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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Mini-Review of Fineprint (Virtual Printer)

« Last post by rjbull on June 06, 2007, 04:40 AM »

Fineprint will be on offer at Bits du Jour on Wednesday June 13th 2007 - see their preview

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General Software Discussion / Re: Why is The Bat! e-mail app better than Mozilla Thunderbird (or other e-mail

« Last post by rjbull on June 06, 2007, 04:37 AM »

The problem is, it doesn't make any effort to re-wrap the text if you
edit something. So, you're left with a huge gap after any edited lines or super long lines, because it only wraps when you type the 80th charactor.

-Hirudin (May 29, 2007, 05:56 AM)

In the days of Fidonet, that was known as "shark's teeth formatting"   

I discovered TheBat!'s Alt-L trick early on.  I had to...

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General Software Discussion / DoubleKiller Pro 2.1.0.104 released

« Last post by rjbull on June 06, 2007, 04:25 AM »

A new version of DoubleKiller, the premier tool for finding and deleting duplicate files, has been released:

DoubleKiller Pro 2.1.0.104 has been finished and released today!
The new version brings a couple of new features and a lot of user interface enhancements and improvements in the scanning engine.

Most important changes:

- Supports scanning inside zip archives
- Catalog files: Catalogize CDs/DVDs/folders and scan the catalogues
- Considerably improved performance for scans without content comparison
- Allows scanning for any files instead of duplicates
- Files can be dragged out of the result list to applications or other folders
- Results sortable by file name length
- Can register its file types or create a "scan" entry for directories
- Customizable result list font
- Integrated uninstaller
- Fixed a bug for multiprocessor systems

The update took more time than planned, but the update periods have been extended accordingly, so this update is free for all customers.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Semi-Automated file naming

« Last post by rjbull on June 04, 2007, 08:47 AM »

(in my example "CB-TH-" means "complete book" and "Thesis"; "Amado, Carlos Augusto Agon" is of course the author; 1998 is the date; and "Open Music" is the title.)

-Armando (June 03, 2007, 01:40 PM)

For a sensible scheme for abbreviations, take a look at Jon Knowles' ABCZ typing abbreviation system.  Some text expansion programs have macros for dates etc., which can sometimes be useful, and you could use more than one abbreviation at a time.  AutoHotkey is a good system for this; others include PhraseExpress and Type Pilot.  This could be what you need.  Also, of course, the might PowerPro has snippets, and I'm sure it could be coaxed to do similar.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: AceText - text & clipboard manager (for coders, writers, etc.)

« Last post by rjbull on June 03, 2007, 03:18 PM »

Has anyone compared AceText with CodeSector's MemoClip?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Few Mouse and Keyboard freeware

« Last post by rjbull on May 28, 2007, 02:56 PM »

Qliner hotkeys [...]
When a key combination is pressed hotkeys will first try to find an existing instance of the requested application or document and bring that to the front.

-sri (September 19, 2006, 09:42 PM)

The launcher SlickRun has an addon called ShowOrRun that does the same thing.

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General Software Discussion / Re: A Utility to Tell Me What is Stealing Focus!!

« Last post by rjbull on May 27, 2007, 02:49 PM »

I can't help you directly, but have you tried any of the applications that "nail" or "pin" a particular window on top?  A list of several can be found > here <

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: AceText - text & clipboard manager (for coders, writers, etc.)

« Last post by rjbull on May 27, 2007, 12:01 PM »

ArsClip also has clipboard break detection and repair.  It's a tad trigger-happy - it once gave me the message that "arsclip" had broken the chain     but the program works well.

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What's the Best? / Re: What's the best Journal (Diary) software?

« Last post by rjbull on May 27, 2007, 11:54 AM »

kept going back to Wordpad and an encrypted file. 

-digitalzen (May 25, 2007, 09:00 PM)

Wordpad?  Rather than a good editor?

Now I use a <a href="http://www.moleskine...catalogo/default.htm">Moleskine</a> and Mont Blanc.  Much more satisfying.

Quote from Cult Pens What's New May 2007

Pelikan make some of the world's finest fountain pens. Forget M*nt Bl*nc - if you're looking for peerless build quality and precision engineering you'll find it in our Pelikan Souveran and Toledo ranges. .

