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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: XYplorer File Manager
« Last post by rjbull on August 12, 2009, 05:31 AM »
XY 8.20 released

XYplorer 8.20 has been released on 12-Aug-2009. Here's a quick introduction to the main new features:

  • Large Toolbar Icons. Now you can toggle small or large toolbar icons.
  • Sticky Selection. A safe and comfortable multiple selection style for huge file lists.

    Sticky Selection, also known as "Checkbox Mode" is a selection style known from many apps with multiple selection lists. The effect is pretty much identical to holding the CTRL key while you click on an item or hit the space key on the focused item: The previous selections are not touched and the current item's selection state toggles. Also clicking on the white space will not unselect the selected items.

    Sticky Selection is obviously very practical when you work on long lists and want to pick out particular items manually: You won't easily lose your work by the slip of a finger.

    Last not least there's a toolbar button for quick toggling
Links:
1927
Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Online Armor Premium Firewall for Free
« Last post by rjbull on August 12, 2009, 03:21 AM »
Thanks, laughinglizard - I am subscribed to Gizmo, but don't always read my e-mails   :-[  and that offer's worth knowing about.
1928
Back when we thought the invention of the QWK offline message reading format was the pinnacle of technology. ;)

Back then... it WAS!   :D
1929
There's no need for an external editor in this day and age for email programs, unless you're trying to do something very specific.

I'd like to be able to use an editor I'm comfortable with, rather than be forced to use yet another embedded editor with less features and its own quirks.
1930
The Bat is awesome in 90% of everything, but it's editor has issues also, and they never get fixed.

I asked if they could make TB! start any editor of your choice, i.e., present the message you were working on as a file for your preferred text editor to work on.  That's the way many systems worked back in the Fidonet DOS days.  For example, I used GoldED (one of the few... the proud... the REGISTERED), and GoldED had both a rudimentary editor of its own, and the ability to use whatever text editor you wanted.  Same with the Terminate terminal/point system/fax/mini-BBS etc. program, which even had many popular editors already set up in its configuration file.

For example, the Bat still can't wrap lines like a normal editor.

I do like the way you can press Alt-L and have it tidy up the shark's-teeth formatting, but it should be more automatic.
1931
... pasting recipient, subject and contents for emails in a webmail interface multiple times.
You might need a much heavier-duty program for that.  You could do it with KeePass, where you tab between fields and enter text, or the similar functionality (which I haven't tried) in mouser's ClipboardHelp+Spell.  Look for Advanced SendKeys Method in CHS' Help.  If you need to change recipient each time, though, that's more of a problem.
1932
Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Rename Pad
« Last post by rjbull on August 05, 2009, 03:33 AM »
Too late to the party.  Most of the time I too use Total Commander.  But I occasionally use Oscar's File Renamer, which works a bit like using a simple notepad, with simple learn-by-example macros.  Here's part of Mark Wieczorek's My Favorite Smallware review of it:
It's extremely simple interface lets you search & replace or record keystroke macro's. What really sets this apart is that it opens a directory like a text file, moving the cursor up and down doesn't just select a different file, it keeps the same character spacing as before, and you don't commit your changes until you're happy with them so you can experiment without fear of screwing up.
1933
General Software Discussion / Re: Down with Foxit!
« Last post by rjbull on August 04, 2009, 06:01 AM »
Did you re-post your deleted posts?
Not verbatim, because I hadn't kept the text elsewhere, but more or less.  They were still there this morning and one had been replied to.  So that's good.

@Grorgy:  thanks - I doubt you'll find any of them better than Nuance PDF Converter Pro.  Even the Able2Extract that I use includes Nuance OCR technology.
1934
General Software Discussion / Re: Down with Foxit!
« Last post by rjbull on August 03, 2009, 10:11 AM »
I received a reply from Foxit:

We deleted and banned many spam messages and users every day. We might have mis-deleted your account. We have recovered {your account}

I've tried it, the account is indeed active, though they didn't undelete my posts.  I feel they were trigger-happy on anti-spam measures, but at least they've done the right thing by reinstating the account.  Now to see if it stays that way...

Still interested in alternative editors, but Foxit would do themselves a favour by adding a Help file.  There's nothing at all at present, and I'm probably overlooking some of the functionality.

@Grorgy:  From the sales puff, gDoc Fusion looks like a competitor to Nuance PDF Converter Pro.  I have Able2Extract, which has much of the same features apart from any kind of editing.  Did you by any chance look at gDoc Fusion's editing features?
1935
General Software Discussion / Re: Down with Foxit!
« Last post by rjbull on August 02, 2009, 04:21 PM »
Carol Haynes, IainB: you are of course both right.  I have now sent off quite a gentle e-mail requesting clarification to Foxit.

