Recent Posts

2451

Found Deals and Discounts / IDimager Pro 50% off

« Last post by Curt on March 19, 2012, 08:48 AM »

I have been looking for a good photo organizer application for a while, I was close to buying a few of them, but ended up not doing so for various reasons .. after reading some comments I've been looking at IDimager Pro and a few other similar apps and found this one to be pretty close to what I wanted -- except the price .

-Jibz (March 25, 2009, 10:43 AM)

sorry, but the donationcoder machine is refusing to see the link as a link...:
copy and paste the two halves:

https://secure.share...hareit/checkout.html
?PRODUCT[300361784]=1&currencies=USD,all&COUPON1=PROAPRIL12

or just buy it and use coupon PROAPRIL12

IDimager Limited Offer - Save up to $69.50 Now!

Starting today, all through the end of April we offer IDimager Professional at an attractive discount of 50%! So if you're ready to make the move to the next generation photo management software, then this is your opportunity. Order today.

IDimager is known for it's superior cataloging features and leads the path when it comes to photo management. It has a very complete feature set that will help you perform your management tasks.

order:

 

Top 5 reasons why photographers choose IDimager:

   Intuitive user interface
   easy cataloging features
   most comprehensive search engine
   extremely flexible and configurable
   good documentation and the best support forum
 

2452

General Software Discussion / virtualization, lite (Gizmo)

« Last post by Curt on March 18, 2012, 09:33 AM »

Dedoimedo from Gizmo has written a fine article named Light Virtualization. It took me some to understand what it was about because I focused on the word "Light". Turns out it is "Lite", as in Cola Lite; "Virtualization, Lite".

Introduction to Light Virtualization

What is light virtualization?

How does this work?

How is this different from system imaging?

What is it good for?

What is it not good for?

Types of light virtualization software

-----------

Returnil System Safe 2011
TrustWare BufferZone Pro
Sandboxie
   Other solutions
Conclusion

http://www.techsuppo...est-ever+Freeware%29

-Chapter Titles

Printerfriendly version: http://www.techsuppo...t-ever%20Freeware%29

2453

General Software Discussion / Re: desktop sharing

« Last post by Curt on March 17, 2012, 06:21 PM »

go to TeamViewer and scroll down to TeamViewer Portable. Free for personal use. I have not tried it. I #feel# certain you will have to register.

2454

General Software Discussion / Re: System tray to be on the top:

« Last post by Curt on March 17, 2012, 10:58 AM »

-does Ubuntu use Windows 2000/XP Start button?

2455

Living Room / Auslogics promoting false speed tester?

« Last post by Curt on March 16, 2012, 06:00 PM »

I got an email from Auslogics promoting "inKline Global Modem Booster 8: Turbo Charge Your Internet Speed Performance", with a link saying "Test Your Internet Speed>>". I wanted to test my connection again again, so I followed the link and took the test. To my sad surprise the test results were far below the expected, 6 to 9 MB per second (download) in contrast to 25MBps, and also the upload speed was well (bad!) below, 1.5 to 1.9, against 4 MBps. So I ran to both Speedtest.net and my InternetSupplier and tested, and sure enough my actual Internet speed is as my contract has promised me: 26MBps and 3.7MBps!

Please test to see if they also will give you a false, micromized speed test result: http://www.inklinegl...embooster/index.html (scroll a little), and come back here and tell.
 

I have written Auslogics and protested, because they're the ones promoting. I don't trust it will help to protest to inKline, do you?

Modem Booster 8 by inKline Global is a proven web acceleration software that can help you dramatically increase your Internet surfing speed.

This means you can boost download, upload and web surfing speed up to 300%, reduce web page and graphics load time, and do a lot more fun stuff online.
 
     Your Internet Speed May Be Slow. Click Below for a 2 Minute Performance Test >>

-inKline promoted by Auslogics

2456

General Software Discussion / Re: How to become Admin' for real?

« Last post by Curt on March 16, 2012, 05:33 PM »

-answer to Shades and others:

Send some info of your PC! - DonationCoder.com

-Curt's PC

2457

Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Xara Xtreme 5 Giveaway

« Last post by Curt on March 16, 2012, 03:30 PM »

-it doesn't say. But I think it is hinted:

How To Get Your Serial Code

To unlock Xara Xtreme 5 you must click "Register immediately online" in the Welcome splash screen which appears on first launch. A browser window will then open at the registration page; follow the instructions, and you'll be emailed an "unlock code". Copy this into the Welcome screen, click Start Program and your full licensed copy of Xara Xtreme 5 will launch.

