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General Software Discussion / Re: customize save-as dialog boxes

« Last post by Shades on October 08, 2010, 07:54 PM »

Actually, an idea just popped into my head. LifeHacker promotes their in-house developed Belvedere. that is a piece of software which can store files based on extension. Maybe that could be of help as well.

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General Software Discussion / Re: customize save-as dialog boxes

« Last post by Shades on October 08, 2010, 05:56 PM »

If you are feeling up to it you can edit the registry, see this link.

The above link will lead you to a MSDN page where the section 'Places' (slightly below the middle) will be very interesting regarding the specification of preferred folders, their order and amount. Practically all what you asked for in your post.

Mind you, not all dialog boxes are created equal, so mileage can/will vary. 

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Living Room / Re: Old Rubik's Cube book rediscovered via the Internet. I love you Internet.

« Last post by Shades on October 07, 2010, 06:28 PM »

It sounds twisted to me!

-cranioscopical (October 07, 2010, 10:40 AM)

Could also be a turn-over?

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Living Room / Re: tc1100 tablet pc dies before i've even set it up

« Last post by Shades on October 06, 2010, 06:33 PM »

I definitely want one of those rats!

But alas, only accessible through the internet over here and nowadays the man slaps a silly high tax on imported things.   

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Program in RDP-Session

« Last post by Shades on October 05, 2010, 09:05 PM »

Either disable IPv6 in your network card configuration or set it up properly. Seems to work wonders with any application that uses network connectivity...especially with Win Vista, Win 2008 and Win 7.

If you are wondering what IPv6 is, I can tell you that you do not have such a network.

How to do the disabling? Read the following link.

[offtopic]
When installing the Microsoft Exchange server (2007) software on a 2008 Server in a non-IPv6 network, Microsoft itself suggests that disabling IPv6 is the first thing to do if you want to install trouble-free.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Minecraft - An Incredible Indie Game

« Last post by Shades on October 05, 2010, 04:25 PM »

As far as i know, there is even someone who build the 1701-D (Star Trek fanatics know what I am talking about) in it...on true scale! 

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Living Room / Re: Why do we go out of our way to be unhelpful in forums?

« Last post by Shades on October 02, 2010, 04:26 PM »

Ah....the goddess that is Salma Hayek in 'From Dusk Till Dawn'.

If I could only wet my tongue like Quentin Tarantino did...that waitress would get a major tip from me!

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Living Room / Re: Looking for Refrigerator Magnets that work

« Last post by Shades on September 25, 2010, 10:32 PM »

If all else fails, rip open a broken/unusable hard drive and use the magnets within. Those are everlasting strong.

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Living Room / Re: Would someone mind recommending a good laser printer?

« Last post by Shades on September 24, 2010, 09:06 PM »

Then the question becomes:
In what quantities are you expecting to print?

If that is low, take a Samsung or HP laser printer that supports the dual page printing.

But if it is high then I can recommend from personal experience Panasonic (5.000+ euro).

My experience with them was excellent although a little short-lived. In the company I worked for we leased a set of 4 from these printers. 3 of them had to be replaced after 3 months, because their innards were completely done (according to their counter), while the outside was still brand new. These babies were litterally printing continuously day and night in that period. And they did practically without any hiccup.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Teaser: Auspex - a Windows Productivity App

« Last post by Shades on September 19, 2010, 06:34 PM »

Same here on my XP SPIII. Immediately after executing the Access Violation error keeps occurring after an interval from a second, just as in the post from Perry.

My PC has no (group/domain) policies set. Actually it is a rather fresh XP installation (3 days old) and I am running it in the default administrator account.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Pledge: Auspex - a Windows Productivity App

« Last post by Shades on September 19, 2010, 07:02 AM »

2. Have you considered including the same functionality thats been around for years on mobiles and is called predictive text or T9. I'm surprised that the great MS haven't ever included this is in Word and to be honest I have never seen it in any word processing or text editor program. Why is that? It can't be hard can it?

-elvisbrown (September 19, 2010, 02:59 AM)

[rant]
Maybe it is not hard to include T9 but I thank [insert your favorite deity here] that it is not included. I for one am really not waiting to read SMS language in a document. I already hate to see it in SMS messages themselves.

Besides that, T9 always predicts the wrong word for me and it costs me too much time to fix that so by default I disable this functionality in any cell phone I use.
[/rant]

On-topic:
@timns
Please, if you want to include T9 in your application, feel free to do so. But please, make an option to easily disable it as well.

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DC Gamer Club / Pixelprospector blog is awesome!

« Last post by Shades on September 18, 2010, 09:58 PM »

Hi all,

On my semi-regular 'hunts' for nice games for kids (age 3 to 9) to play, I encountered this site/blog (pixelprospector).

The URL above links to a post with a link to a youtube video of ten minutes that shows you 190(!) recent freeware indie games and their download links.

