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General Software Discussion / Re: GIVEAWAY: Cortex Command License Key
« Last post by edbro on December 21, 2007, 03:53 PM »
beginners luck. Nice first post
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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Ashampoo until Christmas
« Last post by edbro on December 21, 2007, 08:47 AM »
In a couple of hours PhotoCommander 6 will be launched
- download is expected to be ready at 1700 hours CET (GMT+1).

I have purchased a copy...

Edit: added the download link.
No offense but what do you see in this program that freeware doesn't do better? If you want to spend money on a multimedia solution, then get J.Rivers Media Center for $10 less.  Now that is a top notch, powerful and comprehensive program.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Your top 3 favorite portable software
« Last post by edbro on December 20, 2007, 06:09 PM »
- Directory Opus. Absolute #1. I also use it as my program launcher
- Portable Firefox
- Evernote Portable
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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Ashampoo until Christmas
« Last post by edbro on December 19, 2007, 09:54 PM »
I have and love Ashampoo Burning Studio, but I just did a trial of PhotoCommander 5 and hated it. It says it can help organize photos but I didn't see any organization tools in there. It was more like a $50 version of the free Xnview but with less features.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Which app stays open on your desktop all day?
« Last post by edbro on December 15, 2007, 11:07 AM »
Powerpro and Evernote.
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Living Room / Re: How Santa Gets Around To So Many
« Last post by edbro on December 15, 2007, 11:04 AM »
Yeah right! He has a magical sleigh you know. Duh.
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Living Room / Re: 48 Proof Beer: On Sale Soon!
« Last post by edbro on December 08, 2007, 01:30 PM »
Why in the world would you want this? I love beer. I love having a couple of beers at a time. I'd hate to have to quit after 1/3 of a beer.

This seems like a ploy to appear upscale and sell beer for an extremely premium price. I mean, come on, who drinks beer from a brandy snifter?
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General Software Discussion / Re: Directory Opus 9.1 released
« Last post by edbro on December 07, 2007, 08:45 AM »
No problems here. It runs smoothly.
Dopus 9.1
XP Pro SP2
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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Locate 3.0 - great *FAST* HD search tool!
« Last post by edbro on November 30, 2007, 01:11 PM »
Does anybody use Locate alongside any of the content search engines such as GDS? I like the content search but love the speed of Locate. Any problems running both?
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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Microsoft OneNote 2007
« Last post by edbro on November 30, 2007, 11:32 AM »
You can synch the databases (they are simply files) using a simple synchronization program such as super flexible file synchronizer (SFFS)
Well, I have Syncback SE but I would have to be careful that I don't make changes to more than one database before doing a sync. Not sure I want to take that chance.

The beauty of Evernote is that it can do an internal 2 way sync anytime I plug in the usb drive. No user action required.
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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Microsoft OneNote 2007
« Last post by edbro on November 30, 2007, 08:21 AM »
I've been torn between OneNote and Evernote. OneNote has Evernote beat for features and UI but it is not portable. I like to have my data with me at work on my usb stick. With Evernote I can run a desktop version and a portable version and it will keep the 2 databases in sync.

I did try the Thinstalled version of OneNote and it runs well. But, there is no way to sync the desktop and usb databases. (At least no way that I could figure out)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Hey Grisoft: I love AVG but I hate popups!
« Last post by edbro on November 25, 2007, 05:26 PM »
I just got one on my laptop.  :mad: Not very effective as this would in no way make me want to purchase. I'll probably switch to Avast.
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Living Room / Re: Amazon's Kindle eBook Reader
« Last post by edbro on November 24, 2007, 01:05 PM »
Sony also released one recently, Ars Technica have a review of it. The price is the same, what a coincidence :P
Actually, Sony just updated their previous version. They have had one out for quite a while now. I own the previous version and I love it. It is very readable and very portable. I can carry around a library of a couple hundred books with me in the same size as one very thin paperback.

The only drawback to these readers is the pdf support. You can get pdfs formatted correctly for the Sony but it takes some converting. They simply are not readable as is. I don't know if the Kindle supports pdfs or not. I think not.

From what I see, the Kindle is bigger with that unnecessary keyboard. Also, the Kindle's battery life is limited. I can go weeks of lots of reading before I have to charge my Sony.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Going back to XP
« Last post by edbro on November 24, 2007, 01:00 PM »
OR,
make a backup drive image of your vista install before reformatting so you can restore it and go back if you want.
I'm a big fan of images. I have an image of a clean install of Vista that I could go back to if I desire. Whenever I install a new operating system I tweak it and activate it, then I image it. I like to try a lot of new software then usually uninstall it. After several months, I like to reinstall my fresh image of XP. I know that's anal, but that's me.
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General Software Discussion / Re: To cut or not to cut - The lousy MS Office ribbon
« Last post by edbro on November 20, 2007, 11:00 AM »
Now... following this trend, should I retrograde to Office 2000?  The file formats are (mostly) the same and that 12 megabyte(!) memory footprint so very sexy.

