't even allow counting using your fingers! I think mental arithmetic is a thing of the past...

-CleverCat (November 10, 2008, 01:54 AM)

With calculators, I guess it is...

...until you find yourself in a situation where some quick mental calculations are desperately needed, as no calculator nor computer is available. I actually did come across similar situations in field construction management, though at the time mobile devices were just plain old cell phones. 

Jim

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General Software Discussion / Re: Reliable web page capture...

« Last post by J-Mac on November 10, 2008, 01:07 AM »

Sounds good Pierre!

Jim

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Living Room / Re: Things your kids will never know - old school tech!

« Last post by J-Mac on November 09, 2008, 09:08 PM »

All of 'em!

Jim

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Living Room / Re: Things your kids will never know - old school tech!

« Last post by J-Mac on November 09, 2008, 08:50 PM »

I can still extract square roots manually very easily! Once a few nuns beat it into you, you never forget!   

Jim

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Living Room / Re: Tech News Weekly: Edition 45

« Last post by J-Mac on November 09, 2008, 08:48 PM »

Ever since True Image Home 11, Acronis has become pretty unreliable IMO.

Jim

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Living Room / Re: Tech News Weekly: Edition 45

« Last post by J-Mac on November 09, 2008, 03:17 PM »

Uh-oh - another software junkie! (And how often do you reinstall Windows?  )

Jim

-J-Mac (November 09, 2008, 01:36 PM)

Every 6 months if i can manage it. I have as much portable software as possible to ease the transition. I currently have 53 addons installed in my Firefox (probably use about 75% of them) though it's about time for another clean out methinks.
If you wanna know how many you have without counting, download Extension List Dumper.

Ehtyar.

-Ehtyar (November 09, 2008, 01:50 PM)

Nah, I still use the tried and true InfoLister. That's worked well for me for a few years now.

Thanks!

Jim

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Living Room / Re: Tech News Weekly: Edition 45

« Last post by J-Mac on November 09, 2008, 01:36 PM »

Unfortunately I don’t think I perform enough true research to justify using it.  I have a feeling that it would be a case of using a sledgehammer to swat at a mosquito.

I will probably give it a try anyway, but I think it may be serious overkill for me.

-J-Mac (November 09, 2008, 01:10 PM)

Ditto, but I just installed it anyway

Ehtyar.

-Ehtyar (November 09, 2008, 01:26 PM)

Uh-oh - another software junkie! (And how often do you reinstall Windows?  )

Jim

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Living Room / Re: Tech News Weekly: Edition 45

« Last post by J-Mac on November 09, 2008, 01:10 PM »

Impressive. Zotero DOES have a Word add-in and (apparently) you can import an Endnote database into it. Unfortunately, I cannot get my database imported  Will keep trying... If I didn't already have Endnote (I've been using it since 2000) and have so much invested into it re: time and references, I'd stick with Zotero.

-Darwin (November 07, 2008, 12:02 PM)

Cool! I looked at their videos and tutorials and it looks great. Unfortunately I don’t think I perform enough true research to justify using it.  I have a feeling that it would be a case of using a sledgehammer to swat at a mosquito.

I will probably give it a try anyway, but I think it may be serious overkill for me.

Thanks!

Jim

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Living Room / Re: Tech News Weekly: Edition 45

« Last post by J-Mac on November 09, 2008, 01:07 PM »

13. Porn Breath Tests for PCs Heralds 'stop and Scan'

"The disc goes into the CD-ROM drive of the PC and if files are found, the user connects a USB-DVD writer to the back of the computer, and the images that are stored in memory in the RAM of the computer are written to the DVD," Professor Valli said. "Nothing gets written to the original evidence at all, which is the key."

This thing doesn't scan for deleted files and there's no mention of any uber-sophisticated (or otherwise) decryption+pattern search technology either. Wonder how many child pornographers innocent shlobs with nudies of their wives/girlfriends will be ensnared by this little beauty.

