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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 03, 2008, 04:43 PM »

Updated on my XP machine and seems to be doing fine. I think I also got it on my Vista notebook last night but had to shutdown shortly thereafter. I'll try to give it a look on there tonight.

Thanks mouser. BTW, after purchasing the upgrade to SnagIt 9 - I wasn’t even using SnagIt 8 anymore but they made the upgrade so damned cheap!. It's in my "software junk drawer" already. Doesn’t even come close to screenshot Captor IMO. And v. 9 is much less friendly than even their previous version. Horrible workflow - to perform basic captures and then save them as standard image files takes me several more clicks and if I am not very careful I lose them altogether. Camtasia is getting better, but SnagIt - with apparently a new development team - is moving backwards!

Jim

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

« Last post by J-Mac on November 03, 2008, 04:37 PM »

Qliner site:
"Just hold the Windows key for three seconds and up pops a on screen Keyboard with icons on the keys that are configured. This you can use , not only to remind you of hotkey combinations...." and "Use to quickly look up key combinations "
Your post:
"I sure wish that there was a way in Windows to see all hotkeys that are already assigned to applications"

I don't use qliner ... thought if you wanted to see key combos in use it may be relevant.... feel free to ignore it.

-tsaint (November 03, 2008, 04:38 AM)

I did download it and give it a brief try - not sure what it looks at but it doesn’t show existing hotkeys other than the ones defined by Windows. I'm afraid that the Windows default hotkeys are the only ones that can be viewed. I searched this thoroughly last year and was told quite definitively at the AHK and AutoIt forums that Windows doesn’t keep a record of third party hotkeys. Which is really a pain IMO!

Thanks for the help.

Jim

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

« Last post by J-Mac on November 03, 2008, 04:34 PM »

It appears to just be copy/paste of text into a cell. Not sure I would compare that to capturing web pages, unless there is more to it, though I cannot find any instruction or documentation of this anywhere except your post. Is there more somewhere?

-J-Mac (November 02, 2008, 11:19 PM)

When you paste the HTML content, make sure you paste in the HTML area (click on HTML button or Alt-H to view it).

As for having to paste both content and URL, you are correct and this will be fixed when the FF/IE add-ons are done. It is impossible to know the URL from what is in the clipboard...

It is simpler to capture the entire page. Simply copy the URL (or drag-drop it) to the URL textbox and check "Copy Content". You can choose HTML or MHT formats

-PPLandry (November 03, 2008, 12:24 PM)

Thanks Pierre.

Is there a way to paste directly to the HTML pane within the window that the hotkey brings up? I just pasted it in the indicated "Paste" pane on that window.

Thanks again,

Jim

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

« Last post by J-Mac on November 03, 2008, 04:32 PM »

Does anyone remember the brick phone. I remember my first mobile phone / car phone it was bigger then a brick and just as heavy.

-Davidtheo (November 03, 2008, 03:48 AM)

Yup!  I purchased two Ultra Classics from Southern Bell in 1992. Our house literally came down around - and on - us during Hurricane Andrew. After getting our children up to PA for medical attention (our local hospitals were also down), my wife and I still worked and lived at, believe it or not, the nuclear power plant where I worked, and that was the only way to keep in touch during some unbelievable craziness.



Compared to todays mobile devices those things were large and heavy - but they were also lifesavers!

Jim

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

« Last post by J-Mac on November 03, 2008, 03:43 AM »

PS - I sure wish that there was a way in Windows to see all hotkeys that are already assigned to applications. Some apps grab hotkeys without even telling you about it; you don’t see then till you accidently invoke one. Hope I pick a "free" one.

-J-Mac (November 02, 2008, 11:12 PM)

Is qliner at http://qliner.com/hotkeys/overview.htm of any use?

-tsaint (November 03, 2008, 12:53 AM)

Don’t see how. Do you know something about that app that I am not seeing there?

Thanks!

Jim

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

« Last post by J-Mac on November 02, 2008, 11:19 PM »

Pierre,

Not working still. I tried a few: Shft+Alt+N, Ctrl+Alt+N. Nothing happens at all.

When did you try to fix this? It was reported as non-working on your forum on October 23.

