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Not sure whether you are saying you have tried this: If the Cloud storage is something like (say) Google Drive or Box or Wuala, then you could download their software to make a local copy of the drive, which would then sync/update the files as they changed (at either end).
Does the Cloud storage provider you are using not offer something similar? I gather the syncing with these local drive copies is able to be paused as well, if speed/bandwidth or priority were an issue.
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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by IainB on December 28, 2014, 10:33 AM »
US manufactured clothing label from about 2004:

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Clipboard Help+Spell / How to edit a saved image in CHS, using Screenshot Captor?
« Last post by IainB on December 28, 2014, 10:10 AM »
If I've just saved an image in CHS and now want to edit it, then what is the correct/quickest way to do this using Screenshot Captor?
After editing it, I want to be able to paste the edited image from the CHS Quick Paste pop-up menu.
Sorry if this is documented somewhere in the settings or a Help file, but I've been unable to find it, if it is. I wondered if I needed to write some kind of macro in AHK to trigger SC to open the image file in CHS' database.
Thanks in advance.
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General Software Discussion / Re: And IT Man of the Year 2014 Is...
« Last post by IainB on December 27, 2014, 03:02 AM »
I'm not sure I quite follow what you're getting at here. But I'll keep trying. :)
I read through it three times when he first posted it & once just now after reading your reply and I still can't get a sense of what point he is trying to make.
Considering I have yet to get the point of any of his posts, you're not alone.
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Yes, absolutely. I actually replied to what seemed (to me) to be a rather confusing post by @peter.s, on the topic of the Yahoo InfoSelect forum. It was apparently a response to my earlier comment - which was a sort of "necro thread arise" comment.
Though I could extract some sense from that particular post of @peter.s', I can't make much sense of the OP in this thread.
There are several other members in the DCF whose posts will sometimes ask for help, discussion or idea contribution, or something, yet, when I try to engage, I get the distinct impression from the response to such engagement that I'd have been better advised to utilise my time on something more productive, so I rarely - if ever - engage in discussion with them again. That is, I generally tend to disengage and avoid them in future. Sometimes they may even hound me via my PM Inbox to (say) push their paradigm down my throat, as it were, so I quietly block them without reply. It's not that I don't want to help or contribute to (say) an interesting discussion in some way (I nearly always do), it's just that in some circumstances I can't see that I am able to achieve anything worthwhile or useful in further engagement.
Life's too short and there's so much new stuff to do/experience/understand.

I don't want to ad hom @peter.s, or anyone else, by this. We are all different. For example, including different ways of thinking, differing educational levels, and not all here have English as a mother tongue, so expression of meaning and communication, and arriving at a mutual understanding - through the medium of the forum discussions - is likely be a bit of a challenge at times.
Mind you, some people (not me, you understand) might say that, given that this is an IT-coder forum, @peter.s could be an acronym for a really smart experimental artificial intelligence proggy that is being developed, but I couldn't possibly comment.
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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"
« Last post by IainB on December 23, 2014, 03:16 AM »
Sorry. That was my Scrapbook copy. I have corrected the URL now.
Trying to do too many things at once here.
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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"
« Last post by IainB on December 23, 2014, 12:39 AM »
20 Gifs That Teach You Science Concepts Better Than Your Teacher Probably Can - StumbleUpon

I'd not seen all these collected together in one place before.
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General Software Discussion / News about InfoSelect.
« Last post by IainB on December 21, 2014, 08:47 PM »
@peter.s: Well, if I had started this thread I would have changed its subject title to "News about InfoSelect", sorry. No intention to mislead. Fixed that now, for my comments, at least.
From what you write, I'm not sure but it seems that you may have missed the bits in those comments about IS10 being apparently unfinished/incomplete and yet still being sold as a finished product.
Having been involved in software development myself (at all levels) and over many years, I am accustomed to honest developers, and I assure you that in my experience they are the norm, in the main. Sure, they might be fallible (like all of us), and (say) make mistakes or even be incompetent, but they are usually pretty honest, notwithstanding.
I would presume Jim D Lewis to be in the same bucket - and the earlier versions (before IS10) turned out to be pretty well-designed pieces of software - to his credit.
You arguably made some valid skeptical points in your comments about the ubiquitous "Cloud". I too am skeptical. If the important thing is to be able to get the database into the Cloud, then in IS' case that can be done simply by linking the client database to a Cloud drive/directory, on the local client, so all your updates are being constantly synced to the Cloud whilst you are online and logged in to whichever Cloud service you are using as the sync target. At least, that's the way I would do it, as my requirements are to have the primary database available offline, and synced to a secondary copy in the Cloud whilst online (for backup and/or for use by other client devices on the Internet).

