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

« Last post by Dormouse on April 01, 2008, 04:32 AM »

So $9.95+$19.95 is more than $25.97. But if the upgrade is not worth it, $9.95 on its own is less. Who can know if it is worth it if there is no trial available?

-Dormouse (March 31, 2008, 06:00 PM)

Well - as stated HERE the price of v6 can now be $0.0. Probably the best starting point for anyone who does not have it and actually wants it. One thing I would say for Avanquest is the the prices for $ are effectively the same as the prices in £.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: PowerDesk Pro v6 very very cheap.

« Last post by Dormouse on April 01, 2008, 03:22 AM »

I can confirm that this works. v6.0.4.2 - 33.78MB download for $0.0

Have to refuse their blandishments to upgrade the purchase cheaply to v7 though.

PS - I don't think there is any question that Directory Opus is better and worth the money (even if v7 of Powerdesk were better).

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

« Last post by Dormouse on March 31, 2008, 06:00 PM »

the upgrade price of $19.95 is replaced by a new price of $25.97.

-Darwin (March 31, 2008, 04:42 PM)

So $9.95+$19.95 is more than $25.97. But if the upgrade is not worth it, $9.95 on its own is less. Who can know if it is worth it if there is no trial available?

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

« Last post by Dormouse on March 31, 2008, 12:25 PM »

And do you really want to buy from a company that seems not to be advertising the availability of v7 at the same time as it is actively selling (special offer, Bitsdujour etc) v6 at a discount price?

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General Software Discussion / Re: MAILSTORE EMAIL ARCHIVER

« Last post by Dormouse on March 31, 2008, 11:00 AM »

I don't see this as a major problem. I know about my recent emails and adding everything to mailstore once a week is not much of an imposition.

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Living Room / Re: RAM PROBLEM?

« Last post by Dormouse on March 31, 2008, 08:19 AM »

Is it possible that something else has happened to cause the shutdowns and not the RAM?

-bobparham (March 31, 2008, 08:09 AM)

Of course it is possible. It is also possible that the 512mb RAM was not the cause of the original slowness. If it were the new stick or a mismatch, I'd certainly expect that restoring the hardware to its previous state would stop the shutdowns. Have you tried a restore from before the time the shutdowns started? The PSU is another potential cause of the problems. Maybe someone more expert will be along soon to give more precise advice.

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General Software Discussion / Re: mp3 Audio OUTPUT volume normalizer? Any such thing?

« Last post by Dormouse on March 29, 2008, 08:33 PM »

Breakaway is available in a form to be used with all players, not just as a winamp plugin.

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General Software Discussion / Re: files and folders emulator

« Last post by Dormouse on March 28, 2008, 09:09 PM »

Why not just use a duplicate checker/remover?

Double Killer Pro seems to be well recommended here - https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=1693.0

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Living Room / Re: Computer will not start!

« Last post by Dormouse on March 28, 2008, 09:07 PM »

If it is not obvious what is wrong, my experience suggests that the first thing to swap out is the PSU. They often give rise to intermittent faults and, by and large, you get what you pay for with them and cheap ones are generally to be avoided.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Professional Task Scheduling/Task Management

« Last post by Dormouse on March 28, 2008, 08:52 PM »

It sounds as if you are looking for a Task Manager, but the Google Calendar reference confuses me a bit because that's not so hot at task management.

I'd suggest ToDoList2. Can be used very simply, but has awesome power available. Free. Very active development (and has been for some years). Very responsive developer. But not at all like Google Calendar.

It all depends on the features you need as well as the type of interface you prefer.

Sunbird is another Calendar app rather than a task manager. Is it really a calendar that you need? Spicebird adds email (thunderbird engine) to sunbird derived calendar. Alternative calendar apps would include Essential PIM and Calimanjaro.

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General Software Discussion / Re: are email clients sofware a dead industry ?

« Last post by Dormouse on March 28, 2008, 08:31 PM »

between Windows Live Mail and Thunderbird (and exchange for the corporate world)

-f0dder (March 28, 2008, 08:23 PM)

Gmail persuaded a lot of people to switch out of conventional clients too.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What’s this "Linux" thing and why should i try it?

« Last post by Dormouse on March 27, 2008, 02:22 PM »

I've still got a few tricks up my sleeve...

-Edvard (March 27, 2008, 02:14 PM)

Probably developed quite capacious sleeves too.

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General Software Discussion / Re: On-Line Dictionaries

« Last post by Dormouse on March 27, 2008, 07:16 AM »

Occasionally dictionary.com
Mostly The Sage
Also Online Etymology Dictionary

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

« Last post by Dormouse on March 27, 2008, 06:42 AM »

My version of PowerDesk Pro is 6.0.4.2 © 1998-2005 - Any newer ones? 

Edit:
Maybe 'someone' will download the supposedly new trial and tell what version's number it is? 

-Curt (March 16, 2008, 01:49 PM)

6.0.1.3    1998-2005

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General Software Discussion / Re: I need a search software that does not index, searches mp3, email, video, txt...

« Last post by Dormouse on March 27, 2008, 06:39 AM »

Also checked with Powerdesk. Powerdesk much slower than SearchGT, on a par with Dopus & XYplorer.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Can't *think* of a robust password? - free PC Tools Password Utilities

« Last post by Dormouse on March 26, 2008, 07:58 PM »

Yes, I suppose that with a master password the browsers are probably secure enough. And convenient so long as you only use that browser (much less convenient otherwise).

