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General Software Discussion / Re: Tips for dial-up Internet Speeds?

« Last post by tomos on December 02, 2014, 09:44 AM »

Thanks 4wd
was thinking I could have two Firefox profiles -- one which loads images, one not.

Loading images on demand would be the best solution -- but this is good

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General Software Discussion / Tips for dial-up Internet Speeds?

« Last post by tomos on December 01, 2014, 11:44 AM »

I'm looking for any tips for how to cope with dial-up internet speeds
(Connection has been bad for a while but took a dive on Friday, was gone completely this afternoon, is at a snails pace this evening.)

Firefox doesnt even seem to have a stop-page-loading buttons any more...

1) I remember someone here talking here (I think not too long ago) about a text based browser i.e. it just showed text  - any ideas there?

2) or something that stopped images from loading -- but allowed you to choose to load an image -- that would probably be ideal.

FWIW, Gmail in the browser often works with the basic html interface, even when no other sites load properly.

TIA

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

« Last post by tomos on November 29, 2014, 01:41 PM »

^ brilliant app

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Living Room / Re: Time lapse video (thread)

« Last post by tomos on November 28, 2014, 04:35 PM »

The first time lapse photography I remember seeing was in the George Pal version of The Time Machine

I saw it in the theater when it was first released and was totally fascinated by it(I must have been 9 years old.)  I remember the film got an Oscar for Special Effects.

-MilesAhead (November 28, 2014, 04:16 PM)

I found this:

Edit:  Sorry.  Thought I had the YouTube for it but it wants $2.99.  So I changed the link to the IMDB entry. 

-MilesAhead (November 28, 2014, 04:16 PM)

huh? has it come to this - is YT charging?

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Living Room / Re: Time lapse video (thread)

« Last post by tomos on November 28, 2014, 03:47 PM »

Here's a stunning landscape / night-sky time lapse video (up to 4k quality)

Photography Tom Lowe
Music Nigel John Stanford

Apparently above is excerpts from a film -- Timescapes -- which also includes slow-motion photography.
Two trailers below:

https://www.youtube..../watch?v=EgKXcQ9PLuc
https://www.youtube..../watch?v=e-GYrbecb88

Not so gone on the slow-motion stuff (the music is apt but doesnt move me either) but the time-lapse stuff is really stunning.

__________________
Indirectly via Ren's posting of a brilliant video by the musician https://www.donation....msg369979#msg369979

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General Software Discussion / Re: autocorrect

« Last post by tomos on November 28, 2014, 03:43 PM »

I want to type correctly everywhere! in firefox, in chrome, in thunderbird, everywhere!

-kalos (November 28, 2014, 11:27 AM)

have you had a look at IainB's link?

-tomos (November 28, 2014, 01:21 PM)

I said I am not looking for that type of software, I need something more sophisticated

-kalos (November 28, 2014, 02:02 PM)

are you looking towards the future, or are you hoping something actually exists?
If you hope it actually exists it would be helpful to elaborate on what exactly you want -
this was a little vague:

I would like something, maybe with artificial intelligence or something, that will detect the correct thing I want to say

-kalos (November 27, 2014, 11:32 AM)

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General Software Discussion / Re: autocorrect

« Last post by tomos on November 28, 2014, 01:21 PM »

I want to type correctly everywhere! in firefox, in chrome, in thunderbird, everywhere!

-kalos (November 28, 2014, 11:27 AM)

have you had a look at IainB's link?

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« Last post by tomos on November 27, 2014, 05:17 PM »

I think that I'd get a fair number of people agreeing with me if I said this is about the coolest music video ever produced:

-Renegade (November 25, 2014, 09:39 PM)

 
I listened to it a few times before I actually watched it
-
very good

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Living Room / Re: Watercolorbot - $300 watercolor painting printer

« Last post by tomos on November 27, 2014, 02:30 PM »

sounds/looks like good fun:

I'd nearly prefer the assembly version myself

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Living Room / Re: Happy Thanksgiving to DonationCoder folks

« Last post by tomos on November 27, 2014, 02:23 PM »

I live in England.  We don't have thanksgiving.  We are thankful for nothing.  

-Stephen66515 (November 27, 2014, 02:14 PM)

You ungrateful beggars

Just wanted to say I'm thankfull to know all of you and be able to share some time with you all.

-mouser (November 27, 2014, 02:11 PM)

have fun doing Thanksgiving things !!!
(from another Thanksgiving foreigner)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Can anyone advise this developer on commercial licensing?

« Last post by tomos on November 27, 2014, 01:29 PM »

Could there be some sort of work around, like the old buy a nail (and get a free beer) ?

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Coding Snacks / Re: Folderwatch (a MAC application) for PC's

« Last post by tomos on November 26, 2014, 05:34 PM »

FreeFileSync

-wraith808 (November 16, 2014, 12:23 PM)

I'm pretty sure that doesnt do monitoring


Edit\\ dont mean to be a fussy beggar, but it looks to me like Synkron doesnt do monitoring either
Edit #2\\ sorry wraith, I missed Questerflora's change of request...

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Skwire Empire / Re: (Pre) Release: sChecklist

« Last post by tomos on November 26, 2014, 04:15 PM »

tomos - it does work the list entries, but not with the checklists (I tried that already)

-BGM (November 26, 2014, 03:58 PM)

OK -
I was testing on my laptop where I seldom use sChecklist - the version I have is not up-to-date:
with version 1.0.5 build 1 -- it works with the checklists on Windows 8.1
I updated to version 1.0.9 build 1 -- and it no longer works with checklists, as you report.

