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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Snailware: Newer Software for Older Slower PC's

« Last post by rjbull on July 06, 2007, 04:58 AM »

App103,

Your current snailware list is Internet- and security-related, which is fine as far as it goes and is pretty much the basis for nearly every other operation, anyway.  But do I presume correctly that you mean all kinds of applications?  If so, I'd suggest you look at and link to TinyApps and Horst Schaeffer's Software Pages at the very least.  Both focus on small fast apps that aren't resource-hungry.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR v2.00.121 ALPHA PREVIEW Release - July 1, 2007

« Last post by rjbull on July 06, 2007, 03:40 AM »

I just tried again and the same outcome. The error message (with a large, nasty X on left) states that I need to be logged on as an administrator to install the software.

-cemole (July 06, 2007, 02:34 AM)

I don't have full admin rights on the PC I use at work, but I installed FARR.  Can't remember which version, but I'm using 2.00.122 at the moment.  Of course, your restrictions may have some critical differences from mine.  In my case, I can't install anything in a subdirectory of c:\Program Files\ , I can't write anything into the StartUp directory for it to run on Windows start, I can't write files into the root directory though I can make directories off it (the system would hardly work without...) and I don't think I can edit the Registry.

What I've done is install FARR in C:\JUNK\FARR  , and that works fine.  I think I didn't use the installer, though.  Remember that FARR's installer is actually a self-extracting archive, so you can decompress it with your choice of archive utility and put the results anywhere.  I actually use the one built into my file manager, the outstandingly excellent Total Commander.

Because I can't write in the startup folder I can't set FARR to automatically load on system start.  But I run PowerPro, so I have a PowerPro button that says "Load standard set" (of programs), of which FARR and CHS are two    Alternatively you could use, say, Horst Schaeffer's launcher PopSel from a hotkey and pick you choice off its menu.

@Mouser - I accidentally discovered that it seems possible to load two instances of FARR simultaneously, or at least, end up with two FARR icons in the system tray.  Should it trap that?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Another FARR similar app - Executor

« Last post by rjbull on July 03, 2007, 04:55 AM »

Sorry, Mouser, I didn't page down far enough in the Help file page.  Both PC-Com and Keybreeze are there - of course, they changed their URL too.

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General Software Discussion / Re: RSS Reader?

« Last post by rjbull on July 03, 2007, 04:52 AM »

I've just seen a recommendation for Bloglines, which is an online system.  Has anyone tried it?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Trouble saving aliases

« Last post by rjbull on July 02, 2007, 08:25 AM »

OK, Mouser, thanks.  I suppose I should have noticed the implications of the different subdirectories   

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General Software Discussion / Re: RSS Reader?

« Last post by rjbull on July 02, 2007, 08:23 AM »

Thanks, f0dder...  even the PricelessWare site only mentions Opera and Thunderbird.

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General Software Discussion / Re: RSS Reader?

« Last post by rjbull on July 02, 2007, 08:08 AM »

I don't know anything about RSS, but I see that WebSite-Watcher can do something with it, converting RSS into readable HTML.  Whatever that means   

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR newbie - need help for alias creation

« Last post by rjbull on July 02, 2007, 05:51 AM »

What's the right way/best way to call AHK scripts from FARR, please?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Trouble saving aliases

« Last post by rjbull on July 02, 2007, 05:49 AM »

I installed FARR as a limited user, and things seem to work OK.

But...  the core1.alias file is read-only.  I'd like to change some parts of it, if only to change paths, because as a limited user I can't write into certain directories.  Does that mean I have to edit the XML file?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Another FARR similar app - Executor

« Last post by rjbull on July 02, 2007, 04:08 AM »

PC-Com, which is mentioned in FARR's help file, has been re-named Keybreeze.  Free for personal use, $14.95 (I think) for commercial use.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR v2 Tricks and Tips Clinic

« Last post by rjbull on June 29, 2007, 05:53 AM »

selecting the create a new alias file option makes FARR dies with an access violation error. v. 2.00.116 here.

