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Some points I would make:
Berry (NoteFrog author) stated that the NF software is intended to be an Information Manager, rather than a Clipboard Manager. I think the original prototype for it was ClipGuru - a clipboard manager. I thus class it as a PIM (Personal Information Manager). (By comparison, CHS is apparently a Clipboard Manager that started out life as being intended as a PIM.)
NF is a WIP, and will be slowly getting there with each successive release.

Ergonomics:
  • For me, one of the single most frustrating things about NF is that the default setting in NF at startup is/was clipboard capture OFF. If you want it ON, then you have to set it manually every time. It doesn't STAY ON by design. If you have blithely spent an hour researching and clipping lots of stuff only to discover that you have nothing to show for it, then you will see my point. Even if you have set NF clipboard capture ON, it is not persistent, and the default seems to be reset under certain circumstances - e.g., if the laptop crashes, or if you install NF afresh (though this behaviour is not consistent.).
  • Garish colours in a UI can be visually/perceptually disruptive. In NF, the colours of the UI seem to be adjustable to some extent. They don't need to be that garish if you find them disruptive. I wish I could do that with the glary washed-out colours in OneNote 2013 under Win7/8. (OneNote 2007 was fine.) However, it doesn't stop me from using OneNote 2013, which is a tremendously powerful PIM.
  • There seem to be some fairly major constraints to the easy entry of text in the NF process of entering text or editing a note, and I have reported those to Berry.
  • NF needs a built-in dynamic spellchecker.
  • As you scroll down a list of notes, the viewer in NF is quite fast - seems to be consistently faster (responsive) than compared with (say) CHS, for example, which has intermittent lags on scrolling. However, that doesn't stop me from using CHS.

Searches/hyperlinks:
  • NF searches can be saved for re-use. (Similar to CHS, which uses saved SQL searches as "Favorites".) The effect in NF and CHS can be rather akin to "tagging" if you use special strings in text as tags - e.g., "#this is a tag", but you have to set each and every tag, which would be tedious in the extreme. Both NF and CHS could benefit significantly from automatic bulk text insertion/removal of the same text string into/from many clips.
  • NF uses "Stacks", and I discovered that it had the ability to hyperlink content within an individual stack and between different stacks. This was apparently not intended as a design feature, and has been disabled. Still, it would be great to have. For example, OneNote has hyperlinking, and it works a treat - is very useful. You can hyperlink within a single OneNote Notebook, across multiple Notebooks, and externally - e.g., to a file on a local or network drive, or a Cloud drive, or a URL on the Internet.
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@dcwul62:
The version numbering is confusing, and seems to have got out of step somewhat (the version numbering in the files is "0.0.0.0").
As best I can establish, this seems to be a correct summary of the actual time-dated releases, sources and file sizes:
Code: Text [Select]
  1. NoteFrog (2013-05-xx) v2.5.2.                           2876876
  2. NoteFrog (2013-06-12) v2.6.0 FULL setup ex BLOG.exe     2971753
  3. NoteFrog (2013-11-22) v2.5.5B FULL setup ex FORUM.exe   2971689
  4. Notefrog (2013-11-22) v2.5.5B QUICK setup ex FORUM.exe    851456

