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General Software Discussion / Re: Really simple clipboard extender/note taking software?

« Last post by rjbull on January 11, 2008, 06:28 AM »

Mainly for simplicity and ease of use by someone who's more of a mouse person than a keyboard person.

-Hefty Hippie (January 11, 2008, 04:02 AM)

Hmmm, I'm more the opposite!

CHS included) but she didn't like them at all and reverted to sticking paper notes up all over the place.

Pity, CHS has good organising abilities for a clipboard extender.  However, a few more possibilities.  Are you aware that you can set up KeyNote as a clipboard extender?  Then you have good organisational possibilities as well.  That might be the first thing to try as appearing to tick all the boxes, and freeware to boot. Don't forget the author posts here as tranglos!

JBLab Secure Notes is another small notekeeper with some nice features.  It doesn't automatically keep clips, but has a "smart paste" feature that helps make sensible titles for nodes when you paste from the clipboard into it.  Be aware, though, that the program hasn't been updated since May 2005.

There are plenty of other choices for notes, but most aren't automatic clipboard extenders.  E.g., Horst Schaeffer's MemPad, where you can set a hotkey as a toggle to minimise to tray/restore.  Bayden Systems' SlickRun is a program launcher that has a mini-notekeeper built in.  Notesholder is like a continuous ribbon of paper holding your notes; the free version is good, and the shareware one naturally has more features.  But if your wife likes sticky notes, how about the computer equivalent, of which a myriad exist?  I use Magic Notes (shareware), but ZhornSoftware's Stickies is a very well-liked free one.  DC currently has a members' discount on NoteZilla.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Really simple clipboard extender/note taking software?

« Last post by rjbull on January 11, 2008, 03:41 AM »

Why the particular desire for the context menu for general notes?  Would a hotkey to pop up a notekeeping program be adequate?

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Living Room / Re: Wanted: Electronic/Searchable Holy Books

« Last post by rjbull on January 11, 2008, 03:33 AM »

This from an ancient post by mouser:

Big Religion Chart

The ReligionFacts Big Religion Chart is an attempt to summarize all the complexities of religions and belief systems into tiny little boxes on a single, quick-reference comparison chart.  Yes, this is impossible. As we always warn with our comparison charts, this is no substitute for reading about religions in greater detail, talking with religious adherents, etc. But this religon comparison chart can (hopefully) be a useful and accessible way to "get the gist" of some unfamiliar groups and compare basic beliefs and practices of the world's religions and belief systems.

Does nothing like all you want, but an interesting quick summary.

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Best Dialog Extender / Re: So what is the best/popular one now?

« Last post by rjbull on January 09, 2008, 08:42 AM »

Open-source too...

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General Software Discussion / Re: roboform2go or sticky password?

« Last post by rjbull on January 09, 2008, 04:51 AM »

Keepass?  [...] I am having some difficulty with importing anything into it.

-J-Mac (January 08, 2008, 03:30 AM)

I tried importing via CSV when I was changing over from Passpack, and that worked fine, but I found I had to supply ALL fields, even empty ones at the end of the line.

plug-ins [...] (Downloads don't work or link to their downloads doesn't work)

I've never had any trouble downloading things from the KeePass site; maybe there was a site problem or an an Internet problem when you tried?  Make sure you pick the plugins that match the particular version of KeePass you're using, though.

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Best Dialog Extender / Re: So what is the best/popular one now?

« Last post by rjbull on January 09, 2008, 04:42 AM »

There must be more extenders than that - I run PowerPro, which has file box extension as just one of its myriad features.

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Living Room / Re: Wanted: Electronic/Searchable Holy Books

« Last post by rjbull on January 08, 2008, 03:49 AM »

Just out of interest, and via TinyApps blog:

Christ On Disk is a freeware application for viewing the King James Version of the Bible. It is a stand-alone application that is able to fit onto and run from a single floppy disk that has been specially formatted.

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General Software Discussion / Re: post your 5 most used applications in 2007 here!

« Last post by rjbull on December 31, 2007, 03:03 PM »

That I use at work, other than those I have to use for work, like Outlook?

PowerPro
Total Commander
ArsClip
WebSite-Watcher
FARR

Pity the list is only five...

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Instant Text V Pro - more than the usual features of a text expander

« Last post by rjbull on December 31, 2007, 02:51 PM »

Did anyone notice that IntelliComplete has been discontinued "for lack of development resources?"

