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Found Deals and Discounts / Binary Fortress summer sale - Clipboard Fusion, Display Fusion, FileSeek, etc.

« Last post by rjbull on June 26, 2018, 04:04 PM »

Binary Fortress software on summer sale: offer ends Thursday, 5th July.



Personal licenses around half price, even better deals if you buy more than one product.  Good deals on site and enterprise licenses too.

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Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?

« Last post by rjbull on June 18, 2018, 05:35 PM »

ironic that Project Gutenberg gets blocked in Germany...

-tomos (June 18, 2018, 03:53 PM)

Indeed - especially the whole of it, not just the books the plaintiff wanted removed.  Sounds a bit petulant.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: ACDSee Photo Software on offer until 23d May

« Last post by rjbull on June 18, 2018, 05:29 PM »

Wait, what was I using then? Illegal software? 

-Tuxman (June 17, 2018, 05:20 PM)

Not necessarily...  I quoted Wikipedia, which is not definitive: and it's possible that your memory for fact is better than your memory for time.  This used to happen to me at work a lot.  Someone would ask, do you remember so-and-so, about six months ago?  I'd check and find it was two years ago, or they might (less often) say two years whereas it was only six months.  IOW, you might correctly remember that you used a free version, but maybe it wasn't in the 90s.

I looked at the OldVersion page for ACDSee but their data isn't complete, a lot of dates missing, and they don't list license details anyway.  A (very brief) web search for "last free version" didn't turn up an immediately obvious result.  Odd, given that it's quite well known.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: ACDSee Photo Software on offer until 23d May

« Last post by rjbull on June 17, 2018, 04:17 PM »

@tomos,

Do you have any preliminary comments?  I wondered if you use RAW files, and if so, how ACDSee compares with your previous system.  As well as its tagging/organisation system; not everybody likes the Lightroom approach.  Plenty of other Digital Asset Management (DAM) sofware exists, e.g. Photo Mechanic and FotoStation, but they tend to be expensive, aimed at pros.


@Tuxman,

quoting ACDSee - Wikipedia^w:

Free version

In August 2012, ACD Systems released ACDSee Free, which retains all viewing features for the most common image formats (BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, TGA, TIFF, WBMP, PCX, PIC, WMF, EMF); it lacks a thumbnail browser, and support for RAW and ICO formats. A reviewer at BetaNews found it "fast, configurable and easy to use". The version runs on Windows XP or newer. Product was discontinued in August 2013.

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General Software Discussion / Re: making a single .jpg from a web-page that is over one screen long

« Last post by rjbull on June 17, 2018, 03:50 PM »

PicPic (free-for-personal-use) will also do scrolling capture.  A few years ago, I tried it and mouser's SSC side by side on a complicated web page.  SSC was more 'fuss' in that it wanted to do a dummy run first, but when I let it do that, there was no question that it gave a rather better result.  However, it still wasn't perfect because the web page was just too complex.

Is the OP irremediably determined to use JPGs?  I wondered if other options had been considered, e.g.:

• Save web page to disk complete - can end up with a multitude of files/directories, though
• Save as a .MHT / MHTML^w file, so the whole web page is in a single file
• Print to a PDF
• in extremis, print to a text file

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Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?

« Last post by rjbull on June 03, 2018, 04:43 PM »

Another YA SF (well, fantasy in an SF wrapper, perhaps); the concluding volume of the trilogy - Railhead, Black Light Express, and now Station Zero. More great entertainment. Raises questions about the wisdom of committing too much to benevolent AIs, and at what point sentient machines are equivalent to humans, doing so in a lighter and more enjoyable manner than some 'adult' SF.
Philip Reeve's web site (out of date)

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Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?

« Last post by rjbull on June 03, 2018, 04:04 PM »

If anyone remembers mentions of Jonathan Stroud's Bartimaeus series and Heroes of the Valley, much earlier in this thread, and wondered what he's been doing since, this is it:

A quintet of YA horror-with-a-touch-of-humour novels, plus a shorter ebook (I've not read that last).  Great entertainment.  Here's the blurb for the first in the series, taken directly from Jonathan's Stroud's web site:

The Screaming Staircase

When the dead come back to haunt the living, Lockwood & Co. step in . . .

For more than fifty years, the country has been affected by a horrifying epidemic of ghosts. A number of Psychic Investigations Agencies have sprung up to destroy the dangerous apparitions.

Lucy Carlyle, a talented young agent, arrives in London hoping for a notable career. Instead she finds herself joining the smallest, most ramshackle agency in the city, run by the charismatic Anthony Lockwood. When one of their cases goes horribly wrong, Lockwood & Co. have one last chance of redemption. Unfortunately this involves spending the night in one of the most haunted houses in England, and trying to escape alive.