From some of these games the quality is simply amazing and worthy to be mentioned here in the DC forum.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Pledge - Backup Verification Utility

« Last post by Shades on September 18, 2010, 01:33 PM »

MCC

(Master Copy Control)

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General Software Discussion / Re: how to pick up colors

« Last post by Shades on September 18, 2010, 01:22 PM »

Well, what usually works for me is simply to make her laugh.

-superboyac (September 17, 2010, 03:22 PM)

*snicker*
Tell her you like her shoes...

-Edvard (September 18, 2010, 01:27 AM)

...but that you (absolutely) love the feet inside them. (after all, you could be sending a mixed signal by saying that you love woman's shoes)

And if the above sounds too much like a suckup...a small kiss on the arc of her foot can turn the situation into a "interesting" night   
Either with the lady in question...or your cellmates (but then again, you already liked woman's shoes, didn't you?)

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Living Room / Re: Old Burma Shave signs

« Last post by Shades on September 18, 2010, 12:33 PM »

Funny.

This whole concept of advertising was unknown to me, but 'Burma Shave' as a term was not, because over here in Holland we had a good music band operating under that name.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: REQUEST: Drag & nDrop Zone queue for copying files/folders

« Last post by Shades on September 18, 2010, 12:06 PM »

May I suggest the following application: Magellan explorer (link to the feature page, see section Background operations).

It is not cheap with a price of 39.95 USD, but it fits your bill perfectly. Actually, it is capable to put multiple file operations in multiple locations in a queue! A 30-day trial is available.

No affiliation, just a happy paying customer. This piece of software was the first one I bought through the internet, just because of this feature (and you want it you can pry it from my cold dead hands!)

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Living Room / Re: The Story of Stuff - Cosmetics, Bottled Water...

« Last post by Shades on September 17, 2010, 07:50 PM »

If you care so much about the environment and/or want a critical look about our society and the way we as a race do things...you should check this site (lowtechmagazine.com)

There are really some pearls of knowledge/realizations to be found over there, because of all the research this guy puts into his articles.

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Living Room / Re: HDCP Cracked - Is HD Content doomed due to lack of DRM now?

« Last post by Shades on September 17, 2010, 07:39 PM »

But it will not be of much consequence. Most DVD´s that come out still have very old type of protection on them. My guess is that this is done to have a legal `stick` with which they can drive you to court and beat you up there with it, so to speak.

Following that line of reasoning I don´t think this cracking of HDCP will have a major impact.

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Living Room / Re: Tipping - Why does this appear to be a "requirement"?

« Last post by Shades on September 17, 2010, 07:34 PM »

Now tipping is comparable to bribing public officials and law enforcement? Oh man, even Mr. Pink didn't go there.

This thread gets better with each post! I almost expect Godwin's Law to come into play soon!   

Jim

-J-Mac (September 16, 2010, 08:56 PM)

I wasn't kidding. In some parts of the world, it's like that. Quite literally. Those are the attitudes. Obviously not in the US or many other places, but there are places where bribing the police is fully expected just like tips. It is a part of their expected income.

-Renegade (September 17, 2010, 09:14 AM)

Over here in Paraguay it is not deemed wise by and for gringos to leave in a car in the days before a (inter)national happening, like for instance mothers day. The chance that you get picked and have to pay the fine that they make up on the spot is very high.

Here in the capital it is not so bad, but going to neighbouring cities... 

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

« Last post by Shades on September 17, 2010, 07:15 PM »

BTW, for those of you in the USA, you'll be pleased to hear that the sun came up tomorrow.

-AussieRodney (September 17, 2010, 02:45 AM)

Hahahaha

On a similar note
Don´t worry about the end of the world today...it´s already tomorrow in Australia!

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Living Room / Re: Axis of Awesome

« Last post by Shades on September 14, 2010, 06:02 PM »

Too bad their other work (on YouTube) is not nearly as brilliant as this piece of them.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Poll To Help Decide Mouser's App

« Last post by Shades on September 14, 2010, 05:53 PM »

Webcam Recording/Diary Utility +1

Just because I want to feel a little like the famous Start trek characters with their 'Captain's log, supplemental...' 

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Living Room / Re: Scantron alternatives: I need cheaper/creative solutions.

« Last post by Shades on September 11, 2010, 05:14 PM »

Maybe this piece of freeware (but not open source) will help you out: HotPotatoes.

As it creates web-based tests, the processing of them should be relatively easy.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Synchronizing a few folders between two machines?

« Last post by Shades on September 10, 2010, 05:52 PM »

Synchredible looks like a nice freeware tool to synchronize two folders, also in (semi-)automatical way.

The page may turn up in German, but there is a button to select the English language as well.

EDIT:
Oops, forgot to mention that this software was positively mentioned on AddictiveTips

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Living Room / Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?

« Last post by Shades on September 06, 2010, 10:49 PM »

This is the connection you get here in Paraguay for about 100 USD/month.