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General Software Discussion / Re: Dopus - adding buttons to toolbar help needed

« Last post by edbro on October 12, 2008, 09:11 AM »

If you have the entire xml code from above in the clipboard then you should get the paste option. If not, you will not have the paste option available.

How to add buttons from this forum to your toolbars

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General Software Discussion / Re: Dopus - adding buttons to toolbar help needed

« Last post by edbro on October 12, 2008, 07:45 AM »

To paste an xml file as a button all you need to do is right click on a toolbar and select "Customize". Then, right click again and "Paste". 

I love the Donation Coder forums but these kind of questions are better asked on the Directory Opus forums. They are very friendly and helpful over there. I like to check in over there daily because DirOpus is such a powerful program and I learn new things all the time.

Directory Opus Forums

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Living Room / Re: News Article: HP and Symantec Develop Sandboxed Firefox

« Last post by edbro on September 24, 2008, 07:43 PM »

I don't see why this is so earth shattering. I always run my Firefox in a sandbox (sandboxie).

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General Software Discussion / Re: New version: Copernic Desktop Search 3

« Last post by edbro on September 12, 2008, 07:42 PM »

I wish I had read this thread earlier in the day. I installed Ver 3 and quickly uninstalled it as I realized that I had lost some of the capability I had in ver 2.

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Living Room / Re: What do you usually forget to backup?

« Last post by edbro on August 31, 2008, 07:31 AM »

Word templates such as normal.dot

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Older Newsletters / Re: --> Newsletter For August 14th, 2008 - Codename "Software Summer Sizzle"

« Last post by edbro on August 15, 2008, 07:57 AM »

It would be nice to see more of a overlap or offset on the discounts<->Giveaways. I mean, do I get Jungledisk now at a disount or do I wait to see if I win a free one? The discount expires at the end of the month, just as the giveaways are announced.

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Living Room / Re: Favorite part of the Beijing Olympics so far?

« Last post by edbro on August 13, 2008, 12:43 PM »

Michael Phelps!

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Living Room / Re: Gizmo's Tech Support Alert Newsletter Merges with Windows Secrets

« Last post by edbro on July 10, 2008, 12:48 PM »

Put me down as another member who doesn't like Windows Secrets. It seems to be more advertising than useful content.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Edit Middle 2: Firefox Addon for the AwesomeBar

« Last post by edbro on July 07, 2008, 11:49 AM »

It sounds like it might be useful in a few instances. But, I hesitate to install add-ons unless it is something that I'm likely to use all the time. I'm afraid excess extensions will slow FF down.

I often see extensions that don't offer much extra functionality but still eat resources. Example: Flagfox puts a flag in the location bar to signify the location of the server. Neat, but I don't think it is worth the resources.

I could be all wrong here. Does anybody have more than about 9-10 extensions installed and does it slow FF down?

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General Software Discussion / Re: WOW - Zoner 90% discount on all titles ... this is VERY good value ...

« Last post by edbro on June 28, 2008, 08:49 AM »

I agree that 10 Express is probably not as good as 9 Pro. It is a shame we can't find more discounts. I noticed that the upgrade price for 10 Pro is $55. That is way more than the $9 I paid for the non-upgrade ver 9! Good program but not worth $85/$55.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Google Calendar Quick Add

« Last post by edbro on June 27, 2008, 07:14 AM »

Does this:
https://addons.mozil...S/firefox/addon/2405
work for you?

-czechboy (June 27, 2008, 04:48 AM)

I don't know, the plugin isn't compatible with FF 3. I do notice that the -06:00 offset (Central Time) is the same on my computer and on Google Calendar's settings.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Google Calendar Quick Add

« Last post by edbro on June 26, 2008, 05:48 PM »

Bump.

I'd really like to figure this out. Why does everything get put an hour off? All my timezone info is correct on the local pc and Google Calendar. What is causing this?

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General Software Discussion / Re: CleanAfterMe - a new Nirsoft tool

« Last post by edbro on June 15, 2008, 10:34 AM »

Do any of these clean the new Firefox 3? I think FF uses a new database and Crapcleaner no longer clears my browser history.