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Skwire Empire / Re: (Pre) Release: sChecklist

« Last post by tomos on November 26, 2014, 03:22 PM »

Skwire,  I can't figure out how to move checklists up and down in the panel.
I thought if I clicked a checklist to select it that I could then use the regular up and down arrows to move it, but that didn't work.

-BGM (November 26, 2014, 11:44 AM)

 - works with the Control key (+ the arrow key/s).
(This also works for entries in a list.)

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N.A.N.Y. 2015 / Re: NANY 2015 Pledge: Installer Crapware Wrapper Detection DLL

« Last post by tomos on November 25, 2014, 03:25 PM »

The offer to install the Search App by Ask was still there, and checked by default.

-wraith808 (November 25, 2014, 02:44 PM)

Oracle actually offers a solution for disabling those 'sponsor offers': https://www.java.com...q/disable_offers.xml

-Ath (November 25, 2014, 03:04 PM)

thanks Ath
that will make life a lot easier, especially helping family that dont know what & when to untick the box.

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Living Room / Re: Does anyone here use Bitcoins?

« Last post by tomos on November 25, 2014, 02:41 PM »

hmmm
what I like about bitcoin is that it's outisde the current system.
Does that equate with being rebellious? I dont think so - well not necessarily so. As 40 says, sometimes how you do something is more important, so we may have to wait a bit there.

I dont see this as a 'revolution' in it's traditional meaning -- I think those kind of revolutions never really work anyway -- they're mostly making relatively superficial changes.
What could work is grass roots change -- transformation even ;-)
And to people who think it cannot work -- in one of Antonopoulos's videos he talks about politicians already accepting bribes in bitcoin and this being the start of the end so-to-speak (do you remember which vid that was Ren?).

Re Bitcoin: I'm neither a 'believer' nor a cynic -- but I think bitcoin *is* going to change the world, how exactly, I dont know, but it's made a start already, and even if it fails as a currency, it has opened doors that cannot be closed.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Need help with an e-book I purchased

« Last post by tomos on November 25, 2014, 01:57 PM »

hi boomba212,
I'd say the best route would be manual scrolling:

• begin a scrolling capture (and select the scrolling option)
• on the next dialogue window, you get the option to "Let me manually scroll the window"
• on the next dialogue, select horizontal content, and follow the instructions

No guarantees though ;-)

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Move files to folders named after part of filename

« Last post by tomos on November 25, 2014, 05:34 AM »

(just for the record) something comparable was requested lately:

Hello. Would it be possible to add a feature to find common text between files and use that as an name for the folder?
eg we have  files
[Chemistry] Workbook 01.rar
[Chemistry] Workbook 02.rar
[Chemistry] Workbook 03.rar
So the new folder is named [Chemistry] Workbook.

-xd1986k (November 15, 2014, 10:26 AM)

This is doable.  However, in your example, technically, the common text would be "[Chemistry] Workbook 0" right?

-skwire (November 15, 2014, 09:48 PM)

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Living Room / Re: A stoned guy renamed some of his favorite items while high...

« Last post by tomos on November 25, 2014, 03:50 AM »

you can imagine how they started though:

# what was the movie like last night?
# oh yeah, it was great !! it started in the desert, this guy leading a- a- whachamacallit, f*** it, you know, one of those .... the ... a .. a .. a desert moose !

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

« Last post by tomos on November 24, 2014, 10:42 AM »

Trey Parker and Matt Stone of South Park fame tackle an introduction to Zen thinking by animating some talks by Alan Watts.

-40hz (November 24, 2014, 09:29 AM)

very good
thanks !

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Living Room / Re: Does anyone here use Bitcoins?

« Last post by tomos on November 24, 2014, 07:50 AM »

^ hah, that must be you with Andreas Antonopoulos in Melbourne
I presume you enjoyed

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DC Gamer Club / Re: GamerGate: 'Press must tackle misogyny,' says developer

« Last post by tomos on November 23, 2014, 02:26 PM »

This says pretty much everything I think and might say about Gamergate. Since somebody (Ken White) went through all the trouble of writing it up, I won't duplicate effort by doing my own version.

-40hz (November 23, 2014, 10:58 AM)

that was very helpful, thanks!

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Living Room / Re: New square monitor (27" 1920x1920)

« Last post by tomos on November 23, 2014, 05:42 AM »

I've avoided the 16:9 format so far (well, apart from laptops where it's often a real pain).
Even 16:10 is a big improvement over 16:9 -- if you can find it these days.

I dont think that 1:1 would suit me personally, but it's great to see   -
would be nice to see more variety in the market in the future.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Being a bit nitpicky, but... icon image missing in toolbar for a shortcut

« Last post by tomos on November 22, 2014, 07:52 AM »

Re the Explorer replacement, you might get a couple of ideas in this dc thread (it's very old--but still active):
What's your preferred File Manager

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Ashampoo Office 2012: $5

« Last post by tomos on November 22, 2014, 07:47 AM »

Cripes! The 2010 version is FREE!

http://sharewareonsa...-office-freebie-sale

-Renegade (November 22, 2014, 06:55 AM)

doesnt open the newer MS Office filetypes AFAIK (well it didnt here until I upgraded to version 2012).
Otherwise very good too