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General Software Discussion / Re: Irfanview4 released

« Last post by Nighted on May 10, 2007, 04:06 AM »

IrfanView suxx0rs!!!! 

FastStone lets you grab thumbnails, rearrange them and then rename them in the new order. Plus the thumbs aren't obstructed when selected, plus it's portable, and the zoom function is awesome. Also, for just viewing images, there's nothing faster that I can think of.

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Living Room / Re: Will copying 300 GB from one hard drive to another kill it?

« Last post by Nighted on May 08, 2007, 03:13 AM »

Keep that hard drive cool. Make sure you have adequate cooling in your machine.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Pidgin 2.0 Review (updated open source instant messaging client - formerly GAIM)

« Last post by Nighted on May 06, 2007, 01:30 PM »

So does this actually compete with Miranda? Last time I tried Gaim, I quickly removed it as it was lacking many features I'd become accustomed to.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Any freeware alternatives to Instant ThumbView?

« Last post by Nighted on May 06, 2007, 01:25 PM »

Sri, you could use the Groups feature in QTTabBar the same way you use favourites. Groups actually will allow you open one or many directories with one click.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Any freeware alternatives to Instant ThumbView?

« Last post by Nighted on May 06, 2007, 03:57 AM »

Sri, right click beside a tab (not directly on the tab) and select Options. Go to Misc. and make sure to check "Show preview tooltip".

Darwin, ok, I'm going to bed now! Good night! 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Flash Game of the Day: The Last Stand

« Last post by Nighted on May 06, 2007, 02:29 AM »

http://www.samorost.net/samorost1/

Another good one...not sure if it's been fgotd before, but maybe it should soon.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Any freeware alternatives to Instant ThumbView?

« Last post by Nighted on May 06, 2007, 02:00 AM »

This is what we have all been looking for! It's about freakin' time too! 

It works beautifully and fast on my machine too. Doesn't work in Open/Save dialogs or on the desktop though, but works brilliantly in explorer windows.

Newest version of QTTabBar 1.0.16 released maybe minutes ago just so happens to now have this feature. Maybe the author reads these forums?

Thanks again Curt for letting me know about this software. It just keeps getting better. 
When I move to Europe, you can buy me a beer (or 10).

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General Software Discussion / Re: E Texteditor experiences?

« Last post by Nighted on May 05, 2007, 04:11 PM »

Yeah, that avatar pretty much killed this topic! 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Any freeware alternatives to Instant ThumbView?

« Last post by Nighted on May 05, 2007, 02:56 PM »

Curt, Instant ThumbView is unreliable because it does not always render the thumbnail. For instance, it can be something as simple as the file name that creates this behavior (not an unusual filename either).

Personally, I'll just use thumbnail view or when that's not possible, I have Xentient Thumbnails installed, which basically creates the file icon from the actual image.

Thanks Crono, I was unaware that the XnView team had a context menu viewer...I will check this out. I currently use FirmTools ShellExtension.

If anyone needs to have thumbnails set as the default view in Open dialogs, you can use OpenWide, Viewtify (add programs to an ini file to have separate views for each application), and Direct Folders (HORRIBLE, if not non-existent customer support and unstable behaviour...I see the guy has had time to release a new app, but not respond to my support request of many moons ago - DO NOT buy anything from this guy, support your friend Nighted, ok? ).

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General Software Discussion / Re: E Texteditor experiences?

« Last post by Nighted on May 04, 2007, 02:44 PM »

zridling, nice avatar!!! lol

 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Any freeware alternatives to Instant ThumbView?

« Last post by Nighted on May 04, 2007, 02:39 PM »

I asked about this here ages ago and found nothing. No one here seemed to know of anything at that time either.

The author of Color Set used to have a freeware program that did this, but of course I can not find it anywhere on the net, and I spent a fair amount of time searching. Searching finds tons of hits, but mostly for web based script for performing thumbnail actions in browsers.

It's too bad there's no alternative to Instant ThumbView as it's not a reliable program. Definitely not worth the money.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Participate: Online survey of installed fonts

« Last post by Nighted on April 30, 2007, 12:28 PM »

I have so many fonts. I've collected them from websites, emule, included with skins, etc. I couldn't tell which, if any of them are supposed to be licensed, I'm sure many are. I'll stay away from this survey.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Free text/file comparison tool?

« Last post by Nighted on April 29, 2007, 05:49 PM »

Yeah, I saw this thread and WinMerge was the first thing that came to mind. Awesome freeware.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Whats the best program to learn typing?

« Last post by Nighted on April 28, 2007, 10:39 AM »

Miss Helm, my grade 7 typing teacher. I did NOT want to learn how to type. I vehemently objected. I thought it was impossible and a skill that I would never need. She somehow forced me to do it (in retrospect, she must have been one tough chick because I was a monster!). Still not sure how (although, taping over all the keys on all the typewriters was a big factor). Eventually, to my amazement, I was typing!

No computers though, just learned from a typing book.

I didn't see Ten Thumbs Typing Tutor or Typer Tutor (free) anywhere in that typing software comparison.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Do you use 7-Zip files?

« Last post by Nighted on April 25, 2007, 04:31 PM »

I find with the new version of WinRAR that my RAR files actually get better compression.

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General Software Discussion / Re: WINDOWS MEDIA

« Last post by Nighted on April 25, 2007, 03:10 PM »

K-Lite Mega Codec Pack is everything you need. It's always up to date.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Two free windows explorer enhancements

« Last post by Nighted on April 25, 2007, 09:44 AM »

UltraExplorer is a mess! Nice features, butj ust a bunch of modules slapped together. So much junk code, so much wasted resources.

This would be awesome if it was all one proprietary application. I'm partial to tightly coded software. I'm not a big fan of "lego" built software.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Streaming server ?

« Last post by Nighted on April 24, 2007, 04:22 PM »

All you need is VLC.

As if no one mentioned it. (I have a friend that uses it for this purpose)

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General Software Discussion / Re: MyPenDrive: Extended autorun functions for all USB drives

« Last post by Nighted on April 24, 2007, 07:48 AM »

Interesting, but I'll stick with PStart.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Good (free) encryption... without any trouble ?

« Last post by Nighted on April 20, 2007, 08:02 PM »

You could try TrueCrypt.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Fast Explorer: Tweak Your Context Menu

« Last post by Nighted on April 19, 2007, 02:53 AM »

Yes, I was surprised at how much it actually offers.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Fast Explorer: Tweak Your Context Menu

« Last post by Nighted on April 18, 2007, 05:17 PM »

It does that too.

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

« Last post by Nighted on April 18, 2007, 02:31 PM »

Don't tell Curt what to like. He is very stubborn! 

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General Software Discussion / Fast Explorer: Tweak Your Context Menu

« Last post by Nighted on April 18, 2007, 01:56 PM »

Found this today.

I already have a few ideas on how I can use it, especially for extracting archives (in particular, those that I don't want associated with WinRAR etc.).

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

« Last post by Nighted on April 18, 2007, 09:24 AM »

ClipCache is currently 3.1.0 and has never crashed. It's clipmenus pop up immediately.

ClipX and ArsClip are 2 completely different applications and can't really be compared. ArsClip does not support graphics at all, so totally useless for me.