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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: MS Office 2013 US$9.95 Corporate/Enterprise Home Use Program - Mini-Review

« Last post by IainB on March 13, 2014, 07:52 AM »

My setup:

• Laptop: HP ENVY 14
• CPU: with Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU Q 720 @ 1.60GHz
• GPU: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650
• OS: Win7-64 Home Premium

In attempting to overcome the glary nature of the high-res display on my laptop, I have:

• Experimented with and set and reset ClearType several times to check it is right for me.
• Experimented with setting all graphics and animations ON and OFF. Left them all ON.
• Experimented with setting the GPU ON and OFF for display assistance. Left it ON.

MS Office 32-bit versions 2007 and 2013 are installed and they have both worked and displayed just fine throughout these changes.
So far, I have been unable to reproduce the problem(s) as described by yourself and others with v2013.
The question I have is thus "How come?"

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional Edition 5.5 free

« Last post by IainB on March 13, 2014, 03:01 AM »

@Curt: You could post the link (URL) minus your personal details, you know...

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: MS Office 2013 US$9.95 Corporate/Enterprise Home Use Program - Mini-Review

« Last post by IainB on March 13, 2014, 02:08 AM »

^^ I don't have any problems except that I don't like the glary screens of Office 2013 on my laptops.

Did you try this too?:

why the fonts in word 2013 are blurry? - Microsoft Community

In reply to Doug Robbins - Word MVPs post on February 7, 2013:
Check under File>Options>Advanced>Display and check the box for "Use subpixel positioning to smooth fonts on screen" and also try changing the setting for "Disable hardware graphics acceleration"
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OUTSTANDING!!!! Doug, Your The Man!!! BY GOD IT WORKS NOW. Can you tell I'm Happy? I can get out of the Doghouse now with my wife. As you suggested: checked the Display: the "Use subpixel positioning..." was already checked on (presuming it is the Default). Then I found the "Disable hardware graphics acceleration" box Unchecked. I checked the box and exited. Immediately the document on the screen (and Word menus) were clear. I next went to the Font menu box and scrolled up and down the listed Fonts. Instant change for the selected area (I had selected the whole doc) per the highlighted Fonts. Really Impressive to see such changes occur real-time. Next, loaded Excel and a file with text, numbers and graphics. Clear as a bell. I am going to send the Microsoft tech rep who `helped' me last and tell him YOU found the answer to their ****-a-Mamie new feature. Three Cheers for Doug! Hip-Hip-Hooray, Hip-Hip-Hooray,Hip-Hip-Hooray!

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by IainB on March 12, 2014, 04:17 PM »

The oldest photo of our childhood:

-Giampy (March 12, 2014, 03:41 PM)

I read somewhere that the earliest stage was "the glint in your father's eye"...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful

« Last post by IainB on March 12, 2014, 04:12 PM »

...Does it really work? Wow. It hasn't been updated for 11 months, so I assumed...
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-Curt (March 12, 2014, 08:47 AM)

It most decidedly does work, and you can crawl any website, gathering specific file types.
For example, from the Mozilla FoxySpider Add-on page:
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About this Add-on
With FoxySpider you can:

• Get all photos from an entire website
• Get all video clips from an entire website
• Get all audio files from an entire website
• Well, actually get any file type you want from an entire website

FoxySpider can be used to create a thumbnail gallery containing links to rich media files of any file types you are interested in. It can also crawl deep to any level on a website and display the applicable files it found in the same gallery. FoxySpider is useful for different media content pages (music, video, images, documents), thumbnail gallery post (TGP) sites, podcasts. You can narrow and expand the search to support exactly what you want.
Once the thumbnail gallery is created you can view, download or share (on Facebook and Twitter) every file that was fetched by FoxySpider.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extensions: FoxySpider - useful image-finding tool

« Last post by IainB on March 12, 2014, 06:04 AM »

FoxySpider is a FF extension that seems to be angled at porn surfing, but it's a very handy tool if you want to investigate a site and take a look at all its images.
Well worth a look-see: http://www.foxyspider.com/about

As a test, after you have installed it, go to http://www.google.com/intl/en/about/ and right-click on the page and invoke FoxySpider. Interesting result.

