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Living Room / Re: Avoid DABS.COM for online shopping.

« Last post by rjbull on October 01, 2008, 10:02 AM »

In the past I have enjoyed using DABS.COM for shopping and got products at good prices.

-Carol Haynes (October 01, 2008, 08:37 AM)

I've had good experience of Dabs, but only had to return something once, and that was two years ago.  I think I'd have ended up using snail mail with recorded delivery, but then, I didn't need the parts for a customer.  Uhh - that might be a crib from your long-ago post about complaining about things...

The problem is - what online shopping companies can you trust?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Best search and replace software discussion

« Last post by rjbull on September 30, 2008, 03:58 AM »

gotta learn me some Regex! [...] Any decent learning resources?

-J-Mac (September 30, 2008, 12:36 AM)

I got started with the succinct explanation in a book, The AWK Programming Language, by Aho, Kernighan and Weinberger, published by Addison-Wesley.

There's also the following freeware from SilverAge Software, makers of Handy File Find and Replace:

Regular Expression Laboratory - FREEWARE !

Regular Expression Laboratory is an assistant simple to use tool to help you learn and prepare regular expressions.

If you are a developer or just concerned with text processing tasks, the Regular Expression Laboratory is a tool that you need. In fact, you felt that you need a program like this but could not formalize your needs. We have done this job for you. Now you can construct your regular expressions with much ease and test them by applying to an arbitrary text.

Regular Expression Laboratory support the incredible size of a stored regular expression: 2MB!

I'd hate to face a regular expression 2 Mb in size   

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General Software Discussion / Re: Best search and replace software discussion

« Last post by rjbull on September 30, 2008, 03:48 AM »

rjbull - it's an auto-link to ehtyar's post - the new forum software adds it to quoted posts, rather than duplicating pictures and attachments everytime a post is quoted.

-Darwin (September 29, 2008, 08:24 AM)

Thanks...  It only appeared when I used quote-reply, so makes sense that far, but it isn't obvious.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: HandyFile Find and Replace family on 25% discount until end of month

« Last post by rjbull on September 29, 2008, 04:06 AM »

Incidentally, File Saver is, AFAICR, a British company that does this as well (I bought an earlier version in 2004, taking advantage of one of their "sales" and have never known the software NOT to be on sale).

-Darwin (September 27, 2008, 06:07 PM)

I dimly remember that, and wonder how they get away with it.  I also don't think it would install properly on Win98.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Best search and replace software discussion

« Last post by rjbull on September 29, 2008, 04:03 AM »

The open source GrepWin is the best free/open source find-and-replace tool with an interface I've found.

-Ehtyar (September 27, 2008, 07:14 PM)

From the screenshot, it only looks to do a single search-and-replace pair at a time.  The only free one [Edit] that I know of [/Edit] that can do multiple pairs at a time is ReplacEm, the Web site for which seems to have disappeared.

Ehtyar, why was some of the text in your last post invisible?  Viz.:

(see attachment in previous post)

Looks like the italic tags were being interpreted as invisible.

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Best File/Folder Compare Tool / Re: ? comparing folder contents to sync - for home use - not source

« Last post by rjbull on September 29, 2008, 03:57 AM »

comparing folder contents and tell me if the files are identical and sort all the unique files into one folder.

-xmlguy (September 28, 2008, 02:00 PM)

If the files are different, but have the same names, do you want them automatically re-named, or overwritten?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Best search and replace software discussion

« Last post by rjbull on September 27, 2008, 04:09 PM »

The discount *appears* to be short-lived, but in fact is probably not... They are offering a powerful product at a reasonable price (even without the discount) and with a lifetime licence, though...

-Darwin (September 26, 2008, 12:51 PM)

It does seem a good product, but I still don't like being mislead.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: HandyFile Find and Replace family on 25% discount until end of month

« Last post by rjbull on September 27, 2008, 04:07 PM »

Just to let everyone know that the discount has been running for at least 8 months

-Darwin (September 26, 2008, 12:49 PM)

I didn't know that - in the UK, we have laws about what constitutes a "sale price" - but the current discount is for "for those who survive the US economy recession !" so they must have updated the Web page fairly recently.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Best search and replace software discussion

« Last post by rjbull on September 26, 2008, 10:53 AM »

Adding to this thrread because there's a short-lived discount on HFFR: DC details here

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Found Deals and Discounts / HandyFile Find and Replace family on 25% discount until end of month

« Last post by rjbull on September 26, 2008, 10:50 AM »

The HandyFile Find and Replace family of programs are all on 25% discount until the end of the month:

• Text Aid Kit (the simplest version: search plain text files, find and replace text in them);
• Office Edition (search and replace in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint files as well);
• Text Workbench (can search and replace via FTP; support for Unicode and UTF-8 files, Word and Excel files, embedded text editor and other options).