Set in a city stalked by spectres, The Screaming Staircase is the first in a chilling new series full of suspense, humour and truly terrifying ghosts. Your nights will never be the same again.

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Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?

« Last post by rjbull on June 03, 2018, 03:53 PM »

[...] I read Tim Powers' The Drawing of the Dark, which I read a few months ago. This brilliant fantasy [...]

-Dormouse (June 02, 2018, 02:56 PM)

I hope you are also aware of Tim Powers' The Anubis Gates^w.  I only read it once, long ago, but it seemed to me a fantasy masterpiece.

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Found Deals and Discounts / ACDSee Photo Software on offer until 23d May

« Last post by rjbull on May 20, 2018, 02:54 PM »

ACDSee Systems photo software semi-annual sale, "Save up to 43% on our top products," until 23d May at noon PT.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Mailwasher Pro 40% off this week

« Last post by rjbull on May 03, 2018, 04:35 PM »

There really is no good alternative to this program that I've found anyway.

-Midnight Rambler (April 28, 2018, 11:18 AM)

I used Mailwasher years ago (on Win98...) but didn't much like the then-current version.  Bayesian began to seem another term for "false positive," and back then it expected you to empty your mailbox every time you ran your email client, so every time Mailwasher ran, it started from the beginning again.  I went back to Magic Mail Monitor (freeware).  It isn't Bayesian, development is glacial if it currently exists, and MMM isn't perfect; it's often been very slow on Yahoo! UK accounts since they changed their system a while back.  But it's OK - once you've written enough filters, of course, which is tedious to start with.  Another approach I sometimes use is to write filters into the small freeware email client nPOPuk.  It takes a few more keystrokes; you have to wait until it finishes looking at the mailbox, press F5 to apply filters, then say Yes to actioning them.  Development is also moribund, but the program does work, and is more reliable on Yahoo! UK than MMM is.

Apparently Verizon or whoever now owns Yahoo! are giving themselves the right to read my emails, with the usual take-it-or-leave-it deal.  It's not beyond possibility that I may change away from Yahoo!.

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General Software Discussion / Re: finding an old password program ...

« Last post by rjbull on May 03, 2018, 04:14 PM »

[...]
HashPass

-rjbull (May 02, 2018, 04:08 PM)

The last two have the same link.  Was that intentional or was one missed?

-wraith808 (May 02, 2018, 06:12 PM)

It was a slip-up     Corrected above and in the earlier post.  Thanks for checking.

There appear to be numerous programs/services called "HashPass;" I haven't researched the relationships between them, if any.  As I said, quite a few are available for mobile devices, so if the OP finds his missing program and can find a mobile one that uses the same hash, he would have a convenient "backup."

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General Software Discussion / Re: PSA: New RightNote upgrade

« Last post by rjbull on May 03, 2018, 04:01 PM »

I really, really wish installers were made to check for this, before running.

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Living Room / Re: Photography and Camera Related News

« Last post by rjbull on May 02, 2018, 04:13 PM »

I look at DP Review too, and notice they sometimes quote PetaPixel, as if the latter tend to get news first.  But there's a limit to how many sites you can monitor...

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General Software Discussion / Re: finding an old password program ...

« Last post by rjbull on May 02, 2018, 04:08 PM »

A DuckDuckGo search for "windows program generate password text" turned up quite a few password-oriented hash programs and web sites, some with Android (or iStuff) apps as well.  E.g.:

• PWGen
• hashapass
• HashPass (not sure if this is the same one as mentioned above)
   

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Double error

« Last post by rjbull on April 09, 2018, 03:58 PM »

BTW, when replying using either Quick-Reply or Quote, neither appears to offer a means of attaching an image (or other file). I had to use Reply, which doesn't include quotes.  Is that by design?

-rjbull (April 09, 2018, 03:15 PM)

You can use Quote first, then click Preview to further edit your reply and add attachments as desired.

-Ath (April 09, 2018, 03:28 PM)

Thanks!  Though I'd rather it were a one-step process, like (I think) it used to be.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Double error

« Last post by rjbull on April 09, 2018, 03:15 PM »

Neither worked...  I clicked OK to the errors, then loaded CHS main window.  When I tried either, I got this:

Same thing happened even when I went File > Exit, and I had to force-kill the program.  I then tried re-unzipping the archive over the top of the existing installation (it's installed as portable); no change.  However, I eventually 'solved' the problem by clearing out the database subdirectory completely and re-starting CHS, so it would start from scratch, then restoring from the most recent backup.  It now appears OK.  I lost the last few clips, but nothing vital, and CHS is now back in business here.

I (now) have the following backup options:

As I have Backup on Program Start checked, isn't Backup All Data Every X Days somewhat redundant?

BTW, when replying using either Quick-Reply or Quote, neither appears to offer a means of attaching an image (or other file). I had to use Reply, which doesn't include quotes.  Is that by design?