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Living Room / Re: What happened?

« Last post by IainB on March 12, 2014, 01:37 AM »

Rule 34 was a new one on me too.

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Living Room / Re: Staunch US Intelligence Community defender Dian Feinstein comes to her senses.

« Last post by IainB on March 12, 2014, 01:24 AM »

...No. It's gone too far-  for far too long - to grant any additional benefit of the doubt IMO. ...
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-40hz (March 11, 2014, 08:44 PM)

...Unfortunately, it's less of that, and far more that the USA currently "has the best government money can buy." ...
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-40hz (March 11, 2014, 08:44 PM)

Well, I am just an ignorant and bemused onlooker. I confess I hadn't realised the politicians somehow bought their seats. The whole thing seems nonsensical to me and I have no real interest in American politics anyway.
You would doubtless be the better judge than I.
Send her to the guillotine.

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Living Room / Re: Staunch US Intelligence Community defender Dian Feinstein comes to her senses.

« Last post by IainB on March 11, 2014, 05:48 PM »

...And IMHO she's a total idiot that shouldn't be in office. ...
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-40hz (March 11, 2014, 04:23 PM)

It's easy to say such things. I would always suggest giving people the benefit of the doubt.
In an egalitarian society, the chances would probably be roughly 50/50 that someone elected to public office would have an IQ of less than 100, or more than 100.
More doesn't necessarily mean better. Arguably many people with an apparently low IQ and holding public office would seem to have been able to demonstrate that they could function very responsibly in their roles in society and not seem to behave or think stupidly. However, many with an apparently high IQ would seem to have been able to demonstrate that they can get away with being totally misguided and acting like complete idiots - a classic example possibly being the UK PM Chamberlain in wanting to appease Hitler, but then he died of cancer six months after leaving the premiership, and in my experience people with cancer can start to exhibit muddled thinking some considerable time before their cancer is diagnosed. In other words, people's ability to think straight could be affected by their state of health, just as (say) by their level of alcohol consumption.

From experience, whenever I have seen people behave out of character or irrationally, there has generally been something apparently wrong with them, physically or psychologically. So Senator Diane Feinstein could, for example, actually be ill and unable to reason properly or even reflect on her own past actions sufficiently objectively to be able to be honest and open about this - in which event, she could not be relied upon to be honest/reliable. But this would not necessarily be because she is a bad or stupid person, but possibly because she is or has been unwell.
The other things that give rise to apparent irrationality could typically include, for example, being trapped in a belief in a particular religio-political ideology, or committed to some criminal intent, but I would presume neither of these would apply in Feinstein's case.

Of course, if, despite the above, it turns out that she has in fact always been just a complete idiot, then one would need to examine how her appointment to public office came about in the first place. "You get the government you vote for."

In any event, God spare us from a technocracy or elitist ideology ruling our lives, or an idiocracy...

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Living Room / Re: Staunch US Intelligence Community defender Dian Feinstein comes to her senses.

« Last post by IainB on March 11, 2014, 04:11 PM »

...When a bad situation becomes so egregious that even the most wilfully blind are forced to see, you know the the danger is both real and present. :tellme
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-40hz (March 11, 2014, 01:29 PM)

I would suggest that the more appropriate term for "wilfully blind" should be "wilfully ignorant". There is nothing wrong in being ignorant - we all are, and it's part of what's called "the human condition". The trick is to do something remedial about it, and to develop our reasoning skills so as to search out truth/knowledge. The "wrong" thing is persisting in one's ignorance.
Just because she got knocked off her ass on the road to Damascus and had an epiphany, or something, it does not abrogate her from the responsibility now, as a Senator, for reviewing her past ignorant statements/assertions and coming clean about them. Either she was wilfully ignorant due to a self-inflicted ignorance/stupidity, or because of a concealed political bias/motivation.
If she is unable to be honest and open about this, then she cannot be trusted to be honest/reliable, QED.

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY - Image Capture and Upload Program

« Last post by IainB on March 11, 2014, 03:46 PM »

I could be wrong, of course, but I had gathered that - post g+ - the Picasa storage was to be or had been merged/aggregated with Google drive. I have assiduously avoided g+ so am probably not in a good position to test this, either way.

