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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Burning Studio 10

« Last post by cranioscopical on May 22, 2010, 04:42 PM »

a foolish investment

-Darwin (May 22, 2010, 01:56 PM)

Gentlemen, there are at least ten Foolish Investment Avoidance programs that I feel you should try.
Anjou is probably preferred as discount is handsome.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: ATNSOFT Key Manager, Key Remapper, Text Paster - 30% Discount Coupon Code

« Last post by cranioscopical on May 22, 2010, 12:20 PM »

meant to be an impossible hotkey combination

-nudone (May 21, 2010, 10:16 PM)

Yeah, just another piece of half-baked nonsense, I'm afraid 

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: ATNSOFT Key Manager, Key Remapper, Text Paster - 30% Discount Coupon Code

« Last post by cranioscopical on May 21, 2010, 08:23 PM »

found this whilst looking for more WordStart inspired scripts

-nudone (May 21, 2010, 04:59 PM)

Works particularly well if you set the activation as CTRL-BACKSPACE-TAB-DELETE, you should give that a try! 

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General Software Discussion / Re: FolderCache 4.4

« Last post by cranioscopical on May 21, 2010, 11:08 AM »

Hey!  Well done MilesAhead

Folder Cache is featured at Shell Extension City today, May 21, 2010.

 

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: ATNSOFT Key Manager, Key Remapper, Text Paster - 30% Discount Coupon Code

« Last post by cranioscopical on May 21, 2010, 09:25 AM »

 

I've heard of taking it on the chin but that might be going a little too farr!

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: ATNSOFT Key Manager, Key Remapper, Text Paster - 30% Discount Coupon Code

« Last post by cranioscopical on May 20, 2010, 08:29 PM »

a couple of days ago i read about WordStar

-nudone (May 20, 2010, 07:03 PM)

I was just about destroyed when WordStar went under.
A huge number of people still have WS keys burnt into the retina of the mind's eye.

Personally, I think it's time you stopped faffing about with mice and keys and began to master mind control. 

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Sharkoon USB 3.0 QuickPort Dock

« Last post by cranioscopical on May 20, 2010, 05:13 PM »

I can hear it but it's not annoying at all.

Thanks, useful info!

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: ATNSOFT Key Manager, Key Remapper, Text Paster - 30% Discount Coupon Code

« Last post by cranioscopical on May 20, 2010, 05:10 PM »

i've read through your ME review, Chris. sorry i missed it before. thanks. i'll check ME out later.

-nudone (May 20, 2010, 02:43 AM)

As rjbull points out, it's not for everyone -- what is? I've tried others and happen to prefer ME but your proclivities may lie elsewhere.

Just about every key on my keyboard has multiple 'soft' macros tied to it. That doesn't help with simultaneous-multi-key gaming action (so far, I haven't found the need for such in Noughts and Crosses.)

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Sharkoon USB 3.0 QuickPort Dock

« Last post by cranioscopical on May 20, 2010, 04:48 PM »

the SIIG USB 3.0 station with fan

-MilesAhead (May 20, 2010, 02:28 PM)

MilesAhead: Would you mind giving your subjective assessment of the fan noise?

• Inaudible
• Audible but non-intrusive
• Audible, intrusive
• Who's landing a jump-jet now?

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Living Room / Re: GPS Unit Recommendations?

« Last post by cranioscopical on May 20, 2010, 04:27 PM »

I like the newer Garmin models.
I use them in my cars and have had no problems other than a brief delay finding the satellites (something that's been addressed in the latest models).
When I've rented cars in the States I've rented Garmin models with them -- again, no problems.
I can't compare to other brands, alas, as I lack experience of them.

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Living Room / Re: Sexual harassment taken too far...

« Last post by cranioscopical on May 19, 2010, 03:41 PM »

The fruit bats could probably sue, for invasion of privacy.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: ATNSOFT Key Manager, Key Remapper, Text Paster - 30% Discount Coupon Code

« Last post by cranioscopical on May 19, 2010, 03:34 PM »

Most people on DC seem besotted with AHK, but I'd like something that's quick and easy to set up without needing even elementary programming.

FWIW, I find that Macro Express makes creating hot keys simple.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Compare 2 files and list differences...

