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General Software Discussion / Re: WinAntiRansom lifetime key from WinPatrol: $15
« Last post by tomos on September 17, 2015, 04:40 PM »
^ yeah, was just pointing that out for those that dont have subscription licences. (I have one lifetime license myself. This offer looked interesting - so thought I'd check out the subscription license to see if worth getting that, and *then* going for the offer - but there was only the lifetime license on offer.)
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General Software Discussion / Re: WinAntiRansom lifetime key from WinPatrol: $15
« Last post by tomos on September 17, 2015, 03:56 PM »
Just to point this bit out, because it's pretty major too for those lamenting the subscription licenses:

Better yet, if you own a subscription license for WinPatrol, WinPrivacy or both, we'll
convert them into a Lifetime license with the purchase of WinAntiRansom!

I notice the WinPatrol (Plus) page currently offers a lifetime license @20$ -- actually I dont see any other options.
(I'm not sure what price the subscription was/is.)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Softmaker Office 2016 released
« Last post by tomos on September 17, 2015, 03:23 PM »
They're offering 20% off at the moment - it's unclear, but I think it's until midnight tonight CET - which means only for the next hour and a half...

http://shop.softmake...hop/shop.php?lang=en

EDIT// went for the standard version upgrade for 32€ -- not sure what the US dollar cost is for the upgrade.
It's also unclear if you need a key for a previous version for the upgrade - I logged in before buying so they know I have a key for the 2012 version. Yet they offer the upgrade price from the free version of Softmaker -- not sure how that works...
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Living Room / Re: 14 year-old boy arrested for creating a digital clock
« Last post by tomos on September 16, 2015, 05:02 PM »
It's an unfortunate state of affairs. I can understand the frustration, but if you ignore the context of recent history, you're just leaving out too much.
And if that context is introduced, I think it's going to be unfortunately pretty much Basement material...
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General Software Discussion / Re: Raymond.cc roundup of ad blocking extensions
« Last post by tomos on September 16, 2015, 02:48 PM »
^ yeah, fair enough.
I got the impression he regretted afterwards - but maybe that was just trying to make good after the backlash.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Raymond.cc roundup of ad blocking extensions
« Last post by tomos on September 16, 2015, 01:55 PM »
^ FWIW I prefer the uBlock variation - the "origin" version started blocking whole webpages which I felt wasn't it's job:
https://www.donation....msg385536#msg385536
I don't mind that too much - I've only seen it blocking sourceforge, and that's kinda warranted given how dicky SF have been...

uBlock Origin now works on PaleMoon, so I have dumped Adblock Latitude (which was blocking stuff it shouldnt have been).
Using the other version on Firefox which I also use most days.

I did notice it saying this:
Important: uBlock Origin is NOT an "ad blocker": it is a wide-spectrum blocker -- which happens to be able to function as a mere "ad blocker". The default behavior of uBlock Origin when newly installed is to block ads, trackers and malware sites -- through EasyList, EasyPrivacy, Peter Lowe’s ad/tracking/malware servers, various lists of malware sites, and uBlock Origin's own filter lists.
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/
which gave me a better understanding for how it works.

Re the feud or whatever went on, at the time I did look into it a bit, and it seemed to be more about messy misunderstandings and all that can bring, rather than any kind of nastiness - so I didnt feel I *should* support one or the other.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Any free portable pdf editor with these features?
« Last post by tomos on September 16, 2015, 01:31 PM »
Adobe Acrobat 8 PRO is neither portable nor supported, however by visiting the following site, with a bit of work you can install a fully functional version of this formerly pricey program. It has worked very well for me.
kk
http://blog.stead.id...crobat-pro-8-on.html

Interesting, though that looks too complex for me! (  "...then do the following steps ... download these updates and install them in the correct order ..." ) 

and those updates are no longer available from Adobe...
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Check out how many people have read the last couple of newsletters:
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wow, that's impressive!
there's a definite buzz around since the release of the last one :-*
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Living Room / Re: Show us the View Outside Your Window
« Last post by tomos on September 16, 2015, 01:17 PM »
^ very nice Arizona :up:

and the panorama is very cleanly made.

PS taking a screenshot of an image is a great idea - nice easy way to resize an image for the forum :Thmbsup:
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Living Room / Re: 10th Anniversary - long time member check-in thread
« Last post by tomos on September 16, 2015, 03:59 AM »
^ @wyrwolf & zxcvbn :Thmbsup: :-*

--------------
and here was the first post from ToddWC,
member since 2006

Screenshot - 2015-09-16 , 10_51_40.png

(wasnt sure which thread to put it in)
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What attracted me to the HP ZBook 14 is that it is still relatively portable (compared to the 15.6" and 17" laptops and workstations), while remaining powerful with a lot of storage, and that is easily expandable. Apparently there is a bay inside for a second hard drive; all drives and the battery can be easily swapped (and of course extra RAM added).

that does sound very good


The weaknesses are the lower resolution (1920 x 1080 14" ISP screen), apparently the keyboard is mediocre

notebookcheck liked the keyboard. And I think a  lot of software UI's are not yet ready for UHD (U for ultra - or whatever they call it), so you might be better off with the FHD/IPS screen (which also gets a positive review btw).
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Living Room / Re: Mail Art anyone?
« Last post by tomos on September 15, 2015, 01:17 PM »
very interesting :up:
would be nice to see some of your work (if you were willing)


Is this like, via e-mail, or snail mail? I'd be quite interested in doing this!

