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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: PhraseExpress Pro with 70% discount - Celebrate with Us!

« Last post by Curt on November 04, 2011, 05:44 PM »

-thanks.

Sales and offers often signals brand-new or soon-to-be-replaced. Version 8 was launched 11 months ago, but your site is missing a history of the previous versions 1-7, so I wonder how long I can expect it will take, before it is replaced by version 9?

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: PhraseExpress Pro with 70% discount - Celebrate with Us!

« Last post by Curt on November 04, 2011, 04:31 PM »

-seems to be a fine offer,
but:

Licensing of the Stand-Alone Editions is made on a per-computer basis. You need a separate license for each Stand-Alone installation.

How easy will it be next year to move the program to the next computer of mine?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Help me get some irregular screenshots on Mac.

« Last post by Curt on November 04, 2011, 10:22 AM »

Shortcuts

    Command-Shift-3: Take a screenshot of the screen, and save it as a file on the desktop
    Command-Shift-4, then select an area: Take a screenshot of an area and save it as a file on the desktop
    Command-Shift-4, then space, then click a window: Take a screenshot of a window and save it as a file on the desktop
    Command-Control-Shift-3: Take a screenshot of the screen, and save it to the clipboard
    Command-Control-Shift-4, then select an area: Take a screenshot of an area and save it to the clipboard
    Command-Control-Shift-4, then space, then click a window: Take a screenshot of a window and save it to the clipboard

In Leopard and later, the following keys can be held down while selecting an area (via Command-Shift-4 or Command-Control-Shift-4):

    Space, to lock the size of the selected region and instead move it when the mouse moves
    Shift, to resize only one edge of the selected region
    Option, to resize the selected region with its center as the anchor point


Formats

Different versions of Mac OS X have different formats for screenshots.

    Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar): jpg
    Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther): pdf
    Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) and later: png

In Mac OS X 10.4 and later, the default screenshot format can be changed, by opening Terminal (located at /Applications/Utilities/Terminal) and typing in:

• defaults write com.apple.screencapture type image_format
• killall SystemUIServer

Where image_format is one of jpg, tiff, pdf, png, bmp or pict (among others). If you omit the second line, you will need to log out and in again for the change to take effect.

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General Software Discussion / Re: SoftMaker Office 2012 BETA testing

« Last post by Curt on November 03, 2011, 08:54 AM »

/edit: it is on the contrary almost too late to ask; Pro 2012 including eM Client has left the building ;-)

My Internet Supplier is somewhat different from most ISP companies, because this one also gives me my television, telephone, download music (10 million tracks), rent-a-movie, email account, backup in the clouds, and so on - meaning that most of the time I am logged in. Already being logged in, I may as well read my emails while I am there. They also have a highly effecient filter: I get maybe one or two unwanted mails per week! So, about email clients, well, I have Thunderbird and Outlook 2003, and I like them both, and if you want me to adopt a new one, you better make it out of the ordinary! :-) SoftMaker eM Client is not bad in any way, it is actually quite good, but it is just not that extraordinary.

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General Software Discussion / Re: spell checker in any text

« Last post by Curt on November 02, 2011, 06:57 PM »

The $30 Spell Check Anywhere can do it via hotkey or button on (almost?) all text areas, if the text first is marked (as text). Simple, but fine and easy to operate.

http://www.spellcheckanywhere.com/

They also have a $60 Grammar Check Anywhere via http://www.spellchec...ck/grammar_check.asp

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General Software Discussion / Re: Fractal Trading Indicator

« Last post by Curt on November 02, 2011, 05:28 PM »

you can enable / disable specific sounds under Tools > Options > General  in your Control Center

-NinjaTrader Support

-but maybe this option is missing if you are running the free version?

If you search their site and keep an eye on new feature development, you may want to look for "enhancement # 1254" (new audio settings).

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General Software Discussion / Re: SoftMaker Office 2012 BETA testing

« Last post by Curt on November 02, 2011, 12:32 PM »

This build contains not only bug fixes but also, for the first time,
SoftMaker eM Client 3.5 that manages your e-mails, contacts, tasks, and
calendars.

-Curt (November 01, 2011, 03:42 PM)

Compared to the original eM Client version 3.0, Softmaker claims over 500 bug fixes and optimizations, and major startup speed improvement, in their version 3.5.

However, I am not (yet) a fan of it.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Dr Explain 60% OFF

« Last post by Curt on November 02, 2011, 04:09 AM »

Dr.Explain PC Software with a 60% off Discount Coupon Code - An Amazing Automatic Documentation Authoring Tool

Retail: $165
Today only at Bits du Jour: $66

http://www.bitsdujou...m/software/drexplain

Dr. Explain is an automated help authoring tool that produces your choice of output formats - CHM, HTML, online manuals, and even printed documentation. Dr. Explain analyzes the structure of your software's screens and forms and automatically generates numbered annotations for each GUI element - every button, icon, field, menu, and toolbar. As the help author, your job just got a lot easier. All you need to do is add the descriptive text to each annotation to explain each function. Dr. Explain condenses hours of work into just a few minutes!