Offer Expires: in...01:03:28:13

I don't expect emails after the expiration.

2458

Found Deals and Discounts / Re: WordPress bundle: $59 instead of $609!

« Last post by Curt on March 16, 2012, 01:02 PM »

Update: instead of a 6-month Basic CodeGuard plan ($99), we're now offering a 6-month Pro plan worth $120!.

2459

Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Xara Xtreme 5 Giveaway

« Last post by Curt on March 16, 2012, 11:44 AM »

I just noticed this:

Note you can also upgrade to Xara Designer Pro 7 for only $199, a saving 30% from the standard retail price of $299.

-Xara

(-after registering this giveaway version.)

A better link:
http://giveaway.down...er/xara_xtreme/27260

2460

Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Xara Xtreme 5 Giveaway

« Last post by Curt on March 16, 2012, 08:48 AM »

I have keys for 16 (older) products from Magix and Xara (Xara Designer Pro 6 being my newest) - yet I don't have any of them installed. My beef with this twin company is that even though their programs really are fine, they speak in a language that I quite often don't understand. In order to use these programs to their max, you will have to watch / read a lot of instructions, AND then even use your imagination to maybe translate back from English to the original German and back into your kind of English (??)! Yes, I often got the feeling that the translator didn't know the subject and just used some generalizing phrases "in that area".

If you take the offer and later find your inbox pested with spam, go find the proper way to unsubscribe - it works.

Another beef is of course that they never informed me that I already had the program I was buying, but with a different name (Magix Xtreme Web Designer was part of Xara Designer Pro)! But I guess they were too busy laughing all the way to the bank.

2461

General Software Discussion / Re: How to become Admin' for real?

« Last post by Curt on March 15, 2012, 04:41 PM »

-most interesting.

---------------------

rest deleted. I am tired and going to bed now.

2462

General Software Discussion / Re: How to become Admin' for real?

« Last post by Curt on March 15, 2012, 01:06 PM »

-thanks, Innuendo  

BTW: I haven't touched UAC; it is still on the second-highest level.

How on earth do you have a disk sized almost 2TB? I mean, is it inside a normal (full) tower?
Mine are both 500GB, and I was told there was no room for more.

2463

Finished Programs / Re: DONE: delete certain filetypes from fav folder

« Last post by Curt on March 15, 2012, 11:56 AM »

post deleted.

temp' error.

2464

Finished Programs / Re: DONE: delete certain filetypes from fav folder

« Last post by Curt on March 15, 2012, 11:26 AM »

-I used a command prompt without noted administrator privileges.

----------------

Taking ownership of the folders in question, did not change anything.

2465

Finished Programs / Re: DONE: delete certain filetypes from fav folder

« Last post by Curt on March 15, 2012, 03:13 AM »

-yeah, more and more people are encouraging me to do just that. But my UAC is set at the next-highest level, (default), so if it was preventing this batch file from running, I really would expect UAC to pop up a box and ask or tell something, not to work 'hidden'.
 

2466

Finished Programs / Re: DONE: delete certain filetypes from fav folder

« Last post by Curt on March 14, 2012, 06:38 PM »

At first I was willing to bet it sees me as Curt The User instead of Curt The Administrator, but then I tried the Right-click > Run as admin' - so all my imagination can think of now is that maybe there is a difference between how a batch file must "be" for 32-bit versus 64-bit. ?

2467

Finished Programs / Re: DONE: delete certain filetypes from fav folder

« Last post by Curt on March 14, 2012, 06:25 PM »

-then the job is done at once :-)

?

2468

Finished Programs / Re: DONE: delete certain filetypes from fav folder

« Last post by Curt on March 14, 2012, 05:22 PM »

del /S /F "C:\Users\Curt\Documents\PLAY\*.wma"
del /S /F "C:\Users\Curt\Documents\PLAY\*.m3u"
del /S /F "C:\Users\Curt\Documents\PLAY\*.tunebite"

I have tried both with and without "quotes". The path was copied from right-click > Copy path. I have also tried from both "Library/Docs..." and from ".../Users/Curt/Docs....", and from within "/Docs.../PLAY". Some of the folders to be handled have names with spaces, others without. And as I said, I have tried merely double-clicking, and right-clicking > Run as admin'. The text file is named skwire.bat

Need more info?  


