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Best Dialog Extender / Re: Enhanced File Dialog

« Last post by rjbull on October 08, 2007, 03:48 AM »

If you want an enlarged dialog box and favorite folders then you can do both using Powerpro. This is mine:

-edbro (October 07, 2007, 01:56 PM)

edbro,

I knew you can have favourite folders because I have a version of them, but how do you use PowerPro to enlarge dialog boxes?

TIA...

-rjbull (October 07, 2007, 05:17 PM)

Configure > GUI control / Enlarge file open/save dialogs

-tomos (October 08, 2007, 02:23 AM)

Thanks, tomos, I should have looked...   

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Best Dialog Extender / Re: Enhanced File Dialog

« Last post by rjbull on October 07, 2007, 05:17 PM »

If you want an enlarged dialog box and favorite folders then you can do both using Powerpro. This is mine:

-edbro (October 07, 2007, 01:56 PM)

edbro,

I knew you can have favourite folders because I have a version of them, but how do you use PowerPro to enlarge dialog boxes?

TIA...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Autoreplace in clipboard

« Last post by rjbull on October 07, 2007, 05:09 PM »

This sounds like something mouser's Clipboard Help+Spell is designed to do, though. But I don't think it (currently) has this feature

-TucknDar (October 07, 2007, 04:43 PM)

Not running CHS on this computer, so can't check - but CHS allows you to add your own filters, so you could use something like a SED script or one of the command-line search and replace tools.  This won't be completely seamless, as the OP seems to want.  You'd have to pop up CHS's main window and choose the filter, but, that method allows you as many search and replace pairs as you want.

If you want seamless, take a look at Clippy - you need the beta - one of its operations is given as

Name: Search and replace
Description: Replaces all occurrences of a string with another string.
Number in ini file: 28
Parameters: search string, replace string

Don't know if that's only one string or whether you can define multiple strings.

Boxer Software's TextMonkey is in similar vein, but more powerful; it comes in both payware and cut-down freeware versions.  Search and replace is a built-in function.  It allows up to four search-and-replace pairs.

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DcUpdater / Proxy

« Last post by rjbull on October 05, 2007, 05:22 AM »

Disclaimer - not sure what I'm talking about here   

I just tried running DC Updater for the first time, and it kept failing.  Although there could be other reasons - like operator failure    I suspect this is because it's behind a proxy.  I tried setting the proxy in the configuration, but no joy.  The proxy is of the form

http://nn.nnn.nn.nnn:8086/proxy.pac

note the file at the end.

Please can DCUpdater allow this kind of proxy setting?  Or, perhaps better, crib an idea from Martin Aignesberger's WebSite-Watcher and other programs, to have an option where DCUpdater interrogates IE for what proxy it's using, and uses that?

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General Software Discussion / Re: How do you launch stuff?

« Last post by rjbull on October 03, 2007, 06:11 AM »

I prefer Executor. It works like launchy/FARR/Slickrun.

-[deXter] (October 02, 2007, 09:14 PM)

The configuration set-up screenshots make it look complicated.  How do you compare it to FARR and SlickRun?  SlickRun, at least, looks comparatively simple on the surface.

Also, I see Executor has "limited functionality" on Win9x which I still use at home   

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for an E-Mail Client which can be run on an USB Stick

« Last post by rjbull on October 03, 2007, 06:03 AM »

(Better explain to Carol, BATPOWER_UK was FidoNet echomail.  [...]  None of it was anything to do with "The Bat".)

-npopuk (October 02, 2007, 11:50 AM)

Oops, I overlooked possible confusion there   

The defaults leave it on the server and only downloads the first 100 lines of each message, but you can change everything. 

Thanks - sounds good!

There's no database (messagebase to the FidoNetters amongst us!).  Messages for each account are saved in a file as plain text (if you want to!).

Just like Fidonet *.MSG   

Makes it beautifully easy to interrogate old mail, even if you give up the program.

I should think desktop search engines like Copernic can easily index simple files like that.  I see that Archivarius can index Squish message bases, but oddly that's the only native Fidonet format it mentions.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for an E-Mail Client which can be run on an USB Stick

« Last post by rjbull on October 03, 2007, 05:49 AM »

I thought all POP clients had a 'leave a copy on the server' option - you usually set it up in the account set up section.

Surely the Bat has that option too?

-Carol Haynes (October 02, 2007, 05:31 AM)

Wasn't very clear  what I was asking, was nPOPuk's default to leave everything on the server but not to save anything to local drive unless specifically requested.  With TB! you automatically save everything to your local HD.   It has endless options for leaving/selectively deleting from the server, depending on your requirements.

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General Software Discussion / Re: How do you launch stuff?

« Last post by rjbull on October 03, 2007, 05:39 AM »

You could use the Locate32 Plug-in for farr -- no more waiting since everything is indexed, if you wish.

-Armando (October 02, 2007, 11:51 PM)

At some point you have to update Locate32's index, though.  You can do it on demand, but I run it twice a day via the scheduler, a tip originally from BrotherS I think.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for an E-Mail Client which can be run on an USB Stick

« Last post by rjbull on October 02, 2007, 05:07 AM »

As mentioned here already, nPOPuk is included in the Floppy Office package, (It's replaced nPOP) but it may take them a few more days before their package is updated.

