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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Star Convert

« Last post by kunkel321 on February 24, 2013, 04:35 PM »

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Living Room / Re: When is your birthday?!

« Last post by kunkel321 on February 23, 2013, 05:16 PM »

May 1st.  (they celebrate it in Germany)

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Living Room / Re: proofreading on pc

« Last post by kunkel321 on February 10, 2013, 02:37 PM »

I think many of the free PDFs readers have "freehand" pens, highlighters, etc.

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General Software Discussion / Re: remove pdf page parts completely

« Last post by kunkel321 on February 06, 2013, 12:39 PM »

I was just dinkin' around with Acrobat, and it does appear that you can make the bottom margin huge.  When viewing the PDF, this will essentially make it smaller.  (Rather make it appear smaller)

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Living Room / Re: Futurama Icon Set: I think we can all agree that this is the best thing ever.

« Last post by kunkel321 on February 06, 2013, 09:55 AM »

Those are cute, but...
I'm not sure I would call them icons? Sure, they might come in (high-res) icon dimensions, and even in .ico files, but... I dunno, am I being overly pedantic?

-f0dder (February 05, 2013, 05:23 PM)

A valid point.  Most folks who have attempted to define what an icon should look like have suggested that the image should relay some meaning as to the purpose of the icon itself...
examples
http://msdn.microsof...esktop/aa511280.aspx
http://tango.freedes...con_Theme_Guidelines

Hey you never know:  If I was doing a big dissertation on the various characters of the cartoon series Futurama, and I needed to have different subfolders for my notes about each character....  And if I wanted custom images on those folders....  Well, I'd have it made!

Extra note: 
It occurs to me that I should reference the artist
Artist: PixelPirate (Lasse Salling) (Available for custom work)
Iconset Homepage: http://pixelpirate.d...t/Futurama-175960105

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Living Room / Futurama Icon Set: I think we can all agree that this is the best thing ever.

« Last post by kunkel321 on February 05, 2013, 04:01 PM »

 
http://www.iconarchi...-by-pixelpirate.html

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General Software Discussion / Re: In search of ... multiple IP camera software (opinions or suggestions)

« Last post by kunkel321 on January 12, 2013, 01:46 PM »

As if I wasn't paranoid enough already....

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General Software Discussion / Re: Word to html

« Last post by kunkel321 on January 08, 2013, 11:13 AM »

No doubt you've tried all the "Save As..." option in Word.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Earlier versions of Serif software at bargain prices until 4 Jan. 2013

« Last post by kunkel321 on January 05, 2013, 12:06 PM »

Truth be told--there are probably good freeware alternatives to any of these.
As I said above, I'm a long time fan of Photoplus and Drawplus.  I doubt that PP is any more powerful than GIMP.  DP is comparable to Inkscape or Paint.net, I think.  DP has really nice shape-builder tools as well as good effects for makings outlines, bevels, shadows, etc.  Also it has a nice "cut-out studio."  (though GIMP also lets you do cut outs)

As folks have mentioned above, you'll get "special offers" such as the Uniblue stuff in the Serif installers.  Another annoyance is that you get a "register me" pop up that NEVER goes away unless you register.  Registering takes you to this screen:

If you ever uninstall/reinstall the software, you'll have to call again.  There's no way to just register online....  They'll use the opportunity to try and sell you more stuff.  No biggie though.  The guy is pretty polite, and you can haggle with him.

Also, they'll email paid upgrade offers.  Ignore the first half dozen or so offers, then they'll start emailing better offers. 

The extra spam that I get from them is not too bad.  No worse than Ashampoo. 

Another note:  If you're thinking of getting a webbuilding app, I learned about this somewhere (maybe here, or Gizmo's?)
http://expression.mi...t.com/en-US/cc136523
Expression Web v4 is free.  The download link says "trial" but it's a full free version.  It seems like a pretty capable app.  I don't know much about making websites, so can't give an expert opinion.  Also I've never looked at the Serif Web one, so can't compare.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Earlier versions of Serif software at bargain prices until 4 Jan. 2013

« Last post by kunkel321 on January 02, 2013, 07:09 PM »

Probably the size is because of all the clipart, fonts, textures, tutorials, etc.  The apps do use up a lot of RAM when running, but they load fairly quickly.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Earlier versions of Serif software at bargain prices until 4 Jan. 2013

« Last post by kunkel321 on January 01, 2013, 10:11 PM »

I can't speak to the others, but DrawPlusX4 and PhotoPlusX4 are both really good products.
They just recently came out with PhotoPlus X6.  DrawPlus is currently at X5, but I imagine they'll come out with X6 soon.
PhotoPlus is  probably not any more powerful than the GIMP, though PP is probably easier to use. 
IMHO though DP is a stand-alone product.  It's been my go-to app for vector work for years.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Zen Folders

« Last post by kunkel321 on December 29, 2012, 09:39 PM »

Don't mean to hijack this thread... 
But (the always free) FolderGuide http://www.freeware3...ktop/folderguide.htm also offers some of this functionality. 