« Last post by cranioscopical on May 16, 2010, 11:15 AM »

+1 for Beyond Compare

2439

Living Room / Re: Identity Theft OFFLINE - Get ready to be VERY scared

« Last post by cranioscopical on May 15, 2010, 12:27 PM »

These 'deleted' books, however, would remain on the shelves until somebody needed the space and got around to actually tossing them.

-40hz (May 15, 2010, 12:08 PM)

So much for those dewey-eyed librarians!

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Skrommel's Software / Re: Skrommel Apps Re-uploaded!

« Last post by cranioscopical on May 15, 2010, 12:18 PM »

Much appreciated!

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Living Room / Re: The Psychology of the Sale

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

Stock analysis is the oldest profession, because the serpent convinced Adam and Eve to buy stock in apple.

-daddydave (May 15, 2010, 11:40 AM)

Actually, I think it was running a diner, one of those rib joints if I recall.

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Living Room / Re: how to get to a dialog window that won't come into focus by using the keyboard?

« Last post by cranioscopical on May 14, 2010, 12:22 PM »

oh right. that's intersting though. if WiLMA can disable things then that does open up possibilities.

-nudone (May 14, 2010, 12:14 PM)

Oh dear, sorry again, I must learn to express myself better. 
I don't think WiLMA will do that, so you'd just call WiLMA by launching something (of your own): step 1 stop AWM, step 2 start WiLMA -- batch file, a line or two of ahk, whatever. You'll need to see if you need that, and what if any interactions you have on your system, and what works best for you.

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Living Room / Re: how to get to a dialog window that won't come into focus by using the keyboard?

« Last post by cranioscopical on May 14, 2010, 12:11 PM »

when you say AWM can be suspended automatically, do you mean it will suspend operation when a specific window has focus? i'd seen how you can set rules/exclusions but not a "global" kind of suspend.

-nudone (May 14, 2010, 11:27 AM)

Oh, sorry, no.
I meant only that you, yourself, could set up however you call WiLMA to switch off AWM.

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Living Room / Re: how to get to a dialog window that won't come into focus by using the keyboard?

« Last post by cranioscopical on May 14, 2010, 11:18 AM »

is there no end to this quest?

-nudone (May 14, 2010, 11:11 AM)

Yes, it's "ion". 

Good luck with WiLMA, it seems a good match with your layout.
(You may find you have to suspend AWM in some cases but that can be automatic.)

Thanks for all the info you're posting here. You're on an interesting journey.

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Living Room / Re: how to get to a dialog window that won't come into focus by using the keyboard?

« Last post by cranioscopical on May 14, 2010, 11:06 AM »

Nudone
There are reasonably frequent updates to Actual Window Manager, and I've found the developer open to ideas and suggestions.

If you're using as many screens as you are, and you haven't already investigated WiLMA, you might find it useful. Although I'm just a poor relation with only two screens, WiLMA is great for a few tasks where I prefer a bunch of windows to be in specific places on each.

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Living Room / Re: how to get to a dialog window that won't come into focus by using the keyboard?

« Last post by cranioscopical on May 14, 2010, 10:53 AM »

i was trying not to, but it might just be that Actual Window Manager will be running alongside all of the above tools (except for Taskbar Shuffle). the battle for supremacy begins...

-nudone (May 14, 2010, 04:24 AM)

 

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Living Room / Re: how to get to a dialog window that won't come into focus by using the keyboard?

« Last post by cranioscopical on May 13, 2010, 03:59 PM »

a dialog window that won't come into focus

Actual Window Manager www.ActualTools.com is pretty good at this stuff.
I was using Ultramon 3 and a bunch of home-made macros for stuff like this but found AWM suited me a bit better.

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

« Last post by cranioscopical on May 13, 2010, 07:15 AM »

plugging both numeric keypads in just disables them both

-nudone (May 13, 2010, 03:44 AM)

Well, at least it was an inexpensive way to find out.

Have you thought about one of these?

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Pledge: CFX

« Last post by cranioscopical on May 13, 2010, 06:43 AM »

At the moment there are more questions than answers

-Perry Mowbray (May 13, 2010, 05:22 AM)

Not another quiz game!

Looking forward to learning more about your intriguing CFX.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: drag window to edge automatically resizes it

« Last post by cranioscopical on May 12, 2010, 08:24 PM »

It´s very quiet in here?

Well, Hello! It's nice to see you posting, at least.