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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for a linkification tool

« Last post by ewemoa on April 13, 2011, 08:12 AM »

If you ever need to do something more customized...Macros in Notepad++, Emacs, etc. might be worth checking out:

Notepad++ Macros:

  http://npp-community.tuxfamily.org/documentation/notepad-user-manual/macros
  http://www.rarst.net/software/notepadpp-macro-for-repetitive/

Emacs Keyboard Macros:

  http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/KeyboardMacros

1952

General Software Discussion / Re: Mp3 split program that allows for multiple cut-points before execution?

« Last post by ewemoa on April 13, 2011, 07:34 AM »

lol

Ah, another use for word verification image technology - inserting deliberate ambiguity into one's posts for humor and other noble purposes 

1953

General Software Discussion / Re: Mp3 split program that allows for multiple cut-points before execution?

« Last post by ewemoa on April 13, 2011, 06:20 AM »

I tried out the "Pause Detection" functionality -- I ended up adding and removing some points but it seemed worth using.

Also tried out the following bit mentioned in the FAQ:

I miss the "Append all/selection to..." save option!

It's not longer necessarry since mp3DirectCut has virtual Cut, Copy & Paste. Open a second instance of the program where you copy the part you want to append. Then paste the selection the end of the other track. "Save all..." creates the combined file. You can also paste multiple selections. Before saving, the program does not copy real audio data but only references. So you must keep every file until you saved the result file.

[Minor point: in 2.13, I didn't find a "Save all..." -- found a "Save complete audio..." item that seemed appropriate though.]

mp3DirectCut's UI sure feels unusual    I'm not sure I'll remember how to use it on a subsequent occasion...

After I got through with splitting, I found:

  http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/faq?s=files&i=split
  http://wiki.audacityteam.org/index.php?title=Splitting_recordings_into_separate_tracks

I think I'd remember what to do with Audacity, but I imagine it would take a fair bit longer to finish because of the exporting to mp3...

@ f0dder:

What are the sorts of things you don't like about Audacity?  I'm not a huge fan or anything, FWIW...

@ Curt:

Didn't know about Code-it Software.  Thanks.

1954

General Software Discussion / Re: Mp3 split program that allows for multiple cut-points before execution?

« Last post by ewemoa on April 13, 2011, 03:26 AM »

P.S. In my testing I found that leaving a bit more silence than I expected near the splits seemed to work better -- at least in one case, I got the sense that there was some lost audio.

-ewemoa (April 12, 2011, 08:38 PM)

Could easily be the case, since mp3directCut avoids re-encoding to MP3 - that does mean it can't work on millisecond intervals, but has to work at the MP3 frame size instead.

-f0dder (April 12, 2011, 10:42 PM)

Thanks for the remarks.

Inspired by them, I did some searching and found the following at a Wikipedia page for mp3DirectCut:

Edit positions in the file can only be placed at the start of an MP3 frame (of which there are typically about 38 per second).
...
The documentation warns that navigating a song does not, in all cases, land on the start of an MP3 frame. The documentation does not guarantee correct results in all cases.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Mp3 split program that allows for multiple cut-points before execution?

« Last post by ewemoa on April 12, 2011, 08:38 PM »

I tried Ampa's suggestion (mp3DirectCut) and instructions and they seemed to work  

Thanks Ampa!


P.S. In my testing I found that leaving a bit more silence than I expected near the splits seemed to work better -- at least in one case, I got the sense that there was some lost audio.

1956

Living Room / Re: Wear Looser Clothing to Avoid Losing Energy During the Day

« Last post by ewemoa on April 12, 2011, 08:07 AM »

lol

1957

General Software Discussion / Re: Chrome / Firefox tabs in title bar

« Last post by ewemoa on April 12, 2011, 07:07 AM »

For FF, does the following help at all?

http://userstyles.org/styles/42417

1958

Living Room / Re: What the heck has happened to Google search?

« Last post by ewemoa on April 11, 2011, 08:51 PM »

 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Any XML gui tools out there?

« Last post by ewemoa on April 06, 2011, 06:34 PM »

Don't know if anything from the following thread is of any use, but FWIW:

https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=22617.0

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General Software Discussion / Re: Shortcut Creator

« Last post by ewemoa on April 06, 2011, 06:01 AM »

Glad to hear it's working for you

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General Software Discussion / Re: Shortcut Creator

« Last post by ewemoa on April 06, 2011, 04:58 AM »

Do you remember the following?

https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=22924.msg210119#msg210119

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General Software Discussion / Re: Shortcut Creator

« Last post by ewemoa on April 06, 2011, 04:20 AM »

Please share more details of what you tried, e.g. what file (it's full path information would be nice and what the path displayed in the title bar of the Windows Explorer window it was displayed in was) was selected when you pressed ^+c, what other Windows Explorer windows were open when you pressed the key combination, and what you expected to happen.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Shortcut Creator

« Last post by ewemoa on April 06, 2011, 04:04 AM »

I tried both of those configuration files and they both seem to work fine here.