By the way, I wouldn't refer to myself as being infatuated with IS. I am a fan and power user of PIMs and a keen CRIMPer:
CRIMP defined
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
May 10, 2006 at 01:05 PM
 
CRIMP stands for a make-believe malady called compulsive-reactive information management purchasing. Symptoms include:
   • never being satisfied with your current system of information management
   • continuously being on the look-out for something newer and better
   • purchasing every new PIM program you learn about
   • and secretly hoping you won’t find the perfect PIM, because then you’d have to stop looking for a better one

So, when someone speaks of succumbing to his or her CRIMP, it means acknowledging that they’ve purchased another PIM program even though they really don’t think they need it.
There must be a 12-step program for over-coming CRIMP, but who really wants to? It’s too much fun.
Steve Z.
From <http://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/17/0/crimp-defined>

For example, only this morning, I compulsively downloaded two PIMs for trial:
  • Elephant: a $FREE PIM from http://elephant.mine.nu/ (a relatively new product in Beta).
  • GS Notes: a $FREE PIM from The Golden Section Labs http://www.tgslabs.com/ (and their other software at that URL, all of which used to carry a hefty price-tag).
____________________
(Hat-tip to discussions on http://www.outlinersoftware.com )
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...I have to disagree with their refusal to comply on the grounds that it already leaked. This becomes a means of defeating freedom of information requests. ...
Yes, that was the ironic thing about it.
2509
With the uneasy feel of having a burglar tell me how to take care of my house keys, I got this letter from one Derek Slater of Google:
SOPA is back,
In 2012, millions of Americans rose up to help defeat the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). The public sent a clear message to Congress: don't censor the web.

Now movie industry lobbyists at the MPAA are trying to resurrect web censorship via a back door. As revealed in the press, they've organized a campaign to achieve SOPA by other means, and are still more than eager to break the way the Internet works to achieve their agenda.

The MPAA was worried this strategy would "invigorate and galvanize ... the SOPA debates." Let's prove them right!

Together we defeated online censorship once—let's do it again. Share this graphic and tell the MPAA to kill the #ZombieSOPA.
Help defeat web censorship once and for all.

The MPAA needs to know that all of us who truly care about the Internet won't just stand aside and let them ruin what we love.

Thanks for stepping up,

Derek Slater
Google Inc.

P.S. Here's what we had to say today. 

© 2014 Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA

You are receiving this email because you asked to receive updates on Internet legislation and initiatives from Google. To opt out of future communications, please click here.

Regarding that matesy "Thanks for stepping up" bit, one gets the feeling that the correct response might be "Yeah, right" and to keep one's hands firmly in one's pockets.
2510
N.A.N.Y. 2015 / Re: NANY 2015 Pre-release: Active Text Notes
« Last post by IainB on December 20, 2014, 04:35 PM »
^^ Ah! Thanks for that. It was the installer that gave that error message.
I opened the .exe installer file with 7-zip and extracted the proggy files and folders, and now have Samurize running on my laptop under Win8.1-64 PRO. Still testing the bits, but it seems to work just fine so far. What a pleasant surprise!

Also belatedly discovered this post on samurize.com: (indicating that Vista and 64-bit were not constraints)
Windows Vista blocks Samurize autoload
 Windows Vista blocks Samurize autoload   
[ Troubleshooting ]
Requested and Answered by AdamC on 26-Apr-2007 03:47 (3681 reads)
Unfortunately the Samurize exe's would need to be signed to get around this problem correctly. Due to samurize being freeware this option is not viable because of the cost to get certificates.

There is however a work around that should stop vista blocking Samurize.