I had an email from Berry on 2014-04-27 where he mentioned the next version:
NoteFrog 3, which will ultimately include encrypted databases and HTML datatype is underdevelopment, targeted for early 2015.
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> Breaking News
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> America are sending out a crack unit to find the kidnapped school girls in Nigeria.
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> Britain are sending Stuart Hall, Rolf Harris, Max Clifford, & Dave Lee Travis
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DC Gamer Club / Re: Broforce ("Bro Force")
« Last post by IainB on May 11, 2014, 06:17 PM »
@TaoPhoenix: I did wonder about the violence etc., but by the time my son had found Broforce, he had already found several other gruesome addictive/fun games - e.g., including "Must Have Brains", the zombie "Earn To Die" + ETD2, 2012 and 2012/2. (From memory those were the names.)
His older sister had initially shown him how to play some nice cute kiddie-friendly free games, but he kept clicking on links to discover lots of new/different games - most of which he preferred to the "cute" games. I started bookmarking the ones he liked and needed us to help him with, and he knows to use use the bookmarks to go back to them. He finds some of them a bit scary - e.g., "Must Have Brains" and one with "good" and "bad" spheres that you can turn into squares and back to spheres and have to solve to get rid of the baddies (roll them off the screen into an abyss) and leave just the goodies.) - but enjoys the puzzle/problem-solving they challenge you with. He gets a bit scared by any games that are difficult to defeat and which "kill" his player (e.g., the "BombIt" series and Broforce), though he enjoys the animation and music. That's when he asks his sister and I for help. He was very pleased with himself the other day when he saw how surprised I was at how expeditiously he overcame the challenge of a difficult Broforce level that a month or so ago would have been impossible for him. One forgets how quickly little kids pick things up by trial-and-error learning, given half a chance.
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DC Gamer Club / Re: Broforce ("Bro Force")
« Last post by IainB on May 11, 2014, 05:50 PM »
Crap, that level with the gunship is really hard (I also think it the final boss and after that this particular version of the game ends).
Not even with Brobocop I manage to hit the gunship enough to take it down.
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Wow, that was fast work! You must be pretty good at this. It took me quite a l-o-n-g while (many retries) to get past a couple of the immediately preceding levels (before the flying gunship one). I suspect it might indeed be the last level in the prototype, and maybe was made impossible to beat for that reason - if you know there are higher levels, you usually want to take on the challenge of getting to them.
Chuck Norris (has the laser target bomb strike special weapon) seems to be the most powerful Bro for attacking destructive machines or groups, but has little impact on the gunship before he gets wiped out.
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CAUTION: YOU MAY PEE YOUR PANTS LAUGHING. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!!!

...

Well, I didn't pee in my pants laughing, but I thought the self-appointed Japanese candidate for the US Presidency was quite clever. Gets lots of a digs in. Good find.
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DC Gamer Club / Broforce ("Bro Force")
« Last post by IainB on May 11, 2014, 04:40 AM »
My 3¾ y/o son likes hunting for games on the Internet. He turns up some really interesting online ones - BubbleHit, PapaLoui2 being two really addictive examples - and which you could download to your PC and play/save their levels and restore/return to them later. A while back, he found one called Broforce - a free prototype that now seems to be appearing as a paid development or something, on Steam (?).
The prototype ("brototype") was on different free-to-play-sites - one example is http://www.silvergames.com/broforce
This Broforce downloads as a 37.7Mb file game.unity3d and plays via a Firefox plugin.

Broforce is an amazingly addictive and fun game - lots of shooting, violent explosions, splatter, baddies, etc. and with hugely tongue-in-cheek references to American movie heroes. My daughter and I started to play it with my son because he wasn't dexterous enough to play it at first, and the levels get harder the higher you go. He's now pretty impressive at it, and we are all addicted to it.
We are stuck, unable to get past a very high level (they are not numbered), where a  flying gunship hovers around blasting you to smithereens whether you are on the surface or underground.

Any pointers to tactics/hacks/cheats to get past this level - assuming there is another level - would be welcome.
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I've just downloaded and installed Privacy Badger ß Add-on from the EFF.
(Copied below sans embedded hyperlinks/images.)
Privacy Badger blocks spying ads and invisible trackers. It's there to ensure that companies can't track your browsing without your consent.

This extension is designed to automatically protect your privacy from third party trackers that load invisibly when you browse the web. We send the Do Not Track header with each request, and our extension evaluates the likelihood that you are still being tracked. If the algorithm deems the likelihood is too high, we automatically block your request from being sent to the domain. Please understand that Privacy Badger is in beta, and the algorithm's determination is not conclusive that the domain is tracking you.

Our extension has three states. Red means block the tracker. Yellow means that we don't send cookies or referers to the tracker. Green means unblocked (probably because the third party does not appear to be tracking you). You can click on the Privacy Badger icon in your browser's toolbar if you wish to override the automatic blocking settings. Or, you can browse in peace as Privacy Badger starts finding and eating up web trackers one by one.

Nothing can stop the Privacy Badger from eating cookies when it's hungry!

Privacy Badger is a project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
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Just for our information, I asked on the xplorer² User Forum for the Specification of what SHRED does..