-nosh (November 07, 2008, 03:56 AM)

Or someone else's wives or girlfriends...   

Jim

(And if you don’t ever hear from me again, you'll know that my darling, lovely wife saw this...    )

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Living Room / Re: Things your kids will never know - old school tech!

« Last post by J-Mac on November 09, 2008, 01:05 PM »

I think I realized that I had gotten old when I saw that no one else I know is familiar with:

• Slide rules
• Morse code
• Phonetic Alphabet
• How to extract square roots (without a calculator)

I think I had more...

...but I forget what they were!      

Jim

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General Software Discussion / Re: EverNote beta 2.2.0.372 has some nice new features

« Last post by J-Mac on November 08, 2008, 11:09 PM »

You can export to XML - how is that limiting? Actually you can currently export to HTML, MHT, TXT, and ENEX - which is a rich XML format.

Have checked in there lately? Some of the features did progress during the beta.

Jim

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General Software Discussion / Re: EverNote beta 2.2.0.372 has some nice new features

« Last post by J-Mac on November 08, 2008, 11:43 AM »

OK. You had mentioned 100 MB so I thought you were under the impression that was their limit.

Jim

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General Software Discussion / Re: EverNote beta 2.2.0.372 has some nice new features

« Last post by J-Mac on November 08, 2008, 02:08 AM »

I actually think that both their software and online service is very good, especially for what you pay. I hope they stay in business. But as I mentioned I am just not interested in their online business especially because their privacy policy just sounds like Google`s and on the otherhand some 100 mb would not cut for me and in the end it would be very expensive if I start using it for my projects and my online deliveries( considering that I already have hundreds of megabytes of notes and personal data that needs to be moved to evernote). If it was offering super strict privacy policy(totally on customer`s side) and offering at least  1 gb a month for 5-15$ I would not mind paying it.

On the otherhand if they improve their desktop software, expand ink notes and import- export features I would have no problem even paying 100$ for it.  But without the features I am looking for it is kind of pointless.

Anyways I hope they stay in business because they really offer something, a product unlike many web companies that just offer jibberish.

-kartal (November 08, 2008, 01:27 AM)

??  Premium subscription gives you 500 MB per month bandwidth, plus SSL.

Jim

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General Software Discussion / Re: EverNote beta 2.2.0.372 has some nice new features

« Last post by J-Mac on November 08, 2008, 01:13 AM »

Correct - Evernote 3 is no longer in beta. Premium is $4.95/month or $45.00/year - all USD.

Oddly enough, though, they were selling the premium subscriptions while they were still in beta, which I don’t agree with.

Jim

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Living Room / Re: Rats! MS Auto Updates Got Me Again!

« Last post by J-Mac on November 07, 2008, 02:16 PM »

Man!  You guys/gals are just teasing me!

OK, it's not like I have problems with every update; just maybe three (or so?) that have really gotten me.

First one was back in April 2006, maybe? The update that installed a program that somehow facilitates the prefetch function. That same update also added, I believe, the new and - IMO, not improved - WinSxS manifest mess, which in turn messed big time with XP's DEP, or Data Execution Prevention. That update and the idiocy of a few developers caused me a lot of grief. TechSmith was one, and Mindjet was another. Both got lazy and when Windows Installer 3 was released instead of building new installer packages in WI3 they simply copied over the code they had used in Windows Installer 2 to the new WI3. Version 2 hadn't had to deal with the new WinSxS manifest stuff, but 3 did. That made both SnagIt and Mind Manager Pro go haywire after I installed them.

Both now must be listed in my DEP exclusion list or they will not even appear when I try to start them. (Or at least until I reinstalled Windows after that!)

Now this post will draw out another dozen members here who will post how they are soooo lucky!  (Creeps!)   

Jim

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General Software Discussion / Re: SQLNotes...what is it exactly?

« Last post by J-Mac on November 07, 2008, 12:36 AM »

Gotcha.