Jim

OK, after a restart it worked. Kinda. It opens a dialog for me to paste text into, so I have to first highlight and copy content from a web page. However it also wants a URL pasted, so I have to bring up the page again, highlight and copy the URL, then focus back on the dialog and paste the URL. The result does not look anything like the web page; just a cell filled with plain text.

It appears to just be copy/paste of text into a cell. Not sure I would compare that to capturing web pages, unless there is more to it, though I cannot find any instruction or documentation of this anywhere except your post. Is there more somewhere?

Thank you.

Jim

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

« Last post by J-Mac on November 02, 2008, 11:12 PM »

It was fixed. You need to restart the program after changing the hot key. What hot key did you set it to?

-PPLandry (November 02, 2008, 09:59 PM)

Didn't yet this time. When we talked about it on the IQ forum, I tried several different combinations but none seemed to take. IIRC, Armando tried it also and found it wasn’t working at that time for him either. I hadn't tried again till now since I never saw anything posted anywhere that it had been fixed.

Jim

PS - I sure wish that there was a way in Windows to see all hotkeys that are already assigned to applications. Some apps grab hotkeys without even telling you about it; you don’t see then till you accidently invoke one. Hope I pick a "free" one.

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

« Last post by J-Mac on November 02, 2008, 07:32 PM »

I actually like evernote(even the lates one) But it is a pain in the neck to get multiple data out of it.   I tried Ultrarecall as well and that one was pretty cool. But again that app was more than capturing web pages. I am actually looking for something more specialized, something that just focueses on capturing content and exporting.

-kartal (November 02, 2008, 10:31 AM)

I know you've tried InfoQube (aka SQLNotes) a while back. It does reliable web-page capture. What would be missing to be the solution for your current needs:

1- FF and IE context menu (to copy content)?
2- Simplified UI?
3- Integrated editing pane (à la EN) where items and content can be created in a single window?
4- Other...

-PPLandry (November 02, 2008, 04:09 PM)

Pierre,

How can I capture web pages w/IQ (SQLNotes)?  The default hotkey, Win+N doesn’t work for me, and it can't be changed - or at least it couldn’t in the 9.23 versions. Don’t know if it was fixed in the latest version - has it?

Actually you could change the hotkey in Options but it doesn’t work after changing it.

Thanks!

Jim

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General Software Discussion / Re: ASUS mobo dead

« Last post by J-Mac on November 02, 2008, 07:06 PM »

Oh, by the way - with nforce chipsets, be SURE NOT to install the nvidia firewall - it's one of the buggiest and most crash-prone drivers I've ever seen.

-f0dder (November 02, 2008, 05:26 AM)

Beyand that, even running the nVidia Desktop software can cause conflicts with other applications - I've seen real hard crashes due to that. E.g., UltraMon crashes big time w/nVidia Desktop - or it used to at least.

Jim

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General Software Discussion / ASUS mobo dead

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

I have a similar board in my box Carol: Asus A8N32-SLI-Deluxe. Lot of trouble with the system here from day one. Most of the mysterious crashes I've had turned out to be stemming from nvata.sys. After much searching and posting all over the web I found that it has always been problemsome, most likely due to poor drivers. And Asus and nVidia have abandoned the board and any drivers for it.

And I agree that dealing with Asus support has been a big headache here too.

Good luck!

Jim

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General Software Discussion / Re: Codeweavers - no good deed goes unpunished

« Last post by J-Mac on November 02, 2008, 01:44 AM »

Sounds to me like another person/group/entity who lies and doesn't keep their word.

The world won't miss this company.

-Deozaan (November 02, 2008, 01:24 AM)

Huh?  A bit harsh?

Jim

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

« Last post by J-Mac on November 02, 2008, 01:28 AM »

Oh man! I have a few that very few will remember, methinks! They'll also say much about my age!

• The Bowmar Brain - The first handheld (IF you had fairly large hands!) calculator that I ever saw. Never could afford one, though - they ran about $300 in the early '70s.

• The Wang 720c - I used to write programs for this machine. I know, I know: I always claim here that I am NOT a coder. Well, OK, I was at one time, but we're talking Multiple Regression Analyses, we're talking connecting to an IBM Selectrics as an output device, remotely over a tremendously speedy 1200 baud modem - the kind where we actually placed the old-fashioned telephone receiver into the modem with two holes in it? Yikes! I also did a good bit using COBOL and FORTRAN, hand-punched onto cards and then fed to large, oversized magnetic tape drives.
  
