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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: IDimager Pro 50% off

« Last post by Lutz_ on April 27, 2012, 12:43 PM »

Idimager is in another league (a higher one) with regards to image organization.  You can create your own scripts for all possible management scenarios and you can download a lot of them from the forum.  That said, the learning curve is immense and the nomenclature used for the various categories of groups, tags, and database structures is not exactly intuitive. In my eyes it is really a tool for professionals (and perhaps micromanaging zealots).

I've tried this one...looks REALLY similar to acdsee pro.  What does it do that makes it unique or special?  I couldn't really tell.

-superboyac (March 19, 2012, 09:10 AM)

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General Software Discussion / Re: yet another file manager thread...

« Last post by Lutz_ on April 10, 2012, 12:03 PM »

Whatever file manager I would be using (currently "xplorer2"), for me the most important file management related tool is not a file manager but Listary - it makes navigating so much faster and easier after remembering two keyboard shortcuts (it works great with xplorer2).

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General Software Discussion / Re: uTorrent alternatives?

« Last post by Lutz_ on April 03, 2012, 01:41 AM »

yeah, Opera for me. Why not?

Try the Opera browser or NetTransport.

-ppass (April 02, 2012, 11:30 PM)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Whats your preferred web browser?

« Last post by Lutz_ on April 01, 2012, 10:57 PM »

Comodo Dragon (like SRWare Iron but with automatic updates) and Opera.  I very much wish however all the TabMix plus options would be supported by those.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: DrawPlusX5 50% on BDJ

« Last post by Lutz_ on March 11, 2012, 11:27 PM »

I do not have X5 (using X4 instead) but just wanted to point out that DrawPlus is indeed a fantastic piece of software for artistic drawings on a PC.  It can render fantastic vector art, that does not look like typical vector art.
Sometimes I finding searching for some small features that I am used from Corel Draw and cannot find an equivalent in DrawPlus.  It is not as feature complete as CorelDraw, but for me a lot faster andit has these cool painting-like tools.

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General Software Discussion / Re: xplorer2 at Bits Du Jour soon....

« Last post by Lutz_ on January 05, 2012, 01:29 PM »

BTW, this sale is still on TODAY.

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Living Room / Re: Is Kindle Fire set to be the Apple/MS slayer tablet?

« Last post by Lutz_ on December 26, 2011, 11:41 PM »

Color? Yes!
Size? No.

http://www.theverge....per-display-on-video

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General Software Discussion / Re: SoftMaker Office 2012 BETA testing

« Last post by Lutz_ on November 20, 2011, 12:05 PM »

I guess this is old news, but the android version looks  quite interesting.

http://softmaker.com/english/blog/?p=194
http://www.softmaker...ish/ofatmcomp_en.htm

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General Software Discussion / Re: any photo editor that will both combine/tile, and keep transparency?

« Last post by Lutz_ on November 15, 2011, 01:32 AM »

Hi Curt,

Photoline is more like photoshop (but can also do some drawing and some desktop publishing).  The 64bit version will certainly handle your filesizes (I have not used the 32 bit version for more than a year or two). I have read here on DC that Xara 5 is available for free at the moment - the Xara people often claim that their product is unbeaten in handling large bitmaps.

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General Software Discussion / Re: any photo editor that will both combine/tile, and keep transparency?

« Last post by Lutz_ on November 14, 2011, 11:40 AM »

Hi Curt,

it seems your looking for a solution that creates your collages automatically?  If so, my suggestions likely won't help.

For laying out your pictures manually: Any image editor capable of using layers should do the trick. Photoline (my favorite) certainly does and the free Gimp, Paint.Net, and RealWorld Paint (introduced on DC) should do too.
Perhaps a bit easier to use are actually drawing applications for this purpose (no need to dig into layers); the free Inkscape and DrawPLus SE should do this very nicely.

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General Software Discussion / Re: EmEditor Core: Paid upgrades for licenses purchased on or after November 1, 2011

« Last post by Lutz_ on October 16, 2011, 01:00 AM »

... just two days ago I discovered the fantastic "batch replace" tool in EMeditor - it saved my a##.  Dedicated one-trick tools for this do cost more than this fully featured editor.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Abelssoft CleverPrint 2010 Professional

« Last post by Lutz_ on October 10, 2011, 10:19 PM »

Thanks Kurt for the tip,

that was a better deal for me than fineprint or priprint. Does everything I need.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Share your mouse and keyboard with multiple Mac or Windows computers

« Last post by Lutz_ on October 01, 2011, 05:09 PM »

This looks great.
Are you thinking of adding Linux systems to the happy-sharing community?