 

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: CLCL Clipboard Manager - Keep more than one item and this for longer

« Last post by rjbull on May 27, 2007, 11:40 AM »

I expected to like Clipmagic more than I did.  The automatic assignment to categories is nice, but I found I didn't really use it.  Its popup window is too small (at least, the default one is) and it seems to "steal" the Alt-Down key, which is one I use a lot in Total Commander.

I've been using ArsClip and CHS in tandem recently.  ArsClip's quicker to pop up, CHS has more options.  Fortunately both are no-install.  The next computer I'll be getting at work will apparently be crippled - I won't be able to install anything because "that's policy" - so I hope I can get by with no-install programs instead.

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What's the Best? / Re: What's the best Journal (Diary) software?

« Last post by rjbull on May 20, 2007, 03:52 PM »

There's a free add-on program for Treepad Lite, that makes a file with a node ready-named with the date for each day of a year.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Configuring user tools

« Last post by rjbull on May 16, 2007, 03:52 AM »

I used the macro picker, which adds double quotes itself.  Don't think I need to redouble those?

I'm limited to a COMMAND.COM shell; would that limit path length?

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Configuring user tools

« Last post by rjbull on May 15, 2007, 04:05 AM »

Mouser,

It does make a tmpin.txt.  Maybe I'm getting errors because owing to "security restrictions" I can't access CMD.EXE on this machine, only COMMAND.COM, and there might be a problem about passing LFNs.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: CLCL Clipboard Manager - Keep more than one item and this for longer

« Last post by rjbull on May 14, 2007, 05:58 AM »

my main reason for keeping faith with CLCL is all the templates & plugins

-lanux128 (April 22, 2007, 10:58 PM)

If you run another clipboard enhancer at the same time as CLCL, and just go through all your CLCL templates, sending them one by one to the clipboard, you should end up with them all in the new enhancer, easing the pain of testing and transition.

Plugins are a different matter...

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: CLCL Clipboard Manager - Keep more than one item and this for longer

« Last post by rjbull on May 14, 2007, 05:54 AM »

With "plugins" they mean CLCL plugins.

-AbteriX (May 13, 2007, 03:00 PM)

Thanks!  That makes more sense.

And... there is already an Clipboard plugin for TC ==> http://www.ghisler.c...iewtopic.php?t=12773

Amazing!

i use already Horsts tools, PopSel and MemPad also.

Make sure you look at the new beta (b6) of MemPad; it's a big step forward.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: CLCL Clipboard Manager - Keep more than one item and this for longer

« Last post by rjbull on May 14, 2007, 05:51 AM »

You have to be 1. Registered user since it was called Windows Commander and 2. TC freak to understand.

-dk70 (May 13, 2007, 02:51 PM)

I'm 1.  But evidently not 2.   

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: CLCL Clipboard Manager - Keep more than one item and this for longer

« Last post by rjbull on May 13, 2007, 02:15 PM »

There is an start to translate the documentation of CLCL to English.
If you are curios or want to code an plugin or just wanna help ... point your browser to http://www.ghisler.c...15260&highlight=

-AbteriX (May 11, 2007, 09:05 AM)

Why would they be apparently treating CLCL as a Total Commander plug-in?

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: CLCL Clipboard Manager - Keep more than one item and this for longer

« Last post by rjbull on May 13, 2007, 10:47 AM »

Thanks, Abterix... 

If you'd like a freeware calendar that offers multiple roll-your-own formats for sending date and time to the clipboard, try Horst Schaeffer's Calendar

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: CLCL Clipboard Manager - Keep more than one item and this for longer

« Last post by rjbull on May 12, 2007, 03:29 PM »

Am I right in thinking that what CLCL calls templates, is boiler-plate text?

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General Software Discussion / Re: PIM's

« Last post by rjbull on May 09, 2007, 03:38 AM »

Zaine Ridling's mini-review and subsequent thread on ITSD Organizer

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General Software Discussion / Re: General brainstorming for Note-taking software

« Last post by rjbull on May 08, 2007, 03:52 AM »

Another much requested capability which has been added in this release is the ability to use Surfulater as a Free Knowledge Base Reader. This lets you share your Knowledge Bases with friends and colleagues who aren’t necessarily interested in purchasing Surfulater.