-------
Thank you, rjbulll. Can it delete files older than just a few minutes? Or can it delete per file extension type only? The process is: I download MWA music files, I convert them to MP3, I delete the downloaded files (wma and m3u), and obviously keep the converted ones, except the '.tunebite' that the converter created. The files to be deleted are placed in various subfolders, and seldom older than a few hours.

2469

Finished Programs / Re: DONE: delete certain filetypes from fav folder

« Last post by Curt on March 14, 2012, 02:01 PM »

This was working so fine with my previous 32-bit Vista, but I cannot get it to work on my new 64-bit W7 - not even if I right-click it > Run as Adm'. Must anything be different?

2470

General Software Discussion / Re: How to become Admin' for real?

« Last post by Curt on March 14, 2012, 04:06 AM »

-I don't think is has to do with UAC; that will only warn or ask. But:

Home-Groups are enabled by default and you will find that leaving it will work in your benefit.

-Shades (March 12, 2012, 06:09 PM)

-this seem to have done the trick. Thank you, all, esp. Shades!

2471

General Software Discussion / Re: How to become Admin' for real?

« Last post by Curt on March 14, 2012, 03:53 AM »

Sorry, I have of course been terrible bad, explaining myself.  

I have no problem with UAC; I have a severe problem with some shortcuts opening a guest / none-admin version of my Internet browser or Explorer. I am the administrator and only user, there are no guests - so everything  I do must be recognized as being done by the admin; nothing must tell me that I don't have the right to save a picture in C:/filename.jpg

2472

General Software Discussion / Re: How to become Admin' for real?

« Last post by Curt on March 13, 2012, 10:02 PM »

Windows 7 Firewall Control?
It is not clear to me if that shocking high price is for a major version's number only, or...? Please tell! 

-Curt (March 13, 2012, 05:34 PM)

It was just a matter of scrolling even further down on their homepage:

    Upgrade 1.x/2.x/3.x to 4.x Discount
    Get 30% discount coupon for the upgrade now

-Windows 7 Firewall Control

Right now you can test version 5 BETA for free:

Free licenses for testing version 5 Beta:

Plus version: VFCR05000000TEST07CF72E75F54
Network/Cloud version: VFCS05000000TESTD43DD26B055F
XP Plus: XFCR05000000TEST2B91889D03E0

Free commercial licenses for making the product better
(by finding initial, significant, accepted, reproducible problems/bugs of the product).
Free 32-bit
Free 64-bit
Plus 32/64-bit (2in1)
Network/Cloud Edition 32/64-bit (2in1)
XP Plus Edition
XP Free Edition

I think the program makes it too easy to create bad settings.

2473

Living Room / Re: Cute jokes' thread

« Last post by Curt on March 13, 2012, 05:57 PM »

it is funny because it is true   

2474

General Software Discussion / Re: How to become Admin' for real?

« Last post by Curt on March 13, 2012, 05:34 PM »

sorry that i haven't had time to follow up on the answers.

I AM the administrator of my PC. Guest account is not activated. The problem may be HOW various programs are installed, and/or where their shortcut is situated ("Curt-user" vs "All users"). It now #seems# to me that in general it is mostly a question of not double-clicking installation files, but right-click > Run as admin'. But I am not yet certain of this. Please teach me! On my previous computers I would always just double-click the installer, and never had this new problem.

------------------
Does any of you use the $30 (plus VAT) Windows 7 Firewall Control?
It is not clear to me if that shocking high price is for a major version's number only, or...? Please tell!  

------------------
Info service: 129 Windows 7 Shortcuts from http://www.7tutorial...-windows-7-shortcuts :

129 Windows 7 Shortcuts.zip (89.92 kB - downloaded 227 times.)

-7tutorials

2475

General Software Discussion / How to become Admin' for real?

« Last post by Curt on March 12, 2012, 09:49 AM »

I remember this from when I first started using Vista, but back then I installed a certain application and, voila! I was the boss of my own computer. Now I am in a similar situation again. This time on Windows 7. "You do not have the right to save this picture at this location. Will you like to save it to the Pictures folder instead?". Such a question can make me go ballistic; is this my computer or does it belong to someone else?!!

Please help me to become boss of my own computer!  

also:
1) Must I LEAVE the (none-existent) home-group? It gives me all kind of warnings when I start trying to leave ("no print!", etcetera), so I don't dare! I never started a home-group, so how did it evolve? I don't understand the home-group layout; has the very concept of a private, single user been cancelled?
2) How can shortcuts apparently be situated in "Public", when there is no such location?


Maybe there is a program that will automate the "become the single user Admin' of your Win 7 PC" process?