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Living Room / Re: Android tablets to rival iPad

« Last post by Lutz_ on September 30, 2011, 02:00 PM »

I hope that the next "Transfomer" won't be this brownish ugly.      

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: xplorer² 2.0: First beta versions around - Here comes the news.

« Last post by Lutz_ on July 08, 2011, 12:39 AM »

Drag-able panels could indeed be convenient.  You are right about ACB Plus.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: xplorer² 2.0: First beta versions around - Here comes the news.

« Last post by Lutz_ on July 07, 2011, 06:13 PM »

Thanks Tuxman for the insights.
I am using the old xplorer2 and guess I would certainly appreciate improved previews.  I am not so sure about floating windows - to me one big advantage of commander style file managers has always been the structured all-in-one-view and the fact that it mostly avoids flipping through hidden and overlapping windows.  For example I might like the another file manager best for its intuitive features (AC Browser Plus), if it were not for its independently floating and overlapping panes.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: $429 typeface collection for $69.95

« Last post by Lutz_ on June 27, 2011, 06:46 PM »

AFAIK, you get about 3 sets of fonts derived from a standard set; and additional outlined one, one with shadows, etc.....
Typology enthusiasts certainly tend to not appreciate softmaker, the company offering this set.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Linkman 8.1 Update Available

« Last post by Lutz_ on June 25, 2011, 06:11 PM »

Thanks for the notice!

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Quick Comparision of Flickr/ipernity/PicassaWeb

« Last post by Lutz_ on June 04, 2011, 12:09 AM »

Hi,
you might want to try JAlbum which comes in two flavors: as an online picture album ( http://jalbum.net/en/create/photo-album/ )  and a as a free desktop software (Win, Mac, Linux) to create album websites on the server of your choice ( http://jalbum.net/en...is-jalbum?ref=footer ) or on theirs.
The quality and the choice of skins for the albums are spectacular ( http://jalbum.net/en/skins ) and many skins have plenty of customization options including user comments, shopping cart etc.  .
They have easy and straightforward stuff. Some ambitious examples are at:
http://kaya.jalbum.n...Flow/v3/samples.html
http://www.fotoplayer.com/demo.html

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Living Room / Re: The great toilet paper debate

« Last post by Lutz_ on April 30, 2011, 11:54 PM »

Hey guys,
just as a reminder - this part of the forum is called the "Living Room" and not the bathroom.
 

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: (another) Linkman Review

« Last post by Lutz_ on April 05, 2011, 01:41 PM »

Thanks a lot for the fantastic service of continuously updating Linkman.   

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Living Room / Re: Safe use of USB drives? Is there anything like a USB sandbox application?

« Last post by Lutz_ on March 11, 2011, 05:13 PM »

Thanks all for your suggestions!

Rjbull, that sounds indeed simple and safe. 
Which program could be used for such a scheduled transfer?

Lutz

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Living Room / Re: Safe use of USB drives? Is there anything like a USB sandbox application?

« Last post by Lutz_ on March 11, 2011, 03:52 PM »

Hi Stoic Joker,

Yes, principally they are worried about bugs jumping off the USB drives. I guess they would like to be protected against malicious intent nevertheless.  No, not all users can be screened - they receive a training before using the machines, though.  These machines do analytics as a service.  Data do need to get transferred perhaps 10 time a day.
Simply disabling autoruns might be efficient, but taking some degree of paranoia into account, I do not believe this primitive solution would have a chance to be implemented.

Thanks a lot for the suggestions!

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Living Room / Re: Safe use of USB drives? Is there anything like a USB sandbox application?

« Last post by Lutz_ on March 11, 2011, 02:03 PM »

Hi Deozaan,

Thanks for your thoughts.  I guess a potential solution would have to be no more than a small program or anything else easy and small. Otherwise my chances of convincing head of the lab are minimal.  No, "of course"  one cannot access the internet from these machines, no email - for safety reasons.

Lutz

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Living Room / Safe use of USB drives? Is there anything like a USB sandbox application?

« Last post by Lutz_ on March 11, 2011, 01:34 PM »

Hi all,

I am working in lab with several windows machines running very expensive lab equipment. The head of the lab has disabled all usb ports in fear of virus transfers.  Consequently getting data off these machines is a pain in the b#*t, because only few of the personal are allowed to transfer data off via FTP transfers. 
Is there a better option to keep these machines "safe without any doubt" (paranoia has to be considered) and still somehow enable users to transfer their data on a USB stick?  Is there a way to create a "sandbox" on these windows machines and allow people to only transfer data out of this sandbox to their USB drives and disable any other transfers?

Thanks a lot in advance,
Lutz