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1951

General Software Discussion / Re: Screenshot Captor Quick Capture Bar does not recess anymore?

« Last post by tomos on March 08, 2016, 02:14 AM »

Sometimes here it shows behind windows instead of ontop -- quick solution is to turn it off, and then on again (which I do via tray icon context menu).
That might solve it.

@mouser: Note I'm using an older version (4.12) on this (win.7) machine - if that behavior persists after update I will report it properly.

1952

Living Room / Re: Show us the View Outside Your Window

« Last post by tomos on March 07, 2016, 10:30 AM »

Snow. Sort of:

1953

Living Room / Re: Show us a photo of your mutt or other creatures..

« Last post by tomos on March 07, 2016, 09:27 AM »

My beautiful new baby has been ripped away from me at 4 1/2 months - she got over wall and was killed by neighbour's dogs..... I am sick with grief!

-CleverCat (March 07, 2016, 01:13 AM)

Oh man

1954

General Software Discussion / Re: gateway ta6 laptop

« Last post by tomos on March 06, 2016, 08:02 AM »

^ AFAIK the only way to really check it is (again, as Shades says) to actually replace the current internal SSD with your copy - boot and see if it works.

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General Software Discussion / Re: gateway ta6 laptop

« Last post by tomos on March 05, 2016, 04:09 PM »

I wanted a backup copy of my laptop HD OS.

-holt (March 05, 2016, 07:46 AM)

it's getting late here, but I think one of these would be the most practical:

# image backup of OS + boot CD (or USB) via same software, for restoring to your current OS drive (or a replacement of same)

# as you are trying to do in quoted post: copy onto a drive with which you can replace the current OS drive (as Shades says, you would have to remove current drive and replace with copy)

1956

General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful

« Last post by tomos on March 05, 2016, 01:12 PM »

I may have to,er, bring Lazarus back from the dead. 

-MilesAhead (March 04, 2016, 04:08 PM)

just when he thought he could finally rest in peace . . .

1957

Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor DirectX Capture Addon - EARLY BUGGY BETA

« Last post by tomos on March 05, 2016, 01:08 PM »

When I am trying to download the DirectX addon, I am getting an error message: "404, We're sorry.. The page you have requested could not be found."
Please, reupload the addon for the newest version of Screenshot Captor, thank you.

-FemShep (March 04, 2016, 08:12 PM)

hi FemShep,
see the post above:

The addon is an amazing feat of work written by another coder, but it just never worked reliably enough to be usable.
Part of the problem from a coder's standpoint was that it had to keep trying to hit a moving target, with all the new versions of directx, etc.

-mouser (June 04, 2015, 07:39 PM)

1958

Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« Last post by tomos on March 03, 2016, 05:49 PM »

^ aahh okay, that makes sense: I thought (like Miles I think) that that arm made sounds -- I mean directly as opposed to indirectly.

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« Last post by tomos on March 03, 2016, 04:33 PM »

Did I get it wrong or did it look in one of the sections of the vid where it showed the internal belt feeding through, that there were squares on the belt that actually made the melody?  Sort of like the cylinder on a player piano.

-MilesAhead (March 03, 2016, 04:04 PM)

that true

It didn't seem to me as if the marbles were required accept as eye candy.  Maybe I imagined it.

-MilesAhead (March 03, 2016, 04:04 PM)

no, they were working too --
I *think* they were playing the guitar strings, and they were definitely playing the xylophone, and generally making clacky sounds :-)

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« Last post by tomos on March 03, 2016, 02:53 PM »

I just came across this:

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvUU8joBb1Q[/youtube]

Wintergatan - Marble Machine (music instrument using 2000 marbles)

-Deozaan (March 02, 2016, 11:56 PM)

brilliant

1961

Living Room / Re: Movies you've seen lately

« Last post by tomos on March 02, 2016, 05:29 PM »

Truman,
a bit gut wrenching i.e. emotionally -
a good movie

1962

N.A.N.Y. 2015 / Re: NANY 2015 Release - Splat (Simple Program Launching and Termination)

« Last post by tomos on March 01, 2016, 06:36 AM »

Just wanted to say I've started to launch Splat - via a desktop shortcut - with Ctrl+Enter . . .
 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful

« Last post by tomos on March 01, 2016, 05:46 AM »

hi Curt !

I must try textarea cache, thanks for the tip & download. Lazarus doesnt work with the InfoQube forum (which uses html WYSIWYG as opposed to BB code).

