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General Software Discussion / Re: [Looking For] Free (or very cheap) Video Editing Software
« Last post by mwb1100 on November 19, 2018, 03:05 PM »
Lightworks has a free edition:

    http://www.lwks.com/compareversions
   
The installer is the same - features are enabled by the license installed. You need to register an account for the free version.

From the Installation and Activation Guide:

If you do not have a valid license for Lightworks, a renewable seven day license is issued to your system the first time you start Lightworks. You must have an active connection to the internet when you do this, otherwise the license will not be issued and you will be unable to use Lightworks until you do connect online.

When you start Lightworks, you will see a display in the Project Browser which counts down your free seven day trial period. Before the seven day period expires, you must register an account before you can continue using the free version of Lightworks.
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Living Room / Re: Gadget WEEKENDS
« Last post by mwb1100 on November 17, 2018, 08:46 PM »
then sew a running stitch around the edge with a strong beading thread
-app103 (November 17, 2018, 01:23 PM)

That's where you lost me.  Not only is sewing a 'running stitch' something I'd probably do a terrible job at, I don't even know what a "beading thread" is.
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DC Gamer Club / Re: Humble Bundle: Fallout games on sale - incl. Fallout4 + Fallout4 Season Pass.
« Last post by mwb1100 on October 25, 2018, 04:29 PM »
Looks like it was 50% off (at least Fallout 4), but that ended a day or two ago.
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Living Room / Re: I'm getting married, wish me luck!
« Last post by mwb1100 on October 14, 2018, 11:41 PM »
Congratulations! All the best to a beautiful couple!
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Living Room / Re: Backup Power for USB device -- does it exist?
« Last post by mwb1100 on September 28, 2018, 10:19 PM »
Glad it worked - to be honest I wasn't sure if when the computer booted up it would perform some initialization that would reset the USB hub and drop power on the ports for a moment.
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Living Room / Re: Backup Power for USB device -- does it exist?
« Last post by mwb1100 on September 25, 2018, 07:24 PM »
Would a powered hub do the trick?

    - RPi <--> powered hub <--> device
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DC Gamer Club / Re: Free Game on Humble Store (Orwell - Aug 17, 2018)
« Last post by mwb1100 on August 17, 2018, 12:30 PM »
The Humble store has another free Steam code.  This time for a game called "Orwell".

Free for the next 24 hours or so.  The key must be redeemed by Sep 1.

  - https://www.humblebu...dle.com/store/orwell
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Living Room / Re: Do Not Buy a Smartwatch Right Now
« Last post by mwb1100 on August 14, 2018, 12:39 PM »
My watch isn't even smart enough to have a battery, much less a Snapdragon of any sort.  I have to wind it each morning.  All it does is tell me what time it is (+/- a minute or so), and what the date is.  And that's pretty much all I want my watch to do.
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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: ACDSee Photo Software on offer until 23d May
« Last post by mwb1100 on August 07, 2018, 08:15 PM »
bonjour service\mDSNResponder.exe (dont yet know what this does...
-tomos (August 03, 2018, 06:32 AM)

I don't know what ACDSee is using it for, but bonjour is a service discovery protocol that lets programs find services in a peer-to-peer setup on networks.  I'd guess that ACDSee uses it for some sort of media sharing on the local network.  Something like DLNA.
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Post New Requests Here / Re: Script goes well in windows 7 but not in windows 8.1 or 10
« Last post by mwb1100 on August 05, 2018, 07:38 PM »
You might want to post a few words about what the script is supposed to do and what goes wrong.
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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: SyncBackPro 15% off until end of August 2018
« Last post by mwb1100 on August 02, 2018, 04:13 PM »
Syncback touch sounds interesting, but very expensive if you're paying for it
-tomos (August 01, 2018, 05:37 PM)

I haven't tried the Syncback Touch feature for phone backups yet.  Keep in mind that each Syncback Pro or SE license includes 2 "Touch" connection licenses.

The add-on Touch license costs does seem expensive  - $35 for each additional device seems like a lot.
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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: SyncBackPro 15% off until end of August 2018
« Last post by mwb1100 on August 02, 2018, 03:59 PM »
I see it's now (without discount) more expensive than Syncovery
-tomos (August 01, 2018, 05:37 PM)

The prices are similar (Syncback Pro shows as $5 less than Syncovery Professional edition for me - maybe that's different for a quote in something other than USD?), but one thing to keep in mind is that for home use Syncback's single license allows install on 5 machines.  Syncovery's single license allows install on multiple machines, but only for use one at a time and by only a single user.

I haven't used Syncovery.  I have used SyncbackPro for quite a while: the UI can be complex, but I've found that the software's functionality is great.  And once the backup jobs are set up you don't really have to navigate the complex UI.
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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: 70% off sale at https://benchmarks.ul.com/
« Last post by mwb1100 on July 03, 2018, 09:58 AM »
Huh.  I didn't know that Underwriter Labs owned Futuremark.
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Living Room / Re: Movies you've seen lately
« Last post by mwb1100 on June 11, 2018, 02:18 PM »
surprisingly Justin Timberlake
-wraith808 (June 09, 2018, 09:02 PM)

I thought I had seen him in several movies but it looks like just "Alpha Dog", which my recollection is that he did a really fine job there.  I also enjoy his comedic performances whenever he's on Saturday Night Live.  Anyway, while I'm not a fan of his music genre, I'm not surprised he would put in a good performance acting in a movie.
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DC Gamer Club / Re: Latest Steam Giveaway
« Last post by mwb1100 on June 07, 2018, 01:59 AM »
Thanks!  Not sure if I'll ever play them...
-wraith808 (June 06, 2018, 06:21 PM)

But you're sure to get your money's worth!
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DC Gamer Club / Re: Latest GOG Giveaway
« Last post by mwb1100 on June 04, 2018, 07:05 PM »
Xenonauts is currently being given away as part of GOG's summer sale.
-Deozaan (June 04, 2018, 03:38 PM)

They're also hinting strongly that there's more to come:

Get Xenonauts FREE for keeps! Saving the world ain't simple, Xenonauts recaptures the original X-COM: UFO Defense gameplay for all its depth and complexity – a highly recommended play for curious fans of the X-COM reboots and series purists alike.