-nevf (May 07, 2007, 06:32 PM)

nevf,

Being able to share information is vitally important.  A freely-distributable reader is great news     

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General Software Discussion / Re: General brainstorming for Note-taking software

« Last post by rjbull on May 08, 2007, 03:48 AM »

rjbull, if I understood your question correctly, you are asking what I use for notetaking?

-superboyac (May 03, 2007, 10:37 AM)

I meant that as the ideal notekeeping program doesn't exist, what do people do in the real world, so yes, you did, thanks.

If I come across something that I want to save (random text, internet article), I'll usually just dump it in evernote.  I don't organize at all beyond this point, just dump it in because I know it's easy to find later

That's interesting because I have two situations: my personal-interest stuff contains lots of notes that have little relation to each other, so structure is largely irrelevant.  And at work, I have lots of notes that contain very similar keywords, so there, I really need good Boolean search features.  Being able to find your notes is somewhat important

That's what I currently do.  I don't have a problem using several applications.  I'd rather use 3 very good applications than one sort of good application, even if it means spreading out the information.

I just find myself wondering which application I kept a given piece of information in.  In some cases, I could get round that with a desktop search engine, but not if the applications are encrypted.

If it's something more important that I know I need to keep long-term (passwords, software license details, important information about music, etc.) I'll stick it in my favorite tree-hierarchy program.

I tend to keep passwords in KeePass and software license details in an archive, but, I suppose I should keep a separate back-up as well.  In which case, you might like to check out Horst Schaeffer's freeware notekeeper MemPad (go for the beta, big improvement) or the cheap shareware JBLab Secure Notes because they're both encrypted and both portable.  I'm not suggesting you'd use either as your main notekeeper, but those two features are worth thinking about.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Configuring user tools

« Last post by rjbull on May 04, 2007, 10:56 AM »

Oh yes, I should have spotted that CHS' directory had a plus sign.   I knew the program name was  ClipboardHelpAndSpell  in words.  OK, I'll take another look.

<later>

Are you certain that CHS does actually produce a tmpin.txt?  I've tried running the temprun.bat that CHS makes externally, which works OK if I manually make a tmpin.txt file first, but if I try from CHS' User tools menu, I get some kind of "command unrecognised, this isn't a file" type error window that pops up then disappears so fast I can't read it.  So I'm wondering if the command processor can't find the tmpin.txt file.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Configuring user tools

« Last post by rjbull on May 03, 2007, 09:22 AM »

OK, thanks, Mouser.

I had trouble with the command-line app I was trying to use, so I put it into a batch file.  The batch seems to work from the command line, but, it doesn't work from inside CHS and even putting a PAUSE statement in the batch didn't stop the window closing before I could read it.  So I wrote a TEST.BAT thus:

echo %1 > c:\zdir\testbat.log
echo %2 >> c:\zdir\testbat.log
pause

and put it into CHS with only %infile% and %outfile% as arguments.  This time the Pause did work.  The contents of testbat.log are:

"C:\Program Files\Clipboard Help+spell\tmpin.txt"
"C:\Program Files\Clipboard Help+spell\tmpout.txt"

Even in quote marks, are plus signs legal in file or directory names?  I thought they were reserved for concatenation.

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General Software Discussion / Total Uninstall reached a new level. Major version 4.00 released.

« Last post by rjbull on May 03, 2007, 06:04 AM »

Total Uninstall reached a new level. Major version released.
- 2007.05.02

http://www.martau.com/index.php

History

Version 4.00 - major upgrade (compatibility with previous versions)
  + Organize monitored applications in groups (folders)
  + Custom icon for groups
  * Improved search in detected changes (inclusive in all monitored applications)
  + Merge logs
  + Icon for monitored application
  + Monitor an update installation
  * Registry export for install or uninstall
  + Stand alone process to monitor launched installers
  + Compare two system snapshots to get changes
  + Save As for logs
  + Show in summary added disk size and registry size
  + Installation size column in monitored application list
  + Copy action for new files from changes tree (equivalent Windows Explorer Copy action)

Legend

! Bug fixed
+ Added feature
* Improvement/Modification


Total Uninstall - Compatibility with version 3
Old .tun files created by the previous version 3.xx are not compatible with Total Uninstall 4. To import the Total Uninstall 3.xx files into Total Uninstall 4 you have to use the Import action from main menu of the Total Uninstall 4 program.