  Yet toss me into a VB edit dialog and I'll be lost for days - you might never see me again!

• Lastly, my experimental attempt to increase the power of an original Atari Game Console by wiring it to a Commodore VIC 20 computer. I won't go into how that worked out other than to say it did produce a hell of a lot more smoke than I ever thought was possible!

Still smilin' yet....

Jim

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

« Last post by J-Mac on November 02, 2008, 12:59 AM »

Maybe it's that I have 1.5 TB of storage attached to my system, and several hundred applications installed (I wanna be like Darwin!!!    ). That might tend to be more vulnerable to some updates. Also, and I know that this matters - I have an AMD chip instead of Intel. Changes made by MS are tested much more thoroughly on Intel-based machines than with AMD chips. (Probably because there are more Intel machines??)

Jim

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Living Room / Re: microsofts anti piracy measures in china

« Last post by J-Mac on November 02, 2008, 12:55 AM »

After reading several articles about this i still cannot tell for sure whether or not WGA actually disables Windows or the computer itself - though disabling Windows would in effect disable the computer, at least for a time until an alternate OS could be installed.

All that being said, any countermeasures contained in software that unexpectedly disables a computer is technically malware, at least by the definition of malware as I know it.

I am still of the firm belief that any such measures that can disable the hardware or software of ANY user - even paying ones, when things go wrong (and they often do) is despicable and is targeting the wrong sector; they should spend their efforts either going after the pirates, or simply make it more beneficial to pay for the product.

Jim

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Living Room / Re: I propose never buying another EA games title!

« Last post by J-Mac on November 02, 2008, 12:44 AM »

f0dder, I'm with you 100%!

Jim

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Living Room / Re: Protecting Data from Future Loss - PhysOrg Article

« Last post by J-Mac on November 02, 2008, 12:37 AM »

I've been trying Box.net out for about a month - pretty nice, and they offer a free plan and also a couple of inexpensive plans also. I also tried Live Mesh but that is still a mess currently.

Otherwise, backup to external drives and optical media, though those will eventually not be usable - hopefully it won't matter by then! (I ain't getting any younger; maybe some media will outlast me!)

Jim

PS - Monitoring the S.M.A.R.T. status is a good thing, but I can say from experience that drives can - and do! - fail even with a perfectly good S.M.A.R.T. rating! Be careful even when it looks good!

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Living Room / Re: Tech News Weekly: Edition 44

« Last post by J-Mac on November 02, 2008, 12:31 AM »

Basically the Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution provides protection from "unreasonable search and seizure", requiring, as Ehtyar mentioned, any governmental law enforcement officer to have "probable cause" that a crime has been committed and that evidence of the same can only be gotten by searching and seizing the evidence from a person or his/her property. Often seen in movies and TV shows where police must wait to obtain a search warrant that specifically lists exactly what they are searching for and where they are permitted to search.

Nice concept about the hash ruling, but I really doubt that ruling will stand, unfortunately.

Jim

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

« Last post by J-Mac on November 01, 2008, 11:50 PM »

I don’t know...

I generally use the Scrapbook extension in Firefox. I can save the images individually from the captured web page, and I can also use SnagIt to grab all the images from the Scrapbook capture of a web page.

Come to think of it, if I wanted to do what I believe you are looking to do, I'd just grab the page with Scrapbook and then perform a SnagIt capture using the "Images from Web page" profile. That's all I can think of right now, mainly because that works for me.

I understand that's possibly not what you are seeking though.

Jim

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

« Last post by J-Mac on November 01, 2008, 09:49 PM »

I am looking for a scrapbook solution that is designed mainly for images and multimedia, has nicer import export functions, that can work with FF. It should support drag and drop fully(both in an out)  I am not talking about taking picture snapshots of the pages.  This app should mainly focus on images and multimedia that is embedded or repesented in the pages. But image screenshot could be nice addition as well.

I love Scrapbook but I hate the way it exports file and you have really no control over the content of the export.

-kartal (November 01, 2008, 04:34 PM)

Are you looking for just the images? Do you even need to have a rendering of the web page itself?

For images alone, SnagIt has a built-in profile that pulls all images from a web page, but the latest version, 9, is terrible. If you decide to use it, try to get version 8.2 instead.