I'm also curious how it get's going: is it through people you know, or are there groups one can join (I'm sure there's many possibilities).

We could start a new version:
thread art -

Something for Stephen
Screenshot - 2015-09-15 , 20_03_53.png

:P
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Great job :Thmbsup:
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General Software Discussion / Re: Advice on manipulating a flat file
« Last post by tomos on September 15, 2015, 09:52 AM »
CS-Calc claims to be able to work with 12 million rows, might be worth a try (if that's a possibility)
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General Software Discussion / Re: extract text from brackets
« Last post by tomos on September 15, 2015, 08:04 AM »
not online, but worth a mention:
WildGem 1.1 (dc link)
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Living Room / Re: Trying to Create a New Logo
« Last post by tomos on September 15, 2015, 07:56 AM »
I'm no expert but think in general it looks fine. It's not as cute as the one in your avatar (I'm presuming that's the one you lost the original of?).

A couple of details that should be changed imo:
1) the hat need a little highlighting - very little I think, but needed to give it more 3 dimensionality
2) it needs a little perspective in the sphere grid lines (see below)

Screenshot - 2015-09-15 , 14_54_11.png
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Living Room / Re: The End of my Macbook Pro Experiment
« Last post by tomos on September 15, 2015, 03:20 AM »
As for quality of hardware, you can find some wonderfully built laptops that can rival a Macbook, but you won't find Dell selling one and you will pay just as much for it as you did that Macbook Pro.

Dell XPS 13 (2015) is getting good reviews and being called a MacBook Air and Zenbook killer, at much lower price. The other one that's also looking good is the HP Spectre x360.


I gave my Inspiron 7000 to my daughter and wife to share... and got one of these.  It *really* is nice.  I'll post some comparisons of the two.  They're both 13", but it's amazing how much smaller the XPS is.


I looked at reviews and YT videos about the XPS13 a while back, it's a lovely looking machine :-*
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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Hyper Plan 50% off
« Last post by tomos on September 15, 2015, 03:03 AM »
Looks interesting
http://www.hyperplan.com/
http://www.hyperplan.com/tour.html

Full price is:
$40 / £25 / €33
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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"
« Last post by tomos on September 14, 2015, 08:45 AM »
Feel a bit silly doing so (but see spoiler).
thanks ;D

using my brain a bit more today, I see they are blocked by Adblock Latitude (PaleMoon)...
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General Software Discussion / Re: Pale Moon and Firefox - The Honeymoon Period is Over
« Last post by tomos on September 13, 2015, 03:28 AM »
The Opera and Vivaldi developers just don't get it ...

you say this at the end of a long post - so I'm not really sure what you're referring to with 'it' (?)
TIA
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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"
« Last post by tomos on September 13, 2015, 03:15 AM »
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I see they're at version 11 now.
Upgrade price of 59$ / 49€(+tax) seems to be available from all older versions -
according to a comment there from Ashraf, you should be able to upgrade from this offer (in case of interest).
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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post
« Last post by tomos on September 11, 2015, 09:13 AM »
Damn, I was hoping to sneak in under the radar

no chance of that ;-)

Screenshot - 2015-09-11 , 16_11_24.png
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did you try Aomei via their bootable disc?

Not quite sure what you're referring to. Do you mean "Create Bootable Media: Make a bootable rescue media such as a CD/DVD or USB drive", which is under Utilities in AOMEI Backupper Standard? I will try that next.
Yes.
(I see there's also a Linux option - I chose the Win PE option and had to to download the necessaries from the Aomei site.)
AFAIK, you'll need it if you want to restore the OS partition - so I would create it before repairing or reinstalling OS.
Also, if you haven't already, be sure to create a Windows 'System Repair Disc' (if your system can create it - you can also use one created on another machine AFAIK) -

Screenshot - 2015-09-11 , 10_18_04.png


So tomorrow I can start with the Windows re-installation.

best of luck!
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This thread disturbs me a little because I purposely split my browsers so at low levels I fix certain problems. I have noticed more and more how my "Youtube suggestions" are being populated with stuff

isn't that that they recognise your IP address, so know your machine watched XYZ so make related suggestions - no matter which browser you're in?


I'm stuck at prob 1, why are you/you-plural using multi browsers and then trying to track it!? It feels like a "Work wants X, I want Y, then Z shows up somewhere" type problem but I'm saying we're missing a backstory here.

I could see this being helpful - I use different browsers for different things but only because they're all crap at something or other. Another example: for a while I was using a browser without a Flash plugin, so I had another one I used where Flash was required.
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