Too many variations on license types/costs to post - look here for details.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Passwords

« Last post by rjbull on September 25, 2008, 08:06 AM »

i just tested the application exclusions and they don't seem to be working for me either

-mouser (September 24, 2008, 04:48 PM)

KeePass exclusion is working for me on Win XP 5.1.2600 with CHS 1.19.02.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 7 -- ribbons for everyone!

« Last post by rjbull on September 22, 2008, 03:45 AM »

a better, more feature-rich WordPad

-zridling (September 21, 2008, 10:15 AM)

That's what Jarte is supposed to be.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: MiniReview of Linkman URL Organizer and Search Tool

« Last post by rjbull on September 18, 2008, 10:45 AM »

A quick note since I am looking at bookmark managers yet again now that I have too many browsers to handle.

Linkman has added support for Chrome, although there seems to be nothing for Safari.
I am not aware of any BM that supports all of ie, mozilla (inc flock), safari, opera, chrome and I would love to be enlightened

-iphigenie (September 18, 2008, 03:57 AM)

LinkStash 1.7.3 (that I'm still using for compatibility with Win98: current version with more features, but not I think more browsers, is 2.0.11) gives you seven named browsers plus <Windows Default>, viz., IE, Netscape 8, Netscape 7, Opera, NetCaptor, Mozilla, and Mozilla Firefox.  It doesn't specify the program locations for any of these, so as I don't have Mozilla, I've changed its entry to K-Meleon which I do sometimes use.  Go to Linkstash Tools -> Options and select the browser tab to see what I mean.  LinkStash has hotkeys for each of these 8 slots, go Tools -> Open With to get a menu of them.  So it won't support an infinite variety of browsers, but 7 plus IE should be enough to be going on with, especially as you can redefine them as your tastes change.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Feature request: Ctrl-F

« Last post by rjbull on September 17, 2008, 09:14 AM »

Mouser,

When you're at CHS's main window, please could it respond to Ctrl-F like EverNote does, i.e., Ctrl-F puts the focus in the filter box, and Escape returns to viewing all entries?  Or, make Ctrl-F a toggle?  Also, there's no entry that I can see for Search/Filter in the menus.

Thanks...

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General Software Discussion / Re: How do you manage your email?

« Last post by rjbull on September 11, 2008, 04:02 AM »

I've found a little utility called Poppy for Windows to be worth it's weight in gold. I can preview and optionally kill anything before it gets to my local mailbox, so only what I want gets downloaded. The real beauty of the thing is its simplicity. It's also the only tray/popup notifier I've ever used that works reliably and doesn't cause problems on my machine.

-40hz (September 09, 2008, 01:28 PM)

40hz,

You might like to compare Poppy with Magic Mail Monitor, though MMM's focus leans more towards deleting spam.  Seems reliable to me, on Win98 at that   

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ProcessTamer / Re: feature suggestion: auto-start (or restart) a process?

« Last post by rjbull on August 28, 2008, 04:33 AM »

This doesn't help with Process Tamer, but if you're really keen, PTFB Pro says it can do what you want:

PTFB Pro versions 3.4 and above allow to create "program monitor" or "progmon" items. These periodically check to see if a particular program is currently running on your system. Depending on how you've set them up, they'll either launch the target program if it isn't running, or close/kill the program if it is running.

Sanity check - I have PTFB Pro, but haven't tried this particular feature.

PTFB Pro is $29.99 USD, or "free" via TrialPay .

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Unfinished Requests / Re: IDEA: OCR & paste

« Last post by rjbull on August 20, 2008, 09:39 AM »

kleptomania`s success rate is not very high.I have tried it in xyplorer and gave me gibberish for example.

-kartal (August 16, 2008, 05:39 PM)

It doesn't work on very small fonts.  Could that be the problem?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Large Text File Viewer

« Last post by rjbull on July 31, 2008, 09:46 AM »

Personally: I am using built-in Total Commander's lister.

-fenixproductions (July 31, 2008, 08:17 AM)

Which has, generously, also been split out as a free-standing freeware here

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General Software Discussion / Re: Reliable web page capture...

