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General Software Discussion / Re: desktop divider / magnetic window border snapper tool - with draggable dividers?
« Last post by MilesAhead on June 22, 2015, 03:51 PM »
I could not get the installer to complete in ToolWiz TimeFreeze(which is how I test install these days.)

But the portable version worked ok.  I just tried it out for a bit. I haven't gotten into the multiple window sets etc..

What AquaSnap would have most importantly over my MoveIt utility that I use for sizing and positioning stuff on screen, is multi-monitor support.  But for my own use I think I'll end up with MoveIt.  Once I have a Window sized I can just hold down the middle mouse button and press a key 1 - 9 to move the window to that tic tac toe screen position.

It does not do docking per se though.
1927
General Software Discussion / Re: Mustang Browser for Windows (chromium based)
« Last post by MilesAhead on June 22, 2015, 02:28 PM »

"My first impression is it is chrome with a sanity check on the number of running instances"

Does Chrome get bad for that stuff?


-TaoPhoenix (June 22, 2015, 01:03 PM)

You can easily have a dozen or more chrome instances when running 7 or 8 tabs.  By default it opens an instance for each tab and one for each running extension.  The theory is if you have a bad extension it doesn't crash the whole browser.  Just that extension.  Also it makes for fast load and rendering.  But it can hog the system.

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General Software Discussion / Re: desktop divider / magnetic window border snapper tool - with draggable dividers?
« Last post by MilesAhead on June 22, 2015, 10:59 AM »
Free for the moment.
-David.P (June 22, 2015, 10:54 AM)

Cool. Let me know if you like it.  I have tried it a couple of times over the last year.  But the quirks could have been caused by bugs in one of my programs.  It may deserve another try.  :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Mustang Browser for Windows (chromium based)
« Last post by MilesAhead on June 22, 2015, 10:57 AM »
I still like this browser.  But there is a quirk where it will not add itself to the default programs list.   If you change default to another browser, then change it back via the button the next time you run Mustang.exe it will not actually change default to itself.

The only way I found to do it is change the name of mustang.exe(e.g. mustangSAV.exe) then run the installer.  It will install and set mustang as the default.  All my settings and extensions were still intact.  If you run the installer without renaming the exe it just launches the exe.
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General Software Discussion / Re: desktop divider / magnetic window border snapper tool - with draggable dividers?
« Last post by MilesAhead on June 22, 2015, 10:53 AM »
OK I think I got it now. AquaGlue only seems to work after windows have been arranged by AquaSnap (not manually or by using WIN+Arrow combinations).
-David.P (June 22, 2015, 10:38 AM)

Are you using the free or one of the other versions?
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General Software Discussion / Re: desktop divider / magnetic window border snapper tool - with draggable dividers?
« Last post by MilesAhead on June 22, 2015, 10:05 AM »
Ahh, just found this:


http://www.nurgo-sof...om/products/aquasnap

Any comments, experiences or alternatives?
-David.P (June 22, 2015, 10:01 AM)

It may work fine for most.  Every time I try AquaSnap I get weird things happening.  No doubt due to the fact I have a lot of my own stuff running watching the active window and clipboard.  Although I may try it again as I changed one of my utilities so that it does not use clipboard on every click or arrow key as it used to.
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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by MilesAhead on June 21, 2015, 12:02 PM »
Perhaps Slim Pickens for a running mate?
 (see attachment in previous post)
-crabby3 (June 21, 2015, 10:52 AM)

His rodeo style H Bomb ride in Dr. Strangelove is a screen classic.
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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by MilesAhead on June 21, 2015, 07:18 AM »
The Missing Person Who Joined Her Own Search Party
-Arizona Hot (June 20, 2015, 08:28 PM)

Chances are she went on the trip to "find herself" anyway.  :D
1934
Living Room / Re: Movies or films you've seen lately
« Last post by MilesAhead on June 20, 2015, 08:23 AM »
I remember watching The Player
-tomos (June 20, 2015, 06:49 AM)

I enjoyed that flick.  Tim Robbins starred in some funny send-up flicks.  Another was Bob Roberts where he costarred with Gore Vidal.
1935
General Software Discussion / Re: Nifty FREE Utility to do almost anything to a filename in Windows
« Last post by MilesAhead on June 19, 2015, 08:21 AM »
Let me say that DOS is a damned fascinating world.  :Thmbsup:
-Giampy (June 19, 2015, 08:09 AM)