Edit: Disregard. After more searching I find I was confusing the Awesome bar dropdown with the browser history. BTW, the new Awesome bar is sweet. Very similar to FARRFox.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Access Violation

« Last post by edbro on June 11, 2008, 01:15 PM »

I installed the new version and have rebooted twice with no error message. I do get an error ding sound when shutting down but no dialog box in the way of shutdown. I don't know what that error is or even what program is triggering it. But, so far so good for the new FARR. Thanks for the quick reaction.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Access Violation

« Last post by edbro on June 11, 2008, 12:19 PM »

For me its FARRFOX.dll

-Grorgy (June 11, 2008, 11:54 AM)

I remember seeing that one also.

My access feels so violated! 

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Find And Run Robot / Access Violation

« Last post by edbro on June 11, 2008, 10:50 AM »

Running FARR 2.06.05 I get an access violation any time I shut the computer down.

[Select]

Access Violation at address 74985DEE in module MSXML3.dll. Read of address 00000020

FARR runs fine at all time during normal computer ops and the problem only appears at Windows shutdown. Shutting down FARR manually does not trigger the error.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Google Calendar Quick Add

« Last post by edbro on May 31, 2008, 10:31 PM »

For some reason when I add an event with this plugin it shows up on Gcal one hour off. For example, if I type:

[Select]

gc "test event on 1 jun at 2:30 pm"

it will show up on Gcal as starting at 3:30.

The preview window in FARR shows it as:

[Select]

Title: test event
From: 2008-06-01T14:30:00.000-06:00
To: 2008-06-01T15:30:00.000-06:00

If I add the same event string directly into Gcal it shows up at the correct time.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for simple "before & after" file/registry snapshotter

« Last post by edbro on May 26, 2008, 12:23 PM »

I use Total Uninstall. It has gone shareware but you can still find the last freeware edition through Google. Excellent app.

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General Software Discussion / Re: CleanAfterMe - a new Nirsoft tool

« Last post by edbro on May 24, 2008, 09:41 AM »

Interesting, but I don't think it is a match for CrapCleaner.

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Living Room / Re: PIN-code

« Last post by edbro on May 16, 2008, 12:04 PM »

Recover lost pin? Heck, how do I recover the time I spent watching that video? That was painful and I have no idea what was going on.

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Living Room / Re: The Rule of 3 Drives: How to Build your Next PC

« Last post by edbro on May 13, 2008, 03:02 PM »

I love the MediaVault. I have the newer version, MV2120. I use it for backing up all 3 home computers as well as serving music to my Roku Soundbridge. I am very pleased with it, especially for the price.

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Living Room / Re: The Rule of 3 Drives: How to Build your Next PC

« Last post by edbro on May 13, 2008, 09:11 AM »

Personally speaking, I don't see much of an advantage to putting all my programs on a drive separate from the OS. I have 2 physical drives with one of them partitioned into 2 logical drives. OS and programs on C, Data on D, and Backups on E. I also have a HP Mediavault 1TB NAS for secondary backup and music server.

The reason I like to keep my programs on the same drive as the OS is because if you need to reinstall the OS you would have to reinstall all the programs anyway, unless they were portable. I keep an image of a fresh XP install and, just because it's so easy to do, I like to start fresh every few months. If I had all my programs on the D drive then I would have to reinstall on top of the existing installs.

Why do I reapply the OS image so often? 1) I like to experiment with a lot of new software that I usually uninstall later (but they still leave remnants), 2) I'm anal retentive! Having the image of the OS, tweaked the way I like it, allows me to run without a virus scanner or software firewall. I've never been bitten but if I do I can start fresh in about 5 minutes.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Do you know any sofware that is like Powerpro?

« Last post by edbro on May 09, 2008, 02:41 PM »

I still use Powerpro as well. Even though the development has stopped, it has way more potential than I've been able to tap into. I'll still be exploring new things to do with it for years. It runs well on Vista so I don't think you can call it outdated. The Yahoo Groups (there are 2) are still very active.

Just because a piece of software is no longer being updated doesn't render it immediately outdated.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Your fav' audio CD burner?

« Last post by edbro on May 07, 2008, 02:02 PM »

Forgive my ignorance, but what are coasters? -and why exactly "coasters"?

-Curt (May 07, 2008, 01:48 PM)

Coaster=CD that did not burn properly and is therefore unreadable.
Coaster because it is shaped like a drink coaster and that's all its good for.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Your fav' audio CD burner?

« Last post by edbro on May 06, 2008, 03:08 PM »

J.River Media Center. Outstanding program IMHO.

http://www.jrmediacenter.com/