Nikos posted a reply:
Re: Specification of what SHRED does.
nikos » Tue Apr 29, 2014 2:24 am
shred does a good job but it isn't FBI proof
www.zabkat.com/blog/30Aug09-destroy-files.htm
you can shred a file and try to restore it yourself and see how it goes
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Living Room / Re: Malware removal - PUP.Optional.CrossRider.A
« Last post by IainB on April 30, 2014, 06:35 AM »
Added an edit to the opening post:
EDIT 2014-04-30 2332hrs:
By the way, as a precaution I did of course expunge every last trace of oCam, and as a result of this experience I would strongly recommend that you never download the thing. I certainly wouldn't touch it with a bargepole again. There is, after all, such a thing as a failure of trust.
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Living Room / Re: Malware removal - PUP.Optional.CrossRider.A
« Last post by IainB on April 30, 2014, 06:31 AM »
^^ Yes, the residual hijacked search page in IE11 bugged me. I managed to defeat it by trial and error, but being able to get at IE's innards and certainly hack it (as can be done with Firefox) would have been of more help.
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Screenshot Captor / Re: The Great Screenshot Captor Ruler Debate Thread
« Last post by IainB on April 30, 2014, 03:31 AM »
^^ Well, I thought SC needed a ruler, and then figured out that it didn't, as it effectively already had exactly what was needed (for me at any rate) - Re: The Great Screenshot Captor Ruler Debate Thread. That's my "use case" there.
The thing is, I had not realised that this was the case, until I paid close attention to some of the points in this discussion thread.    :-[
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Living Room / Malware removal - PUP.Optional.CrossRider.A
« Last post by IainB on April 30, 2014, 02:18 AM »
Posted as a warning and for information/use of other DC denizens.

Following a link in Lifehacker, oCam Supercharges Screen Capture in Windows, I went to the oCam developer's website at http://www.ohsoft.net. There I found they had 4 products:
  • oCam
  • VirtualDVD
  • CoffeeZip
  • SecretFolder

I downloaded and installed oCam (it was a straightforward silent install), as that was what I was primarily interested in, and took a look at the other 3 items, downloading VirtualDVD as that looked like it could be useful to me.
I gave oCam a quick try out, and it seemed to do what it was designed for rather well.
I then turned my attention to something else and opened up IE11 (this is on a laptop with Win7-64 Home Premium), and saw that the default page was what looked like a search page hijack for unifinder.net.
At the bottom of the page there was a box with small type in it that said:
You can change the search engine using the PageUp, PageDown key and Mouse Wheel.
 * If keyword is the URL address, we will go directly to the site. ;)
 * [100% Freeware] Screen Recorder / DVD-ROM emulator / File Archiver / Hide Folder Download   
Copyright Ohsoft.net All Right Reserved
After a bit of experimentation, I recognised that the search page was a trojan hijack - i.e., it persisted between IE sessions and could not be deleted. It kept recreating itself as file unifinder.em[1].js.
Fearing the worst, I set MBAM (Malwarebytes PRO) on a scan, and it took a few minutes to come up with a report that 8 folders and 60 files had been infected with (PUP.Optional.CrossRider.A). The infected items were quarantined and deleted, necessitating what MBAM said was an "urgent" reboot of the laptop (some of the malware had been running in RAM).
After reboot, I re-ran the MBAM scan (better safe than sorry) and then turned my attention to the IE start page, which still had the persistent unifinder.net page. I eventually figured out that if I set another website page as the start page instead, and shredded the file unifinder.em[1].js, then the problem was cleared.

I then did a DuckGo search on (PUP.Optional.CrossRider.A), and discovered that "PUP" stands for "Potentially Unwanted Program". I ran MBAM and MS Security Essentials over the installer files for oCam and VirtualDVD, but they both came up "clean". I shredded both files and added some notes to avoid them, to my OneNote Notebook.

The DuckGo search on (PUP.Optional.CrossRider.A) also came up with an interesting post at fixpcyourself.com about a variant of it - Remove PUP.Optional.Cgminer Virus
Another learning experience.

EDIT 2014-04-30 2332hrs:
By the way, as a precaution I did of course expunge every last trace of oCam, and as a result of this experience I would strongly recommend that you never download the thing. I certainly wouldn't touch it with a bargepole again. There is, after all, such a thing as a failure of trust.
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...When running a file-recovery tool (e.g. Recuva, R-Undelete or so) using a kind 'deep scan' method,
it will display the foldername/path....