@IainB: I haven't found Foxit PDF Editor flakey, but there are features I wish it had.  However, it's just very hard work editing PDFs.  And I nearly did put in the Mad smiley  :)

Just for general interest, some earlier DC threads on PDF editors:

INfix: easy, capable, but expensive WordPad-like PDF editor

Editor for PDFs: recommendations, please?

Bluebeam (AWESOME pdf editor, Acrobat alternative)

1936
Post New Requests Here / Re: idea: flexible (universal) commandline front-end
« Last post by rjbull on August 02, 2009, 04:14 PM »
@basc:

I think now what you're suggesting sounds a bit like the "User Tools" setup in some editors, except you want it with smart handling of the command-line switches?  Sounds like a lot of hard work to make the smart handling universal enough.  Sleeping Wolf's idea of quietly scanning the switches is interesting, but there could be problems as some switches are mutually exclusive.

1937
General Software Discussion / Down with Foxit!
« Last post by rjbull on July 31, 2009, 05:26 AM »
I am a registered user of Foxit PDF Editor, which at $99 isn't cheap.  Yesterday I re-registered in their forums (the first time I tried, I could never log in after: the registration information got somehow lost at their end, and was never recovered, despite e-mails).  Yesterday I posted twice, first a pretty modest suggestion that they add a hotkey to toggle the Properties panel on/off, for convenience.  The second time was to add to a short thread Convert PDF files to Word file, suggesting Zamzar (with a caveat), also Nuance and Able2Extract.  Today I tried logging in again, to find this:

vBulletin Message

You have been banned for the following reason:
No reason was specified.

Date the ban will be lifted: Never

They had deleted both my posts.  Nice people, eh?  Looks like they can't stand any suggestion that software other than their own can exist, even though they don't seem to offer a PDF-to-Word converter themselves.

Naturally, I shall be looking for another PDF editor to replace Foxit.

1938
General Software Discussion / Re: FileBox eXtender Alternatives
« Last post by rjbull on July 31, 2009, 04:47 AM »
@Contro: PowerPro is a great program - but I agree you wouldn't really run it just for the dialog extender features.    It only really makes sense if you intend to use several of its features.

I realise I didn't expand on why I find Total Commander useful.  TC has built-in "macros," which you can attach to a button on its button bar.  I added two buttons, one for UNC path+filename, one for short path+filename.  You put the cursor on a file, press the appropriate button, and TC sends that information to the clipboard.  Then you can paste it into a dialog.  XYplorer has a similar feature, bound to a hotkey instead of a button.

@superboyac: In your review, you say there's a free version of Direct Folders.  It looks to me like it's only free for personal use.  95% of my computing is done at work...   :huh:
1939
Living Room / Re: alternatives to windows magnifier
« Last post by rjbull on July 31, 2009, 04:37 AM »
The author of Q-Dir also offers OneLoupe as freeware, but I have no idea whether it will be good enough for your friend.

1940
Post New Requests Here / Re: idea: flexible (universal) commandline front-end
« Last post by rjbull on July 29, 2009, 03:31 AM »
I'm not really sure what you're asking.  But, have you looked at mouser's Drag and Drop Shell Robot?

Drag and Drop Shell Robot  is a utility to help power users easily peform operations on large numbers of files and folders.

You can create any number of configuration files by specifying a target application and various commandline parameters or options. To use the program, you simply select a configuration file and drag & drop files and folders onto the queue window, and click Start. Then sit back while the operation proceeds through your files. You can also export commands to a batch file instead of immediate operation.
1941
General Software Discussion / Re: FileBox eXtender Alternatives
« Last post by rjbull on July 29, 2009, 03:24 AM »
I did a bit of work for you there - I didnt do it because I was looking for thanks (more because I was bored with my work) but I would appreciate a more polite response

Well said, tomos.  This is DC, not usenet.  Politeness and helpfulness are the spirit of the site.
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General Software Discussion / Re: FileBox eXtender Alternatives
« Last post by rjbull on July 28, 2009, 10:51 AM »
tomos beat me to recommending the DC review  :)

As I use Total Commander as my file manager, rather than Windows Explorer, I don't have quite so much need, but you still can't avoid folder dialogs.  I run PowerPro and find its "Favorite folders lists for file open/save dialogs" feature very useful.
1943
General Software Discussion / Re: Searching a Text-Table tool...
« Last post by rjbull on July 28, 2009, 07:44 AM »
Where're your tables coming from?  Is is a screen clip, or can you export your data as CSV?  Some editors - e.g. UltraEdit, and Boxer - can convert CSV into properly-spaced columns.  You could get more control over the appearance from Bruce Guthrie's CONVERT, which is a DOS command-line program for doing similar tasks, and more.