On another topic:
A List of Stable, Non-Conflicting and Essential addons by ChessWriter: https://addons.mozil...ions/ChessWriter/my/ 

-Curt (March 01, 2016, 03:10 AM)

- a list of 683 addons.
I wonder how much ram I'd need to install all of them

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Living Room / Re: Bluetooth Power Monitor

« Last post by tomos on February 27, 2016, 02:16 PM »

^ the drawing looks great

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General Software Discussion / Re: malware or ? #1454789523

« Last post by tomos on February 25, 2016, 01:52 PM »

^ in theory, that should solve any related problems...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Comparative review of password managers

« Last post by tomos on February 24, 2016, 05:39 PM »

"Brief". Heh.

-Tuxman (February 24, 2016, 04:48 PM)

thanks Tuxman, that's really great

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General Software Discussion / Re: Comparative review of password managers

« Last post by tomos on February 24, 2016, 04:27 PM »

I switched from LastPass (bad security reputation, payware Android support) to KeePass with KeeFox (in Firefox) resp. chromeIPass (in Vivaldi) and the well-designed mobile app Keepass2Android. YMMV.

-Tuxman (February 24, 2016, 12:27 PM)

any chance of a brief pros/cons comparison of those two in terms of usage?
Currently using Lastpass myself (but only on windows).

The 'well-designed mobile app' wont help me on windows smartphone, but I see there is also a Keepass option there (sorry no link). But I'm mostly interested in desktop.

1968

T-Clock / Re: T-Clock 2010 (download)

« Last post by tomos on February 24, 2016, 02:25 PM »

^ 

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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"

« Last post by tomos on February 24, 2016, 09:08 AM »

And now we know why robot overlords hate us so much.  And about their destructive attention to hockey sticks.

-wraith808 (February 24, 2016, 08:24 AM)

 

does seem arbitrarily cruel...

1970

General Software Discussion / Re: xplorer2 at Bits Du Jour Today

« Last post by tomos on February 24, 2016, 07:28 AM »

xplorer² version 3.1
for the next 18 hours

http://www.bitsdujou...aign=2016-02-24+PC+B

Today's promotion includes the following: Pro Version ($14.97) Ultimate Version ($24.97) professional & ultimate Explore and preview     Folder tabs and dual panes     Advanced search & file management [ultimate only:] Portable/Network deployment Fast desktop search Priority customer support       [normal] PRICE    $29.95    $49.95

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General Software Discussion / Re: malware or ? #1454789523

« Last post by tomos on February 24, 2016, 04:39 AM »

@holt, did you install the recommended patch?
(https://helpx.adobe....ated-every-user.html via Dirhael's link above)

1972

Living Room / Re: YouTube finally forces creation of google+ A/C to comment

« Last post by tomos on February 22, 2016, 10:30 AM »

It really does look to me like google has decided to kill any connection between Youtube and g+. Alternatively this could be just on some accounts...
Either way, pity for me because that was my main use of it.

-tomos (February 17, 2016, 03:40 PM)

turns out I'm behind the times,
this from the official youtube blog, Monday, July 27, 2015:

With today’s announcement from Google+, you’ll see more changes. The comments you make on YouTube will now appear only on YouTube, not also on Google+. And vice-versa. This starts rolling out today.

http://youtube-globa...outube-comments.html

Unfortunately they no longer show comments made on videos in your YouTube channel (the 'recent activity' option no longer includes comments). In other words, AFAICS there is no easy way to keep a record of your YT comments. If you make a comment, you will have to bookmark it search for it if you want to find it again...

Damn. It wasnt a lot, but I did have something going there. Gone. Ah well.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Shortcut to All Apps displayed by letter Alphabet

« Last post by tomos on February 22, 2016, 09:52 AM »

^ just add a post to that thread asking that it be deleted

PS Skrommel hasnt been active here for a good few years now (were you thinking of skwire maybe?)

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« Last post by tomos on February 21, 2016, 06:01 AM »

Adele's "Hello" given the Metal treatment by a very talented one-man band.

-Edvard (February 21, 2016, 01:18 AM)

the chorus works especially well

1975

Developer's Corner / Re: Dice analyzer machine project

« Last post by tomos on February 20, 2016, 05:02 PM »

What is means is that if you repeated this experiment over and over with a perfectly fair die, rolling this many times, you would expect the counts to fall within those red bars, 95 times you ran the experiment out of 100.

-mouser (February 20, 2016, 05:00 PM)

thanks, I had missed your previous post (edited post to reflect that).
This is very impressive