Greg Chapman
http://www.npopsupport.org.uk
Supporting nPOPuk - the Portable E-Mail Client.

-npopuk (October 02, 2007, 02:52 AM)

Ah haaa... the former moderator of BATPOWER_UK puts in an appearance...   

Greg,

Is nPop one of the ones that leaves the mail on the server, and you have to deliberately specify particular messages to be saved to disk, as opposed to something like TheBat! which saves everything in a database?  The no-save keep-it-on-the-server idea is sensible for a portable application, of course.

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What's the Best? / Re: Master Category List for the "What's the Best" section... please help finali

« Last post by rjbull on October 01, 2007, 05:46 AM »

Right now I'm looking for "the best" freeform database to keep track of disparate pieces of information. Microsoft OneNote has this idea, but almost any Microsoft solution these days requires more of a commitment to using the program than it is worth. I'm looking for something small and possibly portable and easily searchable.

-pmcg (September 28, 2007, 05:38 PM)

pcmg,

Take a look at DonationCoder's longest thread,    
General brainstorming for Note-taking software!   

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for an E-Mail Client which can be run on an USB Stick

« Last post by rjbull on October 01, 2007, 05:34 AM »

If you really want to go portable, don't use an email client at all. Use a webmail client. Most ISPs today have one or more installed. And you can always use your a Gmail or Yahoo mail client to get to your "regular" email.

-tinjaw (September 30, 2007, 07:01 PM)

Mail2Web is another useful option for picking up your POP3 mail over the Web; it's been briefly mentioned in another DC thread

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for an E-Mail Client which can be run on an USB Stick

« Last post by rjbull on October 01, 2007, 05:30 AM »

Floppy office is a collection of small portable utilities perfect for a USB stick, and the whole collection is actually small enough to fit on a single floppy. There are at least 15 applications in it:

MemPad (mempad.zip) - keeps little tree sytle notes with a handy index.
(handy rudimentary outliner)

-app103 (September 30, 2007, 05:50 PM)

It's worth keeping an eye on the author's Web site, as MemPad is in constant development.  Many convenient new features have been added recently.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Shareware that don't have freeware replacements

« Last post by rjbull on September 30, 2007, 11:38 AM »

to manage any kind of datafiles nothing works like http://www.guysoftware.com/parserat.HTML ParseRAT
I haven't found anything that comes close to it:
take a file (any file fixed length, csv,txt,HTML,dbf) use parserat and turn it into any file (csv,txt,dbf,etc...)
split fields combine fields parse names , address, city state , female? male? it will tell you.

-normeus (September 29, 2007, 11:54 PM)

Don't kow how close they get but for a free alternative, try Bruce Guthrie's Utilities

by the way the best program I use on all my computers is http://powerpro.webeddie.com/ PowerPro!!!

PowerPro   

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General Software Discussion / Re: Shareware that don't have freeware replacements

« Last post by rjbull on September 28, 2007, 03:45 AM »

How about in your case?

1. ClickBook - http://www.bluesquir.../products/clickbook/

-NewKreation (September 27, 2007, 02:52 PM)

I haven't tried this...  but if all you want is to print booklets, you may find that functionality already built into your printer.  We have Ricoh multifunction network printers at work, and they have duplex and several kinds of booklets already set up.  You just have to click "Properties" and pick the one you want.

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General Software Discussion / Re: How do you launch stuff?

« Last post by rjbull on September 28, 2007, 03:41 AM »

For someone who loves to fiddle with configuring things though, the payback is well worth it. I think I read at the site that the author was stopping further development of it.

http://powerpro.webeddie.com/

-pmcg (September 27, 2007, 02:17 PM)

Yes, that's what he has said but, he is still very active in their forums and I've seen quite a few updates since he "quit".

-edbro (September 27, 2007, 03:29 PM)

PowerPro has a boatload of third-party plugins, too.

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General Software Discussion / Re: RESOLVED Help please - 16 bit program woes under XP Pro Sp-2

« Last post by rjbull on September 27, 2007, 04:30 AM »

Do you have a link for Blueberry Flashback Recorder?

-rjbull (September 26, 2007, 09:31 AM)

Maybe... who's asking? Oh alright - here it is... BB Flashback website. It was featured in the Screencasting tool review here on Donationcoder and is also subject to a donationcoder discount (50%). I intitally bought the lite version but upgraded that (still discounted) to the full version a couple of days later.

-Darwin (September 26, 2007, 03:13 PM)

Thanks, Darwin.  I tried Googling Blueberry Flashback Recorder and didn't get any useful hits, so had to ask.  At those prices, I'm not surprised I didn't remember it from earlier DC posts! 

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General Software Discussion / Re: SharpKeys: Nice Donationware Key Mapper

« Last post by rjbull on September 27, 2007, 04:24 AM »

Don't overlook OkayKeeBees by Jackass JoeJoe.  Doesn't solve everything, but I don't think it messes with the Registry either (could be wrong here).