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Living Room / Re: Mockup and Wireframing Software

« Last post by kunkel321 on December 29, 2012, 01:04 PM »

Google's Sketchup has a "wire" view...
http://www.youtube.c.../watch?v=fS3A7u83YAY

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor - New Quick Capture Bar

« Last post by kunkel321 on December 29, 2012, 12:57 PM »

How is the progress going on this Mouser?? 

As indicated in this crosspost ...

I managed to setup Minicap (https://www.donation...r/MiniCap/index.html) so that it's fully transparent   

Used command line
"C:\Program Files\MiniCap\MiniCap.exe" -captureregselect -save C:\Users\Kunkel\Minicaps\Img-$date$-$uniquenum0$.png -exit  -postrun "C:\Program Files\ScreenshotCaptor\Tools\sImgurUploader\sImgurUploader.exe $file$"
Had to make a folder for Minicap to save files.  Works good though.  I'll cross-post this over there....

-kunkel321 (December 28, 2012, 02:39 PM)

Would be kindof neat if your Quick Cap Bar could give a similar option.  Not necessarily launching MiniCap...   I just mean the "transparent" part.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Xyplorer - last days to buy the lifetime license

« Last post by kunkel321 on December 29, 2012, 09:24 AM »

Funny, I too, own TC, x2, and XY.  
Each has unique strengths that the other two does not have.

Definitely XYplorer excels in its scriptability--and other ways too.

As you have said, even though the developer promises to continue honoring the lifetime licences, after 2012, he will no longer SELL them.  If anyone has considered purchasing XY, now is the time.  And be sure to get "lifetime pro."

EDIT:  And btw, I too, had Don incorporate a feature request within hours
http://www.xyplorer....c.php?f=3&t=8311

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013 Release: sImgurUploader

« Last post by kunkel321 on December 28, 2012, 02:39 PM »

I managed to setup Minicap (https://www.donation...r/MiniCap/index.html) so that it's fully transparent   

Used command line

[Select]

"C:\Program Files\MiniCap\MiniCap.exe" -captureregselect -save C:\Users\Kunkel\Minicaps\Img-$date$-$uniquenum0$.png -exit  -postrun "C:\Program Files\ScreenshotCaptor\Tools\sImgurUploader\sImgurUploader.exe $file$"

Had to make a folder for Minicap to save files.  Works good though.  I'll cross-post this over there....

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General Software Discussion / Re: Divide a txt file according rules

« Last post by kunkel321 on December 28, 2012, 02:20 PM »

For that kind of stuff, Stahlworks' Swiss File Knife has been a most excellent choice.

-Ath (December 28, 2012, 01:15 PM)

This is my new favorite thing!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Just want to congrats

« Last post by kunkel321 on December 28, 2012, 02:19 PM »

Yea, Screenshot Captor is awesome!

It's developed by one person--Mouser. 

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013 Release: sImgurUploader

« Last post by kunkel321 on December 22, 2012, 05:34 PM »

Just wanted to pop in and reiterate my thanks.

I'm actually surprised by the degree to which this has streamlined my ability to post screenshots onto the various tech forums I frequent.   

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Feature Idea: Apply template if clip contains "XYZ."

« Last post by kunkel321 on December 22, 2012, 05:31 PM »

Too late...  Skwire beat you to it.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Expert PDF 8 Professional

« Last post by kunkel321 on December 20, 2012, 02:24 PM »

I kind of had the impression that Avanquest were a bit like Ashampoo, doing some of their own and some relabelled stuff, ...

-tomos (December 19, 2012, 02:27 PM)

  This is also my impression.  Same thing with Serif.  Kindof annoying, but oh well.

RE Expert PDF 8:  Is there anyone out there that uses Sophos and has been unable to register?
On my home computer (with Norton), everything is fine, but at work (with Sophos), I get an error "Cannot access ...  blah permissions."  I think it's a false positive with the SNUpdater.exe module. 

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2013- PDF Batch Saver

« Last post by kunkel321 on December 19, 2012, 07:37 PM »

Do you mean it makes a PDF that is a list of links, or does it get the webpages that the URLs point to and convert those?
If the latter, I image this would work well with the Docear mindmap project.  http://www.docear.org/

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Expert PDF 8 Professional

« Last post by kunkel321 on December 19, 2012, 09:31 AM »

Wow nice find!  Thanks for posting

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Artensoft Collage tool 70% off today BDJ

« Last post by kunkel321 on December 17, 2012, 08:50 AM »

Even better!

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Found Deals and Discounts / Artensoft Collage tool 70% off today BDJ

« Last post by kunkel321 on December 16, 2012, 03:21 PM »

The only time I seen it on sale!
http://www.bitsdujou...photo-collage-maker/