-urlwolf (June 29, 2007, 05:26 AM)

Same here with v.2.00.108 on Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]:

---------------------------
Find and Run Robot
---------------------------
Access violation at address 00571080 in module 'FindAndRunRobot.exe'. Read of address 40508902.
---------------------------

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Some feature requests

« Last post by rjbull on June 29, 2007, 04:09 AM »

System-wide hotkeys to move up and down the Quick Paste pop-up Menu, or whichever CHS folder is currently selected, and put them ready for the next Ctrl-V.  Briefly show excerpt as tooltip at cursor location each time these hotkeys are used (like ClipCache)

-rjbull (June 25, 2007, 03:36 AM)

Also mentioned in Ditto thread >here<

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General Software Discussion / Re: Ditto: yet another free clipboard manager

« Last post by rjbull on June 29, 2007, 03:59 AM »

i found an interesting idea: Stack Copy

-jgpaiva (June 28, 2007, 06:36 AM)

ClipCache 1.41 offers a similar feature.  You assign two hotkeys, their suggestion being Ctrl-Alt-[ and Ctrl-Alt-' because they're more or less above each other on the keyboard.  Pressing them steps you up or down through the quick-paste list (not sure if it extends to older items), placing that clip ready to paste.  Helpfully, each time you press one of those hotkeys, you get a tooltip showing the clip's title briefly appear at the cursor location, so you can see when you got to the one you wanted.

I requested similar functionality for CHS >here<.

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General Software Discussion / Re: hibernate, damit! or a nice tool called wizmo...

« Last post by rjbull on June 28, 2007, 10:30 AM »

thanks rj, I think I'll wait for version 2 [FARR] to come out & see do I understand any of it

-tomos (June 28, 2007, 08:07 AM)

tomos,

As the 1950s photographer J. Allen Cash once said, you don't have to understand technicalities, just how to use them   

FARR2 works a treat, and it's easy to use.  Ask Mouser for a link   

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General Software Discussion / Re: hibernate, damit! or a nice tool called wizmo...

« Last post by rjbull on June 28, 2007, 03:54 AM »

I wonder could you use something like that in conjunction with Autohotkey -
in order to make keyboard shortcuts for some of it's various commands - or would there be an easier way ?

-tomos (June 28, 2007, 12:50 AM)

Here's a DC thread that mentions NirCmd in FARR aliases:
https://www.donation...ndex.php?topic=955.0

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR v2.00.100 ALPHA PREVIEW Release - June 07, 2007

« Last post by rjbull on June 27, 2007, 03:42 AM »

Not a  bug, but a cosmetic oddity.  When I use the built in alias  "search"  for a phrase in quotes, thus:

search "steph swainston"

what I see in the FARR "command line" is small solid black squares for the double quotes, while in the list beneath it, double quotes appear normally.  Does the font used on the "command line" not contain double quotes?  Or is this a regional issue?

(BTW: Steph Swainston is an author of New Weird novels)

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR v2.00.100 ALPHA PREVIEW Release - June 07, 2007

« Last post by rjbull on June 25, 2007, 08:10 AM »

*** BUG REPORT

Using FARR v.2.00.108:

(Very) minor bug in the read-only non-modifiable alias "search": the token for the third entry, AllTheWeb, reads "$$!" when it should read "$$1"

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Activity logger (with screenshots)

« Last post by rjbull on June 25, 2007, 05:58 AM »

CopyMessageBox by Thyante Software doesn't do all you want, but may go some way:

You may want to take a screenshot of an application you are working with every n seconds for documentation or bug reporting purposes. There is a feature in CopyMessageBox that allows to do this.

P.S.  It's free.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Some feature requests

« Last post by rjbull on June 25, 2007, 05:47 AM »

assign meaningful names

you should be able to do this already.

-mouser (June 25, 2007, 04:05 AM)

Sorry, found it now.  I was expecting to Right-Click or press F2 from the top-right pane of the main window (Title / Favorites / Excerpts list).

the others all seem very doable.

<erm> including the PhD?   

when you say pop up faster, do you mean the main menu, or the quick paste menu (which always seems to pop up quite fast for me)?, or both?