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Double error

« Last post by rjbull on April 08, 2018, 06:34 PM »

I just had a BSOD when CHS's main window was open.  On rebooting and trying to restart CHS, I got this error:

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Error..
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Error EX4 for db file C:\NoInst\ClipboardHelpAndSpell\Database/ClipboardHelpAndSpell : DBISAM Engine Error # 8961 Header information corrupt in the table 'ClipTable'
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OK   
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Clicked OK, then got this:

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Clipboard Help+Spell
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DBISAM Engine Error # 8961 Header information corrupt in the table 'ClipTable'
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OK   
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CHS is set as Trusted in the firewall (ZoneAlarm Free).  Is there any way back from this corruption, please?

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: Snap DB

« Last post by rjbull on April 08, 2018, 04:55 PM »

And thanks for the bit about treeline... I hadn't heard of that.

-wraith808 (April 08, 2018, 03:57 PM)

I dabbled with a very old version, years ago, and suggested it here because it seems to have the fields that @c-sanchez wanted (see the screenshots).  It's a strange beast, hard to uninstall without using something like Revo, but it's multi-platform and now apparently portable.

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Release: WHAT (Windows Hotkey Activator Tool)

« Last post by rjbull on April 08, 2018, 04:49 PM »

WHAT was featured in the UK magazine Computeractive.  Screenshot of relevant portion of PDF scan attached here - there doesn't seem to be a way to attach a file in a PM, email or via the forum using Quote?

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Living Room / Re: Looking for smartphone

« Last post by rjbull on April 08, 2018, 03:46 PM »

kalos

-kalos (March 28, 2018, 12:48 PM)

As for its screen, sound quality, signal, robustness? I think that would matter most for me.

-kalos (March 28, 2018, 10:14 AM)

it's easy enough to find reviews of almost any phone on youtube or wherever

-tomos (March 28, 2018, 12:30 PM)

I know, but it may be hard to distinguish the trusted ones from ads. But I will have a good read.

-kalos (March 28, 2018, 12:48 PM)

For technology available in the UK, you could do worse than visit Expert Reviews - The latest technology reviewed by experts.  This web site is owned by Dennis Publishing, who also own the UK magazines Computer Shopper, Computeractive, PC Pro, and Web User.  The web site appears to offer all the reviews that were published in the paper magazines.  You have to wade through lots of adverts, but there's no other cost.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: Snap DB

« Last post by rjbull on April 08, 2018, 03:35 PM »

I think is better if is possible make a database for accounts, password, phones, and so with just one db file.

Indeed I've send a message to MemPad developer requesting for this (make some option to save notes in tables)
Like this: https://s6.postimg.o...horizontal_list2.png

-c-sanchez (April 06, 2018, 12:53 AM)

I'm not sure if it is exactly what you want, but the closest-appearing thing I know of is TreeLine:

Some would call TreeLine an Outliner, others would call it a PIM. Basically, it just stores almost any kind of information. A tree structure makes it easy to keep things organized. And each node in the tree can contain several fields, forming a mini-database. The output format for each node can be defined, and the output can be shown on the screen, printed, or exported to html.

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General Software Discussion / Re: I need a simple, POP-Up reminder and send to email also, programe ( Windows 7 )

« Last post by rjbull on February 28, 2018, 04:13 PM »

Ehm, the Kirby Software site is alive and kicking, and they officially support sending e-mail. Have you tried getting support there?

-Ath (February 23, 2018, 12:52 PM)

Hi, Yes ,I have emailed them, I just thought id try here also, as awaiting reply from 'Kirby' 

Kirby Alarm is a great program - I still it use it on (sigh) Vista Home Premium.  But Kirby Alarm is somewhere around the same age.  Its last update was April 13, 2008.  Well, if it ain't broke don't fix it!

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Links to Reviews and Comments - Add yours!

« Last post by rjbull on February 28, 2018, 04:01 PM »

Whatever the merits of the foregoing, it's crystallised something about this blog for me.  Whoever writes it is very prolific, and tends to offer uncritical announcements.  Getting a heads-up on something I didn't know about has value, but I'd rather have deeper analysis, and especially discussion of the relative merits of different programs that do more or less the same thing.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Links to Reviews and Comments - Add yours!

« Last post by rjbull on February 26, 2018, 05:36 PM »

Short and imperfect ("free" rather than "donationware") comments on the TrishTech blog, concluding:

Screenshot Captor is a complete screen capture tool with multi-monitor support. It can capture the screen or part of it using a number of methods. You can also use it to annotate and edit he captures screenshots easily.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Anyone know a file searcher than can search for X near Y?

« Last post by rjbull on July 31, 2017, 04:53 PM »

FileLocator Pro (payware version of Agent Ransack) has a NEAR operator that works within a certain number of characters.