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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Mini-Review: Atrise Golden Section

« Last post by cranioscopical on July 15, 2010, 04:12 PM »

The problem with reading a review by you, Chris…

-Deozaan (July 15, 2010, 02:26 PM)

Are you speaking contrapuntally?

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Feature Req: quote only selected text?

« Last post by cranioscopical on July 15, 2010, 04:07 PM »

Works for me IF I have the "look and layout" options in my profile preferences set to
Use quick reply on topic display: show, off by default.
That allows me to quote part of a line.

Quoting was erratic when I had it set to "don't show at all",  or "show, on by default" .

(Firefox 3.6.6)

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Idea: DC Cody Tshirts customized for an interest area

« Last post by cranioscopical on July 15, 2010, 11:11 AM »

We're really lucky to have you doing this image stuff, nudone!!

That font makes my eyeballs roll in opposite directions!    It's the first time in years that I've looked even remotely normal…

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X5

« Last post by cranioscopical on July 15, 2010, 11:05 AM »

They are still funny, those guys at Corel's. Today I have been offered to purchase a license for this CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X5 for € 718.80 including a "free" Powerstick worth € 40. When I went to the program's homepage, I was offered to have X5 without the Powerstick for € 634.80 !!!

You do the math. I can't.
 (see attachment in previous post) versus  (see attachment in previous post)

-Curt (July 15, 2010, 07:44 AM)

Tell them you'll take a copy without 15 power sticks!

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Idea: DC Cody Tshirts customized for an interest area

« Last post by cranioscopical on July 13, 2010, 09:39 PM »

the red Coding Snack bowl.

-skwire (July 13, 2010, 07:32 PM)

Please, no Communist code!

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Mini-Review: Atrise Golden Section

« Last post by cranioscopical on July 12, 2010, 09:26 PM »

Basic Info

Application Name	Atrise Golden Section
Application URL	http://www.atrise.com/golden-section/
Version Reviewed	4.1.1
Test System Specs	Intel Q9450 Quad core @2.66Ghz; ASUS P5E3 mb, 4Gb RAM; NVIDIA GeForce 9600GT video; Windows XP Pro, SP3
Supported OS's	Windows XP, Vista, 7. 32 or 64 bit.
Support Methods	http://www.atrise.com/support/ email (and online chat GMT 16:00-20:00)
Upgrade Policy	Currently at v4.1.1, license valid for versions 4.x.x. Minor upgrades free. Major upgrades a small fee, currently USD $15.
Trial Version Available?	An unlimited trial version is available for a 30-day period.
Pricing Scheme	Euro €30 or USD $35
License Terms	One license per one computer or one user. Only one user must use it at one time. Self-employed and home users may install it on any personal computers and notebooks. Technical support service for 1 year is included.
Relationship btwn. Reviewer and Product	I am simply a satisfied, paying customer. Other than that, I have no connection to — or financial interest in — the company that offers this product.

Introduction:

Golden section is a design grid for web, graphic, logo and user-interface design.

This program is designed as a tool to help artists, designers, programmers, photographers and others.
It allows the user to design something by applying those proportions defined as the golden section or golden ratio.
Various aspects of the golden section can be overlaid visually on whatever design software you are using in Windows.
See also the Wikipedia article on the golden ratio here.




For whom this app is designed:

Atrise Golden Section has potential for anyone designing a web site, or a user interface, constructing a newsletter, or indulging in digital photography, or a whole lot more.

In use, it positions an overlay grid that 'floats' above your work. Aligning elements to that grid is a quick and efficient way to ensure a layout that the human eye/brain combination will find appealing, often at a level below conscious thought. Without having to know a great deal about æsthetics, it is possible to make very worthwhile improvements to the layout of material at which we ourselves and others will be looking. (Using this application I have even improved the look of Powerpoint slides!)


   


       


The Good:

The application is very easy to use because it is a grid that appears above whatever software is being used and is therefore independent of that software. This makes it equally suitable for just about any Windows software that has anything to do with design. I use it with several image programs, including Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, with InDesign, with components of Microsoft Office, and many others. The grid is easily moved, and re-sized, and reoriented. It is simple to switch it into various modes e.g. linear grids or spirals, circles, ratios…


The needs improvement section:

I am not a design professional: to my untutored eye, there is no area that I find to be problematic.


Why I think you should use this product:

I can share with you the main purpose to which I put this application, though there are many other uses. My principal use for AGS is very simple. I use it to help me crop large digital photographs in ways that are pleasing. Typically, especially when in a hurry, I deliberately shoot an image containing more information that I want. I rely on being able to crop and re-size photos at a more leisurely moment. Later, when editing, it has become virtually automatic for me to overlay the Golden Section grid on any photo that I want to crop, in order to extract the most pleasing composition.

Professionals and good amateurs can do this stuff in their heads, of course. For the rest of us, however, AGS is there to help.


Conclusions:

Atrise Golden Section helps users to improve the appearance of what they produce, with very little effort, and with only a basic understanding of the underlying principles of design on which it depends.

If this golden section stuff was good enough for DaVinci, it's good enough for me!


Links to other reviews of this application:

Some reviews and testimonials appear on the Atrise web site click here.

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Living Room / Re: A special gift from Veign.com to DonationCoder - thank you!

« Last post by cranioscopical on July 12, 2010, 04:38 PM »

Generous as ever, Chris 

Jody certainly deserves this.

No doubt we'll all now expect not just coding snacks but full repasts!