Does the functionality work via the context menu?  That is, if you bring up the context menu via ^+c (control shift c) and choose "In Explorer windows", does it work?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Shortcut Creator

« Last post by ewemoa on April 06, 2011, 03:44 AM »

Have you tried a different key combination in your ini file?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Shortcut Creator

« Last post by ewemoa on April 06, 2011, 03:16 AM »

I'm not sure I understand your question, but if you don't have Firefox running, does the problem occur?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Shortcut Creator

« Last post by ewemoa on April 05, 2011, 09:47 PM »

I have assigned Control+Shift+W to create shortcuts in opened folders, but don't go well.

-Contro (April 05, 2011, 12:27 PM)

Does it work with a different combination?

FWIW, it seems to work here.

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Skwire Empire / Re: Release: sWeather (tray-based weather app)

« Last post by ewemoa on April 05, 2011, 09:19 PM »

When you come out of hibernation and see that, does it work properly when you click the refresh button/glyph (or use the tray menu to refresh)?

-skwire (April 05, 2011, 09:26 AM)

I tried both and they both seemed to work.

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Skwire Empire / Re: Release: sWeather (tray-based weather app)

« Last post by ewemoa on April 05, 2011, 05:29 AM »

Trying out v1.0.6 build 1 (Unicode build) here and noticed that sometimes after waking from hibernation I see the following sort of thing in the notification area (is that an appropriate term?):



When I double-click on the right-hand icon, I typically see a window like:



Is this to be expected?

When trying to reproduce the situation, I think I had more luck if I waited a while before waking the PC from hibernation.

Thanks for your ongoing efforts 

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General Software Discussion / Re: How to make Firefox Not Open PDF Files

« Last post by ewemoa on April 04, 2011, 08:48 PM »

If you want a warning beforehand: install Stylish ...

-Winkie (April 04, 2011, 02:15 PM)

Or Link Alert

-AndyM (April 04, 2011, 02:36 PM)

Nice!  I think I'll try Link Alert first (only one thing to install here).

Thank you both 

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Coding Snack Guidelines / Re: IDEA: Remind User a Flash Drive is Plugged In During Shutdown

« Last post by ewemoa on April 04, 2011, 04:50 PM »

Sounds like a nice idea.

I didn't figure out whether either suggested program could remind one periodically.

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General Software Discussion / Re: How to make Firefox Not Open PDF Files

« Last post by ewemoa on April 03, 2011, 08:07 PM »

In Firefox 4

Tools > Options > Applications > Application/pdf  I set to "always ask"

-bob99 (April 03, 2011, 06:59 PM)

FWIW, that's the setting I found when I took a look just now.  May be it's the default if you don't have any PDF software "installed"...I tend to use SumatraPDF portably.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Listary Update: The new and improved Listary 3 released

« Last post by ewemoa on April 03, 2011, 08:05 PM »

Thanks for the heads up and the screenshot 

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General Software Discussion / Re: What Android Apps Do You Use?

« Last post by ewemoa on April 02, 2011, 03:15 AM »

Until finding QuickDroid I'd been using the

I think I'm going to have to read the manual, I just found if I hold my finger on the Home button I get a list of recently used apps.

-4wd (April 01, 2011, 08:49 PM)

I haven't figured out yet whether my frequency of use of the long-press-of-home-button functionality will change as a result of using QuickDroid,

If the device I use had a hard key for the home button I think I'd find using the functionality in question to be more attractive.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What Android Apps Do You Use?

« Last post by ewemoa on April 01, 2011, 08:45 PM »

Although perhaps not as nice as FARR, I've been using QuickDroid the past few days and am finding it convenient when switching among recently used apps and sometimes for bringing up things which are easy to 'name'.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What Android Apps Do You Use?

« Last post by ewemoa on April 01, 2011, 07:28 AM »

Screen capture for rooted androids...

Try "Shootme"

-tsaint (March 31, 2011, 04:49 PM)

Thanks for the suggestion.

Unfortunately, I didn't have any luck tracking down a reputable non-market source for this.

Also looked for drocap2 for root users, Screen Capture Shortcut Free and PicMe with similar results.

I guess via patience and appropriate future devices this sort of thing won't be necessary.