VERY interesting. Thanks for that bit of knowledge. I must check whether xplorer² is similar.
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@tomos: Yes, it's quite clear from the manual that this secure delete/"wipe" feature is already in Opus. I presume it would be a feature in any decent alternative to Windows Explorer - e.g., it's in xplorer² (which I use).
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General Software Discussion / Re: How to repair zip files?
« Last post by IainB on April 26, 2014, 11:40 PM »
I wonder whether we aren't discussing a non-existent problem.
It might be simply a case where, as @Shades put it:
Always use the latest version of your favorite zip/unzip software. It might be that the person creating the archive has used an option not yet available in the version you have running and you will get this type of error message. ...

Has anyone in this discussion thread actually had a repeatable case where their system created a ZIP file that was later found to be invalid and/or corrupted?
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Living Room / Re: Peer Review and the Scientific Process
« Last post by IainB on April 26, 2014, 11:09 AM »
A curious paper on psychology by one Prof Lewandowsky at the Univ. of Western Australia was recently retracted by its publishers, Frontiers, and for cogent reasons.
As reported here, the Lewandowsky retraction raises issues on Peer Review.
Climate Papers Without Peer
by Tony Thomas 6-4-14

Want your, er, highly innovative research to get lots of attention, the sort that keeps those grants coming? You could do worse than start with some kind words from a peer-reviewer whose work is glowingly cited in your own paper. After that, apply for the next batch of grants

Peer review is claimed to be the gold standard for scientific papers. Yet in the establishment climate science world, “peer review” operates differently. Professor Stephan Lewandowsky’s now-retracted paper Recursive Fury, about conspiracy-mindedness of “deniers”, raises a few issues about peer reviewing.
(Read the rest at the link.)
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General Software Discussion / Re: How to repair zip files?
« Last post by IainB on April 26, 2014, 05:18 AM »
^^ Good point re WinRAR and the "recovery record". I vaguely recall that as being amongst its list of features when I used to use it some time ago.

I just now did a DuckGo search on "Repair corrupt ZIP" and came up with several hits, including this interesting one about ZIP Repair Pro:
Repair Zip Files using Zip Repair
Zip Repair
Zip Repair is a utility that will repair corrupt Zip files. Usually a corrupt Zip file gives the error message:

"Cannot open file: it does not appear to be a valid archive"

Zip Repair creates an error free backup of your original file for instant access, or you can extract files directly from a corrupt ZIP file to your hard drive. No special skills required. A simple user interface with full install / uninstall support.

Version 5:
  • New: Repair a Zip file or extract files directly from the ZIP
  • New: Zip Repair will fix CRC errors in .zip files so that data can still be uncompressed
  • New: Zip Repair supports spanned zip volumes. You can now repair and extract from a spanned zip set even if part of the set is missing
  • New: Full support for the Zip64 format
  • New: Support for huge file sizes 2GB+ (as long as you have the disk space)
  • New: Batch repair multiple ZIP files

It doesn't say whether it can recover all of a corrupted ZIP file's contents 100% of the time, but it could be worth a try if you are stuck with a truly corrupted file that (say) 7-ZIP cannot open/read or where other approaches suggested above have drawn a blank.

A year or so past, I downloaded a corrupted executable install file for Stickies. It executed fine but wouldn't install properly - the install got stuck in a program loop. So I asked the author (Tom Revell of Zhorn Software) about it and he was mystified. He sent me a ZIP file (which installed just fine) and asked me to send him a copy of the installer file that I had downloaded. It turned out that it had a different checksum to the one on the download server, so it must have got corrupted in transmission, somehow, and yet it still executed with no error message.
After that experience, I now usually look for the checksum of downloaded executable and other archive files, for file verification, and also - just in case - try to open and test them using 7-ZIP.
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General Software Discussion / Re: How to repair zip files?
« Last post by IainB on April 25, 2014, 07:40 AM »
Interesting. I would usually remove WinZip from the XP and let the standard system ZIP functionality in Windows Explorer do the work - mainly because Search/Index could read files in Windows-created ZIP archives, but not necessarily in ZIP archives created by proprietary ZIP archiving tools.
I never had a "corrupt" ZIP file, and I do not see how such corruption could occur, or even that it should (other things being equal and no system problems). However, I did find that sometimes ZIP archives created by proprietary ZIP archiving tools could not be read by Windows Explorer, but could be opened by (say) 7-ZIP without any difficulty.