Use Group Policy to start Samurize
1) start gpedit.msc
2) go User Configuration -> Windows Settings -> Scripts -> Logon
3) Add client.exe with full path
(Example C:\Program Files (x86)\Samurize\Client.exe in x64 system)
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LaunchBar Commander / Re: LBC changes ClockRes
« Last post by IainB on December 20, 2014, 04:26 PM »
Wow that's interesting.. Never heard of it this phenomena.. I'll look into it a little.
Thanks. That is interesting. I would like to know what you discover about it.
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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Folder Node does not like spaces in filenames
« Last post by IainB on December 20, 2014, 04:22 PM »
Ok so without trying to reproduce yet, i am noticing that those are both HTML files.. i wonder.. could you see if the behavior is also present on non .html files?
Good point. I have noticed that other software and file-handlers sometimes dislike .html files with embedded spaces in the filename. I had presumed this was in line with some obscure Microsoft or other filenaming standard that I was unaware of.
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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Abbyy screenshot reader
« Last post by IainB on December 20, 2014, 04:16 PM »
I may try OneNote as an additional method.  It says Windows 7 and 8. Also free (is that new?).
there's a couple of threads here about that which are worth reading if you're thinking of using the free version
https://www.donation...;search=onenote+free

I wouldn't recommend it as it seems to be purely web-based offer. If the user wants to get the captures into a locally-available OneNote Notebook, then I think he would need to install OneNote on the client.
I'd suggest looking at MS Office 2013 US$9.95 Corporate/Enterprise Home Use Program - Mini-Review
Not $FREE but an amazing deal if you can avail yourself of it.
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Living Room / Re: Et tu, Sourceforge?
« Last post by IainB on December 20, 2014, 04:11 PM »
^^ +1: I had pretty similar disgusted thoughts only the other day when I was downloading/installing something from SourceForge. Luckily for me, MBAM seems to detect these "PUPs" before them being installed, and then quarantines them.
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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Abbyy screenshot reader
« Last post by IainB on December 20, 2014, 04:05 PM »
...Either way .. note that Abbyy has a one license, one puter, possible enforcement. ...
The previous FREE ABBY Screenshot Reader "RETAIL" (Christmas giveaway) also installed a licence server Service (you cannot seem to run the ABBY software without having that service running). One more overhead.
Presumably this is probably still the case with the latest Christmas giveaway.
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General Software Discussion / News about InfoSelect.
« Last post by IainB on December 20, 2014, 02:52 PM »
As a long-time user of the superb PIM software IS (I have stayed with IS8 after trialling later versions), I am just updating this thread with some potentially interesting info from some recent new posts by users on the Yahoo InfoSelect User Group discussion forum.
By the way, the versions since IS8 were IS9 (called IS2007) and IS10.

The background, as discussed in this DC thread and elsewhere, is that the Yahoo IS  forum was taken over by the IS developer Jim D Lewis (President/CEO of Micro Logic and eMachineShop), and he proceeded to gather feedback and release what was at the time the new rewrite of IS - IS10 - for Beta testing. In the forum, I and several others posted our feedback and comments.
Things turned sour with the users and their requirements apparently being disregarded, and the forum became rather negative in content and several IS users were driven to abandoning IS and seeking an alternative (e.g., including EverNote and AllMyNotes, amongst others).
Jim D Lewis apparently remains as the sole Owner/Moderator of the forum, but seems to now make little or no comment or response to questions posed in the forum, and the Miclog support desk has apparently become equally uninformative/unresponsive. From time to time, forum members still help each other out over technical problems in running the different versions of IS that they use.

In the posts below: (my emphasis)
  • The first is about the latest version IS10 and asks whether there will be an IS11 version. The post is made by a user seeking information, but is in itself quite informative.
  • The second post is an informative reply from another user, giving some experience about potential alternatives to IS.
  • The third is a reply to the second, also informative about the risks of becoming an "orphaned" user.

For any interested IS users in the DC forum, I thought I'd post these here as I had wondered what the status of IS10 was/is, and this looks like it could be a useful indicator: (It's not too hopeful. IS10 seems to have been a relatively expensive and unfinished or poorly-finished product, not meeting users' needs, and now possibly abandoned/unsupported by the developer.)
Info Select Users
        Restricted Group,
        953 members
Topic: Will IS ever upgrade again
    Member: eckstein.nick
    Dec 18 4:01 PM

Dear All,
Ages since I've been here or posted a message.
I have a question - it's one I've written several times to MicLog about, but they refuse to answer it specifically. It's simple: will Info Select ever be upgraded again?
I first asked over two years ago without satisfaction. I asked again this week.

