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Site/Forum Features / One of our posts is missing

« Last post by rjbull on August 07, 2006, 08:35 AM »

I remembered an illuminating post by the magisterial CarolHaynes on how to cancel subscriptions from companies that make cancellation excessively difficult.  I didn't seem to have a local copy, so I went looking for it using DC's search feature.  I couldn't find it, despite a fairly determined attempt.  CarolHaynes remembers the message herself but also couldn't find it, and  points out that she thinks SMF has been occasionally losing messages.  Obviously searching wouldn't turn up a message that was no longer in existence.

So...  has anyone else seen this problem?  The search facility may not be very good, but it should have turned up something.  Has anyone else found that posts they know they made have quietly disappeared?

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: AceText - Your text/clipboard manager god.

« Last post by rjbull on August 07, 2006, 03:59 AM »

I am interested in some sort of clipboard "Manager" that also saves txt notes

-tomos (August 05, 2006, 02:02 PM)

If that's all you want, try the free version of ClipCache (1.41).  A copy can be found at http://www.woundedmo.../win32_freeware.html

The latest, shareware version is at http://www.xrayz.co.uk/

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General Software Discussion / Re: Software to send email when a folder content changes

« Last post by rjbull on August 04, 2006, 08:48 AM »

This isn't a complete solution (rather a lot of assembly required)  but you might try looking at LOGMON.  It's been mentioned in these two DC threads:

DONE: Backup My TXT Files Everytime I Save - AKA incremental saves / wiki(-like)
https://www.donation...71.msg16866#msg16866
    
Re: Recommend directory tracker?
https://www.donation...99.msg10742#msg10742

I don't think it e-mails you directly, but as it can execute an external program, you could use something like the command-line e-mailer BLAT to send a list of changed files or whatever.

[edit]
Both LOGMON and BLAT are free.
[/edit]

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Locate 3.0 - great *FAST* HD search tool!

« Last post by rjbull on August 04, 2006, 05:41 AM »

In the "Advanced" tab, I have only the first option checked - you too?

-brotherS (August 04, 2006, 05:24 AM)

I haven't got anything ticked in "Advanced"...

But why are you using an old beta? I use 2.99.6.7240.

Looks like that might be the reason.  Installed 6.7240; multiple wildcard searches work now.  Many thanks! 

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Locate 3.0 - great *FAST* HD search tool!

« Last post by rjbull on August 04, 2006, 05:16 AM »

Update: Searches like *URL.txt;*lol*.jpg work in the latest beta now!

-brotherS (November 01, 2005, 09:17 AM)

I must have misread that.  I thought you meant that it would search for both *URL.txt and *lol*.jpg at the same time.  It doesn't seem to, using Version 3.0 beta 5.10100.  Is that correct?

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Living Room / Re: Furry Friends

« Last post by rjbull on July 28, 2006, 03:48 AM »

She is smart, agressive and thinks she is a queen.

-Rover (July 27, 2006, 06:19 PM)

3,000 years ago, Egyptians worshipped cats.  The cats never forgot it.

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Living Room / Re: Furry Friends

« Last post by rjbull on July 25, 2006, 10:48 AM »

Leslie Fish's (true?) cat stories  http://www.kayshapero.net/FishTale.htm

And if you're interested in furry fiction, click on the link at the top, which is http://www.kayshapero.net/furindex.htm

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Find And Run Robot / Re: appending text to todo.txt file?

« Last post by rjbull on July 21, 2006, 10:00 AM »

Addnote.exe is basically a commandline tool for adding notes to top or bottom of a text file with a date stamp.

-mouser (July 19, 2006, 02:28 PM)

Horst Scaheffer's LOGECHO in his PBATS collection;


LOGECHO - custom entries for logfiles, with enhanced date handling

LOGECHO 2.2 (c) 1997 Horst Schaeffer
ECHO using time/date information (case sensitive tokens):
   $D  day (01..31)   $h  hour
   $M  month (01..12)   $m  minutes
   $N  month (Jan..Dec)   $s  seconds
   $H  month (hex 1..C)   $c  sec/100
   $Y  year (00..99)
   $C  century (19|20)
   $W  day of week (Sun..Sat)
   $V  day of week (0..6)
   $Z  day of year (001..366)
   $$  '$'
   $+  new line


These are the tokens, you can mix them with any other text.

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

« Last post by rjbull on July 21, 2006, 04:52 AM »

A while a go I came across the GemX range of pims / notetaking products
[...]
Do-Organizer http://www.gemx.com/doorganizer_features.php

-Plasma Man (July 20, 2006, 11:33 PM)

Interesting and almost semi-relevant sideline: GemX Do-Organizer can be set to send notes to Zhornsoftware's popular sticky notes application Stickies over a network.  More >here<

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General Software Discussion / Re: Browsers, Bookmarks, & synching

« Last post by rjbull on July 21, 2006, 04:39 AM »

While we're on this subject I'd always thought that the Bookmark Manager in FFwould benefit from a number of power features such as
[...]
- sanity for people who have to do a lot of reseach!