1944
Anyway, I think I might have finally found something, its called MemPad.
http://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?id=889#comments
[...]
Cons:
2. ) Export is limited to just .txt output. (Though it doesnt look too bad, and I can "work" with it easily enough.)
3. ) Export to .html tree, .csv, or a folder structure with text files in them for nodes.

Send the author an e-mail and ask him if he'll send you a copy of his Qhtml utility:
Qhtml receives MemPad's export, and produces a HTML page, taking care of the following jobs:
  • use a HTML template where the exported text will be embedded
  • handle line breaks and paragraphs
  • pass HTML tags, which are required in square brackets
  • handle some special tags like current date and titles

4. ) Making a link to a file requires me to replace all spaces in the file name with underscores. (Though this is minor because I can mass rename this through XYplorer easily.)

I think that's a limitation of Windows, which allows you to include spaces in file paths, and then won't honour them  >:(  Happens to me at work when trying to e-mail links to UNC files on the network.

4. ) An "insert file link option" instead of having to write links into the node by hand.

Not sure what you mean by that, but, you use XYplorer.  I've assigned Ctrl-U in XYplorer so that if the cursor is on a file, the UNC path+filename are sent to the clipboard, so you can instantly paste them into MemPad or whatever editor.  Go to Tools -> Customize Keyboard Shortcuts (Shift-F9 brings this up directly) -> Item UNC Path/Name(s), and assign your chosen hotkey.

1. ) Multiple notebooks support with a tab bar.

F7 instantly toggles between current and last-used notebooks, but you probably mean all notebooks (or a chosen set) on a tab bar.

1945
General Software Discussion / Re: Note Taking Software
« Last post by rjbull on July 24, 2009, 04:50 AM »
But it takes you to NoteHolder when u click link at bottom to buy? :huh:

Yes, I see.  The Table of Differences is very like the Notesholder one.  Rather odd rebranding experiment...  Still, I like the application, especially as it's small and can be portable.

Haven't tried CintaNotes.

@sajman99:  I felt a bit uneasy at sharing a private e-mail, but as QuotePad Pro would take you to A!K Research Labs anyway, don't suppose they'll mind too much.

1946
General Software Discussion / Re: Note Taking Software
« Last post by rjbull on July 23, 2009, 09:11 AM »
I think I bought my license when they had a discount, or it might have been a Bits du Jour discount.  But you can't rely on discounts...  I don't see anything about a payware version of QuotePad?

1947
General Software Discussion / Re: Note Taking Software
« Last post by rjbull on July 23, 2009, 04:43 AM »
I asked A!K Research Labs about this, because it looks so close to their program Notesholder Lite.  If I understand their e-mail correctly, QuotePad is a rebranding experiment of Notesholder Lite.  I haven't tried it yet, but if the screenshot is anything to go by, some people may prefer QuotePad's permanent filter box.

I am a registered user of Notesholder Pro.  Don't like the alarm system of either version much, but otherwise they're nice.  Main advantage of Pro over Lite is being able to have categories of notes - sort of parallel ribbons.  You can install both Lite and Pro as portable.  Main disadvantage of Pro is, last time I tried it via a USB stick at work, Trend OfficeScan deleted it, yet another false positive   >:(  Lite is OK, though.

BTW you don't have to make Notesholder dock to the screen edge, you can hide that and just us hotkeys.  I don't know why they add an extra hotkey slot ot hide the program, just pressing the "new note" hotkey twice or Esc once does just as well.

1948
Living Room / Re: Apollo conspiracy's doom
« Last post by rjbull on July 21, 2009, 04:38 AM »
Nor how they got the cameras to operate so well under the conditions on the moon...

They paid Hasselblad a lot of money for space-proof cameras...  (you have to pay a lot of money to Hasselblad for ordinary cameras, so what did they expect)

1949
Thanks, Lutz_ !   :Thmbsup:
1950
I'm currently using ClipX, but since it sometimes stops adding clipped text to its history I'm more or less searching for an alternative. But I need a search function.

brotherS, if you want a search function, try out ArsClip as well.  And, of course, mouser's Clipboard Help+Spell.
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