The Xenonauts giveaway lasts 48 hours until June 6, 1 PM UTC. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook for more updates – we're not saying more giveaways are coming, but we're definitely not saying they aren't.


And they've added a dozen or so games to GOG Connect.
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General Software Discussion / Re: New PDF editor: FlexiPDF from SoftMaker
« Last post by mwb1100 on May 27, 2018, 10:32 AM »
FlexiPDF on offer "until Tuesday". Pro version for €27.95 here, not sure of the $ price
-tomos (May 27, 2018, 04:02 AM)

$27.95.  I had to use this URL: http://softmaker.com/go/flexien

If anyone else has problems seeing the offer, the coupon code is apparently "flexioffer".
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DC Gamer Club / Re: Free Game on Humble Store
« Last post by mwb1100 on May 24, 2018, 05:14 PM »
Hacknet Deluxe is free on Humble for another day and a half (until 26 May 2018 10:00am if my date/time ciphering is correct)

  - https://www.humblebu...store/hacknet-deluxe

You get a DRM free download and a Steam key that has to be redeemed within about 2 weeks.
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Non-Windows Software / Re: Wanted - Free (or cheap) wifi calling app for Android
« Last post by mwb1100 on May 20, 2018, 01:21 PM »
Skype has a US calling option with unlimited minutes for $3 per month.  However, it's not clear to me if this also provides you with a phone number so people can all you (called a "Skype Number") or if that's something you have to pay separately for. 

Disclaimer: I haven't used Skye in years, and Skype gives very little information about these features without having an account.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Compare folders with identical files, but .. different file names
« Last post by mwb1100 on May 20, 2018, 12:04 AM »
There are quite a few duplicate file finder programs out there designed to find files that are the same even though the names and/or time stamps are different.  I'd imagine that most of them would be able to report 'orphans' as well.

Unfortunately, I haven't used any of them in ages so I'm no position to suggest one, but I think googling for "duplicate file finder" would net you something worth trying.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Unstoppable Copier -- freeware that saved my bacon
« Last post by mwb1100 on May 12, 2018, 12:46 AM »
Today I had a hard drive crash.. Not fun.
-mouser (May 09, 2018, 11:54 PM)

Weird coincidence - I had a similar drive crash earlier this week, The disc was largely usable, but apparently some bad areas had grown to the point where important files were becoming unreadable and programs started crashing.

I used robocopy to get a new disk set up that allowed me to get working again, but I didn't get a list of the problem files.  I wish I had known about unstoppable Copier.

One thing I don't understand is that the Windows Event log was mostly useless in figuring out what the problem was.  Nothing at all in the log until the very day that things got so bad I had to immediately replace the drive. Until then, the problem manifested mainly as browser crashes which are normal enough that it didn't occur to me the hard drive was the problem.  When it go to the point that I was sure there was a serious problem, all I saw in the event log were two ATAPI errors after I rebooted. I had rebooted thinking that maybe a reboot might be all that's needed to get the systme stable again, as is so often the case with Windows.

Anyway at least those two errors clued me in a little bit about what the problem was:

    event 11 atapi: The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Ide\IdePort2

But I had little idea which drive was \Device\Ide\IdePort2 - as far as I can tell, that doesn't match anything in Device manager or the properties for any of the drives in device manager.  I finally figured it out by trial and error, but it seems to me *something* should just tell you which disk \Device\Ide\IdePort2 is.

Anyway, if you ever see ATAPI event 11, take it seriously.
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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Mailwasher Pro 40% off this week
« Last post by mwb1100 on May 04, 2018, 12:37 AM »
I use Spamihilator (https://www.spamihilator.com/en/) a freeware spam filter.  It' not actively developed as far as I know (last release was in 2014), but it works and I haven't run into any bugs so the lack of new releases isn't a problem.

It has some sort of training system/tool/mode, but I don't know much about it. It seems to identify spam pretty well out of the box, and all I have to do is whitelist emails and domains that get identified as spam that I actually want to get.
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General Software Discussion / Re: finding an old password program ...
« Last post by mwb1100 on May 02, 2018, 02:07 AM »
There's a chrome browser extension called hashpass: https://github.com/stepchowfun/hashpass

That repository has links to some other implementations (Android, python, etc) in case you were using this or some variation on it.
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Living Room / Re: Show us a photo of your mutt or other creatures..
« Last post by mwb1100 on April 29, 2018, 06:31 PM »
Wow, my precaution was to move my hand nearer to the mute button on my keyboard before I clicked...
-ayryq (April 29, 2018, 05:10 PM)

That's a novel antivirus technique!  ;D
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Living Room / Re: Does anyone here use Bitcoins?
« Last post by mwb1100 on March 03, 2018, 05:58 PM »
Anyone actually understand what's happening there?
-tomos (February 22, 2018, 04:20 AM)

If you have to ask, you can't afford it.
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