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General Software Discussion / Re: Can't *think* of a robust password? - free PC Tools Password Utilities

« Last post by Dormouse on March 26, 2008, 07:32 PM »

Yes, I agree it works fine if you use LockNote etc - as you say that would make it another way of achieving a Password Manager system. Longer winded though, unless you are already using Locknote etc.

Don't know about the 'remember password option' in browsers. Certainly convenient, but not sure it is that secure.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Can't *think* of a robust password? - free PC Tools Password Utilities

« Last post by Dormouse on March 26, 2008, 07:18 PM »

I'm not sure I really understand the point of standalone password generators. The password can be relatively hard to guess or crack and can be used - but how is it to be remembered? It will be too random/long for most humans memory to be reliable. And, if it is recorded somewhere, couldn't it be found by someone else?

I understand the point inside a password manager which will only need one master password. I understand the value of the two input system (master password and account name) that effectively only needs one master password and use this myself on minor accounts where security does not really matter (though I still record them in Keepass). But I don't really understand the point of just generating uncrackable impossible to remember passwords without a method of recording them that is itself secure.

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

« Last post by Dormouse on March 25, 2008, 08:03 PM »

At some point I tried "scanning" parts of very wide books like that (they wouldn't fit in my scanner). Quite a hard endeavor... I guess I just didn't have the right equipment -- if I had, it would've been damn quick!

-Armando (March 25, 2008, 07:54 PM)

I find that with a decent camera there's no book that is too big or wide. By far the fastest way of digitising that sort of item. Also good for stuff that other people have and don't want you to borrow to take a copy.

For most letters etc, I just rely on my document scanner which is very fast and automatic.

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

« Last post by Dormouse on March 25, 2008, 07:16 PM »

Nice idea.

-Armando (March 25, 2008, 06:33 PM)

Thanks.

I've always been amazed how people focus on cameras as ways of taking pictures rather than as tremendously versatile and portable data capture devices. One of my daughters once complained of the amount of time she was spending copying up notes she'd borrowed from friends after a few weeks off school when she was ill. I suggested that she just photograph them, and even demonstrated and showed how they could be searched in Evernote and that she could print them if she wanted, but she still seemed to feel it would only be right if she wrote them out by hand.

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Living Room / Re: So how long IS too long for a thread.

« Last post by Dormouse on March 25, 2008, 06:43 PM »

I've come late to some very long threads and sometimes, when the subject interests me enough, have read the whole thread. Usually going backwards in time first and occasionally going through again forwards to make sure I have fully followed it.

Some threads though don't really have a single thread. The 'recent' Evernote thread for instance started on EN2.2 and ended on EN3, with the obligatory diversion onto SQLnotes for a time. Moderators on some boards would proactively split threads like that. Would that be better? It would certainly be a bigger workload for the mods.

Some of my favourite boards don't have separate forums and don't have threads. There is just a single continuous series of posts. One I am looking at now has nearly 250,000 posts. Now that is what I call a long thread. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: XP's slow death is approaching, according to Microsoft's timeline

« Last post by Dormouse on March 25, 2008, 12:40 PM »

I agree. If they want to hang on to the monopoly, they will have to release their post Vista windows before killing XP off AND it will have to be much better than Vista.

tbh, it doesn't matter greatly to me. I've got every system installed with Linux too (apart from the Vista laptop and that might change soon as I'm told it has got much slower). I won't be installing Vista on any system that currently has XP and I'll just keep XP going unless it becomes too risky or unproductive.

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

« Last post by Dormouse on March 25, 2008, 12:33 PM »

Double-click below the list of items (in the grid, adds a new item. Click on the HTML pane to start entering text

-PPLandry (March 25, 2008, 12:27 PM)

That's the one; it's always nice to be reassured that everything can be done with mouse or keyboard.

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

« Last post by Dormouse on March 25, 2008, 12:32 PM »

If you really want to steal Evernote users away
...
 what makes Evernote so great--you just type the word you're looking for and that entire list filters down to a few items.

-superboyac (March 25, 2008, 11:04 AM)

But a big advantage of Evernote is its ability to read handwriting & images. I had thought that one nice little task that needs doing and I could try SQLnotes on was recording the bottles in my wine cellar (just a little wine cellar in case you are wondering) - what's in the bottles and their position in the racks. Then I realised that the easiest and most comprehensive approach would actually be to photograph the fronts and backs of the bottles and just load the photos into Evernote. No need to write, no need to type, no need to worry about fields etc.

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

« Last post by Dormouse on March 25, 2008, 12:25 PM »

• Press F12 to move to the grid
  
• Press INS to add a new item
  
• Press F12 to move focus to the HTML pane

• Hit shortcut key. A dialog comes up where you can enter the item title. A drop-down matches existing ones.
  
• If you select an existing one, focus goes to that item
  
• If what you typed does not match an existing one, a new item is created

If you hit a different shortcut (say CTRL-L), the same dialog opens but allows you to create a link to an existing or a new item.

-PPLandry (March 25, 2008, 10:52 AM)

This is all well and good for people who do everything by the keyboard, but what about mouse users?