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Living Room / Re: What happened?

« Last post by IainB on March 11, 2014, 03:42 PM »

That's great news, Curt.  Thanks for letting us know.

-cyberdiva (March 11, 2014, 08:15 AM)

^thank YOU, cyberdiva: You were "my girlfriend":

(I expected your answer to say it would be a matter between me and 01Net, but my girlfriend forced me to write you anyway)

-Curt's mail to Magix

!
I hope you don't mind too much...

-Curt (March 11, 2014, 08:37 AM)

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-cyberdiva (March 11, 2014, 02:14 PM)

@cyberdiva is a female??   
All along I had imagined it to be most probably a pseudonym for a bearded, sweaty him in tight black leather and rubber accoutrements wearing a Viking helmet, or something. ... another illusion shattered.   

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by IainB on March 11, 2014, 05:57 AM »

Scott Adams Blog: Message to My Government 03/06/2014
Mar 6, 2014

I never felt too violated by the news that my government can snoop on every digital communication and financial transaction I make. Maybe I should have been more bothered, but the snooping wasn't affecting my daily life, and it seemed like it might be useful for fighting terrorism, so I worried about other things instead.

This week, as I was pulling together all of my records to do taxes, I didn't get too upset that the process of taxpaying is unnecessarily frustrating and burdensome. As a citizen, I do what I need to do. I'm a team player.

I have also come to peace with the fact that my government now takes about half of my income. I figure most of it goes to good causes. I'm here to help.

I take pride in the fact that I don't let the little things get to me.

But the other day, as I was crawling my way through mountains of statements and receipts, trying to organize my records for my accountant, with several more days of this drudgery ahead, I had a disturbing thought. I must warn you in advance that this disturbing thought can only be expressed in all capital letters and it must include profanity. It goes like this.

Message to my government:

DO MY FUCKING TAXES FOR ME, YOU ASSHOLES!!! YOU ALREADY KNOW EVERY FUCKING THING I DID THIS YEAR!!!

Seriously.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: WizNote (a PIM from China) - Mini-Review + Provisional User Forum

« Last post by IainB on March 10, 2014, 05:56 PM »

...It is a bit of a slow application, that's my only complaint and probably a big reason why I'll always love things like RIghtNote that are just so fast feeling.
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-superboyac (March 10, 2014, 04:21 PM)

I noticed that it only seems to be slow for me when it is syncing or fetching from the remote server (Cloud), which is presumably located in China somewhere. I wondered whether having a VPN to a node in China might not solve that problem. I might try it and see as an experiment.
The response time will be made up of all the delays in the transaction route from the client device to the Cloud server, and back. That will include all the "hops" and all/any NSA surveillance interrupts.

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Living Room / Re: FREE SAT testing/drilling and solutions (via Khan Academy).

« Last post by IainB on March 10, 2014, 04:14 PM »

Yes, I recall the strife my American classmates had with SATs in high school. I reckon this Khan initiative is a superb improvement over the prevailing state of affairs. I am going to get my 12½ y/o daughter to register to access these tests. It should help her with her studies on the 3Rs in NZ.

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Living Room / FREE SAT testing/drilling and solutions (via Khan Academy).

« Last post by IainB on March 10, 2014, 01:19 AM »

Just received this email update from Khan Academy:

Exciting news: we’re partnering with the College Board so that all students who want to go to college can prepare for the SAT at their own pace, at no cost.

The College Board just announced that they’re redesigning the SAT for 2016, and we’re partnering with them to make free, world-class prep materials. Know anyone preparing for the SAT? Let them know:

or forward them this email

By spring 2015, students will have access to state-of-the-art, interactive learning tools that give them deep practice and help diagnose their gaps. All of this will be created through a close collaboration with the College Board specifically for the redesigned SAT. Stay tuned.

In the meantime, students taking the SAT in 2014/15 can start practicing today with hundreds of previously unreleased Math, Reading, and Writing questions from real SATs and more than 200 videos that show step-by-step solutions to each question:

Learn more about our SAT prep: www.khanacademy.org/sat

Our goal is nothing short of leveling the playing field for every student taking the SAT, so please help us reach as many people as possible.