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Living Room / Re: XP Hangs on Shut Down

« Last post by cranioscopical on July 11, 2010, 08:43 AM »

Had to reinstall after all as things really went south! So I'm having to rebuild from a 10 month old Image...

-CleverCat (July 11, 2010, 03:45 AM)

Annoying as heck but try to see it as an opportunity to reorganize things a little and make a few improvements.

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Living Room / Re: livestrong.com MyPlate webapp

« Last post by cranioscopical on July 06, 2010, 08:51 PM »

Thanks for the info.

Good luck with the weight control. Slow and steady wins that race.

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Living Room / Re: TV Controls (rant)

« Last post by cranioscopical on July 06, 2010, 08:48 PM »

And you HAD TO get up out of the chair and walk across the room to do it!

-parkint (July 06, 2010, 04:47 PM)

Not if you had kids! 

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Living Room / Re: TV Controls (rant)

« Last post by cranioscopical on July 05, 2010, 02:39 PM »

Does this kind of stuff (slowness in TVs & remotes & all that) seem annoying to anyone else?

-Renegade (July 05, 2010, 02:27 PM)

Now that I am old and impoverished, I find that this stuff is a godsend.
By the time I've juggled controllers and have the set alight, and the satellite tuned in, and have inadvertently hit the button that turns off the room lights, I usually just nod off to sleep. No longer any need to pay for programme content. That's my evening, right there.

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 Release: Open Menu

« Last post by cranioscopical on July 02, 2010, 06:16 PM »

Open Menu will be on the upcoming talk radio show called Hospitality 101.  With about 4000 listeners in the restaurant and hospitality business this is a big step in Open Menu gaining recognition.

Looking forward to the interview.  Should be fun...

-Veign (July 02, 2010, 03:56 PM)

Hey, well done! 

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

« Last post by cranioscopical on July 02, 2010, 06:08 PM »

less talk, more photos.

-mouser (July 02, 2010, 01:28 AM)

Okay, here's one to keep for the next occasion on which you spend Christmas in Paris.

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

« Last post by cranioscopical on July 01, 2010, 08:51 PM »

now how do we bring this thread back to the front and stop it deteriorating into a local depression?

-Target (July 01, 2010, 05:44 PM)

Easy, go back and demistify it.

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

« Last post by cranioscopical on July 01, 2010, 12:30 PM »

Far be it from me to rain on your parade, I'm just lightning the content a little.

-cranioscopical (June 30, 2010, 11:26 PM)

you can do as much lightning as you like, but whatever you do, no flashing!!

-Target (July 01, 2010, 12:26 AM)

Yet again you've stolen my thunder. Now this grimy raincoat is useless to me, I'm steamed!

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

« Last post by cranioscopical on June 30, 2010, 11:26 PM »

See, here I try to give you a little helpful advice and you just try to haze me!

-cranioscopical (June 30, 2010, 10:14 PM)

now you're just clouding the issue

no doubt this precipitates a storm of similar activities

-Target (June 30, 2010, 10:36 PM)

Far be it from me to rain on your parade, I'm just lightning the content a little.

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Circle Dock / Re: 7 inch touchscreen

« Last post by cranioscopical on June 30, 2010, 10:18 PM »

Depends who's sitting next to you

i want sgt to sit next to me hes got all the money aprently lol  . .totally kidding sgt

-christofarian (June 30, 2010, 08:19 PM)

 

Better choose a banquette, in that case!

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

« Last post by cranioscopical on June 30, 2010, 10:14 PM »

I would mist trust mister fogey...  

Very nice photos indeed.

-PhilB66 (June 30, 2010, 08:53 PM)

thanks (fyi, mister fogey is in danger of being vapourised)

-Target (June 30, 2010, 08:58 PM)

See, here I try to give you a little helpful advice and you just try to haze me!

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

« Last post by cranioscopical on June 30, 2010, 08:19 PM »

hence the brag

-Target (June 30, 2010, 07:58 PM)

Nice pictures!

(It is a mist take to brag.)

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Circle Dock / Re: 7 inch touchscreen

« Last post by cranioscopical on June 30, 2010, 08:14 PM »

i mean how much touching can you do while watching a movie lol . .

-christofarian (June 30, 2010, 08:04 PM)

Depends who's sitting next to you

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Living Room / Re: could two numeric keypads work at the same time

« Last post by cranioscopical on June 30, 2010, 04:42 PM »

A grail more holey that holy, then?

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Living Room / Re: OK - lets get to know each other... who are you, what do you do, where from?

« Last post by cranioscopical on June 29, 2010, 06:22 PM »

Hello from Ohio.   ...lurking and learning.

-mofohobo (June 29, 2010, 04:23 PM)

Hiya, mofohobo!

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Living Room / Re: Weekend moment of zen -- Caturday!

« Last post by cranioscopical on June 25, 2010, 11:04 AM »

Kitten On The Keys

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General Software Discussion / Re: What's a good wardrobe management software?

« Last post by cranioscopical on June 23, 2010, 09:37 PM »

Please perform regular maintenance on the Wife 1.0 program as the history database is not guaranteed to import into Wife 2.0!

-Innuendo

Now that we're going to be without a specific complaints section, I figured I'd better post this warning here.
Be careful with this!
I tried to replace the Wife 1.0 module with the Mistress module and the program gave me Distress instead.

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 Release: Open Menu

« Last post by cranioscopical on June 23, 2010, 12:29 PM »

Open Menu continues to move forward.

-Veign (June 23, 2010, 11:28 AM)

Excellent, best of luck with it!