Jim

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

« Last post by J-Mac on October 30, 2008, 12:34 AM »

Hmm..  I already have Anvir Task Manager but disabled all features which are already covered by other utilities I'm running; of course once I disabled the startup features - because I have Chameleon running - I never considered them again, and I had not even checked them out deep enough to see if it had a delay feature. Likewise I disabled the features that duplicated Process Tamer's tasks. I'll have to look at Anvir's startup capabilities again. Which are you using?

The last time you mentioned WinPatrol I took a look at it but didn't see where it provided for startup delays. Two I looked at allowed delays of up to one minute - that's no help at all. Might as well have them all start together as they are going to bang heads that way too.

Thanks!

Jim

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

« Last post by J-Mac on October 29, 2008, 10:37 PM »

I am not going to test DocFetcher any further - unless someone tells me how to make it start minimized - it is too annoying to see it fill up the screen at each startup! The shortcut is of course marked Start Minimized - I also tried if it would accept -tray for an argument - but to no avail.

-Curt (October 29, 2008, 06:18 PM)

Heh heh!    Don’t you just hate that !? 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

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Quality Comparison: 8 x freeware PDF Readers / Viewers

« Last post by J-Mac on October 28, 2008, 06:14 PM »

Hi Mike.

Maybe you're right. I'm not even certain that PDF Converter Pro 3 was installed on this machine; I removed it quite a while ago and I think it was on my last PC before this one. As for V. 5, this doesn’t occur all the time, just once in a while. ANd it was only one time that I lost an entire document - I had made a form from a scanned document and completed all but one blank area at the top. When I next opened the document I only had about the top quarter of it visible on the screen as I completed that last entry and then saved. Only after printing it did I see that the watermark from Nuance's Hell was on it!

Their knowledge base claims that there are certain circumstances where the "hook" doesn’t load. My problem is with any application for which the developer insists on making it activate every time it opens. Just another developer that prefers to annoy - and damage the documents of - paying customers instead of those pirating their software.

Thanks!

Jim

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Quality Comparison: 8 x freeware PDF Readers / Viewers

« Last post by J-Mac on October 28, 2008, 03:14 PM »

Thanks J-Mac,
I'm talking about acrobat, not reader. That's the paid version, so no luck.

-urlwolf (October 28, 2008, 11:57 AM)

Oops! Sorry about that - I thought you meant Acrobat Reader.

I use Nuance's PDF Converter Pro 5 for creating, editing, extracting, etc. I posted here in the past about PDF Converter Pro 3 being horrible - and it was! Very bug-ridden. However this version, 5, works much better, and if you purchased a previous version the update promo allows purchase of the current at a fraction of its retail price.

The only problem I still encounter is with their activation model - every time you open the program - and that sucks! If the activation hook doesn’t open correctly with the program it plants a "Trial Version" watermark right across the page. If you are working at the top of the page, making changes, you don’t see the watermark and if you save it -- you've lost all.

Jim

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Quality Comparison: 8 x freeware PDF Readers / Viewers

« Last post by J-Mac on October 26, 2008, 11:31 AM »

When you think adobe could not suck more:
"Preference "Show each document in its own window (requires restart)" no longer available in Acrobat/Reader 9.0"
So now if I want to have several pdfs open, I will waste memory and taskbar space. Go adobe. All your competitors use tabs!
And memory usage is comparable acrobat 9/pdf-Xchage (!). Both are hogs.
I actually find the rendering in pdf-Xchange better.
The only problem with pdf-Xchange is that moving around in the doc feels sluggish; you can see pages redrawing. Not in adobe. It makes a big difference (I browse, mostly).

Adobe has an option "enable 2D acceleration". If pdf-Xchange could do that too (assuming it's the explanation for the difference), it'd have found the perfect reader. They would march on!

-urlwolf (October 26, 2008, 05:34 AM)

I have a few earlier versions of Adobe Reader.  Not sure all of which I have, but I just looked on one backup drive and saw V. 7 and 7.09. Pretty sure I have some even older also; 4 and 5. I have 8.1 installed currently, I think, so I must have that around here also.

Let me know if you want any, though I am positive that oldversion.com and filehippo.com have older versions also.

Jim

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Quality Comparison: 8 x freeware PDF Readers / Viewers

« Last post by J-Mac on October 24, 2008, 03:07 PM »

I'm for a try with a discount.

Jim