Dr. Explain will astound you with its flexibility. The output files that are produced by Dr. Explain can easily be invoked by a variety of programming languages such asC, C++, Visual Basic, C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, WinForms, WPF, Delphi & Object Pascal, Clarion, FoxPro, PHP, Perl, HTML, and JavaScript, to name just a few!

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General Software Discussion / Re: TED Notepad updated to stable version 6.0.1 Beta, Nov 2, 2011

« Last post by Curt on November 01, 2011, 05:49 PM »

fantastic list of new features. 



But shouldn't this thread be in "General Software Discussion",
instead of "Announce Your Software/Service/Product"?

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General Software Discussion / Re: SoftMaker Office 2012 BETA testing

« Last post by Curt on November 01, 2011, 03:42 PM »

------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. Final beta of SoftMaker Office 2012 for Windows
------------------------------------------------------------------------

As the second beta of SoftMaker Office 2012 for Windows expired today,
we have just released the third and probably final beta.

This build contains not only bug fixes but also, for the first time,
SoftMaker eM Client 3.5 that manages your e-mails, contacts, tasks, and
calendars.

If you have already downloaded and installed a previous beta, you can
simply download and install the third beta from here:

http://www.softmaker...n/ofw2012probeta.exe

If you want to participate in this beta test for the first time,
please register and download the beta here:

http://www.softmaker.com

------------------------------------------------------------------------

-SoftMaker

"3.5", not merely "3"

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extension "Download Statusbar" Now Adware - Maybe Malware

« Last post by Curt on October 31, 2011, 03:27 PM »

-it is a little tiring to read all those hard words. Download Statusbar was developed and maintained freely by the trustworthy Devon Jensen. By the 20'th of September the addon suddenly belonged to a "C.J."; identity unknown. We don't know what happened, but we do know that shit happens. Get on.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Software recommendations for writers

« Last post by Curt on October 31, 2011, 12:58 PM »

Dolphin Text Editor Menu 1.9 Dolphin Text Editor Menu expands the functionality of any text editor. It doesn't replace your current text editors -- it makes them better. Dolphin Text Editor Menu will work with any software where you can type.
http://www.majorgeek...itor_Menu_d6957.html

-AHMalik (June 17, 2011, 09:13 AM)

-easy not to notice, but quite useful:





-and free for non-commercial use.
http://www.animal-so...text-editor-menu.php

edited:

System Requirements
Dolphin Text Editor Menu has been tested on Windows XP / Vista 32bit / Windows 7 32bit + 64bit.
    Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 (The installer will download this for you if necessary)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Product Key Finder (Excellent & Free)

« Last post by Curt on October 28, 2011, 06:55 PM »

-my first screenshot (Select action: Scan this and that) made it look as if the $25 version could do all this. That is not the case:

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General Software Discussion / Re: Product Key Finder (Excellent & Free)

« Last post by Curt on October 28, 2011, 06:24 PM »

most of the above mentioned programs are amateurs, compared to the $25 Recover Keys:

Which 3134 software activation codes can Recover Keys retrieve?

Edited:
oh, yeah, I should of course tell that it didn't find some 300-400 other keys.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extension "Download Statusbar" Now Adware - Maybe Malware

« Last post by Curt on October 28, 2011, 06:00 PM »

the new version is 0.9.10

Does any one dare to test it?

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General Software Discussion / Re: personal favourites start page

« Last post by Curt on October 28, 2011, 02:38 PM »

The closest idea of an alternative I tried is 43Marks .. here is a sample one-page app on Bible topics :
http://43marks.com/purebible

-Steven Avery (October 28, 2011, 09:54 AM)

 -thanks for telling about 43marks, Steven. Linkshelf might be working just as good, but it is simply too pathetic looking to catch my interest. 43marks is not smart looking either, but it looks more as if it will do the job. I have added 43marks to my start page (Firefox Speed Dial) as link/page number 10:

2/3 scale:

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General Software Discussion / Re: SoftMaker Office 2012 BETA testing

« Last post by Curt on October 27, 2011, 04:23 PM »

- a little cheaper than the original eM Client. But no lifetime key.

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General Software Discussion / Re: SoftMaker Office 2012 BETA testing

« Last post by Curt on October 27, 2011, 03:57 PM »

$149.95 Lifetime Upgrades, Today approx $100 via Bits du Jour

-Curt (October 27, 2011, 11:45 AM)

I thought that was fairly expensive:
rounding it up, it's actually "only" $50 & $25 respectively

-tomos (October 27, 2011, 01:19 PM)

-no, that is merely a one year license, and then another $20 per year!
The lifetime offer only shows up if you click "buy" and place a check mark in "lifetime license".