Similarly, using Win7, I have never had any difficulty with the standard system ZIP functionality.

There was a post made earlier - a couple of days ago - in this thread that I think might have been deleted as spam, or something, but actually it seemed helpful and pointed to some good references, so I have copied it below. Malwarebytes didn't ring any alarms when I followed the link given. The notes seem genuine enough.
[email protected]
Dear friend,
Corrupted zip files can be repaired with the help of manual solution using WinRar application. It has inbuilt tool that repairs your damaged file and makes it accessible. Visit the link given below to know the steps required to execute:

http://nalavadebela....rupted-archive-file/

These steps are very easy and no such technical knowledge is required to execute this manual process. You can also read detailed description about corruption and solution to repair file in this blog post.
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I thought this was rather funny - made me LOL anyway: You Won't Believe This Border Patrol Checkpoint Refusal Video


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I am made unspeakably annoyed by an email I received this morning.
(Copied below sans embedded hyperlinks/images.)
email from: David Moon, Demand Progress <[email protected]>

This is urgent. The TPP Internet censorship plan is being finalized in secret meetings right now.  We're teaming up with several other organizations and millions of people to block it.

We need all hands on deck at this crucial moment.  We'll be delivering millions of petition signatures in about a week, and we want your name to be one of them -- just click here.

Here’s the situation: President Obama himself is in secretive meetings with key political figures and lobbyists in Asia to lock the Trans-Pacific Partnership’s Internet censorship plan into place.

We know from leaked documents that this secretive plan will censor your use of the Internet and strip away your rights. If finalized, this plan would force ISPs to act as “Internet Police”, monitoring our Internet use, censoring content, and removing whole websites.

It will give media conglomerates centralized control over what you can watch and share online.

We urgently need your help to fight back. Add your voice right now and we’ll project a Stop the Secrecy message on key buildings in Washington D.C. to ensure Obama, the media, and everyone else knows this censorship plan must be stopped.

Once key leaders finalize TPP Internet censorship plans it will be used to globalize censorship across the world. This may be our only chance to stop it.

Our attention-grabbing message will shine a light on their secret plan and will make clear to Washington lobbyists that the Internet community will never accept the TPP’s secrecy or censorship. The more who speak out, the larger our projection will become, and the more people we can reach.

This is a decisive moment: we need to act right now -- join us, OpenMedia, and DailyKos as we fight back.

Join with millions of people all over the world to shine a light on the TPP’s job-killing Internet censorship plan. Let’s send decision-makers and the lobbyists pulling the strings a message they can’t ignore: "Stop the secrecy now."

With every voice that is added to our call the Stop The Secrecy projection in Washington bigger and brighter.

We’ve stalled them before and we can kill this censorship plan if we act together at this critical moment.

The bureaucrats and lobbyists think they can ram through this damaging binding plan behind your back and without your consent.

Click here to help make sure they don't let them get away with it.

Thank you for being a part of history,

Demand Progress

If one wants to, one can add one's name to the petition at: https://stopthesecrecy.net/?src=dp, where it says (my emphasis):
(Copied below sans embedded hyperlinks/images.)
The TPP is huge: It covers 40% of the global economy and will overwrite national laws affecting people around the world.3

The worst of the TPP threatens everything we care about: democracy, jobs, health, the environment, and the Internet.  That's why decision-makers are meeting in Asia under extreme secrecy and pushing 'Fast Track' laws to cement the plan into place.

This is no way to make decisions in the 21st century. We need to raise a loud global call to expose this dangerous secrecy now.

With every voice that is added to our call, a donor will contribute to make the Stop The Secrecy projection on buildings in Washington D.C. bigger and brighter. We need to make this as big as possible when Obama returns to Washington on April 30th.

Please add your voice to help us build one of the largest online campaigns the world has ever seen.
 
Maximize Our Impact by Spreading the Word:

Image: StopTheSecrecy spotlight
 
Are you in the U.S.? Check out 'Save the World: Stop Fast Track' from Global Trade Watch:
Save The World: Stop Fast Track


Click here if you haven't added your voice yet.
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Absolutely brilliant. Flying Robot Rockstars

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General Software Discussion / Re: HashTab - Great little tool ...
« Last post by IainB on April 23, 2014, 09:46 PM »
@MilesAhead: Thanks. Have downloaded it to try out.
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