Let's do this!

Elizabeth
Content Lead at Khan Academy

PO Box 1630, Mountain View, CA 94042

P.S. Anyone who needs to prepare for the SAT will be able to do so on Khan Academy for free. If you know anyone thinking about taking the SAT, share the news today.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Best (free?) Sandbox?

« Last post by IainB on March 09, 2014, 06:16 PM »

^^ Thanks for that further info.
Your previous comment decided me to wait and see if you came up with anything new. Your latest comment decided me that there was probably not much point in my repeating your experience on my laptop systems, so I shall not trial ToolWiz Time Freeze.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Best (free?) Sandbox?

« Last post by IainB on March 07, 2014, 05:42 PM »

^^ Thanks for the explanation + info. Very interesting.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Best (free?) Sandbox?

« Last post by IainB on March 06, 2014, 07:36 PM »

@MilesAhead: Where you say:

"... when next time it comes up the program comes up enabled instead of requiring me to start it."

Could you be more precise please? Which program are you describing?
I am very interested in how you are getting along with ToolWiz Time Freeze. Depending on your experience, I may trial it myself.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: FreeFileSync - automated backup - Mini-Review

« Last post by IainB on March 06, 2014, 04:45 PM »

Latest version update is FreeFileSync v6.3.
I have made a minor update to the opening post review above.
I have also posted a reference and a link to this review in the user reviews section at http://www.fosshub.com/FreeFileSync.html - it is awaiting moderation.
Still an excellent backup/syncing tool.
When I installed v6.3, the OpenCandy is still there by default in the "Express" install, so make sure you deselect it or select the "Customised" install if you don't want it. The OC method seems annoyingly sneaky.

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Living Room / Re: good Videos [short films] here :)

« Last post by IainB on March 06, 2014, 04:32 PM »

@panzer: ^^ Thanks! Another great short video for me to enjoy with my son Brian (age 3½).
EDIT 2014-03-07 1205hrs (NZT): Looks like I downloaded it just in time. The link now says:

"Mr Hublot Oscar Aw..." This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by MrHUBLOTofficial.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by IainB on March 06, 2014, 04:58 AM »

Wife problems.

A man received the following text from his neighbor:

"I am so sorry, Bob. I've been riddled with guilt and I have to confess. I have been tapping your wife, day and night when you're not around. In fact, more than you. I'm not getting any at home, but that's no excuse. I can no longer live with the guilt and I hope you will accept my sincerest apology with my promise that it won't happen again."

The man, anguished and betrayed, went into his bedroom, grabbed his gun, and without a word, shot his wife and killed her.

A few moments later, a second text came in:'

"Damn auto correct. I meant 'wifi,' not "wife.'

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful

« Last post by IainB on March 05, 2014, 09:07 PM »

Oh! It doesn't seem to work! Doesn't seem to do anything.

-IainB (March 05, 2014, 02:33 PM)

^works fine here. Did you add your Google variant? Mine is https://www.google.dk/*
Firefox > Tools > Addons Manager > User Scripts > hide google ads 1 > Options > User Settings
 

-Curt (March 05, 2014, 04:49 PM)

I just tried it again with a new search term, and it works fine! I realise now that I had been running the search with the same term before, and I guess the result was being fetched from local cache, rather than making a fresh search. Oops.   

By the way, the script picks up the settings and doesn't seem to need to be told.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful

« Last post by IainB on March 05, 2014, 04:47 PM »

To my surprise this works: ...

-Curt (March 05, 2014, 12:29 PM)

To my surprise - it didn't!?   

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful

« Last post by IainB on March 05, 2014, 04:46 PM »

a nifty Firefox extension called UpdateScanner

-IainB (February 09, 2014, 04:29 AM)

?

Last Update: 2014-02-12.
This project has been taken offline, please contact SourceForge.net Support for assistance.

 

-Curt (March 05, 2014, 03:17 PM)

Yes, it seems the SourceForge project has been removed - probably to reduce duplication of site maintenance.
I searched and found the link to Firefox add-ons. Is now here: https://addons.mozil...ddon/update-scanner/