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General Software Discussion / Re: SoftMaker Office 2012 BETA testing

« Last post by Curt on October 27, 2011, 11:45 AM »

http://www.emclient.com/

-TucknDar (October 27, 2011, 11:17 AM)

http://www.bitsdujou.../software/em-client/ 50% off for another 14 hours.

edited:

you can install on laptop and PC, but you need to request (the extra) license manually at [email protected]

video:

$149.95 Lifetime Upgrades, Today approx $100 via Bits du Jour

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Acronis Home 2012 and Malwarebytes PRO for $25

« Last post by Curt on October 27, 2011, 03:03 AM »

http://www.bitsdujou...ytes-2/src=halloween is same price  but apparently today only, so your link is the more useful.

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General Software Discussion / Re: CFi ShellToys 7.3

« Last post by Curt on October 25, 2011, 06:02 PM »

You get (...) and a tabbed CFi Explorer,

-Curt (October 22, 2011, 09:37 AM)

Easy to not notice, but CFi Explorer is a genuine Explorer replacement:

CFi Explorer is an alternative to Windows Explorer for users of Windows 7/Vista which has one fundamental difference: it allows you to have numerous folders open at once, each in its own tab. These folders don't just look like Windows Explorer – they are real Explorer windows.

click to enlarge:




CFi Explorer should be intuitive to use for anyone familiar with Windows Explorer, but here are a few notes about the basics:


Opening new tabs: Initially, CFi Explorer displays just one tab containing the Computer folder. You can open a new tab by pressing Ctrl+T, choosing Tabs > New Tab, or double-clicking the glass area containing the tabs.

Opening a folder in a new tab: There are various ways to open drives or folders in new tabs:

    Right-click a folder and choose Open in new tab
    Hold the Ctrl key when clicking a folder in the tree or double-clicking a folder in the view
    Drag-and-drop a folder onto the glass area containing the tabs. (You can do this with a folder shown in CFi Explorer, Windows Explorer or anywhere else.)
    Hold Ctrl when clicking a folder shown on the breadcrumb bar or a breadcrumb menu.

Copying or moving files between tabs: Drag the selected item up to the tab containing the target folder (using either mouse button) and hover over that tab for a moment: CFi Explorer will switch to that tab, letting you drop the items into it.

Using Favorites: Via the Favorites menu you can save the current folder – or the group of current tabs – as a Favorite. Click an item on the Favorites menu to open it in the current tab, or hold Ctrl when clicking it to open it in a new tab.

Using the breadcrumb bar: Click a folder on the breadcrumb bar (or a folder on one of the breadcrumb menus) to open it in the current tab, or hold Ctrl when clicking it to open it in a new tab.

Using tabset files: You can also save a shortcut to a single folder or the current set of tabs as a tabset file. Double-click a tabset file to open it in a new CFi Explorer window, or drop a tabset file onto the glass area containing the tabs to open it in the current window.

Using Filters: You can apply a custom file filter to the current folder to hide files that don't match the filter (or to hide files that do match it), to show only the files you want to see.

Easy sorting in Windows 7: Although Windows Explorer no longer contains a header bar in Windows 7, other than in Details view, the header bar appears in all icon views in CFi Explorer, making it as easy to sort items as it is in Windows Vista's Explorer.

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General Software Discussion / Re: SoftMaker Office 2012 BETA testing

« Last post by Curt on October 25, 2011, 05:14 PM »

-no email client yet.
AFAIK the "final" SoftMaker 2012 will be launched before the email client is ready.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Meet the new FOG! Same as the old FOG?

« Last post by Curt on October 25, 2011, 05:10 PM »

>>This month we're celebrating DOUBLE birthdays. Twenty years ago the FontDesigner-box The very first "FontLab" very first version of FontLab (back then it was "Font Designer") was introduced at the October Comdex in Las Vegas. But twenty-five years ago a company called Altsys released this brand new thing called a font editor. And its name was Fontographer.<<

Fontographer Turns 25!
and you get 25% off

Just place an order for any Fontographer  version, upgrade or bundle through our website by midnight, October 31, and your discount will be automatically applied.


Save 20% on all (other) FontLab Studio versions, upgrades and bundles. Just use this coupon code when you place your order: 8XS-M31-7GA

 
Offer Expires: midnight, Pacific time, 31 October 2011
http://www.fontlab.com/

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General Software Discussion / Re: SoftMaker Office 2012 BETA testing

« Last post by Curt on October 25, 2011, 05:01 PM »

------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. Second beta of SoftMaker Office 2012 for Windows
------------------------------------------------------------------------

The public beta test of SoftMaker Office 2012 for Windows progresses
nicely. We have just released the second beta that comes with the
following improvements:

- PPTX export completed (animations are now exported, too).
- Berlitz translation dictionaries included
- Improved PDF export
- Improvements to all import and export filters

If you have already downloaded and installed the first beta, you can
simply download and install the second beta from here:

http://www.softmaker...n/ofw2012probeta.exe

If you want to participate in this beta test for the first time,
please register and download the beta here:

http://www.softmaker.com

------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Arcsoft 50%Discount

« Last post by Curt on October 24, 2011, 01:04 PM »

The PhotoStudio6 banner on http://www.arcsoft.c...tners/softpedia.html does not include a 50% off -link; it is only a picture.