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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Program to automaticly paste text into a window

« Last post by rjbull on April 16, 2007, 04:49 AM »

Many of the clipboard enhancers offer permanent clips - freeware ones include ClipCache 1.41 and ArsClip.  "Big" ones like ClipMagic keep everything permanently anyway, unless you set automatic purge features, and you could set a specific group.  Kevin Solway's ClipText is a bit like a more limited version of Multi Clipboard mentioned by tinjaw above.

Alternative approaches - PowerPro's snippets, or a keyword-driven system like Type Pilot, shareware, or their freeware but less-featured version, Speed Pilot.  Or AutoHotkey's hotstrings.

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

« Last post by rjbull on April 15, 2007, 11:54 AM »

Hi,
For me, what is important is very small footprint (better so if the application remains closed but can be fired open in negligible time using Directaccess or Activewords hotkey), allowing me to jot my notes and gets closed in a jiffy.

-ganrad (April 15, 2007, 08:28 AM)

This is an advantage of Treepad Lite.  It's one of the smallest, so fastest to load.

Of late, I am using simple .txt files (windows notepad) to capture the notes and use a simple activewords macro to "saveas" using text in the first line of the note.

Despite your use of Syncback, etc., aren't you running the risk of overwriting existing date by accidentally giving text files the a name you have used already?  Unless your macro adds date and time to the name, of course.

Ideally yes. But I hesitate to commit myself to any propereitary format for obvious reasons.

This seems to me one of the outstanding problems of this class of software 

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Spell-checking needs wrapped lines?

« Last post by rjbull on April 15, 2007, 11:46 AM »

I haven't been able to properly replicate it at home (Win98), will try again at work if I have time.  But, TED Notepad, being an editor, by default doesn't add CR+LFs, so it may well be something to do with that.

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General Software Discussion / PowerPro development to cease this month

« Last post by rjbull on April 15, 2007, 11:30 AM »

Message posted by Bruce Switzer in the main Yahoo! Group for PowerPro:

Folks:
My current plans are to stop all PowerPro development at the end of
April.  I have fixed a couple of small bugs in the last weeks, and will
look at any that are reported before April 30.  After that, I will no
longer respond to bug reports (or feature requests).

I am aware of a couple of outstanding bugs which I have decided not to
attempt to fix:

- *window menu move fails if dialog open:  too complicated to fix

- missing tooltip help for some dialog elements of configure dialog:  I
don't want to open the configure program just to do this.

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ProcessTamer / Re: Process Tamer Update Coming -- Express your feature requests here!

« Last post by rjbull on April 13, 2007, 06:24 AM »

Can Process Tamer be remotely enabled/disabled, i.e., can you put a command in a scheduler to enable or disable it?  Then when running 24/7 I can let the remote administrators do what they will when I'm not present, but can automatically reclaim a reasonable degree of control when I am.  If you see what I mean...

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Spell-checking needs wrapped lines?

« Last post by rjbull on April 13, 2007, 06:19 AM »

Mouser,

I wrote a chunk of text in the excellent small editor TED Notepad, pressed Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C to copy it to the clipboard, then Ctrl-Alt-V to bring up CHS 1.11.01 in spell-checker mode.  The formatting of the text in the view pane was so scrambled it was hard to read.  If I committed word-wrap in TED-NP and repeated the process, the text appeared OK.  Is this a known buglet?

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ProcessTamer / Re: Process Tamer Update Coming -- Express your feature requests here!

« Last post by rjbull on April 12, 2007, 10:03 AM »

I'm very new to Process Tamer and I'm using 2.06.01.  I think the help file needs minor re-wording where it says disable/enable by double-clicking the tray icon.  You can set it that way in Configuration, but I don't think it does that out of the box, and the help file should probably put the default action first.

Does it make any sense to be able to set percentage trigger levels individually?

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ProcessTamer / Re: Process Tamer gets rave review

« Last post by rjbull on April 11, 2007, 10:07 AM »

Is it just me, or are you sure you put in the right link now?  I can't see any reference to ProcessTamer on that page?  ...  ?

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General Software Discussion / Re: shortcut to bring opera from tray?

« Last post by rjbull on April 04, 2007, 11:25 AM »

You can also do what you want with PowerPro

-Nomadin (April 04, 2007, 08:13 AM)

Nomadin,

Do you need to enable PowerPro's tray support, which isn't the default?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Alias sharing

« Last post by rjbull on April 04, 2007, 04:54 AM »

Creating new outlook items

-cnewtonne (March 27, 2007, 04:16 PM)

cnewtonne,

I take it this is for the "full" version of Outlook, not Express?