-tide (December 29, 2007, 08:58 AM)

Looks like it's gone from their site - pity they didn't make it unsupported freeware, or something...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Getting started with Access?

« Last post by rjbull on December 31, 2007, 02:23 PM »

Thanks, all, especially for the offers of help!   

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General Software Discussion / Re: Getting started with Access?

« Last post by rjbull on December 31, 2007, 02:22 PM »

But if you want a easier database, check out sqlnotes.

-PPLandry (December 30, 2007, 11:17 PM)

Thanks, but sadly it has to be Access because the intention is for an application at work, and Access is what the company has licenses for.   Getting it to cough up for a license for something else, especially when the application has to run over a network, is not likely to be met with a yes.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Getting started with Access?

« Last post by rjbull on December 31, 2007, 02:17 PM »

Access is pretty simple, but to do something specific that's not provided out-of-the-box, you'll generally need to write some code to automate forms, etc

-Perry Mowbray (December 30, 2007, 08:18 PM)

So I've heard, to the extent that someone described it to me as not so much an application as an application development environment.

There's lots of stuff that's on-line that will be of use: you've probably already found those though...

I admit I haven't looked yet.  This is something I'll be expected to do at work, and I'm still home on Christmas break.

I bought one of those Teach Yourself books: [...] that I wouldn't really recommend

I tend to wonder about all those rank upon rank of paving-slab tomes on various Microsoft applications...  I'll have to take a look when I next get to a bookshop.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Getting started with Access?

« Last post by rjbull on December 31, 2007, 02:07 PM »

Ho humm, do you have any prior database knowledge/experience?

-f0dder (December 30, 2007, 05:17 PM)

No.   

My only database experience is with PC-File 5 for DOS, which is flat-file.  Actually, the relational aspect concerns me as much as using a new program.

Don't know of any resources, so this was just a "don't worry too much" heads-up

What, me worry?   

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General Software Discussion / Getting started with Access?

« Last post by rjbull on December 30, 2007, 05:05 PM »

I shall shortly be expected to develop some databases in Microsoft Access, which I've never used before.  Can anyone recommend any good books and other resources, please?

TIA...

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Instant Text V Pro - more than the usual features of a text expander

« Last post by rjbull on December 30, 2007, 04:46 PM »

There is one more thing I’m not sure about, Harrie.

-Brandi (December 28, 2007, 01:01 PM)

Brandi,

Harrie hasn't been here since June.  Suggest you try the Productivity Talk forum for MTs, where she's a moderator.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: list of programs to "harshly/silently" kill at shutdown

« Last post by rjbull on December 30, 2007, 04:38 PM »

programs actually get a signal when shutdown is occuring, so it wouldn't be hard to catch this signal and then kill the programs in the list.

-mouser (December 30, 2007, 04:28 PM)

Does that mean it's possible and worthwhile to make a more general program, one that could trigger a backup when it sees the shutdown signal, for example?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Program to print 4 small text files as one page, 4-up

« Last post by rjbull on December 30, 2007, 04:36 PM »

Can your printer do this natively, without needing an application?

If you still want freeware apps, try out TxtPrint and PrintFile.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: list of programs to "harshly/silently" kill at shutdown

« Last post by rjbull on December 30, 2007, 04:22 PM »

    *Absurd Terminator*

    http://www.nesoft.org/terminator.shtml

    Absurd Terminator - fast Windows Shutdowner and Task Terminator. It helps
    you to make some "absurdly" long and routine Windows functions quicker and
    more convenient.  $17.00.

    Main features:

        - Shutdown/Restart/Log off Windows'95/98/ME/2000 with help of hot keys
    or by one click on system tray icon or from command line, (using:
    terminator.exe /shutdown /restart /logoff - for .bat-files or for
    schedulers and planers);
        - Terminate any running program, task or process quicker and more
    comfortable than in the standard <Ctrl-Alt-Del> function of Windows,
    without confirmation;
        - Terminate programs from command line, syntax: terminator.exe /kill
    [NameOfProgram], where NameOfProgram can be part of the program executable
    file string,

You can kill programs both via GUI and command line with a very small free (6K) program called Taskill

Also:

Shutdown v1.02  FREE!

http://www.rjlsoftwa...re/utility/shutdown/

This program can be setup to shutdown, logoff, turn off or restart a user's machine. Very easy to use and distribute, no is installation required. By default (with no command line options), Shutdown will simply shutdown Windows. With the command line options, you can manipulate the functionality of this program. There is NO user interface for this program, when you run shutdown, it will execute the commands passed.