-rjbull (September 26, 2007, 09:22 AM)

The page says it uses a global hook and not the registry... this is okay for testing purposes (and interesting if you're stuck with NT4 - I might be having a good look at this app), but for permanent remapping on >= win2k, I'd certainly use the built-in remapping functionality through registry key instead.

-f0dder (September 26, 2007, 09:37 AM)

I don't disagree, but I'm terrified of the Registry, and in any case I can't edit the Registry of the computer I use at work - the one I use most - because of corporate security policy.  OkayKeeBees helped out quite a bit until I discovered the real cause of the problem.

I'm in the UK.  And the computer was set to a U.S. keyboard....    

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General Software Discussion / Re: How do you launch stuff?

« Last post by rjbull on September 27, 2007, 04:18 AM »

I mostly use PowerPro because it's the only one I know. FARR sounds like its worth a look since so many of you use it. PowerPro is cool because it is so configurable and yet easy to use.

-pmcg (September 26, 2007, 09:49 PM)

PowerPro has a FARR-style "Run Box Tiny" built into it as shipped, and there's a more powerful version in a script called Advanced Run Box, ARB.  I've briefly tried the latter - and it looks like a whole lot more work than FARR...

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General Software Discussion / Re: RESOLVED Help please - 16 bit program woes under XP Pro Sp-2

« Last post by rjbull on September 26, 2007, 09:31 AM »

Blueberry Flashback Recorder in order to be able to read the error message it flashes by in a millisecond:

-Darwin (September 22, 2007, 04:25 PM)

Darwin,

Do you have a link for Blueberry Flashback Recorder?

TIA...

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General Software Discussion / Re: SharpKeys: Nice Donationware Key Mapper

« Last post by rjbull on September 26, 2007, 09:22 AM »

Don't overlook OkayKeeBees by Jackass JoeJoe.  Doesn't solve everything, but I don't think it messes with the Registry either (could be wrong here).

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Locate32 Plugin for FARR by Okke

« Last post by rjbull on September 26, 2007, 09:18 AM »

@cettolox:

Mmh, it's very strange. If locate.exe by itself (at a commandprompt for instance) doesn't work it looks like a problem
with locate, not with the plugin. The plugin depends on the output of locate.exe. As far as I can tell locate.exe uses
the same databases as the graphical client by default. So you should get output at the commandprompt at least.

Maybe someone else has some tips regarding this?

-Okke (September 26, 2007, 08:10 AM)

Maybe this, from the Locate32 Web site, is relevant?

A "daily" update 3.0.7.8190 is realeased containing couple of fixes. Update is available here. Edit 19.9.2007: locate.exe in this package does not work. You can take locate.exe from the package of the version 3.0.7.7010 and use it.

Janne has released a newer version now, Locate32 3.0.7.9220.  That's what I'm using and it seems to work.

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General Software Discussion / Re: How do you launch stuff?

« Last post by rjbull on September 26, 2007, 04:00 AM »

Martin Aignesberger - author of WebSite Watcher, Local Website Archive, AIM-Notebook, AM-Deadlink, and very generous friend of DonationCoder - has just released Portable Start Menu, a freeware launcher for USB sticks:

Portable Start Menu is a simple and free start menu application that can be installed on USB sticks or local PCs.

Organize your programs in a simple menu system and launch them via a tray icon. If you close Portable Start Menu on an USB-Stick, running applications can be closed automatically, too.

Main features:

    * Organize and launch applications via a tray menu
    * Closes running applications on USB-Sticks automatically
    * Checks if an application has been changed before execution
    * Runs on USB-Sticks without leaving any traces on a host PC
    * Portable Start Menu is Freeware

Additional functions on USB sticks:

    * Create an autorun file to automatically launch Portable Start Menu
    * Close running applications when you exit Portable Start Menu

How to install Portable Start Menu on an USB stick:
Simply run the installer and enter the drive letter with setup directoy of your USB stick (for example K:\PSMenu).

   Portable Start Menu 1.0  -   25-Sep-2007  -   1 MB

System: Win9x/Me/NT4/2000/2003/XP/Vista
License: Freeware

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General Software Discussion / Re: Open/Save Dialog Utilities - response to Nudone's Blog from May

« Last post by rjbull on September 26, 2007, 03:52 AM »

I use some of the dialog box extender features ("Favorite folders lists for file open/save dialogs") in PowerPro, which I run anyway, so may as well gain extra beneifits.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for an E-Mail Client which can be run on an USB Stick

« Last post by rjbull on September 25, 2007, 04:36 AM »

Pimmy from the last page of the portable apps page PhilB66 posted above.  See also Geminisoft Pimmy review by Allen, a man who knows a thing or two about e-mail clients.

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What's the Best? / Re: Newsreader programs

« Last post by rjbull on September 24, 2007, 08:22 AM »

But as they say, it is not a true off line capability, but it works for my needs.

-iphigenie (September 21, 2007, 05:32 AM)

Thanks, iphigenie, that makes sense - some POP3 clients work that way too (e.g Popcorn)