-Plasma Man (July 20, 2006, 10:02 PM)

Plasma Man,

Shouldn't you be looking at the ScrapBook plug-in for FF?  Or, as alternatives, NetSnippets, Evernote or Surfulater, the first two of these having completely free versions, and all mentioned (frequently) elsewhere on DC, notably the General brainstorming for Note-taking software thread?  I see you've posted there, but it's an awful long thread to work through.

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General Software Discussion / Re: QuickCorrect function for Thunderbird?

« Last post by rjbull on July 17, 2006, 04:50 AM »

You can also add abbreviations of commonly used words that it will then fill in, e.g. if I type "Su" it replaces it with "the Sun".

I would love to see an extension to the Thunderbird email program that offered the same functionality.

-HankFriedman (July 17, 2006, 12:18 AM)

HankFriedman,

If you're interested in abbreviation expanders, take a look at these three DonationCoder threads:

Instant Text V Pro - more than the usual features of a text expander

DONE: abbreviations importer

Word AutoCompleter

Most of the programs listed are not are quite spelling checkers/correctors, but you might take a look at Mouser's Clipboard Help & Spell.  I personally use The Bat! as e-mail client.  It has a spelling checker built in, and is excellent value for money if you accept the DonationCoder special offer to members 

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

« Last post by rjbull on July 16, 2006, 12:29 PM »

I keep jumping from specialist programs (e.g. the elegant but expensive Notemap (http://www.casesoft.com/notemap/) for outlining, the well-designed Notesholder (http://notes.aklabs.com/) for on-the-fly notetaking) back to all-in-ones.

-johnk (July 14, 2006, 09:13 AM)

Big difference in price.  Notesholder looks a bit like an alternative "sticky notes" program.

I waste too much time trying out programs, and not long enough making the most of them.

There should be a club tie   

I currently have a self-imposed ban on trying new note-taking/data capture programs

I wonder how long that will last 

Thanks for your comments w.r.t. UltraRecall.  I think it got briefly mentioned far back in this thread.

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Living Room / Re: OK - lets get to know each other... who are you, what do you do, where from?

« Last post by rjbull on July 14, 2006, 08:40 AM »

I've been asked to play Santa Claus so many times, I've even developed a standup comedy routine as Santa when I do it.

-zridling (March 18, 2006, 06:06 PM)

zridling,

A couple of years back, one of the big British daily newspapers pointed out that you could tell what stage a man had reached in the four ages of life, by looking at his position relative to Santa Claus.  Thus:

• You believe in Santa Claus.
• You don't believe in Santa Claus.
• You are Santa Claus.
• You look like Santa Claus...

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Living Room / Re: Born in the wrong time...

« Last post by rjbull on July 14, 2006, 05:56 AM »

Ahhh, nostalgia isn't what is used to be 

And you might try listening again to The Who's "Pictures of Lily" 

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

« Last post by rjbull on July 14, 2006, 05:43 AM »

johnk,

Having said all that, the program I am using more than any other in recent months has taken me by surprise — because I didn't install it either as a notetaker or as a data capture tool. It's Clipcache, one of many clipboard enhancers.

I registered ClipCache mostly as a "thank you" to the author, but I've never bothered to install the shareware version because the last freeware one (available e.g. from http://www.woundedmo.../win32_freeware.html) did all I wanted as a clipboard enhancer.  Perhaps it's time to look at the newer versions.  Clipcache has been mentioned on DC before, e.g. this thread     
ClipCache Plus 3.xx Preview...Don't Get Too Excited  where the OP (the currently very quiet Nighted) was distinctly underwhelmed.

Lately I've been using NetSnippets for Web capture, because it can hold Web pages complete, or in part.  You can add to them and you can organise them.  Unfortunately, at work, I can only use it with IE.  I prefer Firefox, but I can't install any Firefox plug-ins.  I think they're blocked by corporate IT policies (I have no problem at home).  However, superboyac's main focus for this thread is note-keeping applications with the accent on text, and that's my main interest, and evidently yours too:

currently I am a big fan of both Ultra Recall (http://www.ultrarecall.com/) and nevf's excellent Surfulater. Both good in very different ways.

-johnk (July 13, 2006, 02:31 PM)

I'd be interested in how you compare them with the other two of superboyac's Big Three, MyBase and Evernote?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Nvu: crossplatform wysiwyg webpage editor

« Last post by rjbull on July 14, 2006, 04:59 AM »

I got to say that PortableApps is a boon when you have to deal with StormTrooper IT people (God love them!)