I thought of giving Outlook etc. an alias of Bureaucracy, which turned out to shorten by John Knowles' ABCZ system to "bury."  Which is about what I'd like to do with it...
 

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Mouser's Zone / Re: Multi-browser Bookmark Synchronization Tool and Other Multi-Browser Ideas?

« Last post by rjbull on April 02, 2007, 08:37 AM »

It will be interesting to see if FSL ever finishes his freeware...

-rjbull (April 01, 2007, 02:59 PM)

When I looked at that one, it seemed to me that one way for someone to make extra money in a situation like that might be to keep it in development, motivating people to pay by giving them special access to the otherwise unavailable software.

-KenR (April 01, 2007, 05:37 PM)

Isn't that much like old-fashioned commercial transactions, before the idea of shareware got invented?  Not sure I see how it would make extra money, especially as alternatives exist...

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Mouser's Zone / Re: Multi-browser Bookmark Synchronization Tool and Other Multi-Browser Ideas?

« Last post by rjbull on April 01, 2007, 02:59 PM »

KenR, any hope of a comparative review?

-rjbull (March 31, 2007, 03:46 PM)

Hmmm, interesting question rjbull. I'll tell you what, you take a look at Link Commander and then tell me if you think there's any need for a comparative review. I looked at all the programs and I thought it blew the others away.

-KenR (April 01, 2007, 11:33 AM)

I looked at the cost of a commercial license for the portable version, and thought it too high for me.  Also I'm not sure if the license would cover all needs, such as using it from a USB stick in an Internet cafe or similar, though I suspect it would cover such uses.  Actually, as a registered user of ClipCache, I had a chance I passed on for a discount on LinkStash.  I'm kind of hoping that Rose City Software might make me another special offer some time   

It will be interesting to see if FSL ever finishes his freeware...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Monitor Resolution change tools?

« Last post by rjbull on April 01, 2007, 11:26 AM »

PowerPro can change resolutions, and toggle between them... 

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Plugin API and Samples for Find+Run Robot Coming Soon.. Requests?

« Last post by rjbull on March 31, 2007, 04:11 PM »

- kill running processes.

-cnewtonne (March 30, 2007, 12:40 PM)

May not need a new item - check out Taskill at DS Software.  Can be used as a command-line app, you just need to add the name of the executable to kill, e.g.  "taskill foobar.exe"

There's a free program killer add-on for SlickRun, too.

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Mouser's Zone / Re: Multi-browser Bookmark Synchronization Tool and Other Multi-Browser Ideas?

« Last post by rjbull on March 31, 2007, 03:46 PM »

There's also LinksBase by FSL, but it's permanently "coming soon" 

KenR, any hope of a comparative review?

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General Software Discussion / Re: backup question: how to backup/sync my HD and USB HD #1 to USB HD #2?

« Last post by rjbull on March 29, 2007, 05:05 PM »

If you don't mind command lines, there's XXCOPY  The free version is perfectly capable, but the payware one is better for networks.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Know of a freeware seamless texture tool? (Details inside)

« Last post by rjbull on March 29, 2007, 05:02 PM »

Don't have a direct answer, but a great source of free software suggestions, especially for graphics and the Web, is Ken Laninga's list,  http://www.sticksite.com/freesoft.htm  Maybe Background Magic from his Page 2, or Reptile from Page 3, would suit?

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Mouser's Zone / Re: Multi-browser Bookmark Synchronization Tool and Other Multi-Browser Ideas?

« Last post by rjbull on March 29, 2007, 04:41 PM »

LinkStash (not tried by me) looks good, with a different approach:

 LinkStash is an outstanding new bookmarks/favorites manager which works for Internet Explorer, Firefox, Netscape, NetCaptor and Opera. Just 5 minutes with LinkStash and we are betting you will never want to use the IE favorites, Netscape & Opera bookmarks again! Easily store and organize all your favorite links. With fields for comments, ratings, password, date last visited, and much more. Make your bookmarks visible and easy to find by using color highlights.

LinkStash will open and close with your browser, and using LinkStash means you can store and organize all your favorite links in a familiar Explorer-style tree arrangement. With fields for comments, ratings, password, date last visited and so on, links can be easily edited, maintained and kept up to date. You can make your bookmarks visible and easy to find by using color highlights. A customizeable toolbar allows you to arrange all your favorite commands in a sensible, custom arrangement of your choice.