« Last post by rjbull on July 18, 2008, 09:53 AM »

When I need all objects on a web page, I use Local Website Archive.  More recently I have been trying to use Ultra Recall, but even with that latest fix I cannot capture most secure pages at site where I am logged in.   Rather than just grabbing it UR tries to refresh the page (never works, darn it!).

-J-Mac (July 17, 2008, 10:48 PM)

That happens to me when I try it on shareware registration sites and the like.  I assume it's because you have to be securely logged in with the current browser, and the site doesn't recognise UR as being that.  You might try using LWA with the "Send keystrokes" method, where it forces the browser to save a copy of the file to disk, then reads that, rather than trying to go directly to the original page.

Interesting note: Roboform recognises WebSite-Watcher as a mini-browser and attaches a Roboform taskbar when a WSW window appears.  WSW has an option to directly archive files to LWA - at least, I think it does - so you could log in with WSW and Roboform, then use WSW to transfer the page to LWA.  It doesn't look like Roboform sees LWA as a browser in itself, even though they're both from Martin Aignesberger, but I haven't checked thoroughly.

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Living Room / Re: Show us your (physical) desktop

« Last post by rjbull on July 17, 2008, 05:28 AM »

Actually anyone figured out why Cody can't fly?

-Carol Haynes (July 09, 2008, 12:25 PM)

According to Mac the Scottish engineer chicken in the movie Chicken Run, it's lack of THRUST 

(click on The Cast, then on Mac, who's at the top right of the group photo)

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General Software Discussion / Re: My favorite software! What's yours?

« Last post by rjbull on July 17, 2008, 05:21 AM »

Yes, that's the usual way to use Roboform, but before I started using it, I just had a few passwords that I used for everything.

-cthorpe (July 17, 2008, 03:44 AM)

And its much easier to remember just one master password     No wonder Roboform, KeePass etc. are popular.

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General Software Discussion / Re: My favorite software! What's yours?

« Last post by rjbull on July 17, 2008, 03:32 AM »

Roboform - Since I got Roboform, I have actually followed the advice I always gave others and assigned unique passwords to various web services.  My Roboform password is pretty much a string of random characters that correspond somewhat to a sentence that was written on something on my desk when I first set it up, so I feel secure that it won't be easy to break.

-cthorpe (July 16, 2008, 04:31 AM)

Do you mean, you have a master password for Roboform that then runs different passwords for different services; or, that you've assigned them all different passwords in Roboform as well?  I thought the former approach was usual.  If the latter, how do you remember them all?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Reliable web page capture...

« Last post by rjbull on July 17, 2008, 03:24 AM »

me, I'm only really familiar with Surfulater & Evernote:
the advantage of these programmes (I think) is that you can save part (or all) of a web page

-tomos (July 16, 2008, 04:27 PM)

If I click the EverNote icon in Firefox, it pops up this message:

No text is selected. Do you want to add
an entire page to EverNote?

EverNote seems surprised that I might want to capture a complete page.  Sometimes I do, of course, and then I generally use LWA.  Yet I think EverNote's implication is sensible.  Do I really want to keep the fluff as well as real content?  No, of course I don't.  In fact I mostly use EverNote at work, for capturing news items on work-related portals.  I only want the particular news article, not all the advertising or other uninteresting (to me) items.  Which makes me wonder, how many other people need compete capture all the time?

Another nice thing about EverNote is that it can output MHT files, so if I have to, I can send potted articles to other people, complete with images and clickable links.  I wish there were a universal standard for "compiled HTML" that Firefox and other browsers used, not just IE.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Queueing downloads in firefox

« Last post by rjbull on July 06, 2008, 04:13 PM »

Why not use Free Download Manager (FDM) or Internet Download Manager (IDM) or one of the other similar programs?  Both those two can queue downloads, and make them as fast as possible.  You can integrate them with Firefox, or not, as you choose.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for a special RSS reader

« Last post by rjbull on July 03, 2008, 03:41 AM »

I don't care if Newzie is dead...I'll keep using it till I am on some version of Windows it won't work with

-app103 (July 02, 2008, 11:08 AM)

app103, I thought you were using Win95?  The Newzie download page states:

Requirements
In order to run Newzie, you need to have at least following configuration :

1. Microsoft 2000, XP, 2003 or Vista.

2. Pentium 300 MHz or higher processor.

3. 64MB RAM.

4. Internet Explorer 4 or higher.