-pmowbray (July 13, 2006, 09:51 AM)

We have that sort of  IT too.   Nice to know that Nvu is still usable 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Nvu: crossplatform wysiwyg webpage editor

« Last post by rjbull on July 13, 2006, 08:49 AM »

It is nice, I've got Portable Nvu

-pmowbray (July 13, 2006, 08:43 AM)

I thought Nvu saved things in the Registry.  As you have a portable version, and it's cross-platform, that must not be true?

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Unfinished Requests / Re: IDEA: OCR & paste

« Last post by rjbull on July 12, 2006, 03:36 AM »

I've tried Screen Desktop OCR... it seems like a Kleptomania clone to me.  There are about 3-4 programs that claim to do the same thing and do it almost exactly the same way!  (Even down to the program icon...

-kfitting (July 11, 2006, 08:20 PM)

I was astonished to see the same icon.  Dog should not eat dog.

I like ABBYY's claim to be able to use a digital camera as a scanner, that's awesome... but the price tag is, needless to say, pricey! 

Eye-watering   

Going to take up kimmchi's offer to see if ABBYY will read a typical image?

<later edit>        TopOCR: yes, you're right, with "camera as scanner" apparently the main purpose of the program.

Digital Camera OCR

Can your camera or smartphone replace a scanner for document capture with OCR? The answer is a resounding YES! TopSoft, Ltd, a leading developer of OCR and image processing software has created an application specifically for OCR data capture with digital cameras and smartphones called TopOCR.

I notice both Kleptomania and ScreenOCR are about 400Kb to download.  TopOCR is ten times that, about 5.4Mb.  "Shareware" in that it only runs ten times rather than {x number of days} before needing registration.

However, I have less personal need of image-reading than of things like extracing bits of Outlook message headings lists, and I imagine Kleptomania and ScreenOCR would do that adequately.

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Unfinished Requests / Re: IDEA: OCR & paste

« Last post by rjbull on July 11, 2006, 10:46 AM »

ABBYY screenshot reader can capture everything.

-kimmchii (July 11, 2006, 08:53 AM)

Does "scrape text" from othewise difficult things, like OCRing text in images?

Do you have a URL?

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Formatted lists

« Last post by rjbull on July 11, 2006, 10:44 AM »

I was looking at it with Firefox, too...

I take it the (code)(/code) tags force literal rendering?  (looks like it from here)

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Formatted lists

« Last post by rjbull on July 11, 2006, 06:20 AM »

• OK.
• Thanks Mouser
• Thanks CarolHaynes!

Looks like the "dot-dash" button method doesn't work on it's own, and probably it can't because it can't know how many items there are in the list?  You have to bracket each line with (li) and (/li) to get bullets (using round brackets instead of square ones so it doesn't think that's a list as well).

I see you can get two-tier bullets too, but I think I'll have to read the manual for that.

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Site/Forum Features / Formatted lists

« Last post by rjbull on July 11, 2006, 05:04 AM »

Please, how do I make formatted lists?

Is there an area, or a separate how-to file, that lists how to use features like [color=, [url=, etc.?

Thanks...

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Unfinished Requests / Re: IDEA: OCR & paste

« Last post by rjbull on July 11, 2006, 04:57 AM »

Problem is Kleptomania (and every other software I saw to do this type of thing) cannot OCR a picture displayed on screen.

-kfitting (September 07, 2005, 07:05 PM)

kfitting,

I just googled Screen Desktop OCR.  The features list includes the following - note particularly the section in parentheses in the first claim, BMP and JPG images:

Recognizes text in any type of document (HTML, Word, Notepad, PDF, BMP or JPG image) or in any part of the screen and saves it to clipboard.

Grabs texts that cannot be saved or printed

Recognizes texts in any language that cannot be saved or printed

Works with all American and European character sets, including the Central-European and Cyrillic

Captures "hidden" text ignoring blocking scripts on Internet pages

Sanity check: I have not tried it myself.  $29.95 shareware.

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Best E-mail Client / Re: opera deserves a real try

« Last post by rjbull on July 11, 2006, 04:22 AM »

rjbull: No Opera uses its own file format (.adr) BUT you can use this online tool to convert from adr to csv.

-Ampa (July 10, 2006, 05:39 PM)

Thanks, noted for reference.

Or for a more comprehensive tool, you might try Dawn which seems like a nice freeware / donationware utility.

I'd forgotten Dawn, though I had looked at it once for convering my CompuServe access software's address books.  It wouldn't do that, I think because my WinCIM is too old.  Oh, well, if I will keep using Win 3.1 software from 1995...   

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Best E-mail Client / Re: opera deserves a real try

« Last post by rjbull on July 10, 2006, 08:01 AM »

Opera stores its mail in standard mbox format

-Ampa (July 10, 2006, 07:39 AM)

How about its address books?  Can it do CSV files?