Thanks Armando!

Jim

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Living Room / Re: Tech News Weekly: Edition 45

« Last post by J-Mac on November 07, 2008, 12:00 AM »

priced things out of the hands of students

-mouser (November 06, 2008, 06:22 PM)

That's an understatement... About the only ray of light WRT their pricing scheme is that many (but certainly not all) universities have deals with Thomson enabling the univ to provide very cheap or even free licences for Endnote to their students. Sadly, my university was not one of them and I bought my own licence.

Anyway, great newsletter, ehtyar  Case in point: I never would have heard about the silly Endnote litigation if I hadn't clicked on the link to your roundup 

-Darwin (November 06, 2008, 06:30 PM)

As soon as I read the news item about Endnote I knew I would soon be reading a comment about it from you, Mr. Darwin!    You've mentioned your use of Endnote enough! I'm curious: Have you tried Zotero? If so, how does it measure up against Endnote?

BTW, I have fallen hard into love with your newsletter, ehtyar! Truly excellent!!  Thank you for this.

Jim

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General Software Discussion / Re: SQLNotes...what is it exactly?

« Last post by J-Mac on November 06, 2008, 11:00 PM »

I understand, but the issue here is not just editing, it is storage. Other clippers have just 1 storage per file. In IQ, you can:

- put it in any folder (i.e. field), to be displayed in one or more grids...
- You may also want to control what will be the item text
- You may also want that the item keeps accumulating your clips (format: URL + CR + the actual clip + Hoz. Line), as an aggregate page

-PPLandry (November 06, 2008, 10:34 PM)

Not sure that I understand you Pierre.  What is a "folder" in IQ? Actually I don’t have any! And this is absolutely the first time I have heard anyone mention folders in IQ.

Did I miss something? You have "field" in parenthises; is every field a folder? (Oh no, now I'm confusing me too!)

How do you mean "control the item text"? I'm talking about capturing a web page or part of a web page. Do you mean edit the text on the page? If so, I explained that above.

And as for the "item keeps accumulating your clips", how would clipping directly to the database affect that?

Jim

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General Software Discussion / Re: SQLNotes...what is it exactly?

« Last post by J-Mac on November 06, 2008, 10:26 PM »

My vote is for directly to the database. That's how most are and that works well for me. If I need to do any significant editing first, I have two methods for doing that:

• Clip to Local Website Archive and that has an editor.
• Clip to Scrapbook in Firefox and that also has a decent editor.

Jim

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Screenshot Captor / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - ScreenshotCaptor - 2.44.01 - Nov 3, 2008

« Last post by J-Mac on November 05, 2008, 10:26 PM »

Odd event on my Vista notebook w/this version: About 15 minutes after starting the notebook I tried to capture a pop-up with an error message for another program with Screenshot Captor. Nothing happened for quite a while - maybe 30 to 45 seconds - and then I got the default capture sound. But the SC popup didn't appear for about another 10 seconds. When it did I clicked on the "Keep Capture and Open Window" button. The image was not captured. I hadn't yet OK's out of the error message so I tried again and it worked that time.

That's a first for me with SC - never missed a capture like that before.

Jim

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General Software Discussion / Re: Reliable web page capture...

« Last post by J-Mac on November 05, 2008, 01:46 AM »

I have a few apps that clip just fine. I do want to get the data into SQLNotes/IQ, and when its clipper is on par with others like Evernote, OneNote 2007, or Ultra Recall I'll use it. In the meantime it is easier for me to clip with one or more of those - depending on the type of content - and then import, copy or cut & paste, or drag & drop it into SQLNotes/IQ.   

That'll work for now.

Jim

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General Software Discussion / Re: Reliable web page capture...

« Last post by J-Mac on November 04, 2008, 12:39 PM »

Thanks Tom.

All things considered, I think I'll use my other web clipping tools until IQ has a true clipper.

Jim