Insane person that I was, I used to do stupid TSRs if you remember those.
Terminate and Stay Resident programs.  :)

Here's a tested version of my cmd

It just uses dir command for proof of concept.  :)

[Select]
@echo off
:next
if "%1"=="" goto end
dir "%1"
shift
goto next
:end
pause

1936
General Software Discussion / Re: Nifty FREE Utility to do almost anything to a filename in Windows
« Last post by MilesAhead on June 19, 2015, 07:49 AM »
Thank you MilesAhead for your tips.
The program you showed doesn't work for me, I adapted it for the command Attrib but I didn't succeed, however your tips about "drag & drop files" brought me to compose this line:

for %%A in (%*) do (attrib +a %%A)

"Drag & drop" files and the program works now. I hope to further develop it for my needs.
-Giampy (June 18, 2015, 06:51 PM)

The "IF" statement should have had a double equals sign as in
IF "%1"==""
instead of
IF "%1"=""

Usually stuff like that, unless it is very straight ahead, is use ahk or autoit.  Less twaddle to deal with that multi percent sign environment variables etc..  :)

Although the advantage of using .cmd batch for sysadmin types is it is always there where ahk or even powershell may not be.  I have to admit I hate the syntax though.  :)

1937
General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extensions: getlocalload - great idea.
« Last post by MilesAhead on June 19, 2015, 07:01 AM »
@panzer: Thankyou - what a great idea. I had not known this technology (getlocalload.com) was available. Let's see how it works in practice now...
-IainB (June 19, 2015, 05:44 AM)

I notice the extension says it works on FF 4 .. 26
I guess I will find out soon if it works on the latest FF?  :)
1938
Found Deals and Discounts / Start Menu X Pro on GOTD
« Last post by MilesAhead on June 19, 2015, 06:01 AM »
http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/

Start Menu X Pro for free

A treat for me since I was using Start Menu X free version.  This utility used to be named Vista Start Menu.  It has some nice features.  I do not enable the "skip start screen" on Windows 8 because it seems to load after I am on the desktop.  That's the only real bug I have noticed in the free version.

I have installed the Pro but have not rebooted yet.

The download zip just requires running the setup program in the same folder as the included activation file.


Anyway by default it is set up as a nice compromise between XP style and Vista style.  The Start Folders cascade to the right but have a horizontal scroll bar.  I like it.  :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Nifty FREE Utility to do almost anything to a filename in Windows
« Last post by MilesAhead on June 18, 2015, 04:13 PM »
With regard to utilities: I select some files in Windows Explorer, and I wonder how it's possible to pass their names to a Dos command...


-Giampy (June 18, 2015, 09:46 AM)

From XP SP3 and later you would type the command, leave a space, then drag and drop onto the command window.  The names would be pasted in.  Something that might work better would be a .cmd batch file.  You could drag and drop to a shortcut of the batch file or put a shortcut to the batch in SendTo folder.  Select files, right click, Send To then lift click the batch shortcut.

The batch file could be simple like
[Select]
@echo off
:next
if "%1"="" goto end
copy "%1" d:\somefolder
shift
goto next
:end

or whatever
1940
General Software Discussion / Re: Panda Free Antivirus 2015 anyone using?
« Last post by MilesAhead on June 18, 2015, 03:43 PM »
Thanks for the replies.   :Thmbsup:
1941
General Software Discussion / Re: change chrome browser fonts?
« Last post by MilesAhead on June 18, 2015, 03:11 PM »

Just for discussion, are you looking for the Chrome equivalent of the FireFox Tools/Options/Content --> Fonts settings?


-TaoPhoenix (June 18, 2015, 03:01 PM)

No.  I am looking to be able to change the fonts for the  UI elements of the browser itself.  Similar to Firefox theme font size changer AddOn.

The labels on the tabs aren't so bad.  But the statusbar font is a bit small.  On chrome forums they either say change the theme, which I could spend days doing without finding one where all is good, or change the Windows MessageBox text size.  The trouble with changing the MessageBox text size is message boxes for programs can then be larger than the desktop work area since they auto adjust to fit all the text in the box.

Edit: If I can't make the statusbar font larger even if I could change it to semi-bold it might make it easier to read.