No, but it does fall in line with my retrograding trend. I dumped Vista for XP 2 months ago. It was like seeing an old friend again.
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General Software Discussion / Re: To cut or not to cut - The lousy MS Office ribbon
« Last post by edbro on November 20, 2007, 09:43 AM »
I used Office 2007 for about 6 months in conjunction with the free version of RibbonCustomizer. The add in worked great but for the life of me, I couldn't see anything in 2007 that was better than 2003. 2007 was very slow for me and as I said, I needed a 3rd party utility to get the functionality I wanted. I went back to 2003 (except for OneNote) and I couldn't be happier. Very snappy and I prefer the menus to the ribbon.

Here's another beef: Just because I loaded OneNote from my 2007 disk, MS keeps wanting to install updates for Word 2007, Excel 2007, etc. Not to mention the frequent Outlook junk mail updates despite the fact that I never installed Outlook to begin with from either Office version. :mad:
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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: EverNote - Free today at GAOTD
« Last post by edbro on November 15, 2007, 03:50 PM »
RE: activation, the activate.exe file actually "phones home" to GATD and returns information that is written to your registry. This must be done during the 24 hour giveaway period. The information written to your registry unlocks the software/provides the licence key for the software.

I'm not so sure. I have a full version so I haven't tried this giveaway version. But, for the full version I own, there are no reg codes. It is simply a full version executable that is delivered to us. Also, on another website, somebody wrote the following:
This is correct, I unzipped the setup file with a note from GFOTD after unzipping and checking with the GFOTD website it unpacked a new setup file, I copied the new setup file to a flash drive and installed on two other computers, ( no badgering, or demo warnings, checked the about file under help, seemed to be active. )

http://www.fatwallet...=781262&start=31
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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: EverNote - Free today at GAOTD
« Last post by edbro on November 15, 2007, 12:42 PM »
I have been synching between desk and laptop via a USB stick and it doesnt need the USB version to work.
True enough. I was only thinking of my situation where I carry my database around on my USB drive. And CWuestefeld mentioned synching to his USB drive. If you want to keep 2 desktops in sycn then I think that's all you need.
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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: EverNote - Free today at GAOTD
« Last post by edbro on November 15, 2007, 12:13 PM »
I believe that is a placeholder for a future function. They have a site called My Evernote but it hasn't launched yet.
http://my.evernote.com/
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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: EverNote - Free today at GAOTD
« Last post by edbro on November 15, 2007, 11:28 AM »
Evernote, on the other hand, appears to have its own built-in sync feature.
Yes, but in order to sync, you have to also purchase the USB version. Sycn works very well though.
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General Software Discussion / Re: EverNote beta 2.2.0.372 has some nice new features
« Last post by edbro on November 14, 2007, 06:05 PM »
Not sure but I think there was a link on the website about updating templates?
There is. Unfortunately, if you read all the posts in that thread, nobody can get it to work.
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General Software Discussion / Re: EverNote beta 2.2.0.372 has some nice new features
« Last post by edbro on November 14, 2007, 02:01 PM »
I think you're right, carol : as you said, the database can be accessed and edited regardless of EverNote's version : 2.1 or 2.2.
Actually, it turns out this isn't entirely true. With the new version, all the old templates are now broken. I have a lot of data in tables and now I can't access them. You would think that something as simple as table support would be added to the program but we have to rely on templates. Now the templates are broken. As you can probably glean from above, I am not happy at all.
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General Software Discussion / Re: A rant about how I finally ditched iTunes... :D
« Last post by edbro on November 04, 2007, 05:24 PM »
Unfortunately, if you have an iPod, you need iTunes. It is the only thing that can do firmware updates. I use JRiver Media Center to handle all my multimedia needs, including syncing my iPod. But, no 3rd party utility will do the firmware update. I have disabled all the Apple services from startup, I think there were 3 total. And, I did not install the Apple Updater as that was an option on install.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Auto-renew fees just slammed me!
« Last post by edbro on October 28, 2007, 05:59 PM »
Most magazines do that nowadays. You gotta be careful.

One remedy is to sign up with a one-time use credit card number.
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Finished Programs / SubDude, a subtitle renaming program - And a great band!
« Last post by edbro on October 27, 2007, 02:06 PM »
OT alert:
You guys do realize that The Subdudes are about the best band you've never heard of? I love these guys. Saw them in concert 2 weeks ago.

http://www.subdudes.com/
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