Here's what happened. The first reply was this:
"Thanks for your message. Unfortunately, I can't indicate when Info Select version 11 will be available. Please stay in touch with our website for Info Select news and updates."

I then wrote the following:
"Thank you for the reply. It's almost exactly the same as the one that I received when I wrote last time. But what you say does imply that Micro Logic is working on an upgrade, and that version 11 is in the pipeline: is that correct? It would be good if you could confirm that."

The response to my second e-mail was no response at all. I don't understand why MicLog refuses even to confirm that they are (a) working on an upgrade; (b) not working on an upgrade.
If it's the latter, then there's nothing to lose by saying so. If it's the former that would be good news as far as I'm concerned.
I purchased the upgrade to Version 10 but a brief initial encounter with it was enough to drive me back to Version 9, which I've been using ever since, and still use every day.
Nothing I try matches it: Evernote, despite what its fans say, does NOT match IS's search capacity, and the feature that I call "I put it here". Tagging is an essential feature, which IS hasn't to this point mastered. But tagging is not a replacement for the ability to use a flexible hierarchy. These two features keep me wedded to IS.
But what IS has never addressed is the Cloud and all the features that, as in OneNote, allow one seamlessly to store and search things that aren't straight text, including audio.

I don't have to tell anyone in this forum about any of this. My reason for mentioning it relates to the upgrade question. It's one I've written a number of times to MicLog about, again without ever receiving anything approaching a satisfactory response.
It goes like this: if Info Select upgraded to do the things that Evernote and OneNote do, WHILE RETAINING THE FEATURES AND STRUCTURE THAT MAKE IS UNIQUE, then it would again be the killer application it was years ago...light years ahead of these competitors.

All I would like to know - and I suspect that I'm not the only one - is whether MicLog has any interest in doing this. If not, fine. If the company IS interested, and were to say something like: "we are working on this...it's taken longer than we had anticipated. It may even be another couple of years before we get there, but we're doing it and it will happen", I'd be happy. And I'd wait for that release. Because even in its clunky, old-fashioned state, IS still wipes the floor with the opposition on searching and storing basic data.

But going on past form, I suspect that MicLog will ignore this e-mail as well.
With respect, and an implicity smiley emoticon, I just don't get it.

Cheers,
Nick.
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9 more messages
    Member: G
    Dec 19 10:19 PM

Nick
I communicated to the Owner of AllMyNotes  (AMN), a nice guy.
I also tried out AMN as a replacement for  IS9.  I found that when I started loading up AMN with about 20 mB of data
(I have about 4 to 5GB of notes in IS9)   AMN  started to get noticeably slower.
I stopped at that point
Agree with IS10 Calender - Although IS9 Calender isn't the greatest - it is useable. IS10 Calender is less  usable than IS9
Too much fiddling with controls to get the Calender to a useful setup.
IS10 has some long needed feature upgrades like the  High Low Medium Priority flags ( exclamation marks in Colour , next to a note).   The fiddly-ness of the new ribbon kills its friendliness and speed.   So many extra button clicks just to do something.  

George
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On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 5:11 PM, eckstein.nick@... [InfoSelect] <[email protected]> wrote:

    Thanks! One reason I didn't go with AllMyNotes was the quality of the website...
    And, obviously, I'm worried about being 'orphaned' by MicLog: AllMyNotes looks a great place for that to happen all over again.

    N
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N.A.N.Y. 2015 / Re: NANY 2015 Pre-release: Active Text Notes
« Last post by IainB on December 20, 2014, 07:12 AM »
...Out of curiosity, what was it that didn't work for you post-XP? I'm running Samurize under Win7, 64-bit, and I didn't run into any problems. But I've only ever used it for one tiny feature, so maybe that's why...
Well, it just doesn't seem to work and I can't see a way to work around it. Maybe you have a different version?

Samurize - installation error.jpg
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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Abbyy screenshot reader
« Last post by IainB on December 20, 2014, 05:19 AM »
They had Abbyy Screenshot Reader as a Christmas giveaway a while back, and it was very good value ($FREE).
I already  had a newer version of it as part of the bundled software that came with my EPSON Perfection V330 Photo Scanner in 2011.
I recall that Abbyy disabled (couldn't support) the thing at some point because it was not compatible with Win7 or something. Didn't bother me anyway, as I was already using OneNote by that stage, which has OCR integrated and a much better OCR clipping function in Send to OneNote.