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General Software Discussion / change chrome browser fonts?
« Last post by MilesAhead on June 18, 2015, 02:18 PM »
I am looking for a way to change the UI fonts in chrome browser without changing the theme or increasing the MessageBox font size in Windows.  The latter makes the chrome font larger but all dialog boxes get bigger too.  Not good.  :)

Ideally something like the Firefox theme font and size changer would exist for chrome.
1943
General Software Discussion / Mustang Browser for Windows (chromium based)
« Last post by MilesAhead on June 18, 2015, 08:14 AM »
Looking through Softpedia Windows downloads I ran across Mustang Browser 1.42.90.0

It is based on Chromium.  But the flash player works out of the box.  Also it seems to have built in settings to limit the number of exe instances.  Starting up with a blank page it shows 4.  With 6 tabs open it shows 6.

So far i've installed Fastdial and Vanilla Cookie Manager.  It comes with AdOff already installed.

So far so good.  It has the dialog to import bookmarks and settings just like chrome.
My first impression is it is chrome with a sanity check on the number of running instances.   :Thmbsup:

Edit:  I posted the Softpedia download link because the file seems to be hosted with the download servers.  The home page listed for the program is a commercial consulting site with no link to any freeware I could see.

Edit2:  There seems to be no portable version.  Note that the installer is quite primitive.  You click install and it puts the stuff under Program Files (x86) on a x64 Windows and makes itself the default browser.  It also adds a button to the Taskbar.  Just so you know what to expect.


Edit3:  It is not as super snappy as regular chrome but it seems pretty stingy on memory.  See screen shot.

Capture.PNG

Edit2:  I found a lag when opening new tabs.  It seems to wait until you click the tab to load.  What it turned out to be was Fast Dial.  It was set to load a background image on the new tab page before loading dials.  There is still a bit of a delay when clicking on a new tab where the background is white.  But the delay is much less noticeable if the Fast Dial has this option set to off.  I noticed complaints about slow tab loading for chrome generally and the answer seemed to be to check an extension that manipulates the new tab page.

It seems very usable now.  Looks pretty nice with Vista Aero Theme.   :Thmbsup:




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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by MilesAhead on June 18, 2015, 06:50 AM »
I can't tell the difference.
-4wd (June 17, 2015, 10:48 PM)

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by MilesAhead on June 18, 2015, 06:49 AM »
The fat one...or the one on top?
-Shades (June 18, 2015, 06:39 AM)

I thought it was a given being a "fat cat" was a qualification for the Oval Office. ;)
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General Software Discussion / Macrium Reflet Free 6.0.684
« Last post by MilesAhead on June 17, 2015, 01:47 PM »
Macrium Reflect ?Free is now v. 6.0.684

Edit:  The editions feature comparison shows the only difference is included support.  This may be the best time to go with the Free Edition.  As far as I know only registered users may register in the forums.  That's another aspect of support I suppose.

Hmm, the page loaded in such a way that all the features appeared as enabled.  :)  Now it makes more sense.  :)


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Found Deals and Discounts / Laplink (PCMover) Free June 17 2015 only
« Last post by MilesAhead on June 17, 2015, 12:12 PM »
Forget it.  I don't need it anyway.

I posted a comment on the giveaway about the problems I had trying to download.  When I returned to the Laplink page it showed I had been given a license.  So it may work if you kick the tires a bit.  :)

It is a today only deal June 17.  I think it is the Pro version.  I am still downloading.

http://www.mostiwant...-free-serial-number/

Edit: Note that the installer wants to install 3 yahoo PUPs.  But the check boxes are in the middle of the dialog and easy to see.  Not sneaky.



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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by MilesAhead on June 17, 2015, 11:27 AM »
Which one for President?
-crabby3

I vote for the cat.
1949
Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Wise Care 365 Pro [free]
« Last post by MilesAhead on June 17, 2015, 09:17 AM »
It may be preferable to just download the free portable tools here:
http://www.wisecleaner.com/download.html

I was impressed with both the Registry Cleaner and Disk Cleaner.
But then those are always free. :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Tweaking.com Registry Backup
« Last post by MilesAhead on June 17, 2015, 08:01 AM »
btw I have restored the Registry a couple of times using the Gui.  I haven't noticed any weird behavior.  It seems like a dependable tool.  The only thing I haven't tried yet is booting the OS recovery disc to get a command prompt and doing the batch restore procedure.

This utility looks like a good precaution to take before using a Registry Cleaner.  I used Wise Registry Cleaner free a couple of times now.  I used this backup just before the cleaning.  Everything seems fine.  The Wise Cleaner got out a few things CCleaner missed such as left over registry entries for Chrome Portable browser.
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