This utility works well in combination with our Message Manager Deluxe login script utility. Click here to download Shutdown v1.02 .

Command line options for Shutdown:

SHUTDOWN.EXE {command option} {force}

Pass the option you wish to perform on the command line.

1 = Shuts down the system to a point at which it is safe to turn off the power. All file buffers have been flushed to disk, and all running processes have stopped.
2 = Shuts down all processes running and then it logs the user off.
3 = Shuts down the system and turns off the power. NOTE: the system must support the power-off feature.
4 = Shuts down the system and then restarts the system.

FORCE = Forces processes to terminate. Instead of bringing up the "application not responding" dialog box for the user, this value forces an application to terminate if it does not respond.

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General Software Discussion / Re: internet information manager...

« Last post by rjbull on December 23, 2007, 03:36 PM »

I many times have to redo the google searches, trying to put in the exact phrases which i had earlier googled to get to the results

-manimatters (December 23, 2007, 05:21 AM)

Not a Web information storage utility, but as an adjunct you might like Nir Sofer's freeware MyLastSearch:

MyLastSearch utility scans the cache and history files of your Web browser, and locate all search queries that you made with the most popular search engines (Google, Yahoo and MSN). The search queries that you made are displayed in a table with the following columns: Search Text, Search Engine, Search Time, Web Browser, and the search URL.
You can select one or more search queries and then copy them to the clipboard or save them into text/html/xml file.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Best password manager?

« Last post by rjbull on December 20, 2007, 04:43 AM »

Sounds like RoboForm, KeePass and some of these other products are worth a look, but they'd have to be pretty good to make me take the time to learn a new product and convert a bazillion passwords!

-WingedTaz (December 19, 2007, 11:31 AM)

Passwords Max [...] does have an export utility to export the database to a comma-delimited text file

-WingedTaz (December 19, 2007, 02:38 PM)

From KeePass Help:

KeePass imports and exports data from/to CSV files in the following format:

"Account","Login Name","Password","Web Site","Comments"

So you could try exporting from Passwords Max and importing into KeePass, though you'd probably have to fiddle with the CSV formats to make the fields match.  A good tool for doing that sort of thing is CONVERT by Bruce Guthrie.  It's a DOS program, but works well.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What's your preferred File Manager

« Last post by rjbull on December 20, 2007, 04:28 AM »

There is also this kind of special  file manager: SurF (freeware).

-Curt (December 19, 2007, 06:10 PM)

Humpf.  Needs .NET Framework.

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Best Text Editor / Re: How could y'all not mention Notepad Minus?

« Last post by rjbull on December 20, 2007, 04:25 AM »

And, TheGun is only 6144 bytes!    And it saves text 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Best password manager?

« Last post by rjbull on December 18, 2007, 04:18 AM »

I've installed one of free alternatives (formautofiller.com).

-Brows (December 16, 2007, 11:35 AM)

IE only?  Not even Firefox as well?

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General Software Discussion / Re: What's your preferred File Manager

« Last post by rjbull on December 14, 2007, 10:31 AM »

what file manager is better as a resource hog?  What are the issues that I can investigate to set a correct install/priority to keep a file manager from slowing other applications down?

-enginer (December 14, 2007, 07:39 AM)

You might consider a bit of lateral thinking, and try out Mouser's Process Tamer here at Donation Coder:

Process Tamer is a tiny (140k) and super efficient utility for Microsoft Windows XP/2K/NT that runs in your system tray and constantly monitors the cpu usage of other processes. When it sees a process that is overloading your cpu, it reduces the priority of that process temporarily, until its cpu usage returns to a reasonable level.

I use Total Commander all the time, including my Win98SE laptop, and don't find problems with it.  From what little I've used Ztree Win (which is console mode) and XYplorer, the new kid on the block, a no-install program with free version as well as a payware one, I haven't seen problems with them either.

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General Software Discussion / Re: The MAIN reason EVERYONE should use EverNote!*

« Last post by rjbull on December 13, 2007, 06:07 AM »

You make EverNote sound like a keylogger.  That isn't what you meant, is it?