Refer, for example:
free ABBYY Screenshot Reader
ABBYY Screenshot Reader free Christmas promotion.

Though the Abbyy Screenshot Reader was great, I never could really see the need for the business card reader - it seemed a bit archaic, to  me, business cards being kinda passé. However, I guess it could help to get rid of all those accumulated business cards we used to have, if they were not already thrown away, that is.
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N.A.N.Y. 2015 / Re: NANY 2015 Pre-release: Active Text Notes
« Last post by IainB on December 19, 2014, 12:33 PM »
@anandcoral:
Thanks! Nice. I tried this out. It didn't seem able to pass on the text filepath/name to the editor, though it did display that text file's contents correctly.
This is almost exactly the sort of thing I have been looking for ever since I had to abandon Samurize (it didn't work after Windows XP).
One of the features of Samurize enabled the user to display a text file (I have ToDo.txt) as an object on the Desktop wallpaper, complete with transparency, colour and objects as borders, etc. You couldn't edit the object directly, but by hovering anywhere over it (the text object) with the mouse, the user could click to edit the actual text file with the specified .txt file editor, or simply invoke the editor to open the text file using AHK hotkeys. Any changes made to the text file updated the object after you closed the file.
Example of Samurize, below:

Samurize Desktop b - 2011-11-17  083604 Screenshot.png


The closest I had got to it since then was with a Stickies transparent note on the desktop wallpaper as a directly editable object. If the note is "ghosted", then the object is uneditable, and you have to enter Stickies to edit the text of that note. Either way, I would prefer a simple text file, as with Samurize (above).
Example of Stickies, below:

Stickies Screenshot - 2014-12-20 071235.png

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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"
« Last post by IainB on December 19, 2014, 06:28 AM »
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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by IainB on December 19, 2014, 06:26 AM »
Miss World bikinis feminism (650x517).jpg

Miss World bikinis no more  - feminism (650x466).jpg
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General Software Discussion / Re: Farewell, Dr. Dobbs
« Last post by IainB on December 17, 2014, 04:06 PM »
I had never heard of this periodical before now.

If anyone is curious this is the last article I wrote for publication.  It appeared in the August 1994 issue of C/C++ Users Journal.
Thanks, interesting article by Michael Kelly. Oddly enough, I was thinking earlier this week that I felt sure that - from a user's perspective - multithreading seemed to work better under OS2 than it seems to work under Win8.1, but I have no factual performance basis for comparison to verify that. Maybe there's just a whole lot more (load) in the Win8.1 OS. Would be interesting to know whether and how far we have improved. I recollect a friend of mine saying that IBM mainframes seemed to have to grow proportionately so as to be able to run the increasingly bloated OSes...

...In an era of technology where the desire to be considered "cool" has almost entirely replaced the desire to be considered "elegant," it's understandable. ...
Well, yes, and underlying that it was the coding that could be considered "elegant" (or not) - if that's what you meant - and elegant coding usually proved to be efficient too. However, I suspect that, on examination, a lot of modern-day coding could probably be seen to be elegant/efficient, if only because of its often having to make best use of what might be potentially limited resources - e.g., (say) on different devices' CPUs.
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Living Room / Re: Windows 7 and 8 shortcuts
« Last post by IainB on December 16, 2014, 10:53 AM »
Thanks @techidave - a useful set of Windows 7 and 8 links. Could save a bit of trouble if added to FARR, as @tomos suggests.
2524
Living Room / Re: 38 mi/62 km long 5.9 GHz link that supported ~ 1 mbps on HamWAN
« Last post by IainB on December 15, 2014, 08:25 PM »
Mmm...Digital short wave...mmm...drool.
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Maybe the Admins should give these occasional terse one-time "I'm pissed off with/don't understand the process, or something" account deletions a Class name?
For example (say), "GW" for "Global Warming", or something of similar ambiguity?

We could then assume there was always no need to make the effort of responding to GWs, since there would arguably be no point in responding.

Or has @mouser cunningly and deliberately engineered the process to be a little tricky so that it acts as a kind of automatic acceptance test (filter) into the forum membership?    :tellme:
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