[...]

All bookmarks are kept together in one single file, easily fitted on the average floppy diskette. This means your bookmarks are totally portable and can be taken to and from work, and easily synchronized between computers.

[...]


 *** Linkstash now combines the functionality of a top notch bookmark manager with complete automated password control. Store all your passwords safely and securely encrypted in LinkStash, protected by a master password and enter complete username/password information on any web site login page with a common configurable keystroke!

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Ini-File writer

« Last post by rjbull on March 25, 2007, 04:06 PM »

You might find IniFile a useful tool:

IniFile handles Windows type INI files with section names in square brackets, and assignments of the form: item=string.

Syntax:
 
INIFILE filename [section] item=string    change or write
INIFILE filename [section] item=    remove item
INIFILE filename [section] item==    clear item
INIFILE filename [section] /remove    remove entire section
INIFILE filename [section] item > temp.bat    read item
INIFILE filename [section] > temp.bat    read all items of section

Items and sections are generated if not found. The INI file must exist.

Reading an assignment sends a SET statement to STDOUT for redirection to a temporary batch file.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Which software can extract pictures out of pdf ?

« Last post by rjbull on March 25, 2007, 10:47 AM »

pdfimages, part of XPDF (freeware, command line), may help you:

NAME
       pdfimages - Portable Document Format (PDF) image extractor
       (version 3.01)

SYNOPSIS
       pdfimages [options] PDF-file image-root

DESCRIPTION
       Pdfimages saves images from  a  Portable  Document  Format
       (PDF)  file  as  Portable  Pixmap  (PPM),  Portable Bitmap
       (PBM), or JPEG files.

       Pdfimages reads the PDF file, scans  one  or  more  pages,
       PDF-file,  and  writes one PPM, PBM, or JPEG file for each
       image, image-root-nnn.xxx, where nnn is the  image  number
       and xxx is the image type (.ppm, .pbm, .jpg).

       NB:  pdfimages  extracts  the  raw image data from the PDF
       file, without performing any additional  transforms.   Any
       rotation,  clipping, color inversion, etc. done by the PDF
       content stream is ignored.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Text xpander that can handle RTF

« Last post by rjbull on March 20, 2007, 10:37 AM »

Type Pilot says this:

You can use Type Pilot as a depository for storing thousands of long words, phrases, sentences, paragraphs or even entire messages. You don't even have to define keywords for them - any phrase can be easily "extracted" from Type Pilot using a tree-like structure. The program works in any word processor.

You can also use Type Pilot as your usual pim (personal information manager). The program allows you to keep any text, formatted text, OLE objects (ex. pictures, waves and so on) in a tree-like structure.

Note the word "formatted," but, they don't specify exactly what they mean by that.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Text xpander that can handle RTF

« Last post by rjbull on March 20, 2007, 07:01 AM »

What do you mean by "support RTF?"  That is, if you're in an RTF word processor, all you're seeing is the text, so presumably most text expanders would work?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Save web page to directory based on web site in browser title

« Last post by rjbull on March 20, 2007, 06:32 AM »

Try out Local WebSite Archive, which is on DonationCoder discount until the end of March 2007.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Idea: Directory/File Monitor Change Notification

« Last post by rjbull on March 14, 2007, 12:14 PM »

http://www.snapfiles...lity/dirmonitor.html

-justice (March 14, 2007, 11:15 AM)

The author's site is http://www.gibinsoft.net/
They keep a copy of the old freeware version 1.9.5, plus a 19 euro / US$19 set of utilities containing an updated version 2.9:

GiPo@FileUtilities is a set of utilities for Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP that provide many useful services:

    * GiPo@MoveOnBoot - copying/moving/renaming/deleting files and folders on the next system boot.
    * GiPo@DirMonitor - monitoring changes in the file system.
    * GiPo@Mount - local folders substitution and local/remote drives mounting.
    * GiPo@Hardlink - UNIX-like (POSIX) hardlinks for NTFS creation.
    * GiPo@ReadTest - checking files and folders for read errors.

Utilities can be integrated into shell.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Idea: Directory/File Monitor Change Notification

« Last post by rjbull on March 14, 2007, 11:38 AM »

Back in the 'Old' days when I ran a BBS that received files from a satellite system, I had written a program that did this in order to initiate other actions...

-bscoles (March 13, 2007, 04:25 PM)

I immediately thought of John Souvestre's SLEEP.  Ah, the good old days...