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General Software Discussion / Re: Must-have apps in the System tray?

« Last post by rjbull on April 18, 2007, 09:08 AM »

ClipX is also a very good free, and lightweight clip program. Be sure to get the stickies plugin though.

I'm a hard core ClipCache user, but I find ClipX much more suited for graphics work as you can see the thumbnails from the context menu.

-Nighted (April 18, 2007, 06:52 AM)

A recent TechSupport newsletter had a quick review of several free clipboard extenders: he really liked Clipx, but thought ArsClip had the edge, especially as it can keep a much larger number of clips.  The limit of 15 stated on the Web page refers to the number in the popup.  Older ones get saved to disk, with a configurable number (by default 50) before they are completely deleted.  You can have groups of permanent clips as well.  The popup has preview of the clips. Not sure if this includes graphics.

I was a long-time big fan of ClipCache 1.41, the last free version, even registering out of gratitude without bothering to install the shareware version.  But, eventually corporate bloatware at work kept crashing it, and even the shareware version which I installed in desperation crashed as well, if not as often.  I found that Mouser's CHS was amazingly stable by comparison, only crashing once in several months of operation.  My chief beef with it is that it's slow to pop up.  ArsClip is almost instant.  ArsClip is no-install and portable, too.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Must-have apps in the System tray?

« Last post by rjbull on April 18, 2007, 06:12 AM »

PS Tray Factory, M8 Free Clipboard, FastStone Capture and Sysinternals Process Explorer

-Curt (April 16, 2007, 12:46 PM)

Curt,

I haven't tried M8 Free Clipboard, but looking at its Web site, it looks pretty limited in comparison with some of the other free clipboard extenders.  Take a look at Mouser's own ClipboardHelp+Spell (CHS, CH+S), ArsClip, or Clipmagic.

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General Software Discussion / Re: emailSTRIPPER - Freeware

« Last post by rjbull on April 18, 2007, 05:51 AM »

As Mouser said, CHS.  Or Clippy.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looks like KeyPass, is named KeyPass, but is not the KeyPass I know...

« Last post by rjbull on April 17, 2007, 05:16 AM »

Nighted,

I use KeyPass and it's much better than KeePass.

-Nighted (April 17, 2007, 04:57 AM)

Please, could you expand on that?

It's kind of like how no one on the internet seems to know how to spell definitely.

Hirudin,

Did you see that KeePass has just been updated to 1.07?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Text scraping: instructions

« Last post by rjbull on April 17, 2007, 04:35 AM »

A few alternatives:

If using Win2K, with the focus on an error box, you can just press Control-C to have Windows send the text to the clipboard.

Or try CopyMessageBox by Thyante Software.  The older, smaller version just keeps text, the newer one keeps images as well.

Lastly, Nir Sofer's SystemExporter:

SysExporter utility allows you to grab the data stored in standard
list-views, tree-views, list boxes, combo boxes, text-boxes, and
WebBrowser/HTML controls from almost any application running on your
system, and export it to text, HTML or XML file.
Here's some examples for data that you can export with SysExporter:
* The files list inside archive file (.zip, .rar, and so on) as
  displayed by WinZip or 7-Zip File Manager.
* The files list inside a folder.
* The event log of Windows.
* The list of emails and contacts in Outlook Express.
* The Registry values displayed in the right pane of the Registry
  Editor.
* The data displayed by SysInternals utilities (Registry Monitor, File
  Monitor, Process Explorer, and others.)

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Idea: Help with small simple program

« Last post by rjbull on April 16, 2007, 10:48 AM »

Might be a bit heavy for what you want, but have you tried WanyWord?

Or some kind of visual grep with a shortcut to point it at the right file, such as BareGrep?

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

« Last post by rjbull on April 16, 2007, 05:20 AM »

Looks like Notelens meets the need. OK sofar.
[...]
But saves notes as separate .txt files
Possible to import existing .txt files. Notelens just indexex these files. Does not change the location

-ganrad (April 15, 2007, 07:46 PM)

I think Aignes' AM-Notebook works like that.  You might want to compare them.

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

« Last post by rjbull on April 16, 2007, 05:14 AM »

paulobrabo,

I found this little gem of minimalism: it's called Mempad.

http://home.mnet-onl...e/horst.muc/wmem.htm

-paulobrabo (April 15, 2007, 12:56 PM)

My constant "problem" with it (if I remember correctly) was using Ctrl-F Find, then tabbing between note pane and tree pane when I should have Ctrl-tabbed.  In that case, it replaces "found" text with a tab character, losing data.  That happened so often that I abandoned it.

CONS(?):
(1) Imports txt files only as far as I can see (not counting its own file format)

Try asking the author.  He may have a separate free-standing program for exporting in HTML that's not yet on his Web site.

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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?