The Quick Paste Menu.  Actually, now I've moved to a new and faster computer, that's not so much an irritation, but it's still a little slower than ArsClip, say.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Some feature requests

« Last post by rjbull on June 25, 2007, 03:36 AM »

My CHS requests

• Mouser to finish his PhD
• CHS to pop up faster
• As I asked before, save URLs along with clips (like Clipmagic)
• Hotkeys on menus (most are missing)
• Rename clip titles.  At present they're the name of the program that was active when the clip was made.  I'd rather be able to assign meaningful names
• System-wide hotkeys to move up and down the Quick Paste pop-up Menu, or whichever CHS folder is currently selected, and put them ready for the next Ctrl-V.  Briefly show excerpt as tooltip at cursor location each time these hotkeys are used (like ClipCache)
• Mouser to finish his PhD...

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR v2.00.100 ALPHA PREVIEW Release - June 07, 2007

« Last post by rjbull on June 25, 2007, 03:23 AM »

If there is only one result, it's always first, therefore underlined option seems to be redundant.

-dizoriented (June 22, 2007, 09:01 AM)

I think it means that if you don't tick that box, you'd have to press "1" to launch, even though it's a single item.  If you do tick it, you can just press Enter   

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General Software Discussion / Re: More about e-mail web based and other

« Last post by rjbull on June 20, 2007, 04:50 AM »

[...]I'm using the old-style Yahoo.  I think I avoided the beta because I didn't have enough screen resolution for it at the time, and I've never bothered to try it again.  Besides, I think it uses ActiveX, and isn't that a security risk?

-rjbull (June 16, 2007, 03:49 PM)

It works on Firefox as well as IE so presumably it uses JavaScript and not ActiveX which would exclusively require IE.

-Carol Haynes (June 19, 2007, 07:27 AM)

[Edit]  I should have noted that I'm using Yahoo! UK addresses, not Yahoo.com  [/Edit]

I think something may have changed.  I have a hazy memory that when I first tried the beta, it said you needed ActiveX.  I just swapped back and forth again, and it doesn't say that now.  However, I noticed something else: "You now have unlimited storage," which sounds good.

I also use colour coding with emails based on Address Guard addresses (which means SPAM stands out)

What's Address Guard, please?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Is an Organized Efficient Start Menu the Holy Grail of Daily Computing?

« Last post by rjbull on June 20, 2007, 04:44 AM »

I am handicapped when it comes to the popular FARR: I have a visual oriented memory and cannot remember many program names. At least not when I want to use the program in mind! But I remember the exact location of the shortcut, and the look of the folder's icon!

-Curt (June 18, 2007, 05:16 PM)

Curt,

You might like Horst Schaeffer's Qsel



You have to set it up, but that's not difficult, and it gives you a very visual display.

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General Software Discussion / Re: More about e-mail web based and other

« Last post by rjbull on June 18, 2007, 08:43 AM »

Well... I still have 50 GMail invites (that work, though I didn't think you needed them anymore?!) - if you want to see what the fuss is about, just PM me!

-Darwin (June 17, 2007, 07:58 PM)

Somebody else already did, but thanks anyway!    I use it so little I'll have to set a reminder to go  and look at it on the Web to keep it alive...

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General Software Discussion / Re: More about e-mail web based and other

« Last post by rjbull on June 17, 2007, 04:04 PM »

I started using Yahoo as my main addy for everything software related (as in buying and contacting support) in about 1998 so have the most experience with it. GMail I *had* to have when it was invite only and I got an address a couple of years ago, but I've never really used it so it could be argued that my preference for Yahoo stems from familiarity more than anything... Anyway, try the beta (it's easy to switch back); I think you'll be impressed.

-Darwin (June 16, 2007, 08:32 PM)

Same here...  and you can set up a Yahoo address yourself without needing an invitation, so I had it earlier than Gmail.  I started using one Yahoo address as a standard webmail address, and another specifically for Yahoo Groups.

I think I've tried Yahoo beta and immediately reverted to Yahoo original twice now...